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40786 Buba - rate cut imminent? -- rank: 1000

Tietmeyer acknowledges that low inflation in euroland had opened up 'enormous opportunities' for lower rates. Euro Vision: Bundesbank Signals Lower Rates Ahead By Ned Stafford Special to TheStreet.com 11/6/98 6:42 PM ET FRANKFURT -- Prospects for the euro's smooth launch have been greatly enhanced by signs of rapprochement between the Bundesbank and the newly elected Social Democrats -- as well as a whopping rate cut today by Ireland. In one fell swoop, the Irish central bank sliced its key repo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 16:52:06 PST 1998

40787 Gingrich falls -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: > House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for > another term as speaker and has decided to > resign his suburban Atlanta seat in Congress, > sources tell CNN. > > Gingrich was delivering the news to his GOP > House colleagues in a conference call Friday > night, sources tell CNN > > >Is this true? > >What does it mean? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 16:45:51 PST 1998

40788 Why the hubbub about Ventura? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Still, the fact remains that this is the first election in memory where >grass-roots, turn-out-the-votes action mattered more in many instances >than sheer money and TV advertising. Surely. that counts for something. And all for Richard Gephardt, Al Gore, and Bill Clinton! It proves that the Dems can do anything to insult their base and get away with it!! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 14:12:34 PST 1998

40789 [Re: slavery and -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it was addressed to <owner-lbo-talk at dont.panix.com>, not the list] Date: 6 Nov 98 11:13:55 MST From: Nicholas Cronbach <moldiwarp at usa.net> To: owner-lbo-talk at dont.panix.com Subject: Re: [Re: slavery and Mime-Version: 1.0 In a message dated 98-11-04 14:39:25 EST, you write: JKS: I thought they still owned slaves in Texas. It _is_ in the Fifth Circuit, which doesn't recognize the Reconstruction Amendments. --jks I didn't know that. Seriously? ___________ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 10:27:38 PST 1998

40790 Ventura -- rank: 1000

[Micah Sifry responds to Steve Perry] From: msifry at publicampaign.org Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:34:55 -0500 To: sperry at usinternet.com, dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Re: Ventura MIME-version: 1.0 Steve/Doug: Doug Henwood forwarded your comments on my Ventura article. I don't know if he also included the earlier one, which I did for Salon a week ago. In that piece, you'd see that while I acknowledged his positive positions on public school class size, corporate welfare, campaign finance refor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 10:05:09 PST 1998

40791 Russia: blame the Jews -- rank: 1000

[From Johnson's Russia List. Zavtra is a fascist rag. Zyuganov is the head of the Communist Party.] Makashov Blames Crisis on Jews Zavtra, No. 42 20 October 1998 [translation for personal use only] Article by General Albert Makashov: "Usurers of Russia"; and boxed item by Gennadiy Zyuganov Life in our country is getting worse and worse. Never before has it been this bad in Russia. Even under the Mongol yoke. Who is to blame? The executive branch, the bankers, and the mass media are t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 09:41:43 PST 1998

40792 Jesse re-does Wall Street -- rank: 1000

[from TheStreet.com's story on the Securities Industry Assn's annual convention] Jesse Jackson, the breakfast speaker, pitched to a skeptical audience the potential of expanding Wall Street's talent and capital into disenfranchised communities in the U.S., posing them as alternatives to emerging markets. "When we see people lining up in Russia or Indonesia, we assume there's something wrong with the system," he said. "When we see those same lines in Appalachia or Harlem, we assume ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 09:29:58 PST 1998

40793 New York/Working Families Party Election Results -- rank: 1000

[The official line...] Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:20:53 -0800 (PST) From: Adam Glickman <aglickman at igc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Sender: owner-np-build at igc.apc.org Subject: New York/Working Families Party Election Results To: np-build at igc.org X-Sender: aglickman at pop.igc.org This is a combined message to New Party and some other relevant lists about the election in New York. A report on the NP's Fall elections outside New York will follow next week (7 for 7 in Little ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 09:12:56 PST 1998

40794 Disabled Protest -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Well we still have Dick Riordin, our republican multimillionaire mayor, to >deal with down here. Speaking of L.A., whatever happened to Peter Uberroth and all those post-riot plans to rebuild the city? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 09:08:13 PST 1998

40795 Pwog Poll -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >Respected by whom? Zogby is Rush Limbaugh's favorite pollster. When >I watched the Pat Robertson's coverage of the elections Tuesday he had >as guests Zogby, Ann Coulter, and Ben Wattenburg. Who the hell is the >New World Foundation and how to they lay any claim to the label >"progressive"? It is a "pwogwessive" foundation, really. The right liked Zogby in the run-up to this election because it was using a very heroic filter to come up with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 08:22:34 PST 1998

40796 Pwog Poll -- rank: 1000

[A poll of "progressive" organizations reports...] [The Nation, November 23, 1998] A RANK-AND-FILE POLL FINDS STRONG CONSENSUS ON PROBLEMS, LESS ON SOLUTIONS. Notes for a Progressive Agenda BY DAVID DYSSEGAARD KALLICK Most political strategists assume the road to victory is through the middle. What if, instead of fishing for supporters in the center, progressives began by getting our own house in order? What if we decided to hash out our differences, get clear about our priorities and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 06:39:56 PST 1998

40797 Ventura -- rank: 1000

[A memo on the Jesse "The Body" Ventura victory in Minnesota by Micah Sifry, formerly of The Nation and now of Public Campaign, a group promoting campaign finance reform. "Clean money" ballot initiatives based on their model passed in Massachusetts and Arizona Tuesday. This is the unedited draft of a piece that should appear in Salon imminently.] If this was a "Seinfeld election," an election about nothing, then how do you explain Jesse Ventura's stunning victory in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 06:09:43 PST 1998

40798 Buffett: hedge fund hotshot -- rank: 1000

[I missed this in the FT; leave it to the resourcefully bearish James Grant (more doomful than the gloomiest Marxist!) to pick up on it. The FT article follows the Grant piece.] NOT GRAHAM AND DODDSVILLE [by James Grant, from Grant's Interest Rate Observer, November 6, 1998] New light on the thwarted Warren Buffett bid for Long-Term Capital Management was shed by the Financial Times in a scoop now almost two weeks old. However, as the news is still intriguing, we hereby reprise it. What the FT r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 6 06:03:48 PST 1998

40799 Chomsky -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >I do think that much that passes under the name of Postmodernism is >ridiculous What exactly you have in mind? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 5 11:31:47 PST 1998

40800 FWD: Re: J. O'Connor on Chomsky -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >And over against the PoMo pooh-pooh of any talk of human nature Many Marxists have also objected to talk of "human nature." Does that make them PoMo's too? Besides, pointing to an innate capacity for language in humans doesn't tell you anything about what languages we actually come to speak, or what we say when we talk. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 5 11:08:44 PST 1998