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40576 IMF on US -- rank: 1000

Here's what the IMF was saying about the U.S., based on their regular Article IV consultation <http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pn/1998/PN9854.HTM>. Tightening might be wise, unless a loosening were instead: With the U.S. economy estimated to be operating at a very high level of resource utilization, Directors noted that a key to successful policy in the period immediately ahead was to gauge the underlying strength of the U.S. economy. In these circumstances, preventing the emergence of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 21 09:04:46 PDT 1998

40577 END WHITE RULE NOW --- THIS IS WAR -- rank: 1000

K wrote: >What's the scoop with all the purposeful >misspellings? What IS it? I think Max is right - it's probably from one of the sites cited. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 13:29:23 PDT 1998

40578 Jones on crisis I -- rank: 1000

[Lou Proyect forwarded this but it bounced for excessive length.] Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:04:07 -0400 From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> Subject: Mark Jones on the world crisis (Mark is temporarily off LBO-talk and Marxism mailing-lists. He is also permanently off PEN-L, don't ask me why. I thought that this post which just appeared on the leninist-international mailing list, which he moderates, would be interesting to others. I also passed Greg Nowell's comments on the Barrons edit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 12:18:25 PDT 1998

40579 Jones on crisis II -- rank: 1000

What is less frequently quoted is the paragraph which immediately follows: "And, in fact, with every day that passes we are acquiring a better understanding of these laws and getting to perceive both the more immediate and the more remote consequences of our interference with the traditional course of nature. In particular, after the mighty advances made by the natural sciences in the present century, we are more than ever in a position to realise, and hence to control, also the more remote ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 12:18:46 PDT 1998

40580 gay bashing and class -- rank: 1000

K wrote: >BTW Doug >someone was bummed that you and I did so b/c it >was from the Detroit News: We're supporters of >union busting firms you know. But we didn't pay for it. Violated their (C) even. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 11:17:49 PDT 1998

40581 FW: in 1998 Karl Marx came back -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) Tuesday October 20, 1998 MARKETS, MELTDOWN AND MARX For more than a decade there seemed only one viable economic system - unfettered capitalism. Now it is destroying Russia, failing in Asia and widening inequalities in the West. So why is new Labour still wedded to it? Eric Hobsbawm, Britain's foremost Marxist thinker, says it is time for Blair to go back to the basics of social democracy A funny thing happened on the way to the millennium: in 1998 Karl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 10:52:22 PDT 1998

40582 Adjuncts -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >Actually, I think adjuncts are a notch down from TAs. Yeah, at Yale, if I'm remembering right from a year ago, the TAs got about $5,000 per course and the adjuncts $2,500. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 10:45:06 PDT 1998

40583 gay bashing and class -- rank: 1000

Meredith_Glueck at edf.org wrote: >when talking about the 2 guys who killed Matt Shepard, i really wonder if >there is all that much that differentiates them from alot of other people >who are prejudiced, there are plenty of people capable of doing this-i >don't know if a class based argument would really be valid- There's something there, I think, at least for men, as a psychological defense against marginalization. "I may be a lowlife but at least I'm not a queer." I read ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 10:39:58 PDT 1998

40584 END WHITE RULE NOW --- THIS IS WAR -- rank: 1000

[Did anyone else get this? Collage students indeed...] Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:08:31 -0400 (EDT) From: InterRacial <End_White_Rule at hotmail.com> To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: END WHITE RULE NOW --- THIS IS WAR Mime-Version: 1.0 Listen up you white trailer trash, We as beatiful people of color are apalled at the feet draging going on to cencor these white trash scum off of the internet. Our president William Clinton has stated over and over that whites WILL become a minori ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 10:14:41 PDT 1998

40585 tax burdens -- rank: 1000

On the incidence of corporate taxes - I suspect capital wouldn't spend so much money on think tanks, lobbyists, and PR if they didn't bear at least some of the cost. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 09:36:12 PDT 1998

40586 Russian food -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] OECD report highlights Russian food crisis By Sebastian Alison MOSCOW, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Russian agricultural output fell to 64 percent of its 1990 level last year, while agriculture's share of GDP fell to 6.5 percent from 15.4 percent in 1990, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said in a report publicly discussed for the first time on Monday. Andrzej Kwiecinski, main author of the OECD's Review of Agricultural Policies - Russian Federation, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 09:31:20 PDT 1998

40587 gay-bashing and class -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >Doug, do you really think this is a "class not identity" argument? I >see it as something that might be written by someone who wanted to >underline the *contribution* to heterosexist hatred from >impoverishment and inequality. Sorry, been away for most of the last 24 hours, and I'm catching up. What disturbs me about the story is right in the lead (or lede, as insiders say): >LARAMIE, Wyo. -- Matthew Shepard went to high school in Switzerland. He ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 20 08:03:58 PDT 1998

40588 Bakunin -- rank: 1000

[this bounced from James Heartfield, submitted from Jim at ... instead of James at ...] In article <19981016202934.7945.qmail at hotmail.com>, Randy Stone <stonerandy at hotmail.com> writes >Has anyone studied the conflict between Marx and Bakunin around the >IWMA? I understand that Marx moved the headquarters to New York City to >get around the anarchists in the IWMA. In other words, rather than let >Bakuninists take over the IWMA, he shut down the show. "Marx mov ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 19 21:26:09 PDT 1998

40589 GrrRl & Politically Purchasing Power -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >> Thomas Waters >> twaters at usit.net >> 1021 East Oak Hill Avenue, Knoxville TN 37917 >> But this wall is not real. How can it be real? >> It's only made of concrete and barbed wire. > >Damn that is a good album. I saw her in New Orleans in July, the best >show by anyone I'd seen in some time. Her first album (originally on >Rough Trade) has recently been re-released. I've got _Car Wheels" on >a tape in the car with Mermai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 19 21:06:58 PDT 1998

40590 Spice girls -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >In message <l03130312b24ff2f75e0a@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood ><dhenwood at panix.com> writes >>They represent girl power as the >>Thatcher-sympathizing assumption of cliched babe roles scripted by others. >>What's feminist about that? > >Maybe you expect too much of a pop group. I don't expect this from a pop group, though it's always nice. K was alluding to a pre-existing conversation on Bad Subjects, in which the normally w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 19 21:04:26 PDT 1998