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33556 Interest Rate on the National Debt -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >Does anybody know where I can find the rate structure of >the national debt? Everything you ever wanted to know abt U.S. Treasury debt is at the Treasury's Bureau of the Public Debt site <http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opd.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 16:37:22 PDT 2000

33557 geeks -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >Wow, your too easy. That's like saying [Social|Commun]ism must include >Gulags and the starvation of millions. 1840 Alabama was no more the >Utopian republic than 1930 Russia was the Communist Utopia. A lot of actual libertarians think that the pre-Civil War U.S. was indeed something of an earthly utopia - see, for example, the output of the Rockford Institute and the von Mises Institute, as well as the so-called "Patriot" movement. I'm not making this up ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 07:19:50 PDT 2000

33558 Fwd: Imminent Anthropological Scandal -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] >from: "Donna J. Haraway" <haraway at snowcrest.net> >Subject: Fwd: Imminent anthropological scandal > >Colleagues, > >I am forwarding this message in case you have not seen it. > >This is something we should all know about. Very, very ugly. It makes me >pay attention again to the hard and on-going problem of how to be >responsible in the many worlds of genetics--in biology, anthropology, >medicine, journalism, science s ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 16:24:55 PDT 2000

33559 Gore 10 up -- rank: 1000

************************************************ The Gallup Poll: Presidential Election NewsAlert ************************************************ The latest presidential poll results are now on www.gallup.com Results for Sep 18-20, 2000 ** Bush: 41% Gore: 51% Buchanan: 1% Nader: 3% Don't Know: 4% ** 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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Date:	Thu Sep 21 16:26:16 PDT 2000

33560 perceptions of race -- rank: 1000

[pointed to on the AAPOR list] <http://www.umich.edu/~nes/resources/psreport/abs/91f.htm> Author(s): Highton, Benjamin and Raymond E. Wolfinger Title: Estimating the Size of Minority Groups Date: January 24, 1992 Data Set(s): 1991 Pilot Study Keywords: Race ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstract Highton and Wolfinger report on the Pilot Study items which ask respondents to estimate the proportion of Blacks, Jews, and Hispanics in America. They fin ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 13:20:14 PDT 2000

33561 lbo-talk-digest V1 #3370 -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I hope they'll pay attention to the fact that even higher-wage >workers such as airline pilots & engineers ("No Nerds, No Birds") >have organized themselves and are sometimes quite militant. Sad thing about pilots is that they're not big on solidarity with other workers, for reasons of professional snottiness (greasy machinists - ewww!) and sexism (flight attendants - women and poofters - ewww!). Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 11:53:43 PDT 2000

33562 call an exorcist! -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ASSOCIATED PRESS, DELHI CA: Deputies found Aurelia Lange lying on the bathroom floor, her decapitated head by her side. Her teenage son was nearby, naked, covered in blood and reading a Bible. Investigators believe David Lange cut off his mother's head with a kitchen knife, but they don't know why. "This is really weird because there's no history [of violence] on this guy at all," Assistant Merced County Sheriff Henry Strength said.

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 06:53:33 PDT 2000

33563 polls -- rank: 1000

[Brad DeLong asked the other day what's up with the Voter.com poll, which is the only major one now showing W in the lead. Here's an answer, via the AAPOR list.] Washington Post - September 20, 2000 The Poll Less Traveled By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, September 20, 2000 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I . . . took the one less traveled by - Robert Frost Diverging roads make for good poetry. But diverging tracks make for lousy daily tracking polls. ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 07:43:58 PDT 2000

33564 lbo-talk-digest V1 #3370 -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Yeah, I used to try to argue this line with professors, with about the same >results. Raises the eternal questionof the left, why do so many people so >vehemently reject what is so obviously in their own self interest? --jks For one, they overestimate their own bargaining power and possibilities for upward mobility. For two, unions are for vulgar workers, not for distinguished professionals! Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 07:36:25 PDT 2000

33565 Gore rising, Ralph sinking, Pat sunk? -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >> ** among Likely Voters > >Is there any data on what percentage of the population intends to vote? I asked Gallup this question. They responded by pointing me to a little essay on the topic of predicting the "likely voter": <http://www.gallup.com/poll/fromtheed/ed0005.asp>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 07:01:30 PDT 2000

33566 CIA funded Eurofederalists -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - September 19, 2000 Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement. The documents confirm suspicions voiced at the time that America was working aggressively behind the scenes to push Britain into a European state. One memora ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 06:57:28 PDT 2000

33567 TheStreet.com: crunching sounds -- rank: 1000

AtNewYork.com - September 20, 2000 == TheStreet.com Hit Hard by Ad-Spending Decline == The sharp drop in advertiser spending has left another dot-com content play facing the financial crunch. TheStreet.com (Nasdaq: TSCM), which provides financial news and commentary, warned yesterday it wouldn't meet revenue projections for the fiscal third quarter, blaming the downturn in ad spending and the snail-paced implementation of news distribution deals. Chief Executive Officer Tom Clarke is again throw ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 12:08:26 PDT 2000

33568 geeks -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >Ya know, I really think that the left hasn't a CLUE about why people are >libertarians, and what a libertarian is (and Kelley aptly pointed out >that many on the other side don't fully understand the differences within >the left and between liberalism). > >Many geeks are libertarians because we believe that a highly centralised >and powerful State leads inevitably to tyranny. That people think it has >dick to do with paying less taxes shows how cluele ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 09:49:52 PDT 2000

33569 Fwd: Klein column: Oil -- rank: 1000

Globe and Mail (Toronto) - September 20, 2000 Why Big Oil backed the fuel protests in Europe By Naomi Klein When I arrived in London on Sunday, the city was like a jittery heroin junkie who had just shot up. The panic that gripped Britain when a coalition of truckers and farmers blockaded the nation's oil refineries had been replaced with an unreal calm. The gas was flowing again and, at the stations, dazed customers injected their tanks with rivers of unleaded. As is the case with any powerful ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 11:16:42 PDT 2000

33570 newspapers -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >11. The Left Business Observer is read by the people who should never be >allowed to run any country ...unless they want to run it into the ground. Back during the '92 campaign, I ran into Andy Kopkind after a Jerry Brown rally in New York (a rally at which the Ramones provided musical entertainment, during which Joey Ramone declared: "I never fucking voted for anyone in my fucking life, but I'm fucking voting for fucking Jerry Brown, man!"). Andy, w ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 09:38:56 PDT 2000