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34321 CounterPunch plug on "Law and Order" -- rank: 1000

Uday Mohan wrote: > > And MacCauley Caulkin was reading the Chomsky Reader on Saturday Night >> Live on a skit, some years back. > >It was one of the SNL regulars, Rob Schneider I think, not Caulkin. The pious one, what's her name - Mel? - from Thirtysomething, had an identity crisis after reading an issue of The Nation. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 27 09:12:38 PDT 2000

34322 China 'Short-term pain, long-term gain' -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Brad, you have written about this statistic several times. I like >to know more >about the statistic. Does it take into account the fact that when a >self-sufficient farmer comes to town, he/she needs to purchase >commodities that >he/she may have produced by himself/herself? Does the statistic take into >account this monetization of the standard of living? How is the statistic >calculated? Is it affected greatly by the exchange rate of the I ...

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Date:	Sat May 27 07:25:33 PDT 2000

34323 Polly Esther -- rank: 1000

Peter K wrote: >Here's a short biopiece on Suck.com's Polly Esther. God, I bet she has a >southern drawl. Pinch me, I think I'm in love. > >http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=382 "Havrilesky grew up in North Carolina, the daughter of a Duke University economics professor dad. She felt alienated as a kid.... " Economists will do it to you every time! Doug

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Date:	Sat May 27 07:28:35 PDT 2000

34324 NK -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Freedom to move... >Freedom of occupation... >Freedom to quit your job... >Freedom to travel... >Freedom to read... > >There is a very wide gap between a garden-variety dictatorship and >North Korea under Juche, and there is a wide gap between the >relatively soft rule exercised by really existing socialism in >post-WWII eastern Europe and what we *think* went on in North Korea. >God-Kings are not one of the more pleasant forms of rule that h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 27 07:19:18 PDT 2000

34325 WB and IMF -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr wrote: >Let's pin it down. The problem with the WB is >that it loans rather than grants? that a lot of its >projects "fail"? that a lot of its projects are environmentally >damaging? that some of its projects are structural >adjustments or related to privatization/marketization? >that it is dominated by the US? or that it is >a front man for world capitalism which would still exist >if it were to be eliminated? (or some or all of the ...

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Date:	Fri May 26 13:50:17 PDT 2000

34326 expanded government snooping -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg052300.htm> San Jose Mercury News - May 22, 2000 Bill is a sneak attack on our digital liberties BY DAN GILLMOR Mercury News Technology Columnist THE uproar was fierce but quick last summer when an internal Clinton administration document leaked out, revealing yet again the administration's hostility to fundamental liberties. The idea was to give law enforcement the authority to secretly break into people's homes and businesses to con ...

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Date:	Fri May 26 12:49:39 PDT 2000

34327 Fwd: LUNTZ -- rank: 1000

[from the American Association for Public Opinion Research list] AAPORITES, The current issue of Salon, an online magazine, is entitled: Why should we trust this man? Frank Luntz is king of the pollster pundits, but don't ask him where his numbers come from. Here is the address: http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/05/26/luntz/index.html I was on our council when the standards case was brought against Frank Luntz. It took a great deal of our time, and much much more from our president. ...

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Date:	Fri May 26 12:23:12 PDT 2000

34328 WB and IMF -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr wrote: > With respect to the debt issue, it is not my impression >that any of these countries have gotten into serious debt >problems because of WB loans. Can you name one ever? >It is the private banking sector loans that have gone along >with these that have been the problem usually. Barkley, why do you insist on implying that I or anyone like me thinks the WB is the sole guilty party? It's the lead dog of the development establishment, but it has ple ...

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Date:	Fri May 26 12:20:31 PDT 2000

34329 NK -- rank: 1000

The North Korea thread's getting a bit tedious, with people just rehashing the same material over & over. Could we bring it to a close? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 26 12:15:58 PDT 2000

34330 Subject: Re: China -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >A number of Congressional Black Caucus >defections were based on a whole new round of tax breaks and other >subsidies for inner city areas agreed to by Clinton and the GOP >leadership, so they rangled a price for agreement. Rangel'd you mean? C'mon, you're not buying the Kemp approach, are you? Tax breaks for the likes of the Disney Store on 125th St in Harlem? Might be good for Rangel's buddies in the Harlem establishment, but as for your average resident of Le ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 26 09:28:59 PDT 2000

34331 WB and IMF -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr wrote: >But, it is unclear to me that the WB >can be held responsible for these "failures," Of course it can't be held responsible in isolation; it's part - a central part - of an entire political/economic structure that produces "failure" (which is actually success from a system-maintenance point of view). Countries with weak industrial structures, if they have industries at all, are condemned to large current account deficits, which they must fin ...

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Date:	Fri May 26 09:14:53 PDT 2000

34332 Dream Date Al -- rank: 1000

[Cutting-edge political research here. This item appears below another that claims that Goldman Sachs estimates that all privately held Treasury debt could disappear by 2007, if the USG keeps piling up surpluses at this rate. What will Wall Street - the world? - do without a Treasury market?] Wall Street Journal - May 26, 2000 DATING GAME: They aren't single, but would women want to date Gore or Bush? Worried because Bush is doing better among female voters, the Gore campaign convenes a focus gr ...

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Date:	Fri May 26 09:04:25 PDT 2000

34333 Run on the Bank -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Thu, 25 May 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Even the way he ogles women gives lust a bad name. > >Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, from Rebecca West's novel, _The >Thinking Reed_. (I first ran into it as a captionn under a picture in >Cockburn & Silverstein's _Washington Babylon_): "[He was the sort of man >who] even when he was peering down a woman's breasts managed to look as >though he was thinking about India." Ni ...

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Date:	Fri May 26 08:27:56 PDT 2000

34334 Subject: Re: China -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >A few days I stated that 'free trade = eliminate >the social safety net, for practical political purposes'. When I interviewed Robert Reich for the Nation's WTO roundtable, he said: >But the political reality is that winners don't compensate losers. >The only way those who lose from free trade can hope to be >compensated is if they actively oppose it and hope to be paid off by >those who gain the most from it. In other words, the hope that their >o ...

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Date:	Fri May 26 08:24:25 PDT 2000

34335 dead.com -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 25, 2000 Reality Bites Hard as a String Of Dot-Coms See Funding Dry Up By DAVID P. HAMILTON and MYLENE MANGALINDAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Get ready for a pileup of corpses in the land of dot-coms. Just months ago, when the Internet seemed to promise untold stock-market wealth, Web companies could count on their backers to keep pouring in more money whenever the coffers ran dry. Now that party is suddenly over, and Web investors are in brutal triage m ...

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Date:	Thu May 25 15:00:55 PDT 2000