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39361 Fed language -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >why don't they want to mention money Capital's intellectuals and ideologues are often coy about money. In a lot of classical & neoclassical theory, money is neutral, a mere "veil," as if veils were insubstantial & meaningless. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 5 18:22:22 PST 1999

39362 Low Wage Pay Gains -- rank: 1000

Rkmickey at aol.com wrote: >Anyone have any thoughts about this? The real wage gains are pretty impressive, the best in decades. Whether they can be sustained or not is another question, but they're strong and very broadly distributed. A sustained sub-5% unemployment rate and a significant hike in the minimum wage are the main reasons - though if Shaikh is right and the U.S. is in a long upswing, there could be a lot more where this came from. The numbers for black household incomes over the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 5 18:07:26 PST 1999

39363 Congratulations, Judith Butler! -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As you all know, the right-wingers have a very fertile pornographic >imagination, so when they hear/read about Judith Butler theorizing our >'passionate attachment to subordination,' etc., their loins & brains get >fired up by the thought of Doug Henwood in a leather corset and fishnet >stockings being buggered by the Lesbian Phallus. Not only right-wingers, I would hope. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 5 17:01:16 PST 1999

39364 Gus & John -- rank: 1000

Janitors gave AFL-CIO boss hundreds of thousands Long Island Newsday February 4, 1999 By William Murphy, STAFF WRITER The janitors' union local that gave ousted leader Gus Bevona a $1.5-million golden parachute has also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over a 13-year period to its former president, John Sweeney, now the head of the AFL-CIO, according to records obtained by Newsday. Sweeney stepped down as president of the local, which represents building maintenance workers in New York City ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 5 16:32:54 PST 1999

39365 Himmelfarb erupts -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Does anyone know what Himmelfarb's background is? Like where her money comes >from, family political background, etc., you know, the skinny on her. Isn't >she a board member of AEI, for starters? I don't know anything about her personal background other than that she's married to Irving Kristol, and I assume she's the mother of Billy Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and former Quayle advisor. Her own academic expertise is social policy; her schtick seems to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 5 09:57:09 PST 1999

39366 Sadie Plant (Re: postmodernism and neoclassical economics -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >have _The System of Objects_ (1968) and _Consumer Society_ (1970) - his >attempts to extend marxist critique beyond mode of production - ever been >fully translated into English?... Yes, according to Amazon, the first from Verso and the second from Sage. I was reading the excerpts in Mark Poster's collection. I don't believe I've ever read the editor of a collection write something like this in the intro: "Baudrillard's writing is open to several criticisms. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 5 09:24:09 PST 1999

39367 more Midge -- rank: 1000

Midge Decter continues... "[Clinton] is the grade inflation president: Not very good is good enough for him. And good enough for the best universities in the land. And good enough for all too many of us in other places. He is the deconstructionist president. Words have no fixed meaning, and anything is as true as anything else. It all depends on which meaning you wish or need to use..... Bring him to heel and the message will be it's time for the country to clean up its act. In other words, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 5 07:45:10 PST 1999

39368 sloth -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >So does Midge Decter advocate dissolving the people, and electing another? No, I think she thinks they need a benevolent dictator to refurbish their moral infrastructure. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 5 07:45:10 PST 1999

39369 sloth -- rank: 1000

I'll stop with this toxic crap soon, I promise. But I was just paging through the repellent Independent Women's Forum newsletter, Ex Femina. (The IWF is a group of professional anti-feminist women that was founded to defend Clarence Thomas.) In it, Midge Decter is quoted as saying: "The other way to the public heart is to provide us with excuses for our failings. That is Bill Clinton. He is the true embodiment of the state of our culture. His being in the White House provides the electorate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 4 21:05:24 PST 1999

39370 Himmelfarb erupts -- rank: 1000

[More madness from the WSJ. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come - having lost the impeachment battle, and with Clinton's approval rating still at 66%, will the right go completely volcanic?] Wall Street Journal - February 4, 1999 Commentary PANGLOSSES OF THE RIGHT ARE WRONG By Gertrude Himmelfarb, a professor emeritus of history at the City University of New York. Her book "The Two Cultures" will be published by Knopf later this year. A spate of recent articles urge conservati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 4 20:25:36 PST 1999

39371 IQ issue -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >Therefore, even if you believed that IQ was an >appropriate basis for discrimination in society, you >would still have no basis for discrimination on race. > >In other words, even if you grant all the ifs, ands, >and buts to the "IQ among races is detectable" side >(and you don't have to do that), you still don't emerge >with any basis on which to organize any particular >social resources--including education, income, or >anything else. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 4 11:55:06 PST 1999

39372 From a Tory, yet! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >News item in today's UK Telegraph: > >Hague calls for halt on 'Frankenstein foods' >The [UK] Government was last night under growing pressure to halt, or >slow down, the development of genetically modified food after William >Hague, the Tory leader, backed demands for a moratorium. Campaigners >against the so-called "Frankenstein foods" welcomed Mr Hague's support >and expressed disappointment at Tony Blair's refusal to stop further >deve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 4 11:51:55 PST 1999

39373 Fed language -- rank: 1000

For those of you tired of postmodern obscurantism, how about this paragraph from the freshly released minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee's December meeting! The full text is available on the Fed's website, at <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/FOMC/minutes/19981222.HTM>. Doug ---- "Prior to its vote on policy at this meeting, the Committee discussed the wording of the operating paragraph of the directive, building on progress made toward a consensus at previous meetings. Attention ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 4 11:46:31 PST 1999

39374 Chinese capitalism -- rank: 1000

{Henry, anyone, comments?] FINANCIAL TIMES - February 4 1999 CHINA: Beijing fillip for private sector By James Kynge in Beijing China's announcement this week that it will alter its Communist constitution to elevate the official standing of private and non-state businesses was hardly a bold foray into the capitalist unknown. Even allowing for confusing and inconsistent statistics, it has been clear for at least two years that China's ailing, socialist state sector has relinquished its position a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 4 08:17:29 PST 1999

39375 Charles Murray -- rank: 1000

curtiss_leung at ibi.com wrote: > Glad you mentioned Gould. I had read _Mismeasure of Man_ way before > _Bell Curve_ came out, and I was curious to see how Murray and > what's-his-name answered Gould's arguments against the sophisticated > statistical methods used by the new IQ racists. (In a nutshell: if I > add my waist size to the room temperature in degrees Kelvin and then > multiply by the number of Jaegermeister <uuukkk!> shots consumed by ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 3 16:42:46 PST 1999