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40456 Brenner on competition -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >There is a natural tendency toward crises -- someone humously dated the >beginning of the existing crisis at 5000 years ago. The early military >keynesian practices thwarted the crises, or at least contained them as minor >recessions. The pressures have built up over the decades and now may possibly >be ready to break out into something more serious. If the authorities hold it >in check this year, the problem will fester and be harded to confront lat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 10:43:55 PDT 1998

40457 Primakov, The Crisis -- rank: 1000

The consensus of the financial press seems to be that Russia is heading in a "Soviet" direction with its latest government. This is nonsense, right? I saw Boris Kagarlitsky at The Nation's office on Friday. He said, as usual, lots of interesting things. First, he said it's thought that Kirienko was fired because he was preparing a list of nationalizations. Still, says BK, it's likely that some nationalizations will happen - likely Gazprom, oil, vodka (which would solve the budget probl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 10:36:50 PDT 1998

40458 Tampa billboards (Re: Rush Limbaugh Wet Dream 1: Ressentiment) -- rank: 1000

K wrote: >Someone said they thought that Clinton acted like a cad. What do you call a guy who talks on the phone with a Congressman, eats pizza, and gets blown all at once then? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 08:50:44 PDT 1998

40459 (fwd) Bankers poised to avert Wall Street crash -- rank: 1000

tmsa at ibm.net quoted from The Independent: > America is the last country on earth > to be affected by a crisis that has > snowballed precisely because other > nations have not imitated America > well enough. Any country that wants > the benefits of membership of the > club of advanced economies is, it > seems, going to have to turn itself > into pretty much a carbon copy of > models th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 08:40:26 PDT 1998

40460 Rush Limbaugh Wet Dream 1: Ressentiment -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >A reliable source told me that Clinton has been collecting details of >members of >congress personal lives for years - their sexual liaisons - and basically let >them know that if he goes down they will go down. Anyone else hear of >anything >similar? I think Salon, a branh of the White House PR office, reported that Clinton's people will leak *everything* about Congress and the media, sparing no one. The press corps that covers Clinton is quite randy, an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 13 12:08:27 PDT 1998

40461 Clinton a Republican? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >As I said previously, if the R's get veto-proof majorities >in Congress, you ain't seen nothin yet. And why will they? Why have the Dems been so unable to win elections? Why has ocupying the White House done less than nothing for the party's fortunes? Is it because the lesser evil is just lesser? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 13 10:45:16 PDT 1998

40462 Deep throat or shallow press? -- rank: 1000

MScoleman at aol.com wrote: >Aside from all this, I think the press has reacted abysmally to this whole >incident (or series of incidents). Every time any news program gives a report >on the President/Lewinsky/Starr mess I either hit the mute or turn to another >channel or stop watching TV. The behavior of the press in this fits perfectly with the model that Bourdieu lays out in On Television <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Why_TV_sucks.html>. The media people think that this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 13 09:21:41 PDT 1998

40463 What Clinton Will Cost Us -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >The best he has done is to curb some of the excesses of the extremist Repubs. And at worst, he's become the "legitimate" alternative to their extremism, by disarming potential opposition to his "moderate" Republican agenda. It's like Kissinger's old "madman in the White House" negotiating ploy - agree with me, because that raver Nixon will be even worse. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 12 09:07:16 PDT 1998

40464 Primakov - victory against neo-liberalism -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Hyperinflation is not a victory for anyone... So, Brad, were you in Larry Summers' shoes now, what would you be advising? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 12 09:02:47 PDT 1998

40465 Gore -- rank: 1000

hoov wrote: >rightly or wrongly, M opposed separation of powers...he refers, in >*Crisis and Counter-Revolution*, to the 'worm-eaten theory of >division of powers'...moreover, he calls the theory 'old >constitutional folly' in *The Constitution of the French Republic* >and goes on to say that the 'condition of a free government is not >the division, but the unity of power.' And looking at the U.S., where the separation of powers is sacroscanct, Marx is exactly right. That const ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 12 08:53:56 PDT 1998

40466 34 decades of Rep dominance? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >It might be simply that Clinton is the last >obstacle to a complete monopoly of power >for the Repubs. If we get a 60% R Congress, >you will see a flat tax, Soc Sec privatization, >Medicaid turned into a block grant (ending the >entitlement), abolition of taxes on capital >gains and estates, and much else that you >don't see now. As Michael Barone pointed out after Clinton's re-election, between the 1992 and 1996 elections, the Dems lost 12 Senate sea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 12 08:29:56 PDT 1998

40467 Theo-Economy -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >The market is closing up today. Does that mean the market "likes" our >nation's tragedy? The official line is that they're relieved there was nothing new in the report. To me, what's new is what an imperious jerk Clinton was with Monica - like a guy whose idea of foreplay is a snap of the fingers followed by pointing groinwards. At least with Gennifer he was a generous giver. Is this what power does? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 12 08:03:11 PDT 1998

40468 Clinton -- rank: 1000

K wrote: >BUT that they're also mesmerized, glued, fascinated, impelled toward the >nightly news in order to watch the spectacle and churn up more hate and >bile for them all: Bill, Ken, Newt, Hillary, George, Dan, Al, Ted, >Geraldo and all the rest. I've got two words for you: "macadamia nuts." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 11 10:20:47 PDT 1998

40469 The Thousand Youth March -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Giuliani still deserves a whipping >for his role. And KM has proven -- >again -- that he has no standing or >competence to lead anything. >Unfortunately, this has not prevented >people from rising, even to the >presidency. Who exactly designated KM a leader? Who conferred the status and attention on him that he's gotten? It seems to me that one of the luxuries of being a ruling class is getting to designate your consecrated critics, and KM is a perfect g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 11 10:10:27 PDT 1998

40470 Two Down, Approx 400 to Go -- rank: 1000

James Devine wrote: >The problem is that he's such a bad president in so many other ways. If the >GOPsters didn't hate him so much, people with common sense would label >Clinton a Republican. That's one reason the Reps hate him so much. He's stolen all their issues - crime, free trade, deficit reduction, welfare "reform" - plus he's had a good time while doing it. So, pre-empted on the policy front, and jealously hostile to his perceived sex/drugs/rocknroll cultural affinities ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 11 09:57:37 PDT 1998