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36391 Slavoj speaks -- rank: 1000

All you Zizek fans in NYC, Slavoj is offering "A Plea for Lacanian Fundamentalism," Thursday Sept 14, 8 PM, at the Wolffe Conference Room, the New Schol, 65 Fifth Ave (at 14th St), 2nd floor. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 23 13:54:46 PDT 2000

36392 The US as 'out-of-control, self-absorbed, infantilised monster' -- rank: 1000

Polly Toynbee wrote: >It's rather like visiting St Petersburg before the revolution Optimist. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 23 12:42:44 PDT 2000

36393 MP3.com deal -- rank: 1000

Inside.com - August 22, 2000 And Then There Was One: MP3.com Signs Up Sony, Leaving Universal as Holdout By Bruce Haring Sony Music Entertainment and MP3.com agreed Monday to terms that will allow the Sony catalog to be included in the My.MP3.com online streaming service. The deal, which followed legal action brought eight months ago by the major record groups against the e-music company, calls for a payment by MP3.com to Sony for past copyright infringement, believed to be in the $20 million ra ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 13:37:22 PDT 2000

36394 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: > > >BTW, one figure I do find intriguing is the "Paul and Percival >> >Goodman ... [estimate] that just five percent of the work ... being >> >done ... would satisfy our minimal needs for food, clothing, and >> >shelter." By my reckoning that estimate is now 35 years old. Are >> >there any more recent estimates along these lines? >> >> To figure that out, you'd have to "fart around with economic s ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 15:45:58 PDT 2000

36395 FOMC -- rank: 1000

[No word about the Verizon strike.] <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Press/General/2000/20000822/default.htm> Release Date: August 22, 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. Recent data have indicated that the expansion of aggregate demand is moderating toward a pace closer to the rate of growth of the economy's potential ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 13:19:12 PDT 2000

36396 Towards a Politics of Truth -- rank: 1000

Hmm, a conference. I like that idea. How about sometime next spring? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 13:39:23 PDT 2000

36397 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Chuck0 wrote: > >> [CLIP] Since you are >> reformist, who thinks that these meaningless jobs will be with us >> forever, > >Probably for your lifetime anyhow, and certainly for mine. What do we do while >waiting for the brave new world? There is sort of a gap to fill in between now >and that "non-capitalist world" you so blithely posit. What do you mean by >"reformist" anyhow? Yeah, will there be telephones in an a ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 14:58:55 PDT 2000

36398 rhetorical flourishes vs. real bidniz -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Being able to pull from both directions is an impressive political feat, >whatever else you can say about Gore's performance. Wish-fulfillment can be a very powerful force. Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - August 22, 2000 Lieberman Says Democrats Are a Pro-Business Party By BOB DAVIS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BURLINGTON, Iowa -- Despite the populist rhetoric of the Democratic ticket since its convention closed, vice presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 13:47:26 PDT 2000

36399 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Too much of the discussion on this list strikes me as the just the >mirror image of the tiresome corporate yadda-yadda I hear at the >office all day long. Farting around with economic statistics is >ultimately not the grounds for radical action. Contemplating the >absurd nature of most work today and pondering how to change that >does point toward meaningful change. > >BTW, one figure I do find intriguing is the "Paul and Percival >Goodman .. ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 13:13:38 PDT 2000

36400 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >There is no doubt that a lot of the energy of Seattle/DC/Philly/LA will >spill back into those day-to-day struggles, but part of the pragmatism of >UPS, Boeing, the LA Janitors, and Verizon struggles also have to spill >over into the globalization mass action movements if they are to become a >real mass struggle for change. They could, if both sides repress the urge to piss on each other. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 13:09:26 PDT 2000

36401 TOWARDS A POLITICS OF TRUTH: THE RETRIEVAL OF LENIN -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Zizek, Jameson, Negri, looks like fun. And for the Zizek fans, the new >Verso book of Lukacs response to orthodox marxist critics of History and >Class Consciousness has some concluding words from him. > Michael Pugliese > >CONFERENCE >TOWARDS A POLITICS OF TRUTH: THE RETRIEVAL OF LENIN > >http://www.kwinrw.de/lenin >lenin at kwinrw.de >100 years after What Is To Be Done? > >Kulturwissen ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 12:54:44 PDT 2000

36402 Fwd: The Games -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than the list] From: "paul childs" <npchilds at connect.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:19:23 -0600 This series has been on the Holy Mother Corp (CBC) up here since late June and is still running, no idea how may episodes but it will be over too soon in my mind. It is hilarious, some fairly sophisticated satire of the games, politics and bureaucracies in general; a loudmouth lout of an environment minister 'Robbo' who announces that two species of animals that ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 12:53:58 PDT 2000

36403 Red Oskar is back -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >'Who gives a [expletive deleted] about the Italians', was one of the >more memorable passages in Richard Nixon's Watergate tapes. Actually, I think it was during a currency crisis, and an aide came in to tell RMN that the lira was crashing. "I don't give a shit about the lira," was his response. Of course, this is the man who, upon seeing the Great Wall of China, remarked that it was indeed a great wall. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 12:49:56 PDT 2000

36404 Russia: still shrinking -- rank: 1000

[from JRL] Russia Population Continues Decline August 22, 2000 MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's population continued to decline during the first six months of the year, falling by 425,000 people, officials said Tuesday. A similar decline happened during the same period in 1999. The latest slide brought Russia's population to an estimated 145.1 million people, the State Statistics Committee said. The falling population reflects bad economic conditions, the poor state of the health system and a falling birt ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 12:45:44 PDT 2000

36405 MasterCard Responds -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >what were MC's corporate contributions to the parties last year? Dunno about last year, but search for MasterCard at <http://www.opensecrets.org/> and here's some of what you get (I'd list more, but the site seems to have had a stroke): MasterCard International and Visa U.S.A. Inc. each gave the National Republican Senatorial Committee $25,000 on October 31, 1997. The two credit card companies are lobbying for congressional proposals that would make it harder for ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 12:38:26 PDT 2000