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32971 Hugh Loebner, Artificial Intelligence and Sex Worker Rights -- rank: 1000

bryan at indymedia.org.il wrote: >All this talk of Sex-Worker rights reminds me....Working in the >field of Artificial Intelligence I can't help but know of an >extremely strange fellow by the name of Hugh Loebner. He is a >wealthy 'philanthropist' who's two main hobbies are Artificial >Intelligence and Sex Worker Rights. Loebner is credited for web assistance on Tracy Quan's site, <http://www.tracyquan.net/>, and he's thanked in her book. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 10:03:43 PDT 2001

32972 RTMark's quarterly report -- rank: 1000

From: RTMark Quarterly Report <ann0061 at rtmark.com To: ANYASCHIFFRIN.hotmail.com <anyaschiffrin at hotmail.com Subject: WTO applauded for insulting Gandhi (and anyaschiffrin at hotmail.com) Date: 30 Aug 2001 07:10:20 -0000 This message is not commercial. Get off our list by writing mailto:remove at rtmark.com?subject=anyaschiffrin at hotmail.com. August 30, 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WTO INTRODUCES NEW MEMBER Gold and one meter long, phallus is brand-new technology to control distant wor ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 10:01:36 PDT 2001

32973 pre-Keynesian -- rank: 1000

Mat wrote: >I think "quite limited" is exaggerated. No one has to adhere to any >'far out' theories to recognize that *under certain conditions* a >federal government has the ability to spend enough to affect employment, >output, income, social services, etc in a significant way, without >setting off serious inflation. "significant" meaning enough to make it >worthwhile in terms of affecting enough lives (through job creation, >income maintenace, etc.). ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 09:42:28 PDT 2001

32974 pee in Lake Erie -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of a winmail.dat attachment] Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:08:54 -0500 From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu> Doug wrote: >And it would be kind of hard to measure the presence of even several=20 >bladdersful of Sawicky pee in Lake Erie. Which is another way of=20 >saying that while the government can create money out of thin air,=20 >its prospects for doing so are quite limited if you want the money to=20 >retain any value. I think "quite ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 09:37:58 PDT 2001

32975 The Surplus's effect on money supply -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I'm not an adept in the Levy moneyline, >but I do find it interesting. My comments >preceded with 'mbs': > >James Baird wrote: >>mattress, or a loan, or what have you. When the >>government wants to spend money, it just does it - the >>money doesn't "come from" anywhere. > >DH: A government, or its central bank, can create money out of the air. >But if it does too much of that - creates money more rapidly than an >econo ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 14:53:16 PDT 2001

32976 The Surplus's effect on money supply -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: > > When a government taxes, it takes money that would >> have either have >> been saved, invested, or consumed by private actors >> and puts it to >> its own uses. > >No, it doesn't. That's what it seems like, but it >isn't. When you or I or GM spend money, we have to >get it from somewhere - either cash under the >mattress, or a loan, or what have you. When the >government wants to spend money, it just does it - the > ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 13:27:59 PDT 2001

32977 Jude: new trial for Mumia! -- rank: 1000

[my pal Jude surprises once again] August 29, 2001 A Plea for Mumia Abu-Jamal Memo To: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge From: Jude Wanniski Re: A New Trial for Mumia I'm guessing you are getting tired of me pestering you about Mumia, who has been on death row for almost 20 years now. I'm advised that while an execution date isn't set, he will have exhausted his appeals if he flunks an evidentiary hearing on September 15, when his lawyers will present what seems to be new evidence of his innocence. As ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 08:40:24 PDT 2001

32978 legalize immigrants, raise wages -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 29, 2001 Law Study Says Relaxing Laws, More Visas Could Ease U.S. Immigration Problem By EDUARDO PORTER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL LOS ANGELES -- The broad legalization of undocumented immigrants and a new visa program for low-end workers would reduce the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. in search of a job while at the same time raising their wages, says a new report to be released Wednesday. The study, one of the first to look at the economic i ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 07:51:59 PDT 2001

32979 Fidler on Wolfie -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - August 28, 2001 COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Developing crisis: The World Bank's declining influence is blamed by many on the failings of its president By STEPHEN FIDLER If the World Bank were a private company, the 1990s should have been a decade of record profits and the institution a growth stock. With the decline of communism, governments worldwide became disillusioned with the public sector as an engine of growth and embraced market-based capitalism. From Latin America to easte ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 07:45:59 PDT 2001

32980 violence -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] GLOBAL PROTESTERS REFUSE TO SHUN VIOLENCE. Activists organizing protests of next month's World Bank and IMF meetings refused to renounce violence at a press conference on Tuesday in Washington, instead focusing on four "demands," the Washington Times (p. C1) reports. Members of Mobilization for Global Justice, an umbrella group of protesters, refused all questions about the coming Washington street action, which police predict could be far more vi ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 07:43:16 PDT 2001

32981 The Surplus's effect on money supply -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >Her larger point (as I see it): Taxes and bonds don't >"fund" anything (even though they seem to, and >everybody in and out of government thinks they do), >because the money they are paid in doesn't exist until >it is issued by the treasury. Taxes and bonds are >simply alternate ways of managing the money supply, >which in their absence would grow to inflationary >levels. > >And as for governement not being able create "capital &g ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 07:26:02 PDT 2001

32982 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine: World Conference Against Racism (III) -- rank: 1000

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine... 137/280801/CL Trade unions say NO to racism and xenophobia (III) Because of their race, the colour of their skin or their national origin, more and more people today are the target of serious discrimination at the workplace, on the labour market and in the community. Determined to combat this phenomenon and its impact on the trade union struggle for social justice and freedom, the International Confederation of Free Trade ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 10:28:46 PDT 2001

32983 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine: World Conference Against Racism (II) -- rank: 1000

CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine... 136/280801/CL Trade unions say NO to racism and xenophobia (II) Because of their race, the colour of their skin or their national origin, more and more people today are the target of serious discrimination at the workplace, on the labour market and in the community. Determined to combat this phenomenon and its impact on the trade union struggle for social justice and freedom, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions has acce ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 10:27:46 PDT 2001

32984 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine: World Conference Against Racism (I) -- rank: 1000

[from the social imperialists at the ICFTU] INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine... 135/310801/CL Trade unions say NO to racism and xenophobia (I) Because of their race, the colour of their skin or their national origin, more and more people today are the target of serious discrimination at the workplace, on the labour market and in the community. Determined to combat this phenomenon and its impact on the trade union struggle for social justice and freedom, the ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 10:27:32 PDT 2001

32985 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4791 -- rank: 1000

Steve Bruns wrote: >toe the party line > >Bruno in Indiana And what is this supposed to mean? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 10:01:46 PDT 2001