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33526 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >"Nice things" is way narrow. One person's consumption >is another person's wacky. I can't bring myself to watch >professional wrestling, but obviously a lot of people do. >I think paying $2,000 for a stereo system is wacky, but >people do so they can savor classical sonatas or indigenous >music. Isn't there something about that in marx? I'm not for trying to stop people spending $150 for a pair of shoes, or $2,000 for a stereo. I think they do i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 09:07:32 PDT 2000

33527 Pollitt on Nader -- rank: 1000

[John Halle says no one will be interested. Sorry.] The Nation - October 9, 2000 KATHA POLLITT Presidential Politics, Cont'd., Cont'd. This past summer, I wrote in this space about the historical limits of third-party presidential candidacies--the failure not only of such candidates to get a significant percent of the vote, but also of their parties to build on their moment in the sun. Within minutes, the magazine was deluged with protest e-mails from Nader fans. Even my father wrote in to put i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 12:37:26 PDT 2000

33528 Jim Lehrer: no opinions, no politics -- rank: 1000

[from a story in today's Boston Globe] WASHINGTON - Like most journalists about to moderate a presidential debate, Jim Lehrer says he has no political biases that might get in the way of the job. But Lehrer seems to be truly, deeply neutral, one measure of which is this: He doesn't vote. ''I haven't voted since 1964,'' Lehrer said, sitting in his office just outside Washington. ''I don't want to get my judgment involved in what I do for a living.'' Lehrer, 66, interviews public figures five nigh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 14:45:54 PDT 2000

33529 Gore popular on Wall Street -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 25, 2000 Gore Enjoys Major Support From Wall Street Bigwigs By RANDALL SMITH Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Wall Street often is viewed as a Republican stronghold. But a surprising number of Masters of the Universe these days back Democrat Al Gore. From Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to James Dimon of Bank One Corp. to Steven Rattner of Quadrangle Group, Mr. Gore and his running mate, Joe Lieberman, have attracted the support of a range o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 09:23:02 PDT 2000

33530 WHICH OF THESE TORY MPs ARE GAY HYPOCRITES -- rank: 1000

[from another list - attached pix deleted] WHICH OF THESE TORY MPs ARE GAY HYPOCRITES? William Hague Michael Fabricant Ann Widdecombe Alan Duncan Nigel Evans David Ruffley G erald Howarth Nicolas Gibb All these MPs advocate discrimination against homosexuals. We are fed up with the Tory Party being shamed by two-faced hypocritical MPs who are gay in private but anti gay in public. NEWS RELEASE 4 - 22/09/00 From: Tories Against Hypocrisy All eight Tory MPs named today support ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 09:29:56 PDT 2000

33531 Nader Doing Well in Florida -- rank: 1000

Speaking of polls, everyone's favorite political psychoanalyst, Slavoj Zizek, said this in a recent talk: >An act is thus the intervention which goes against the predominant >opinion; to put it in the old Platonic terms, it asserts Truth >against the mere doxa. Here, however, the gap that separates us from >Plato, i.e. the absence of the dimension of subjectivity in Plato, >becomes palpable: to put it in (inappropriate) modern terms, in >Plato, opinions are "merely subject ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 09:35:20 PDT 2000

33532 Big day ... where's all the chatter? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >They warned that profits wouldn't be as big this quarter as everyone >thought. They blamed it on Europe. They announced after yesterday's >close, and it immediately traded down 20% on the ECNs; stayed there >all day today. It set off a big reaction tho, with both the NASDAQ >and the DJIA opening down HUGE, but the DJIA recovered to close up >80 points and the NASDAQ came back a significant amount as well. > >Interesting coincidence on the day we pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 09:26:39 PDT 2000

33533 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Doug, isn't scarcity neo-classical, not Marxist ? Scarcity is in large part a construct of capitalism. The New Econ types sometimes sound as if it's already been abolished under capitalism. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 25 09:42:05 PDT 2000

33534 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >As above. Beware left criticism of mass consumption >preferences, say I. Neither Naomi Klein nor I am guilty of such. Or, more specifically, I - and I think she agrees with me - have nothing against wanting nice things. What I think is wacky is paying $150 for shoes that cost $2 to make. In the economic sense, the hallucinatory markup is a pure loss, since it's money that could have been spent elsewhere. I suppose you could argue that the $148 (less "normal" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 15:38:28 PDT 2000

33535 rumors -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I have now! Good rumor! Whom should I ask to confirm it... Ok, already got my second email saying this, and of course one claim that "I heard this days ago!" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 14:46:47 PDT 2000

33536 FW: 8 Eurocentric Historians -- rank: 1000

debsian at pacbell.net quoted the inimitable James Blaut: >For >these >scholars, the origins of capitalism are European. I'm confused. If Europe is to be condemned for colonizing the world, and Europe certainly deserves lots of condemnation for that, it must have diffused something in the process. I could swear that diffused something had something to do with capitalism, but I'm no historian, I'm just a journalist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 13:32:32 PDT 2000

33537 Request for Source on Upcoming Book -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >Somebody posted something referring to an upcoming >book which makes some charges against Jim Neel, >a University of Michigan genetics professor. >It claimed that he deliberately infected >some Yanamamo (sp?) indians in S. America >with measles, staged fights which lead to real >fights, etc. > >Could somebody repost the source of these accusations, >or send them to me off-list? A friend of mine is >personally involved. X-From_: owner-l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 13:06:48 PDT 2000

33538 Economist on anticapitalism -- rank: 1000

The Economist, September 23 - 29, 2000 Anti-Capitalist Protests Angry and effective W A S H I N G T O N , D C The threat of renewed demonstrations against global capitalism hangs over next week's annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank. This new kind of protest is more than a mere nuisance: it is getting its way N30, A16, S11, S26. If you are part of the anti-capitalist resistance, these terms will need no explaining. Each denotes a day of protest against corporate-led globalisation. First c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 12:47:24 PDT 2000

33539 Political Anthems -- rank: 1000

Nathan at Newman wrote: >[BTW I was up at the UMass Marxism conference yesterday, which was quite >good, and got to see Doug give a bravo performance as a last-minute standin >for Mike Davis at the Saturday night plenary, sharing the stage with Angela >Davis. As the chair of the plenary noted, imagine what he could have done >with some preparation time. ] Thanks, Nathan. Elsewhere, it was said that my standing in for Mike Davis was like Eddie Van Halen standing in for Djang >J ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 12:41:44 PDT 2000

33540 Wash Post hammers Finkelstein -- rank: 1000

[Meanwhile, the NY Times book review refused an ad from Verso for this book that contained the tagline, "Available at good bookstores everywhere," saying that it implied that stores that didn't carry the book weren't good. This is not a general NYTBR policy - it was just applied by the ad censor to this book.] Washington Post - September 24, 2000 Profit and Loss By Steven J. Zipperstein THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering By Norman G. Finkelstein ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 12:12:36 PDT 2000