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38101 guns prevent violence! -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Nicely said, Margaret. There is a definite pattern here - it is always >human error/operator's fault - never a systemic failure. Andrew Ross makes a nice point in that Salon piece I mentioned earlier: <quote> One reason for the disconnect, argues Andrew Ross, who chairs the American studies department at NYU, is how the media handles race. Ross notes that when white suburban kids go wrong, there's enormous pressure to find a psychological cause rather than ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 08:26:17 PDT 1999

38102 video violence -- rank: 1000

from today's Salon update: >The shooters and the shrinks: After Littleton, the media declared that >studies show computer games lead to violence. What studies? Mark Boal >investigates. ><http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/05/06/game_violence/index.html> Apparently the retired army psychologist David Grossman, who was heavily quoted in the papers (including the NYT story I forwarded to this list) is especially full of shit. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 07:25:53 PDT 1999

38103 Brecher Resigns Over Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I have to conclude that like many on the left he is infected by bourgeois >pacificism Yoo-hoo, Chris, what ever are you talking about? There's nothing pacific about the bourgeoisie - from wholesale slaughter to forced expropriation, not to mention the day-to-day violence of the exploitation of people and nature. Perhaps you could define this "bourgeois pacifism" thing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 07:15:11 PDT 1999

38104 Brecher Resigns Over Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Wed, 5 May 1999, CounterPunch wrote: > >> My answers led to my resignation. >> >> Sincerely yours, >> >> Jeremy Brecher > >Is this the same Jeremy Brecher that wrote _Strike!_? Yes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 07:09:27 PDT 1999

38105 value club -- rank: 1000

[Alan Freeman asked me to forward this.] ============================================================================= International Working Group on Value Theory CALL FOR PAPERS Year 2000 Value Theory Mini-Conference Crystal City Hyatt Regency, March 24th- March 26th 2000 ============================================================================= Apologies for any cross-posting We invite you to the seventh "New Directions in Value/Price Theory" mini-conference, organized by the Inte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 06:23:52 PDT 1999

38106 White House on Japanese concessions -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >Increasing imports will not do much to stimulate Japan. What would they >get out of these concessions? Why would they concede? You know the reasoning, Michael. Outside some competitive export sectors, Japanese domestic producers are cossetted, producing inferior goods at high prices. Opening up to imports would be a competitive tonic, and, when combined with deregulation of the retail sector, put an end to the situation in which a Sony TV costs less i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 06:16:03 PDT 1999

38107 da law, anti-racist links and pashukanis -- rank: 1000

S Pawlett wrote: >But, as you know, the whole system is based on something for nothings. Income >streams accruing from stock& bonds, interest on one's bank accounts, landlords >collecting rent and corporate welfare. Noone who collects income from these >sources can be said to be working for or earning their money. Well yeah, which is why they're called parasites in some circles. So how can you consistently condemn unearned capital income at the same time you're arguing for a sepa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 6 06:11:45 PDT 1999

38108 Krugman sad -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >When you're a global >creditor, you can afford to sit back and harvest the returns of other >people's GDP growth. Yeah, but doesn't that mean you're just a fat, atrophying rentier? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 20:44:06 PDT 1999

38109 rate stuff -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >When I want to check up on US markets I go here (Yahoo >Finance) > > http://quote.yahoo.com/?u > >Where the listed price is for the 30 year and where you >can get charts showing 5 day hourly variations, &c. >(They also do stox). > >When you say "long bond" to me & I think most it means >the 30 year. It is true that for some mysterious >reason the 29 year and other bonds often trade at a >premium relative to the *most ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 20:01:21 PDT 1999

38110 da law, anti-racist links and pashukanis -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >we've discussed this some before, and my own >priority would be a campaign for a universal basic income. I think we need >to break the connection between the compulsion to work and the ability to >live. unemployment (not being in waged work) shouldn't be seen as a problem, >poverty should be. I'm with you on this, but this is a hard one to get working class support for. There's a lot of working class hostility to welfare recipients in the U.S. Part of this is the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 16:38:04 PDT 1999

38111 June 18 -- rank: 1000

There's an international day of action against no less than "global capitalism" scheduled for June 18, in honor of the G8 [sic] summit in Köln, Germany. For more info, <http://www.gn.apc.org/june18/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 16:37:51 PDT 1999

38112 interest rate moves -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >Doug mentioned the long bond at 5.8% but I checked and >at closing today it was at 5.699, which is higher than >it's been in a while but still a ways below 5.8. Maybe we're not checking the same place. 5.95, even, as of 5/4. I was quoting the 5/3 number, which was up this morning. Doug ---- <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/releases/H15/update/> H.15 DAILY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY For immediate release SELECTED INTEREST RATES May 5, 1999 Yields in perc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 15:51:26 PDT 1999

38113 Sheep Shearing -- rank: 1000

Here's a possibility for all you fans of sheep-shearing - the rise in long-term U.S. interest rates, which bottomed out around 5.10% last October (according to the Fed's long-term government bond composite), and are now up over 5.80%. Not earth-shattering, but it means both pressure on the stock market and maybe pressure on the Fed to stop talking New Paradigm and start thinking about tightening. But I don't think you'll see a wholesale shearing until the Fed turns hostile, whenever that may be. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 09:41:17 PDT 1999

38114 White House on Japanese concessions -- rank: 1000

[Meanwhile, the White House propaganda machine says...] Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:50 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> Subject: 1999-05-03 Fact Sheet on US-Japan on Deregulation and Competition Policy To: Public-Distribution@[198.137.240.100] Precedence: Bulk Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/5/4/16.text.1 URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/5/4/16. text.1 Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 08:08:42 PDT 1999

38115 Henry Liu on Japan -- rank: 1000

Henry, I'd like to hear more about what you think the Japanese are trying to accomplish with what looks to Americans like inaction in the face of slump. How will they get the better of the Americans over the long term? What's their goal? Imperial succession? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 08:04:12 PDT 1999