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36061 Death Penalty, the Labor Party, & Political Responsibility(wasRe: Break... -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >It may be a priceless victory for legal scholars and trail lawyers, but it >is a technicality for most ordinary people not versed in legal nuances. >Most ordinary people want "justice" - meaning punishment of those who by >common understanding violated the law or social norms, and NOT letting >those who "did it" walk on procedural technicalities a.k.a "due process." Wojtek, sometimes you're kind of scary. A fair trial is a &q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 9 11:15:11 PST 2000

36062 Fwd: Lawmakers Must Back China Trade or Lose Corp. $$ -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 9, 2000 Lawmakers Are Warned to Back China Trade or Lose Contributions By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Top business executives are issuing a blunt warning to federal lawmakers: Vote against the trade deal with China, and we will hold it against you when writing campaign checks. Phil Condit, chairman of Boeing Co., and Robert N. Burt, chairman and chief executive of FMC Corp., said a coming vote to facilitate China's en ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 09:25:00 PST 2000

36063 Rakesh on the state -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:11:29 -0500 (EST) From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) THEORIZING STATE SPENDING It is best here to quote at length from Mattick in the earliest published version of an argument (1967) he would emend over the next fifteen years as his prescience was confirmed by the course of events: The government increases 'effective demand through purchases from private industry, either financed with tax money or by borrowings on the capital market. In so far as it fi ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 07:39:28 PST 2000

36064 Reed on the state -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:11:14 -0500 (EST) From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Yoshie asked what some of us may think here of Adolph's theorization of the state, perhaps the one big topic with which I have disagreements with him--I have learned a tremendous amount from Prof Reed. I believe that his understanding of the possibilities of social democratic and left keynesian reforms leads him to have much greater faith in electoral politics than I have. But then I dropped out of ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 07:38:52 PST 2000

36065 psychosis & hacking -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] From: DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:24:47 +0000 >>Kelley wrote: >>errrr doug, justin was joking. purpusefully being un-PC >Errr, Kelley, I know. Un-PC humor is so...humorous, isn't it? But I >still think the thread is kaput. >Doug Errr ,,, I think Kelley was joking, too. But I may not be entirely ser ious in saying that. dd PS: I feel guilty about wasting bandwidth with the above, so here's my latest screed to clients ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 07:30:49 PST 2000

36066 dot.coms hog VC -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,9581,00.html> Industry Standard - February 07, 2000 Web Companies Find 1999 Venture Capital Windfall Two new reports say Net startups received more than two-thirds of all U.S. venture capital in 1999, at levels four times that of 1998. By Mark A. Mowrey Most observers knew Net startups were receiving astounding amounts of venture capital during 1999, yet few knew how great those funding totals would be - until now. According to data releas ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 07:08:03 PST 2000

36067 The Psychoses -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >errrr doug, justin was joking. purpusefully being un-PC Errr, Kelley, I know. Un-PC humor is so...humorous, isn't it? But I still think the thread is kaput. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 06:03:13 PST 2000

36068 Breaking Butterflies & Poisoning Wells -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >I don't know this first hand, but Solidarity folk who are involved in the >Mumia movement report that the main problem with the Mumia movement is that >lack of involvement from the Black community. The churches and other >organized African-Ameriacn groups have not come on board. Yes, why is that? This point was made in a Salon piece that pissed off LNP3 no end, but it was never successfully refuted. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 8 20:33:37 PST 2000

36069 The Psychoses -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 00-02-08 17:15:22 EST, you write: > ><< > > >You and I still share a lot, Kelley, but, I repeat, one cannot > >hold an intellectual conversation with someone who uses > >psychosis and neurosis as medical terms and believes that > >he/she is saying something true or even harmlessly trivial. > > > >Carrol > > Oh come on Carrol, >> > >Can we stop this? It's nuts. I mean, crazy ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 8 19:17:53 PST 2000

36070 Fwd: Let them eat cake department -- rank: 1000

I think Margaret Thatcher once suggested that people who've lost one of a pair of gloves give the orphan to charities serving those with one hand.... > Independent Florida Alligator > University of Florida > February 7, 2000 > > U. Florida greeks help promote Nike's recycling program > > By Abby Albaum, Independent Florida Alligator > > As part of Greek Week, students have the opportunity to benefit less > fortunate communities around the world by donating wo ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 8 18:03:54 PST 2000

36071 size info -- rank: 1000

Only for those with the most prurient of interests: <http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/features/00/01/20/PENIS_ENLARGEMENT.html> <http://www.metal-sludge.com/LongShort.htm> Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 8 17:51:44 PST 2000

36072 WP on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 8, 2000 Tiny Pacifica's Big Troubles Influential Network Continues Slow Self-Immolation By Frank Ahrens Washington Post Staff Writer The civil war engulfing Pacifica Radio grows grislier with each passing month, as the last non-mainstream radio network slowly kills itself. In an era of increasing radio consolidation--where several news outlets fall under one owner--the Pacifica clash may presage the looming death of an independent, provocative news voice. What began as ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 8 17:43:19 PST 2000

36073 POLITICAL PRISONER ALBERT "NUH" WASHINGTON IS TERMINALLY ILL SUPPORT HIS RELEASE! -- rank: 1000

[taboo problem] From: Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:58:30 -0500 (EST) Albert Nuh Washington was member of the Black Panther Party who went underground with Black Liberation Army when FBI's COINTELPRO operation targeted black militants for arrest on trumped up charges. When captured, Washington, along with Herman Bell and Jalil Muntagim were charged with 1971 murder of two New York City police officers. First trial of New York 3 ended in hung jury. Se ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 8 15:48:07 PST 2000

36074 etoy FREEZES SHARES OF AUSTRIAN GOV. -- rank: 1000

[taboo word problem] Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:37:17 -0500 From: t byfield <tbyfield at panix.com> ----- Forwarded Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:32:14 +0100 (MET) From: defcon_1 at etoy.com To: tbyfield at panix.com Subject: etoy FREEZES SHARES OF AUSTRIAN GOV. ******************************************************* NSI STILL MAKING TROUBLE. THEY HAVE NOT REINSTALLED THE etoy.DNS (AGENTS: DO NOT STOP THE TOY-BOMBING!) ******************************************************* but this email has ano ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 8 14:42:47 PST 2000

36075 Breaking Butterflies & Poisoning Wells -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >I do find it remarkable that Reed liked Cooper's article though. Maybe it was the influence of the gin. But I've since posted Adolph's Progressive column with the bit on Mumia. It fits in with his distaste for symbolic politics, though. > Have >you, Doug, or anyone else read the Z Magazine editorial? Haven't read it. Doug

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