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34036 McReynolds/Hollis lead Gore, Bush, Nader in non-partisan poll -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >When I took the quiz it told me two things: >1) My candidate is David M. >2) I'm a moderate liberal. > >Uh yeah, right. So which is inaccurate? Doug PS: The AAPOR crowd seems mystified by the fact that while net polls shouldn't be accurate, they're more accurate than they should be.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 1 09:39:56 PDT 2000

34037 Lessig on copyrights -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,18964,00.html> Industry Standard - September 29, 2000 Copyrights Rule Courts are racing to enjoin alleged violators of copyright law, taking no account of the effects on the development of the Internet. By Lawrence Lessig As the copyright wars rage on in courts across the country - the deCSS case in New York, MP3.com and Napster in California, Cyberpatrol in Massachusetts - some people are beginning to ask a very interesting question: Why ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 1 09:16:10 PDT 2000

34038 LBO-Talk = the W.W.F.? (was Re: Spreading rumors) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >But I don't see any way of downloading the lofty insights of this >imperious level of discourse into the domain of "duh people," I think this sort of attitude underestimates "duh people," and misjudges even people on this list. It takes a lot of work by highly paid media and political professionals to keep the masses under- and misinformed. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 1 09:22:49 PDT 2000

34039 supply siders pissed at Alan -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >So why the Novak hatchet job on Greenspan? For all you Novak fans out there, you can get his recent columns at <http://www.suntimes.com/index/novak.html>. Hey Nathan, does this mean that Greenspan is part of the great progressive coalition after all? ----------------- November 23, 2000 A SECRET SUPPORTER FOR GORE By Robert Novak Alan Greenspan, the revered chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who once was a highly partisan Republican, takes the non-political nature ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 30 16:52:01 PST 2000

34040 The Color of Money -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >I said: > >>Btw, for those wanting to track it down, Kuper's book is not >>available from the US >Amazon but is from the Amazon.co.uk. > >...But having just read on Pen-L that Amazon's fighting a >unionisation drive (thanks, Max), I'll recommend Sportsbooks Direct, >instead. ...though the workers themselves are asking us not to boycott Amazon.com. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 30 15:58:43 PST 2000

34041 Fwd: FW: Don't boycott Amazon.com -- rank: 1000

From: Mary Beth Maxwell [mailto:mmaxwell at cwa-union.org] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 12:25 PM To: jwj-list at igc.topica.com Subject: support for workers organizing at Amazon.com Please circulate widely to Jobs with Justice activists, friends and allies Customer service workers at amazon.com in Seattle, WA have been working to organize a union. They call their organization Day2 at amazon.com ("until we have a voice, it remains Day 1"). It is affiliated with Washtech/CWA. Ama ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 30 10:46:33 PST 2000

34042 supply siders pissed at Alan -- rank: 1000

[it's been a while since I indulged my Wanniski vice] Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from http://www.polyconomics.com) November 30, 2000 KEMP BLASTS GREENSPAN!! Memo To: Alan Greenspan From: Jude Wanniski Re: Kemp is MAD at you!! Wow, Alan. You know I've been irked at you for the last three years -- ever since you told me you did not want me to send you any more friendly criticism about how you were deflating the economy and hurting commodity producers all over the worl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 30 09:21:59 PST 2000

34043 Fw: [ASDnet] What Went Wrong for Ralph? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The Greens "might" consider building alliances with other groups? That the >word "might" is even used is the best explanation for why Nader and the >Greens failed, since they treat other progressives as unneeded or even >illegitimate representatives of progressive values. Dunno about the Greens, but Nader & Co. are notorious for their inability to work in coalitions. If they're in one, they want to dominate it - or they'll go it alone. F ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 30 09:27:50 PST 2000

34044 Napster hiring! -- rank: 1000

Message seen when signing on Napster: >Would you like to join an exciting company where your work will have >far-reaching impact? If so, Napster is hiring >(http://www.napster.com/company/jobs.html). They pay in cash? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 19:41:00 PST 2000

34045 FW: N30 Statement (Pls. Forward) -- rank: 1000

Tom Waters wrote: >Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote > >> Does someone on the list have the technical know-how and >> equipment to 'translate' this post into plain text? I absolutely >> refuse to fwd coded posts. > >Save the message as a text file. Open it with a word processor or text >reader. Cut the part you want to forward. Then past it in your outgoing >message. Easier, use the text translator in Eudora. Highlight, click, text. For tougher jo ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 19:34:37 PST 2000

34046 kinky interspecies sex on the Ellipse -- rank: 1000

> THE WHITE HOUSE > > Office of the Vice President >________________________________________________________________________ >For Immediate Release November 29, 2000 > > TIPPER GORE TO TOP THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE > >Mrs. Tipper Gore will top the National Christmas Tree on Thursday, >November 30, 2000 at 10 a.m. at The Ellipse Park south of the White >House. For mo ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 17:48:00 PST 2000

34047 battle lines: a highly tendentious rendering -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Where's that puppy St. Clair? <sitka at home.com> Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 13:51:25 PST 2000

34048 battle lines: a highly tendentious rendering -- rank: 1000

[Max - good to see you guys recycle!] "But criticism of the street warriors [in Seattle] was not confined to the corporate custodians of 'free-market' commercial morality. Here was the line-up on this important battleground. On the one side: lib-lab pundits, flacks for John Sweeney and James Hoffa like the Nation's Marc Cooper, Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower, middle-of-the road [sic] greens, Michael Moore, a recycle binful of policy wonks from the Economic Policy Institute and kindred DC thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 29 12:54:57 PST 2000

34049 Simple question on sanctions -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Does the left have a consistent policy on sanctions? With South Africa, we >derided "constructive engagement" as being a tool for apartheid and an >excuse for corporate expansion, calling for nothing less than absolute >sanctions and total divestment (even if that did cause some short-term >economic difficulty). But then liberals (and some on the real left) seem to >support something which seems very much like "constructive engagement" fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 29 10:14:41 PST 2000

34050 Election Crisis and Electoral Reform -- rank: 1000

B. Deutsch wrote: >Is there some LBO-list rule I don't know about which forbids >pro-Iraq-sanctions posters from presenting any arguments or evidence in >support of their opinions? No. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 10:17:36 PST 2000