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34666 burn followup -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Is there any way to hasten this process? There have to be some creative >ways to hasten the destruction of these annoying dot-coms and return San >Francisco to its rightful inhabitants. The more you do biz with them, the more they lose! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 09:38:41 PST 2000

34667 Congratulations on Doug's counterspin appearance -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >You make is seem like "hedge fund Maoist" is denigrating. Actually I think it's kind of funny. But the serious point I'm trying to make by using it is to show how elitist his brand of revolutionary politics is, with the Party serving as a substitute authoritarian bourgeoisie in the machine of accumulation. So he can approve of the Taylorist restructuring of Chinese work organization, denounce unions as sinister plots, and reject political democracy as a sham. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 09:13:28 PST 2000

34668 Taming Russias oligarchs -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >This is the heart of this week’s Stratfor analysis: > >“To avoid going the way of Yeltsin, Russia's leader faces a fairly >seamless web of choices. He has to get the country's economy going >and to do that he must get control of the oligarchs. To get control >of the oligarchs, he must both entice them and frighten them. To >frighten them, he must create a sense of national embattlement that >strengthens his regime and puts them at risk. To create that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 09:04:29 PST 2000

34669 Fwd: Weekly Analysis March 27, 2000 -- rank: 1000

[I normally don't forward these but this one seems unusually interesting. Don't know if it's accurate, but who does?] STRATFOR.COM Weekly Global Intelligence Update 27 March 2000 After the Election: Putin's Plans for Russia Summary With slightly more than 50 percent of the vote, it appears that Russia's interim leader, Vladimir Putin, has captured the presidency outright. Western leaders appear befuddled over just who this man is, what he wants and what he is likely to do. Indeed, the curious no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 08:01:05 PST 2000

34670 US credit markets -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies writes in his daily commentary today: >All in all, the confidence of the US Treasury and equity markets stands in >stark contrast to the turmoil that is developing in domestic credit >markets. Daniel, could you amplify on this for the people? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 07:54:48 PST 2000

34671 Fwd: (50 Years) on-line petition for 50 Years demands -- rank: 1000

From: soren at igc.org Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:37:22 -0500 Hello 50 Years Is Enough Network Members & Friends: A little over a week ago we sent out our demands of the IMF and World Bank on the occasion of their Spring Meetings and the massive Mobilization for Global Justice. We asked organizations to indicate their support for those demands by writing to demands50years at yahoo.com. NOW we are asking for individuals to lend their support to this effort in a new way. Our demands have been ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 27 07:39:44 PST 2000

34672 burn list -- rank: 1000

[uh, better late than never...] TODAY IN BARRON'S ONLINE Barron's - March 20, 2000 Burning Up Warning: Internet companies are running out of cash -- fast By JACK WILLOUGHBY When will the Internet Bubble burst? For scores of 'Net upstarts, that unpleasant popping sound is likely to be heard before the end of this year. Starved for cash, many of these companies will try to raise fresh funds by issuing more stock or bonds. But a lot of them won't succeed. As a result, they will be forced to sell ou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 07:19:24 PST 2000

34673 burn followup -- rank: 1000

[and the followup from today's Industry Standard] Barron's Goes Mano a Mano With the Net - Again Net fans love to skewer Barron's for its refusal to bow to the New Economy. But when the cantankerous weekly issued a life-expectancy chart for 200 Netcos, tracking the dust-up that followed grew tricky. The reason? Several media outlets showed up on the endangered Net species list. The fuss began when Barron's hired Pegasus Research International to sift through fourth-quarter data for 207 public Ne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 07:20:31 PST 2000

34674 Ventura joins China lobby -- rank: 1000

AP - Sunday March 26 1:39 PM ET Ventura To Lobby on China Trade By JONATHAN D. SALANT, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he will work to help the Clinton administration win passage in Congress of permanent normal trade relations with China. ``I've been asked by the administration to take a very lead role on trade of which I'm honored, and I will take that lead,'' Ventura said on ``Fox News Sunday.'' ``I believe in doing what's best for our country, and i ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 27 07:06:40 PST 2000

34675 optimism about Russia - the Chinese model -- rank: 1000

Russia's Putin seen creating pro-investor economy By Karl Emerick Hanuska MOSCOW, March 27 (Reuters) - Acting President Vladimir Putin's probable victory in Russia's presidential election should usher in long-awaited reforms to attract investors and get the economy back on track, analysts said on Monday. After apparently running up enough of the vote to avoid a runoff, Putin inherits an economy which, thanks to high oil and metals prices, is at its strongest in nearly a decade of political turbu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 06:14:59 PST 2000

34676 Congratulations on Doug's counterspin appearance -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Michael and others, go to the most recent counterspin at webactive, then go to >the bottom and you can find the archives. Are you talking about FAIR's radio program? I was on the CBC's TV program Counterspin. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 06:13:13 PST 2000

34677 [PEN-L:17408] [Fwd: EMPERORS CLOTHES? NEVER HEARD OF 'EM!] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox quoted: >The annoying thing is that >Cockburn >did not credit emperors-clothes which, after all, is no different from >any >other magazine; we expect to be credited for our work since our work is >our >reputation, etc. This is pretty funny. The list of Alex's uncredited sources would rival the Manhattan white pages. Even people who get explicit credit as co-authors are overlooked by most readers. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 26 16:34:28 PST 2000

34678 Israeli Citizenship Based on Allegiance, not blood (RE: Becoming stateless -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Not a very accurate description for a country that has accepted folks >ranging from Ethiopia to Russia - unless your idea of blood is so >wide-ranging. But only on the condition that they be Jews, no? And isn't the standard of being Jewish, aside from conversion, that your mother be Jewish? And isn't someone born in Brooklyn of a Jewish mother better situated to claim property in Israel than a Palestinian whose ancestors have lived in the neighborhood for eons? > ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 25 19:39:57 PST 2000

34679 Becoming stateless -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Not exactly. If I'm not mistaken you can convert >and then go, which is a lot like allegiance. Though the conversion standard is a matter of some controversy. Don't you have to be converted by an Orthodox rabbi now? But still, that's a pretty weird standard in the 21st century, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 25 19:24:37 PST 2000

34680 post-irony -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >You know folks on >LBO-talk & Marxism have no sense of irony -- beyond belief, past >redemption. :) Irony was so 20th century. We're post-ironic now. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 25 15:42:46 PST 2000