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41161 Privatization Pep Rally -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The political fact with which we have to work >is that the 'middle' scenario assumes anemic >growth, relative to the present, so the shortfall >becomes a political fact. > >We could yell and scream that there will be no >shortfall and be ignored entirely. > >Alternatively, we could dispute the probability >of slow growth and provide palatable solutions >to the shortfall that the rest of the world is >referring to when they deal with the iss ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 29 12:37:37 PDT 1998

41162 Privatization Pep Rally -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >If you don't think it's biased, I'm afraid you aren't reading it closely >enough. Doug has done some excellent analysis of this, so I'll let him >fill in the details. The basic point, though, is that in order to get >their conclusion that the system is going broke, the trustees assume >economic growth for the the next few decades at sub-Depression levels. Yes. I haven't read their latest, but last year's report had a 1.4% average growth rate for the next 75 ye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 29 10:52:06 PDT 1998

41163 GM/UAW -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >15% increase in production quotas, and a promise from GM to not close or >sell two factories before Jan. 1999? An auto analyst for Paine Webber ws >quoted as saying, "I think the market expected GM to deliver a knockout >blow, and they didn't." > >Looks like the UAW backed down because of the lawsuit and threat of >arbitration. Looks like GM won. My guess is that the UAW won the battle, but that GM will continue with its strategy of pla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 29 10:28:28 PDT 1998

41164 GM/UAW -- rank: 1000

Ok, so who won? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 23:25:12 PDT 1998

41165 polling Russians -- rank: 1000

[an interesting poll reported on Johnson's Russia List] >From RIA Novosti Obshchaya Gazeta July 23, 1998 RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT NOT LEGITIMATE, PEOPLE SAY Political Chaos in Minds and in Deeds By Leonid SEDOV The Power poll held by the National Public Opinion Research Centre in February-March 1998 offers an embracing picture of the depth of the crisis of the government system which became established in Russia in the past six years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The spontaneous develo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 14:46:00 PDT 1998

41166 seminar -- rank: 1000

Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: > Aren't you going to advertize your seminar on pkt that >starts tomorrow? I understand that one can participate by >sending a message to listproc at csf.colorado.edu or >listserv at csf.colorado.edu that reads "subscribe SE-Cafe >your name". The seminar is on Doug's book, _Wall Street_. There was a notice of that seminar circulated here a couple of weeks ago. Modesty kept me from promoting it again. But you're right, Barkley, it does ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 14:38:40 PDT 1998

41167 Stiglitz on Washington Consensus -- rank: 1000

World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz' critique of the Washington Consensus - what he calls an emerging post-Washington consensus consensus - is available at <http://www.wider.unu.edu/stiglitx.htm>. From his intro: >I would like to discuss improvements in our understanding of economic >development, in particular the emergence of what is sometimes called the >'post-Washington consensus'. My remarks elaborate on two themes. The >first is that we have come to a better underst ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 10:50:24 PDT 1998

41168 harris poll -- rank: 1000

The Harris Poll is surveying an online sample. Take it & skew the results! >http://206.1.46.26/july.htm > >AOL users, please use the following link: > ><A HREF="http://206.1.46.26/july.htm">July '98 Harris Poll</A> Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 10:40:57 PDT 1998

41169 PR: International Coalition For River Restoration Formed -- rank: 1000

[Before I talked with Patrick McCully and read his book Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, I had no idea how destructive dams are. - DH] X-Sender: patrick at pop.igc.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:42:57 -0800 To: 100065.3664 at compuserve.com (Keith Hayward) From: patrick at irn.org (Patrick McCully) Subject: PR: International Coalition For River Restoration Formed American Rivers * Assembly of the Poor, Thailand * European Rivers Network * Florida Defender ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 10:06:52 PDT 1998

41170 Teamsters -- rank: 1000

So all you labor experts out there - what's it mean that Ron Carey's been exiled for life? Does Baby Hoffa have the election locked up? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 28 09:40:09 PDT 1998

41171 Washington Babylon -- rank: 1000

[this bounced while I was away, so it's probably too late...] >From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) >To: "Owner-Lbo-Talk" <owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Subject: Washington Babylon >Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:22:36 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 (Normal) >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 >Importance: Normal > >The Post reported this a.m. (Thurs) that former >Senator Larry Pressl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 26 22:46:30 PDT 1998

41172 away -- rank: 1000

I'm going away for the weekend, so once again I've asked Yoshie to step in as list disciplinarian. Til Sunday night... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 24 06:29:53 PDT 1998

41173 observation -- rank: 1000

The drama of my consciousness is that having lost the world I try to recover myself, but in this moment I am lost. It's always blood, fear, politics, and money. I don't know how to stop vomiting since I've been working on all this. - Sonic Youth, "Ineffable Me"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 23 18:19:36 PDT 1998

41174 wages -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >One thing I've always wondered about this kind of statistic: when they >say "average wage" are they talking only about hourly workers? Maybe >I'm living in a San Francisco/Silicon Valley bubble, here, but 68k >doesn't seem like a whole lot to be the top 5-7%... They don't say in the EPI Issue Brief, but my guess is that salaried workers are converted to a full-time hourly rate. The SF/SV area, like Manhattan, is off the map cost-wise, but no one's got l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 23 16:40:23 PDT 1998

41175 Socialist Security #1 -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >No answer to your question but something relevant to consider . . . >Michael Parenti did some investigation which revealed that the richest >of Americans are NOT included in data regarding wealth. I briefly heard >him make this statement on KPFK radio but have not done my homework to >read the details although I think the crux of his statement may be that >the Census Bureau omits the super wealthy...A fascinating accomplishment >on behalf of the rich. P ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 23 16:24:02 PDT 1998