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35506 Back to Conspiracy -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Could we please have a complete list of all subjects that are >censored from this free thinking list that likes to mock Stalinism >for the same sort of thing ? > >Conspiracy > >Stalin and Truman > >Henry Liu > >????????? If I were really a Stalinist, I'd be shooting people. As the man said, for some people, four walls are three too many. It's not so much the content of these topics that's so objectionable, it's the intense tedium of the dis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 18 10:59:02 PST 2000

35507 Back to Conspiracy -- rank: 1000

Enough on conspiracy, already! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 18 09:19:04 PST 2000

35508 Bradley/Gore demos -- rank: 1000

[This is interesting in the light of arguments that Bradley is the more "liberal" candidate. From Gallup's weekly update.] Gore and Bradley Appeal to Sharply Different Constituencies Within the Democratic Party Vice President Al Gore and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, the two major contenders for the Democratic nomination for president, appeal to extraordinarily different types of Democrats, a new special Gallup Poll analysis shows. Gore's voters tend to be traditional Democra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 18 08:52:56 PST 2000

35509 Fwd: (50 Years) Listserv set up for April 16 planning -- rank: 1000

[the asterisk is a taboo-buster; replace it with a "u" of course] X-From_: owner-stop-wb-imf at vida.com Tue Jan 18 01:01:56 2000 X-Authentication-Warning: soleada.plevin.com: majordomo set sender to owner-stop-wb-imf at vida.com using -f From: "Soren Ambrose" <soren at igc.org> To: <stop-wb-imf at 50years.org> Subject: (50 Years) Listserv set up for April 16 planning Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 01:06:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 18 08:50:34 PST 2000

35510 state income gaps widen -- rank: 1000

[CBPP link: <http://www.cbpp.org/1-18-00sfp.htm>] Wall Street Journal - January 18, 2000 Income Gap Broadens Amid Boom; Disparity of Wages Varies by State By CONSTANCE MITCHELL FORD and PATRICK BARTA Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK -- It is an old adage that has picked up new life during the booming U.S. economic expansion: The rich get richer. But in what states are the rich getting richer the fastest? For the answer, think Wall Street and high technology. A study sche ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 18 07:13:20 PST 2000

35511 Fwd: somebody hacked thomas -- rank: 1000

bill fancher wrote: > > Jeff St Clair points out that someone's hacked the Library of > > Congress's Thomas website: <http://thomas.loc.gov/>. > > > > Doug > >That link doesn't work here. Did you see more than a simple connection >failure? How about that - didn't last very long. It worked less than an hour ago. Yes, there was more than a simple connection failure (which is what I just got) - lots of semiliterate nonsense all over the page. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 18:22:28 PST 2000

35512 Fwd: somebody hacked thomas -- rank: 1000

Jeff St Clair points out that someone's hacked the Library of Congress's Thomas website: <http://thomas.loc.gov/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 15:58:57 PST 2000

35513 Greenspan on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I do remember reading a few years ago in the NYT Bhagwati's argument that >NAFTA-like regionalism actually represented a step back from global free >trade. Yeah, you do hear that now & then, but I think it's mostly the demented raving of free-trade fanatics. > You suggest here not. Since I don't remember the details of >Bhagwati's argument, I'll defer. don't really understand how the world >trading system works. Looked through Ruigrok's and van Tuld ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 15:16:28 PST 2000

35514 Bradley and Tax Reform -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Here we go again. > >CTJ has an actual tax model based on a huge representative >sample of taxpayers. Their work is widely respected. >And they can't be accused of bias against progressive >tax policy. There are only a few places and persons >who have the capacity to do such analyses. > >B&S are journalists. Any tax distribution result >they get is bound to be second hand. > >It's no contest. Here are the effective tax rates on all k ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 14:23:00 PST 2000

35515 Fwd: (Fwd) Stiglitz: Democratic Development as the Fruits of Labor -- rank: 1000

Someone just sent me a copy of this lecture by Joseph Stiglitz. It's about 11,000 words/60,000 characters in MS Word format; I'll forward a copy to anyone who asks. Doug >Democratic Development as the Fruits of Labor > >Keynote Address >Industrial Relations Research Association >Boston January 2000 > >Joseph Stiglitz >World Bank > >Development Strategies and the Labor Movement > >Objectives of Development > >Today, there is growing recognition that the o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 13:48:13 PST 2000

35516 fight over IMF head -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 17, 2000 Frontrunner for IMF job faces opposition Koch-Weser is the favourite, though only Berlin wants him, reports Ed Crooks. But a long struggle for succession could be worse The race to succeed Michel Camdessus as managing director of the International Monetary Fund is a curious contest. Promising contenders are being kept out of it, and the current favourite, according to almost everyone but his backers, is unfit. Caio Koch-Weser, a German finance ministry official ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 13:36:53 PST 2000

35517 some guy on AOL-TWX -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >LBO and WFMU compete for >reader-listeners through the market (if not exactly on a capitalist >basis). Sure, but it's incredibly difficult. The odds are against us, and the likes of us go under all the time. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 13:41:33 PST 2000

35518 Bello on WTO, IMF -- rank: 1000

Here's the header for the latest from Focus on the Global South - two essays by Walden Bello - one on the WTO, the other on the IMF. Together, they're about 60k, so I won't post them here. But anyone who wants a copy, ask me offlist & I'll forward it. It's worth s*bscribing to, too. Doug ---- >FOCUS ON TRADE, >Number 43, January 2000 > >Focus-on-Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and >analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, with an > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 12:12:28 PST 2000

35519 West on Bradley's Gravitas -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >I don't understand the hostility West >incites; maybe it's an age thing - I believe Nathan and I are both in our >twenties. Since when are self-righteous blowhardery and "family values" virtues that appeal to the young? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 11:19:15 PST 2000

35520 Ecuador -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >a mad dollarisation plan So what are your objections to dollarization? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 17 11:08:17 PST 2000