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41566 the politics of food -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I really wish we could drop this discussion about the culinary delights of >the East Bay. Ultra Lucca was really the last straw. I am already injured >and suffering. What next? Market Hall, Le Cheval, Cafe Rustica, Kirala's, >Vik's chat house, Oakland Chinatown? Suffice to say, something's not quite >right with the average palate out here. Velveeta on your brussel sprouts, >anyone? Hey, Rakesh, you're in *New Jersey*! Come into the big city if your palat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 18 08:08:27 PDT 1998

41567 the politics of food -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >But let me defend the honor of Berkeley: "foofy food masquerading as >progressive politics" indeed! I've never yet heard anyone claim that going >to Chez Panisse transforms anything other than your stomach... A few years ago when I was visiting Berkeley, my host enthused about Alice Waters' conviction that growing exotic lettuces would transform the consciousness and life circumstances of the urban poor. >Andronicos, however, is very close to my image o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 17 21:07:17 PDT 1998

41568 Jones, part 2 -- rank: 1000

[part 2 of Mark Jones] This is the real significance of the disarray and confusion now visible in the councils of imperialism. The stench of decay is growing; the dissolution of world-capitalism's structures and institutions is profound and unstoppable and therefore it will be the proletariat which will increasingly make the political running, as the crisis continues to deepen and the inexorable decomposition of morbid capitalism, the gangrene which has already begun to kill off its extremities, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 17 13:39:06 PDT 1998

41569 Jones, part 1 -- rank: 1000

[another Mark Jones missive bounced for excessive length - here it is in two parts - Mark, remember, 30k maximum per post] Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 20:20:01 +0100 From: Mark Jones <Jones_M at netcomuk.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Crisis in Russia heralds new stage References: <l03130300b1fe099bfca8@[166.84.250.86]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 17 13:38:34 PDT 1998

41570 the global melodrama -- rank: 1000

James Devine wrote: >>... So I'm wondering if the world's central bankers really *want* this >deflation to run its course.< > >they did in 1930. Can we draw any conclusions from that experience relevant to today? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 17 13:28:16 PDT 1998

41571 Mumia's guilt -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Vegetarianism jeopardizes your status >as an authentic left-con, but we are >broad-minded so we will make an exception >if you stay away from yuppie vegetables >like arugula and hearts of palm. Max, hearts of palm is so 70s. Or is Washington just in its own time warp? Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 13:24:14 PDT 1998

41572 the global melodrama -- rank: 1000

Today's Wall Street Journal reports: "The impact of a Russian devaluation 'would be disastrous,' said David Malpass, chief international economist at Bear Stearns in New York in a note to clients last week, as it would set off another cycle of competitive devaluations and put pressure on emerging markets globally. Eastern Europe, Turkey and India would be badly hurt, while a ruble devaluation would 'create another price shock on commodities,' given that Russia is a major oil and natural gas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 17 09:45:10 PDT 1998

41573 Jubilee 2000, one more time -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I'm disappointed but not surprised there has been no reaction on the LBO >list to my Friday posting >on Jubilee 2000, a proposal to cancel all the external debts of the >world's poorest nations by 2000. I ask for a second (and final) hearing >on this proposal. This isn't an idee fixe with me, and I don't want to >come across as a crank. However, I think massive LDC debt relief like >this is a great idea in terms of both substance and politics, viz.: &g ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 08:29:35 PDT 1998

41574 U.S. external debt -- rank: 1000

James Devine wrote: >the parenthetical remark asks: is it a stock or a flow magnitude that you >presented, Doug? Stock. U.S. residents' external assets less foreigners' claims on U.S. residents. Just debt - it excludes foreign direct investment. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 17 07:02:06 PDT 1998

41575 Another satisfied customer... -- rank: 1000

James Baird forwarded some comments from Amazon.com: >For those of us who know better, this book is like a New York Times >crossword puzzle. Immensely entertaining and testing but substantially >deviod of meaning. Henwood has half-learned most everything he writes >about here. Unfortunately many laymen won't be able to distinguish the >few piercing insights in this >book from the river of drivel from which they must be plucked. A little >knowledge is a dangerous thing, indee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 16 20:50:38 PDT 1998

41576 U.S. external debt -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Can these figures be adjusted for inflation? Or is that unnecessary? If >so, why? > >I guess I'm asking how these figures could be (if they can be) used for >casual agitational purposes. They could be expressed as a % of GDP, but I'm going to wait until the next LBO to do that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 16 17:47:28 PDT 1998

41577 U.S. external debt -- rank: 1000

I just got around to plugging the June flow of funds numbers into my various spreadsheets, and discovered, to my amazement, that as of the first quarter of 1998, the U.S. net credit market debt position with the outside world was -$1.77 trillion dollars. Good thing it's a new era - might be worrisome otherwise. Doug ---- US CREDIT MARKET POSITION WITH REST OF WORLD (billions of dollars) net assets liabilities 1952 10.0 15.0 5.0 1953 10.2 15.7 5.6 1954 1 ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 16 16:14:30 PDT 1998

41578 under-35s -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >On the other hand, the students who I teach here at the U of O -- 18-22 >year-olds, generally speaking -- really do have no idea of what the Cold >War was about. And when I tell 'em, they get pissed off at the Right: I >gave them a George Will column condemning Alger Hiss as a Commie pinko, >and then the facts of the case, and hey presto -- the little >light bulbs went on. What do they think of Phil Knight, those Oregon kiddies? A few months ago, I got ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 16 09:32:43 PDT 1998

41579 Heartfield's red youth -- rank: 1000

[another bounce] Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 10:49:35 +0100 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Jim heartfield <Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: under-35s In-Reply-To: <l03130301b1fc0b179f02@[166.84.250.86]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 <74W2kiRljMZBzdLwRmnMvYWx62> In message <l03130301b1fc0b179f02@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >So Frances Bolton grew up without Commies being demonized? Anyone else ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 16 08:44:24 PDT 1998

41580 JH to Ibiza -- rank: 1000

[this bounced] Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 10:34:53 +0100 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Cc: list <leninist-international at buo319b.econ.utah.edu> From: Jim heartfield <Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: THE MASSIVE MOVEMENT TO MARGINALIZE THE MODERN MALTHUSIAN MESSAGE 1of3 In-Reply-To: <35D5A785.4EB57A9A at netcomuk.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 <74W2kiRljMZBzdLwRmnMvYWx62> In message <35D5A785.4EB57A9A at netcomuk.co.uk>, Mark ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 16 08:43:41 PDT 1998