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37531 Is Buchanan an antisemite? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I move to the D.C. area in 1980. One of the first >things I noticed and began to follow were the radio >dialogues between Tom Braden and Buchanan. I've >been listening and watching Buchanan for 20 years. >He is a consistent race- and jew-baiter. It isn't >explicit, but it is consistent. Two anecdotal examples come to mind. When he was heckled at a speech a few years ago, Buchanan taunted his his antagonists by asking, "Are you from Brandeis?" He ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 21 09:58:55 PST 1999

37532 Proto-fascist structure -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >I challenge your belief in the Christic allegations about FEMA. They were >repackaged from the Liberty Lobby Spotlight newspaper and from the LaRouche >intelligence network. Well, yeah, but does that make them untrue? I agree that sources like this should make one suspicious, but is that enough reason to junk them entirely? Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 21 09:43:38 PST 1999

37533 Populism, Racism, Conspiracism, Marxism -- rank: 1000

J Cullen wrote: >given the >fairly clear evidence that Goodwyn uncovered in "Democratic Promise." How controversial is Goodwyn's work? Pro-populists seem to cite him as definitive, but is he? Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 21 09:46:11 PST 1999

37534 moral hazzard -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >This example shows a strange interaction between "private enterprise" >(credit card companies), the government ("bankruptcy laws") and >the consumer. The way I see credit card blowup, it ought to be >purely a problem for the credit card companies. They continue to >not deal reasonably with the art & science of risk management and >so I think they deserve what they get (or don't get, as it were). What they get is a business that's a ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 21 09:36:38 PST 1999

37535 Spriro on American Hegemony -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Was I right to pick up skepticism in your interview of Spiro? Not at all. I thought his argument - that most of the petrodollar windfall went into the major financial markets, particularly U.S. Treasury bonds, with very little of it going to poor countries, despite canonical stories to the contrary - was very persuasive. Ditto the political advantages enjoyed by the U.S. I thought he was a bit on the boring side, and he certainly wasn't compelling enough for a full hal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 21 08:44:17 PST 1999

37536 Hating Louis Proyect -- rank: 1000

Enough about Louis Proyect! If there's one more post on this worn-out topic, I'm going to add his name to majordomo's list of taboo words. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 21 08:40:05 PST 1999

37537 from the bear's den -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Always enjoy a good bear story! Was wondering if you could spend a >sentence on what 'the Souk al Manakh' was and another on what a 'moral >hazard meltup' would be. Don't know about the first. The second would be, obviously enough, the opposite of a meldown, a massive upsurge in stock prices, driven by the collective recognition that the stock market is now "too big to fail," and that Greenspan & Co. will do anything to minimize losses. "Moral haza ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 21 08:34:49 PST 1999

37538 "Thanksgiving" question -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:34:37 -1000 From: Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> Hi Folks, Does anyone know if this is a true story or another one of those myths being sent around the internet these days? It smells awfully like similar myths about Thanksgiving that have been sent around arond this time of the year and later revealed to be false. I think its veracity is worth inquiring into for the simple reason that when false stories about the origins o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 22:29:19 PST 1999

37539 [Fwd: Re: Ron Paul] -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >His Website used to include a claim to >have been one of Reagan's earliest supporters. Sure enough, Doherty's profile of Paul concludes with a quote from right-wing nutter Grover Norquist: >Ron Paul is very valuable to a GOP that professes a belief in >getting government off the people's backs. As Norquist notes, "Ron >provides an articulate vision of where we are trying to get to. >Reagan used to provide that for the party, and we haven't had enough ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 22:24:29 PST 1999

37540 RealNetworks -- rank: 1000

paula quoted: >THE SEC is seeking software and network application developers and vendors >to create the so-called "sniffer" that would monitor public areas of the >Net. In addition to Web sites and Usenet newsgroups, other areas of >surveillance include listservs, a software program that administers mailing >lists, and public discussion areas. The monitoring system would be created >"off-site" so as not to lead back to the SEC. A friend of mine who covers s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 14:10:24 PST 1999

37541 queer Marxist porn -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >Gee,Doug, when the movie comes out in video, let's all go over to your >house and watch it! Sure thing. It's only a 19" TV, though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 13:27:36 PST 1999

37542 queer Marxist porn -- rank: 1000

The Stranger (Seattle) - November 4, 1999 Hot Marxist Pornography Inside Playboy Bunny Revenge by Jeff DeRoche After a few days of failed attempts to reach each other, Pendra the Sex Astrologer finally answers the phone when I call. She's stressed and under the weather during production week for her video, Playboy Bunny Revenge. I offer to call back when she's feeling better, but her week is booked solid, so I interview her on the spot. I have to bother her with tedious questions, because all I' ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 20 12:28:06 PST 1999

37543 Virtually Real Pwoggies? -- rank: 1000

Maria Gilmore wrote: >BTW, http://www.freespeech.org is featuring Mr Henwood in a Paper Tiger >video show about the G8...it's an older show, I gather, but they've put it >online because of the upcoming WTO shindig. Not that old. It was made for the G-8 summit this past June. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 12:19:55 PST 1999

37544 from the bear's den -- rank: 1000

[From the bear's den at <http://www.LeMetropoleCafe.com>. Jordan says it's all ahead go til, when was it, January 21?] Frank Veneroso - Veneroso Associates - November 19, 1999 The US Economy: The Stock Market Shades of the Souk al Manakh Is This the Moral Hazard Meltup? Probably Not. Executive Summary * Valuations in the high tech sector are unprecedented. So is the degree of speculation, despite serious underlying deterioration in the sector's fundamentals. Nothing in the history of the G ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 12:11:35 PST 1999

37545 Ron Paul -- rank: 1000

From Brian Doherty's profile of Texas libertarian Rep. Ron Paul in the November issue of The American Spectator: >Paul taps into a streak of Texas populism, which can manifest itself >in an LBJ-like "make government do for the little guy" attitude, or >a more Lone Rangeresque respect for the rugged individualist. Nation >columnist Alexander Cockburn is an unlikely Paul booster for his >stances on issues like privacy and Waco. Cockburn says he's "always >had a sof ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 20 11:57:52 PST 1999