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35581 Moore talks tough, again -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] DEFIANT WTO CHIEF DIGS IN ON NEW TRADE TALKS. WTO Director-General Mike Moore set a collision course with the developing world yesterday when he vowed that the battered organization would successfully relaunch the so-called millennium round of global trade talks, reports the Guardian (p.12). A new round was inevitable, Moore said, despite the ignominious collapse of the first attempt to start negotiations in Seattle last December. "We will la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 11 07:28:34 PST 2000

35582 Faux on Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >The main problem though is >thought to be foreign ruling political classes forcing "our" greedy >corporations to relocate abroad in order to circuvment trade barriers and >exploit child and slave labor. So the *main* struggle post Seattle became >one to impose penalties and barriers on foreign political ruling classes. Where do you get this information from? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 11 07:27:19 PST 2000

35583 Russian stats -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Ekonomika i Zhizn, No. 50 (1999) RUSSIAN ECONOMICS '99 [translation from RIA Novosti for personal use only] Industrial Production as per Industries ------------------------------------------------------- October 1999 in % as January-October 1999 against September 1999 in % as against January - October 1998 -------------------------------------------------------- Power engineering 135.8 100.7 Fuel industry 105.5 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 11 07:18:45 PST 2000

35584 Fwd: 2000-01-10 OMB Fact Sheet -- rank: 1000

[Max, what's with this nonsense?] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release January 10, 2000 OMB Communications Office FACT SHEET: 0.38 percent cuts January 10, 2000 History: - Last fall, in the course of the appropriations process, the Congressional majority considered an across-the board cut of several percentage points, applying equally to all areas of gover ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 14:55:55 PST 2000

35585 Civil Society Marches Toward Global Governance -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >For some, however, (including myself) "civil society" simply denotes >voluntary, civic and self-help organizations collectively. If you're talking about social mobilization of a very plural sort, I'm all for it. That isn't the way the term is used by its proponents though. If I get another propaganda sheet from some squishy foundation promoting civil society I may buy an assault rifle. The kind of mobilization you're talking about isn't very civil - if i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 14:31:21 PST 2000

35586 What *object* or *entity* does psychology study? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie - >Doug: > >>In a communist society, if human beings ever achieve it, historical > >>materialism is not likely to be an indispensable tool, and thus it can > >>imagine its own future irrelevance and hopes to achieve it (and that is why > >>Marx & Engels refrained from speaking in detail about what communism will > >>be like, except in a negative manner, "limited for the most part to what > >>will disappear"). > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 14:12:42 PST 2000

35587 Civil Society Marches Toward Global Governance -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >It seems that the attitude toward "civil society" can be used as an >indicator of the fringe/cultish nature of the group holding it - the >greater the hostility the more wacky and cultish nature of the group. Count me a cultist then. I hate that civil society nonsense. Doug ---- from Left Business Observer #77, May 1997 CIVIL $OCIETY The mail recently brought a birth announcement for The Institute for Civil Society of Newton, Massachusetts. The brochu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 13:03:50 PST 2000

35588 China to shut steel mills -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 10, 2000 CHINA: Steel plant shut-downs planned By James Kynge in Beijing China announced at the weekend plans to shut thousands of small steel plants as part of a series of measures this year to reduce overcapacity and end more than two years of deflation. State media said more than 2,500 steel smelters and mills with annual capacities below 100,000 tonnes were to be closed, making tens of thousands of workers redundant and raising the prospect of strong opposition from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 13:01:10 PST 2000

35589 Merrill takes up counseling -- rank: 1000

[Gives new meaning to the term full-service broker.] Financial Times - January 10, 2000 AFFLUENZA HITS THE NOUVEAU RICHE KIDS By Gary Silverman in New York As a service to America's growing numbers of overnight tycoons, Merrill Lynch, the US investment bank, is hiring psychiatrists to help their children ward off "affluenza" - a malady that turns rich kids into spoiled brats. Merrill's move into social work is an example of how investment banks are serving one of their fastest-growing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 12:59:01 PST 2000

35590 Civil Society Marches Toward Global Governance -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >And why is the phenomena of >ex-rightists going left so much less common than the neo-connery route? Money. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 12:30:08 PST 2000

35591 Pacifica gossip -- rank: 1000

A Pacifica source who wishes to remain anonymous says the standard spin - that the move of the national office from Berkeley to DC is a sinister plot to escape all the Bay Area troublemakers - is all wrong. Said source says it's really a sign of the total collapse of the Pacifica national strategy. Most of the national staff will be laid off to help pay down the debt incurred in the KPFA fight. We'll see. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 08:57:06 PST 2000

35592 On Cultural Privilege -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >In reference to psychoanalysis, residents of the United States are more >privileged than (for example) Latin Americans. Here on the whole it is >only in English departments that psychoanalysis is taken seriously As opposed to all those places where Marxism is taken seriously. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 08:49:11 PST 2000

35593 working the SAT system -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - January 9, 2000 New Test-Taking Skill: Working the System More and more college-bound students are requesting extra time on the SAT, citing learning disabilities. But, in disproportionate numbers, they are rich, white and male. By KENNETH R. WEISS, Times Education Writer The number of students who get extra time to complete the SAT because of a claimed learning disability has soared by more than 50% in recent years, with the bulk of the growth coming from exclusive private sc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 07:26:05 PST 2000

35594 Stiglitz: worker rights key to development -- rank: 1000

[From the World Bank's daily clipping service. Of course, Stiglitz isn't going to be at the WB much longer.] WORKER RIGHTS KEY TO DEVELOPMENT: WORLD BANK'S STIGLITZ. In a new broadside against Washington's response to the Asian financial crisis, outgoing World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Saturday that workers' rights should be a central focus of development, Reuters reports. Stiglitz, who leaves the Bank later this month after a string of well-publicized complaints about the wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 07:28:22 PST 2000

35595 TWX + AOL; NBC next? -- rank: 1000

[Wow.] Wall Street Journal online - January 10, 2000 Time Warner, AOL to Merge, Forming a Multimedia Giant AOL Now Gets Access to Speedy Cable Lines; Time Warner Shares Surge in Early Trading By PETER GUMBEL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL LOS ANGELES -- Media and entertainment giant Time Warner Inc. and No. 1 online-service provider America Online Inc. agreed to merge in a stock transaction valued at about $166 billion plus $17.8 billion in Time Warner debt. The combined firm would be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 10 07:05:32 PST 2000