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33496 Wolfie on the metro -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 28, 2000 A jamboree just made for protests and protocol By Stephen Fidler in Prague Anti-globalisation protests, such as those that hit the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this week in Prague, have increased the premium on out-of-the-way locations for international conferences. So the venue for the meetings the next time they are held outside Washington, in 2003, fits the bill nicely. Dubai may still be baking in September, but it is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 28 08:55:08 PDT 2000

33497 Arabs punishing Gore? -- rank: 1000

WorldOil.com - September 2000 S Arabic producers rumored to be punishing Gore As our staff puts together this magazine's issues over a year's time, we receive quite a few unsolicited tidbits of "intelligence." Many turn out to be too bizarre, but there are the few that eventually bear fruit, prompting us to publish something about them. It is into the latter category that the latest tidbit from Middle Eastern sources is falling. Basically, the story is this: Arabic oil-producing nation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 27 16:28:26 PDT 2000

33498 Latest Presidential Election Numbers from www.gallup.com -- rank: 1000

************************************************ The Gallup Poll: Presidential Election NewsAlert ************************************************ The latest presidential poll results are now on www.gallup.com Results for Sep 24-26, 2000 ** Bush: 46% Gore: 44% Buchanan: 1% Nader: 2% Don't Know: 7% ** among Likely Voters For a complete analysis of current presidential poll standings, go to: http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=gallup&Cr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 27 15:39:53 PDT 2000

33499 Pollitt on Nader -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Are you watching the same campaign I am? We are not only having debates on >HOW to expand Medicare with a prescription drug benefit and HOW MUCH to >expand education spending, but Gore is running none of the DLC-style >conservative ads that Clinton ran back in 1992. That's what he's saying now. What do you think he'd do come January 20, 2001? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 27 15:27:25 PDT 2000

33500 stunned -- rank: 1000

My World Bank source says the folks in DC are "stunned" by the cancellation of the rest of the meeting. This is utterly amazing stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 27 12:43:22 PDT 2000

33501 small not beautiful -- rank: 1000

[Apropos Roy's praise of smallness quoted here...] National Post (Canada) - September 23, 2000 SMALL IS NOT BEAUTIFUL Forget the romantic view of small business: for employees, big firms are less nasty places to work Doug Henwood Everybody loves small business. Well, maybe Fortune 500 CEOs and the investment bankers who serve them don't, but practically everyone else does. Across the political spectrum, it's celebrated for its authenticity, pluck, and copious powers of job creation. On the right ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 27 12:05:17 PDT 2000

33502 New Economy Rant -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >If it really costs $2 to produce, people should be piling in. Dunno about actual retail prices, but I got that cost of production from Jeff Ballinger, who's been harassing Nike for years. But that's just cost of production; marketing costs are a lot higher (Klein argues that it's those high costs that forces Nike and the rest to minimize labor costs), and it'd cost a fortune to build a brand that competes with Nike. With an operating profit margin of just 10%, Nike's a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 27 12:01:22 PDT 2000

33503 Two Trevors in NYC -- rank: 1000

>The Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute invites you to >a Special Event: > > CHALLENGING GLOBALIZATION FROM THE GRASSROOTS. >Wednesday, October 4th, 6 PM at the > New School's Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th St. > (between 5th and 6th Avenues) > >This event will feature the film, TWO TREVORS GO TO WASHINGTON, directed by >Ben Cashdan, an incisive yet humorous account of the April 16 IMF and World >Bank meetings and pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 21:10:31 PDT 2000

33504 Nader etc -- rank: 1000

[non-sub'd address] From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:12:33 -0400 ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Halle" <john.halle at yale.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >The idea that "respect" for some more or less self-appointed leadership of >some consituency-notice, incidentally that not even you say Pat Ireland >speaks for women below, rather you say she speaks for feminists- >translate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 20:17:12 PDT 2000

33505 Fwd: CBCNEWS - Police and protesters clash in Prague -- rank: 1000

From: CBCNEWS <nwonline at toronto.cbc.ca> POLICE AND PROTESTERS CLASH IN PRAGUE WebPosted Tue Sep 26 22:21:38 2000 PRAGUE--Thousands of activists hurled cobblestones and Molotov cocktails at riot police Tuesday, fulfilling their threat to disrupt the opening of the annual World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings Wearing black and wielding sticks, protesters descended within metres of the conference centre where delegates met. They failed to shut down the meetings, but succeeded ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 20:19:33 PDT 2000

33506 NYT's mea culpa over Wen Ho Lee -- rank: 1000

[for those of you who missed the NYT's remarkably pompous yet evasive mea culpa over the Wen Ho Lee story...and Inside.com's account of same, preceded by Alex Cockburn's excellent NYPress column.] New York Press - September 26, 2000 Wild Justice Alexander Cockburn The Disgrace of the Times The collapse of the government's case against Wen Ho Lee last week represents one of the greatest humiliations of a national newspaper in the history of journalism. One has to go back to the publication by the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 18:42:52 PDT 2000

33507 FW: <alter-ee> (Anarchist diatribe on Naomi Klein) -- rank: 1000

Apropos the fuel protests, the tireless class warriors at Workers Vanguard say in their current ish that while the protests are petit bourgeois in origin, they further the interests of the working class (which is hurt by higher fuel prices) and make life miserable for the bourgeois state, so on balance, they deserve support. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 18:47:26 PDT 2000

33508 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What's a "reasonable profit"? As long as the market bears it, a >profit is reasonable, from capital's point of view. There can't be >capitalism with "reasonable profits," can there? Capitalism with >"reasonable profits" is like the idea of "sustainable capitalism" >that James O'Connor criticizes. Hey, we're not that vulgar. A "reasonable" profit is one in line with prevailing averages. There's nothing &q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 18:45:38 PDT 2000

33509 WB displaces 2.6m -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 26, 2000 World Bank schemes cost 2.6m their homes By Stephen Fidler in Prague More than 2.6m people around the world were being resettled against their will by World Bank projects under way last year, according to bank documents. The emergence of the documents, which have not been made public, will fuel controversy over bank resettlement policies that were ignited by a contentious debate earlier this year over whether to grant China a loan for an anti-poverty project ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 14:11:55 PDT 2000

33510 panic in Prague -- rank: 1000

<http://praha.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=970> MC reporter inside the IMF/WB congress center reports on panic among delegates (english) by anonymous 1:04pm Tue Sep 26 '00 An IMC reporter inside the IMF/WB Congress center notes the mood among delegates as demonstrators almost enter the meeting area. An IMC reporter with "official" IMF/World Bank press credentials reports from inside the restricted zone at around 16:30 pm, when demonstrators almost forced their way inside ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 13:40:50 PDT 2000