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35626 Putin on Christianity -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] PUTIN HOPES ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY WILL STRENGTHEN RUSSIA MOSCOW. Jan 6 (Interfax) - Acting President Vladimir Putin issued Christmas greetings on Thursday to Orthodox Russians, who celebrate the festival on January 7. "Orthodoxy has traditionally played a special role in Russian history," Putin said in an address published by his press service. "It has been not only a moral touchstone for every believer but also an unbending spiritual co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 08:31:20 PST 2000

35627 Cooper on Mumia -- rank: 1000

[Here's a piece bound to make Marc Cooper even more friends than he's earned in the Pacifica wars. From this week's New York Press.] For a Mumia-Free 2000 by Marc Cooper I make no New Year's resolution. Instead, I have a simple plea: Oh Lord, please make 2000 a year free of Mumia. That's right. That's no typo. I said free of Mumia. Not Free Mumia. I've had it. If I go to one more lefty event and see one more Free Mumia poster, I might just have to switch sides on this one. What collective afflic ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 7 08:02:24 PST 2000

35628 Ecuador's plight worsens -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 7, 2000 ECUADOR: Calls for Mahuad to quit By Richard Lapper in London and Nicholas Moss in Quito At the end of last year it was difficult to imagine how things could get much tougher for Ecuador's troubled president Jamil Mahuad. This week, they have. Already facing a severe recession and the spectre of triple digit inflation, Ecuador has suffered a renewed attack on its currency, the sucre. Yesterday's fall of 17 per cent in early trading took the sucre to a new low of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 7 07:55:58 PST 2000

35629 Mr. Byfield's Excellent Posts (was Re: "EconomicNationalism"?) -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >would i harass prue goward or bettina arndt? Who? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 18:54:38 PST 2000

35630 Fwd: {FP} Pacifica Moves National Headquarters to DC -- rank: 1000

From: Andrea Buffa <ma at igc.org> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 6, 2000 CONTACT: Andrea Buffa, Media Alliance, (415) 546-6334 x309 Embattled Pacifica Foundation Moves National Headquarters from Berkeley to DC KPFA listeners and Bay Area media activist shocked by nighttime move. Berkeley, CA-Last night, after dark, movers employed by the Pacifica Foundation pulled up in front of the Foundation offices next to KPFA radio and began moving the organization's headquarters to Washington, DC. & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 6 18:53:11 PST 2000

35631 Matrix/Zizek -- rank: 1000

elena wrote: >Btw, there's a funny discussion of "Matrix" in the >Lacanian ink forum - have those guys ever learnt >maths??? What's that? Alan Sokal thinks Lacan's math is pretty funny. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 13:01:53 PST 2000

35632 Amazon.com confesses its risks -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I heard recently that part of the reason UPS went public was that >they were losing a lot of money on these small packages that they >deliver for online shopping. If this is true, it just makes the whole e-biz model sound even weirder: losing money? Go public! The more you lose, the better the buy!! There's no indication of their losing money on e-shipments in their IPO prospectus <http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/0000940180-99-001334.t xt>, but ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 11:07:13 PST 2000

35633 thegreatcrash.com press release -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: > > From Richard A Brealey and Stewart C Myers, Principles of Corporate > > Finance, Fourth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 1991), p. 60. Maybe there's a > > new edition that's gotten more in touch with the New Era. Their use > > of DEC as a growth stock example is pretty sobering. > >I went to Amazon to check out this book. Thought this review was >interesting (and there are three or four more on the site like this): > >Why do invest ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 09:54:57 PST 2000

35634 Mr. Byfield's C- Posts -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Did Postmods start criticizing Marxists first ? Who started it ? Who cares? To me the question is whether this playground spirit - "He started it! No she did!!" - is going any intellectual or political good for anyone. I say no. Maybe you disagree. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 09:42:13 PST 2000

35635 Questions and Answers -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > On both Pen-l and LBO recently there have been short posts which >included the phrase "These are serious questions." None of these posts >contained any serious effort to show the seriousness of the question by >at least outlining a possible answer. I simply do not accept the good >faith of this position. No one can seriously desire an answer to any >question without having in mind some sort of answer to that question. Actually, I often ask ques ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 10:08:43 PST 2000

35636 Chinese bank scandal -- rank: 1000

[News from what some people persist in calling "socialist China" - though I guess you could spin this into a tale of the perils of state ownership.] Wall Street Journal - January 6, 2000 Collapse of Illegal Bank in China Spotlights Highly Risky Venture By IAN JOHNSON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CHONGQING, China -- For four months, Zhang Shi has neglected her farm work for something more crucial to her survival: a daily protest in front of city hall. The 68-year-old mother ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 09:24:14 PST 2000

35637 Second American Revolution, Anyone? (was Re: Faux on Cockburn) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I wish you didn't quote Adolph Reed to score a point -- I >respect the guy. As do I, immensely. And I think Adolph's point was very important: that there's a certain brand of radical analysis - of which I've been guilty myself - that is so critical of the limits or even perverse effects of reformism that it ends up doing nothing, since nothing short of revolution will accomplish the proper goal. I am desperately trying to think beyond this. >BTW, if you think th ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 09:32:23 PST 2000

35638 thegreatcrash.com press release -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Yahoo doesn't pay dividends, so why on earth would it be "valid" >to "value" it's stock based on a dividend stream? Similarly, since >there's no dividends, what do you care about their earnings? They >aren't sharing any of their earnings (or losses, for that matter) >with you as a shareholder -- so why do you think this is the way >to "value" a stock? From Richard A Brealey and Stewart C Myers, Principles of Corporate Finance ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 08:35:10 PST 2000

35639 SEC vs. Tokyo Joe -- rank: 1000

[Gregg Wirth, TheStreet.com's reporter who broke this story (and occasional LBO contributor), will be on my radio show tonight (WBAI, 99.5 FM, NYC; <http://www.wbaifree.org>) to talk about this and other bull market delights. So will Tom Schlesinger of the Financial Markets Center to talk about St Alan's reappointment.] [TheStreet.com] The Case Against 'Tokyo Joe' Threatens All Guru-Dom By Beth Kwon and Gregg Wirth Staff Reporters 1/5/00 9:04 PM ET In December, "Tokyo Joe" was fl ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 08:24:34 PST 2000

35640 Matrix/Fight Club -- rank: 1000

[Bounced bec of an address oddity. I've got a copy of Zizek's long piece on The Matrix I'm happy to send to anyone who asks. - Doug] Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:35:11 +0100 From: "Magnus Bernhardsen" <magnus.bernhardsen at nynorsk.no> Just wondering - do you know of any leftwing movie reviews /discussions of these two movies? It's really just to invigorate the pub discussions, so don't go wasting valuable time on this. Magnus Bernhardsen

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Date:	Thu Jan 6 07:44:15 PST 2000