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391 PDS criticises SED formation -- rank: 1000

At 20/04/01 16:50 +0200, Johannes wrote: >I think you got the meaning quite well. Thanks for the FAZ report. I had not realised that "gewollt" meant forced, and not necessarily "wanted". That makes their title much more direct and less nuanced. >SPD General Secretary Franz Müntefering said the PDS had "fulfilled a >long-standing, justified demand by the SPD." The "gesture of apology" came >"just as late as it was necessary" and was &q ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Apr 22 15:11:03 PDT 2001

392 LBO-talk called top of NASDAQ????? -- rank: 1000

I think Rob is on holiday, enjoying his newly liberated liquid assets. Chris At 19/04/01 18:05 +0100, you wrote: >A bit of an update on the "Schaap indicator", first advanced on >this list in October 2000. > >http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0010/0654.html > >On Oct 11 2000, with the NASDAQ composite at 3168.49, Rob >wrote: > >"I could no doubt sell it for millions, but I'm a good lefty, >so I'm gonna let you in on it for nuthin'. It's called the Rob &g ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 19 15:37:28 PDT 2001

393 PDS criticises SED formation -- rank: 1000

No doubt its critics will see this as a further step in the PDS accommodating itself the possibility of working parallel with the Social Democratic Party. Yesterday the party chairperson, Gabriele Zimmer and the chair of the Berlin region of the Party of Democratic Socialism Petra Pau issued a press statement criticising the way in which the KPD and the Social Democrats were united into the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the eastern portion of Germany in 1946. They criticise what they call the p ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 19 15:31:08 PDT 2001

394 FOMC release -- rank: 1000

At 18/04/01 15:45 -0400, you wrote: >[Greenspan, FROP theorist.] > ><http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Press/General/2001/20010418/default.htm> > >Release Date: April 18, 2001 Yes, how is this going to help the falling rate of profit? Unless the calculation lies in >the risk of slower growth abroad which means that there is no alternative spender of last resort in the global economy - the role that the USA kindly supplied at the time of the Asian financial crisis, w ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 18 22:50:31 PDT 2001

395 Wolfe and Qualitative Research -- rank: 1000

I am a late-comer to this intellectual feast, but I was interested that the NYT review that Michael tracked down was mainly angled to emphasise the weakness of the Conservative Right. Probably a very tactical piece, but that goal at least may be worth it. Focussing analysis on suburban "middle class" America is probably important for limiting the scope of the new Bush regime, for finding its weaknesses, and blunting its confidence. Disappointing and disliked though Alan Wolfe may be, i ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 16 23:26:03 PDT 2001

396 CP Women's equality conference -- rank: 1000

At 12:55 16/04/01 -0400, you wrote: > >>> jplst15+ at pitt.edu 04/13/01 09:24PM >>> >Charles Brown writes: > > >CB: So your responses to the women's equality > > statement is "girls just want to have fun " ? > >Um, no, Charles. The pamphlet I was referencing is sixty years old. I >haven't said anything about the CPUSA's Women's Equality Conference of 2001. > >(((((((((( > >CB: I know you were referencing something from the 1 ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 16 14:25:22 PDT 2001

397 CP Women's equality conference -- rank: 1000

At 14:41 12/04/01 -0400, you wrote: >The Struggle for Democracy: A Discussion > > > >Remarks to Women's Equality Conference > >By Sam Webb, national chairman Communist Party USA >The lesson of the 2000 election campaign is that the struggle for women's >equality is inextricably bound up with the broader struggles against the >right-wing corporate agenda and for democracy. No movement and no section >of our nation's people are in a position to go it alone. > &g ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Apr 12 23:00:57 PDT 2001

398 So called "debt Relief" -- rank: 1000

At 15:36 11/04/01 +0000, you wrote: > > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 06:25:24 +0100 > > From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> > > This item (below) illustrates concisely that a system of redistributing > > money as if it were charity will always fail... > >This part of your argument is ok, Chris. Thanks Pat. >Chuck out the rest of it, >ok? Well, naturally not. How could I be persuaded by this suggestion, however friendly? >No foreig ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Apr 11 22:22:43 PDT 2001

399 Turner forced out of CNN by money men -- rank: 1000

From this Sunday's Observer (UK) Ted Turner, the most voluble and compelling media titan of his time, now cuts a ghostly figure. In the last month, the billionaire founder of CNN, erstwhile husband of Jane Fonda, the largest private landowner in the US, environmental campaigner, United Nations benefactor, yachtsman, and irrepressible loud mouth, has been cut adrift from the US media empire he created by rivals with no tolerance for an outspoken individualist. Three years ago, Turner sold TBS, th ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Apr 11 16:12:25 PDT 2001

400 Boycotting Coca-Cola for Kyoto -- rank: 1000

Apr 11, 2001 UK A cross-party committee of MPs yesterday launched an unprecedented campaign to persuade Coca-Cola's customers around the world to strongarm the global soft drinks company into backing the Kyoto protocols against global warming.

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Apr 11 16:06:51 PDT 2001

401 So called "debt Relief" -- rank: 1000

This item (below) illustrates concisely that a system of redistributing money as if it were charity will always fail. We live in a total global economy in which the ability of some countries to accumulate surplus is as much a part of the global market as the inability of other countries not to go into debt. It is indeed a zero sum game because the finite limiting factor is the amount of exchange value in the world, as predicted by the marxist law of value. Yes it is good that campaigners campaig ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Apr 10 22:25:24 PDT 2001

402 Charter 99 for Global Democracy -- rank: 1000

http://www.charter99.org/index.html Another reformist plan to distract the people of the world from true (marxist) revolution. Why can't they just let the real revolutionists get on with it? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 14:34:54 PDT 2001

403 what the pigs are up to -- rank: 1000

At 14:28 06/04/01 -0400, you wrote: ><http://trac.syr.edu> >Comprehensive federal employment data show that the number of FBI >intelligence officers >almost quintupled during the Clinton years, jumping from 224 in 1992 to >1,025 in 1999. The >actual duties of the intelligence officers are not known. What were they probably doing? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Fri Apr 6 12:43:58 PDT 2001

404 Marx's value theory (reply to Shane Mage) -- rank: 1000

At 19:46 04/04/01 -0700, Rakesh wrote: (with scholarly courtesy, leading up to this distinction) >That is, your interpretation makes it impossible for you to explain why >Marx says there are two reasons why the value and price of production of a >commodity differs. I have found Shane Mage's recent references to Marx concise, pertinent and non-dogmatic. I assume that his quotation from Heraclitus in the signature line is a signal of the importance of dialectics in interpreting all this. ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 4 22:08:46 PDT 2001

405 Rude Russians look in horse's mouth -- rank: 1000

From the Economist weekly review: (Don't these Russians realise they are about to have a nuclear missile shield built over them?) >>> NO THANKS RUSSIA rejected a short-term loan facility from the International Monetary Fund, saying that it did not need the money and that it did not want to be under the "constant control" of the IMF. The IMF had offered Russia a precautionary credit facility in exchange for new policies such as tightened supervision of the banking system.

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Date:	Sun Apr 1 07:21:55 PDT 2001