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36181 Yoshie Furuhashi (Quote Kvetching) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Tracy Stallard Who? Like I said, I don't mind people posting stuff from a website as long as it's not too long. Not everyone can reach the web easily. All I ask is that people use some discretion about whether something will be of general interest or not. Yoshie almost always has very intelligent and valuable things to say, and her taste in excerpting is pretty damned good. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 21 16:25:21 PST 2000

36182 Leonard Peltier + Working within the system -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >There is not one iota of evidence linking Peltier to the final shots, and the >other two known shooters were acquited in a different trial with a >more balanced >judge. Actually, Workers Vanguard, my favorite newspaper, said it was the juries that were unconvinced by the government's case against the other two guys. Was it the judge that made the difference? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 20 16:47:47 PST 2000

36183 Clinton nostalgia -- rank: 1000

Sam Smith recalls the early days of the Clinton years in today's Progressive Review: >For the past eight years we have been bombarded with the insincere thoughts, >incomprehensible meaning, and interminable verbosity of Clintonistas trying >to overwhelm us with their pyscho-techno-bunko babble. It started early, >with Renaissance weekend maitre d' Philip Lader declaring, "I would hope >that this administration might be characterized by the power of ideas. But >also the pow ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 20 13:26:42 PST 2000

36184 AOHell -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >On the left is the font and font size settings. Make sure they are >in a readable font: arial 12 is good. Isn't there any way an AOL mailer can be forced to send plain ASCII text? And what is it with Arial - is it just Microsoft's unappealing version of Helvetica? Or do real typographers use it? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 20 12:33:36 PST 2000

36185 Hot to Trot -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Does labor solidarity mean, as he appears to suggest, that one must appear on >public platforms in efforts and with others with which one has important >political differences? Depends. In this case, the "differences" themselves are part of the issue - specifically the ludicrous anti-Communism Feldman professed. The whole point of a coalition, though, is bringing together people who differ in many particulars but who are united on one or more specifi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 20 11:00:14 PST 2000

36186 Gallup: black Americans feel "cheated" by E2000 -- rank: 1000

Gallup Poll News Service POLITICS & ELECTIONS NewsAlert __________________________________________________________________ Here is your requested Elections update from the Gallup Poll News Service. 12/20/00 - Black Americans Feel 'Cheated' by Election 2000 Link to story: <http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=galluppoll&CriteriaID=1220&Destination=http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr001220.asp>

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Date:	Wed Dec 20 05:47:11 PST 2000

36187 What did Nader-bashing say about Feminism? -- rank: 1000

What Did Nader Bashing Say About Feminism? J. Lee Polnachek, AlterNet December 19, 2000 I knew I needed to take stock of the feminist movement when an eighty-year-old woman noticed my "Another Babe for Nader" button and gave me the finger. It was no small gesture -- she put her whole rail-thin, crisply dressed body into it, jabbing both arms in the air in alternating motions, fingers aloft, energetic and vulgar. "Fuck you!" the aging Upper West Side sophisticate spat at me, & ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 20 05:38:17 PST 2000

36188 LatAm in need of new economic strategy -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 19, 2000 THE AMERICAS: Latin America 'needs new economic strategy' By RICHARD LAPPER After more than 10 years of market-oriented economic reforms, Latin America's external dependence has become "accentuated", according to the executive director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac). Jose Antonio Ocampo said that pursuit of so-called Washington consensus policies had failed to deliver enough economic growth and t ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 19 15:49:15 PST 2000

36189 Hot to Trot -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yes, Stanley Hill was scum- now what does that has to do with Sandra >Feldman - who may be scum but in no way related to the corruption involving >DC37. Now you are doing corruption guilt by association. I said the NYC municipal unions as a group were dreadful. I gave several examples of why. They are part of a complex web of corruption, conservatism, and complacency that characterize the whole damn set-up. Like the Dems. You can find some good ones, you can find ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 19 14:08:25 PST 2000

36190 pop vote tally -- rank: 1000

Monday December 18 11:02 PM ET 105.4 Million Voters Cast Ballots By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Although hundreds of votes in Florida separated the fates of George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Al Gore (news - web sites), more than 105 million Americans cast ballots in the presidential election. Bush, who secured the Electoral College (news - web sites) majority required to be the 43rd president Monday, lost the nation's popular vote to Gore by 539,897 votes, accord ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 19 13:09:57 PST 2000

36191 Hot to Trot -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Leo is right- Doug, you seize on single political acts by people you don't >like and hold it up as a talisman for justifying full excommunication. It >is your worst rhetorical habit and infects your view of political practice. >Such incidents may matter and aren't to be completely discounted, but when >they become a fetish and ignore broader patterns of action, they really are >just irresponsible. These incidents are entirely typical of the docile idiocy ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 19 12:58:37 PST 2000

36192 Hot To Trot -- rank: 1000

Leo Casey wrote: >What you apparently find so offensive about her >actions in this case which you have not cited no less >than four times and which is so marginal to what goes >on this city Let me see. If the NYC unions collectively put several hundred thousand workers in the streets to protest workfare and austerity budgets, this would be marginal to what goes on in the city? Admittedly, the unions are pretty marginal now to what goes on in the city - except that their silent compli ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 19 12:50:07 PST 2000

36193 Argentina's $40b rescue -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >The IMF has certainly coughed up something, and I >remain of the opinion that Argentina is too much of a >favoured pupil to be allowed to fail, but they are >running a risk of destroying their credibility if they >keep on pushing these inflated headline figures. You think? Or do the bond traders just look at the headline on the screen, "IMF approves $40b for Argentina," and view that as the all-clear? Half the battle is just to keep punters from pan ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 19 12:38:34 PST 2000

36194 Hard work -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Even the most ideologically pure of totalitarian >regimes tend to be tolerant towards bright lads who do >what they're told. It's bolshy buggers like the rest >of lbo-talk who end up against the walls :P In my utopia, I'll be drawing up the lists of targets for the firing squads. Don't worry, DD, you're safe. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 19 12:40:42 PST 2000

36195 FOMC statement -- rank: 1000

[The divine Alan will save us all!] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Press/General/2000/20001219/default.htm> Release Date: December 19, 2000 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting today decided to maintain the existing stance of monetary policy, keeping its target for the federal funds rate at 6-1/2 percent. The drag on demand and profits from rising energy costs, as well as eroding consumer confidence, reports of substantial shortfalls in sales and ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 19 12:36:46 PST 2000