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35146 GM for AA -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >it is surprising to hear Russian talked on the >underground these days [apropos of which...] New York Times - July 24, 2000 40 Percent in New York City Are Foreign-Born, Study Finds By BRUCE LAMBERT A human tidal wave has added one million immigrants to New York City in the last decade, propelling foreign-born residents to 40 percent of the population, an analysis of United States Census Bureau figures shows. That level of immigration has not been equaled for nearly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 12:35:27 PDT 2000

35147 e-finance & c-banks -- rank: 1000

E-COMMERCE SEEN POSING RISKS FOR CENTRAL BANKS. Central banks will face tough choices as lenders of last resort as the spread of electronic commerce blurs the lines between traditional banking and New Economy companies, a Dow Jones story in the Wall Street Journal (p.B19C) reports a new World Bank study has found. Rapid technological change in the financial-services industry is bringing a whole range of institutions into prominence within the international monetary system. According to the bank ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 10:04:05 PDT 2000

35148 Soviet science: Guardian series, 1 -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] The Guardian (UK) 24 July 2000 [for personal use only] Town where a Soviet dream turned sour Its scientists were the envy of the world. Now some of the top brains are manual workers. Our three-part series on the decline and rebirth of Russian science begins in Siberia Amelia Gentleman in Akademgorodok Beneath the streets of Akademgorodok a maze of tunnels links key buildings so that academics in Russia's science town never need emerge into the harsh Siberian temperat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 09:37:49 PDT 2000

35149 loony business models (cont.) -- rank: 1000

InfoWorld Scoop - July 24, 2000 PAY-TO-SURF STUMBLES Posted at Jul 21, 2000 03:56 PM Pacific SOON AFTER ALLADVANTAGE.COM started paying users to surf the Web the company grew quickly to 7 million registered members. AllAdvantage set up offices worldwide. What seemed a novelty 16 months ago when the company started caught on and copycat sites sprung up. Like all things Internet, the novelty wore off quickly. Last week AllAdvantage announced it had fired 60 workers, or about 10 percent of its staf ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 09:33:03 PDT 2000

35150 Fwd: [fc.network] FC Sporadic for Monday, July 24, 2000 -- rank: 1000

The FC Network - http://www.fuckedcompany.com Hi People, Not like anyone noticed (or cared), but I've been gone for a few days. I'm back now. Just got back to NYC from San Francisco. WebZine2000 (www.webzine2000.com) was tres cool. I hear you'll be able to download video from the event soon. I met so many cool people -- it's too bad SF is as fucked as it is. So... here's the good stuff. Many more new ones not in this newsletter are on FC. rock on, pud http://www.fuckedcompany.com --- Feature ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 07:00:12 PDT 2000

35151 more on CIA docs -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 24, 2000 Classified CIA documents leaked on internet By Thomas Catan in New York A man claiming to be a former Japanese agent yesterday said he was the source of several secret documents about US and Japanese intelligence services posted on the internet at the weekend. Hironari Noda said he had leaked the embarrassing documents, including a classified CIA overview of the US intelligence services prepared for visiting Japanese officials in 1998 and directories of top offici ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 07:03:16 PDT 2000

35152 CIA secrets on web! -- rank: 1000

[just tried visiting jya.com - either it's overloaded or the CIA is pinging it to death] Washington Post - July 23, 2000 Web Site Posts Secret CIA Briefing Papers By Vernon Loeb and Doug Struck Washington Post Staff Writers A secret CIA overview of the U.S. intelligence community prepared for visiting Japanese intelligence officials has been posted on an Internet site frequented by activists opposed to government secrecy, prompting security concerns among intelligence officials and their oversee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 06:51:29 PDT 2000

35153 GM for AA -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In Britain, and I guess most of Europe, right now, East Europeans are >the 'lowest of the low', in the most menial jobs and heavily persecuted >by the authorities. By contrast, the official politics is self- >consciously anti-racist as far as prejudice against people on the basis >of colour holds. Are Eastern Europeans racialized? Or is something else going on? Does culture take the place of biology as the defining characteristics of difference? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 24 06:57:28 PDT 2000

35154 Krugman quality control worsens -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Japan's >"current economic morass" (which I *still* can't see) Hmm? You mean it still looks prosperous? Pls elaboate... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 06:33:31 PDT 2000

35155 logic -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >It is >not, quote, impossible, that the New Economy and >associated productivity revolution might vastly >increase US non-price competitiveness, open up new >markets, blah, blah, Internet, blah, and square the >circle by changing the equilibrium relationship >between domestic demand and the current a/c balance. >No, I don't think it's particularly likely either. >But that's the escape podule for bulls. So why has trade deficit been expanding? If t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 06:29:50 PDT 2000

35156 Nader & labor -- rank: 1000

New York Times - July 23, 2000 THE GREEN PARTY Nader Talks, Labor Listens and Many Democrats Worry By STEVEN GREENHOUSE COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 22 -- Ralph Nader was on a tear, railing against chief executives' salaries, the corporate-dominated campaign finance system and cuts in factory inspections. Several of the steelworkers seated around him were nodding, and then nodding again, in silent approval. For a few minutes at least on Friday, it seemed as if the steelworkers' cynicism about politics a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 13:26:59 PDT 2000

35157 shadow conventions -- rank: 1000

<http://www.shadowconventions.com>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 22 11:57:14 PDT 2000

35158 Jude on Cheney: present at the creation -- rank: 1000

[The latest bulletin from the Wanniski shop.] From: jwanniski at polyconomics.com (Jude Wanniski) The report that Dick Cheney is now the frontrunner to be Bush's vp pick is very good news. I was really alarmed to think it would be John McCain or even Fred Thompson. That is because they represent distinct factions of the GOP and are hard-liners on military matters. Cheney was SecDef, but worked well with Colin Powell, who would be SecState. The two would be careful about a costly, gung-ho expansi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 22 10:50:25 PDT 2000

35159 The ABCs of the limits of private debt in the US -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >"What if they start saving again?" Wynne Godley on the US economy > >London Review of Books: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n13/godl2213.htm Godley predicted the ugly end of the Thatcher boom, one of the few economists to do so. Maybe that gives him some extra credibility, or maybe it's a coin toss. The other night on my radio show, Ellen Frank, an economist, said that "we don't really understand how the economy works." I saw a piece by Brad De Long ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 13:15:03 PDT 2000

35160 Fwd: DEBATE: (Fwd) UN protest action -- rank: 1000

[Damn IFG is everywhere.] ATTENTION ALL ANTI-GLOBALIZATION, PRO-DEMOCRATIZATION ACTIVISTS! A Coalition has formed to organize a massive people's presence at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York City on September 6-8th, 2000. This is the largest gathering of heads of state in history, and it demands the energetic attention of all those fighting against the continued path of the globalization, militarization and de-democratization of the world. We are envisioning a week of teach-ins an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 13:16:05 PDT 2000