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39241 worms -- rank: 1000

I've unsub'd Sam Pawlett for now until we can figure out this virus thing. Someone wrote me offlist to say it's coming attached to his private email too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 19 21:25:51 PST 1999

39242 cyberhype -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari quoted: >In short, the GNP data exclude the critical intermediate stages of >production. Advocates of this traditional approach do so because, they say, >they wish to studiously avoid double counting... And what's wrong with avoiding double counting? The final sales criterion makes plenty of sense to me. But I'm just a vulgar empiricist, as is well known. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 19 21:23:13 PST 1999

39243 Greenspan -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >A while back there was discussion about Greenspan making some noise >about the fact that the U.S. could not remain an "oasis" in the middle >of the world economic mess. Does anyone have a source for that >statement? Marta - I'm traveling now, using an expensive long-distance connection, but if no one answers this, I can dig this out when I get back early next week. It's congressional testimony, which is on the Fed's web site. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 19 21:23:13 PST 1999

39244 happy99.exe -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >This Trojan horse, happy99.exe, was attached to lbo digest 1006. >That is supposed to be a real virus. Is somebody sabotaging you >Doug? I have no idea. It came in this: >Received: from dont.panix.com (dont.panix.com [166.84.0.211]) > by mail1.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id RAA24735; > Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:24:10 -0500 (EST) >Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) > by dont.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixLC1.4) id RAA083 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 19 21:21:38 PST 1999

39245 cyberhype -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Which is why I don't buy most government statistics, since their methodology >for collection is so outdated. What the hell does "value-added" mean in >this day and age? Value created in production, which takes the form of cash. The forms may change, but paying for inputs and selling outputs at a higher price, M-C-M', is a constant. >Does software count in this whole cateogry? >What about computer skills training? >How about other machinery that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 18 17:06:32 PST 1999

39246 definitions -- rank: 1000

"By definition, the center is the provider of capital, the periphery the recipient." - George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, p. 120

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 18 13:05:34 PST 1999

39247 U.S. Constitution -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >GAWD I hate this MIME crap! What MIME crap? It all came through transparently to my Eudora Pro. Anyone else have problems with this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 18 12:42:55 PST 1999

39248 cyberhype -- rank: 1000

Speaking of cyberhype, I was just reading the documentation for the Fed's industrial production indexes. They have a special category called "computers, communications equipment, and semiconductors" - the kind of stuff that's supposed to be dominating the economic scene these days. This sector accounted for 5.92% of all value-added in U.S. industry (manufacturing, mining, and electric and gas utilities) in 1992 - down from 6.56% in 1982. Computers and office equipment alone were 1.75% ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 18 09:51:44 PST 1999

39249 THE NEW LEFT TAKES OVER AMERICAN UNIONS -- rank: 1000

sokol at jhu.edu wrote: >Perhaps, his sucking up to the market-schmarket crowd is nauseating. But >that does not mean that all his arguments are rubbish. Au contraire, he >makes a few valid points. Among them is his argument that the economy is >woirking against the unions as we know them. He cites several reasons that >need a serious discussion: > >1. The movement toward small firms (often welcome by liberals and populists >who are hostile toward big corporations) cr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 18 09:12:23 PST 1999

39250 Budget Surplus and Healthcare -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >> BTW, who's Pete Peterson, and what about his new book, >> A Gray Dawn, I >> think? Just caught the end of his spot on C. Rose. > >He's a bigfoot bond trader. He's no mere vulgar trader, he's an investment banker! Brokers deals for his Blackstone Group. >Was a Secretary >of something under Nixon or Ford. Commerce, Nixon. Son of a Greek restaurant owner from Kearney, Nebraska, a real American success story. Now that he's rich, he wants to take a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 18 08:22:37 PST 1999

39251 "What people want"? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >The contention that Americans "apparently want freedom" is embedded in >irony six feet thick. Consider, for instance, Alexander Cockburn's >comment (in the current NY Press, concerning Kenneth Starr & Co.) about >the rise of the "proscecutorial state" in the USA: "Judge Richard >Posner said in 1995 that the U.S. 'criminalizes more conduct than most, >many any, non-Islamic nations.'" That quote leapt out at me too. Posner i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 18 08:19:28 PST 1999

39252 Bubble-licious! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Quote of the day -- from the current, long-winded NY Times series on the >spreading global economic slump: "The American stock market has ... >soared to its highest ratio of market capitalization to gross national >product (140 percent) ever recorded in history, a ratio that compares >with a previous peak of 81 percent in 1929. The American ratio is more >than twice as high as Indonesia's or Brazil's at the time their crises >hit." This Times s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 18 06:59:03 PST 1999

39253 Weyrich Letter to Conservatives: Cultural Marxists won the War -- rank: 1000

Paul Weyrich wrote: >Cultural Marxism is succeeding in its war against our culture. Hahahaha. That's funny. He has no idea how puritanical many "Marxists" are. But it's interesting how Marx is always the symbol of all that's evil. Amazing what power the Old Man still has. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 17 20:30:46 PST 1999

39254 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

>X-Sender: nothing (Unverified) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:14:10 -0800 >To: medea at globalexchange.org >From: medea at globalexchange.org (Medea Benjamin) > >We need your help on March 6 to protest against The Gap!!! > >We (Global Exchange, Sweatshop Watch, the Asian Law Caucus and the garment >workers union UNITE) are organizing a national day of protest against the >Gap for its abuse of garment workers in Saipan (a US territory in the >Pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 17 15:10:33 PST 1999

39255 Hitchens war escalates -- rank: 1000

[Hitchens may be Snitchens, but this is too much.] Hitchens-Blumenthal feud escalates Beltway dispute takes ugly turn with charge of Holocaust denial The falling-out between writer Christopher Hitchens, left, and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal has escalated. By Jonathan Broder SPECIAL TO MSNBC WASHINGTON, Feb. 16- The bitter personal feud between White House aide Sidney Blumenthal and British journalist Christopher Hitchens has escalated from harsh charges of perjury and perfidy to one of t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 17 08:53:33 PST 1999