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38536 They all do it every which way. -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >There's a species of ape--anyone know the name--which >is perhaps the most uninhibited copulating species >there is, at least among mammals. Bonobos. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 23 12:54:19 PDT 1999

38537 Unemployment, poverty and prisoners -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Aren't pure or at leas semi-pure coupon clippers a significant >source of cash for right-wing (and liberal) think-tanks, conferences, >even politicians? Actually I think most of them work too. A major source of funding for the Newt/Contract With America crowd was new Wall Street money, guys (gender deliberate) who ran hedge funds and such, rather than working at an established firm - e.g. Richard Gilder (the principal investor in that great airline, Valu-Jet, and the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 23 08:05:31 PDT 1999

38538 tonnage -- rank: 1000

A couple of weeks ago, Ted Byfield posted a link to a Forbes magazine article on how energy-intensive computers are. The article claimed that every megabyte of data transferred on the net burned about half a pound of coal. This list transferred 1,855 megabytes last month, or almost half a ton of coal. Gee whiz. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 21:35:18 PDT 1999

38539 d.o.b.? -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >I find your moderating biased. I only return attacks using the terms of the >attackers. Kick me off LBO. It would be a pleasure to be disassociated with >it. If that's what you want, til we meet again. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 21:04:33 PDT 1999

38540 d.o.b.? -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >What the hell are you talking about? >If you cannot follow a thread, have the decency to keep quiet. >You do bring out childishness in people. Henry, you like to complain when others attack you, but you're pretty good at slinging the abuse yourself. And you've posted about 14 times today. Enough. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 20:34:28 PDT 1999

38541 soaking the poor -- rank: 1000

"Effective Marginal Tax Rates on Low-Income Households" BY: DANIEL SHAVIRO New York University, School of Law Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=162569 Date: February 1999 Contact: DANIEL SHAVIRO Email: Mailto:shavirod at turing.law.nyu.edu Postal: New York University, School of Law #314-B 40 Washington Sq. South New York, NY 10012-1099 USA Phone: (212)998-6187 Fax: (212)995-4341 ABSTRACT: Discussion of m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 20:27:39 PDT 1999

38542 NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers -- rank: 1000

kirsten neilsen wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> And the assimilation of the Irish to "whiteness" was an important >> part of the racialization of class in the U.S. Ditto the various >> other ethnic groups over the decades. But now we do have to deal with >> this category "white" - it's part of our social inheritance. > >i never implied otherwise. Didn't think or say you did. >> How do we undo it without denying it? > >well, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 19:12:00 PDT 1999

38543 NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers -- rank: 1000

kirsten neilsen wrote: >gee, tell that to the irish, who, along side the chinese, built the >railroads in the u.s. or the poles, the italians, european jews ... all >of these groups, and more, were racialied, considered of inferior races, >etc. > >[don't even try assuming that i'm arguing that these groups were more >oppressed, or even as oppressed than "non-whitees." i'm simply >challanging the notion that whites formed a cohesive group in the u.s.] And the ass ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 15:14:51 PDT 1999

38544 NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > From hliu at mindspring.com Tue Jun 22 11:39:29 1999 > > The Whites are very experienced in that. > >(will it never end?) Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Lets hope so. >The accusation will end when the acts end. A serious discussion of race and its relation to class is welcome. This sort of personalized abusive stuff isn't. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 14:36:49 PDT 1999

38545 Fwd: 1999-06-21 Vice President Reveals New Study on Information Technology -- rank: 1000

[Al Gore, who invented the Internet, now seems to think it will lift Guatemala and Uganda out of penury.] Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:25 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> To: Public-Distribution at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov Subject: 1999-06-21 Vice President Reveals New Study on Information Technology Keywords: Business, Central-America-Caribbean, Communications, Computers, Eastern-Europe, Economy, Foreign, Government, Infrastructure, International-Coope ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 13:13:31 PDT 1999

38546 Marx on Smith -- rank: 1000

Fabian Balardini wrote: > >That a falling rate of profit is a real concept not just a theory, Bourgeois measures of profit in the U.S. economy show a peak in the late 60s, a fall into the early 80s, and a rise through 1996, and a modest falloff since. You can translate that into a very important political story, explaining the troubles of the 1970s followed by the capitalist counteroffensive followed by a restoration of capitalist power. What different story do the Marxian measures tell? A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 13:06:39 PDT 1999

38547 NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >No, Doug, I'm saying I'm sick of Henry's casual use of the term >"Whites" as though there's some cohesive group called "Whites" -- I >mean, why not just say "Chinese kill students who protest" or ... > >Or do you think it's kewl to characterize "Whites" based on the actions >of the railroad barrons? Let's not forget: the exercise of power over >any group to exploit their labor is yucky, and it has been practiced b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 12:48:14 PDT 1999

38548 NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > From hliu at mindspring.com Tue Jun 22 11:39:29 1999 > > The Whites are very experienced in that. > >(will it never end?) So, Jordan, you saying that there's nothing to the charge of racism? That it was mere coincidence that the guys blown up by the cluster bomb were Nepalese? That white folks didn't abuse Chinese and Africans in building this glorious country? Maybe instead of launching epithets at Henry you could tell us just what your analysis of the role ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 11:53:44 PDT 1999

38549 Fwd: [weisbrot-columns] World's Poorest Countries Are Still Waiting for Real Debt Relief -- rank: 1000

[Two comments on the G7/G8 debt relief scheme.] Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:57:31 -0400 From: <wb50years at igc.org> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Sender: owner-50-years at igc.apc.org Subject: Results of the Cologne G-7 Summit on Debt To: <50-years at igc.org> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) 50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice June 22, 1999 Network Director Njoki Njo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 11:44:41 PDT 1999

38550 Marx on Smith -- rank: 1000

Fabian Balardini wrote: >It provides us with the approriate framework to build accounting systems >so that we can measure Marxian categories like the rate of surplus value, >the rate of exploitation, productivity, rate of profit, etc (the whole >point of Shaikh and Tonak's book "Measuring the Wealth of Nations"). You >can not measure Marxian categories with Keynesian based accounting systems. >In other words, the proper and painful understanding of the notion of > ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 10:20:01 PDT 1999