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39601 Is There Too Much Venture Capital? -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >Working out here in the belly of the Sillycon Valley beast, I've been >wondering recently if part of the continued strength of the economy could be >due to a sort of "IPO Keynesianism". Most of the Internet companies I see >out here not only have no chance of ever making any money, but no remotely >rational person could ever believe they will. And yet they're taking all >this extra capital sloshing around the markets and spending it on my >rid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 09:34:32 PST 1999

39602 Is "jargon" jargon, was Re: dead topix -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > It amazes me that anyone thinks that people > > will be persuaded by such jargon at this late date. > >I'm a little confused by this. Who were they trying to persuade? People >in general? Or just the comrades at the meeting? If the latter, is it not >common for people who share a certain perspective to speak in some >sort of shorthand when they are speaking only to each other? They were trying to persuade the other ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 10:27:17 PST 1999

39603 US labor -- rank: 1000

After all we've been hearing about the evil foreign countries that oppress labor unions - all of which is true, of course - we've got the beloved Mayor of NYC, Rudy Giuliani, threatening to bankrupt the transitworkers union if they should dare strike later this week. Under NY law, the strike is illegal, so Rudy's on firm ground. The union has been dismal, preparing neither the membership or the public for a strike, and showing no imagination at all (why strike? why not let the public ride for fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 09:28:36 PST 1999

39604 post-Seattle planning -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Max S for pointing this out] MEDIA ADVISORY - December 10, 1999 Fresh from Victory in Seattle, Trade Coalition Will Address Next Steps at Tuesday Briefing Union Presidents - Joined by Green Group Chiefs, Human Rights Activists, Student Leaders - to Discuss "The Battle after Seattle" What: Press Briefing: "The Battle after Seattle" (a light buffet lunch will be served) When: Tuesday, December 14, 12:15 p.m. Where: National Press Club, Washington, D.C., Holeman Room ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 09:02:56 PST 1999

39605 G20 -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 13, 1999 THE OUTLOOK The architects of the global financial system excel at constructing meeting groups. There's the G-3 (U.S., Germany and Japan), the G-7 (the G-3 plus Canada, Britain, France and Italy), the G-8 (add Russia), the G-10 (which is really 11), the G-30 (a private-sector group) and the G-77 (made up of developing countries). Gee, does the world really need the new G-20? Will this group, which meets Thursday for the first time, finally move governments ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 08:24:06 PST 1999

39606 Japan needs another fix -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >(1) Japan, recession or no, has continued to invest in its >economic base (29% of GDP, compared with 18% of GDP in the US and 21% in >the EU). This bodes ill for the US in the long-term. How do you know that this isn't a symptom of overaccumulation - of profitless investment, of capacity-building for its own sake - rather than strength? Even in the late 1980s, new capital investment in Japan had a return of close to zero or even less than that, yet they've conti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 07:31:40 PST 1999

39607 public debt -- rank: 1000

[Bounced bec of an address oddity. Enrique's right; Japanese gross debt levels are very high, but much of that debt is held by the postal savings system. Debt in public hands is 39% of GDP, a hair greater than the U.S., which has the lowest net debt of the G-7 countries. Net interest payments are just 1.4% of GDP, the lowest in the G-7; the U.S. is 1.5%, Germany is 3.2%, and Italy 7.0%.] Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:03:28 -0500 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at ee.cornell.edu> Michael Po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 11 09:44:26 PST 1999

39608 [Fwd: Ceremonies of Innocence, or, a Secret Affinity with theLynchers] -- rank: 1000

Summing death tolls in a ghoulish political balance sheet is another of these ancient and unproductive exercises. No one is convinced, and it just bores the hell out of spectators. No more, please. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 11 09:34:01 PST 1999

39609 Yankee's and Cowboy's and "Rebels" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Anyone on the list follow news re:the neo-Confederate, >League of the South and the Southern Party and the "white collar Klan" next >generation of the "White Citizens Council" a/k/a >Council of Conservative Citizens? For dogged reporting on these icky people, see <http://www.mindspring.com/~newtknight/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 11 09:35:52 PST 1999

39610 the Eugenians -- rank: 1000

Euegne (Oregon) Register-Guard - December 10, 1999 Protesters thrilled, put off by WTO riots By DIANE DIETZ The Register-Guard It was the window smashing that made her feel alive. Eugene resident Jasmine Cameron was running down the streets of Seattle, at the back of a line of black-clad anarchists. She was wearing an oversized black sweatshirt and heavy-soled shoes, a bandana over her face and ski goggles on her eyes - much like her companions - when somebody at the head of the line smashed a b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 11 08:08:26 PST 1999

39611 Marxist Ideas Stolen from Anarchism, Utopian Socialism -- rank: 1000

Jamal Hannah wrote: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:15:05 +0800 >From: benav <benav at one.net.au> >To: Jamal Hannah <jah at iww.org>, > AnarchyAreWe <anarchy-list at lists.village.virginia.edu> >Subject: Re: Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism > This topic has gotten very boring. Move on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 22:15:07 PST 1999

39612 Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >Kronstadt No! Stop!! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 21:57:57 PST 1999

39613 Seattle on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >So I return to the original question. If the local stations are dominated >by yuppies and wankers why the howls of protest from Herman, Albert, >Cockburn, Normon Solomon, et. al. when Pacifica tried to impose national >programming such as Democracy Now on the local stations? It seems the >locals are plenty NPRized already. Marc Cooper gets lots of hell from the FreePacifica people - two of them photographed him on the streets of Seattle, rather sinister looking ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 20:54:45 PST 1999

39614 Fwd: Bye for now -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 22:37:38 -0500 From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> dear doug -- could you please post this to lbo-talk? thanks. Sorry to leave in the midst of so many interesting threads. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with stuff to do. Don't know how you people keep up. I really enjoyed our discussions -- learned a lot, and hope to return some day. Meanwhile, happy holidays to all. Best, Katha

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 20:32:11 PST 1999

39615 dead topix -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >re. sectarians, Granville Hicks, in responding to James T. Farrell's >attack (_A Note on Literary Criticism_) on CP and *New Masses*, >acknowledged constraining elements but suggested that sectarianism >of Marxist (that is, party) critics was necessary response to >aestheticism of bourgeois critics who deemed working class experience >unsuitable for literature... Michael Hoover I was just at a Labor Party meeting that was punctuated with several sermons ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 10 20:06:45 PST 1999