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39586 [Fwd: Ceremonies of Innocence, or, a Secret Affinity with the -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > >>> "Michael Hoover" <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> 12/09/99 05:35PM >>> >If Soviet Union had not existed after WW2, US would have invented it. >Same goes for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. > >(((((((((( > >CB: If the SU hadn't existed after WWII, the U.S. might have been >facing the German Nazis with the atomic bomb and all of the f-SU >under its domination. > > >CB Enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Last threat. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 14 09:28:37 PST 1999

39587 FT worries about capitalism again -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 14 1999 CAPITALISM ADVANCES IN A CLIMATE OF MISTRUST Hostility to big business is mounting, and the resentment could worsen if there is a stock market collapse [by Tony Jackson] Consider the following three events: the collapse of the world trade talks in Seattle; Europe's rejection of genetically modified crops; and the exclusion of Railtrack, the UK transport company, from part-privatisation of the London Underground. These events range from the global to the parochi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 14 08:33:47 PST 1999

39588 Nuclear weapons -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: > >This thread is a bit weird. Its always been my view that nukes should be > >eliminated, not spread around. > > >You're tellng me... Who's going to eliminate them? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 21:32:16 PST 1999

39589 Harry , a son of the Devil himself -- rank: 1000

>How many people would Stalin have to have killed before you would >trust him *less* than Harry Truman? I mean, if 20 million plus >doesn't do it, what number would? > >(((((((((( > >CB: How many Indigenous People would the Yankee Devil ancestors of >Truman have to have killed before you would trust him less than >Stalin (question mark( If 30 million doesn't do it, what number >would ? I mean hypothetically speaking. Stop this! This line of argument is as old as the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 17:01:17 PST 1999

39590 Is There Too Much Venture Capital? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > . Good thing Jordan's convinced us it could go on > > for years - otherwise, the collapse of the IPO madness could have > > major real-world effects! > >I would like to see the "otherwise" argument worked out in detail. It >sounds right, but I don't know enough about technical economics >to see exactly how it would work. I've seen some posts that >argued the dot.com bubble was more or less self-conta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 15:46:15 PST 1999

39591 Seattle on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >As you yourself notice, preserving local autonomy means, to a great >extent, preserving a parade of music shows presided over by DJs who have >not wised up to the fact that spinning John Coltrane, world music, blues >or gospel no longer carry the same "transgressive" punch that they did in >the 60s. Cockburn, in particular, wails about his "friend Opal Nations, an >English transplant and one of the world's great authorities on gospel and >bl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 14:48:15 PST 1999

39592 [Fwd: Ceremonies of Innocence, or, a Secret Affinity with theLynchers] -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > I trust Stalin more than Harry Truman . Who have both been dead for quite a long time, so why the present tense? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 14:50:42 PST 1999

39593 US labor -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >I agree with you about the need (evidently not being made in NY at the >moment vis the transit strike) for imaginative strategies. However, I have >one question, would the police use their resources then to stand at all >the subway stations and make sure people are paying their fares? I'm not >sure your strategy could necessarily succeed, though perhaps it could with >enough planning. Your thought on a labor march down Broadway is right on >and the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 12:24:22 PST 1999

39594 Help destroy eToys.com! -- rank: 1000

[news from those hilarious folks at RTMark] December 12, 1999 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW INTERNET "GAME" DESIGNED TO DESTROY ETOYS.COM Stock plunge must be accelerated, groups say Contacts: mailto:etoyfund at rtmark.com, mailto:toby at etoys.com More information: http://rtmark.com/etoy/ http://rtmark.com/etoypress.html http://rtmark.com/sitin.html RTMark has joined the growing torrent of outrage, sometimes violent in tone, against Internet toy giant eToys (http://rtmark.com/etoypress.ht ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 12:11:48 PST 1999

39595 What the heck? -- rank: 1000

t byfield wrote: >i'm real bullish on the cultural front. Do tell more... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 11:34:36 PST 1999

39596 Work as essence [was: Anarchism & still not getting it] -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 04:53:06 -0800 From: adam souzis <adam at shiftkey.com> Angela wrote: >ps. the thesis that we get more alienated the more complex a society >becomes strikes me as a dodgy kind of primitivism. (someone pass me the >cold towel, i'm agreeing with yoshie as well.) though, i still have a >penchant for the way in which the frankfurters took up the critique of >instrumentalist reason and certainly wouldn't rule out the import ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 11:23:50 PST 1999

39597 What the heck? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Woo-whee, I used to think you could flame with the best of 'em, >but maybe you're just getting, um, old. Ageist! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 11:16:34 PST 1999

39598 bulls & Brezhnev -- rank: 1000

The other day Jordan wrote (and I'm way behind, so sorry): >This isn't about money, Ted; this is about trying desperately to box >Doug into making irrational claims about the end of the bull market. >He hates to do it, but he can't help himself. As I've told you about 100 times, I deliberately didn't say much of anything about the end of the bull market until early this year. Hardcore bears made fun of me for not saying anything terribly bearish in Wall Street; one correspondent called ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 11:02:46 PST 1999

39599 US labor -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > why not let the public ride for free instead of collecting fares? > >I like this idea, but it's not really up to the station agents to >police the fare collection mechanism, is it? Especially with those >damn MetroCards; cross referencing that with the GPS data collected >from that chip in my butt is really gonna get me in trouble one of >these days. There are gates at every station, or almost every station, the clerks could keep open. And the bu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 10:35:21 PST 1999

39600 Andersen on Marx -- rank: 1000

[I missed this first time around. Back when I started LBO, Andersen, then co-editor of Spy, actually gave me a blurb ("nifty & original"). His fellow travelerhood goes back a ways.] New York Times - November 28, 1999 The Next Big Dialectic By Kurt Andersen (Kurt Andersen is the author of "Turn of the Century," a novel.) I've always been skeptical of people who predict the future professionally, of the Alvin Tofflers and John Naisbitts as well as the Jeane Dixons and Pat R ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 10:29:37 PST 1999