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37831 Life under Empire by Michael Hardt -- rank: 1000

Belatedly... Angela forwarded this from Michael Hardt: >None of these explanations, however, really correspond to the situation we >are facing. The images do not quite match the reality and the disparity >causes a slight sensation of unease and nausea, like when wearing a pair of >glasses with the wrong correction. In fact, to arrive at a clearer view of >the war, we opponents first have to recognize the truth of the claims of >the war's proponents. We have to recognize that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 14:13:40 PDT 1999

37832 mortgage stuff -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because it had a 200k spreadsheet attached to it. Sorry to frustrate the nerds, being a nerd myself.] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: RE: mortgages Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:49:09 -0400 Message-ID: <001101bea92a$018d2360$3bf246d1 at epi59.epinet.org> > > Filers only benefit from the mortgage exemption if the interest they are paying plus any other deductions other than the personal ones is greater than $7,500, r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 13:39:05 PDT 1999

37833 Bell Curve globalized? -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >This abstract does not seem too bad, except for the word "genetics," >which does not seem to be relevant to the model. The idea of inequality >causing high birth rates and high birth rates causing poverty is fairly >well accepted. Well I read the paper, and its rather coy about the genetics. It says our human capital is the product of a genetic and a social draw, and the social mode of transmission is "memetic," following Dawkins. In his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 13:32:44 PDT 1999

37834 Modest proposal to end the war -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >the Greens (if they exist as an >organization in your state) The Greens as an organization is/are a pretty funny thing. As I recall, there were 4 different candidates for president running under the Green banner in 1996. The New York State Green party had two different vice presidential candidates; one group hates the other group, and I can't remember why. Part of this is no doubt traceable to an anarchist joie de vivre, which is charming enough, but I'm not sure h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 13:20:45 PDT 1999

37835 24 Hour Trading -- rank: 1000

Anderson R wrote: >On Thu, 27 May 1999, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Because in general the more people trade, the worse they do. Why any >> nonprofessional would want to trade at 6 AM or 11 PM is beyond me. >> Delusions of grandeur, I guess. > >Doug, > If you get a chance to revisit this once, please help me >understand the basis for your comment. I saw Paul Kangas last night >with the head of NASDAQ say the traders would be hindered by the lack of >information ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 08:46:21 PDT 1999

37836 Bell Curve globalized? -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >>average rate of transmission of >> human capital from parents to children determines the long-run >> rate of output growth. > >was once told that sociologists are the first to be shot in a revolution. >well, if by chance i'm still living and we have a socialist revolution, i >get first dibs on doing the honors to gary becker, if he's still around, >and anyone trained in chicago school economics. > >i'm highly in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 07:51:17 PDT 1999

37837 No simple economic motive in Balkans -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Fri, 28 May 1999, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> James, this wasn't "the left" speaking, it was a prominent liberal >> imperialist pundit who has the ear of the president of the U.S. > >Are you sure he's a liberal and not a conservative? His article in the >current Atlantic on Kissinger's dissertation is filled with rug's-eye >paeans to Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and Henry the K. He reminds me of >no one so much as George Will. Wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 07:23:00 PDT 1999

37838 Russian on war eco damage -- rank: 1000

NATO Strikes Send Dioxins, Furans, Uranium Over Europe MOSCOW, May 27 (Itar-Tass) - NATO's air strikes on Yugoslavia have environmental impacts on Europe, said Major General Boris Alekseyev, the Russian army's environmental safety department chief. He said at a press conference on Thursday that the air strikes have "far-going ecologic concequences". NATO is doing "deliberate destruction of chemically dangerous facilities" in Yugoslavia, in particular of ammonia and polymer pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 07:17:03 PDT 1999

37839 Zizek: Occupy Serbia! -- rank: 1000

Well, Chris Burford, you'll be happy to hear that at a bookstore appearance in NYC last night, Slavoj Zizek said that while he opposed NATO's bombing, he nonetheless supported the "total occupation" of Serbia. He didn't say how or by whom. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 07:04:36 PDT 1999

37840 Russian cohesion up 4 on week -- rank: 1000

EastWest Institute Russian Regional Report Vol. 4, No. 20, 27 May 1999 Russian Cohesion Index: -22 (up 4 this week) Disintegration................L..T..........0..............Democratic Federalism (T = this week; L = last week; 0 = 17 March) *****See the RRR website (http://www.iews.org/rrrabout.nsf) for a graphic display of the Russian Cohesion Index since 17 March.***** +++++ Although the situation in Karachaevo-Cherkesiya remains unstable, the federal government is taking sensible actions to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 06:54:23 PDT 1999

37841 Bourdieu on Kosovo -- rank: 1000

[for those whose French is better than mine...] 18 Mai 99 - TRIBUNE LIBRE Les intellectuels et la guerre Par Pierre Bourdieu. Sociologue. Professeur au Collège de France (*). Je voudrais tout d'abord rendre justice au travail de Catherine Samary, pour la part qu'elle a prise à la rédaction du texte " Arrêt des bombardements, autodétermination ", auquel mon nom a pu être associé (1). Aujourd'hui, je voudrais essentiellement proposer une sorte de programme de travail, et des méthodes de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 06:35:17 PDT 1999

37842 Bell Curve globalized? -- rank: 1000

[from the Social Science Research Network's development working paper abstracts] "Genetics, Family Structure, and Economic Growth" BY: PAUL J. ZAK Claremont Graduate University Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=161510 Other Electronic Document Delivery: ftp://cgsftp.cgs.edu/pub/papers/zakp/gene.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. When ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 28 06:25:54 PDT 1999

37843 more deaths promised -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - May 28, 1999 Nato commander warns of more civilian deaths By Ben Fenton in Washington NATO'S air campaign has not reached its peak yet and the alliance should be prepared for more civilian casualties, the commander of Operation Allied Force has told ambassadors of the 19 countries involved in the action against the Yugoslav regime. Gen Wesley Clark, Nato's supreme commander in Europe, said he would be seeking to increase the number of air strikes in Kosovo and expand the ran ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 21:54:43 PDT 1999

37844 No simple economic motive in Balkans -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In message <v0401170bb37082318001@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood ><dhenwood at panix.com> writes >>[An otherwise unremarkable statement by the Yugoslav Sociological Assn >>forwarded to the Marxist Literary Group list quoted a Washington Post op-ed >>by Robert Kaplan, theorist of humanitarian imperialism, that said we needed >>the Balkans to gain access to Caspian Oil. > >The view that the war over Kosovo is being fought out o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 21:51:58 PDT 1999

37845 mortgages -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at ee.cornell.edu> Reply-To: enrique at ee.cornell.edu Organization: Cornell University X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: mortgage talk: Jordan vs. Liu, and much more. References: <9905280118.AA02596 at blood.infothecary.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jordan Hayes wrote: > > From enrique a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 21:34:14 PDT 1999