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41551 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Re: Asia Melts... > >"At a press conference in 1995, when WBAI/Pacifica reporter Amy Goodman >asked World Bank president James Wolfensohn if the Bank was going to make >loans to Indonesia conditional on ending human rights violations, the smart >and worldly Wolfensohn said, incredibly, that it was the first he'd heard >of them." > >Remarkable. > >Absolutely remarkable. > >And the White House picked Wolfensohn as its World Bank ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 31 09:09:08 PDT 1998

41552 List Volume -- rank: 1000

Andrew Kliman wrote: >I just came across the best argument for further controlling the volume on >this list, in a business publication to which I subscribe. The author, one >Doug Henwood, writes: > >"In [TV] news, then, speed of thought and language are prized, meaning, says >Bourdieu, no real communication can take place. Real communication, and >real thought, take time; what can be done in an instant is only to pay >homage to received ideas. TV loves ... 'fast t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 30 23:07:46 PDT 1998

41553 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

I've just added two articles to the LBO web site <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>, one on the Asian collapse and one on European Monetary Union. Both are clickable from the first screen, and are sprinkled with links and graphics. Plus updated U.S. employment, unemployment, and earnings stats. Is the long real wage decline over? Slightly spiffier appearance here & there, too. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 30 17:57:38 PDT 1998

41554 abortion litmus test -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >In my political tent, I would trade 100 middle-class >pro-choicers for 100 Catholic pro-lifers who supported >aid to the poor in preference to what we have now or what >we had three years ago. Do Catholic pro-lifers score high on care for the poor? What's the gender gap in the abortion polls? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 29 19:04:06 PDT 1998

41555 volume -- rank: 1000

I'm enjoying this list tremendously, but could we temper the volume a bit? Please don't quote long posts for a one-line comment, and please limit yourself to no more than 2-3 posts a day. I like the volume, but lots of people don't. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 29 11:21:36 PDT 1998

41556 Invention of the white race // Rakesh on eugenics -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >R-squared per se may or may not be indicative of the 'scientific value' of >the finding. I agree with all you said. My only point, lifted from Gould, was that their strongest case was able to explain 5% of social outcomes, which is pretty useless. On their own terms it's bullshit. Their own terms are even more bullshit than their stats, but I don't think anyone here would disagree. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 29 11:16:48 PDT 1998

41557 bourgeois internationalism -- rank: 1000

A press release from the Cato Institute begins: >May 29, 1998 > >Cato Institute launches Spanish-language Internet Web site >Institute's ideas attracting growing interest in Latin America and Spain > >The Cato Institute today launched a new Spanish-language Web >site-www.elcato.org <http://www.elcato.org>-featuring essays and studies >produced by Cato scholars on a wide range of issues, many of which are of >particular importance to Latin Americans, Spaniards, an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 29 09:40:19 PDT 1998

41558 Invention of the white race // Rakesh on eugenics -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >With the hegemony of neoliberalism and the severe erosion of what little >elements of the 'welfare state' that the USA has ever developed, the ruling >class in America is in need of a new emphasis on geneticism and biologism. Not Clinton though. The White House is holding practically daily welfare-to-work heroism events. There is much cheering that the 10,000 or so ex-welfare recipients who've been hired by Big Biz in Big Bill's PR scheme report excellent retent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 16:54:33 PDT 1998

41559 Invention of the white race // Rakesh on eugenics -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >What Jensen & Co. do is not much different for what passes for standard >fare in economics: applying sophisticated mathematical models to bullshit >data (the Garbage In Garbage Out syndrome). In fact, these folks use >scientific jargon and technical mumbo-jumbo to cover the glaring emprical >emptiness of their thought. As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in his review of the Bell Curve in The New Yorker, that if, as they argue, IQ explains 50% of socia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 16:08:59 PDT 1998

41560 FYI: Bill Gates, from riches to riches -- rank: 1000

Kirsten Neilsen wrote: >so no wall street journal or nyt either? Not if Bob Bartley sends it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 09:08:59 PDT 1998

41561 FYI: Bill Gates, from riches to riches -- rank: 1000

Michael Eisenscher wrote: >As someone who is not particularly fond of sectarian harangues but who does >repost articles I believe might be of some interest, I'd like to question >your judgment on this one. While the article does conclude with a fairly >standard (and boring) bit of dogmatic editorializing, the article provided >some insight into Gates's history I had not seen published elsewhere. While >it's your judgment call, and I respect your desire to keep the list from & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 09:03:58 PDT 1998

41562 dorks, again -- rank: 1000

Expanding on this profoundly important dork theme... In the June issue of the dreadful magazine George, the dreadful Naomi Wolf explains: "Though Gore may have discovered common ground with a generation of voters who are young enough to be his children, the elite media dismiss his global Americanism [this concept was first introduced in the piece as a new "American globalism," but it somehow got reversed by the second page] at every turn. In a piece called 'Cranks for Veep,' New Y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 08:26:32 PDT 1998

41563 Define A Dork -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >Can you identify 1 president who was not a dork? Working backwards, Clinton, Reagan, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 08:12:22 PDT 1998

41564 trash v. hicks -- rank: 1000

The following from Kelley Crouse bounced... X-Sender: kcwalker at MAILBOX.syr.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 05:17:50 -0400 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Kelley Crouse <kcwalker at syr.edu> Subject: Re: Michael Moore Responds In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980528112156.00e5c550 at pop.qut.edu.au> References: <709be5f0.356c838f at aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:21 AM 5 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 07:18:09 PDT 1998

41565 FYI: Bill Gates, from riches to riches -- rank: 1000

<JAZZ at wwpublish.com> wrote: >------------------------- >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the June 4, 1998 >issue of Workers World newspaper >------------------------- > >FROM RICHES TO RICHES: BILL GATES & THE MICROSOFT MONOPOLY > >By Gary Wilson [etc.] My apologies to all for this. Broadcasts from sectarian newspapers aren't welcome here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 06:29:35 PDT 1998