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34006 new economy rant from Jim O'Connor -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Not consumption, but the campaign against consumer goods is the >expression of Marx's theory of commodity fetishism. [Along those lines, a quote from Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism I like to trot (ha) out from time to time, which sort of splits the diff between the two Jims.] 6. The genuine extension of the needs (living standards) of the wageearner, which represents a raising of his level of culture and civilization. In the end this can be traced back virtually com ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 3 11:08:44 PDT 2000

34007 "Sue OPEC," say the cretinous Schumer & Giuliani -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 3, 2000 SCHUMER'S SLICK SOLUTION TO ENERGY CRISIS IS SUE OPEC Tuesday,October 3,2000 By TOM TOPOUSIS OPEC's stranglehold on the U.S. energy market has some elected officials calling for an age-old solution: Drag the cartel of oil-producing nations into court. Sen. Charles Schumer, testifying at a hearing on heating-oil prices at City Hall yesterday, said he's co-sponsoring a Senate bill that would let U.S. lawyers sue OPEC in the World Court. "Some think it's a littl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 3 09:04:44 PDT 2000

34008 pollit and Nader -- rank: 1000

Nathan, I'm curious about your use of the word "elitist" to describe people who are critical of the leaders (and policies) of a ruling class party and the leaders (and policies) of unions and other organizations (NOW, NAACP) that are deeply tied to that party. This sounds like a variation on the old neocon/libertarian ploy of denouncing anyone critical of market values as an elitist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 3 08:42:32 PDT 2000

34009 abortion polls -- rank: 1000

[More of those tedious, mind-constricting polls. From Gallup's weekly update.] * RU-486 The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that the abortion pill RU-486 was approved for sale in the United States. The pill first debuted in France in 1988, offering women a less intrusive method of terminating a pregnancy than does a surgical abortion. But abortion foes have long opposed its approval for use in the United States. Indeed, this issue was immediately injected into the presidentia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 3 08:07:41 PDT 2000

34010 dot.com pink slip parties -- rank: 1000

Wired News - September 30, 2000 Laid-Off Dot-Commer? Let's Party by Michelle Delio NEW YORK -- Yesterday you were worth $1 million on paper. Today you're calculating how much you can collect from unemployment. The dark cloud of impending dot-com doom is spreading throughout the tech industry. Every day seems to bring news of another dot-demise, and suddenly the words, "I'm leaving to join an Internet startup" provoke not jealousy but snickers of disbelief. In Manhattan, the state of th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 2 16:39:27 PDT 2000

34011 Friday the 13th -- rank: 1000

[proof the stock market really is the tool of the devil?] "Friday the 13th: International Evidence" BY: BRIAN M. LUCEY University of Dublin, Trinity College Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=234828 Paper ID: TCD School of Business Working Paper Date: June 2000 Contact: BRIAN M. LUCEY Email: Mailto:blucey at mail.tcd.ie Postal: University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin 2, IRELAND Phone: + 353-1-702155 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 2 15:57:26 PDT 2000

34012 Fwd: "cross-fire" -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - October 2, 2000 Where 'caught in the crossfire' can leave no room for doubt By Robert Fisk When I read the word "crossfire", I reach for my pen. In the Middle East, it almost always means that the Israelis have killed an innocent person. When the Israelis fired shells into the United Nations compound at Qana in southern Lebanon in 1996, Time magazine printed a photograph of a dead baby with a caption saying it had been killed in "crossfire". This was un ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 15:07:30 PDT 2000

34013 PRAGUE DECLARATION - 28 Sep 2000 -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >You seem to be strangely indifferent to the open welcome that World Bank >president James Wolfensohn has given to the demonstrators: calling on >them to get involved. I see that he was debating Walden Bello. Can you >imagine Ronald Reagan debating Chomsky, or Margaret Thatcher debating >Arthur Scargill on a public platform? Wolfie is a master propagandist. He want to appear open, tolerant, and like he's "listening." Some NGOs have already been co-o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 2 15:10:09 PDT 2000

34014 blocking the Dick Armey -- rank: 1000

[better late than never - pointed to by Sam Smith's Progressive Review] Wired news - September 28, 2000 Hey Armey, You've Been Filtered by Joyce Slaton When Congressman Dick Armey (R-Texas) spoke up in favor of filtering software and other Net censorship measures, he probably didn't think it'd come back to bite him in the, um, ass. But irony being what it is, the House majority leader's own conservative Freedom Works site is one of the many blocked by filtering software, according to the winner ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 13:19:52 PDT 2000

34015 legal questions -- rank: 1000

[making the rounds...] Dear Dr. Laura, Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the specific laws and how to best follow them. a) When I burn a ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 12:13:08 PDT 2000

34016 PRAGUE DECLARATION - 28 Sep 2000 -- rank: 1000

Russell Grinker wrote: >Maybe. Maybe not. I would have thought an assessment of the "movement" >should base itself on something more than what the media say. I don't notice >a lot of grassroots resonance for its actions so far (or much coherence to >its politics for that matter). Well, I'm kind of at a loss to understand the coherence of yours. I take you for an LM kind of guy, which means you're sort of radical yet sort of procapitalist. Could you clarify? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 11:57:00 PDT 2000

34017 PRAGUE DECLARATION - 28 Sep 2000 -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >I'm not so sure. The press often denounce protests that are, for all >that, no direct challenge to the powers-that-be. They didn't complain much about the fuel protests, did they? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 11:03:44 PDT 2000

34018 Spreading rumors -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Maybe sometimes I sound like a grinch, but I have watched the left wander down >the dead-end canyons of rumor and conspiracism all too often in recent years. Chip, there's a difference between people who take rumor as fact, and those who take rumor as fun stuff to kick around - properly labeled and all, of course. Years ago, I talked with a former Vanity Fair factchecker who said she was regularly assigned to check out if things were rumors. She'd call people up and say ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 10:38:54 PDT 2000

34019 Trevor Manuel disses Proge protesters, others join in -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] SOUTH AFRICA'S MANUEL DISMISSES PRAGUE PROTESTERS. South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel dismissed as "alienated young people" the anti-globalization protestors who demonstrated at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Prague last week, reports Agence France-Presse. "They are alienated young people and that is what we have got to see and try and distinguish," said Manuel, who chaired the Fund and Bank meetings, upon h ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 09:26:23 PDT 2000

34020 libertarian socialism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Kelley, an old british defintion of a gentleman was someone >who never unintentionally insulted anyone. Leaving aside >the archaism of "gentleman," it's not a bad slogan. I just >referred to Russell Grinker in the third person -- partly >because it's been months, perhaps years, since I read him >except as quoted by someone else. I wouldn't dream of >addressing him or Rob Schaap directly. This indirect insult falls under the "gentleman" ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 09:23:39 PDT 2000