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31996 FW: WHICH ROAD TO QATAR: FOOD FIRST OR EXPORT FIRST? -- rank: 1000

Vandana Shiva wrote: The "Shrink or Sink" School anti-globalisation movement on the other hand views the way forward as based on a turnaround and shrinkage of the globalisation agenda. "No new Round-Turnaround" and "W.T.O. - sink or shrink" were the civil society calls for the Seattle and Qatar Ministerials respectively. Who the hell is "civil society"? Surely it's not Hegel's, which "affords a spectacle of extravagance and want as well as of the phys ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 30 10:33:12 PDT 2001

31997 Christian Coalition accused of racial bias -- rank: 1000

[CNS = Christian News Service] Employees Accuse Christian Coalition of Discrimination By Christine Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer June 25, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - The Christian Coalition has been accused of racial discrimination by 13 current and former employees who have taken their claim to federal court. According to the plaintiffs' attorney, black clerical workers were asked to enter the office through a back door, segregated into a separate lunch area and excluded from inaugural celebrations an ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 10:11:36 PDT 2001

31998 Tibet -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >I know similarly diddly about Tibet, but my encounters with the >misty-eyed Tibet >enthusiasts I've met leave me with a strong suspicion of them as a >particularly >typical American irrationalist phenomenon. They seem to know hardly more about >Tibet than I do, but for them it seems to be the land of >transcendence, simple, >pure, etc. The reviews of Orville Schell's book seemed to support this >impression as I recall. There's a prett ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 10:00:12 PDT 2001

31999 Mayer on Fed -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >Is this still the case, Doug? Would televising >meetings force the board's hand, and would it still be >worth a glimpse into the mentality of power, as a >venue that severely circumscribed the Fed's ability to >manipulate it (not to say TV's an innocent medium)? >Could business be done by other means? > >The number of people who would watch it is another >matter entirely. Well, like I said towards the end of Wall Street: >Financial populists o ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 09:19:36 PDT 2001

32000 half full or half empty -- rank: 1000

[TheStandard.com itself is still alive. Barely.] At 6:00 PM -0700 6/29/01, The Industry Standard wrote: >Dot-Com Survivors >By Miguel Helft >Internet retailers aren't dead. At least not all of them. A study by >The Standard shows that half of all dot-coms are still alive - and >another 16% remain in business after being acquired. >http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27593,00.html?nl=int

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Date:	Sat Jun 30 09:25:07 PDT 2001

32001 Kemp on gold -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 28, 2001 Our Economy Needs A Golden Anchor By Jack Kemp. Mr. Kemp, co-director of Empower America, was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1996. How many more dashed hopes and false recoveries must we experience before politicians and monetary authorities accept the fact that our inability to manage fiat currencies is causing the global economic slowdown? They keep waiting for interest-rate reductions to kick in, yet more than six months after the Fed began low ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 28 11:22:57 PDT 2001

32002 Fwd: The God That Sucked -- rank: 1000

[Tom Frank writes...] Doug: Here is an e-mail for LBO talk, if you think this kind of self-promotion is acceptable. LBO-ers: A funny story from the new Baffler, "The God That Sucked," can be found here. http://www.thebaffler.com/glenn.html Tom Frank

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Date:	Thu Jun 28 08:31:04 PDT 2001

32003 Fwd: FBI Labels Reclaim The Streets "Terrorists" -- rank: 1000

Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://www.rtsnyc.org Is Dancing Terrorism? by PB Floyd Slingshot FBI brands Reclaim the Streets as "terrorists" - what the fuck have they been smoking?! In another sign that the growing anti-capitalist, anarchist, anti-car movement is gaining effectiveness, the FBI recently listed Reclaim the Streets amongst the "Threats of Terrorism to the United States." In a May 10 statement before the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services and Selec ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 15:14:34 PDT 2001

32004 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Shooting fish in a barrel does not contribute to clarity in political >discussion. I'm kind of nostalgic for Suck's slogan - "a fish, a barrel, a smoking gun." Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 11:51:14 PDT 2001

32005 Fed lowers rates by 25bp -- rank: 1000

[25 basis points - 0.25 percentage point - is half what the markets were generally expecting; let's see if they get all sad and droopy now. Still, the language leaves them open to further easing down the road.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2001/20010627/default.htm> Release Date: June 27, 2001 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting today decided to lower its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3-3/4 percent. In a ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 11:32:05 PDT 2001

32006 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Brad Mayer wrote: >> >> >up, always said that the USA is just a successful Nazism, >>mellowed by victory. >> >> Right. That's why you're allowed to say this, instead of being >> confined to a Texas Auschwitz. >> > >Why pick on a careless phrase and deflect the core of Brad's post, and >the post from me that he was responding to, which concerned the >_foreign_ policy of the U.S ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 10:47:23 PDT 2001

32007 vegetarianism -- rank: 1000

Vegetarianism attracts the most surprising promoters. This week's NY Press contains an interview by Andre Slivka with Bernie Goetz, the famed subway shooter, who's now running for mayor (but if he won, he'd let Rudy run the city). An excerpt (the full story is at <http://www.nypress.com/14/26/news&columns/feature.cfm>): >Goetz bends his head to the side, and a feline self-satisfaction >plays across his face. > >"For hundreds of millions of years - for billions of years ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 10:41:18 PDT 2001

32008 declning quality of teachers -- rank: 1000

[Leo, anyone else - comments on this?] "The Declining Quality of Teachers" BY: DARIUS LAKDAWALLA RAND, Santa Monica National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) University of Chicago Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=268344 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W8263 Date: April 2001 Contact: DARIUS LAKDAWALLA Email: Mailto:Darius_Lakdwalla at rand.org Postal: RAND, Santa Monica 1700 Main ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 09:06:29 PDT 2001

32009 Fwd: Condemn PNG Government killing of protesters -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:00:13 +1000 From: DSP <intl at dsp.org.au> Dear Comrades, On Tuesday June 26 the Papua New Guinea government shot dead three students and wounded 17 others who were protesting against the IMF and World Bank, which is forcing a harsh privatisation regime on the country. This is a further escalation of the violence against anti-globalisation protesters that we we saw in Gothenburg, and demands an immediate response from progressive forces around the world. Attached ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 06:32:09 PDT 2001

32010 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: > --- Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote: > >> >> >> CB: I agree with Carrol on defining fascism more rigorously , and not fast >> and loose: the openly terrorist rule of the most chauvinist, reactionary >> sectors of finance capital. >> > >Why _finance_ capital? Finance is typically far more open and international >than industrial capital; it has a lot more to lose from autarky and less to &g ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 06:24:34 PDT 2001