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38221 .....Re: A kick in the pants -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >>put in it up your fucking ass. > > > > >now this is really too much. it isn't some cutesy 'cussing', it's >just abusive and offensive. You're right. Its author has been sent on a vacation of indeterminate length. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 27 09:13:13 PST 1999

38222 list ecology -- rank: 1000

A couple of comments about recent list discourse. First, while I've never enforced the posting limits literally, there's been too much excess there lately; please keep it to 3 or fewer a day. Second, the tone on the Yugoslavia exchanges has gotten too nasty; political differences are ok, but please don't malign the intelligence, character, or motives of fellow listers. And three, Doyle & Co.'s kick in the pants stuff has no redeeming social or aesthetic value. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 08:56:21 PST 1999

38223 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >So do you think that the people of Greece would have been happier if its >post-WWII politics had been moe like those of Bulgaria? We have no idea of how Europe would have turned out in the early post-WW II years had it not been for the Cold War and U.S. resolve to destroy the USSR. U.S. policy helped create the repressive monster its propaganda condemned - starting not in 1945 but 1917. What would Western Europe have been like had the CIA not intervened in Italy, Germa ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 08:49:36 PST 1999

38224 A kick in the pants -- rank: 1000

I don't really know what the hell this is all about, but I don't want it on this list. Carry on your sordid exchanges privately please. Doug ---- Doyle Saylor wrote: >Hello everyone, > >DiGloria >A brief digression to gives someone a kick in the pants. he keeps begging >for it. > >Doyle >What happened to the rhetoric about handcuffs and s&m DiGloria? You want to >kick me in the pants for real you do. Well keep your foot to yourself. >Because if you do I'm goi ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 08:40:00 PST 1999

38225 Rubin replaced by Summers by mid summer? -- rank: 1000

They're really playing up Summers' imminent ascension. The Washington Post had a big piece 7-10 days ago, he was on the Time cover with Rubin & Greenspan, etc. Years ago when he was introduced to a Wall Street hard money conference as a former adviser to the Dukakis campaign, people broke out in laughter. Now he'll be their man in DC. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 19:53:19 PST 1999

38226 Protest against the Bombing -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >Yes, they are selective, and disgustingly so. But what >are we to do then? It's despicable, as you imply, that >the US establishment doesn't really give a rat's >backside for anything but the wealthy. But isn't it >even worse to let positively _every_one suffer? >Surely ameliorating the lives of a few for the wrong >reasons is better -- at least for those few! -- than >letting everyone go hang. Isn't it? > >Rather than protest the intervention i ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 08:19:13 PST 1999

38227 Mandel is a Dollars & Sense alumn?!? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Please explain. -- Seth I could swear he used to work at Dollars & Sense before going to Business Week. Maybe some D&S person could confirm. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 09:46:21 PST 1999

38228 Fwd: call for panels for the institute, june 12-20 -- rank: 1000

>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:43:36 -0600 (CST) >From: Jamie Owen Daniel <jdaniel at uic.edu> >X-Sender: jdaniel at tigger.cc.uic.edu >To: mlg-ics at andrew.cmu.edu >Subject: call for panels for the institute, june 12-20 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Dear MLGers and everyone else on this list: > >Please read carefully and circulate appropriately! > > >As previously announced, the MLG's annual > > Summer Institute on Culture and Society > >will ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 08:14:53 PST 1999

38229 US v Canada -- rank: 1000

"New Views on Inequality Trends in Canada and the United States" BY: MICHAEL C. WOLFSON Statistics Canada Analytical Studies Branch BRIAN B. MURPHY Statistics Canada Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=134688 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.statcan.ca/english/Vlib/Research/no124e.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. When UR ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 08:02:35 PST 1999

38230 profit rate falling! -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >In the US, turnover increases, because the U.S. investment in >structures (probably associated with deindustrialization and outsourcing; Doug >knows more about the data than I do) has been declining while there is more >investment in quickly depreciating computers and the like. Yup. The press - led by Dollars & Sense alum Michael Mandel at Biz Weak - is full of hype about an investment boom. It's mainly an artifact of the price index for computers; the no ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 07:57:56 PST 1999

38231 self-centered = happy -- rank: 1000

>From today's New York Times vox pop story on the bombing: <quote> "What's Kosovo?" said Todd Hunter Weiss, a shipping clerk at Jacobson's Department Store in Boca Raton. "I don't like to worry about the world's problems. I'm a happier person if I stay centered on myself." </quote> Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 07:34:13 PST 1999

38232 Kennedy vs grad students -- rank: 1000

[Grad students as workers? Ha ha ha!] Wall Street Journal - March 25, 1999 Commentary The International Brotherhood Of Eggheads By Paul Kennedy, a professor of history at Yale University. Given the excitement of NATO's military strikes in the Balkans, even the most avid newspaper readers may have missed reports that graduate students at the University of California, Los Angeles, voted on Monday in overwhelming numbers to form a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers, and that their brethr ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 21:15:08 PST 1999

38233 Protest against the Bombing -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The fundamental question is whether the lives of many innocent people are >under immediate, deadly threat at the hands of the Serbs. Sure they are, but so are the lives of many other innocent people all over the place - Kurds, at the hands of Turkey for example, where the casualties have been far greater. But Turkey, being a NATO member and a loyal stooge of the United States, gets a free ride. Africa is a goddamn "humanitarian catastrophe," to use the phrase ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 19:47:59 PST 1999

38234 FDIC, email and Libertarians -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: > A bit earlier I posted on this topic. This is the outcome. >Marta Russell > >> Wednesday, March 24, 1999 10:18 PM >> Flood of E-Mail Credited With Halting U.S. Bank Plan ...and there's this, from Sam Smith's Progressive Review. I'm glad the impeachment crap is over so Sam's writing about other stuff now. Doug ---- >UNDERNEWS >By Sam Smith >March 25, 1999 > >The Progressive Review >1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 >202-232 ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 16:02:16 PST 1999

38235 Internationale -- rank: 1000

steve at panix.com wrote: >My heart rose when I heard you open your show with Billy Bragg's >Internationale. As long as this view guides WBAI (and the national board >doesn't destroy the station's independence) there is surely hope, for the >station, and for those of us who rely on it. Thanks. I thought it was the best way to make the transition from the memorial mode to the "normal." It was quite an extraordinary scene at the WBAI studio - all sorts of people there, united ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 15:59:06 PST 1999