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34606 campus news -- rank: 1000

[Yoshie makes today's campus report from Sam Smith's Progressive Review.] ON CAMPUS MICHIGAN DAILY: Two-and-a-half months ago, it appeared that Michigan would renew its contract with Nike to provide athletic footwear and apparel for the Michigan Athletic Department through August 2006. But Nike director of college sports marketing Kit Morris told The Michigan Daily Thursday that the company has withdrawn from negotiations with the University and that he "doesn't foresee reentry." " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 14:12:26 PDT 2000

34607 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > >>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 05/01/00 04:50PM >>> >Apsken at aol.com wrote: > >>Doug wrote, >> >>> While the absolute immiseration thesis has turned out largely wrong - >> >>Whose absolute immiseration thesis? Is that a Zizek idea? Karl Marx wrote in >>Volume One of Capital, ". . . be his [sic] payment high or low, the lot of >>the worker must grow worse." > >Well ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 14:05:39 PDT 2000

34608 The Week -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: > But wouldn't a serious recession in the US make is less, not more, >likely that Europe will fully neoliberalize? Who knows? The Euro-elite seems committed to the project, for their own reasons. They don't want to live with substandard profitability and recalcitrant labor forever. > And for another, there is a growing movement against neoliberalism >both here and in Europe -- one which isn't very big yet but is already >pushing mainstream politics slightly to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 13:44:54 PDT 2000

34609 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Lenin's jokes Well, let's hear some. I'm a little blue today, I need cheering up. Are they as good as Uncle Joe's jokes? "Does the severed head mourn the hair?" That was always one of my favorites, whatever it means - though nothing beats "For some people, four walls are three too many." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 13:51:42 PDT 2000

34610 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >Doug wrote, > >> While the absolute immiseration thesis has turned out largely wrong - > >Whose absolute immiseration thesis? Is that a Zizek idea? Karl Marx wrote in >Volume One of Capital, ". . . be his [sic] payment high or low, the lot of >the worker must grow worse." Well that's just dead wrong, isn't it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 13:50:12 PDT 2000

34611 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Marx has three critiques of capitalism: > >--that capitalism impoverishes and immiserizes the overwhelming >majority of humanity: "the forest of upraised arms looking for work >gets thicker and thicker, while the arms get thinner and thinner"... > >--that anarchic capitalism is extraordinarily inefficient as a >social calculating mechanism for planning production and allocating >consumption relative to conscious democratic planning... > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 10:15:03 PDT 2000

34612 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >The U.S. already has massive use of murder as repression. Really? I didn't know that! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 10:09:47 PDT 2000

34613 Slavoj on Lenin -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Doug, can you stop this sort of shit, send it back to Proyect's >Marxism list or one of the sectarian lists where it belongs? Apsken, >no one here gives a flying farool how orthodox you are or if you >prostrate yourself before a bust of Lenin three times a day. I won't >deny anyone his religion, but yours is tedious. Go worship where >others enjoy reading each other out of the church as part of the >ritual. --jks Uh, well, obviously I don't agree wi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 10:06:45 PDT 2000

34614 eXile does Friedman -- rank: 1000

From: "Matthew Taibbi" <matt_taibbi at hotmail.com> Subject: eXile press review Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 Dear David, CHECHENZ WITH ATTITUDES ONLINE! Listen in to the most tasteless gangsta rap recording of all time through the miracle of the internet. Click on to the eXile website (www.exile.ru) to hear the hit single "Straight Outta Grozny", the first release of the eXile-produced jihad-rap band, "Chechenz With Attitudes." The studio-produced song, in both Russ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 09:59:52 PDT 2000

34615 Nike, WRC, U Mich -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 1, 2000 Nike Breaks Off Talks With U. of Michigan on Multimillion-Dollar Apparel Deal By WELCH SUGGS Nike Inc. unleashed a full-court press against the Worker Rights Consortium last week, and athletics departments across the country may find themselves on the defensive. The shoe and apparel giant broke off talks Thursday on renewing a sports-equipment contract with the University of Michigan -- a member of the anti-sweatshop consortium -- that migh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 09:51:57 PDT 2000

34616 Buffett: net as chain letter -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 1, 2000 Buffett warns against e-hype By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in Omaha The internet will create no more wealth than a chain letter and will damage the profits of most US businesses, Warren Buffett said this weekend. Addressing 15,000 shareholders at the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, America's wealthiest investor, said: "For society the internet's a wonderful thing, but for capitalists it's probably a net negative.'' Mr Buffett's aversion to investing in tec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 09:30:54 PDT 2000

34617 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >Aside from the injunction to cut off heads, has >Zizek ever adhered to this precept? The "cut off heads" remark was something of a joke, though I know that Lenin is very very serious business, almost as serious as the Blessed Virgin Mary. But the point of the joke is that something must be done to get beyond this seemingly permanent horizon of liberal/multicultural/Third Way capitalism. While Marx has been partly rehabilitated in intellectual circles, me ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 09:23:43 PDT 2000

34618 The Week -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >Brits may think they're looking down, but that's because they're looking >at a mirror which is pointed up. The mighty UK machine-tools industry >circa 1999, stats courtesy of the Gardner Group (note further that the US, >French and UK positions are inflated by continued excessive military >spending, something Canada, at least, can't be accused of): Just to play devil's advocate, who cares about machine tools? They're so noisy & messy. What's so good ab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 09:20:17 PDT 2000

34619 Law Day -- rank: 1000

[Not only is it Loyalty Day, it's Law Day!] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release April 28, 2000 LAW DAY, U.S.A., 2000 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The freedom of America's citizens is sustained by American law. In crafting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, our Nation's founders wisely understood that liberty and law are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 09:13:20 PDT 2000

34620 Loyalty Day -- rank: 1000

[You may think it's May Day, but officialdom begs to differ.] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 1, 2000 LOYALTY DAY, 2000 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION In the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution, our Nation's founders first articulated the enduring ideals that have sustained our democracy -- freedom, self-determination, justice, and equality. Each year we set aside ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 09:10:57 PDT 2000