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32236 Reply to Ted and Brad -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Kinda diminishes the utility of an economist, though. Hmm, what is the utility of an economist? Years ago, early in the "transition" process, there was a headline in the Financial Times that said something like "Czechoslovakia puts faith in economists." Had I been the praying kind, I would have said a prayer for the Czechoslovakians.... Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 5 09:42:15 PDT 2001

32237 right-wing zealots throw shit at Mickey D -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 18:45:05 +0200 (CEST) From: mclibel at globalnet.co.uk (McLibel Support Campaign) 04/05/01 p r e s s c u t t i n g By HARBAKSH SINGH NANDA , UPI , India Hindu zealots throw cow dung at McDonald's NEW DELHI, India, May 4 (UPI) -- Irate workers of right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party Friday threw cow dung at McDonald's south Bombay outlet protesting against the alleged use of beef in French fries sold by U.S. fast food giant. The activists splattered the glass ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 5 05:55:07 PDT 2001

32238 as red, white and blue as it gets -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >http://www.kexp.org Clicked & heard some song about sittin' around drinkin' beer. Is that what you had in mind? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 4 17:58:32 PDT 2001

32239 Fwd: FC: FBI is investigating Chuck0 -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 14:53:55 -0400 To: politech at politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> Subject: FC: FBI is investigating an alleged "Black Bloc" threat sent to Politech Cc: chuck at tao.ca, aaronl at cato.org X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/ X-Author: Declan McCullagh is at http://www.mccullagh.org/ X-News-Site: Cluebot is at http://www.cluebot.com/ The FBI is investigating an alleged threat against the Cato Institute, the world's leadi ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 4 14:25:19 PDT 2001

32240 Israel Shahak dead -- rank: 1000

XFrom: "Stanley Heller" <u11434 at snet.net> To: <jewsforjustice at yahoogroups.com> Subject: The Lion is Gone Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:19:27 -0400 It is with profound sadness that I report to you the death of Professor Israel Shahak. Shahak inspired a generation of Middle East activists. In the 70's and 80's he self-published the "Shahak Papers", a mimeographed collection of translations of articles he gleaned from the Israeli press that were critical of Israeli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 4 14:22:15 PDT 2001

32241 Fwd: Teacher Quality In The Strange World of Public Choice Economics -- rank: 1000

X-From_: LeoCasey at aol.com Wed Jul 4 10:56:05 2001 From: LeoCasey at aol.com Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:56:03 EDT Subject: Teacher Quality In The Strange World of Public Choice Economics To: dhenwood at panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en Doug: Could you please forward this to the LBO list for me? It is quite long and would appear quite garbled from AOL; I am at home on this grand holiday, and still cannot get the $140 lamer than ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 4 14:16:16 PDT 2001

32242 Fwd: Draft of Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) -- rank: 1000

X-From_: owner-labor-l at YORKU.CA Wed Jul 4 11:34:48 2001 X-Authentication-Warning: sunburn.ccs.yorku.ca: lanfran owned process doing -bs X-X-Sender: <lanfran at sunburn.ccs.yorku.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:21:57 -0400 Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <LABOR-L at YorkU.CA> Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <LABOR-L at YorkU.CA> From: Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at YorkU.CA> Subject: Draft of Free Trade Agreement of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 4 14:17:35 PDT 2001

32243 Defining Capitalism -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >The original subject as I >understood it was Doug's statement that large firms had certain >disadvantages for people. Advantages is the argument I was making. Is it the voice recognition software or your unconscious that's responsible for the "dis" prefix? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 4 11:29:11 PDT 2001

32244 .moon -- rank: 1000

Press release of IQ US. Incorporated, USA dot moon - IQ US.Incorporated applies to ICANN for an Internet-country-code for the moon. Contact: Public Relation Center in the UK ( for the USA, Canada and Europe ) fon ++44 /0/ 7092 - 249 313 fax ++44 /0/ 7092 - 249 319 Email : public.relations at domainU2.com web - adresses : www.domainU2.com www.domainU2.net www.domainU2.co.uk Reg. Agent. 3533 Fairview Industrial Drive SE, Salem, OR 97302-1155 The CEO of IQ US. Incorporated publishes the following p ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 4 08:58:10 PDT 2001

32245 Reply to Ted and Brad -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I'm willing to assert that watching your children starve is more >painful to you than eating grilled Hoffman Farm chicken breast with >pancetta, garlicky chard, and sweet corn polenta is pleasurable to >me... But how much more do some diners enjoy the grilled Hoffman Farm chicken breast etc. because of the knowledge that others are, if not starving, dining on beans and rice? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 4 07:52:26 PDT 2001

32246 Slobo to spill beans -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - 1 July 2001 Milosevic: I'll name British leaders who helped me By Julius Strauss and Philip Sherwell in Belgrade and Joe Murphy in London SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC is planning to embarrass Britain and other Western governments by revealing at his war crimes trial at The Hague the secret deals which he claims propped up his regime during a decade of bloodshed in the Balkans. Lawyers for the deposed Serbian president will name three former Foreign Secretaries, Lord Hurd, Lord Carring ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 2 15:45:37 PDT 2001

32247 NAFTA -- rank: 1000

[Just got an email from Mike Dolan & Citizens Trade Watch recounting the ways in which NAFTA was terrible. Here's a dissenting view (which, of course, is really the hegemonic view).] Business Week - July 9, 2001 ECONOMICS NAFTA's Scorecard: So Far, So Good The pact created jobs on both sides of the border--and didn't cause as much damage as critics feared In January, 1994, when the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, the economy was stuck in the "jobless recovery." ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 2 15:35:50 PDT 2001

32248 class medicine -- rank: 1000

Business Week - July 9, 2001 MEDI-TREND The Doctor Will Really See You Now White-glove service, not generally associated with the cost-beleaguered medical industry, is catching on among doctors. Frustrated with managed care, they're quitting HMOs and setting up competition--expensive, specialized groups for patients willing to pay. Such service has long been available on Park Avenue and in a few progressive practices in Seattle; but now, MDVIP, a four-month-old company in Boca Raton, Fla., has b ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 2 15:37:17 PDT 2001

32249 the mind-numbing carrion of hope -- rank: 1000

Anyone read the interview with Kirkpatrick Sale at <http://www.primitivism.com/sale.htm>? Amazing stuff. A couple of highlights: >Q: Your thoughts on the coming year 2000 computer coding debacle. Do >you see this potential disaster as helping to foment a new >wellspring of opposition to technology? >A: As near as I can tell, people regard Y2K as an act of God, not of >technology, and they understand it no better than the Egyptians >understood a plague of locusts. If it is ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 2 14:41:22 PDT 2001

32250 on The Baffler -- rank: 1000

I forwarded Ravi Naryan's questions about The Baffler to Tom Frank (a listmember who doesn't always notice everything that flies by), who responds: At 4:18 PM -0500 7/2/01, t. c. frank wrote: >He would probably do best just to read an actual issue of the >magazine. The website is supposed to be a very, very brief introduction, >and he seems only to have read the introduction to the website. If he's >going to read an issue, he should try in particular number 12, which >features an ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 2 14:32:16 PDT 2001