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37651 Cox responds to Proyect -- rank: 1000

[bounced because of an attachment] Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:54:45 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> This is the first of two. Since Lou's comment on one brief part of my post has appeared on LBO I thought the whole post plus a follow-up might as well be posted here as well. Carrol Louis Proyect wrote: > >..... I'm not going to fight with you. And I'm not going to fight with Doug. Even if one or the other or both of you fight with me. I have been a gread admirer of Cockbur ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 15:37:10 PST 1999

37652 Clinton on financial modernization signing -- rank: 1000

[this is a rhetorical gem] <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/11/12/29.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 12, 1999 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT FINANCIAL MODERNIZATION BILL SIGNING Presidential Hall 1:37 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you and good afternoon. I thank you all for coming to the formal ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 15:40:53 PST 1999

37653 a friend writes... -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Cockburn: “What you [Doug] actually mean is that after my column >your friend Katha called up and whined on the phone and you pledged >to rally to her side and now here you are, puffing ” > >Proyect: “After my last flame war with Doug on PEN-L, where he came >puffing ” > >Sounds like time for some aerobics, Doug! Hey, I'm not a gym bunny, but I'm not a wreck either. If I had a lawyer, I'd be talking to her right now. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 15:30:48 PST 1999

37654 crisis -- rank: 1000

[This is the article that Comrade Proyect found so outrageous.] In love with disaster by Doug Henwood Back in 1992, I wrote an article in the newsletter I edit <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Financial-crisis-averted.html> saying that it was pretty likely that the U.S. financial system wasn't going to implode. After the roaring eighties peaked around 1989, the U.S. economy fell into stagnation, and bank failures and bankruptcies reached frightening proportions. Since by most ordinary measu ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 13:07:24 PST 1999

37655 a friend writes... -- rank: 1000

[An amusing intervention from the always-amusing Louis N Proyect.] From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> To: marxism at lists.panix.com <marxism at lists.panix.com> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 9:39 PM Subject: Re: Answering Jose was Re: Replying to Brian was Re: Referendum DownUnder >>Let me illustrate what I mean from u.s. politics. In the article from >>Alex Cockburn that Lou posted the other day, Cockburn explicitly >>expresses his "hopes of a populist ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 12:49:07 PST 1999

37656 women?feminism? -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >I would think it would be at >least a little bit interesting that Wendy Kaminer, cited by alex as a >"good" feminist" on the ritual abuse issue, criticized him severely in >the same letters column as Doug! For some reason, I felt much more up to the technical challenges of scanning her letter than AC's response. Doug ---- >Kaminer: Katha Koudn'ta > >I'M PUZZLED BY Alexander Cockburn's attack on Katha Pollitt for her >recent column on t ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 09:56:11 PST 1999

37657 Redneck Manifesto -- rank: 1000

[also bounced for HTML code - Sam, who's Ace Hayes? I love the idea of a blueblood like Alex "Ace" Cockburn putting someone in mind of a redneck] Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 08:50:57 -0800 From: Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com> The comments by A Cockburn made me think of the late Ace Hayes and Jim Goad (now ensconced in a federal prison.) ------- The Redneck Manifesto (book review) by Ace R. Hayes The Redneck Manifesto (1997, Simon & Schuster) is crude, rude and right on. Every A ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 09:01:02 PST 1999

37658 pointing fingers -- rank: 1000

[bounced because of HTML coding, which has been removed] Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 08:50:15 -0800 From: Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com> A little taste of Ace Hayes. ---------------- Pointing Fingers (continuation of "Mother Hen Rants") Monty Python must be writing the script for geo-politics. The Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party rings the opening bell on the Wall Street Stock Exchange, Halloween 1997, and Henry Kissoff is on his way to China on behalf of Mickey Mouse. Holly ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 08:57:20 PST 1999

37659 Fwd: Trade summit protesters train in Vancouver (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Vancouver Sun - November 12, 1999 Trade summit protesters train in Vancouver Up to 50,000 protesters, including many local activists, hope to bring the World Trade Organization Seattle summit to a halt. Doug Ward Vancouver Sun Thousands of Canadians are gearing up to join protests aimed at disrupting the upcoming World Trade Organization summit in Seattle in an effort to stem the tide of globalization. More than 5,000 delegates, 3,000 reporters and photographers and as many as 50,000 demonstrato ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 08:33:17 PST 1999

37660 Spivak at the World Bank -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >Found this by pure accident. The story is at: > >http://www.globalknowledge.org/worldbank/gender-law/current/0022.html > >I had no idea we litcritters were so influential. Today World Bank >seminars, tomorrow the world! Unlike the IMF, the World Bank is extremely clever about dealing with its critics. It listens to them, parrots back their rhetoric, and give the tamer among them consulting contracts. I was astonished to hear James Wolfensohn's first spe ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 08:27:20 PST 1999

37661 progressive elements of the big bourgeoisie -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Pat Buchanan is >seeking this exact alliance - bringing on Lenora Fulani as co-chairwoman for >this exact gambit - and the basic coalition agreement is exactly based on >that anti-third world worker position: anti-immigrant, English-only, and >trade protectionist. Actually, I think Buchanan is interested in Fulani & Co.'s mastery of state ballot laws, not her constituency, which is microscopic. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 08:31:04 PST 1999

37662 Lenora Fulani Endorses Pat Buchanan -- rank: 1000

Lenora Fulani Endorses Buchanan By SHANNON McCAFFREY WASHINGTON (AP) - Endorsed by 1992 independent presidential candidate Lenora Fulani, Pat Buchanan promised Thursday that his Reform Party campaign for the White House would reach out to minorities. Fulani, who is black, disagrees with the conservative Buchanan on social issues such as abortion and gay rights. But both believe the two-party political system must be shaken up. Fulani will serve as a co-chairman of Buchanan's campaign and will se ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 07:58:58 PST 1999

37663 Worm Either Way (was Despair & Utopia) -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >Stick to Pine (or, if you *must* do it on Winoze, Eudora) and >you won't have these kinds of problems. Pine? How boring and ugly. All that text and those line commands. No graphics, icons, or pull-down menus. What is this, some kind of Protestant austerity/asceticism thing? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 07:16:02 PST 1999

37664 Max's interview techniques -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >I recall that Paul Krassner claimed that LBJ interviewed Douglas Dillon >while the Prez. was taking a crap. Apparently Dillon wasn't the only one. I went to college with Harold Brown's daughter. Brown was LBJ's Secretary of the Air Force, where he picked bombing targets in Indochina (and he was Jimmy Carter's Defense Secretary). She said that LBJ used to insist that the extremely uptight Brown step into the bathroom off the Oval Office to chat while the ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 06:06:59 PST 1999

37665 Henwood vs. Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi quoted: >In "Ebony and Ivory Fascists," Adolph Reed Title: Ebony and ivory fascists.(Patrick Buchanan; Louis Farrakhan)(Class Notes)(Column) Authors: Reed, Adolph, Jr. Citation: The Progressive, April 1996 v60 n4 p20(3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subjects: Right and left (Political science)_Public opinion People: Buchanan, Patrick_Influence; Farrakhan, Louis_Influence Reference #: A18136986 ======== ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 17:57:04 PST 1999