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33361 Fwd: KPFA EMERGENCY ALERT! -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:42:15 -0400 Dear All, Please forward this to all relevant KPFA lists and people! Bessie Wash has arrived unannounced at KPFA with two as yet unidentified people. Since the presence of Bessie Wash is never a good thing, those who can are advised to get to the station ASAP to defend it. LAB members have already been mobilized to go to the station and the more community support the better. According to KPFA LAB member ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 10 08:16:14 PDT 2001

33362 Pacifica Campaign Update - April 9 -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:27:21 -0400 From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> Friends, don't miss this update. Juan makes some fascinating observations about the demographics of Pacifica's Washington station, which seem to effectively confront the various representations made by Pacifica national about how WPFW serves communities in that area. The featured quotes at the start are my choice. --efs ===================== *Many in the crowd expressed shock when they learned how many s ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 08:15:02 PDT 2001

33363 whites claim bias -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 10, 2001 WHITE FIGHT: A researcher finds whites are more likely to claim bias. About a third of 492 terminated workers in a survey by Barry Goldman, a University of Arizona assistant professor, said they contacted an agency or court about potential discrimination claims. Of the 56 white workers terminated, 52% claimed discrimination. About 31% of the 407 dismissed black participants made that claim. Mr. Goldman, who would like to see litigation reduced, theorizes that ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 07:22:03 PDT 2001

33364 Castaneda - from Castro to Fox -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 10, 2001 Castaneda, Once a Friend of Castro, Now Helps Shape Mexico's Reforms By PETER FRITSCH and JOSE DE CORDOBA Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MEXICO CITY -- Why are some of America's most rock-ribbed conservative lawmakers suddenly talking to Mexican officials about ways to let more Mexican workers into the U.S.? Much of the credit goes to a former Communist militant and friend of Fidel Castro. Today, after an unusual journey across the spectrum of Lat ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 07:19:26 PDT 2001

33365 The left: still dying (was Re: European Unions) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: I usually agree with Carl, but the last one to really make the >bourgeoisie worry was Lenin. And, as Miss Kittin said of Frank Sinatra, "he's dead, ha ha ha ha ha." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 9 15:01:06 PDT 2001

33366 redeploying server farms -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > Really? Can a server farm be redeployed so easily? And if the problem >> is just too much capacity, what good is redeployment? > >I think what he means is that you can sell pet food as easily as you >can sell books from a given bit of square footage in a server farm. Yeah, but the whole idea of selling stuff on the web has taken a rather serious blow, no? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 13:50:28 PDT 2001

33367 redeploying server farms -- rank: 1000

This paragraph appears in a story by Anya Schiffrin in The Industry Standard: >"Our new-economy capital stock is more flexible and so much less >vulnerable to the over-investment trap," says [Brad] DeLong. "A >chemical factory can only be used to make chemicals. But a server >farm and its fiber-optic cables can be used to organize and control >any component of the economy." If so, the economy this year will >finally show just how new it really is. Really? Ca ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 13:07:59 PDT 2001

33368 Why LBO should be Free (Re: AAAS) -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >After all, it wasn't as bad as >root canal. Which itself is nowhere near as bad as I've always heard. Been suffering through one (and related procedures) for the last couple of months, and while I could imagine finer ways to spend my time, I could imagine worse ones too. Thank god for heavy drugs, though. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 12:31:52 PDT 2001

33369 Horowitz stiffs Daily Princetonian -- rank: 1000

Jim Romenesko's Media News <http://www.poynter.org/medianews/index.cfm> Horowitz won't pay Princeton paper for ad until it apologizes <http://www.nj.com/mercer/times/index.ssf?/mercer/times/04-07-BQQR2Q_B.html> Free speech rocks for David Horowitz -- until it gets in the way of his slavery reparations ad. He's told Daily Princetonian staffers that he's going to stiff them on his $1,007.50 ad bill unless they apologize for an editorial <http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/Content/2001 ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 11:44:22 PDT 2001

33370 NYC drug crackdown -- rank: 1000

From: "City Limits Weekly" <weekly at citylimits.org> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:52:06 -0400 City Limits Weekly Monday, April 9, 2001 Number 274 Jill Grossman, editor; Kim Nauer, executive director: City Limits Weekly is a free news and resource guide for New Yorkers published every Monday by City Limits magazine. To subscribe to this weekly or our monthly magazine ($25/yr.), call 212-479-3349. Fax calendar items to 212-344-6457. Email: jgrossman at citylimits.org. ADVERTISE: adver ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 9 11:33:53 PDT 2001

33371 Fwd: MARCH ON THE BRIDGE FOR WBAI -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:39:04 -0400 From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> Subject: MARCH ON THE BRIDGE FOR WBAI < < < Please post widely. This is the most important street action to reclaim WBAI and Pacifica of the season. If you live out of New York, please post to your lists anyway. You never know who knows someone in New York, who's involved with the station. Thanks! > > > ************************************************* DEFEND FREE SPEECH RADIO AND LA ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 11:09:34 PDT 2001

33372 stockfund net withdrawals -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I'm not clear on where the stocks they sell come from -- stocks they >already owned in 1959 or bought in 1975-6? And where did they put the >money from the sales? Dunno where they came from, and the Fed isn't very helpful. I'm guessing it's older people selling stocks they bought in their youth, and people of all ages liquidating inheritances. Where do they put it? Mutual funds, banks, bonds. Seriously rich people have a lot of their assets in bonds; after a certain p ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 10:21:37 PDT 2001

33373 stockfund net withdrawals -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Can you distinguish between withdrawals from the funds altogether and >movement from the funds into money market funds? <http://www.ici.org/facts_figures/trends_0201.html>. From Jan to Feb, stock funds were down pretty hard (almost 10% of assets), and money funds were up a bit, but the whole sector lost 5% of assets. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 10:02:48 PDT 2001

33374 I have a new hero -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >I hate to say it, but the loathsome self-consciously hip weblog >Plastic.com actually came up trumps. If it weren't for them, I >would never have found out about the finest human beings in the >journalistic profession. As soon as I get some spare time and >access to a livery stables, Paul Krugman better say his >prayers. And Toby Young. And Amity Shlaes of the FT has been >pissing me right off of late. > >http://www.exile.ru/113/lead.php > ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 09:41:44 PDT 2001

33375 AAAS -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote, in the midst of an interesting post on the problems at AAAS: >On one hand, there was the belief by many Internet users >that information should be free. While I share that belief, I think that >many are naive about the costs involved in putting issues of a magazine >online. Or the costs of developing the information in the first place. I'm constantly getting emails from people complaining that LBO is too expensive, that I should give it away on the web, that I should pu ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 09:29:37 PDT 2001