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32026 Fwd: Barcelona: Police provoke violence with staged fights (AP) -- rank: 1000

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=48820&group=webcast According to AP Police Starts Riot in Barcelona BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Riot police made what appeared to be an unprovoked attack Sunday on anti-globalization protesters gathered in a city park following a midday march down a main boulevard. At least 32 people were slightly injured and 19 were arrested. Thousands of screaming and shouting demonstrators, some with small children, fled in panic as the police pushed into the cro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 25 08:00:23 PDT 2001

32027 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >If this article's info on China's eugenics is accurate, China is moving from >merely authoritarian capitalistism towards full-out fascism. Folks can >dismiss this as enemy propaganda - which it may be - but given well >documented reports of union leaders being sent to mental hospitals, the >crushing of heterodox religionists, and the authoritian promotion of >capitalists allied to the party hierarchy, it starts to look like any word >other than "f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 25 07:42:31 PDT 2001

32028 In Latin Economies, a Sinking Feeling -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >He laughed and said, Brazil plus Mexico >plus Argentina would have the economic muscle for a regional cartel, the >question is what do you put into place instead of the current neoliberal >madness. Yeah, that's the thing to think about, more than reconstructing nationalist/protectionist states of yore. A common front on debt and other political issues, trade links, development finance institutions, sectoral specializations, unions.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 23 10:16:42 PDT 2001

32029 Fwd: The FBI and Ken Ford -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:35:24 -0400 From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> An open letter from Pacifica historian Matthew Lasar. Board members report receiving Ford's letter directly. --efs =============================== To: Ken Ford, Pacifica Foundation Re: The Federal Bureau of Investigation June 23, 2001 A message has come to my attention, purporting to come from you, in which you ask members of the Pacifica Governing Board to send what they experience as distressing listen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 23 09:40:46 PDT 2001

32030 What is 'Neo-Liberalism' -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi quoted: >================================================= >TABLE 1 >CHILE - GDP GROWTH FROM 1941 > >PERIOD TOTAL GROWTH IN PERIOD (16 YEARS) > >1941 - 1956 74.14% >1957 - 1972 74.57% >1974 - 1989 61.35% > >SOURCE: ECLA, IMF, World Bank, several years and table A in the >statistical appendix >================================================== You can play lots of games with this sort of thing - and you get a different picture after 1989 (i. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 22 15:06:43 PDT 2001

32031 subjects wanted -- rank: 1000

Kenneth MacKendrick wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>My office mate Alissa Quart is looking to interview kids & >>teenagers who play video games. Anyone with ideas, please contact >>her at <alissa_quart at yahoo.com>. >> >>Doug > > >What about us grow-ups? I'm still trying to figure out my learning >curve on Tekken 3 and faithfully play Twisted Metal II between >editing, reading and writing. No, you're too old, sorry. It's for a story a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 22 14:37:18 PDT 2001

32032 subjects wanted -- rank: 1000

My office mate Alissa Quart is looking to interview kids & teenagers who play video games. Anyone with ideas, please contact her at <alissa_quart at yahoo.com>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 22 13:18:44 PDT 2001

32033 stink -- rank: 1000

SOUTH PARK'S USE OF BATHROOM LANGUAGE IS ANOTHER REASON FOR CONGRESS TO EXTEND BROADCAST DECENCY LAW TO BASIC CABLE AND TO EXTEND ITS COVERAGE TO MIDNIGHT NEW YORK (22 June 2001) - Comedy Central aired an original episode of "South Park" this week (20 June) in which the common four-letter word for fecal matter was used 162 times in the show's half-hour. This was an average of more than seven times a minute in the show's 22 minutes of program time. Morality in Media President Robert W. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 22 12:44:06 PDT 2001

32034 What is 'Neo-Liberalism' -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Isn't it time to admit that Chile's *economic* development strategy >over the past thirty years has been, broadly, a success? Chilean per >capita GDP has doubled since 1980--and increases in inequality have >been modest... Brad, I don't like it when people bait you as some sort of crypto-fascist, but really - do you think rounding up people in soccer stadiums and killing them is a good foundational economic development strategy? I haven't even mentioned the privat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 22 08:41:46 PDT 2001

32035 Fwd: Marxian Philosophy of History -- rank: 1000

X-From_: LeoCasey at aol.com Thu Jun 21 22:51:32 2001 From: LeoCasey at aol.com Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:51:26 EDT Subject: Marxian Philosophy of History To: dhenwood at panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Doug: I am at home, where I can not get this apparatus that is supposed to translate to plain text to work here. Could you please forward this to LBO-Talk for me? Leo Todd: I think your questions, reproduced below, are important question. But to be honest, my first impulse was not to answer them. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 22 08:18:16 PDT 2001

32036 Fwd: BBC News EUROPE Body bags stockpiled for Genoa summit -- rank: 1000

[How to read this? Are the authorities trying to talk up violence to discredit protests? Should we take this at face value?] <http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/europe/newsid_1400000/1400554.stm> Thursday, 21 June, 2001, 13:09 GMT 14:09 UK Body bags stockpiled for Genoa summit Italian authorities have ordered 200 body bags as they step up preparations for a violent confrontation at next month's G8 summit in Genoa, say Italian media reports. A room at the city's hospital will also be s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 22 08:17:17 PDT 2001

32037 cyberspanking the Bank -- rank: 1000

The Age (Melbourne) - June 22, 2001 Anti-globalisation battle shifts into cyberspace By MARK RILEY The anti-globalisation battleground is set to shift into cyberspace as the World Bank prepares to open a major conference online to avoid another round of mass street demonstrations. Protest groups have warned they are planning to sabotage the virtual conference with a campaign of cyber-terrorism that will be just as disruptive as their violent marches. The World Bank had originally planned to hold ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 22 06:14:56 PDT 2001

32038 Fwd: Gary Null's BAI "Investigation" -- rank: 1000

X-From_: efsutton at earthlink.net Thu Jun 21 22:29:27 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:25:55 -0400 To: efsutton at earthlink.net From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> Subject: Gary Null's BAI "Investigation" PLEASE POST It was just announced on WBAI that tomorrow (Friday, 6/22) from 12 noon to 1:00 pm on Gary Null's "Natural Living" program will be the first of a 3-part series on "the situation at WBAI," which means that parts 2 and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 21 21:53:05 PDT 2001

32039 Fed wonders - where's the rebound -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >But... but... they don't *want* a higher stock market Now they do. Sorta. Just not too much higher. Quoting from the last FOMC release (Apr 18) <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2001/20010418/default.htm>: >Nonetheless, capital investment has continued to soften and the >persistent erosion in current and expected profitability, in >combination with rising uncertainty about the business outlook, >seems poised to dampen capital spending ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 21 16:36:35 PDT 2001

32040 top 50 endowments -- rank: 1000

Guilherme C Roschke wrote: >looks like some per student stats are here: > >http://chronicle.com/data/infobank.dir/almanac.dir/97alm.dir/97almain.htm > >scroll down to "resources" > >i don't have a subscription to the chronicle, so i can't access it... This is 1996 data, and so kind of obsolete, but here you go. Apologies for the brutal formatting. Doug ---- endowment enrollment $ per student PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS Princeton University 4,467,000,000 ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 15:51:54 PDT 2001