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34516 Zizek responds -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >This contemptible evasion is proof, if any was needed, that Zizek has >fleeced his followers thoroughly. Or, alternatively, proof that you take yourself too damned seriously. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 8 14:30:36 PDT 2000

34517 Reply to Angela, Ken M, Doug, and Z -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What does Zizek add to what we already have on this list ? You know, unless someone who's actually read Z - as opposed to those for whom he's an embodiment of some principle of evil - has something to add to this thread, I think it's about run its course. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 8 13:16:09 PDT 2000

34518 rumour-mongering -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Actually they did wait until marriage, didn't they? :o) And their >relations were classic "new virgin" -- everything but penetration because >"that was special." And, as everyone knows, eatin' ain't cheatin'. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 8 12:24:41 PDT 2000

34519 rumour-mongering -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Mon, 8 May 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> There's also Rudy Giuliani, busily upholding public morality, while >> carrying on multiple adulterous liaisons. > >Multiple? Or serial? Serial. This is #3 I've heard of. >To be fair to Rudy, he's a fascist and a racist, but does he really >qualify as a tradvalue guy? Or does Bill Clinton, for that matter? I >thought support for gay rights and abortion rights pretty much drummed >them out ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 8 12:01:01 PDT 2000

34520 globalization: new word needed? -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Literary criticism is now an important element of economics? This is public relations, a field where 25% of the practitioners are confessed liars. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 8 09:46:24 PDT 2000

34521 new Gordon papers -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Yes and yes... > >Analyzing multi-factor productivity in the computer-using sector >masks the fact that in the past five years labor productivity in the >computer-using sector has leaped ahead. The MFP analysis essentially >says that this rise in labor productivity is to be expected given >the extraordinarily large number of computers purchased... So what's the DeLong posish on this controversy? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 8 09:45:42 PDT 2000

34522 From The Union "Hardhead List" -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I detect some significant droppage in capital utilisation in the US from >1974, too. Is this not an indicator of excess capacity? CU averaged 83.4% in 1974, but it dropped sharply in 1975, a recession year, to 72.9%. The latest CU figs for the U.S. are around 79-80%, down a bit from 1997, but up a bit from last year. For a good bit of the mid-90s, capacity was growing very strongly, much more strongly than production, keeping the CU rate down, but now cap'y growth has s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 8 09:44:36 PDT 2000

34523 rumour-mongering -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> One > > of Monica's many virtues - in addition to derailing Social Security > > privatization > >I made that claim at the time -- and I would like to believe it. Can >we base it on anything more than our shared detestation of Clinton? My speculation is that he wanted to do it - his people were talking about it as his "legacy" issue - and the best time would have been at the beginning of his 2nd term. But th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 8 09:36:04 PDT 2000

34524 globalization: new word needed? -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] GLOBALIZATION: UNSPEAKABLE, YES, BUT IS IT REALLY EVIL? The media coverage has faded. The tripartite enforcers of global capitalism-the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO-still make loans and settle trade disputes. But the protesters who rang the alarm about global economics in Seattle and in Washington left a distinct legacy: they made globalization a naughty word, the New York Times (5/7, Sec. 3, p. 4) reports. Stanley Fischer, the Deputy Managing ...

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Date:	Mon May 8 09:08:48 PDT 2000

34525 rumour-mongering -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Isn't the fascination with Haider's personal life symptomatic of the >Europe's bizarre fixation on the Austrian right-winger? Well, yeah, but it's always fun to catch proponents of TradVals doing untraditional things. There's also Rudy Giuliani, busily upholding public morality, while carrying on multiple adulterous liaisons. One of Monica's many virtues - in addition to derailing Social Security privatization - is that her discovery forced Bill Clinton to stop talki ...

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Date:	Mon May 8 08:23:19 PDT 2000

34526 trading -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >BTW, if you blokes were holding US$, exactly what circumstance would make >you put it into Euros right now (obviously an 89-100 relativity ain't >enough for anyone else just now)? Is there a compelling scenario whereby >the greenback goes down the toilet relative to an assertively autonomous >Euro? Contrarian thought: "everyone" "knows" that the U.S. is on top of the world, and Europe is washed up. (Hell, I even read this in NLR, so it must ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 8 08:20:57 PDT 2000

34527 PR: 1/4 lies -- rank: 1000

[Hey Carl, only 25%?] New York Times - May 8, 2000 MEDIA TALK In Public Relations, 25 Percent Admit to Lying Pity the public relations industry. It has long battled its image as a cadre of hired guns who distort the truth, exaggerate and sometimes even lie. And that part about the lying -- it may actually be true for one quarter of the industry. Adam Leyland, the editor in chief of PR Week, a trade journal of the public relations industry, surveyed some 1,700 public relations executives about et ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 8 08:13:57 PDT 2000

34528 Alan's stock answers -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 8, 2000 How Alan Greenspan Finally Came to Terms with the Market By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- On the morning of Dec. 3, 1996, having watched the Dow surge a dizzying 27% that year, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan hosted a private meeting that became his own genteel version of the debate show "Crossfire." On one side was Abby Joseph Cohen, the belle of the bull market, who came from her post at Go ...

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Date:	Mon May 8 08:09:06 PDT 2000

34529 Zhirinovsky on lovebug -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Zhirinovsky says West shows weakness to Love Bug By Elizabeth Piper MOSCOW, May 5 (Reuters) - Flamboyant Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovksy poked fun on Friday at the Love Bug computer virus which has crippled computer systems around the world, calling it yet another example of the West's weakness. The Love Bug, a virus carried in an e-mail attachment saying ``ILOVEYOU,'' has wrought havoc with more than a million computers and cost over $1 billion worldwide. ` ...

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Date:	Sun May 7 17:37:27 PDT 2000

34530 Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: > I have no personal knowledge of people's activity, so I do not discuss >it. I address their arguments. When these lovers of theory and philosophy >vigorously oppose taking to the streets, I believe they mean what they write, >and respond accordingly. You don't want to be caught with your pants down, like Eric Alterman was in his own Nation column a couple of years ago, without even noticing that he was the one who'd dropped his own trousers. In the cour ...

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Date:	Sun May 7 15:25:49 PDT 2000