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36016 Wall St bombed! -- rank: 1000

A friend who works at Goldman Sachs sent me this internal message to employees: > From: GS-Broadcast > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 9:25 AM > To: 'All New York' > Subject: Security Alert > > > Early this morning an explosive device was detonated in front of 75 Wall > Street. No serious injuries were reported but there was significant > street level damage to the building. An extensive police investigation is > underway which has closed off traff ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 12:51:46 PST 2000

36017 weirdness -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >You have disappeared, Doug? Where did you go? --jks I've rematerialized. Guess I got lost in a cave once Carrol compared me to Plato. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 12:33:04 PST 2000

36018 injury -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:08:16 -0800 (PST) Sender: cgrimes at tsoft.com From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> Tom Lehman wrote: > One of my friends got seriously burnt early Monday morning when the > brakes on the remote control engine he was operating locked up while he > was in the process of moving a hot metal car sometimes called a torpedo > or a sub ladle. -------- Sorry I missed this post. I am nursing a small welding burn from last week--about the size of a quar ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 12:30:34 PST 2000

36019 wanted photos -- rank: 1000

From: Mattcapri at aol.com Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:04:34 EST Subject: People of Color in Seattle file under "Where Were People of Color in Seattle?" http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/seattle/spd/wto/zebra_club.htm http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/seattle/spd/wto/radio_shack.htm http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/seattle/spd/wto/WTO/graffiti/Female%20graffiti .JPG http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/seattle/spd/wto/voice_stream.htm -- p.s its the Seattle Police Department's wanted photos -- ind ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 12:30:05 PST 2000

36020 The Price of Globalization -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Are there up-to-date statistics on increased accidents industrywide >caused by this productivity push? <http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/osh.t06.htm> number of occupational injuries & illnesses per 100 full-time workers: 1973 11.0 1974 10.4 1975 9.1 1976 9.2 1977 9.3 1978 9.4 1979 9.5 1980 8.7 1981 8.3 1982 7.7 1983 7.6 1984 8.0 1985 7.9 1986 7.9 1987 8.3 1988 8.6 1989 8.6 1990 8.8 1991 8.4 1992 8.9 1993 8.5 1994 8.4 1995 8.1 1996 7.4 19 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 11 12:21:44 PST 2000

36021 Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Zizek is the Third Way for those who can't swallow the Third Way without a >sugarcoating of philosophical chitchats and pop cult tidbits. If Zizek is the Third Way, what Way are you? Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 12:12:24 PST 2000

36022 Zizek on Haider -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >And frankly, I don't think this is that morally pure. When Austrian >denounce Haider, and more power to them, it's a means of remembering and >of coming to terms with their history. Speaking of Austria & Zizek, one of Z's great political insights was his comment on Kurt Waldheim's run for the presidency some years ago. When good liberals denounced him for equivocating about his Nazi past, his poll numbers went up. Zizek's conclusion was that Austrians wanted ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 12:10:49 PST 2000

36023 Strange Behavior? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What strange behavior? I don't know of any human >activity which can be called strange. Of course not. Humans always behave in the most rational, self-interested, and nondestructive fashion. Can't imagine what Slavoj had in mind. Nor can I imagine what Wallace Stevens meant when he wrote that line about finding himself "more truly and more strange." >The question is utterly absurd? Why the question mark? Is that strange rhetorical behavior? Of course not - h ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 12:02:13 PST 2000

36024 Chomsky -- rank: 1000

[majordomo is doing very weird things - it just told me I'm not a member of this list] From: Seth Ackerman <SAckerman at FAIR.org> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:39:54 -0500 Brad DeLong wrote: > > Chomsky seemed to think that the Marshall Plan entailed no net > > transfer of resources from America to Europe. The counterfactual > > appeared to be a scenario in which European governments seized > > American property of their nationals and used that to finance dolla ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 11:48:13 PST 2000

36025 repaired -- rank: 1000

The list disruption seems to have passed. The Panix staffer who was looking into the mungedomain bug (Rakesh's mysterious bounces) wounded the sublist, but now all is restored. There is a bug in the mungedomain portion of majordomo's code, which should be fixed next week. Sorry for all the boring technical details, but this is a full-disclosure operation. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 11:46:41 PST 2000

36026 weirdness -- rank: 1000

Something odd has happened to this list - people (including me!) have mysteriously disappeared. Panix staff is investigating. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 11:42:23 PST 2000

36027 Fwd: Help Woman Scheduled to Die in TX Feb 24 -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:55:04 -0500 From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> Dear Friends -- Can you help? Please write a letter, and forward this e mail. Katha Pollitt Dear Friends: I am forwarding this letter from Sara Buel and press release in hopes that you will take action to save the life of Betty Lou Beets. Please copy your letters to her attorney. Thank you for your help. Marya Hart PLEASE HELP!!! As the attached press release details, the State of Texas plans to execute ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 07:56:53 PST 2000

36028 Fwd: PACIFICA REPORTERS LAUNCH FIRST STRIKE CAST -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:58:25 -0500 From: Eileen Sutton <eileensutton at earthlink.net> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2000 CONTACT: Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship, (212) 439-8087 Arron Glantz, Northern California, (510) 644-8365, (916) 705-7528/cell Robin Urevich, Los Angeles, (323) 663-8057 Eileen Sutton, New York, (212) 439-8087 E-Mail: pnnstrikers at igc.org On-Line Press Kit: www.savepacifica.net/strike STRIKING PACIFICA RADIO JOURNALISTS LAUNCH FIRST "STRIK ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 23:42:35 PST 2000

36029 Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Zizek out-Blairs Blair Yes, of course. How could I have missed that? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 23:57:40 PST 2000

36030 The latest LBO -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >Is it still imminent? It's on press. It doesn't get more imminent than that. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 23:34:07 PST 2000