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35776 Fischer: friend of the poor -- rank: 1000

[Patrick Bond seemed to take me half-seriously when I said that by having been born in Africa, Stanley Fischer might be thought to represent the interests of the global poor. Apparently the New York Times thinks he does, and given the Times's dutiful stenographic habits, the Clinton administration must be saying so.] New York Times - February 25, 2000 In Making I.M.F. Choice, U.S. Must Decide Whom to Offend By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- The Clinton administration found itself at the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 15:23:15 PST 2000

35777 Liberal Democracy (was Robert Mundell: Genius unbound) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >From Enrique to Ted D.: >>> Where would we be without all that cheap oil, cheap metal, >>> cheap coffee, etc.? >>Well, that's what I am trying to figure out. > >Can capitalism continue to exist if North America, Western Europe, and >Japan were to be totally delinked from the rest of the world? I doubt it. That's not the question - it's not an either/or thing, all or nothing. What exactly is the contribution? I'm tempted to bel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 15:06:11 PST 2000

35778 Commodification of Dissent and the SI -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Carrol noted a >while ago: "I rather think this list should be renamed Uriah-Heep-talk.[..."] Uriah Heep? We back on a 70s music thread? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 26 14:02:37 PST 2000

35779 Fwd: Fw: [NYC-DAN] all diallo cops acquitted DAN ACTION -- rank: 1000

[apologies to the non-Noo Yawkuhs] Folks from the Direct Action Network will be gathering at 2:30 PM at 53rd & 5th -- join us! ----- Original Message ----- From: "marina sitrin" <msitrin at hotmail.com> To: <lakauffm at erols.com> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 9:22 PM Subject: [NYC-DAN] all diallo cops acquitted DAN ACTION > The DAN/A16 Outreach working group changed our meeting tonight in light of > the disgusting verdict and exercize of police and state powe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 19:43:45 PST 2000

35780 competition in chips -- rank: 1000

[apropos the chip thread...] "Strategy and Circumstance: the Response of American Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors, 1980-1995" BY: RICHARD N. LANGLOIS University of Connecticut Department of Economics W. EDWARD STEINMUELLER University of Sussex SPRU Science and Technology Research Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=204093 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/Economics/Worki ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 17:42:45 PST 2000

35781 Fwd: World Bank Boycott Campaign Update -- rank: 1000

Subject: World Bank boycott campaign update February 25, 2000 Dear friend, We are writing to update you on the World Bank boycott campaign. You probably learned about this campaign at a recent conference, perhaps at the WTO protests in Seattle, or through e-mail. In short, our campaign to hold the World Bank accountable through an international boycott of its bonds is taking off. Activists and local leaders are calling daily to find out what they can do. And perhaps most importantly, we are b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 17:40:04 PST 2000

35782 Ghoul Patrol -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >Two juicy little items for anyone who takes an unholy delight in watching >what's left of the Pax Americana shred itself into oblivion: > >(1) Gardner's 2000 machine-tool survey, over at ><http://www.gardnerweb.com/consump/produce.html>, reveals that the EU was >responsible for 54% of world machine-tool output in 1999, East Asia >weighed in at 32.5%, while the US produced only 12.6% (machine-tools are >the DNA of any industrial base, i.e. ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 17:11:41 PST 2000

35783 Liberal Democracy (was Robert Mundell: Genius unbound) -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Imports from countries with GDP per worker levels less than half >that of the U.S. amount to 0.9% of U.S. GDP. Even if all those goods >were obtained by the U.S. at a price of only 1/3 their fair value, >that still means that less than 2% of the American standard of >living comes from exploitation of the Third World. Has anyone ever tried to quantify the contribution of imperialism to the First World standard of living? The jokers in the Maoist Internationalis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 17:01:51 PST 2000

35784 Robert Mundell: Genius unbound -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >Everyone could be made to derive their central theoretical >proposition in evening dress, then empirically verify it in swimwear. Oh, how I'd love to see Martin Feldstein in a little black party dress. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 12:10:07 PST 2000

35785 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > > >On Behalf Of Doug Henwood >> >> Didn't Bill Clinton make his promise to allow same-sexers into the >> military before an audience of rich G/Ls? They got out their >> checkbooks and ended up with a stupid policy and more actual >> expulsions than before. I detect a pattern. > >Yes, a pattern of fulfilling part of promises, which is better than none. > >Discrimination against gays in all civilian areas of the governm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 11:38:27 PST 2000

35786 freedom of assembly, Rudy style -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >"William S. Lear" wrote: > >> Sorry if this is completely ignorant, but has the ACLU expressed a >> position on this? > >I'm sorry I don't know the answer to your question, but I'd like to say >that if the ACLU DID have a position, the Rudy rule won't go away until >people challenge it. In recent years, the police have gotten away with >placing more and more restrictions on the nature and places of >demonstrations, pickets and marche ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 11:03:04 PST 2000

35787 27-1 -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >NY is unique in that the state bucks Medicaid >down to the city. This is long-standing. I don't >know if any other cities have this responsibility. NYC also picks up a big share of welfare costs, and a lot of other responsibilities that in other jurisdictions are the responsibility of states or independent authorities. Rightwingers love to cite Census figures on municipal employees per 1,000 population that purportedly show NYC is massively overstaffed, but they ne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 08:21:06 PST 2000

35788 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

Yes. Evidently labor Democrats are easily persuaded by pretty words spoken to a labor audience. They get out their checkbooks, set up their phonebanks, and don't seem to notice when actual policymaking pokes them in the eye. Didn't Bill Clinton make his promise to allow same-sexers into the military before an audience of rich G/Ls? They got out their checkbooks and ended up with a stupid policy and more actual expulsions than before. I detect a pattern. Doug Michael Perelman wrote: >She shoul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 07:44:52 PST 2000

35789 McCain's Policy Team The Few, The Informal -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >KH co-authored "Dow 30,000" or something like that >with pundit Robert No Relation Samuelson. Slightly >wacky. I mentioned him here before for not being >aware of the "S" in OASDI. Wrong asshole in Samuelson. It's James K. Glassman who's the co-author, and it's Dow 36,000. Basically their thesis is that stocks have been mispriced for centuries on the assumption that they're risky. But now we know that over the long term, stocks provide grand ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 07:36:14 PST 2000

35790 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >Ye Gods. Nathan, think about the title of the party: "working families". >Doesn't that alone imply a deeply reactionary politics? Oh, but it "focus groups" well, as WFP honcho Dan Cantor told me. You'll note the AFL-CIO uses the same phrase, as in their WTO slogan, "If it doesn't work for working families, it doesn't work." They've probably been reading too much Jean Bethke Elshtain. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 25 07:23:14 PST 2000