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37036 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

frances bolton wrote: >Isn't he about ten years past whatever small amount of relevance/notoriety >he once had? Does anyone know who he is any more? Yeah, his name recognition is probably down, but he's tireless, and I still see his people in airports and on the streets of NYC. His latest website is at <http://www.larouchecampign.org>, featuring his call for a new Bretton Woods. He's worried about the effects of bringing the British monarchy to bear on East Timor, and he's got an odd ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 18 11:10:26 PDT 1999

37037 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

Does radical politics in countries other than the U.S. attract the same quantity of cultists and damaged people? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 18 10:55:01 PDT 1999

37038 weeding out criminals -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >Doug Henwood said on 9/17/99 10:21 PM > > > Harvard economist Robert Barro writes: "Apparently > >abortion particularly weeded out the children who would have been > >likely to follow criminal careers." Coming soon: Roundup for urban > >applications? > >Thank you, Doug! Children of women who would have opted for abortion >would otherwise have been unwanted children resented by their mother and >experiencing the same real ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 18 10:24:22 PDT 1999

37039 Dick who? -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Don't know anything about Dick Eastman--found this story to be pretty >good. > >Tom Lehman > > > > Relative Decline of M1 Destroying the Middle Class > by Dick Eastman > >The middle class is shrinking because the money supply that the middle >class uses, M1, is being contracted while the wide-transaction monies >exclusively used by the financial elite and multinational corporations >are >being expanded. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 18 10:16:49 PDT 1999

37040 humanitarian imperialism -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >For what its worth, kids, seems like folks in the old socialist >crowd sought out and or used the CIA for their own practical, >political, ideological interests. Not a terribly novel or new >twist eh? I mean really, the story is too easily told about how >the CIA is the force that sucked otherwise ideologically pure types >into the dark side. Hardly pure, but my impression is that the CIA got the better end of the bargain. You have evidence to the contr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 18 09:18:55 PDT 1999

37041 American politics [was Reps delaying -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >The US is largely lacking in that sort of a conveyor belt, no >doubt because the sort of an organized left such as exists >in Britain has been largely absent in the US. On the other hand if >we look at recent administrations in the US, one can certainly >find some ex-leftists. Then there's Bruce Steinberg, chief economist at Merrill Lynch, who was a member of the edit board of the Review of Radical Political Economics in 1979-80, and who said in a commence ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 18 09:03:13 PDT 1999

37042 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Actually, I am curious given his hatred of Gore AND his hatred of George >Bush Sr. (part of the English drug-running cartel, you know) what his take >is on the current Presidential choice. Will he go third party and add to >the happy melange? He's running for president in the Democratic primaries, his flack told me. Didn't he write a tract or two on value theory under the name Lyn Marcus in the old days? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 18 08:48:32 PDT 1999

37043 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

I need some counseling. Lyndon LaRouche's publicist called me yesterday wanting to book the great man - whom a press release she sent along later described as "considered by many to be the world's leading physical economist" - on my radio show. Half of me say that's weirdly interesting and half of me is thoroughly creeped out. Any thoughts? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 18 08:06:54 PDT 1999

37044 weeding out criminals -- rank: 1000

Reporting in his Business Week column on theDonohue/Levitt study claiming that the legalization of abortion in the 1970s contributed to lower U.S. crime rates in the 1990s <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.taf?_UserReference=1873E03275842 0B937B9F954?>, Harvard economist Robert Barro writes: "Apparently abortion particularly weeded out the children who would have been likely to follow criminal careers." Coming soon: Roundup for urban applications? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 22:21:50 PDT 1999

37045 revolution: Jack Welch = Che -- rank: 1000

The cover of this week's Economist <http://www.economist.com/> is of GE chief Jack Welch as Che, with a red-starred beret and cover copy reading: "The revolutionary spirit: Jack Welch, GE and creative destruction." The must be studying their Bafflers in St James's St. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 21:16:11 PDT 1999

37046 Perelman seminar -- rank: 1000

[Michael was too modest to announce this himself.] This is to announce that Michael Perelman will be leading a pkt-seminar starting on October 7th. His seminar will focus on his book: The Natural Instability of Markets : Expectations, Increasing Returns, and the Collapse of Capitalism by Michael Perelman Hardcover - 188 pages 1 Ed edition (June 1999) St Martins Pr (Short); ISBN: 0312221215 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.87 x 8.55 x 5.74 The seminar will be on the pkt-seminars list. To s*bscribe, pl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 21:09:17 PDT 1999

37047 impossibility of soc dem in U.S. -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > Are they, really? A few EU firms may be going public, but > massive amounts of stock seems to be vanishing, the good > old-fashioned way -- via humongous mergers. > >Don't forget that, despite the "IPO mania" that you might read >about, this is also the case in the US. The available stock >("float") is shrinking due to mergers and buybacks *much* faster >than it's increasing due to IPOs and spinouts. Yes, and this is a central fu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 16:30:08 PDT 1999

37048 Wodehouse in pay of Nazis? -- rank: 1000

[pointed out by Sam Smith] Guardian (London) - September 17, 1999 MI5 RECORDS SHOW WODEHOUSE IN PAY OF NAZIS Alan Travis and John Ezard There is strong evidence that P G Wodehouse, the inimitable creator of Jeeves and Wooster - was in the pay of the Germans during the war and would have faced a trial for treachery if he had ever returned to Britain, according to secret MI5 records released today. The evidence, based on documents discovered in the archives of the German embassy in Paris at the en ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 16:38:03 PDT 1999

37049 Fwd: KPMG student poll -- rank: 1000

[I asked KPMG about their poll showing that 77% of U.S. college students expect to become millionaires. Here's the answer, from their PR firm. It's an online poll, not a conventional one. The American Assn for Public Opinion Research list was recently discussing the accuracy of online polls, which tend to be pretty accurate, even though the methodology's indefensible. So who knows. 77% of users identifying themselves as students self-selecting for a career in finance who signed into the site sai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 12:57:14 PDT 1999

37050 Josh Mason replies to CP -- rank: 1000

[Josh Mason asked me to forward this. He's unsub'd until he gets his UMass email straightened out.] As Doug notes, this "response" to my post doesn't address the point I was trying to make, which is that contra the original CounterPunch piece, more local does not necessarily equal more democratic. What I was arguing--and would still argue--is that there are three terms here, not two: rank and file, national leadership, and local leadership. Not distinguishing the first from the third l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 12:23:14 PDT 1999