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40756 Jim O'Connor, part 1 -- rank: 1000

Attached is House Organ that will appear in the next issue of CNS on the Investor; global slump; and crisis of crisis management. By Jim O'Connor - October 30, 1998. To appear in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, December 1998 issue The Investor. The Investor is the spoiled brat of fin de siecle capitalism The Investor presents himself as a risk-taking entrepreneur whose "services" are indispensable to the health and wealth of world economy. In fact, he is a parasite who gambles huge amou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 11 09:26:20 PST 1998

40757 investment flows -- rank: 1000

FINANCIAL TIMES - 11-11-1998 Flow of capital rising despite regional crises Jonquieres de, Guy: Peel, Quentin Worldwide foreign direct investment flows are likely to rise to about $430bn this year, despite slower global growth and regional economic difficulties, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. The forecast compares with record inflows last year of $400bn and outflows of $424bn. Continued expansion of FDI would be driven be mergers and acquisitions - which acc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 11 07:28:22 PST 1998

40758 one of the new creeps -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >Has anyone else read either of John Boswell's books on the subject of >homosexuality and Christianity (etc.)? I haven't yet read his earlier >*Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in >Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the >Fourteenth Century* (University of California Press, 1980), but while >I was living in Boston I read his *Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe* >(Villard Books, 1994) while riding the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 11 07:15:33 PST 1998

40759 productivity and population growth rates -- rank: 1000

Fellows, Jeffrey wrote: >A while back someone referred to a study showing an inverse relationship >between population growth and productivity growth. Could whomever (it may >have been Doug) gave the reference do so again? Cutler, David M., James M. Poterba, Louise M. Sheiner, and Lawrence H. Summers (1990). "An Aging Society: Opportunity or Challenge?," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1, pp. 1-73.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 11 06:15:35 PST 1998

40760 corporate environmentalism -- rank: 1000

FINANCIAL TIMES - WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11 1998 Science & Technology CLIMATE: Business grapples with potential changes By Vanessa Houlder in Buenos Aires A year ago, many US businesses rejected the idea that there was a need for any action on climate change. Now, as diplomats gather in Buenos Aires for climate change negotiations, the emphasis of some prominent companies - including car, oil and chemical businesses - is on how to deal with it. "The momentum has shifted to companies that a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 11 06:12:05 PST 1998

40761 one of the new creeps -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >So Largent is OK with my having homosexual sex with women? I can't speak for him, but go ahead, it's fine with me! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 10 20:40:30 PST 1998

40762 one of the new creeps -- rank: 1000

The Log Cabin Republicans, the party's gay/lesbian caucus, is circulating the following transcript containing some thoughts on homosexuality from Steve Largent, one of the candidates for House majority leader. Doug ---- NEWS HOUR Program #6216 July 22, 1998 Largent:"Let me say, Jim,the honest truth is any time your talking about public policy, all decisions you make are moral issues." Lehrer: "In what way is this a moral issue to you?" Largent:"Well, what we have to unde ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 10 19:54:38 PST 1998

40763 Militant Unionism v. Wasted Third Party Efforts (Re: UAW and union democracy in TA unionism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I was waiting for Doug >to wax nostalgic for Hitler's domestic policy, except for the >concentration camps, of course. Eh? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 10 19:05:47 PST 1998

40764 Ferguson on Civil War -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >Doug's posting of Cockburn's "curious take on American history" (I >didn't find it so, Doug, why did you?) Because the Civil War represented a profound clash of economic and political systems that marked the emergence of the U.S. as an industrial power. I'm all for jury nullification, don't get me wrong, but the Cockburn/FIJA take trivializes it in an individualizing, legalistic way. I won't even bring up the anti-Semites lurking in FIJA, since that would ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 10 15:28:17 PST 1998

40765 Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America -- rank: 1000

Randy Stone wrote: >The the general law of capitalist accumulation is amassing of wealth at >one pole and poverty at another pole. Wal-Mart is developing according >to this general law. Concentration and centralization of capital >results in the gobbling up of merchants in small towns. Death by >drowning can be set at the door of the law of gravity, but that will not >negate its operation. This is all true, but what do you do with it? Just watch Wal-Mart take over the landsc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 10 12:02:24 PST 1998

40766 Cockburn on slavery -- rank: 1000

Hard on the heel's of Alexander Cockburn's urging Indians to "get over" genocide is this short bit on slavery from the Oct 15-31 issue of Counterpunch. Cockburn gave the keynote address to the Fully Informed Jury Association's recent convention, which is no doubt what inspired this curious take on American history. Doug ---- JURIES AND OPRAH Ignored by every slavery historian, by Oprah Winfrey's new film Beloved as well as by the current traveling exhibit on slavery shown in public lib ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 10 06:04:48 PST 1998

40767 Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >i was just talking to a friend who said he saw a stunning presentation on >c-span about global labor situation-- partly focused on walmart. he said it >was given by one of the guys in the national labor committee, evidently a >new york group. anybody know anything about them? Was it Charlie Kernaghan you saw - the man who made Kathie Lee cry? He does a fantastic performance; you don't want to be on a panel after him. He and his colleagues at the NLC, with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 9 16:31:37 PST 1998

40768 Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:44:21 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: rob at essential.org Originator: corp-focus at essential.org Sender: corp-focus at essential.org Precedence: bulk From: Robert Weissman <rob at essential.org> To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <corp-focus at essential.org> Subject: Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America Walk into any Wal-Mart and marvel. One near us is open 24 hours. Never closes. Consumer goods as far as the eye can see. Quality product at a low price. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 9 15:36:24 PST 1998

40769 Why the Left Cries even When We Win -- rank: 1000

[nonmember submission?] Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:52:00 -0500 From: Joshua Mason <jmason at aflcio.org> Sender: Joshua Mason <jmason at aflcio.org> Organization: AFL-CIO To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Why the Left Cries even When We Win Importance: normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Connect2-SMTP 4.30A MHS/SMF to SMTP Gateway > What we are all celebrating ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 9 14:59:19 PST 1998

40770 ITT on Third Way -- rank: 1000

uswatl at ibm.net wrote: >Btw Doug, when is the next issue of the Baffler coming out? I have abook >I'd like to see them review called the 48 Laws of Power. One's about to be mailed; don't know when the next one's due. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 9 14:58:24 PST 1998