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36571 The Week -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >It may well be that boom in one location requires recession elsewhere. >Everyone cannot be a net exporter and booms now seem to be associated with >exports -- the exception being the US with the unsustainable wealth effect >-- which Doug questions. The inflow of capital into the U.S. has allowed for personal and corporate borrowing. I'd say those inflows, rather than the wealth effect, are responsible for keeping the U.S. expansion going so far so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 13:08:13 PDT 2000

36572 Meaning.org -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: > > [from the NYC DAN list - there may be some interesting stuff here >> (e.g. Naomi Klein), but the hot air quotient will doubtless be very >> very high (e.g. Michael Lerner)] > >Is this the conference flyer or the whole conference? If the conference had occurred already, meterologists would have issued a major global warming alert - one so serious and so convincing that even James Heartfield would have been converted from his skepticism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 12:31:18 PDT 2000

36573 server move -- rank: 1000

To save a few dollars, I'm about to move this list from Panix to Jordan's Infothecary server some in the next day or two. The process should be, as they say, transparent to users except for changing the posting address. Otherwise, everything should be pretty much the same - same Unix majordomo software and all. Watch this space for further announcements. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 11:57:45 PDT 2000

36574 Anti-Sweatshop Univ. Consortium Turns to Cooperation with Industry -- rank: 1000

[Via Michael Eisenscher. Heavens, a living wage and surprise inspections, how onerous!] Sweatshop Watchdogs Urge Cooperation By John Kelly Associated Press Writer Saturday, April 29, 2000; 6:01 a.m. EDT PARK RIDGE, Ill. -- If the Worker Rights Consortium wants to improve conditions at foreign factories where college sports apparel is made, it needs to work with the manufacturers, universities involved in the new anti-sweatshop group say. Delegates from 37 schools met at the Big Ten Conference he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 11:47:17 PDT 2000

36575 The Week -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >It's the social-democrats of Euroland who have the >restructuration problems now, not the self-satisfied Brits. Yes, which is one reason why I question your disaster scenarios. Say euroland is restructured along Anglo-American lines - why couldn't the E-11 have a boom too? A polarizing, manic, diseased boom perhaps, but still a boom? Why does the fact that so much of the world would still be excluded from this boom make it unsustainable, at least over the term of 10-20 y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 11:39:55 PDT 2000

36576 Fwd: Please Post -- rank: 1000

[From Tom Kruse <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net>, with formatting cleaned up a bit.] THE DEMOCRACY CENTER ON-LINE "BECHTEL SPEAKS, WE RESPOND" Volume 33 - April 29, 2000 Dear Readers: Apparently the e-mail messages that many of you have sent in the past weeks to Mr. Riley Bechtel, regarding his corporation's role in the Cochabamba water uprisings, have gotten his attention. On Tuesday I received a lengthy public response from Mr. Didier Quint, the head of Mr. Bechtel's subsidiary tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 10:51:46 PDT 2000

36577 eXile on Putin -- rank: 1000

[I think the date should be April 30. From Johnson's Russia List.] YET ANOTHER LONG-WINDED OP-ED ABOUT PUTIN By Mark Ames the eXile March 30th www.exile.ru There used to be so much at stake. For us here at the eXile, the battle in Russia between the reformists and the anti-reformists was like one of those ruthless Cold War-era proxy wars: Angola, Nicaragua, Cambodia... we'd often side with the vilest of militia leaders because the most important thing was to prevent the opponent from metastasizi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 10:42:22 PDT 2000

36578 Meaning.org -- rank: 1000

[from the NYC DAN list - there may be some interesting stuff here (e.g. Naomi Klein), but the hot air quotient will doubtless be very very high (e.g. Michael Lerner)] My name is Mark LeVine, and I am a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History at Cornell, Chair of the Foundation for Ethics and Meaning and a contributing editor at Tikkun magazine. I am writing on the suggestion of Naomi Klein to inform you about an important conference being convened this spring by the Foundation, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 10:28:34 PDT 2000

36579 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - April 30, 2000 Earth hotter than at any time in history By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Correspondent The earth is now hotter than at any time in recorded human history, according to worldwide research published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. The research is a vital piece of evidence in establishing that pollution is heating up the planet, and that the warming that has been taking place over the last two decades is not merely a natural fluctuation of the Earth's cl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 10:23:46 PDT 2000

36580 world-historical front page? -- rank: 1000

The three above-the-fold headlines on the weekend edition of the Financial Times: *Government demnads Microsoft split *Companies flee from dotcom to notcom *Soros to curtail hedge fund activity after fall in returns You'd almost think the times they were a-changing, or something. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 09:59:28 PDT 2000

36581 The US-DPRK Village Wind Power project -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for being too long & carrying an attachment - here it is, sans attachment] From: "M A Jones" <jones118 at lineone.net> To: "Lbo-Talk at Lists.Panix.Com" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:31:11 +0100 N Korean wind turbine engineer The US-DPRK Village Wind Power Pilot Project is the first attempt by a US non-governmental organization to work side-by-side with North Koreans in cooperative development. Previously, non-government ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 09:49:48 PDT 2000

36582 Richebacher's comments -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: > > Reality may not comply with your moral judgment. > >Meanining? Because the U.S. deserves to crash & burn doesn't mean it will happen. Jefferson famously said "I tremble for my country when I think God is just," and his country went on to run the world. > > Do you think such a collapse in the U.S. would make this country pull >> back from the world, or make it even meaner? > >Does it much matter? This is a real question. Sure do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 29 16:08:41 PDT 2000

36583 Nazi paganism -- rank: 1000

Thanks to Michael Pugliese for pointing out this weird link: <http://www.stormloader.com/thescorpion/wwwboard/29.html>. >The Environment: The PLL stands opposed to all forms of capitalist >exploitation of the environment and we view any attack or intrusion >upon Mother Nature as a personal attack against ourselves. We will >fight the Corporate State to the death to preserve the natural >beauty of the earth and its species and various races, most >prominently our own speci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 29 15:28:51 PDT 2000

36584 Richebacher's comments -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> How could this all resolve itself? You could just have a long >> grinding period of adjustment without a true collapse, like Japan has >> been going through, or the U.s. went through from 1989-92/3. I also >> think you have to entertain the possibility that this really is a >> long upwave of prosperity, so there may be only a minor adjustment >> ahead. I think the character of the next recession will prov ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 29 15:25:37 PDT 2000

36585 The Ideal of Uselessness vs. the Ideal of Necessity -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Sacrilage! Burning Marx! Come the Revolution, burn the WSJ and the >Investor's Business Daily. Burn Grand Street first. To think it used to be such a fine journal under Ben Sonnenberg. Now it's an expensively produced embarrassment. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 29 12:25:06 PDT 2000