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38716 American Front -- rank: 1000

Oh these people are scary. "What We Believe" <http://www.americanfront.com/believe.html> The American Front is a political movement which seeks National Freedom and Social Justice. It is a way beyond Left and Right; beyond capitalism and communism. It is a progressive new outlook which addresses the political, social and economic issues which affect our daily lives.The American Front offers a real alternative for the Peoples of North America. The People's of every Nation have an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 08:01:40 PDT 1999

38717 Fwd: Re:List -- rank: 1000

Anyone else on the list get this? This all sounds like crypto-Nazi variants on National Socialism. Our Americanfront friend sounds pretty nasty. Doug >To: "jody mathis" <jody_mathis at webmail.bellsouth.net> >Subject: Re:List >From: "jody mathis" <jody_mathis at webmail.bellsouth.net> >Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 05:17:19 -0400 >X-Originating-IP: 209.136.206.33 > > > > > > > > >>>Thank you for asking to be placed on our N ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 07:55:27 PDT 1999

38718 Postmodern Marx -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >>From Terrell Carver's The Postmodern Marx (Penn State Press, 1999): > >"Marx did not accept a commonplace distinction between literal and >figurative langauge, and he did not attempt to avoid the latter in what is >taken to be his most scientific work. Rather his use of figurative language >to make a political statement aligns him with the textualising >approach...Marx's critique takes political economy as a textual surface, >and by means ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 07:47:14 PDT 1999

38719 Life in prison for stealing food -- rank: 1000

Adam Stevens wrote: >That must have been an interesting Op-ed because Europe's crime rate is >already substantially lower than the US's. Their incarceration rate is >lower, their respective criminal justice systems are less punitive AND their >crime rate is lower. Are you sure? I thought that European property crime rates were comparable to the U.S. - it was only in murder that the U.S. is an outlier (though less so recently than 5 or 10 years ago). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 07:42:11 PDT 1999

38720 Europe picks up zero tolerance -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >Wasn't there an Op-ed in the WSJ a few months back that argued that if >Europe wanted to have a crime rate as low as the U.S. it would have to start >locking up a lot more people? Don't remember a WSJ article, but James Farmelant posted a Le Monde article to this list on how Europe was picking up on "zero tolerance" from the U.S. It's kind of long (28K), so I won't repost it, but I'll send a copy to anyone who wants one. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 07:34:40 PDT 1999

38721 Invitation to join solidarity at onelist.com -- rank: 1000

americanfront at yahoo.com wrote: >I would like to invite you to join the solidarity mailing list. > >The description of this mailing list is: > >A list to show solidarity with all freedom and self determination movements >around the world. > >You can join this list by going to the following web page: > > http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/solidarity > >If you do not wish to join this list, please ignore this message. Hey, you join this list using a free ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 4 07:27:51 PDT 1999

38722 eBay -- rank: 1000

With Rivlin leaving, this may especially be history, but the new Grant's Interest Rate Observer quotes an unnamed brokerage-house analyst as saying eBay <http://www.ebay.com> is cheap at 55 times net income projected for 2009. Since 1871, the S&P 500 has averaged a P/E of 12 times income 10 years out, and a median of 8; since 1945, 7.1 mean/7.0 median. If 55 times is cheap, I'm Alice Rivlin. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 3 21:39:51 PDT 1999

38723 Rivlin Walks -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >Rivlin Quits Fed, Raises Rate Fears Hmm, does this mean her ex-colleagues have gone beyond a tilt towards an extended, serious tightening? She wouldn't quit over a 1/4 point snug, would she? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 3 18:26:42 PDT 1999

38724 Life in prison for stealing food -- rank: 1000

kayak3 wrote: >Could the politicians who have pushed for mandatory sentences and longer >prison terms argue that there is less crime because there are more >criminals in jail? They could say that but it still doesn't change the fact that a society that jails as many people as the US jails is deeply fucked up. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 3 17:18:25 PDT 1999

38725 Russian cohesion -5 -- rank: 1000

EastWest Institute Russian Regional Report Vol. 4, No. 21, 3 June 1999 Russian Cohesion Index: -27 (down 5 this week) Disintegration..............T..L............0..............Democratic Federalism (T = this week; L = last week; 0 = 17 March) *****See the RRR website (http://www.iews.org/rrrabout.nsf) for a graphic display of the Russian Cohesion Index since 17 March.***** ----- What initially seemed like a peaceful transition from Primakov to Stepashin has become incredibly chaotic. The short- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 3 17:16:08 PDT 1999

38726 stox funding housebuying -- rank: 1000

[Pointed out by Greg Nowell. Didn't someone say here recently that you can't have a real bubble without a real estate bubble? There's this, and there's NYC real estate. The stories I've been hearing about rents in previously marginal areas of Brooklyn are astonishing.] Los Angeles Times - June 3, 1999 Stocks Helping Fuel California Home Sales By DON LEE, Times Staff Writer Documenting for the first time the stock market's pervasive role in California's housing market, a new survey shows that a s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 3 17:10:20 PDT 1999

38727 Life in prison for stealing food -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >Unemployment is actually higher here than official statistics reflect since >the prison population isn't counted, nor are people who have given up >looking for work, etc. Yeah, but even using harmonized statistical techniques, U.S. unemployment rates are well below Europe's. U.S. poverty rates are well above, though. If you counted the imprisoned as unemployed, it would have raised the U.S. unemployment rate from 4.3% in December 1998 to about 5.6%. The black male ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 3 12:23:40 PDT 1999

38728 Life in prison for stealing food -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Don't such reformers fall into the error of confusing property >relations with the social relations of production? Yeah, and as far as I can tell they don't really think much about the organization of production. Their model seems to be an unexamined nostalgia for an era of small-scale competitive capitalism, an entity whose actual existence must be seriously doubted. Weren't early small enterprises actually local monopolies, and didn't it take larger firms with nat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 3 11:14:34 PDT 1999

38729 Growth, debt and crunches -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Oz and the US have clearly gone mad. If this is growth, we don't count it >right. If this is an economy worth upgrading, we don't lend right. If the >world market depend on ongoing debt-financed consumption like this, its >future is to be measured in months. >From a Business Week special issue on "The Debt Economy": "The U. S. economy stands atop a mountain of debt $25 trillion high - a mountain built of all the cars and houses, all the factori ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 3 11:04:22 PDT 1999

38730 eco consequences of war -- rank: 1000

[Someone asked about ecological consequences of the Yugo war. This comes from Michael Eisenscher.] Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:29:42 +0000 From: "Janet M. Eaton" <jeaton at fox.nstn.ca> Subject: ECOLOGICAL Catastrophe [4] NATO Bombings [References] <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ECOLOGICAL C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 3 09:59:27 PDT 1999