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32191 Fwd: [Genoa] Missiles to protect summit leaders -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - July 11, 2001 Rory Carroll in Rome Italy has installed a missile defence system at Genoa's airport to deter airborne attacks during next week's G8 summit, fuelling hysteria about looming violence. A land-based battery of rockets with a range of nine miles and an altitude of 5,000 feet has been positioned in the latest security measure against perceived threats from terrorists and protesters. Unidentified planes, helicopters and balloons risk being shot down should they drift ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 11:00:41 PDT 2001

32192 A Declaration of Independence for the Indebted States of America -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Any more word on US Bankruptcy Reform? While the Senate was divided 50-50, they couldn't agree on members of a conference committee to reconcile their bill with the one passed by the House, so it was stalled. Shortly after the Dems took over the Senate, new Majority Leader Tom Daschle said he was going to break the logjam and push a bill through. I haven't heard anything since, though. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 10:56:26 PDT 2001

32193 Fwd: DEBATE: GENOA-G8 - Latest -- rank: 1000

From: "Franco Barchiesi" <f_barchiesi at hotmail.com> To: debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za One week left to the anti-G8 demonstrations. The Italian government's paranoia towards the social centres-white overalls-Yabasta has reached points of true delirium: last week the police has searched the house used as the comrades' headquarters in Genoa; a report of SISDE (Italian secret service) mentions Luca Casarini (spokesperson of the 'white overalls' and the Northeast Social centres) as a ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 08:08:13 PDT 2001

32194 minimalism -- rank: 1000

Is someone collecting these self-obits for a net-art project? <http://www.webvan.com/> And then there's the start of Startup.com, <http://www.govworks.com>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 07:59:02 PDT 2001

32195 b/w relations -- rank: 1000

Gallup reviews whites' and blacks' perceptions of race relations in the US: <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010711.asp>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 07:34:37 PDT 2001

32196 Fw: Fw:Re: Mommy, what's an intellectual? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Thomas Seay" <entheogens at yahoo.com> >To: "Michael Pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net> >Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 4:53 PM >Subject: Re: Fw:Re: Mommy, what's an intellectual? > > >> Michael, sadly my wife (who you will remember is >> Chinese and was a member of the Young Communist League >> in China) reports that this is true. Just the other >> night, ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 07:14:21 PDT 2001

32197 psa & social change -- rank: 1000

Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca wrote: >Wow, Doug! And here I thought you were disdainful of psychoanalysis! Eh? Me? Heavens no, I've been a partisan since I was 16. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 10:34:37 PDT 2001

32198 JEC on IMF -- rank: 1000

[from the Republican-led staff at the Joint Economic Committee] For Immediate Release Press Release #107-32 July 10, 2001 Contact: Christopher Frenze Executive Director (202) 225-3923 IMF SURVEILLANCE AND LENDING POLICIES NEED IMPROVEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C. - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is often unable to recognize signs of impending international financial instability and sometimes has supported counterproductive bailout policies to deal with this problem, according to a new study relea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 10 10:31:49 PDT 2001

32199 intellectual -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >In Western europe, an intellectual is someone who claims the >privileges of the upper class without dirtying his hands either with >power or physical labor. Cool. Where can I sign up? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 10:13:25 PDT 2001

32200 D.C. Braces For IMF Protests This Fall -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - July 10, 2001 D.C. Braces For IMF Protests This Fall 3,600 Officers Sought From Region, Beyond By Arthur Santana and Manny Fernandez Washington Post Staff Writers D.C. police are recruiting 3,600 officers from nearly a dozen other cities and counties to help handle what they expect to be the greatest number of protesters Washington has seen since the Vietnam War. Police officials say they need to double their force because they expect as many as 40,000 protesters to descend on ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 08:40:45 PDT 2001

32201 psa & social change -- rank: 1000

<http://www.criticalanalysis.rutgers.edu/apcs.html> APCS CONFERENCE Nov 9-11, 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS Seventh Annual APCS Conference on Psychoanalysis and Social Change Psychoanalysis Across the Disciplines November 9-11, 2001 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, and The Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture With Keynote Addresses by * PROFESSOR JUDITH BUTLER ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 10 08:38:05 PDT 2001

32202 race & the new activism -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theactivist.org/current_issue/index.html> By Daraka Larimore-Hall and Tracie McMillan College students spending their summers working side-by-side with union organizers. National attention on issues of free trade and globalization. International meetings being shut down amidst clouds of tear gas. Universities insisting on sweatshop-free apparel. It's all part and parcel of the young activist landscape in 2001, but just a few years ago, the student movement was merely sputterin ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 08:14:07 PDT 2001

32203 black discontent with government rises -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010710.asp> POLL ANALYSES July 10, 2001 With Advent of Bush Administration, Blacks Have Become More Negative About All Three Branches of Government Blacks give President Bush much lower ratings than do whites, are less satisfied overall, and rate Congress and the Supreme Court more negatively than they did last year GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- The data presented below highlight significant changes that have taken place in the relationship bet ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 10 07:29:01 PDT 2001

32204 What Kind of Socialist Are You? Take the Test -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >However, I also didn't like the first question on equality, since it's >unnuanced, since it assumes absolute equality of results, while there are >other degrees of equality- equality based on effort (from and to each >according to their means), equality of economic power in setting whatever >inequality of incentives is deemed useful, etc. No room for market >socialism or really the whole internal debate of democratic socialisms. >That I come up anarchi ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 11:24:11 PDT 2001

32205 US electorate "moving steadily left" -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - July 8, 2001 Census a Clarion Call for Democrats, GOP As Nation Changes, Parties Are Warned They Need New Tactics to Woo Voters By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer Republican strategists, examining new census data and recent election returns, are warning that the electorate is moving steadily to the left and that the party needs to adopt new rhetoric and tactics to attract the growing number of working women, Hispanics, secular voters and socially tolerant, well-ed ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 9 10:37:03 PDT 2001