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32341 im-ur -- rank: 1000

A number of posters have gotten emails from an entity called IM-UR, soliciting contributions. The come-on letter quotes the New York Times as saying "Few challenge the status quo as much as im-ur.com." Here's the full NYT article. Note the missing phrase "marketing gimmicks" was excised without the courtesy of an ellipsis. Doug ---- New York Times - June 19, 2000 COMPRESSED DATA; Web Site Challenges Chat-Room Status Quo By LAURIE J. FLYNN Few marketing gimmicks challenge the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 2 14:39:52 PST 2001

32342 biz to scuttle free-trade deals? -- rank: 1000

Business Week - January 8, 2001 Why Business Might Torpedo New Free-Trade Deals For years, the U.S. unsuccessfully tried to woo Singapore into a free-trade deal. So President Clinton was pleasantly surprised when Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong raised the issue during a golfing break at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Brunei in November. The two leaders startled their governments by announcing that talks on a U.S.-Singapore free-trade agreement would begin immediately--and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 2 12:23:47 PST 2001

32343 CHAT: Americans wondering... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It looks like there is no hope. And a Happy New Year to all! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 2 07:09:34 PST 2001

32344 union.com -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 2, 2001 Unions Gain in Popularity Among Dot-Com Workers By NICK WINGFIELD and YOCHI J. DREAZEN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Disenchantment among dot-com workers has given one of the most venerable fixtures of the Old Economy -- the labor union -- its first fighting chance for a foothold in the New Economy. Enticing the unions is a corps of disaffected workers who want higher wages to make up for worthless options. But the wholesale collapse of Internet ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 2 06:42:14 PST 2001

32345 Free Mike! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>Why single out Mike? >> >>Doug > >Hmm, you seem to be going all YAF-ish on us, Doug. Try this: >Because Milken represented the antithesis of what a democracy is >supposed to be. Despite all the Drexel Burnham agitprop about how >Mike somehow represented the popularization of finance, secrecy and >oligarchy were the very essence of MM. > >Besides, if it's in the public interest, say, "to kill an admiral >from time to time to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 24 12:59:48 PST 2001

32346 'Very good reasons' for Marc Rich's pardon? -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >That's it. I'm formally getting off the train. I've had enough of >this m*****f***** Clinton. There's more... New York Times - January 24, 2001 Influential Backers Helped Commodities Trader Win Pardon By PATRICK McGEEHAN and ALISON LEIGH COWAN As part of his successful last- minute bid for a pardon from President Clinton, Marc Rich, the commodities trader who had evaded prosecution for 18 years, received letters of support from dozens of politicians, financiers and offi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 24 12:19:50 PST 2001

32347 Free Mike! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug, this is a very undynamic analysis of changes in local service, >ignoring the massive lowering of costs due to technological advance that had >preceded "deregulation." Try your numbers not for a few years in the late >70s but over the post-war period and you will get much more dramatic >results. Sorry, but the CPI local telephone subindex begins only in Dec 77. If there were earlier numbers, I'd certainly have used them > And your numbers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 24 11:53:09 PST 2001

32348 Null on AIDS -- rank: 1000

Christopher B. Hajib-Niles wrote: >Sorry, Doug. I don't swallow any line coming out of quack. My own >feeling is that drugs and high technology have their place but that >NO doctor should EVER turn to drugs and high tech FIRST to solve a >major medical problem UNLESS there is extremely compelling evidence >that the drug will "work" without any serious or life threating side >effects (and even when they do not have immediate serious or life >threatening side effects ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 24 10:56:09 PST 2001

32349 MSFT goes dark -- rank: 1000

Infoworld - Jan. 24, 2001 7:29 am PT Microsoft Web sites suffer large-scale blackout By Joris Evers MICROSOFT CONFIRMED WEDNESDAY that most of its online properties became unreachable Wednesday morning due to a problem in the system that maps Web addresses to IP addresses. Sites hit include the Web-based e-mail service Hotmail.com, Web portal MSN.com, news Web site MSNBC.com, and the company's corporate site Microsoft.com. "The Internet's Domain Name System [DNS] does not return the correct ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 24 10:31:34 PST 2001

32350 a healthy and lucid disgust -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It seems to me that Brad Mayer's is a much more plausible >interpretation of _Empire_. Have either of you read it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 23 13:32:26 PST 2001

32351 Free Mike! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Nice overall point about how policing on the margins maintains the integrity >of a rigged racket. But just in case you are serious, Half. Or something like that. Maybe more even. > it is worth analyzing >why Milken really deserves jail. You make the case that Milken funded >marginal risky investments when many others would not. But is that a good >thing? You cite MCI- MCI was a massive unionbusting firm that grew based >on regulatory subsidy by th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 23 11:00:56 PST 2001

32352 Null on AIDS -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >what's the genealogy of the anti-HIV line? and the political economy of it? >i've never understood how it survived. Dunno where it came from, but it's sustained by people who are deeply suspicious of mainstream science, but who credulously swallow any line coming out of a quack. The Gary Null site is full of photos of him - and his oily voice seduces listeners with its comforting tales of triumphing over "incuarable" illnesses (you only hear from survivors, ne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 23 08:35:21 PST 2001

32353 Free Mike! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >... as a precursor to drawing and quartering, IMHO. I would argue >Mike's main offense was changing the mentality of CEOs. Due to his >influence, suddenly all these humdrum bureaucrats overseeing >America's businesses and pulling down a few million for their chores >(typically delegated to others) became indispensable "visionaries" >requiring HUNDREDS of millions dollars a year to work their supposed >magic. Milken is one world-class evil man ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 23 08:25:33 PST 2001

32354 a healthy and lucid disgust -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >As a response to Joanna's complaint about the McD-ization of food and >culture, this is nonsequitor disguised as an appeal to authority. It was a response to the sentimental appeal to "local ownership," not specifically about food, and it wasn't an appeal to authority, it was a quote of a passage that expresses very well something I enthusiastically agree with. The point is that technology and internationalization are both very good things, in potential, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 23 07:23:59 PST 2001

32355 your mail -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Comrades Peter and Christopher, just do EVERYONE a favour and ignore >this shit. Giving these rascals attention only encourages them, as >the saying goes. (My personal view, anyway.) But Patrick, they've got lots of followers. Null draws WBAI's biggest audience and he's their biggest fundraiser. The rate of new AIDS infections is rising in San Francisco, in part, say the health authorities, because denialists are making inroads. More broadly, health crackpottery has ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 23 07:26:56 PST 2001