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38116 Russian public opinion -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Poll Shows Most Russians Blame NATO For Balkan Crisis Radiostantsiya Ekho Moskvy May 3, 1999 Most people in Russia - 63 per cent - are convinced that NATO is to blame for the Balkan conflict, whereas 13 per cent think that both sides are to blame. Six per cent of the respondents accuse Yugoslavia only, the Public Opinion Foundation has reported. More than a third of all Russians don't know what has caused the conflict in Yugoslavia.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 08:02:52 PDT 1999

38117 guns prevent violence! -- rank: 1000

So Jordan, how many guns do you have? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 08:01:47 PDT 1999

38118 screwing workers & lying about it -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 5, 1999 Actuaries Become Red-Faced Over Recorded Pension Talk By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Tape recordings of indiscreet gabbing. Congressional sessions at which they are played. And subsequent red faces. No, this isn't an issue of national security. We are talking actuaries. The tapes in question weren't recorded surreptitiously, but with the knowledge of the folks now embarrassed by them. And they are at the center of a controversy. Ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 07:33:55 PDT 1999

38119 Himmelfarb contra progress -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 5, 1999 Two Cheers (or Maybe Just One) for Progress By Gertrude Himmelfarb, professor emeritus of history at the City University of New York. Her book "One Nation, Two Cultures" will be published by Knopf later this year. If one idea imposes itself upon us as we consider the past thousand years, surely it is the idea of progress. One can hardly begin to take the measure of the extraordinary advances in science, technology, medicine, transportation and communic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 07:32:50 PDT 1999

38120 global capital? -- rank: 1000

[bounced for a non-sub'd address] From: "christian a. gregory" <christiangreg at worldnet.att.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> References: <006e01be95e4$453c1480$a8e33ecb at rcollins> Subject: Re: global capital? Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 17:26:32 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 >I'm skeptical about the announcement of the death of the >natio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 14:33:06 PDT 1999

38121 guns prevent violence! -- rank: 1000

Fellows, Jeffrey wrote: >Can you explain the analogy a bit more clearly? > >Jeff > >You wrote: > >But why are guns so available? Isn't this like the question of why some >formerly socialist countries were able to "reform" more than others? I think there's a deceptive getting-to-the-bottom feeling about the explanation that those transitions countries succeeded best that reformed most that's a bit like the explanation of U.S. murder rates by the availability of g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 14:17:31 PDT 1999

38122 interesting quotes -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] WORD "Even in Kosovo an explicit political persecution linked to Albanian ethnicity is not verifiable." -- Intelligence report from the Foreign Office, January 12, 1999 to the Administrative Court of Trier "The various reports presented to the senate all agree that the often feared humanitarian catastrophe threatening the Albanian civil population has been averted. ... This appears to be the case since the winding down of combat in connection ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 14:01:14 PDT 1999

38123 guns prevent violence! -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > Nowl, there simply are not orders of magnitude >differences in social structure, income distribution, racism, >or what have you, between the US and the rest of the >world. What there is an order of magnitude difference >in is the sheer availability of guns, 240 million by the >last count. It is also true that we have a frontier legacy >of guns and that we are the only nation that allows people >to own guns without having a license. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 12:14:55 PDT 1999

38124 unemployment and low wages -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Prevailing economic theory holds that low wages are correlated with low >unemployment; and high wages with high unemployment. I am making the >case that unemployment depresses wages. (David Blanchflower and Andrew >Oswald, The Wage Curve). Is there any other evidence or economists who >I can cite to support the Blanchflower side?????? Check out Heather Boushey's racial angle on this at <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Race_curve.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 10:39:56 PDT 1999

38125 Russian relations to worsen -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Clearly one likely consequence of NATO's war against >Yugoslavia has been the strengthening of Russia's nationalists. >Ljunggren's piece suggests that fears that Russia may start >rearming are exaggerated because of strong fiscal >constraints. However, may not rearmanent provide a way >out of Russia's economic crisis, not unlike the way rearming >helped Germany out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and >the way that the outbreak of WW II pulled ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 08:16:37 PDT 1999

38126 Dems -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >They are the same question: the second is a consequence of the first. If >McGovern or McGovernite candidates had won national elections, there would >have been no significant desire to make sure that they didn't win >primaries... A principled party would take a loss in the short term in the hope of building a majority over the long term. But the Dems aren't a principled party. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 4 07:31:15 PDT 1999

38127 Dems -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >The question is why did the left fail to hold leadership in the party and >move it further to the left???? If a simple electoral strategy would work >to move the country onto a progressive course, this period offered the >best possible chance, as Brad had already suggested. Well McGovern *did* lose badly. We can come up with good reasons why he did, but that's a pretty weak base to start from. But the big money dudes were alarmed and immediately ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 07:29:02 PDT 1999

38128 Bank Capital -- further info -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >But what the hell are "risk assets"? (more related to the original >question). It's shorthand for "Risk Weighted Assets" When you're >reviewing a bank's accounts as a regulator, you take the assets, and then >"weight" them according to a set of rules based on the following: > >Zone A government bonds (basically OECD members who have not rescheduled >debt in the last five years) -- 0% (hence Doug's comment) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 07:16:02 PDT 1999

38129 UK commandos - land war? -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >We can be certain that Alistair Campbell, British spin doctor assigned to >support NATO, thinks that headlines about bus passengers killed by NATO >bombing in Kosovo are an own goal by comparison with Blair being greeted by >Albanian children, and pictures of Cherie Blair as mater dolorosa. I thought the New York Times story on that visit was uncharacteristically mocking of Blair. It's interesting how much the press covers the process of concocting spin - which ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 07:04:35 PDT 1999

38130 Russian relations to worsen -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Russia's ties with West likely to worsen - IISS By David Ljunggren LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - Russia's relations with the West are sure to worsen in the coming year as nationalists seek to make political capital from the country's economic crisis, a leading London-based think-tank said on Tuesday. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said Russia had to balance its anger at NATO air strikes against old ally Serbia with its desire for more Internatio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 06:57:05 PDT 1999