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39436 Jesus and gold -- rank: 1000

[Today's sermon from Jude Wanniski.] Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from http://www.polyconomics.com) December 27, 1999 Jesus Christ, Reference Point Memo To: John McLaughlin From: Jude Wanniski Re: A Christmas Sermon As a former Catholic priest who chose some 20 years ago to cross over into the world of secular sermons, as a talk-show host, you will appreciate the connection I made while listening to the Christmas sermon at the RC Church of Christ the King in New Verno ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 27 09:37:07 PST 1999

39437 Kessi against ethnicization -- rank: 1000

[This just appeared on nettime. It's 45k, so too long to post here. Here's the beginning; I'll send the full text to anyone who wants it.] Kosov@ / NATO: Economy of the War and of Communication by Alain Kessi When I listen to what people say about the war of NATO against Yugoslavia, and of the Yugoslav regime against the Albanian population of Kosov@[1], be it on various mailing lists or in personal conversations with people, it is striking how insecure many seem to feel. Apparently many activis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 27 09:44:18 PST 1999

39438 America kicks ass -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 12:10:42 -0500 Message-Id: <199912271710.MAA07116 at tao.ca> From: Chuck0 <chuck at dojo.tao.ca> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> said: > [The LA Times may be counseling skepticism, but the WSJ is out there > cheerleading for the Empire!] > > Wall Street Journal - December 27, 1999 > > The Outlook > > WASHINGTON - For two decades, those who called the 20th century "the > American ce ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 27 09:22:20 PST 1999

39439 America kicks ass -- rank: 1000

[The LA Times may be counseling skepticism, but the WSJ is out there cheerleading for the Empire!] Wall Street Journal - December 27, 1999 The Outlook WASHINGTON - For two decades, those who called the 20th century "the American century" have assumed that the 21st belongs to someone else. Harvard Prof. Ezra Vogel started the trend with his 1979 book, "Japan as Number One." Historian Paul Kennedy marked its apogee a decade later with "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.&qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 27 08:35:20 PST 1999

39440 London's burning? -- rank: 1000

[after all those decades of the Communist Threat, I guess now we have to get used to the Anarchist Threat...] Sunday Times (London) - December 26, 1999 ANARCHIST ATTACK FEARS TURN CITY INTO NO-GO AREA Nick Fielding and James Clark THE City of London is bracing itself for violent attacks over the millennium holiday after threats by anarchists to start a new Great Fire of London. Police are to isolate the City after receiving a warning of the plan, as well as intelligence about Islamic fundamental ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 27 06:37:40 PST 1999

39441 AFL-CIO: endorse Al, stay out of jail -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] LABOR PAINS The alliance between Al Gore and big labor exposes the Clinton administration's soft line on union corruption Talking Politics by Seth Gitell The AFL-CIO needs Al Gore. Not for his position on trade, which it opposes. Nor for his opinion on China's joining the World Trade Organization -- with which it also disagrees. Big labor needs Gore to maintain what union dissidents, labor-democracy advocates, and Washington insiders see as the Clinton administration's l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 26 19:40:48 PST 1999

39442 Fwd: Total Police State Security Plan for Times Sq.-NY Times -- rank: 1000

[cf. the 1,200-member Seattle Police Department] New York Times - December 26, 1999 Safir Describes Security Plan for Times Sq. By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Against a backdrop of almost daily government warnings about potential terrorist acts around the country, the authorities are readying an elaborate plan to keep Times Square's millennial celebration safe. Eight thousand police officers -- a force larger than most municipal police departments around the country -- will be assigned to an area around ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 26 08:32:27 PST 1999

39443 taxonomy -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Since I didn't know if I should call Doug a Marxist, a "Left-Keynesian" >or as a poster on Marxism-list a while back insinuated a postmodernist >"enemy of the people", inquiring >minds want to know, "Who Are You? What are You? Show Us Your Ideological >Papers!" This wouldn't be an allusion to Adorno's: "The question 'what is to be done?' as an automatic reflex to every critical thought before it is fully expressed ... rec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 26 08:00:38 PST 1999

39444 China: trade deals with Venez, Cuba -- rank: 1000

Venezuela, Cuba OK China WTO Deals BEIJING (AP) -- Edging closer to its goal of entering the World Trade Organization, China concluded separate market-opening agreements with Venezuela and Cuba on Friday. China's government-run Xinhua News Agency said the agreements were forged in ``serious and friendly talks.'' But the government did not release details on the accords. To enter the Geneva-based WTO, China must first reach separate market-access agreements with its major trading partners. Beijin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 24 23:11:06 PST 1999

39445 Fwd: eToys will never forget etoy.XMAS99... -- rank: 1000

[serious art-businessmen!] Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 00:04:27 +0100 (MET) From: blocked at etoy.com ---------------------------------------- TONIGHT! 23.12.1999: 23.55 ("10vor10") first tv report all over europe on 3sat repeated hourly on SFi 23.00 till 01.30 ---------------------------------------- german: http://www.woz.ch/wozhomepage/51_52/etoy51.html ---------------------------------------- ladies & gentlemen, etoy.SHAREHOLDERS! are you ready for the 20th century SHOWDOWN? we are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 24 15:10:50 PST 1999

39446 Must capitalism be racist? -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >And how would Roemer >counter the related objection that the "divide and conquer" thesis >requires some enforcement mechanism within the capitalist >class to make sure that the capitalist all act to do what is in >their collective interest which is to discriminate when at the >same time each capitalist would be faced with incentives to >stop discriminating in order to take advantage of the resulting >pool of cheaper black (or Hispanic or ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 24 14:25:34 PST 1999

39447 lbo-talk-digest V1 #2298 -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Though I'm curious whether his stuff on the fed stands up to the scrutiny >of the more rigorous economic thinkers on the list. I wrote this long ago, when I was a bit less rigorous, not that I'm claiming great rigor now. I wouldn't quote Hilferding approvingly now. Doug ---- Grand Street - Autumn 1988 FEDERAL OFFENSES Doug Henwood In 1939, Texas Congressman Wright Patman came upon an imaginative way of harassing what would be his lifelong enemy, the Federal Reserve Syste ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 24 14:19:35 PST 1999

39448 German tax changes -- rank: 1000

[English-language sources are always feverish about German and Japanese corporate structures becoming more Anglo-American. This looks important, but maybe the FT is getting a bit carried away.] Financial Times - December 24, 1999 GERMANY ANNOUNCES CORPORATE TAX CHANGES By Haig Simonian in Berlin Germany has cleared the path to unprecedented and long-awaited corporate restructuring by deciding to abolish crippling tax barriers to companies selling equity stakes in each other. The measures, to be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 24 12:50:56 PST 1999

39449 Hillary, centrist creep like her husband -- rank: 1000

bill fancher wrote: >Sure, Clinton could have been vehemently anti-death penalty, and could >have had a nice law career somewhere. What would you suggest in this >case? Any candidate who meets your standards is prima facia >un-electable. Well, no kidding. The politics of just about everyone on this list is/are way out of the mainstream in any part of the world save a few neighborhoods in a few metropolitan areas. So what do you suggest? Should we all just give up the politics and, in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 24 11:33:50 PST 1999

39450 Hillary, centrist creep like her husband -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I suspect Clinton is what you call a Nation liberal Not really. Though The Nation is still loyal to the Democratic Party, it opposed welfare "reform" and the Kosovo war, and it has quite a few self-identified socialists among its columnists and contributing editors. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 24 11:30:18 PST 1999