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39196 For Buffy Neophytes and Fans -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I think Doug is correct that television definitely shapes a lot of the >thinking of the masses (brainwashes). But one doesn't have to watch nearly >a much television as the average person to find out what garbage is being >pumped into people's minds. You could watch about 1/20th the amount of the >average to get the main categories and patterns. It is very repetitive and >simple, stupid even. Plus, if you watched when you were young a lot, you >got the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 15:11:13 PST 1999

39197 Fwd: Warning signs of the coming financial armageddon, #569 -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >To me the critical question is not what the average >return is, but what the average is in, say, the top >quintile of investors, and how stable this is. In >other words, can you bilk the rest of the crowd if >your trading practices are good enough? The finance literature says no, and you can't prove statistically that the consistent top performers are there because of skill or chance. It'd take more periods than a trading lifetime allows for. Using more mundan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 15:08:24 PST 1999

39198 Counterpunch -- rank: 1000

The Counterpunch authorities have asked me to announce some new articles on the battle over Pacifica on their website - <http://www.counterpunch.org>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 14:58:14 PST 1999

39199 James Wilson's Epistle -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Not at all. We still have not explored the reasons for this mind boggling >centralisation of capital, the significance of the deals being mostly in >stocks, and the effects we can expect. One effect is that almost certainly that if the deals go bad - most mergers underperform the averages both financially and operationally over the very long term - the losses (which may be just profits smaller than average) will be borne by stockholders. The mergers and restructu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 14:22:00 PST 1999

39200 Butler, Nussbaum, Paglia -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >While the Milton Friedmans and Jerry Falwells put aside their differences >in order to seize power, we're rehashing Sokal/Social Text ad nauseum. Actually they're splitting now, with Weyrich and Decter foaming at the mouth and the whole neoliberal model discredited in 3/4 of the world. They're desperate, and it's lovely to watch. All the more reason >to cut the internecine warfare and start fighting back Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 14:02:50 PST 1999

39201 splits -- rank: 1000

And as for this cultural vs economic thing - I don't see how people who are interested in political economy as the study of real material and social life could be indifferent or hostile to how we're made into sexed bodies, and how we experience each other as sexed bodies - fundamentally very social and material, no? Maybe someone could explain it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 13:59:20 PST 1999

39202 Tibet -- rank: 1000

Angela asked about the Dalai Lama's appeal among the US elite, and several others have commented. When this list was young, James Heartfield contributed this analysis. Doug ---- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 02:59:57 +0100 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Jim heartfield <Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Tibet MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com In message <l03130300b1c149853a69@[166.84.250.86]>, Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 13:50:58 PST 1999

39203 For Buffy Neophytes and Fans -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >Doug wrote, > >"How can you understand American society without a TV? Assuming you have any >interest in understanding American society, of course." > >I don't have a television, but I have never felt out of touch with American >society. On the other hand, plenty of what I read on the Internet makes me >wonder where the on-line world connects with reality. > >I'm particularly surprised to see this from Doug, since he added a dose ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 13:36:04 PST 1999

39204 lbo-talk-digest V1 #1023 -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Actually, the discussion here has not ventured "far afield" so much as >way, way out to sea. People who are dissatisfied with the reigning discourse are invited to make their own contributions. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 25 13:26:26 PST 1999

39205 coming financial armageddon/new wager offer for Max -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Presumably a fall of the market by some percentage >constitutes a crash. Also within a specified short time period. The 1973-75 bear market took about 40% off the S&P, but it happened over a long time, and so ain't a crash in my book, just a bear market. My bet is for no crash, but a long bear market - someday, who knows when. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 13:24:39 PST 1999

39206 coming financial armageddon/new wager offer for Max -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What are you a lawyer ? How about if the monopoly media clearly refers to >it as a "crash" ? Or if Doug and Paula say it's a crash ? How about this - a decline of 20% in the S&P 500 in 5 trading days or less? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 13:19:04 PST 1999

39207 Fwd: Warning signs of the coming financial armageddon, #569 -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Regardless of the social/economic effects, people who day trade on the web >> will be lucky to break even. There's a lot of nonsense in financial theory, >> but the near-impossibility of beating the market and the counterproductive >> nature of excessive trading aren't part of the nonsense. >> > >This is the conventional wisdom, but so far it has not ben borne out by >empirical data. Au contraire! For in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 13:07:31 PST 1999

39208 Fwd: 1999-02-23 President Radio Actuality on Read Across America -- rank: 1000

What do to while cutting federal aid to education.... >Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:31 -0500 >From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> >To: Public-Distribution at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov >Subject: 1999-02-23 President Radio Actuality on Read Across America >Keywords: Culture, Education, President, Remarks, Social, Topical-Remarks >Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/2/24/10.text.1 >URL: > >http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 12:54:55 PST 1999

39209 TV or not TV? -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >How can you understand American society with a TV? You get a glimpse of what people spend hours on end watching. Not that it'll make sense, but it's a start. As Jody Powell once said, we can't tell people what to think, but we can tell them what to think about. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 24 20:32:42 PST 1999

39210 Fwd: Warning signs of the coming financial armageddon, #569 -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >I think one possible explanation is that a small percentage of day >traders, through sophiticated models, intuition, or whatever, have >figured out a way to take money from a large majority that start up, >lose money, and quit. Not much different from all those "get rich quick >dealing in real state" infomercials, although in a much larger scale. >But I admit I haven't seen any hard data about daytraders and their >profit/losses, beyond ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 24 08:41:23 PST 1999