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35131 Fwd: (50 Years) South Africa Archbishop calls for debt repudiation -- rank: 1000

From: Soren [Ambrose] <Soren at afgj.org> ARCHBISHOP ISSUES URGENT CALL TO STOP SERVICING DEBT Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane has issued an urgent call to the world's highly indebted poor countries (HIPC) to close ranks and refuse to service their debt to the G-8 countries. "The G-8 summit, held in Japan last week, was not only the most expensive but a slap in the face to the many poor countries that have already paid the capital amount owed several time over. In South Afr ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 16:15:01 PDT 2000

35132 DoS hits spy site -- rank: 1000

Wired News - 1:45 p.m. Jul. 24, 2000 PDT Attack on Spy Activist's Site by Declan McCullagh A website that distributed secret documents from U.S. and Japanese intelligence agencies apparently is under siege in a denial-of-service attack. The publisher of cryptome.org, which houses a massive archive of files related to spy agencies, recently started publishing a series of classified CIA documents and personnel files related to Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency. That resulted in a deluge ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 14:58:31 PDT 2000

35133 Godley: drowning in debt -- rank: 1000

"Drowning In Debt" 7-26-00 From: Jerome Levy Economics Institute by Wynne Godley From its latest policy note, the Levy Institute writes that the U.S. expansion has been driven to an unusual extent by falling personal saving and rising borrowing by the private sector. If this process goes into reverse, as has happened under comparable circumstances in other countries, there will be a severe recession unless there is a big relaxation in fiscal policy. <http://www.levy.org/docs/pn/00-6 ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 14:25:22 PDT 2000

35134 "One Market Under God, and Heaven Help Us All" -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >This was a persuasive review. I just pre-ordered it. I've read the book in galleys. It's truly excellent. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 12:14:28 PDT 2000

35135 Fwd: John Pilger's valuable new web site -- rank: 1000

From: Anthony Arnove <arnove at igc.org> Dear Friends, The radical journalist John Pilger -- who recently made the important anti-sanctions documentary "Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq" -- is launching a new web site with a wealth of fantastic journalistic material. The web site ("Hidden Agendas: The Films and Writings of John Pilger Online") can be found at either http://www.johnpilger.com or http://www.carlton.com/pilger. To mark the tenth anniversary o ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 11:34:31 PDT 2000

35136 Napster encourages CD-buying -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - July 21, 2000, 4:00 PM PDT Stats Speak Kindly of Napster Recent data shows that the free song-swapping service actually increases music buying. By Laura Carr Two new sets of data on Napster came out in the past few days - and it looks as if the Recording Industry Association of America may be in for a bit of a disappointment. The trade industry association is alleging in a lawsuit against Napster that it's responsible for lost music revenue because of its free-music downloads. ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 11:07:01 PDT 2000

35137 Surplus NOT from Capital Gains Receipts (Re: Krugman qualitycontrol -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Only if you credit him for the boom. Some don't, except in >the >backward sense that he hasn't tried very hard to kill it. Surely AG's greatest achievement was not tightening in '96, when there was great pressure from his colleagues and from Wall Street to do so. The Asian collapse would have been a real humdinger if he had, and U.S. unemployment sure wouldn't be 4%-ish. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 26 06:18:06 PDT 2000

35138 Surplus NOT from Capital Gains Receipts (Re: Krugman quality control -- rank: 1000

christian11 at mindspring.com wrote: >Besides, what's so great about a surplus anyway? If it's a Democrat surplus, it's good. If it's a Republican surplus, it's Hoovernomics. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 25 12:14:17 PDT 2000

35139 Surplus NOT from Capital Gains Receipts (Re: Krugman quality control -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The share of income taxes paid by the top one-fifth of earners has risen >since the depths of Reaganomics - a big part of cutting the deficit. You're leaving out the Bush-era tax increases here. > The >top 5 percent of earners now provide more than half of federal income tax >revenues. The share of the income tax take from the top 1 percent, the >truly wealthy, has gone from 20 percent in 1983 to 29 percent now. If you broaden the analysis to include all ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 25 11:58:56 PDT 2000

35140 Krugman quality control worsens -- rank: 1000

Peter van Heusden wrote: >I assume this would be a regressive adjustment in the tax base. I have >often heard that the US budget surplus was, in part, a result of a change >in taxation during the mid-1990s, capturing a significant part of the >stock market gains. Is this true? About the only good thing Clinton ever did was to raise taxes on the top 1-2% of the distribution, from a marginal rate of 36% to 39.6%. This boosted revenues somewhat, but extremely high capital gains and a ge ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 25 09:20:15 PDT 2000

35141 Krugman quality control worsens -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Maybe the US is going to become a net oil >exporter or something weird like that? Snake oil, maybe. We produce vast quantities of it, though the domestic demand seems insatiable. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 25 09:15:58 PDT 2000

35142 Pacifica hires another expensive PR firm -- rank: 1000

To: freepac at recordist.com Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:49:18 -0400 FIGHT BACK! The Pacifica Foundation has hired an expensive PR fime Levisk Strategic Communications to turn reality on its head. This is an even bigger firm than Fineman Associates which was used for a brief period during the KPFA lock-out. Here is Levick's description of their activities, from their website http://www.levick.com/: "Law firms need media relations professionals who understand the media in their hometown as wel ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 25 08:53:01 PDT 2000

35143 Fwd: Security Problems in Microsoft Outlook -- rank: 1000

>X-From_: owner-motd-system at dont.panix.com Mon Jul 24 19:06:57 2000 >Delivered-To: motd-system at panix.com >From: <elr at panix.com> >Subject: Security Problems in Microsoft Outlook >To: motd-system at panix.com >Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:05:54 -0400 (EDT) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Sender: owner-motd-system at lists.panix.com >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: staff at panix.com > >(The following article has been automatically mirrored from MOTD) > >(Post ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 25 08:32:48 PDT 2000

35144 unusual request -- rank: 1000

Darren Puscas wrote: >Please don't send this outside of this site just yet. If I decide >not to do it I will circulate it later. Um, this list is archived in near-real-time, so once it's out there, it's there for the world to see. Google, and I don't know what other searchers, indexes it assiduously. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 24 14:10:18 PDT 2000

35145 CIA secrets on web! -- rank: 1000

Max - >The document is attached. It looks boring. That it does. Most of this stuff is highly unsurprising. >M. Smart How's 99? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 24 13:10:19 PDT 2000