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40561 Blair isolated by quasi-pinkos -- rank: 1000

[Are the Maastricht criteria about to be bent/revised/scrapped?] <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001104591848399&rtmo=gYgkfYZu&atmo=99999999&P4 _FOLLOW_ON=/98/10/23/weu23.html&pg=/et/98/10/23/weu23.html> DAILY TELEGRAPH (London) ISSUE 1246 Friday 23 October 1998 Franco-German lurch to the Left isolates Blair By Toby Helm in Brussels and Andrew Gimson in Berlin TONY Blair's chances of forming a "triple alliance" with France and Germany were receding last night as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 23 08:59:24 PDT 1998

40562 Monopoly Bookstore Chains and the inanity of moralism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >K wrote: "Nathan ponders his childhood ....jesus christ on crutches! >Borders is a union buster fer cryin' out loud Borders is a union >buster!" > >This is an inanity, in fact a very vicious one, that those of us who >suggested only *organized* boycotts need be honored, that personal >boycotts were at best non-political, a mere private fancy. Now we see >that such private fancies, raised to the level of (naturally >super-moralistic) princip ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 22 19:59:30 PDT 1998

40563 Home Ownewship This High? -- rank: 1000

Maria Gilmore wrote: >This story came across the AP wire today: > >(Washington) Lowering mortgage rates has >done wonders for the real estate industry. >The government says the percentage of >American families who own their own homes hit >a record high this summer. The federal >housing department says the home ownership >rate was at nearly 67 percent from the July >to September quarter. > >Seriously? Can anyone tell me about this? Yes, this is true - the fi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 22 17:49:35 PDT 1998

40564 Monopoly Bookstore Chains and Left Wing Magazines. -- rank: 1000

Michael Cohen wrote: >I was looking for New Left Review in Boston, hardly a backwoods >rural outpost and a found a few scattered places which carry it. >However, they were out of the current issue. You're right that it's getting harder to find left periodicals in the stores. (Of course, the population of left periodicals itself is falling, but that's a separate issue.) Chains are part of the story - the decline of independents, both explictly left and not, means that fewer stores are in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 22 10:46:55 PDT 1998

40565 Cockburn to Indians: get over it! -- rank: 1000

To put it gently, this will not go down as one of Alexander Cockburn's finer moments. Thanks to Lou Proyect for pointing this out... Doug ---- [from Alexander Cockburn, "Wild Justice," New York Press, October 21-27, 1998] The hunters crashed out of the resort at 5 am. and I read a few pages of Ward Churchill's A Little Matter of Genocide. He certainly raises victim,hood to the level of political manifesto arguing that his purpose is to claim genocide for Indians on the grounds that gen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 22 09:30:05 PDT 1998

40566 Brenner again -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >> . . . >>Well, the problem is that there is no evidence that such measures work. >They certainly did not work in the depression, when 1937 slump occurred in >the midst of lavish pump-priming.> > >Year GDP Surplus > (Deficit-) Surplus/GDP > >1936 82.7 -3.2 -3.9% >1937 90.8 .5 .6% >1938 84.9 -1.5 -1.8% > >Not too lavish. In these terms, 3.9% was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 15:25:40 PDT 1998

40567 IMF on US -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Is this pileup of ifs...thens...unless...maybes--on the other hands just >par for the course in economic prognosticating, or does it win some sort >of prize? It's at the more waffly end of normal IMF-speak, in part because opinion isn't unanimous, and in part because it's the US they're telling what to do. If they were telling Bolivia what to do, the tone would be a bit sharper. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 14:14:15 PDT 1998

40568 Brenner again -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >You seem to have the same bloodless >attitude as Doug, who views such events as having the health-restoring >character of a high-colonic or something. A high colonic is an enema with an ideology, as Paul Krassner put it. Lou, I know that millions of people in Asia are suffering unemployment, dislocation, poverty, and hunger. Unfortunately, from the point of view of capital accumulation this can be a good thing, since it potentially increases the rate of exploitatio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 14:10:16 PDT 1998

40569 NYC anti-cop march -- rank: 1000

Folks in NYC, there's going to be a march against police brutality tomorrow, Thursday Oct 22, starting at 4 - from 14th & B'way down to City Hall. Here's how preparations were described on another list: >I am told this was described at roll call in the 52nd precinct >as an "anti-police" rally. That should be an inspirational message >to the cops who are assigned to work at the event. > >I told the police officer who told me this that I thought City Hall was >encou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 13:09:59 PDT 1998

40570 Cramer's mind -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Doug, I would argue that this sort of insanity is proof that the financial >crisis continues no matter what the Down-Jones is at. I would also argue that that sort of insanity is one of the most debased applications of human intelligence and physical resources I can think of. But who fucking cares? We're happy! Yippee!! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 13:06:00 PDT 1998

40571 more Gallup -- rank: 1000

[Hmm. More from Gallup...] Those who characterize themselves as "rich" or "upper income" are actually more likely to perceive an increase in the percentage of Americans who are rich than are those who consider themselves "lower income" or "poor" (80% compared to 71%). And those who have experienced deprivation (not enough money to pay for food, clothes, or health care in the past year) are less likely to perceive that the percentage that is rich is increas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 12:36:29 PDT 1998

40572 America the happy -- rank: 1000

Americans are rich & happy, says Gallup. For more, see <http://www.gallup.com/have_have_not/> A GALLUP POLL SOCIAL AUDIT This study is based on a survey of 5,001 American adults, conducted between April 23 and May 31, 1998. The survey was designed to provide a baseline summary of Americans' assessments of their own socioeconomic position, well-being, and satisfaction with various aspects of their lives, and to elicit Americans' perceptions of economic inequality, fairness, and opportu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 12:09:05 PDT 1998

40573 Cramer's mind -- rank: 1000

[The latest eruption from TheStreet.com's James Cramer. The Wall Street mind at work.] WRONG! Rear Echelon Revelations: The Power of the Rate Cut By James J. Cramer [TheStreet.com] 10/21/98 12:15 AM ET Rate cuts are powerful things. They make cyclical stocks go from being 900-pound weaklings to being titans. Let's take Boeing (BA:NYSE). Here is a company that will probably not win a single order from these rate cuts. The airplane business seems saturated. The earnings, to be announced later this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 10:47:21 PDT 1998

40574 gay bashing and class -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >Yeah, that's the narrative of those sons of privilege that did the >last marquee ready gay-bashing in Houston, referred to above. In today's NYT, Michael Cooper writes: <quote> Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University and an author of "Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed" (Plenum Press, 1993), said it was not unusual for anti-gay crimes to buck the trends of other bias crimes. "Most hate crimes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 09:24:32 PDT 1998

40575 The New Republic sucks -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >The longer piece by Dani Rodrik is interesting and contains interesting >contradictions and holes: "The problem with global capitalism is that it >doesn't, and can't, really exist. The world is still a collection of >national economies. Unless the United States adjusts policy to account for >that, expect more crises like the current one. " Um, what about >multinational corporations? I've heard that Rodrik comes out of a left/Marxist backgroun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 09:17:46 PDT 1998