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36151 Stiglitz on world gov't; Koch-Weser in the lead -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] GLOBAL GOVERNANCE NEEDED TO MATCH GLOBALIZATION: STIGLITZ. In an interview with La Tribune (France, p.12), outgoing World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz says we find ourselves today in a situation where there is financial and economic globalization going on, but no world government. There is a need for at least some global governance, he says, noting that at the international level, there is no equivalent to mechanisms that at the national le ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 07:50:56 PST 2000

36152 indigenous rights actions -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of a taboo word] From: Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 07:33:46 -0500 (EST) forwarded by Michael Hoover > Hi, > This is LeeAnn McNabb from the Cincinnati Zapatista Coalition. I'm writing > to ask a favor of all you Indigenous Rights Supporters Out there. I'm going > to be listing a bunch of very important Indigenous Rights Issues that are > time sensitive, and then I'm going to request info on others I've heard > about ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 07:34:15 PST 2000

36153 Fwd: (Fwd) Join the NYC Direct Action Network! -- rank: 1000

[for the Noo Yawkhuhs here] PLEASE FORWARD FAR & WIDE . . . Building on the successes of the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, a diverse coalition of New York City activist groups are coming together in mutual aid. We are creating a network to support each other's movements and facilitate mass mobilizations on a diversity of issues, beginning with actions on April 16-17 against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. This network is just beginning to form, and the energy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 1 07:42:16 PST 2000

36154 a matter of gravity -- rank: 1000

[Meant to forward this gem the other day - a reminder of just how good a newspaper the WSJ is. What other publication would run this?] Wall Street Journal - December 28, 2000 'Intactivists' Seek to Undo A Long-Practiced Ritual By BARRY NEWMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CONCORD, Calif. -- For over a century, in the belief that nature can be improved upon, Americans have circumcised their baby boys. Today, the value of circumcision as a health measure is in doubt in some quarters at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 31 12:14:45 PST 2000

36155 Eurogrowth, Rwanda -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >While share prices in the US boomed, the rate of investment >halved from five to 2.5 percent. Hmmm? I don't have any idea what this means. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 31 12:09:57 PST 2000

36156 UAW finances -- rank: 1000

One of the many delights of belonging to the National Writers Union, aka UAW Local 1981, is that you get the UAW's thrilling magazine, Solidarity. This month's issue has a report on the union's finances as of 12/31/99 (nothing like timely disclosure!). The UAW's net worth as of a year ago was $1.023 billion, up $40.1 million from 1998; the union took in $272.3 million in receipts, and spent $232.1 million - the surplus being the $40.1 million that was added to net worth). The union's "Organ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 30 16:46:55 PST 2000

36157 Fed: Infantile Proyectism -- rank: 1000

There are far more interesting and fruitful matters to consider than those addressed in this subject heading. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 30 12:28:51 PST 2000

36158 Fwd: Amazon Steps Up Anti-Union Campaign -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:41:14 -0800 (PST) From: WashTech <washtech at speakeasy.net> 12/28/00 AMAZON MANAGEMENT STEPS UP ANTI-UNION CAMPAIGN Company Launches Internal Web site to Combat Unionization Amazon.com management has stepped up its 1930s-style anti-union campaign just in time for the New Year. The company has created a new internal Web site it claims is dedicated to answering questions by customer service representatives about unions and collective bargaining. But many Amazon wor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 29 08:19:06 PST 2000

36159 Scrooge defended -- rank: 1000

A seasonal classic, pointed out by Matt Hogan, by the repellent Michael Levin: <http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=110&titlenum=&FS=&title=Scrooge+Defended&Month=3>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 28 19:44:58 PST 2000

36160 Wall Street made Jesse call W -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith] JESSE'S WALL STREET FRIENDS VILLAGE VOICE: Downcast Wall Street investors whose fears had been focused on a slowing economy demanded that Reverend Jesse Jackson curtail his blistering attacks on George W. Bush. These financiers arranged the controversial phone call that Jackson made to the "president-select" shortly after Al Gore conceded the race, key business figures told the Voice. Corporate moguls contribute heavily to Jackson's Wall Street Project, an economic-deve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 28 19:48:47 PST 2000

36161 Alterperson -- rank: 1000

Michael Powell wrote in the Washington Post: >The left gets rolled and calls it a revolution. Jon Alterman, a >columnist for the Nation magazine, call this "infantile Leftwing >disorder." And I thought Jon Alterman was in Yes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 28 19:23:50 PST 2000

36162 (p)opulism -- rank: 1000

J Cullen wrote: >big livestock and poultry combines such as Smithfield and Tyson, >which through "vertical integration" have reduced chicken farmers to >peonage and now are attempting to do the same thing to pig and >cattle raisers. Now you can take the view that as long as Safeway or >Albertson's has its shelves stocked then it does not matter whether >the food was grown by a family farmer in the Midwest or one one of >Othal Brand's plantations in Mexico, where wo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 26 03:22:54 PST 2000

36163 plus ca change... -- rank: 1000

Gallup Poll News Service LIFESTYLE NewsAlert __________________________________________________________________ Here is your requested Personal & Social Relations update from the Gallup Poll News Service. 12/26/00 - When It Comes to Having Children, Americans Still Prefer Boys Link to story: http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=galluppoll&CriteriaID=1237&Destination=http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr001226.asp

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 26 03:19:12 PST 2000

36164 gag me -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i have a couple of news tracker 'spies' set up to track news on >"information security". for some damn reason, the latest batch i >rec'd sent me to the below. > >gag me with a spoon, as they used to say. > >http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/12/narayan.htmFrom >Finance and Development >A quarterly magazine of the IMF >December 2000, Volume 37, Number 4 > > >Poverty Is Powerlessness and Voicelessness > Deepa Narayan ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 25 19:25:34 PST 2000

36165 (p)opulism -- rank: 1000

martin schiller wrote: >Justin Schwartz said on 12/25/00 11:41 A > >>Nathan, do you know what's what here? Is the triumph of ideology over >>interest? Or maybe the difference is small enough that reactionary >>ideologies trump any marginal differences in the way the parties would >>promote the interests of small farmers. 100 years ago, small farmers were >>Progressive or Populist, leftish in a petit bourgeois sort of way. What >>happened? These are hard ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 25 19:18:43 PST 2000