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37591 [Fwd: Re: guns and nazis (was: White trash)] -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote (responding to Katha): > There's been a lot in print recently about the connections > between gun ownership and suicide. > >The connection has historically been that in places where guns are >easy to get, the gun is the tool of choice for suicide; in places >where they are hard to get, they aren't. So? The real question >is: in the places where it suddenly gets hard to get guns, what >happens to the suicide rate? The answer is that that it's doesn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 17 08:04:52 PST 1999

37592 Negri -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Negri's critique of law >of value through his reading of _The Grundrisse_ -- "_The form of value is >pure and simple command, the pure and simple form of politics_" (_Marx >Beyond Marx_) -- turns out to incorrect & misleading, trapped in the >historical conjuncture that it sought to overcome. Could you expand on this? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 08:10:28 PST 1999

37593 howlin' Wolf -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 17, 1999 Of tuna, turtles and red herrings [by Martin Wolf] Concern about the environment, labour rights or even democracy have little to do with global commerce Few events deserve to be called historic: the agreement between China and the US on the terms for Beijing's membership of the World Trade Organisation should, if it comes to expected fruition, be one. This accord represents a decision by the middle kingdom to join an international organisation whose kernel is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 17 06:32:20 PST 1999

37594 Socialist advises Bradley -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander, quoting Jacob Weisberg: >Yet >West doesn't exonerate victims of racism for irresponsibility or criminality >(something for which his critics on the conventional academic left, like >Adolph Reed, can't forgive him). West is blunt about what he calls black >"nihilism"--what he defines as "a numbing detachment from others and a >self-destructive disposition toward the world." I love this. Reed is "conventional," West is bold. Now who's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 20:57:33 PST 1999

37595 Fed release -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >I think this fact of the current economic system, this recurring theme is >part of what shot me off in a leftward direction when I was a wee lad. (Too >many people are working! Sound the alarm bells! It's not as if there's not >enough work to be done. I wonder why radicals don't make more hay out of the >issue. Does it have to do with the bogeyman Inflation?) After digesting that >theme, I followed all of the nonsense about the Natural Rate of >Unemplo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 20:37:22 PST 1999

37596 China in WTO -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Isn't even Jagdish Bhagwati ambivalent about the benefits of capital >mobility? Not to mention David Ricardo! But U.S. capital isn't ambivalent, which is what matters. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 16 18:25:04 PST 1999

37597 China in WTO -- rank: 1000

[too bad Henry Liu isn't around to tell us how this is another step in the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics] Financial Times - November 16, 1999 CHINA/WTO: Foreign investors see safer future By James Kynge in Beijing and Andrew Hill in New York Foreign investors yesterday said the detail and implementation of the market access deal between China and the US would be crucial. In the absence of a clear and transparent legal framework, foreign investors in China have often had ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 15:44:24 PST 1999

37598 Fed release -- rank: 1000

[The last sentence of the second graf, translated into English, would read: "As a consequence, the unemployment rate has gotten alarmingly low, a trend that must eventually be contained...."] <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Press/General/1999/19991116/DEFAULT.HTM> Release Date: November 16, 1999 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee today voted to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 5-1/2 percent. In a related action, the Board ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 14:56:14 PST 1999

37599 speaking of guns... -- rank: 1000

"The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data" BY: JENS LUDWIG Georgetown University PHILIP J. COOK Duke University National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. 7166 Date: June 1999 Contact: JENS LUDWIG Email: Mailto:ludwigj at gunet.georgetown.edu Postal: Georgetown University 3600 N St, NW (Suite 200) Washington, DC 20057 USA Phone: (202)687 4997 Fax: (202)687 5544 Co-Auth: PHILIP J. COOK Email: Mailt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 13:50:43 PST 1999

37600 white identity again -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity that majordomo is supposed to be able to handle] Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:51:22 -0500 (EST) From: bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) It seems to me that America's compulsive racialization continues obscure to minorities and 'whites' alike the class determinants of health and other inequalities. It would not surprise me that even most blacks think that 'black on black' homicide and 'inner city' drug use account for the six year difference in 'raci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 13:07:53 PST 1999

37601 LaBOster's Salon -- rank: 1000

paula wrote: >Second off, sorry Doug, the check is in the mail. Are you taking credit >cards yet? Yes, actually, just started a week ago, thanks to the fine folks at Kagi. See <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_subinfo.html> for details. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 16 13:02:44 PST 1999

37602 Clinton -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Bill's "very powerful gaze" surely equips him for a major role in a >raunchy comedy targeted to teen moviegoers, but his mojo doesn't >seem to work very well where anything other than a good grope -- or >sheer self-preservation -- is the goal. What was that expression of >helpless petulance he offered when Bob Rubin told him him some >policy initiative was a non-starter because if would offend the bond >market -- something along the lines of, & ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 16 12:42:45 PST 1999

37603 Fact Sheet on Trade and Ensuring a Healthy Environment -- rank: 1000

<http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/11/16/8.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 16, 1999 President Clinton and Vice President Gore: Expanding Trade and Ensuring a Healthy Environment November 16, 1999 President Clinton and Vice President Gore today outlined a strategy to ensure that U.S. and internat ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 16 12:07:53 PST 1999

37604 defining fascism -- rank: 1000

[another address bounce] From: "Chip Berlet" <cberlet at igc.org> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:32:22 -0500 Hi, Sorry, your irony was lost in cyberspace. Yes, many on the left use the term fascism as an all-purpose epithet. This is both unfortunate and dangerous IMHO. Dimitroff's definition is a paltry rhetorical device in defense of a failed parrty line. -Chip ----- Original Message ----- From: Brett Knowlton <brettk at unica-usa.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Se ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 16 12:04:36 PST 1999

37605 Hollywood and NAFTA -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >*Canada* is not a low-wage country. But wages in Vancouver are lower than in Hollywood. A friend of mine in Vancouver says that Hollywood people charmingly refer to the Canadians as "snow n-words." Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 16 12:02:13 PST 1999