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33346 Fwd: FW: NAFTA has harmed workers in all three countries -- rank: 1000

PRESS RELEASE: http://www.epinet.org/press%20releases/NAFTA-at-7-press-release.html Contact: Nan Gibson (202) 331-5546 · Tom Kiley (202) 331-5540 NEW REPORT SHOWS NAFTA HAS HARMED WORKERS IN ALL THREE COUNTRIES Washington, D.C. – An evaluation of the North American Free Trade Agreement on its seventh anniversary finds a continent-wide pattern of stagnant worker incomes, lost job opportunities, increased insecurity, and rising inequality, according to NAFTA at Seven, a new report from the Economi ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 11 12:13:04 PDT 2001

33347 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4196 -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Incidentally, I can tell you for a fact that 90% of English-language >reporting on Russia is absolute bullshit. They have gotten this whole NTV >thing completely wrong. So what's really going on? We're eager to hear! Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 11 10:25:37 PDT 2001

33348 Scarcity -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: > >I'll try it in a short, nonrambling sentence or two. Is it possible >>for a simple society to produce complicated technology? Can you make >>a computer chip without large universities, large states, and large >>enterprises? > >I'm curious - let's suppose the answer to your question is no. Suppose >that along with high tech comes statist and hierarchical societies. And >suppose egalitarianism requires a much simpler society, ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 16:01:49 PDT 2001

33349 Scarcity -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> >Taking a second look at Doug's questions, it seems that they are just >> >another version of the technological determinism of many 2d & 3d >> >international marxists. A _really_ vulgar marxism. Build the forces of >> >production and you can get to socialism in a rocking chair. >> >> Right. That's exactly what I said: >> >> >But how c ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 15:32:19 PDT 2001

33350 Scarcity -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Taking a second look at Doug's questions, it seems that they are just >another version of the technological determinism of many 2d & 3d >international marxists. A _really_ vulgar marxism. Build the forces of >production and you can get to socialism in a rocking chair. Right. That's exactly what I said: >But how completely can you separate "technology, medicine, >knowledge, etc." from the modes of social organization - large-scale >enterprise, ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 15:01:03 PDT 2001

33351 Fwd: Matt Martin Reports on Wash, et al. Visit to KPFA -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:31:47 -0400 This report from KPFA Program Coordinator Matt Martin Pacifica Executive Director Bessie Wash, accompanied by Pacifica National Development Director Joanne Meredith and accounting consultant Greg Holloway (who is helping Pacifica switch its finance office from LA to DC), made a surprise visit to KPFA on Monday, April 9. KPFA General Manager Jim Bennett had not been informed of the visit and was not even ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 13:43:16 PDT 2001

33352 Billy, W, and the NAB -- rank: 1000

Inside.com - April 10, 2001 TAUZIN, A BROADCASTER'S FRIEND, TAKES ON THE PRESIDENT Monday, April 09 05:34 p.m. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin on Monday made it clear that his ties to the broadcasting business may well outstrip his loyalty to George W. Bush. The allegiance-dividing issue is the administration's plan to impose a costly spectrum fee on commercial television broadcasters -- a plan detailed in Bush's April 9 budget proposal. Under the Bush plan -- which T ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 13:25:51 PDT 2001

33353 Scarcity -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >Doug Henwood: Primitivist!! Hey, sometimes I like to say "Neo-Brutalist!!!" for variety. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 12:33:06 PDT 2001

33354 fable of keiretsu -- rank: 1000

[Dennis Redmond, this one's aimed at you. That evil Marxian influence is everywhere!] "The Fable of the Keiretsu" BY: YOSHIRO MIWA University of Tokyo J. MARK RAMSEYER Harvard Law School Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=263979 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/ SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection lo ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 09:52:22 PDT 2001

33355 Scarcity -- rank: 1000

Forstater, Mathew wrote: >but name anyone who has ever supported the position that we go back to >'becoming' 'pre-capitalist' not using any technology, medicine, >knowledge, etc. >discovered in the interim? not even the most romantic golden agers take this >position. but we can learn lots about both capitalism and post-capitalism by >studying noncapitalist modes, as well as gain insights into things like >sustainable ecological practices, institutional forms of >cooperati ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 09:26:13 PDT 2001

33356 A Market Fails at Internet Speed -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >A Market Fails at Internet Speed > >by Robert Kuttner > > >LAST WEEK a company called NorthPoint Communictions went bankrupt, causing >more than 100,000 customers nationwide, mostly businesses, to lose access to >the Internet with 48 hours' notice. The biweekly magazine that I edit, the >American Prospect, is one of them. And so is my household; Panix contracted with NorthPoint for DSL service. Only weeks after installation, NorthPoint went under, h ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 09:24:00 PDT 2001

33357 Scarcity -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >and isn't the obvious conclusion to this that the imagined 'scarcities' >of environmentalism are nothing but the relative scarcities imposed by >capitalism, now imaginatively projected onto nature. Yes, scientists are notable for their phantasmic projections, while those who claim there's nothing to worry about are firmly in touch with the reality principle. >Isn't this a case of artificially created scarcity reinforcing the >West's monopoly over resources ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 08:42:41 PDT 2001

33358 redeploying server farms -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >But one of the big buzzwords right now is "B2B", >"business to business": using the internet to transact with other >corporations. I thought that was last year's buzzword, in the dying moments of the bubble. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 08:44:34 PDT 2001

33359 make TIAA-CREF nice -- rank: 1000

[for those of you with a taste for this sort of thing] From: NJWollman at manchester.edu Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 02:13:49 -0500 Hi Doug: Here is info on our combined demo. If it fits for any coverage from you via any of your outlets either before or after the demo, thanks. And thanks for all your coverage in the past. Neil ======================================================================================= Neil Wollman, Peace Studies Institute, Psychology Department, Manchester College, N. Man ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 08:23:33 PDT 2001

33360 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4193 -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames are egomaniacs who do way too much speed, but the >media criticism at the eXile is priceless. Normally I would think tossing a >pie full of horse semen at someone would be just a tad over the line, but >Wines really is a rat bastard. The crap he wrote apologizing for Suharto & the CIA which Taibbi quotes in that piece is amazing. He deserves a lot more than a face full of horse cum for it. >Chris Doss >The Russia Journal So what' ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 08:21:55 PDT 2001