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33976 Populism v Marxist principles of unity (Re: nader and pollit -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So it is better to struggle >for the better within the compromises of existing mass organizations than to >promote the ideal in some separate formation. Does the Dem party qualify as an existing mass organization? NOW? NAACP? What's the test of whether an organization is mass or elite? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 08:51:43 PDT 2000

33977 Prez Debates - Round 1 -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Hmmm. If memory serves, you championed the cause (which seems quite >reasonable) that instead of doom-saying, a better way of criticising >capitalism is that things could be soooo much better than the status quo. >By implication, it is a call to extend privileges now enjoyed by the ruling >class & its mignons to the working class. Has that changed? It's pretty impossible to extend privileges to the masses by definition. What I think I've said and wh ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 08:23:24 PDT 2000

33978 The debate (gore buckling on pro-choice??) -- rank: 1000

JessEcoh at cs.com wrote: >the surprise for me was -- did i HEAR this right?? -- gore offering to >sign a bill banning so-called "partial-birth abortions" (with some caveats >about exceptions for the health of the mother)... or has gore been saying >this all along, and i'm so out of touch i didn't know about it?? what the >hell?? <http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/04/politics/04RTEXT2.html> Gore: "First of all, on the issue of partial-birth or so-called late-term ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 08:40:45 PDT 2000

33979 Federal Reserve - private or government owned? -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >But not much larger than could fill the Rose Bowl, as G. William Domhoff >liked to remind us--hope he stilll does. Is there a new edition of Who Rules >America Now? --jks Amazon says there's 1998 edition, on back order. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 08:35:21 PDT 2000

33980 Talk is cheap -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >I'm no True Believer in markets of any sort; but you >don't have to be in order to accept the general >proposition that people with something at stake tend >to give better answers than people without a quid in >the pot. This political stock market poll is a nice illustration of the problems with the EMH - the old joint hypothesis problem. No doubt the movement of prices quickly represents changes in opinion. But whose opinion? Do we know that the players are ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 09:06:26 PDT 2000

33981 Jagdish vs. the kids -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 5, 2000 INSIDE TRACK: Professors take on campus protesters US academics are in conflict with student anti-sweatshop activists, writes Nancy Dunne US college campuses are hardly the cauldrons of revolt that they were in the 1960s. However, one issue has stirred thousands of students preparing for their places in the "new economy": the plight of foreign factory workers who toil in unhealthy conditions for minuscule wages. Students in the national Anti-Sweatshop ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 09:08:42 PDT 2000

33982 True Confessions of Unreconstructed Cold Warriors -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >That is about as good an answer to "When did you stop beating your wife?" >question as I can muster. If there is a topic you want to discuss here, as >opposed to a sudden urge to provoke hostile exchanges, could you let me in on >it? Well, I did ask a specific question - where does the UFT stand on Sweeney? Does it think he's too "left wing"? I also mentioned Feldman's reluctance to appear at an anti-austerity rally because of the proxi ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 10:34:01 PDT 2000

33983 soc dem defended -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 5, 2000 COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Being flexible about flexibility: Europe does not need to abandon social democracy to match the economic performance of the US, argues Leif Pagro For a decade now, the ability of the US economy to direct resources into highly productive areas of the economy has left Europeans puzzled and envious. While the US boom defies all expectations, Europe is struggling to shake off persistent high unemployment and lack-lustre growth. Conventional w ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 10:51:21 PDT 2000

33984 Nader Wins the Debate -- rank: 1000

Marco Anglesio wrote: >That's true, but you would expect the same sample bias in each tracking >poll, unless they modified the criteria for likely voters over the course >of the tracking poll. I suspect that it's merely sample error, accounted >for in the confidence interval. One should expect the poll numbers to rise >and fall even if support within the sampled population is stable. Each pollster uses different techniques to project likely voters, which may account for the diff b ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 11:17:30 PDT 2000

33985 indulging a fetish -- rank: 1000

[warning: fetish object appended] ************************************************ The Gallup Poll: Presidential Election NewsAlert ************************************************ The latest presidential poll results are now on www.gallup.com Results for Oct 2-4, 2000 ** Bush: 40% Gore: 51% 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@pani ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 16:45:41 PDT 2000

33986 Fwd: Revolution in Yugoslavia? -- rank: 1000

Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ PM Thursday, October 5, 2000 Revolution in Yugoslavia? ROBERT HAYDEN, (412) 648-7404, (412) 421-1888, rhayden at pitt.edu Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of "Blueprints for a House Divided: The Constitutional Logic of the Yugo ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 16:46:44 PDT 2000

33987 De Soto -- rank: 1000

I'm interviewing Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian libertarian propagandist, on the radio tomorrow. Any ideas for questions? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 4 13:44:30 PDT 2000

33988 Federal Reserve - private or government owned? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >On the fitting into a large conference room, yea, but even though >this is a ruling _class_, so numbering in the 100,000's, doesn't it >have a sort of central committee/board of directors to carry out its >business ? An e-mail list or something ? In other words, something >of a representative action group ( I mean above national and local >states as "executive committees") ? Well, they've got two political parties, though Nathan assures us that t ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 4 13:10:09 PDT 2000

33989 NYC: independent politix conference -- rank: 1000

Micah Sifry asked me to announce the Independent Politics Conference being held this Friday and Saturday in NYC. For info: <http://www.independentpolitics.org/>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 4 12:11:35 PDT 2000

33990 Federal Reserve - private or government owned? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Denial that banking elites are the main sector of the ruling class >2000 must mean you are Rip Van Winkle. Wake up. It's the secrecy part that's a problem for me, and the narrowness of your definition of elites. A relative handful of financiers and industrialists own and control the U.S. capital stock. But we've got a pretty good idea of who they are and how they think. And it's more people than could fit into even a large conference room. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 4 11:57:00 PDT 2000