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35611 forecasting crashes -- rank: 1000

[all you connoisseurs of chaos out there!] "Forecasting Crashes: Trading Volume, Past Returns and Conditional Skewness in Stock Prices" BY: JOSEPH CHEN Stanford University Graduate School of Business HARRISON G. HONG Stanford University JEREMY C. STEIN Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Harvard Business School Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=194948 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.stanf ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 8 10:23:05 PST 2000

35612 Revolution Number 9/ "Noise" Bands -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Doug, do you have >that limited edition Laibach, album on vinyl, from early 90's, that mimicked >the packaging of Deutsche Grammophone albums? Nope. Finally got to see the Laibach video, though, with its running commentary by Slavoj Zizek. Pretty hilarious. They can't be fascists because they act like fascists, and real fascists don't act like fascists, they try to appear reasonable. By acting like totalitarians, they undermine totalitarians. He makes a similar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 8 09:51:58 PST 2000

35613 Mumia -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of a taboo word] Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 01:22:53 -0500 From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> Subject: Re: Cooper on Mumia Chuck0 wrote: >> What foolish decisions are you talking about, Chuck? >* Concentrating the decision-making process in the hands of a few people In so far as local actions are concerned, decision-making hasn't been concentrated in the hands of anyone. What leftists do here in Columbus, Ohio isn't controlled by anyone elsewhere. Sometimes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 8 09:10:27 PST 2000

35614 Hartmann on green Malthusianism -- rank: 1000

[a ZNet commentary] What's in a Word?: Sierra Club Moves Right and Away from Democracy By Betsy Hartmann Conservative anti-immigrant and population control forces are once again threatening to take control of the Sierra Club, one of the nation's most influential environmental organizations. A September 26 resolution by the Board of Directors changed Club policy on population from supporting population stabilization to advocating "reductions in the population of the United States and the w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 8 08:54:58 PST 2000

35615 Clinton to push China WTO deal -- rank: 1000

Reuters - January 7 2:45 PM ET Clinton Plans Big Effort on China-WTO Trade Deal By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sensing a battle ahead, President Clinton is planning a major campaign early in the new year to convince the Republican-led Congress to approve a big trade deal with China, White House aides said on Friday. A White House team meets on Monday to plot strategy for getting Congress to approve China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Commerce Secretary William Daley and dep ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 22:46:19 PST 2000

35616 Cooper on Mumia -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >What a goddamn idiot. Bill, he's right that the death penalty is barbaric, but it's supported by the majority of the U.S. population. What's idiotic about saying this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 22:39:08 PST 2000

35617 Iris DeMent -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >And add Patti Smith to the lefty musician list. The song and esp. the video >for her song, "People Have The Power, "show her to have solid left-populist >politics. Though her first "hit," the sublime "Piss Factory," shows a distinct lack of class solidarity. Instead of agitating, educating, and organizing, she deserts her fellow workers - "too goddamned grateful to get this job to know they're getting screwed up the ass" - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 12:03:42 PST 2000

35618 Cooper on Mumia -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I have never been afraid to let my criticisms be known, >especially my criticism that the Mumia support movement can't tolerate >internal criticism, which I maintain has led it to make some foolish >decisions. I've never been quite clear on what the basic line of the Free Mumia movement is. That the death penalty is barbaric and racist? I passionately agree. That Mumia got a crappy trial? Can't disagree with that either. That he didn't kill the cop? About that I have n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 12:51:58 PST 2000

35619 Revolution Number 9 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Matt, I like Rage Against The Machine, too. Really? You enjoy listening to their music? Or do you just like it that a popular band more-or-less shares your politics, and may be communicating them to some pre-political kids? I find their stuff pretty unappealing - kinda preachy and obvious. I'd rather listen to Magnetic Fields. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 11:01:17 PST 2000

35620 Do lawyers suck? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Only because that same lawyer culture creates a bias against regulatory and >administrative procedures that would be a far more efficient and responsible >system of curbing corporate crime. Creating a lottery system of justice with >"private attorney generals" is an anti-democratic system of evading formal >democratic regulation of corporate abuse. Our contingent-lawyer system of >private justice may be better than nothing, but in many ways it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 10:58:27 PST 2000

35621 India etc. -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an inexplicable attachment] Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:20:09 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> I fwd this post both because it seems to me to have some interesting material relevant to Economic Nationalism but also because an aside at the end is a bit of a point for Doug in the on and off debate over Freud. Carrol [Note: ISU is engaged in a software changeover and I can send but not receive mail at this address. I've got a temporary sub on Netscape web mail, but th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 10:53:41 PST 2000

35622 GlobalSpin.org -- rank: 1000

>From: "Sam Husseini" <sam at accuracy.org> >Subject: GlobalSpin.org >Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:53:01 -0600 > >A friend of mine, Jenifer Dixon, has put together a web page, >http://www.globalspin.org/ that tracks stories from the international press >on a daily basis. I think this is dandy because it actually takes advantage >of the World Wide Web's, well, world-wide nature. Also useful is a >substantial listing of international newspapers: >http://ww ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 09:39:30 PST 2000

35623 entering deeply into the subject -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox complained about: >questions I thought of you last night, Carrol, as I read this bit from Jane Gallop's The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (pp. 62-65): <quote> In Heine's 'Questions' a youth asks the sea to answer 'life's hidden riddle, the riddle primeval and painful'. He asks specifically: 'Tell me, what signifies man? From whence doth he come? And where doth he go?' There is no answer, only the murmuring of the sea. The poem then ends with the line: 'And ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 09:06:36 PST 2000

35624 U.S. security strategy -- rank: 1000

The White House has published a long-term U.S. "security" strategy at <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/20 00/1/7/1.text.1>. Here's the preface; it goes on for 220+k. Any brave soul(s) who want(s) to read & report on it would earn the gratitude of millions. Doug ---- Preface Nearly 55 years ago, in his final inaugural address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reflected on the lessons of the first half of the 20th Century. "We have lea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 08:51:42 PST 2000

35625 "Economic Nationalism"? -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >The idea is that there is nothing over and above the working clas to >crush or co-op it. THe working class becomes the ruling class. The whole class? Or a portion of the class - a vanguard, say - that then becomes a ruling class, ruling in the name of the ruled, but ruling nonetheless? Irritating Carrol with more questions-without-answers, Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 7 08:34:08 PST 2000