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35521 West on Bradley's Gravitas -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >the summer of 1987 when I >witnessed various well heeled characters hyping him at the Bohemian Grove >where I happened to be in residence. Eh? Do tell. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 17 09:25:59 PST 2000

35522 Ecuador -- rank: 1000

Ecuador seems to be blowing up - economic crisis, strikes, protests. Does anyone know what's going on? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 17 09:16:21 PST 2000

35523 West on Bradley's Gravitas -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yes and he voted for chunks of Reaganomics. That said, out of the four people >likely to be President, it is reasonable to argue that he is probably the best >of the bunch. Fuck 'em all. They're all vying for the position of CEO of the world bourgeoisie; why take a position on them? > Bradley did vote against the Welfare Deform bill and had a pretty >good voting record on labor and environmental issues. And he is promoting >universal coverage of health ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 16 23:22:48 PST 2000

35524 some guy on AOL-TWX -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >This is an interesting argument. Is the rest of Flamm's book >[Creating the Computer] good? Yup. Michael Perelman says his other book is good too. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 16 23:24:46 PST 2000

35525 Phillips on bubbles and Greenspan -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Sunday, January 16, 2000 > >Kevin Phillips >Headed for a Fall? > The new paradigm assets these are economic times unlike any > > other. But the similarities to the '20s are unsettling. And >don't count > on Greenspan to save us. Problem is that Phillips was saying pretty much exactly the same thing in the 1980s, down to lists of 1920s/1980s parallels. I fell for it at the time. Once bitten, twice...? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 16 14:01:22 PST 2000

35526 West on Bradley's Gravitas -- rank: 1000

Daniel F. Vukovich wrote: >I cant stand Bradley but might end up having to vote for him Why? Just to vote for somebody? Bradley's awful. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 16 14:06:48 PST 2000

35527 some guy on AOL-TWX -- rank: 1000

By the way, I should have credited Bourdieu's book on TV as the source of a lot of what I said about competition leading to sameness, and competition being a more important cause of media crappiness than size, but I felt a bit odd about dropping his name in a newspaper piece. But let me at least make up for the oversight here. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 16 12:58:10 PST 2000

35528 West on Bradley's Gravitas -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >As if a hitpiece by THE NEW REPUBLIC is anything but an attempt to >take out one >of the only avowed socialists who gets a regular hearing in the public media. What's an "avowed socialist" doing campaigning for Bill Bradley? Among his many sins, Bradley voted for contra aid at a rather crucial time, if I'm remembering correctly. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 16 12:50:35 PST 2000

35529 Greenspan on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >n Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > > > I like Paul Smith's argument that "globalization" is in large part > > one of capital's millennial dreams - the fantasy has gotten way ahead > > of the reality. > >Sounds interesting. Where did he write it? In an excellent book called Millennial Dreams, published by Verso a couple of years ago. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 16 12:39:18 PST 2000

35530 Russian bombings -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Los Angeles Times 15 January 2000 Fears of Bombing Turn to Doubts for Some in Russia Terrorism: Told of attempt to blow up their apartments, residents fled. Now they're wary of their own government. By MAURA REYNOLDS, Times Staff Writer RYAZAN, Russia--On a chilly night last September, bus driver Alexei Kartofelnikov saw a suspicious car parked outside the 13-story apartment building where he lives in this working-class city. He called the police, who discovered thre ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 16 12:26:48 PST 2000

35531 some guy on AOL-TWX -- rank: 1000

SUNDAY FOCUS / The Same Old New Media Colossus BY: Doug Henwood. EDITION: ALL EDITIONS SECTION: Currents DATE: 01-16-2000 B05 Anyone who's been reading the business headlines over the last 20 years has gotten pretty used to giant mergers. Travelers + Salomon Bros. + Citicorp = Citigroup. Exxon + Mobil = Exxon Mobil. All in a day's work, it seems. But the engagement of AOL and Time Warner was enough to shock even the most jaded observer. I say engagement rather than marriage because it's quite po ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 16 10:15:23 PST 2000

35532 Subject: Re: bleh -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >It is not obvious to me that many of the threads addressed on this list >would seem to meet this criterion for relevance. Dialectical materialism, >and other points of Marxist theory generally, the epistemic status of >post-structuralism, the historical background of populism, micro-economic >analyses of the financial policy of Nazi Germany-all these threads, and >many others, I have found interesting to dip into, and am grateful for the >education they ha ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 15 15:06:15 PST 2000

35533 Marquez sups with Halfbright -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of a taboo word] Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:51:09 -0800 From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> Subject: Fw: Sipping champagne, licking boots ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <rrozoff at webtv.net> To: <Activist_List at listbot.com>; <counterpunch at counterpunch.com>; <aymery at ix.netcom.com>; <yurbaco at aol.com>; <jaredi at aol.com>; <meisenscher at igc.org>; <paulwolf at icdc.com> Sent: Saturday, January ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 15 14:13:26 PST 2000

35534 Jane Fonda born again? -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - January 15, 2000 'Hanoi Jane' finds the Lord Martin Kettle in Washington Conservative speculation is mounting that Jane Fonda, for 30 years a hate figure of the American right, has become a born-again Christian. Internet and now newspaper reports claim the woman they once called "Hanoi Jane" for her embrace of the Vietnamese cause in the 1960s now regularly attends church services and Bible study. Fonda has refused to talk to the press about her private life since t ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 15 13:34:25 PST 2000

35535 West on Bradley's gravitas -- rank: 1000

[Was West ever not a self-parodic joke?] New York Times - January 15, 2000 Bradley and Gore Campaigns Split Harvard's Top Black Scholars By CAREY GOLDBERG BOSTON, Jan. 13 -- Coatless in air so frigid that each warm word condensed into a white cloudlet as it left his mouth, Cornel West preached before a Faneuil Hall Marketplace crowd of several hundred, pounding on syncopated syllables: "Let the word go forth from this historic place here and now that Bill Bradley is on the move, he is on th ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 15 13:33:01 PST 2000