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34681 Cooper on A16 -- rank: 1000

LA Weekly - March 24 - 30, 2000 After Seattle Free-trade protests coming soon to a city near you by Marc Cooper It's an early Saturday morning in the gritty Mission District of San Francisco, but as 27-year-old Juliette Beck blows into her office, the fact that it's a weekend is irrelevant. She has no time for relaxation. Over the previous week, she organized a demonstration against Al Gore and Bill Bradley at the Democratic State Convention in San Jose, addressed an international convention of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 25 15:28:18 PST 2000

34682 quotes -- rank: 1000

"We can readily describe this process [of bubble formation], but, to date, economists have been unable to anticipate sharp reversals in confidence. Collapsing confidence is generally described as a bursting bubble, an event incontrovertibly evident only in retrospect. To anticipate a bubble about to burst requires the forecast of a plunge in the prices of assets previously set by the judgments of millions of investors, many of whom are highly knowledgeable about the prospects for the specif ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 25 15:02:18 PST 2000

34683 Congratulations on Doug's counterspin appearance -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Zizek seems pretty superficial from the discussions of him on this list. By the way, Charles, was Henry's call for my "summary intellectual execution" - love that modifier; I love it when hedge fund Maoists speak metaphorically - a form of hate speech? Should I regard it as the verbal equivalent of murder and demand his arrest and imprisonment? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 25 12:31:28 PST 2000

34684 Becoming stateless -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Statelessness was one of Hannah Arendt's principal themes. Being >statelss herself for a large portion of her life. Hence the early >urge toward Zionism. ...which ended up creating a state in which eligibility for citizenship was a matter of blood, not place of birth or allegiance... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 25 11:59:55 PST 2000

34685 warming ocean -- rank: 1000

Ocean is warming, study finds The world ocean has experienced a net warming of 0.11 degrees Fahrenheit from the sea surface through about 10,000 feet of depth over the past 35-45 years. The upper 1,000 feet has warmed by 0.56 degrees Fahrenheit. "Although these may seem like small changes, it represents a large change in the heat content of the ocean," said Sydney Levitus, an oceanographer with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. "Water is very effective at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 25 10:16:57 PST 2000

34686 Becoming stateless -- rank: 1000

JC Helary wrote: >Maybe it is silly but I thought the first alienation comes from being made >a 'national' at birth. I just read things on the status os stateless >persons on the un page and thought if all the persons who want to live >abroad first become stateless they actually are less hasseled and benefit >from more protection than 'normal' foreigners. In practice it might not be >the case though, any info about that. > >As far as I'm concerned, I was seriously thinkin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 25 10:15:45 PST 2000

34687 working class civil society (wasRe: Class Ceiling--Ehrenreich) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I say *moralizing* is wrong. Isn't that a moral judgement? Or moral pronunciamento, more precisely? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 25 10:13:12 PST 2000

34688 Ehrenreich reponds to Yoshie -- rank: 1000

[I forwarded some of the collective's remarks to Barbara Ehrenreich; she responded with this letter to Yoshie.] Dear Yoshie, I never said housework is a moral issue for women only. In fact, my essay in Harpers goes after women for dropping the ball in the struggle to get men to do their share. But it was women - feminists of the left - who made housework a political issue in the 70s and, yes, I do, in some sense, address myself to them. I do agree, however, that it would be interesting to know ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 24 14:41:14 PST 2000

34689 Congratulations on Doug's counterspin appearance -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >We have the melancholy spectable on marxism and on lbo that >on each a first-rate political intelligence abases itself by admiration >for an intellectual and political nonentity: I mean Lou's attachment to >Henry, Doug's attachment to Zizek. Hmm, "spectable"? I think we have some analytic material here, Carrol. Do you want to talk about it? Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 24 13:26:23 PST 2000

34690 5th columnist -- rank: 1000

Gotta love that HCKL: >As for Doug Henwood, he is nothing but a intellectual Fifth Columnist >whose sole function is to co-opt the US intellectual left into being >another tool of the oppressive establishment. His weapon is post-modern >sophistication, twisting simple oppression into a parlor game of >paradoxical debate. We are supposed to appreciate as evidence of the >benefits of free of speech from Henwood's quoting Mein Kampt in the WSJ? >Enemy soldiers deserve to be t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 24 12:06:50 PST 2000

34691 Congratulations on Doug's counterspin appearance -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Somebody over on the marxism list (I ain't namin' no names) just >called Doug Henwood a "Fifth Columnist for the bourgeoisie." So >much for the revolutionary tribunal. Gosh. And my fortune cookie just said "Good things are being said about you." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 24 12:03:23 PST 2000

34692 bull market factoids -- rank: 1000

[A sidebar from the cover story "The Hype Machine," in the new Business Week] BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : APRIL 3, 2000 ISSUE A World of Hype -- On the Silicon Investor Web site, there are 26 message boards devoted entirely to CNBC chat -- Investors now hold an average Nasdaq stock for 5 months, vs. 2 years a decade ago -- Wall Street advertising zoomed 95% last year to $1.2 billion--3 times what it was 5 years ago -- Buy recommendations outnumber sells by 72 to 1. The ratio 10 years ago was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 24 10:10:18 PST 2000

34693 Fed faction wants more tightness -- rank: 1000

[The minutes are at <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/FOMC/minutes/20000202.HTM>.] Wall Street Journal - March 24, 2000 Fed May Weigh Lifting Rates A Half Point, Report Hints By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve may consider moving more aggressively to damp the economy, raising interest rates by half a percentage point at a future meeting instead of the quarter-point moves taken so far, a new central-bank report suggests. Five times s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 24 09:51:08 PST 2000

34694 GE campaign by ICEM -- rank: 1000

[another vcard bounce] From: "Tim Shorrock" <tim.shorrock at ipgdirect.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: link to GE campaign organized by ICEM Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:48:24 -0500 Organization: Asian Assets Direct one big union, one big company. where will this go? http://www.icem.org/update/upd2000/upd00-21.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 24 09:33:44 PST 2000

34695 Sweeney bashing -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment - one of those vcard things] From: "Tim Shorrock" <tim.shorrock at ipgdirect.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:14:52 -0500 Organization: Asian Assets Direct newman wrote: >One of the tropes of Sweeney-bashing around the trade issue is the claim that the unions only target foreign countries and non-US labor abuses. Which is just flat out wrong and makes the arguments associated with such arguments pretty suspect ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 24 09:29:05 PST 2000