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36136 more squabbling at the top -- rank: 1000

[The headline in the U.S. edition is "Departing IMF chief takes swipe at Summers." Financial Times - February 2, 2000 Camdessus urges wider role for IMF By Stephen Fidler in New York The outgoing head of the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday the institution should be explicitly recognised as the lender of last resort to the international financial system - and should be given the tools to perform the role. In one of his last public appearances before stepping down this month, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 12:46:03 PST 2000

36137 Intellects, and a bit on desire and scarcity -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Any how, were humans not human for 50 thousand years? This is a puzzle >I shouod think for a number of schools of thought, but particularly for most >versions of "humanism." An interesting theoretical question, perhaps, but it hasn't really been relevant for the last, oh, 100,000 years by your count. That's even more ancient than the Stalin-Trostky debates. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 09:34:52 PST 2000

36138 Kagarlitsky on Chechnya -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Novaya Gazeta January 24, 2000 We Don't Talk To Terrorists. But We Help Them? A version of apartment explosions in Russia By Boris Kagarlitsky [translation by Olga Kryazheva, research intern, Center for Defense Information, Washington DC] Instead of a Foreword Life requires political fiction. Here is a story of this kind, where all the events and names are false, and life is not. For some reason everything in the story corresponds with real life. Surprisingly, only t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 06:57:50 PST 2000

36139 Technological Determinism -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >He surely wouldn't have wanted to resolve the question about the primacy of >the relations over the forces as an abstract philosophical question without >a careful empirical specification of each. So what does this perspective tell you about the development of K'ism today? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 06:45:40 PST 2000

36140 bonds -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >ps2. There was a report in the NYT today about how retirement of the US' >long term debt was undermining fed attempts in some such way . Seemed >pretty important to understand. Read it too quickly. Debt retirement pushes long rates below what they would otherwise be. If the Fed wants to slow the economy, it needs higher long rates, not lower ones. It's going to be much harder for the Fed to do open market operations - which depend on buying & selling governm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 23:05:36 PST 2000

36141 Ramsey Clark article -- rank: 1000

Can't vouch for this, but Chuck0 pointed me to an article on Ramsey Clark that makes you wonder just who he is. He always seemed a bit fishy to me, but then I'm a suspicious guy. <http://shadow.autono.net/sin001/clark.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 19:28:09 PST 2000

36142 Sweeney in Davos -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >So how do we get a hold of Palley <tpalley at aflcio.org> Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 19:07:32 PST 2000

36143 The Case for Dubya -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >If you want to summarize the Clinton years, you end up with social programs >holding roughly even as a percentage of GDP, with the tax burden being >decreased on the working poor & lower middle class with effective tax rates >being increased on the wealthy. Poverty rate in 1989: 11.5%. In 1998, 11.2%. Poverty line as percent of median income in 1989, 28.9%. In 1998, 27.8%. Growth in real GDP from 1989 to 1998: 29.6%. Isn't progress wonderful? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 19:07:32 PST 2000

36144 JMK, RIP (cont.) -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release January 31, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT Today, we received further evidence that our economic strategy of fiscal discipline is working. By making the tough choices necessary to turn record deficits into record surpluses, we are now in a position to start paying down the debt. According to the latest numbers from the D ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 1 18:10:17 PST 2000

36145 rape -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because it quoted Kelley's 33k posting, which, when combined with Wojtek's commentary, broke the 35k length limit. Please don't quote the entirety of 33k pieces; and please be careful about sending 33k pieces in the first place.] Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:27:22 -0500 From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> Subject: Re: Rape At 07:21 AM 2/1/00 -0500, sweet kelley wrote: > > > >PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2000 > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 17:51:13 PST 2000

36146 Speaking of Rape & Deconstruction -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than the list] To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com cc: (bcc: DANIEL DAVIES) bcc: DANIEL DAVIES Subject: Speaking of Rape & Deconstruction I'd be the last person to claim any feminist credentials, but I thought that the idea that not every "yes" constitutes consent was pretty-well established, and certainly predates deconstruction. Surely the whole idea that the defining difference between rape and nonrape is a single, definitive act of the woman's will is int ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 10:17:48 PST 2000

36147 select-a-pres -- rank: 1000

Take the guesswork out of voting: <http://selectsmart.com/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 10:10:49 PST 2000

36148 the longest boom: god bless the financial markets -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 1, 2000 Why the Long Boom? It Owes A Big Debt to Capital Markets By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- As the U.S. economy enters record territory Tuesday -- beginning its 107th month of uninterrupted expansion -- expect to hear a lot about the usual heroes: new technologies (the microchip, the Web); U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan; dumb luck. But with all due respect, it is time to give credit where credit is ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 1 08:32:32 PST 2000

36149 Sweeney in Davos -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Nathan writes: > > > >Bizarre. Capitalist forces don't know what's good for them according to > >Rakesh. > >Clinton knows that Sweeney's mobilisation of a protectionist threat is very >good for imperialist forces at the bargaining table; that's why he is >treating him with such respect. Are you intentionally missing my point? I don't quite get this. How does having Sweeney push for labor rights promote the TRIMs/TRIPs agenda? Sweeney wan ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 1 08:13:42 PST 2000

36150 busted for union organizing -- rank: 1000

[Via Michael Eisenscher. Cleaned up with the splendid Macintosh utility TextSpresso.] X-From_: meisenscher at igc.org Tue Feb 1 02:39:19 2000 X-Sender: meisenscher at pop.igc.org Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 23:04:27 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.org> Subject: 20/20 Transcript: Whispers at Work Mime-Version: 1.0 Whispers at Work 20/20 Friday, Jan. 28, 2000 (This is an unedited, uncorrected transcript.) Prepared by Burrelle's Information Serv ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 1 07:26:10 PST 2000