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36961 Clinton's 'Info-War' Fizzle -- rank: 1000

[From Robert Parry. There's also an account of some connection between Bill Casey and the BONY Russian money-laundering scandal.] Date: 25 Sep 1999 16:40:56 -0000 From: Consortiumnews.com <consortiumnews-owner at listbot.com> Consortiumnews.com - http://www.consortiumnews.com President Clinton's top-secret "info-war" strategies against Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic proved less effective than hoped, according to U.S. government sources. The idea had been to use high-tech strategi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 25 09:56:22 PDT 1999

36962 U.S. foreign debt -- rank: 1000

I've just put up a graph with "deep caption," as they say at Vanity Fair, on the growth of U.S. foreign debt - $1.3 trillion in fresh borrowing during the Clinton years alone: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/USForDebt.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 25 09:49:14 PDT 1999

36963 ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE [7] NATO BOMBINGS -- rank: 1000

[from mai-not] ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE & HEALTH HAZARDS OF THE NATO BOMBINGS: AN ANNOTATED URL REFERENCED LIST OF INTERNET ARTICLES, NEWS, PRESS RELEASES. [ PART 7 ] [For the period July 16 to August 1, 1999] [Compiled by Dr. Janet M. Eaton, September 10, 1999 ] Please add to the following earlier compilations for the complete series of over 90 references. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 25 07:58:59 PDT 1999

36964 Americanization of global finance (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I have a question. What has Japan's inflation or deflation rate been for >the last couple years? Is it changing at all? 1980s 2.1% 1991 3.3 1992 1.7 1993 1.2 1994 0.7 1995 -0.1 1996 0.1 1997 1.7 1998 0.6 1999 -0.1 (July)

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 25 07:50:51 PDT 1999

36965 death list -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Jesus died young. And he hung out with prostitutes, those possessed >by demons, and the wretched and unclean of the earth in general. >Maybe these thumpers better read, rather than thump, their Bibles >before they get too far into this Jesus stuff. Wasn't American Protestantism once characterized by extreme anxiety over damnation and fear of God's wrath? It seems American evangelicals now think they've got the key to the kingdom and they never have to worry abo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 24 16:15:54 PDT 1999

36966 Fukuyama on Faludi -- rank: 1000

[Someone asked about Susan Faludi's latest the other day. Here's a review from today's WSJ by Francis Fukuyama, of all people. "As Lionel Tiger points out in 'The Decline of Males,' the desire of men to play this traditional role, or to participate in male-bonded competition, is rooted in nature and therefore cannot be so easily wished away when society finds it politically incorrect." I'll spare folks the pain of Roger Kimball's op-ed piece in the same paper supporting Giuliani's war ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 24 14:40:20 PDT 1999

36967 death list -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >ok, but isn't rock'n'roll full of sexist phallic symbols? Well sure, but then there's Patti Smith, Sleater-Kinney, & P.J. Harvey. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 24 13:56:24 PDT 1999

36968 Grateful Dead -- rank: 1000

Oh yes, I forgot to mention in summarizing LaRouche's view of the Littleton affair the link between that most insidious band and that most insidious drug, as evidenced by a joke I heard on Jerry Garcia's death: "Q: What does the Grateful Dead fan say when s/he runs out of pot? A: This band sucks!" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 24 11:48:58 PDT 1999

36969 Littleton: it's Adorno's fault -- rank: 1000

At 1:44 PM -0400 9/24/99, Carl Remick wrote: >I tried posting an article yesterday from Salon that is supposedly >based on leaks from the official investigation of the Columbine High >massacre. One key finding is that killers Eric Harris and Dylan >Klebold apparently hated *everyone* and made no particular effort to >target minorities, the devout, et al. The post seems to have >vaporized in cyberspace, perhaps because of its length. Anyhow, >here is the URL for anyone inte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 24 11:10:04 PDT 1999

36970 death list -- rank: 1000

Speaking of pissyellow lenses, there's a page devoted to prematurely dead rockstars assembled by some Bible-thumpers at <http://www.av1611.org/rockdead.html>. "For their rock is not as our Rock," and "They DIE in youth, and their life is among the unclean." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 24 10:45:39 PDT 1999

36971 FW: slavery reparations -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >This is a very interesting question. Whatever the establishment reasoning >turns out to be, I would have thought that the recent settlements between >the World Jewish Council and various German companies and banks over >slave-labour cases must have significantly weakened it. Norman Finkelstein, scourge of Daniel Goldhagen, is investigating where this money is going. His interest in the whole field of German reparations was inspired by the fact t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 24 09:45:11 PDT 1999

36972 Americanization of global finance (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > > > As a followup to a rather long message on this > > I just sent: Japan "owned our sorry asses" last > > year, but the yen was falling then. Why? > >You said it yourself: irrational short-term speculation. Markets are by no >means the streamlined monuments to curvilinear perfection the neolibs and >squawk hawks lining CNBC make it out to be. They bounce around all ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 24 09:29:55 PDT 1999

36973 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

elena wrote: >Gosh, Doug, with such a jaundiced attitude, you'll end up listening to >Madonna bastardising Traviata in a metal bra Wow, I'd like to see that. I saw an interview with Malcolm McLaren sometime in the early 1980s in which he said that his next field of endeavor, now that the Sex Pistols were history, would be opera - "the last unexploited field of cliched pop pap." Don't know what he's up to now, but maybe you should track him down, Elena! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 24 08:19:39 PDT 1999

36974 reparations -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] From: "Alex Lantsberg" <alex at saej.org> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:49:23 -0700 i was reading the WSJ today and Al Hunt's column did a thing on Bill Bradley. He noted an event at which BB appeared with Al Sharpton and said something about BB wisely not supporting reparations. Whats the establishment reasoning against reparations of some sort (not necessarilly cash payments) to descendents of slaves?

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Date:	Fri Sep 24 08:05:07 PDT 1999

36975 LTCB purchaser -- rank: 1000

Stephanie Strom reports in today's New York Times on the composition of the group that's buying Long Term Credit Bank from the Japanese government (which had nationalized it because of its insolvency): "The Ripplewood consortium is a collection of influential names. It includes former Rep. Tony Coelho, the director of Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign, and Chris Flowers, a prominent former Goldman, Sachs investment banker. Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, i ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 24 06:36:57 PDT 1999