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39136 How the United States spies on us all -- rank: 1000

John Kawakami wrote: >The infrastructure for mass surveillance is being built. Yeah. I only read Foucault's Discipline & Punish* for the first time a year ago, and I was struck by how ahead of things Foucault's version of Bentham was. The panopticon was never built, and that kind of constant scrutiny was technically impossible in the 18C. Now it's here - cameras everwhere, databases everywhere, spies everywhere. Doug ---- *A book that occasional list contributor Tom Dickens says is as imp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 8 01:21:24 PST 1999

39137 Sebastian Edwards -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >After all, if this year is as good a year for Mexican growth as the average >year in the past decade, then this year Mexican measured real GDP will be >more than 40% higher than it was a decade ago. Mexico's population growth >rate is high enough that such an increase translates into less than half as >large an increase in real GDP per capita--but this is still progress of a >sort (albeit of a sort that leaves measured real GDP per capita lower than >in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 8 01:21:24 PST 1999

39138 Middle Class -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >We now have to entertain political versus economic explanations for the >defeat of Keynesianism. And this brings us back, as always, to Mattick. ...the elder, I presume. And just how does it bring us back to PM? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 7 14:36:54 PST 1999

39139 Theory of art -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >He's just an old-fashioned elitist. He hated the >> 60s for all the usual high culture reasons; there's an essay in one >of his >> pre-Anxiety collections complaining about the new decadence of the >student >> rebellion. > >Don't think I've seen that. Which collection? Can't remember the title. I'll look it up when I get home this weekend. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 7 13:41:13 PST 1999

39140 Malcolm X and building a Black Tammany Hall -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Maybe use of "people" , >or "oppressed national or >racial group" instead of >"community" will clarify this for >you. But these are "technical" >terms, like "exploitation" , so >it is good to have popular >terms in that we want to >speak to millions. "Community" >is a popular term for these. > >What are the specifics of your >Marxist analysis of this contra >above ? What ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 7 13:41:13 PST 1999

39141 How the United States spies on us all -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >I wonder which agency is responsible for archiving and reviewing lists >like LBO. The electronic nature of the medium suggests the NSA, but >monitoring internal subversion is more the bailiwick of the FBI. Maybe >both? Any suspicious-looking email addresses among the lurkers, Doug? Hey, when you're the NSA, you don't have to sub to a list to read its traffic. And this message isn't even about terrorism. Years ago, a friend of a friend of mine who made a film ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 7 07:09:26 PST 1999

39142 Fwd: new China Labor party(CLP) -- rank: 1000

Anyone know anything about this group? Their page seems to be in Chinese, though I don't have a Chinese font and can't be surfe. There's an AFP story on them at <http://members.xoom.com/chinalp/news/afp102.html> which describes them as secretive. - Doug >From: Shengde Lian <slian at transfcu.org> >To: "'dhenwood at panix.com'" <dhenwood at panix.com>, > "'jsegal6469 at aol.com'" > <jsegal6469 at aol.com>, > "'ynyale a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 7 03:31:42 PST 1999

39143 How the United States spies on us all -- rank: 1000

[Just make sure your email doesn't have the words "Libya" or "terrorism" in them & you're safe.] LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE - January 1999 TOP SECRET SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM How the United States spies on us all ______________________________________________________________ With an annual budget of $26.7 billion - as much as during the cold war - the American intelligence services are the best equipped in the world. Strategic alliances and powerful technology allow them to tap int ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 7 03:31:42 PST 1999

39144 Theory of art -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote at the end of a typically thoughtful post: >PS. I am perfectly willing to discuss Abstract Expressionism, color >field painting, the art market, graphic design, sculpture, and figure >drawing if you want to go in that direction. But, the above sketch is >the back drop or context against which I am also trying to place these >latter sorts of topics. Apologies for my bringing in a philistine note here, but what about that art market? Why were there so many celebri ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 7 03:31:42 PST 1999

39145 Bubble update -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Finally, last time I brought this up, there wasn't much interest, but >I'll try one more time. What do y'all think? > > > Piling up debt to power the rise in shares > <Picture> > by ANDREW SMITHERS Chairman of fund manager advisers Smithers & Co The LBO on press now has an article on the stock market that runs through these numbers, and also sucks some thumb over just what the real returns are that real investors might expec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 6 13:36:21 PST 1999

39146 IMF: US tool -- rank: 1000

from an article in the January 7 Journal of Commerce: >Meanwhile, Rudiger Dornbusch, economist at the Massachusetts >Institute of Technology, told a conference in New York that the IMF is >not going to be abolished and is not going to turn into the world's >central bank. "The IMF is a toy of the United States to pursue its >economic policy offshore," he declared. This is the same fellow who enthused that the upside of the Asian crisis was that South Korea is now a whol ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 6 13:20:38 PST 1999

39147 Fwd: Press release -- rank: 1000

[apologies for the formatting glitches] Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:04:10 -0800 (PST) From: Daphne Wysham <dwysham at igc.apc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Sender: owner-50-years at igc.apc.org Subject: Press release To: <shell-nigeria-action at essential.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by igce.igc.org id QAA05539 X-Sender: dwysham at pop.igc.org Kent Communications Route 1 Box 9A mail:kentcom at highlands.com BROADCAST MEDIA ALERT 1/6/99 ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 6 13:15:48 PST 1999

39148 Theory of art -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >> The real inspiration comes from the internal development that comes >when >> artists start copying and then overthrowing their idols. > >This is pretty much Harold Bloom's theory of the "anxiety of >influence." Bloom being, by the way, a conservative, reactionary >canon-monger. When I studied poetry writing in college we were taught >similarly--to be permeable to the collective effects of various poets' >techniques, to assimila ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 6 07:45:26 PST 1999

39149 J. Hecht's post on stock market -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >My bet is next July or August at the latest. Hey, the Weekly World News, my main source of information here down in southwestern Virginia, says a great depression will begin in March. Citing the analysis of "renowned economist Thomas VanDurman," whom I've never heard of, the WWN recommends stocking up on canned food and water. VanDurman says it could last decades, maybe even 100 years. "This won't be like the Waltons, not by a long shot," says our ec ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 6 02:19:51 PST 1999

39150 Malcolm X and building a Black Tammany Hall -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >Now that cynicism and self-flagellation have once again become vogue, along >with the inevitable pitch to accept Democratic Party politics as the road to >travel, a review of 1960s heroes, and a debate over their importance, has a >great deal of contemporary relevance. Ok, then, are there any radical movements that old-style lefties are misinterpreting now? Could it be that all the old-style lefties who denounce "identity politics" are reproducing ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 6 02:19:51 PST 1999