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33511 more Prague -- rank: 1000

<http://prague.indymedia.org/breaking_news.php3> UPDATE 19:50 The Opera has been canceled due to "unforeseen circumstances." We've had unconfirmed reports about the Ya Basta group still holding the bridge to the convention center. The lates report indicates they are no longer there. UPDATE 19:42 Demonstrators have apparently left the convention center along with delegates. UPDATE 19:39 Delegates are going to the Opera Square where a big party is waiting for them but three thousan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 13:42:13 PDT 2000

33512 Prague -- rank: 1000

<http://prague.indymedia.org/> UPDATE 22:14 Reports of more than 500 arrested in the last hour. UPDATE 21:35 At least four metro stops are now closed in Praha: Staromestska, Mustek, Muzeum, Namesti Miru. I.P. Pavlova and Vysehrad may also be closed. UPDATE 21:15 After dispersing massive amounts of tear gas in the Muzeum metro area more than 1000 police are moving in. Three arrests have been reported. UPDATE 20:55 Appeal for gathering at Soukalova Police station to document people arrested ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 13:21:45 PDT 2000

33513 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

Public Information Office CB00-158 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio at census.gov HHES Information Staff 301-457-3242 Poverty Rate Lowest in 20 Years, Household Income at Record High, Census Bureau Reports The nation's poverty rate dropped from 12.7 percent in 1998 to 11.8 percent in 1999 the lowest rate since 1979 and real median household income reached $40,816, the highest level ever recorded by the Census Bureau (household ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 13:14:33 PDT 2000

33514 Fwd: (50 Years) Prague report -- rank: 1000

From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:08:45 -0400 I have just left a standoff on a bridge in Prague between police and demonstrators (a bridge fortunately very near a center with free Internet access!) It is 2:20 pm in Prague (8:20 am in the Eastern U.S.), and when I left the demonstrators had not broken through police lines. But let me back up a few steps. At 9:00 this morning I arrived at Namesti miru, the public square near downtown Prague where the thousands of de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 13:08:59 PDT 2000

33515 clarifications -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >However, a slight disagreement with P.S. 2. Oil shortages, economic >disaster and global warming ( caused by the capitalist system) ALONE >will not produce insurrection. However, if capitalism didn't do >something horrible like these things, there would be no reason to >get rid of it. So, these shortages and disasters are necessary but >not sufficient to insurrection and revolution. Their negative >effects on people are fundamentally necessary to maki ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 11:07:18 PDT 2000

33516 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >I don't know if this is going on in the urbane and sophisticated >Northeast, but around here I've been seeing these 2 feet tall / >3 feet long Swoosh(tm)'s on people's car rear windows. I assume >that people actually have to buy these things in order to deface >their cars/trucks with them. > >That's pretty damned impressive, if revolting. A friend of mine says he has a student who tattooed a swoosh on his ankle. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 10:41:59 PDT 2000

33517 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >We were talking about whether trademarks were capital. >DH channeled Naomi K to make the point that the consumption >benefits of brands were 'collective hallucinations,' or in >his words 'wacky,' which fit my point that what was involved >was criticism of the consumption habits of the masses, and any >such criticism ought to be measured carefully for elitist or >austerity policy implications. Nonbrand capital - a factory or a piece of software, say - cont ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 10:25:05 PDT 2000

33518 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > is there some clear cut indication >> that a $2 grand stereo makes for better quality listening? > >YOU BET!!! And it probably doesn't cost just $27 to make, either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 10:08:47 PDT 2000

33519 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Can we add that the suggestion of the theory of commodity >fetishism is that buying stuff is not only not a cure, but a cause >of alienation ? Relationships with things are substituted for >relationships with people. Or, as the Slits put it, "I need something new/something trivial will do/I need to satisfy this empty feeling...." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 10:06:52 PDT 2000

33520 World Bank, Car freedom, oil -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Earlier Doug posted this: 'In fact, Wolfensohn agrees with many of their >concerns and wants to bring the demonstrators into the tent of global >problem-solving, rather than holding them at bay at the end of a police >truncheon.' > >Probably the question is what are pro-poor softies doing at the World >Bank anyway? Is this really conceivable as a vehicle for progressive >politics? My reading of the spat over the WDR and the resignations was >that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 10:04:19 PDT 2000

33521 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i rather got the impression that you were suggesting that it would >be fine and dandy if folks wanted to wear a swoosh on the teeshirt >but that paying $40 to wear the swoosh when it costs $5 to produce >the swoosh and that it could be sold at $15 for a reasonable profit >is b.s. that $25 is money that might be more productively spent. >instead, it goes directly into the coffers of those who pocket the >profits who don't necessarily reinvest that money in pro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 10:05:46 PDT 2000

33522 rumors -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >the way things have been going for the bush bunch, they'll drop cheney, >powell will back out, and they will learn that only dan quayle is available >at that late date. Bush is now ahead in most polls. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 09:46:27 PDT 2000

33523 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >This was last minute? man. A lot of it was lifted from the New Economy draft. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 09:43:58 PDT 2000

33524 World Bank, Car freedom, oil -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >I guess the official neoliberal 'Washington Consensus' line >is that the WB and IMF are dominated by fuzzy, pooer-loving liberals. Today's NYT has an extraordinary piece of propaganda along these lines. Doug ---- New York Times - September 26, 2000 NEWS ANALYSIS International Lenders' New Image: A Human Face By JOSEPH KAHN PRAGUE, Sept. 25 - Deepa Narayan, a Indian woman with a steely gaze who spends much of her time in the poorest villages on earth, speaks of po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 26 09:27:02 PDT 2000

33525 Bush ahead; Nader at 2% -- rank: 1000

************************************************ The Gallup Poll: Presidential Election NewsAlert ************************************************ The latest presidential poll results are now on www.gallup.com Results for Sep 22-24, 2000 ** Bush: 47% Gore: 44% Buchanan: 1% Nader: 2% Don't Know: 6% ** 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:	Tue Sep 26 09:09:12 PDT 2000