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41356 delay & DeLay -- rank: 1000

Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: >This is one of the reasons that the House >Republicans feel unafraid to vote for impeachment, thereby >getting "the Hammer" Tom DeLay off their backs who has been >threatening everybody with Christian Coalition opponents in >primaries if they don't support impeachment. My window into the Washington right, Weekly Standard & New York Press writer Chris Caldwell, told me the other day that if the impeachment vote were to be delayed by 2-3 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 06:54:14 PST 1998

41357 Billy C -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >On the more general level, why does the left object more to military-based >violence and death than to economic-based sanctions? Who said that Nathan? The sanctions have been brutal, murderous, quasi-genocidal, and Clinton's a shit for perpetuating them - but what do you expect from the chief executive of the world bourgeoisie, eh? But the spectacle of violence is horrible - this absolute jouissance of murder, pure imperial excess - we can bomb you & you're powerl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 17 20:24:47 PST 1998

41358 Billy C -- rank: 1000

Over the last few months I've found myself defending Clinton against the vile creeps who want to impeach him. Having written almost nothing but diatribes against him since 1992, this was a strange feeling. Now, after this attack on Iraq, I think the hell with him. I hope he suffers. Impeach the bastard, humiliate him. Make the U.S. look absurd in the eyes of the world. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 17 13:37:18 PST 1998

41359 joke -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because of an address kink.] Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:36:02 +0000 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: James Heartfield <James at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Subject: RE: Please don't bomb Iraq Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From: Carl Remick <cremick at rlmnet.com> > >Let's not overlook the role of tousle-haired little Tony Blair, >scurrying around the U.S. military juggernaut proving what a staunch >errand boy -- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 17 09:57:42 PST 1998

41360 Lords reverse Lords -- rank: 1000

As if there weren't enough going on the House of Lords has overturned its own decision to turn Pinochet over to the Spanish authorities, because of the Amnesty International connection of one of the judges. They will re-hear the case next month. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 17 09:08:15 PST 1998

41361 Please don't bomb Iraq -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Re Chris's: "The attack on Baghdad is part of a long term skirmishing >for freedom of >manouevre and leadership by the USA among the governments of the world." > >Let's not overlook the role of tousle-haired little Tony Blair, >scurrying around the U.S. military juggernaut proving what a staunch >errand boy -- er, ally -- the U.K. is. Yeah, maybe the Brits on the list can say something about how Blair's towel boy (to use a term from the porn in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 17 07:54:19 PST 1998

41362 AMZN madness -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: > Okay, Mr. "Wall Street" smart guy, when do we go short the 'Net >stock and fund the revolution? If I knew that: 1) I wouldn't be here, and 2) I wouldn't tell you! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 17 07:50:28 PST 1998

41363 DH on ABCNEWS.COM -- rank: 1000

I'm going to be doing a "chat" at 1:00 EST on the ABC News site, which will be mirrored (I think) on TheStreet.com. It looks like the URL will be <http://chat.abcnews.go.com/chat/chat.dll?room=abc_Doug_henwood>. It'd be nice to see some familiar pixels there. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 17 06:56:36 PST 1998

41364 In memory of William Gaddis -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I was saddened this morning to learn of the death of William Gaddis, one >of my literary heroes. IMO, Gaddis's _JR_ is the finest -- certainly >funniest -- novel about American business ever written. Me too; his obit was the first thing I read in the paper this morning (like I really needed to read another article on the two I-words). JR is a great damn book. And a Frolic of His Own is a fine & funny novel about American law, too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 17 06:53:24 PST 1998

41365 Acrobat -- rank: 1000

LBO will begin an electronic subscription option starting with the next ish, #87, which should go to press in about 2 weeks. The format will be Acrobat 3.0 sent as an attachment. Current print subscribers wanting to convert to electronic, let me know; those wanting to subscribe, prices will be $20 for 11 issues, and $36 for 22. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 13:23:00 PST 1998

41366 Al the Bubblemeister -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >We seem to be on the verge of another strike against Iraq AND a possibly >prolonged Senate trial of Clinton lies in wait. Then there are the >still-gathering clouds of global deflation. It's hard to see how the >bubble will keep expanding in the face of all that. >From today's NYT: "To the extent I can tell, this hasn't been on people's radar screens," said Jeffrey Garten, the dean of the Yale School of Management and a former top official in the Co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 13:10:52 PST 1998

41367 Al the Bubblemeister -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >That's why I was a bit shocked to see your last LBO, where you say that >the worst of the crisis may be over. Don't forget all the wimpy qualifiers I packed into that haruspication. And these two paragraphs: Anything can happen. Wall Street could lose its refound nerve and resume late summer's collapse. There could be a run on the dollar, and suddenly the U.S.'s $2 trillion debt could really come due. The debt-driven U.S. consumption boom, which has given us th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 12:43:00 PST 1998

41368 Al the Bubblemeister -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Or why he has refused to just come out and say that stocks are insanely >priced. Oh he did, about 4,000 Dow points ago, and got keelhauled by the media and Congress for doing so. It's ok when Fed policy disemploys construction workers and autoworkers; it's another thing entirely when The Bull Market is at stake. And with about 20 million newly stockowning households in the Bull's camp, it's a serious political problem. An end to the party would have pretty seri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 12:09:38 PST 1998

41369 more madness -- rank: 1000

[TheStreet.com's report on this morning's net madness.] Wednesday's Midday Movers By Aaron L. Task Senior Writer Amazon.com and AOL are soaring, as mentioned above, but they aren't the only Internet names in the stratosphere this morning. Additionally, eBay was up 22 13/16, or 11.8%, to 217, Yahoo! (YHOO:Nasdaq) was higher by 9 1/4, or 4.7%, to 207 1/8, and Books-A-Million (BAMM:Nasdaq) was up 9, or 90%, to 19 1/16. Books-A-Million is up (in part) on news it is going to acquire NetCentral, a Nas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 11:37:30 PST 1998

41370 [PEN-L:1593] George Kennan -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Oh, there were a lot of people who took the ideals of decolonization, >democracy, human rights, and economic development very, very seriously >indeed--practically everyone except the realist cabal in the State >Department, in fact. An administration that believed that "we should cease >to talk about vague and...unreal objectives such as human rights, the >raising of living standards, and democratization" wouldn't have pursued the >Marshall Plan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 10:30:05 PST 1998