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39061 Weimar Russia -- rank: 1000

]bounced because of an address kink] Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:44:32 -0500 From: jeff sommers <jsommers at lynx.dac.neu.edu> Organization: World HIstory Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "lbo-talk at lists.panix.com" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Weimar Russia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Brad, Pound for pound ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 18 20:09:49 PST 1999

39062 Joint Chiefs shakedown? -- rank: 1000

Christopher Hitchens has a manuscript of a book on Bill Clinton in with Verso. I hear it's relentlessly hostile to Clinton, whom Hitchens wants to see impeached. In it, he claims that the Joint Chiefs of Staff paid a visit to Bill after the Monica stuff came out, saying that he'd be discharged from the military for what he did, and why should he remain as their Commander-in-Chief? Cinton's response was a proposed $60 billion boost in military spending. Anyone else heard this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 18 18:25:12 PST 1999

39063 butler... dispossession -- rank: 1000

Meaghan Morris, Angela, and Chuck were riffing off this passage from Zizek's Tarrying With the Negative, pp. 211-213: THE BLIND SPOT OF LIBERALISM Paradoxically, we could say that what Eastern Europe needs most now is more alienation: the establishment of an "alienated" State which would maintain its distance from the civil society, which would be "formal," "empty," i.e., which would not embody any particular ethnic community's dream (and thus keep the space open fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 18 13:03:54 PST 1999

39064 spanking dean -- rank: 1000

from today's Chronicle of Higher Education daily bulletin: >* A LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY professor charges in a lawsuit > filed Friday that an associate dean pulled her onto his lap > and spanked her while chanting, "You're a bad girl." Another > associate dean, named in the suit as a witness, confirmed the > allegation in an interview Sunday.

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Date:	Mon Jan 18 12:53:05 PST 1999

39065 immigration? -- rank: 1000

rc&am wrote: >did anyone ever respond to my query about what the brc's position on >immigration is, or what it seems likely to be? There's no mention of immigration in the BRC's ten principles of unity <http://www.blackradicalcongress.com/principles.html>. I don't think they have a party line on much of anything right now, except for a general agreement that something must be done. Its organizational endorsers include the CPUSA, Democratic Socialists of America, and the Labor Par ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 18 09:20:44 PST 1999

39066 Grant on dollar/euro -- rank: 1000

[This is from the latest Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a bond market newsletter. Politically, Grant is a libertarian; ecnomically, a fan of the Austrians; and temperamentally, a chronic bear. So he's convinced from the first that state-managed currency systems can't work, that loose credit and speculation are the precursors of disaster, and that things are bound straight to hell in the proverbial handbasket. He does have his bullish moments, though - he was recommending Russian and Korean stoc ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 18 08:12:15 PST 1999

39067 Bennett Harrison dead -- rank: 1000

I just got a chain email telling me to spread the word that Bennett Harrison, the New School economics prof an author most recently of Lean and Mean, died at 1 o'clock Sunday morning at his home in Brooklyn. A memorial service is tentatively scheduled for Feb 1. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 17 20:48:14 PST 1999

39068 UFOs -- rank: 1000

I missed this in the WSJ the first time around, but just picked up on it. Firmage's site is at <http://www.thewordistruth.org/>. Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - January 11, 1999 Silicon Valley Star Leaves Company To Dwell on Other-Worldly Matters By JIM CARLTON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Joe Firmage, a young star of Silicon Valley, is leaving his company to focus on other planets. Mr. Firmage, 28 years old, said he is resigning as chief strategist of USWeb/CKS Corp., a fast- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 17 11:05:46 PST 1999

39069 Fwd: Slavoj Zizek on The Communist Manifesto -- rank: 1000

[from another list...] Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:20:42 -0500 (EST) From: "John P. Lacny" <jplst15+ at pitt.edu> Subject: Slavoj Zizek on The Communist Manifesto Slavoj Zizek-- whatta guy! The following is from the excellent Croatian publication Arkzin! (www.arkzin.com), the website of which I would advise all to pay a visit. The current issue features a heavily marked-up HTML edition of *The Communist Manifesto*. Unfortunately, it's in Serbo-Croatian, but even those who can't ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 17 10:22:15 PST 1999

39070 Weimar Russia -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I would love to spend $40 million a year sending 10,000 (or, allowing for >bureaucratic inefficiency, 5,000) Russian-speaking Americans of Russian >descent to Russia each year to be useful... > >After spending $4 trillion preparing to defend ourselves against the >Russians over the past fifty years, the least we could do would be to spend >ten (or even one) percent of that on programs to make the Russians >democratic, prosperous, and happy... But who ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 17 10:05:40 PST 1999

39071 Lott on BET -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Sort of puts Clinton's trial out there as a racist coup. Interesting story on the front page of today's New York Times reporting that a bunch of big campaign contributors gave the Republican leadership a talking-to yesterday for pushing impeachment. Interesting in itself as a piece of news, but also from the theoretical point of view - about who's behind the impeachment, and the role of money in politics. From the lead: <quote> Many of the Republican Party's most influential ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 16 11:56:35 PST 1999

39072 Global Regulator -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >The BBC reports that today in Frankfurt Gordon Brown will be emphasising >the continued instability in the world's financial markets as shown by >Brazil, and calling for action within 3 months. > >One of his proposals is for a global regulator. > > >Clearly he will not put forward anything that would be hostile to >capitalism as a whole, and it might be beneficial in terms of lowering >foreign exchange costs, but a) will it work, b) will it hap ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 16 10:50:05 PST 1999

39073 What "Black Nationalism Debates" Do to Us (was Re: Trotsky, fascism, black nationalism etc) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What do "black nationalism debates" accomplish on predominantly non-black >e-lists and fora, if not the reinforcement of the first of the "two deeply >ingrained and disturbing premises" that Reed describes so well, even though >the "debates" in question are conducted among leftists, despite undoubtedly >good intentions of those who participate in them? I'm just trying to figure the damn world out. Sometimes I feel completely m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 15 20:54:02 PST 1999

39074 Brazil -- rank: 1000

So the Brazilian stock market was up 33% today, closing the week where it began. <http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=^BVSP&d=2b>. The wire stories said the markets were giving the devaluation a seal of approval. It was universally believed that a Brazilian devaluation would bring the end of the world, but now the markets are celebrating it as a good thing. Capitalism is very odd. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 15 18:13:18 PST 1999

39075 net madness, part 458 -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Interesting couple of days. Brazil devalues, then gives up the dollar >peg. The Dow Jones is unchanged, the nasdaq actually up strongly on >these events. If the complete, undisguised failure of the IMF to stop >the financial crisis doesn't burst this bubble, what will? Lemmings >running out of money? But AMG data reports astonishing inflows to money >market accounts week after week. Just where the hell is that money >coming from? How can people s ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 15 14:55:25 PST 1999