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41206 Russian demographics -- rank: 1000

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. Stephen Shenfield of Brown U's Watson Center has a very convincing paper listing 8 reasons why Russia is bound to get worse. When I interviewed him last week, he said he'd added a 9th - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 15 09:51:54 PDT 1998

41207 FIRE -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >when did folks start using the FIRE acronym? or has it been around for >something like an institutional eternity? more specifically, was it being >used by the 1970's? Can't tell you specifically about the acronym, but the national income accounts have been calling the sector "finance, insurance, and real estate" since at least the 1958 revisions. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 14 08:12:42 PDT 1998

41208 Solidarity -- rank: 1000

The new issue of the UAW's magazine, Solidarity, just arrived in the mail On the cover is a pic of president Steve Yokich at the recent convention, with the headline "Change is in the Air: Report from the 32dn Constitutional Convention & the GM strike." Ooh, someething about the strike, was my first thought. So I page through it. Just inside the cover, a 2-page spread on child labor. A few pages later, the news roundup - the California vote on prop 226, Indonesian labor leader rele ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 14 07:56:54 PDT 1998

41209 public sector unions -- rank: 1000

Mike Yates wrote: >Second, the public unions might be able to build coalitions with the >public more easily than private sector unions since their members often >provide essential public services. How I wish this were true, but have there been any examples of it actually happening? The NYC municipal unions have done nothing of the sort; they haven't even peeped as successive administrations have hacked at public services for the last 23 years. (Of course, with about half the locals in t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 14 07:40:33 PDT 1998

41210 Russian demographics -- rank: 1000

>From RIA Novosti >Segodnya >July 13, 1998 >RUSSIA'S DISMAL DEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICS >By Marina LATYSHEVA > > The World Population Day was marked all over the globe >July 11. The United Nations had proclaimed July 11 as an >official holiday in 1987, when the global population had >reached the 5-billion mark. Russia has marked this holiday by >an unprecedented demographic crisis. The average life >expectancy in this country has declined by six years over the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 13 13:11:37 PDT 1998

41211 US military, part 1.5 -- rank: 1000

[the second half of part 1] Staving Off Instability In October 1997, in a housing project under construction by the Lippo Group conglomerate about 18 miles outside Jakarta, 12 U.S. Army Special Forces troops diagramed a straightforward mission: Find the enemy somewhere in a warren of plywood rooms, blow a hole in the wall and kill or capture as many as possible while trying not to shoot each other. The participants in the staged drama were 60 troops from Indonesia's special forces unit, Kopassus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 13 11:35:51 PDT 1998

41212 US military -- rank: 1000

[this from Tom Kruse bounced - it's broken into two parts because of length] Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:02:12 -0400 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Thomas Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net> Subject: US military might 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dont.panix.com id NAA24496 Dear Talkers: I'm off the list owing to work crunches, but can't pass up the urge to share this bit from the Washington Post. The authors clearly demonstra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 13 11:35:29 PDT 1998

41213 US military, part 2 -- rank: 1000

[also from Tom K] Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:02:51 -0400 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Thomas Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net> Subject: US military might 2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dont.panix.com id NAA24514 A Tutor to Every Army in Latin America U.S. Expands Latin American Training Role By Douglas Farah, Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, July 13, 1998; Page A01 TARAPOA, Ecuador-Second of three articles For two we ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 13 11:18:48 PDT 1998

41214 public sector unionism -- rank: 1000

A question for the labor experts here - what does the growing prominence of public employee unions in the U.S. labor movement mean for its future? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 13 07:40:33 PDT 1998

41215 Overtime (was Re: happy autoworkers) -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because of an address glitch - Doyle, it's gotta be ix.netcom.com, not netcom.com!] Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 13:35:58 -0800 From: Doyle Saylor <djsaylor at netcom.com> Reply-To: djsaylor at netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LBO <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re: Overtime (was Re: happy autoworkers) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello everyone, X writes Saturday 11 July ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 13 07:27:16 PDT 1998

41216 Control by TNC's -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >>The TNCís of the major powers, ( USA EU, etc,) produce 30% of the world >>goods, 70% of world trade, and 80% of world investments. These same TNCís >>direct their investments to 12 specially favored developing countries and >>not to the 48 poorest ones > > >This statement about the "transnationals" was sent to me in a private post. >Is it broadly true? Yeah, looks broadly true, without fact-checking the numbers. There are thous ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 12 11:58:21 PDT 1998

41217 Overtime (was Re: happy autoworkers) -- rank: 1000

Michael Eisenscher wrote: >By comparison, in 1995, the Computer Manufacturing industry employed about >498,000, of whom only 2.1% were union members. Adding other >electronics/information technology mfg. sectors (office equipment, >communications, and instruments...but not aerospace), there were about 1.1 >million workers of whom about 6% overall were union members. In the Silicon >Valley, there is not a single semiconductor or computer manufacturing >facility that is orga ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 12 10:09:03 PDT 1998

41218 PKI in 1965 -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >At any rate, the >on-going subsumption of those old Stalinist regimes under the new >Washington consensus hasn't much stopped the death march, has it? Hardly. Russian male life expectancy is now at late 19th century levels, and the population shrinkage there (and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in Eastern Europe) is without precedent in peacetime. But since you can't point to a demonic Uncle Joe ordering the murders, no systemic judgments are passed. And what abo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 11 11:11:36 PDT 1998

41219 The customer is your enemy, the competition is your friend -- rank: 1000

[this bounced to me] Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 09:45:24 EDT To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Fwd: The customer is your enemy, the competition is your friend Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 76 Just wanted to forward this along, in case anyone missed it.... Jason Subj: The competitor is our friend, the customer is our enemy Date: 98-07-10 15:13:19 EDT From: rob at essential.org (Robert Weissman ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 11 09:19:32 PDT 1998

41220 Should we celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union -- rank: 1000

Andrew Kliman wrote: >Yes, let's do. I'll bring the party hats! Just be sure to leave the party hacks at home! Nathan Newman wrote: >How was the fall of the Soviet Union a disaster for us? Psychologically, >many folks who needed "real existing socialism" to justify their beliefs >were demoralized, but the very existence of Stalinism had done much to >undermine the Left for much of the 20th century. As a socialist, the >basic fact is I have to qualify every self-iden ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 11 09:15:30 PDT 1998