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41191 the gay conspiracy -- rank: 1000

from another list.... >Robert Anson Wilson, in the Autumn 1998 issue of The Realist, (p. 3) >reports the following: > >"A sincere group of God-fearing Amnericans, Christians Awake, has proposed >one of the most original AIDS conspiracy theories; it is all the fault of >the Freemasons. > >"According to Christians Awake, the Masons have run the country from the >beginning, and they are a secret society because they are all gay. Even >George Washington was ga ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 19 13:57:25 PDT 1998

41192 Soviet and US Economy -- rank: 1000

Lew wrote: >My suggestion to Doug is that he not allow this to be repeated here. My suggestion to you is that I agree with Lou Proyect 100%, and that you stop this tedious windbaggery immediately. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 19 13:38:09 PDT 1998

41193 Soviet and US Economy -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >"Lew," like assorted fans of Stalin or Trotsky, is obsessed with the >"Russian" questions. My suggestion to Doug is to keep a close eye on this >sort of thread since it can become as dull as listening to somebody >describing their recent hemorrhoid surgery. I was out of town for about 30 hours and just came back to see this. The last thing I want to here is one of those tedious, interminable Stalin v. Trotsky debates here. No, they're not eve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 19 12:59:34 PDT 1998

41194 Arbeit macht frei -- rank: 1000

Andrew Kliman asked for a cite on the NYC workfare boss's citation of the welcome banner at Auschwitz. Here it is. I like the way the controversy is entirely over whether the remark is anti-semitic, not whether the program itself smells of the work camp. Wasn't Turner the guy who ran Wisconsin's famous welfare "reform"? Doug >NEW YORK TIMES June 27, 1998, Saturday >Section: Metropolitan Desk > >City Official Is Sorry for Remark Some Thought Was Anti-Semitic > >The Com ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 17 18:56:11 PDT 1998

41195 life in NYC -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >KPFA interviewed a small newpaper owner from Jackson, Miss. which has gone >much >further. Jerome Scott of Project South said at URPE camp in 1996 that in the run-up to the Olympics it was made a crime to walk across a parking lot in which you had no car. The point was to criminalize homelessness, and keep the unsightly off the streets for the tourists and the TV cameras. People were doing up to 6 months for this crime. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 17 08:39:42 PDT 1998

41196 life in NYC -- rank: 1000

I had the New York City street artist Robert Lederman on my radio show last night. Lederman has been arrested 33 times for such grave offenses as selling paintings on the sidewalk, handing out leaflets, holding up signs, organizing demos, and, perhaps the gravest offense of all, drawing pictures of Rudy Giuliani with a Hitler moustache. Lederman is rightly obsesed with the privatization of public space and the corporatization of everything - a worldwide phenomenon, for sure, but which is very ad ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 17 07:58:50 PDT 1998

41197 Theft -- rank: 1000

Les Schaffer wrote: >thats interesting. the World Bank has anthropologists on its staff??? >what do they do? how do they influence policy, if at all? How better to trick or seduce the natives into going along. What else? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 16 16:39:02 PDT 1998

41198 Theft -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Doug, let me get this straight. You have reason to believe that as much >as 1/3 of the funds of the IMF and World Bank that are being loaned to >certain countries are being stolen. A World Bank anthropologist told me that about the Philippines. I mentioned it to Jeff Winters of Northwestern - who exposed the World Bank's adoption of Suharto's fraudulent poverty stats - and he thought you could assume the same about Indonesia. Those are 2 notorious kleptocracies, thou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 16 16:30:56 PDT 1998

41199 World Bank Corruption Probe -- rank: 1000

Speaking of theft of World Bank loans.... Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:14:37 +0300 (EET DST) From: "Antti.rautiainen" <antti.rautiainen at pp.kolumbus.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Sender: owner-50-years at igc.apc.org Subject: World Bank Corruption Probe To: <wb-list at kepa.fi>, yly-lista at tao.ca, 50-years at igc.org X-Sender: antra at mail.kolumbus.fi >Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:29:00 -0700 (PDT) >X-Sender: dnorlen at pop.igc.org >To: "Jozsef Feiler& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 16 15:52:10 PDT 1998

41200 Russia will save us! -- rank: 1000

Just in case the news on Russia has been too depressing lately... Sender: osteblov at uic.rnd.runnet.ru MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:17:50 +0400 (MSD) From: Oleg Steblovsky <osteblov at uic.rnd.runnet.ru> Subject: help! Philanthropical Club "ESSENE" Rostov Region Charity Non-Profit Organization ------------------------------------------------------- Rostov-on-Don, Russia HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP!, since 1996, this appeal's the Alexandr SOBO followers, w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 16 07:00:25 PDT 1998

41201 spooky shit, a paradox & numbers -- rank: 1000

[this bounced from Tom Kruse] X-Sender: tkruse at albatros.cnb.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:07:47 -0400 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Thomas Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net> Subject: spooky shit, a paradox & numbers The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has set up what it calls the Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center (CTAC) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 15 18:41:35 PDT 1998

41202 Poland -- rank: 1000

Thanks for your observations on Poland, Barkley. How much did the debt writeoff help? It was about 50%, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 15 12:29:26 PDT 1998

41203 Russian demographics -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>alec ramsdell wrote: >> >>>And she notes: "Now, the IMF just gave Russia $22 billion. . . . >>>Everyone's ecstatic . . . the government is patting itself on the back, >>>and now life can go on as it was pre-crisis." >> >>And the kleptocrats' foreign bank accounts will probably swell by at least >>$11 billion. >> > >Nahh. Only $3 billion at most... Well, a World Bank anthropologist once told me th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 15 12:08:51 PDT 1998

41204 Deep hole (was: desired abduction/Small Business Offer) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >If anything, it was 1989 - not 1945 -- when most EE countries stepped into >a a very deep hole. What about Poland's alleged "boom"? Does anyone know what the real story is? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 15 09:55:23 PDT 1998

41205 Summer Camp , was paranoid Jews. -- rank: 1000

No more discussion of summer camp, please. This is a prescription for lots of heat and no light. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 15 09:54:20 PDT 1998