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34921 German power games on IMF -- rank: 1000

[I talked with a German journalist living in NYC yesterday who said that Schroder & Co. are much more aggressive about asserting German - not European - power against U.S. "hegemony," which is the word they use, than the Christian Democrats ever were or are now.] Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:58:30 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Weissman <rob at essential.org> To: stop-imf at venice.essential.org European Voice 24 February 2000 ANALYSIS = Power games behind battle over IMF job Frustrati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 2 08:24:54 PST 2000

34922 Germany to back down on Koch-Weser? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 2, 2000 Germany set to buckle under US pressure over IMF By Stephen Fidler in Washington, Haig Simonian in Berlin and Robert Graham in Paris Germany is preparing to withdraw its choice to lead the International Monetary Fund and rally round a new European candidate. The retreat marks a tacit acceptance that US opposition to Caio Koch-Weser, a senior German finance official who spent 25 years with the World Bank, makes his candidacy unsustainable. This week, European gover ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 2 07:29:00 PST 2000

34923 WTO the enemy, not China -- rank: 1000

From: Anuradha Mittal [mailto:amittal at foodfirst.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 12:36 PM To: fianusa-news at igc.topica.com Subject: The Real Enemy is the WTO, Not China (This is being distributed by the Progressive Media Project. If anyone wants to reprint it, please let us know.) The Real Enemy is the WTO, Not China by Anuradha Mittal and Peter Rosset* After a successful battle in Seattle, free trade opponents in the United States have launched the next big fight: No Permanent Most Fav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 2 07:09:57 PST 2000

34924 Europe gets pissy over Koch-Weser -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>Paul Krugman wrote: >> >>>Mr. Koch-Weser was the best Germany could find -- and he wasn't good enough. >> >>Funny, that's exactly how my source in the U.S. Treasury phrased it. >>It's "good enough" to plunge half the world into depression though. >> >>Doug > >A bit too telegraphic, Doug. Could you clarify your second sentence here? I'm talking about how the IMF, under Camdessus & his predecessors, have i ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 07:14:35 PST 2000

34925 animal rights -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: > Charles Darwin wrote [approximately, from memory], How can God exist, >when cats play with [i.e., torture] mice? Though the mad poet Christopher Smart says that cats toy with their victims because (also approximately, from memory) 1 in 9 escape. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 07:01:32 PST 2000

34926 IRS to tax colleges deal income? -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - IRS May Tax Colleges' Income From Exclusive Deals With Beverage and Clothing Companies By PATRICK HEALY WashingtonThe Internal Revenue Service put colleges on notice Wednesday that it may soon go after a growing and largely untaxed source of revenue: payments that soft-drink companies, athletic-gear manufacturers, and other corporations make to colleges in exchange for exclusive deals to provide goods and services on their campuses. In proposed regulat ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 06:51:08 PST 2000

34927 Greenspan worried about stox - in '94! -- rank: 1000

[If the market was "a little rich" with the Dow at 3800, what is it 5 years later and three times higher?] Wall Street Journal - March 2, 2000 Greenspan Was Afraid of Market Bubble In '94, and Rate Boost Sought to Prick It By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was concerned about a stock market bubble as early as 1994, and at least one interest-rate increase that year was aimed in part at cooling financia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 2 06:33:27 PST 2000

34928 Fed transcripts -- rank: 1000

By the way, the transcripts of the Fed's policymaking meetings are at <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/FOMC/Transcripts/default.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 2 06:34:47 PST 2000

34929 Calomaris on IMF -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 2, 2000 The IMF Needs More Than a New Boss By Charles W. Calomiris, a professor at Columbia Business School and a member of the International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission. Appointing a successor to Michel Camdessus as managing director of the International Monetary Fund promises to be a global opera bouffe with as many twists and turns as a Gilbert and Sullivan plot. Until recently it appeared that the European favorite, Caio Koch-Weser of Germany, would ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 2 06:28:33 PST 2000

34930 technical difficulties -- rank: 1000

Panix had some "connectivity" problems this evening; not sure if it interfered with the list, but if you sent something and it didn't arrive, that may be why. Seems all fixed now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 23:15:50 PST 2000

34931 Europe gets pissy over Koch-Weser -- rank: 1000

Paul Krugman wrote: >Mr. Koch-Weser was the best Germany could find -- and he wasn't good enough. Funny, that's exactly how my source in the U.S. Treasury phrased it. It's "good enough" to plunge half the world into depression though. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 23:04:26 PST 2000

34932 hate crimes weirdness -- rank: 1000

Speaking of prosecuting thoughts, this comes from a sidebar to a dull piece by Russ Baker on the Hillary-Rudy Senate race in the March 13 American Prospect called "Benito Giuliani," by Corey Robin and Steve Fraser, on the possible transit strike in NYC late last year: "Sensing a golden political opportunity to, in the words of his chief lawyer, 'save the people of the city...from a wide-ranging catastrophe,' Giuliani had Michael Pesce, a state administrative law judge, issue a tem ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 19:58:49 PST 2000

34933 animal rights -- rank: 1000

All you animal rights folks out there, every time I've seen a cat devour a mouse - with evident glee - I've wondered why we should give them any more consideration than they give each other. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 19:42:17 PST 2000

34934 Fwd: Those who have living very well wage! -- rank: 1000

[Original via Michael Eisenscher; reformatted, with total column added, and sorted by total, by your moderator. In 1998, the median U.S. household income was $38,885; average of top 5%, 222,283; of the $top 20%, $127,529] AFL-CIO Salaries and Benefits/Allowences for 1998 salary benefits total LIUNA, Arthur A. Coia: 335,674 86,120 421,794 BSOIW, Jake West: 196,390 184,750 381,140 AFSCME, Gerald McEntee: 352,404 16,800 369,2 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 19:42:17 PST 2000

34935 new right & indigenous peoples -- rank: 1000

Too long to post to the list, but I'll send it to anyone's who's interested; here are the first few grafs. From the interesting right-left list <http://coyote.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/right-left>. Doug ---- >'The Right to be Different' >The alarming interest of the "New Right" in indigenous peoples > >by Jan van Boeckel > > >A well-known expression of indigenous peoples is: "The Earth does not belong >to us, we belong to the Earth." Man is only ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 1 07:10:02 PST 2000