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37846 24 Hour Trading -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Of course, 24-hour trading isn't new: the currency "market" has been >open continuously for years. Even for stocks, Instinet has been >providing a 24x7 marketplace for many years. What's new is the idea >that the NYSE and NASDAQ are looking to move in that direction to >support it. That is, the retail market will be able to participate for >the first time. How can that be bad? Because in general the more people trade, the worse they do. Why an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 09:51:46 PDT 1999

37847 Clinton defends budget caps -- rank: 1000

[...or more precisely his budget director, who "lectured the GOP on the sanctity of the caps as a symbol of fiscal discipline." Chris Burford will be excited about the tobacco tax, of course.] Wall Street Journal - May 27, 1999 Clinton Aide Urges Congress to Boost Tobacco Tax to Avoid Deep Budget Cuts By DAVID ROGERS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The White House stepped up pressure on Congress to rethink the Republican budget plan and consider tobacco tax incr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 09:43:57 PDT 1999

37848 bourgeosie at thought -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >Doug, do you have info, or know where to get it, about US inequality >back, say, to the turn of the century or further? I've got a chart of a U.S. gini going back to 1913 at <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Stats_incpov.html>. The pre-1947 estimates came from Eugene Smolensky and Robert Plotnick, "Inequality and Poverty in the United States: 1900 to 1990," University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Public Policy, Working Paper #193 (July 8 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 09:35:43 PDT 1999

37849 Mary Daly update -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >and btw, both daly and firestone are typified as being >radical feminists who attribute women's oppression to their capacity to >bear and nurture children. they both essentialized women, iow. Essentialized? Sounds kind of materialist to me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 27 09:29:50 PDT 1999

37850 Gallup: US war support drops -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/> Gallup Poll - May 26, 1999 Support for U.S. Kosovo Involvement Drops Americans strongly favor cease-fire in order to negotiate peace; Clinton approval drops to lowest level in three years by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- American support for U.S. involvement in the Kosovo situation has dropped to its lowest point since the NATO air attacks began two months ago, and the vast majority of Americans now favor a cease-fire in order to resolve the si ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 22:15:03 PDT 1999

37851 Clinton ordering up 90k troops? -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - May 27 1999 Clinton to order 90,000 troops to Kosovo BY MICHAEL EVANS, DEFENCE EDITOR PRESIDENT CLINTON is now ready to consider a full-scale land war against Serb forces in Kosovo, sending up to 90,000 combat troops from America, if no peace settlement emerges within the next three weeks. Although Nato is only officially planning for a peace implementation force of 50,000-60,000 troops, there is a growing feeling in Washington and London that the alliance must prepare itself fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 22:03:14 PDT 1999

37852 UK economy -- rank: 1000

A friend of mine who writes on cultural politics is looking to talk to someone about the UK economy over the last 10-20 years. If anyone can help him out, please email me offlist. Thanks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 17:13:35 PDT 1999

37853 Mary Daly update -- rank: 1000

frances bolton wrote: > But her >conversation is not with (secular) feminist theorists for the most part, it >is with >Catholic theologians. She is arguing against the transcendent, omnipotent >etc etc male god of the church, its notions about sin, about bodies, about >pleasure, about suffering, the role of women. and >For those who aren't familiar, Daly holds doctorates in >theology and philosophy from Fribourg. She's published six books, is >internationally known and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 16:03:53 PDT 1999

37854 Mary Daly update -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Margaret wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm a fang-and-claw feminist, but Mary Daly disturbs me >> in ways I can't completely put my finger on. > >She disturbs me because she won't let males take her class. I don't see >why it is so hard to put one's finger on that. Plus she has that really odd prose style. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 14:19:57 PDT 1999

37855 Fwd: LISTSERVE ANNOUNCEMENT: STOP-IMF -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 14:19:28 PDT 1999

37856 British TV jury finds against Nato -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >rethinking the question of partition, which I now see as >not so impossible to do. I don't think it ever showed up here. Yup, it did. Doug ---- From: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb at jmu.edu> To: <pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu>, <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Partition reconsidered Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:33:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 12:38:50 PDT 1999

37857 British TV jury finds against Nato -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > More precisely I was "demonizing" Milosevic as >being responsible for the expulsions which I was >also denouncing (and denouncing Milosevic for his >role in the wars and deaths in the Croatia and Bosnia- >Herzegovina earlier). It was made clear to me that I >was becoming boring and overdoing it and that I should >stop, which I have. I always opposed the bombing >campaign and still do and said so. Feel free to make the point ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 12:03:43 PDT 1999

37858 The weakness of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >well doug, i'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you were >hoping for an equitable draft if'n ya get my drift. iow, were you planning >on making sure that college students were drafted too? or were you just >going to let that 50% of the pop. that doesn't attend college get drafted >in order to fulfill their duty toward their country--that is, keeping the >flame of dissent alive? The only reason I'd be for a draft is that it'd make war less like ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 11:22:09 PDT 1999

37859 Zizek speaks -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I do not recall you commenting on the following passages from his article >in the latest New Left Review. Are you in agreement with them? Or do I >wholly misunderstand their significance? I asked Zizek about this when I talked with him last week. I said it sounded a bit too much like an endorsement of NATO for my taste. He swore it wasn't, and swore he opposed the bombing. I largely agree with the bottom half of what you quote. I don't like the first half so much, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 11:15:13 PDT 1999

37860 The weakness of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >Kelley inquires: > >>i'd *still* like to know who's responsible for making this claim that a >>draft would make for a stronger anti-war movment. > >I think you can blame it--all of it, everything--on our venerable >moderator. Here's what he wrote on May 19: > >"I can't speak for the rest of the world, but it seems to me that most >Americans don't care too much if their military is bombing other countries >as long as no Americans get k ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 10:11:34 PDT 1999