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37501 Bello on Iron Cage -- rank: 1000

I have a long (10,000 word/70,000 character) piece by Walden Bello on the Iron Cage - the WTO, IMF, and World Bank - I'll send to anyone who wants. It's way too long to post here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 23 09:34:35 PST 1999

37502 Spart history (was Re: Butler on Spivak (was SZ)) -- rank: 1000

Mr P.A. Van Heusden wrote: >And if you want a truly wierd take on all of this, look up the Sparts' >fellow travellers in the 'Generic Trotskyist League, 40% off'. <http://www.angelfire.com/ca/gentrotsky/>. Truly hilarious stuff, though I can't tell whether the hilarity is intentional or not. From the ditty on their opening page: "We Are Trotskyists And We Know How To Rap We Are Sick Of All This Petit-Bourgeois Crap Because We Stand For Independence Of The Working Class We Don't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 23 09:19:23 PST 1999

37503 Butler on Spivak (was SZ) -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >Workers Vanguard is hilarious. A typical headline is CHINESE >STALINISTS BLOODY HANDS OFF FALUN GONG! Yup, the headlines are hilarious. But in Norden's day, the articles were often very sharp & informative (e.g., the excellent history of terror bombing as a U.S. military tactic that I posted here during the Kosovo war). Now they're crap. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 23 09:00:03 PST 1999

37504 SK: 12% growth -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 23, 1999 SOUTH KOREA: End of economic crisis signalled By John Burton in Seoul The South Korean economy grew by 12.3 per cent in the third quarter, the fastest growth rate since 1988, in apparent confirmation that the nation's two-year economic crisis is over. Gross domestic product, which fell by 5.8 per cent last year, now exceeds the level at which Korea's foreign debt crisis erupted in November 1997, the Korean central bank said yesterday. Growth for the full year ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 23 08:38:47 PST 1999

37505 from the Fed bubbleheads... -- rank: 1000

[bounced for some reason] Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:52:37 -0500 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at ee.cornell.edu> Astonishing spin from McTeer, President of the Dallas Fed Reserve [all quotes taken from David Tice's commentary at http://www.prudentbear.com/markcomm/markcomm.htm; he has been calling this a bubble for about two years]: "I donít believe the negative version, which focuses on our trade deficit and declares us uncompetitive. I favor the more positive view that has the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 22:14:05 PST 1999

37506 Calling All Black Organizers -- rank: 1000

[bounced for taboo word] From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:07:23 -0500 A fascinating post by Bill Fletcher, a top-level AFL-CIO staff person and a key organizer of the Black Radical Congress. -- Nathan Newman -----Original Message----- From: worker-brc-news at lists.tao.ca [mailto:worker-brc-news at lists.tao.ca] On Behalf Of Bill Fletcher Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Calling All Black Organizers November 1999 Calling All Black Organizers By Bill ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 21:49:26 PST 1999

37507 OECD for WTO -- rank: 1000

>HIGHLIGHTS > >Information resources the OECD is offering to support the Seattle WTO >Ministerial are outlined in a special web site: ><http://www.oecdwash.org/PUBS/PRINPUBS/wto.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 21:46:32 PST 1999

37508 seignorage -- rank: 1000

"Dollarization and Seignorage: How Much is at Stake?" BY: STEPHANIE SCHMITT-GROHE Rutgers University Department of Economics MARTIN URIBE University of Pennsylvania Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=186136 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.econ.upenn.edu/~uribe/seignorage.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 21:14:35 PST 1999

37509 Camdessus: "I have a sense of having been associated with great things" -- rank: 1000

[From the resignation press conference of IMF managing director Michel Camdessus in the November 22 IMF Survey <http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/1999/112299.pdf>. The publication's cover story informs us that "From the beginning of his tenure, Camdessus gave a strong emphasis to the social aspects of economic adjustment and growth." People will say anything.] QUESTION: What do you consider your most important achievement here in 13 years, what's your greatest frustratio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 20:57:12 PST 1999

37510 Review of New Populist Reader -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The flexibility of the populist framework permits a variety of ideas to be >clothed in populist garb. What's required is the construction of a suitable >reference point in the past: some tangible movement; an intellectual, >cultural, or political tradition; a noteworthy historical interlude; or >better, some combination of these. A second key feature is that such a >reference point serves a majoritarian interest--the many against the few. Yeah, but isn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 20:33:05 PST 1999

37511 Left anti-semites , Marxist Minstrels, and Enver Hoxha, Oh My! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Back in the late 70's Telos editor, Paul Piccone, defended his," Artificial >Negativity," thesis and it's high level of abstraction, and the journals >(simplified, the New Left and the the civil rights movements were >manufactured attempts to debureaucratize a overly rigid, One Dimensional >system and polity that had been totally colonized by the logic of capital >and the culture industry.) by saying that this prevented the State from >appr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 20:26:30 PST 1999

37512 Butler on Spivak (was SZ) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It is your use of "identity politics" in inappropriate contexts, your >insistence in applying the label where it does not apply, that led >me to include you among objectively racist marxists. Just how high is that horse you're on? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 20:27:42 PST 1999

37513 college prexies big bux -- rank: 1000

[There's a longer version of this I'll email to anyone who wants it.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 22, 1999 8 Private-College Presidents Earned More Than $500,000 in 1997-98 By STEPHEN BURD The presidents of eight private colleges earned more than $500,000 in pay and benefits in 1997-98, and 13 others topped $400,000, a Chronicle survey has found. All told, 61 presidents -- about 13 per cent of those in the survey -- earned more than $300,000. Those findings make 1997-98 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 20:01:47 PST 1999

37514 [Fwd: Re: Mistress Judith (was Re: Butler on Spivak)] -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >men are increasingly >exposed to idealized images of sculpted muscular and HAIRLESS bodies Yeah, what's with that HAIRLESS thing? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 20:07:55 PST 1999

37515 hedge funds -- rank: 1000

>November 22, 1999:12679 > >The following items were added to GAO's World Wide Web site in >Portable Document (PDF) format. > >[...] > >- Long-Term Capital Management: Regulators Need to Focus Greater > Attention on Systemic Risk. GGD-00-3. 40 pp. plus 6 appendices > (15 pp.) October 29, 1999. > http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gg00003.pdf > >[...]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 20:02:56 PST 1999