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34486 Fwd: 2000-05-11 Proclamation on Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: >By the way, if anyone has a source for national numbers comparing >violent police deaths versus police shootings of citizens, I'd love a >URL or a bibliographic citation. Don't know about the shootings, but 137 cops died on the job in 1998 <http://stats.bls.gov/special.requests/ocwc/oshwc/cfoi/cftb0115.txt>. It was about evenly divided between car accidents & violent assaults. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 12 12:25:04 PDT 2000

34487 Fwd: 2000-05-11 Proclamation on Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week -- rank: 1000

[Awaiting the proclamation of National Gypsy Cabdrivers Week. Wojtek, how you going to celebrate?] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 11, 2000 PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY AND POLICE WEEK, 2000 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION From our earliest days as a Nation, America has been blessed with citizens of cou ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 10:19:08 PDT 2000

34488 Jude on Farrakhan -- rank: 1000

[strange bedfellows (cont.)] Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:03:41 -0400 To: politics at polyconomics.com From: jwanniski at polyconomics.com (Jude Wanniski) You may know that for the last four years I have been defending Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan against the almost universal belief that he is an anti-Semitic bigot. I recently persuaded the NYTimes to run a correction when it repeated the assertion that he had called the Pope the "anti-Christ," when in fact it was Khalid Muhamma ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 10:17:46 PDT 2000

34489 China's dissidents support PNTR -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 11, 2000 Dissidents Back China's WTO Entry Printer-Friendly VersionBy John Pomfret Washington Post Foreign Service BEIJING, May 10 -- As one of China's most prominent dissidents--enduring tapped phones, police surveillance and restrictions on everyday freedoms--Bao Tong could be expected to urge a hard line against the government in Beijing. But Bao has this message for the U.S. Congress: Pass permanent normal trade relations with China. Do not use it as a lever to try to i ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 10:14:44 PDT 2000

34490 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

M A Jones wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> Boris >> Kagarlitsky gets his paper copy through the Russian post office. > >He told you that, did he? Yup. And he's quoted from it in books, so unless he's got ESP, he's telling the truth. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 12 10:01:54 PDT 2000

34491 China goes capitalist -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >That's not what I hear. Amnesty Int'l says in 1999 China >executed over a thousand, the U.S. 98, though in the case >of the PRC, as Kathleen Turner says in Prizzi's Honor, >it's not so much as a proportion of the population. > >http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/2000/ACT/A5000800.htm For those who didn't follow this link, there's this morsel at the foot of the release: >In 1999, 85 per cent of all known executions took place in China, >Iran, Saudi Ara ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 09:35:41 PDT 2000

34492 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Is there a means to subscribe to an email-delivered format? Yup. <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_subinfo.html>. Though Boris Kagarlitsky gets his paper copy through the Russian post office. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 11 16:30:23 PDT 2000

34493 Let's adopt the Parliamentary System -- rank: 1000

Bill Cochrane wrote: >If I recall correctly NZ has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the >west, particularly amongst young males. Yes. Courtesy of your government's health ministry, I recently learned this: Male Female average year New Zealand 37.9 14.0 25.9 1996 Finland 36.6 8.4 22.5 1995 Australia 27.0 4.1 15.6 1994 Canada 24.7 4.9 14.8 1995 USA 23.4 ...

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Date:	Thu May 11 14:53:00 PDT 2000

34494 auction opp't'y -- rank: 1000

With eBay in the news and all... <http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=329300805>. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 11 14:49:20 PDT 2000

34495 AI on "institutionalized cruelty" in US -- rank: 1000

<http://www.amnesty.org/news/2000/25106800.htm> Amnesty International - News Release - AMR 51/68/00 9 May 2000 USA UN Committee against Torture must condemn increasing institutionalized cruelty in USA Amnesty International Public document AI Index AMR 51/68/2000 News Service Nr. 83 9 May 2000 UN Committee against Torture must condemn increasing institutionalized cruelty in USA Cruelty to detainees and prisoners is becoming institutionalized across the USA, Amnesty International said today, ...

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Date:	Thu May 11 11:54:50 PDT 2000

34496 US faces electricity shortage -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 11, 2000 Deregulation and Heavy Demand Leave Electricity Providers Short for the Summer By REBECCA SMITH Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Here's a sobering thought for the first summer of the new millennium: America is running short of electricity. In pockets of the country, from New York to New Orleans, and from Chicago to San Francisco, shortages are likely to strike as the days lengthen and the temperatures rise. The East Coast got a taste of what's coming w ...

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Date:	Thu May 11 09:48:34 PDT 2000

34497 Latins get gloomy -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 11, 2000 WORLD NEWS: THE AMERICAS: Latin Americans lose feeling of well-being ECONOMY DOWNTURN HAS LEFT PEOPLE CYNICAL ABOUT POLITICS: Latin Americans are losing faith in one another, as well as their political systems and the benefits of privatisation, according to a study published this week. The region-wide survey, by the Santiago-based Latinobarometro, suggests that last year's economic downturn in many Latin American countries left people feeling less optimistic than i ...

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Date:	Thu May 11 09:36:47 PDT 2000

34498 Wealth effect -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: > > But if you're right, why do you conclude that 5 interest rate hikes >> had nothing to do with the decline in retail sales? >> > >Because sales, consumer borrowing, inflows into stock funds, all continued >to skyrocket on the face of the interest rates increases. The first signs of >a slowdown didn't come until after the market unpleasantness. Of course, >post hoc not necessarily ergo propter hoc and all that, but the evidence is ...

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Date:	Thu May 11 09:14:09 PDT 2000

34499 Wealth effect -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >April retail sales plunge unexpectedly. -0.2% vs. expectations of +0.5%. >Apparently, the (partial) bursting of the bubble did what 5 interest >rates hikes and the certainty of more to come wouldn't. So far, my view >that the US economy is completely dependent on the stock bubble is born >out. I'd be careful about declaring the bubble burst on the basis of one month's retail sales figs. But if you're right, why do you conclude that 5 interest rate hike ...

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Date:	Thu May 11 08:39:03 PDT 2000

34500 China goes capitalist -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 11, 2000 China 'becoming more capitalist' By James Kynge in Shanghai China's dynamic private sector contributes almost as much to gross domestic product as the lumbering state enterprises that have been the bulwark of the ruling Communist party's economic power since the revolution 50 years ago. A landmark new report by the International Finance Corp (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, says that private businesses generated 33 per cent of China's GDP in 1998 co ...

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Date:	Thu May 11 08:01:42 PDT 2000