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35431 Wanniski on Krugman -- rank: 1000

[forgive my fascination with Jude Wanniski] Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from http://www.polyconomics.com) January 24, 2000 Dr. Paul Krugman, Ph.D., G.L.T. To: Paul Krugman, NYT columnist From: Jude Wanniski Re: "The Magic Mountain" First the good news about your new column for the NYT op-ed page: There is no question you are a very good writer, which makes it easy to start and finish your allotted 750 words twice a week, under your "Reckonings" h ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 24 11:49:03 PST 2000

35432 Fwd: PACIFICA REPORTERS THREATEN STRIKE -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:41:04 -0500 From: Eileen Sutton <eileensutton at earthlink.net> Subject: PACIFICA REPORTERS THREATEN STRIKE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 24, 2000 AWARD-WINNING JOURNALISTS THREATEN STRIKE TO FIGHT CENSORSHIP AT PACIFICA RADIO NETWORK Pacifica Radio's top free-lance reporters and contributors today say they are prepared to strike Pacifica's national-news program to protest on-going censorship at the 50-year-old community-radio network. The dozens of journal ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 24 09:29:56 PST 2000

35433 Fwd: {FP} PACIFICA REPORTERS THREATEN STRIKE -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> To: freepac at recordist.com Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 23:46:07 -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:07:32 -0500 To: nyfreemedia at tao.ca From: Eileen Sutton <eileensutton at earthlink.net Subject: PACIFICA REPORTERS THREATEN STRIKE Dear Free-Speech Lovers, As many of you know, censorship at Pacifica Radio has, since the KPFA crisis last Spring, become a way of life. And the "reassignment" of Pacifica Network News director Dan Coughli ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 24 07:59:45 PST 2000

35434 election polls -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I would venture to say that Nader's vote in 1996 was also much more heavily >upscale than Clinton's and it was definately much whiter. Yup, another version of what Andy Kopkind called Jerry Brown's support in '92 - the Utne Reader vote. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 15:02:51 PST 2000

35435 election polls -- rank: 1000

[Funny how Bradley's popular support is from more upscale, centrist Dems, at the same time leftish intellectuals are signing petitions in support of him.] <http://www.gallup.com/poll/index.asp> LATEST RELEASE January 22, 2000 Setting the Stage: Election 2000 A Special Analysis by The Gallup Poll Editorial Staff GALLUP NEWS SERVICE [...] Political Optimism Surges The generally positive mood of Americans and their satisfaction with the economy may account for the unusually high level of opti ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 13:50:58 PST 2000

35436 Nixon's smoking gun tape -- rank: 1000

Someone just pointed me to <http://www.hpol.org/nixon/nixon-e2_side1.smil>, the famed "Smoking Gun" tape of Watergate. Without Nixon, the world is such a poorer place... Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 13:21:55 PST 2000

35437 Orientalism Revisited (was RE: G. Bush: US in Holy War AgainstIraq?) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >"Daniel F. Vukovich" wrote: > > > Steve, > > > > Anything substantial to say? > > > > "Just to clarify": Are you juvenile, or do you just act that way on the > > Internet? I'll await your replies to my arguments, but wont >hold my breath. > >Just out of curiosity -- at what point did this thread take its turn towards >this level of hostility? Dunno exactly, but I hope it finds a lower level of h ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 12:22:00 PST 2000

35438 Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >On that point definitely, but Aarons was totally off base and clueless on >the issue of the steady state economy and was flat out lying when he stated >that a steady state economy would cut US living standards in half. Hell, a >steady state economy is really an increasing returns economy with regard to >energy productivity and technological innovation. Bello was falling asleep >in right in front of me he was so exhausted and bored with the calibe ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 11:54:24 PST 2000

35439 Pew attitude polls -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >BTW, I would appreciate info on the Pew Charitable Trusts. It >seems to be religious in origin, founded by Sun Oil heirs, I >think. Is it Quaker, I wonder? From Gina Neff's LBO article, "Foundation culture" <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Foundations.html> >Altruism was rarely the motivating factor in establishing the large >independent foundations - ones like Pew, Ford, MacArthur, Robert >Wood Johnson that every NPR listener can name. The ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 17:19:32 PST 2000

35440 War as a happening thing -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >But I once did engage in a public debate with a >pomit at a panel on Marxism and pomo where she (no one famous, a prof at >Kenyon) really did admit that the assassination of the Archbisop Romero was >just a text To us it is, Justin. But do you really mean to say she thought he wasn't killed and that his murder didn't have political causes and consequences? What does this "just a text" phrase mean anyway? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 15:29:47 PST 2000

35441 Fwd: NEWS: Ecuador -- rank: 1000

[Something that's been making the rounds; apologies if you've seen this before.] GA Action at WTO Seattle - http://members.aol.com/pgacaravan From: "UBV-Quito" <ctsueca at ECNET.ec> 20.1. 2000 ECUADOR A VOLCANO FULL OF CRATERS The Levantamiento de los Pueblos (Uprising of the Peoples), which began this Saturday, the 15th, is turning into a great volcano with many craters burning with the discontent of the populace at large and indigenous people. Thousands of indigenous ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 13:20:25 PST 2000

35442 Ecuador -- rank: 1000

AFP - January 23 3:41 AM SGT Ecuadoran Congress accepts Noboa as new president QUITO, Jan 22 (AFP) - In an emergency session on Saturday, the Ecuadoran Congress approved Gustavo Noboa as the country's new president, following a military coup that removed elected president Jamil Mahuad from office. With cries of "long live democracy!" the congress approved Noboa, who was Mahuad's vice president, as the country's new leader by 87 votes in favor, two against, and one abstention. Noboa too ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 13:11:04 PST 2000

35443 G7 can't agree on IMF boss -- rank: 1000

Reuters - January 22 2:45 PM ET Consensus on IMF Chief Evades G7 in Tokyo By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Consensus over who should be the next head of the International Monetary Fund eluded the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations on Saturday, but Germany still hopes to gain backing for its candidate despite U.S. and French doubts. Comments by U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, however, suggested Berlin could face an uphill battle to persuade Washington to change its lukewarm view of German ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 13:02:33 PST 2000

35444 A Request -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In Britain there is an annual publication called 'Social Attitudes' >which polls peoples attitudes on a variety of issues and breaks down >their responses according to all the usual typologies of sex, class, age >etc. > >Is there anything similar in the US, and/or Europe, and if so, does >anyone have the publication details? Nothing published with that prominence. We do have the more-or-less annual General Social Survey. Its raw data is published on th ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 10:20:13 PST 2000

35445 Voter.com raises millions to campaign for voter's eyeballs (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Is this a Dick Morris business? No, that's <http://www.vote.com/>. What a difference an r makes. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 08:54:54 PST 2000