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35401 Fwd: Re: apathy? -- rank: 1000

[More bad news for those cheered by apathy...] People & The Press data: Presidential Campaign Gains Attention Interest in the presidential election has risen slowly but steadily since last summer and is now higher than at a comparable period in past election cycles. Fully 19% are following news about this year's presidential election very closely, up from 11% in June 1999, when the Pew Research Center began asking whether Americans were following the campaign. And the percentage following ve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 09:40:15 PST 2000

35402 Wash Post on WB/IMF troublemaking -- rank: 1000

[Thank god those badass "anarchists" are safely isolated in Oregon!] Washington Post - January 26, 2000 Protesters At WTO Plan D.C. Follow-Up By John Burgess Washington Post Staff Writer Activist groups that paralyzed downtown Seattle during the World Trade Organization conference late last year plan to converge on Washington in April to protest a joint meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund--with some groups pledging to "shut down" the gathering with civil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 09:45:14 PST 2000

35403 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine - World Economic Forum Davos -- rank: 1000

From: Press <press at icftu.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:19:39 +0100 INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine 018/260100/DD World Economic Forum: 27 January - 1 February 1999 World Labour Leaders promise a fresh start for Globalisation and call for social alliance Geneva and Brussels, January 26 2000: "Davos is the time for government and business leaders to recognise the need for a fresh start that would give globalisation the social dimension which it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 09:36:20 PST 2000

35404 Why Decry the Wealth Gap? -- rank: 1000

Ken Hanly wrote: >Why is this discourse about the wealth gap? I thought the original >figures were >about incomes. >Last I read anything, they are not the same. I expect that wealth >distribution is >even more skewed than income distribution. Yup, is. For U.S. stats, see <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Wealth_distrib.html>. Figures from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances should start trickling out next month. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 09:17:53 PST 2000

35405 Why Decry the Wealth Gap? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I wasn't talking about feeling justified. >I was talking about having a greater political >impact. Details in this context, in my >experience, heighten the interest of an >audience because of their specificity. >They also amplify the possibility that >you are some kind of expert and may >actually know what you are talking >about (even if you don't). My rational side says that numbers are important because people tend to overestimate the wealth and ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 25 17:46:07 PST 2000

35406 trading in hot air -- rank: 1000

[ah, economists!] "Estimating the Size of the Potential Market for the Kyoto Flexibility Mechanisms" BY: ZHONGXIANG ZHANG University of Groningen Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=200073 Date: December 1999 Contact: ZHONGXIANG ZHANG Email: Mailto:Z.X.Zhang at Rechten.RUG.NL Postal: University of Groningen Department of Economics and Public Finance P.O. Box 716 9700 AV Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS Phone: +3 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 17:24:02 PST 2000

35407 Why Decry the Wealth Gap? -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >Why is it so hard to get a simple question to a simple answer? Postmodernist. > From my >last attempt, I thought this might happen, which is why I tried to preface >the question with a statement of how I feel about the larger issue of >inequality. But it didn't help. > >As I said before, the main reason for my question is this: I've read a lot >of stuff on the left which claims that rising income inequality means that >people have lost ground ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 11:54:01 PST 2000

35408 Why Decry the Wealth Gap? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Any statistics on the national distribution of billionaires ? Forbes does this I think, but I couldn't find it on their website. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 25 11:50:22 PST 2000

35409 Russian gov't snoops on email -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Russia: Analysis From Washington -- Building Walls On The Internet By Paul Goble Prague, 24 January 2000 (RFE/RL) -- Government monitoring of e-mail messages sent and received by individual citizens and groups could have a far more chilling effect on communications within and among countries than any previous official effort to keep track of the views and behavior of those living under their control. On the one hand, the existence of such a capacity could easily make ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 09:53:35 PST 2000

35410 Why Decry the Wealth Gap? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Might we call the bourgeoisie transnational now ? It's getting there, but it's got a long way to go. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 25 09:29:12 PST 2000

35411 Polo wars (Was: War as a happening thing) -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >Justin wrote: > > >I haven't read that much pomo because I find it irritating and >unproductive. > >and then: > > >Pomists do not for the most part have a clue what an argument is. > >Presumably "for the most part" would include having read widely enough to >make the assertion that 'they' "don't have a clue what an argument is." Or to quote the other Marx, the one with all the brothers - "Whatever it is, I'm against ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 25 09:26:48 PST 2000

35412 Fwd: GUNDER FRANK'S RESPONSE TO GANG OF 3 REVIEWs of ReORIENT -- rank: 1000

[just posted to World Systems - apologies for the length, but this seems not unimportant - formatting cleaned up by your correspondent] ANDRE GUNDER FRANK Visiting Professor of International Relations University of Miami & Florida International University 380 Giralda Ave. Apt 704 Tel: 1-305-648 1906 Miami - Coral Gables FL Fax: 1-305-648 0149 USA 33134 e-mail:agfrank at chass.utoronto.ca Personal/Professional Ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 08:42:08 PST 2000

35413 uncanny parallels, revisited -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I thought that "we" was "us." Is there anyone who doesn't believe >that Deng Xiaoping's dismantling of the communes in the late 1970s >triggered an enormous increase in agricultural production in China? That may be, but does that translate into increased welfare for peasants? Haven't scores of millions been displaced, desperate for day labor in the cities? World Bank economist Branko Milanovic's work - part of a first effort to estimate global in ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 25 08:31:54 PST 2000

35414 Why Decry the Wealth Gap? -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Yet in the final analysis, no net movement out of wage labor has been >demonstrated. So all this does not impact on the Marxian thesis. There is >no net movement into the the bourgeoisie especially on a world scale. Quite >the opposite, though the income share of the bourgeoisie, ever diminished >in number, remains the same. Wealth is ever more concentrated. I'd agree, but with a minor dissent: the creation of a new class of Third World plutocrats, like th ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 25 08:36:22 PST 2000

35415 ZIG/ZOG -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Between 1988 and 1995 the Birch Society at least doubled, and perhaps tripled >its membership to over 55,000. Birch organizers have been >especially active in >organizing against federal land use regulations and expansion of the national >park system. Hmm, an article on the JBS by Dan Kelly in the new Baffler - #13 - paints a picture of a dwindling organization. "An email request to the society for a current head-count was met with claims of confidentiali ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 25 08:17:53 PST 2000