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36976 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

Oiboy27 at aol.com wrote: >Of course, if one saw the world through piss-colored lenses one >would consider Louis II, and every other national leader since, only doing >things for his own aggrandizement. Unfortunately, I discarded those lenses >when I gave up listening to Black Flag and Discharge in favor of Vivaldi and >Verdi. But with Verdi, you've exchange piss for the red, white, and green lenses of Italian nationalism! Didn't Italian nationalists turn his name into an acronym ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 13:12:26 PDT 1999

36977 Americanization of global finance (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >But why does the the yen keep appreciating? The Ronald MacKinnon >article from the Economist that I posted claimed it is due to "unresolved >trade disputes" which struck me as being somewhat vague. > > Anyone have any ideas? Capital inflows, I'm guessing. Japanese investors repatriating and foreign investors trying to play the "recovery." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 11:23:15 PDT 1999

36978 Fwd: EPI Budget Spam -- rank: 1000

[Max sent this to owner-lbo-talk and not lbo-talk.] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:23:57 -0400 The following, including tables, can be downloaded from our web site at epinet.org mbs September 22, 1999 Issue Brief #134 Social Investment and the Budget Debate by Jeff Faux and Max Sawicky Budget politics in America have become a two-legged stool. While congressional Republicans and administration Democrats argue over the size of tax cuts and debt reduction, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 11:03:21 PDT 1999

36979 Stereolab -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Stereolab's Laetitia takes her revolutionary politics quite seriously. >I've met her a few times, and she was often involved in anti-imperialist >protests. And they recorded the only pop song about the Kontradieff wave I know of. There's no lyric sheet and her French-accented English is hard to decode sometimes, but it's amusing to hear about the "economical cycle" over a synth-pop background. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 10:53:26 PDT 1999

36980 Americanization of global finance (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I guess it follows from the Gowan framework (thanks for the review in the >last LBO, Doug) that a few more victories like this ('structural >reform' as the Anglo American financial press puts it)and the US may >finally help to engineer a devaluation of the yen?! Today's WSJ has an op-ed by Martin Feldstein arguing that the other G-7 countries not cooperate with Japan to suppress the yen's appreciation. His concluding paragraphs: <quote> Coordinated inter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 10:45:56 PDT 1999

36981 Suck meets the anti-ironist -- rank: 1000

Today's Suck, an epicenter of irony, interviews anti-ironist Jedediah Purdy: "While professional jealousy has long been the scrip in which Suck pays its staff, even we were taken aback by the mother lode of <http://www.observer.com/cgi-win/homepage.exe?nyo1/br082399spite>, bile, and gall unearthed by the sudden success of <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~cellar/winter97/purdy.htmlJedediah> Purdy, the home schooled Harvard man whose book For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitmen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 10:06:12 PDT 1999

36982 transition rough on women -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 23 1999 EASTERN EUROPE: Grim picture of women's lives The upheavals of transition from communism have hit women particularly hard, write Stefan Wagstyl and Charles Clover For Elena Makarova, a Ukrainian gynaecologist, the most striking effect of the political and economic upheaval of the past 10 years is the declining number of her patients. "Everyone can see the effects of the economic situation on women. Women aren't giving birth," she says. Dr Makarova's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 06:53:55 PDT 1999

36983 Americanization of global finance (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 23, 1999 Ripplewood to take over LTCB By Our Summaries Staff Japan is reportedly ready to sell Long Term Credit Bank to Ripplewood, the US private equity group. According to Japanese media reports, the deal could be approved by next Monday, and if Ripplewood does win the bid, it would be the first foreign company to gain control of a large Japanese financial institution. The newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun said Ripplewood had offered ¥1bn ($9.7m) to buy the LTCB shares ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 06:54:58 PDT 1999

36984 Fwd: Cross-Dressing Malthus, by Betsy Hartman -- rank: 1000

[from ZNet via mai-not, from the excellent Betsy Hartman of Hampshire College.] From ZNet ------------------------------ Cross-Dressing Malthus BY betsy Hartman October 12, 1999 has the dubious distinction of being both Columbus Day and 'Day of 6 Billion,' ostensibly the day world population will pass the six billion people mark. A well-funded media campaign, organized by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), the Communications Consortium Media Center and others is already ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 06:08:51 PDT 1999

36985 Stossel transcript -- rank: 1000

Steve Grube wrote: >I tried the link but it didn't get me there (tried cut/paste of >link also). Anyone who has this file (HTML, whatever) >could you please just send it directly to: It may be because the link you quoted had a turnover, so the final 'l' was missing. Try: <http://abcnews.go.com/onair/ABCNEWSSpecials/stossel990919_scriptA.html> and make sure it ends in "html" and not "htm". Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 23 05:58:51 PDT 1999

36986 Stossel transcript -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman tried to post the transcript of John Stossel's ridiculous America's #1 special, but it was 50k, so majordomo bounced it. For those fascinated by crude propaganda, the transcript is on the ABC News site at <http://abcnews.go.com/onair/ABCNEWSSpecials/stossel990919_scriptA.htm l>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 11:42:26 PDT 1999

36987 global warming & disease -- rank: 1000

<http://www.edf.org/pubs/Reports/hotny/index.html> Hot Nights in the City: Global Warming, Sea-Level Rise and the New York Metropolitan Region By Janine Bloomfield, Ph.D., Staff Scientist with Molly Smith and Nicholas Thompson June 1999 Executive Summary New York City has close to 600 miles of coastline. Four out of the five New York City boroughs are situated on islands, linked together and to the mainland by about 80 of the approximately 2200 bridges and tunnels in the City. Entry points ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 09:59:37 PDT 1999

36988 autoparasites -- rank: 1000

[from LBO #65, 1994] AUTOPARASITES. According to American ideology, cars are for self-reliant individualists, while mass transit requires deep public subsidies. Mass transit does indeed require subsidies, but cars do too. In a study published by Komanoff Energy Associates, Cora Roelofs and Charles Komanoff did the math for New York State. They found that while motorists pay $4.5 billion in taxes, tolls, fees, and fines to all levels of government, governments spend a total of $6.9 billion on str ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 09:46:36 PDT 1999

36989 killer cars -- rank: 1000

[from Left Business Observer #60, September 1993] KILLER CARS. Cars do immense damage before they even reach the showroom, according to research by a German group reported in the Guardian (London), and then they move on for a lifetime of wilding. Heidelberg's Umwelt- und Prognose-Institut estimates that each car made in Germany, where standards are among the strictest in the world, produces 25,000 kilos (28 tons) of waste and pollutes 422 million cubic meters (552 million cubic yards) of air jus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 09:37:21 PDT 1999

36990 nationalism conference -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 From: Dominique Arel <Dominique_Arel at brown.edu> Subject: ASN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR JRL Call for Papers "Identity and the State: Nationalism and Sovereignty in a Changing World" ASN 5th Annual World Convention International Affairs Building, Columbia University, NY Sponsored by the Harriman Institute 13-15 April 2000 The Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) has become the most attended int ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 08:34:44 PDT 1999