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29791 Interview with Hardt; My two cents on P.A. -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> >> >> It's not over yet, you know. W & Co. could be fighting a rear-guard >> battle. > >I'm not clear what you mean here. Are you saying that the U.S. may be >losing its unchallenged global hegemony? That is, are you claiming the >date is 1890 and we are moving towards a replay of WW 1 between >imperialist powers? Not at all. But Bush represents only a portion of the U.S. ruling class (loo ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 3 09:17:42 PST 2002

29792 Interview with Hardt; My two cents on P.A. -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >Hardt should try reading the papers instead of Dutch sociologists: The EU >and NATO have spoken out against US intentions of widening the war. The EU >has condemned the treatment of Taliban POW's. EU countries are constantly >complaining about US unilateralism. The US is going out of its way to >undermine treaties and other legal institutions devised for managing >globalization. The US surplus-become-deficit is threatening global economic >recovery. ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 2 13:03:15 PST 2002

29793 The Superbowl and the Stock Market -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Wasn't the rise of the Wonderbra, and all it contained, cotemporal with >the very middle the 90s bull market? Not exactly. According to the official history at <http://www.wonderbra.co.uk/uk/Walk.asp>: >Up until the early 90's, Wonderbra was primarily a single style >brand and was 'the original push-up and plunge bra'. However, in >1992, the fashionable image of women changed from the lean, hungry >look to one of voluptuous womanly curves. Clothes w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 2 12:53:37 PST 2002

29794 Make A Shorter Link -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >So for example, Left Business Observer link: >http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html > >Becomes >http://makeashorterlink.com/?N18B25D5 It's also <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 2 12:22:23 PST 2002

29795 The Superbowl and the Stock Market -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >If one conference wins most of the time and the market tends to increase, >then a correlation is not particularly informative -- even if it did make >sense. Doug knows that people have found correlations with hemlines and >all sorts of junk. The football correlation is just that - a correlation, with no explanation behind it. The hemlines thing isn't so random. The theory is that hemlines rise in exuberant times, as does the stock market, and fall in gloomie ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 14:23:27 PST 2002

29796 LOB Jeopardy -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 09:54 AM 1/28/02 -0500, Kelley wrote: >>An estimated 800 million copies this book have been published. It >>ranks second after the Bible. > > >the answer, lamers, is What is Mao's Little Red Book? How about the Koran? What's it sold? Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 12:02:28 PST 2002

29797 Fwd: The War against Democrats -- rank: 1000

The War against Democrats a message from GWBush.com Here's GWBush.com's translation of Bush's State of the Union address: "I will be a two-term president, even if I have to start World War III." Axis of Evil? That's about as ridiculous as the time Reagan said socialist Nicaragua had the "largest standing army in the world and is only a three-day march from the Texas border." Let's try to think rationally about this new Axis of Evil which so threatens the Fatherland: North Kor ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 11:56:38 PST 2002

29798 pret a revolter -- rank: 1000

Direct Action fashion: <http://www.sindominio.net/fiambrera/web-agencias/paginas/index/indexPRETA.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 11:33:32 PST 2002

29799 Why We Are Not Making Demands of the World Economic Forum -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I remember Doug saying in a discussion not long after Seattle that things >would have turned out differently in New York because it was so much >bigger and had so many more cops. 6,000 last I heard, plus feds and >private security firms. They had something like 1,200 cops in Seattle - the whole police force. The NYPD is deploying almost 4,000 a day for the WEF. At the end of WTO week, I went up to a bunch of Seattle cops and said, "I'm from New York, and ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 08:20:05 PST 2002

29800 Negri on PA [edited] -- rank: 1000

Andrew Flood wrote: > > >Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:12:09 -0600 >>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> >>Subject: Re: Negri on PA [edited] > >>> Negri: >>> > >Nationalism is a form that is no longer functional. >>> >And sovereignty is a dangerous illusion." > >>Translated into demotic English: TINA. > >Oh come on Carrol, I've just finished Empire and whether >or not you think its useful its clearly an a ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 08:12:16 PST 2002

29801 ENE & Harvard -- rank: 1000

[I've always wondered how Yale maanges to get markedly superior returns on its endowment year after year. Do alums thrown them sweet deals?] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 1, 2002 Harvard Watchdog Group Calls for Inquiry Into Ties Among Endowment Overseers, Enron, and Fund Manager By JOHN L. PULLEY Citing an intimate web of relationships connecting the Enron Corporation, Harvard University's endowment, and a star hedge-fund manager who invests money for the university, a st ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 08:08:52 PST 2002

29802 Afghanistan Loses UN Vote Over $4,600 in Unpaid Dues -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Afghanistan Loses UN Vote Over $4,600 in Unpaid Dues What about the U.S.? Aren't we hundreds of millions behind? Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 07:58:19 PST 2002

29803 Offlist Re: Venezuelan strike beginning to fail -- rank: 1000

David Schanoes wrote: >Then maybe I missed some of the exchanges, but as near as I can figure, I >didn't see any criticism of Lugar/Powell decision; Jesus H Christ, the guy said that the best we could hope for right now was that the saner forces in the Rep party might keep the extremists from wilding across the globe. It's not like an endorsement. > didn't see any criticism >of the whole idea of baby-boomers, etc. I could swear I did. >I don't know how many Americans do or don't ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 31 13:29:21 PST 2002

29804 Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Why then do the Democrats and the Republicans include more blacks >and other people of color than anarchists do? I suspect that an anti-government message doesn't always play well among poorer people who look to government for social benefits and public education - and some years back, to federal troops to overpower racist state and local officials. Yes, police brutality could inspire antistate attitudes, but poorer nonwhite people also complain about how cops igno ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 31 12:52:59 PST 2002

29805 Sharon vs. the rabbis -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - December 31, 2002 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,866857,00.html> Sharon takes on rabbis over Jewish identity Rabbis say that up to 70% of the arrivals to Israel are not Jewish Chris McGreal in Jerusalem Ariel Sharon has called on religious leaders to make it easier to become a Jew to revive the immigration that provides a buffer to the burgeoning Arab population. The prime minister's remarks follow a call by one of his own cabinet for a ban on immigratio ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 31 12:41:30 PST 2002