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39106 Flynt on Rivera, 9 PM -- rank: 1000

Larry Flynt is supposed to name a Republican name tonight on Rivera Live, 9 PM eastern time, CNBC. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 14:13:22 PST 1999

39107 it's not Clinton, but still... -- rank: 1000

[From The Progressive Review. Nothing can stop a Clinton-hater, apparently - even a DNA test.] DNA TEST SAYS IT ISN'T CLINTON According to Time, the Drudge Report and the New York Post, the DNA test on Danny Williams came back negative. While this may well end the matter, don't count on it. Here's why: * The story was never only about whether Clinton was the father of prostitute Bobbie Ann Williams' child. It was also a tale of the 1980s Little Rock culture of drugs and sex of which Clinton was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 13:55:56 PST 1999

39108 Man of the Year -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >My choice would be Larry Flynt, who has promised to >spill the beans on assorted anti-Clinton hypocrites. > >My information is that an evening press conference >is scheduled. Some will not be elected officials >but "people who go on TV and attack the President," >which presumably means pundits. Yum. When? Tonight? Tomorrow? Do tell. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 13:38:27 PST 1999

39109 Malcolm X and building a Black Tammany Hall -- rank: 1000

Let's not quote the catalog of insults again, ok? In the interests of moving this forward.... Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Now I come to you as a left communist, not an SWP'er, and I am >not willing to lionize Malcom X. If that convinces you that left communism >is not relevant or insensitive to black oppression, I will not attempt to >convince you that the theory and practice of left or council communism is >really the best theory for that specific form of oppression--it is not, > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 13:24:31 PST 1999

39110 Shorting stock and the internet bubble. -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >It's all a question of timing, of course. If you buy a >put option and the bubble keeps going while your puts >expire, you've lost money for nothing. You can keep >buying more puts but, if you've been doing this for the >last year or two, your transaction costs may well >exceed eventual gains. > >Or you can sell short, in which you borrow a stock, >sell it, and promise to repay the debt by replacing the >stock at a later date. Here's a techniqu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 12:58:15 PST 1999

39111 Brazil -- rank: 1000

[from another list, in response to a claim of great upheaval in Brazil...] From: magellan at netrio.com.br (R. Magellan) There is NO social upheaval in Brazil, nor "massive, violent responses" etc. ----at least for the time being... The town mentioned in the Guardian report (below) is a very liitle one with no importance whatsoever and very far from any big or medium-sized city. I didn't read anything about this riot in the newspapers and didn't heard about it in the radio eithe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 12:41:41 PST 1999

39112 tone -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Doug has referred to my abusive tone. I am not sure what he is talking >about, since this can mean many different things. Just to avoid any >misunderstandings, I am going to unsub from LBO-Talk. Jesus, that's not what I wanted. Anyway, let's move on. No subjects are proscribed, just cussing at fellow listmembers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 10:07:16 PST 1999

39113 black nationalism -- rank: 1000

[This was sent to me rather than the list; it's being forwarded with the author's permission.] X-Sender: wah at mail-wa.acpub.duke.edu Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:02:09 -0500 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: wahneema lubiano <wah at acpub.duke.edu> Some of what I see happening is not new: in the polemics about race, racism, Malcolm X, black nationalism, left sectarianism with regard to race or racism, people posting construct race, black people generally, and black nationalism as ideas and re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 10:03:18 PST 1999

39114 Ode to Whiteness -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >To be white, it must be re-born in >clean child-like simplicity. It must be virgin and immaterial, >immaculate and fastidious, orderly and without guilt so as to >perfectly co-line with its embedding in an equally reduced and barren >psychological template of purified mediocrity. What can be found in >this Christian whiteness is nothing more than an idealized >banality. It is neither sinister nor profound. It is as blank as its >own child-like gaze. & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 09:25:40 PST 1999

39115 tone -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >She? Do you think Illinois allowed gay marriages in 1969? > >Or didn't you bother to read the whole post? Carrol, this is precisely the sort of reaction I'm sick of. There's no reason to get nasty and I'm not going to put up with any more of it here. I got an email from one person - no shrinking violet - who feels intimidated from posting because of Lou's abusive style. I'm not going to put up with that either. I don't mind sharp polemic at all - I thrive on it. But f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 08:34:47 PST 1999

39116 IP in China -- rank: 1000

Henry or anyone else...any comments on this item from today's WSJ? Doug ---- Is a Maoist Pen Mightier Than A Reformist Sword? --- Editor Takes Capitalist Road And Sues Book's Authors Over Copyright Violation By Matt Forney 01/11/99 The Wall Street Journal (Copyright (c) 1999, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) BEIJING -- Back in the 1960s, when China's hard-line Marxists felt their grip ebbing, they launched the Cultural Revolution that plunged their country into chaos -- and regained power. Times h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 11 08:09:23 PST 1999

39117 request for counsel -- rank: 1000

I'd welcome offlist comments from listmembers, posters or lurkers, on what they make of this flamewar over race. Here's a link for doing so even: <mailto:dhenwood at panix.com?subject=counsel>. Thanks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 10 18:55:14 PST 1999

39118 heat and light -- rank: 1000

I'm getting offlist mail from someone who threatens to "create a scene" unless I do something drastic to Carrol Cox for his slur against Rakesh. Carrol regrets only the tone of his comment, not its substance, and is silent on what the phrase "politically white" means. This all pisses me off immensely. Apparently a group of leftists of various sorts, all committed in some fundamental sense to a nonracist, nonexploitative society, find it impossible to have a serious discussion ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 10 18:46:10 PST 1999

39119 what the... -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote, quoting Carrol Cox: >"Rakesh, black in complexion is politically white" > >WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU AS A WHITE PERSON TO DEFINE SOMEONE'S ELSE'S >ETHNICITY? > >Okay, Doug, please kick me for violating my own standards of civility, but >having a discussion of racism where a bunch of white people tells an >activist of color that he is some kind of oreo race-traitor makes my skin >crawl. Rakesh has engaged in heroic civility throughout this abu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 10 17:06:01 PST 1999

39120 what the... -- rank: 1000

rc&am wrote: >looking forward to actually debating racism and strategies for dealing >with it at some stage, > >} or is it not allowed? It's allowed by me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 10 13:07:08 PST 1999