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36586 Richebacher's comments -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Well, I am new at glooming and dooming, so I didn't know that. However, >the debt explosion in combination with the stock market bubble *is* >unprecedented, isn't it? I know you are trying to be extra careful about >predicting anything, but do you see any way that this can resolve itself >that doesn't involve fairly drastic retrenchment of consumption and >growth together with systematic defaults and debt writeoffs? > >Greenspan seems to thin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 29 12:19:47 PDT 2000

36587 National Death Penalty Moratorium Act -- rank: 1000

The National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2000 (S. 2463) Wednesday, April 26, 2000 Today, Senator Feingold, along with Senator Levin, introduced the National Death Penalty Moratorium Act (S. 2463). This bill would immediately suspend executions at the federal and state levels while a national, blue ribbon commission reviews the administration of the deathpenalty. The moratorium would end only after Congress considers the commission's final report, enacts or rejects its recommendations, and re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 29 12:10:36 PDT 2000

36588 Interest Rates -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >The Fed meets on Tuesday to make a decision on interest rates don't >they? Somehow I thought they weren't planning a decision until the week >of May 21st---I wonder where I got that at... May 16. <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/fomc/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 29 11:40:29 PDT 2000

36589 Fwd: ANNOUNCING: POLITICS & CULTURE: A REVIEW OF BOOKS -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 00:30:58 -0700 From: Michael Ryan <mrya at conncoll.edu> POLITICS AND CULTURE: A REVIEW OF BOOKS is a new on-line journal edited by Michael Ryan. P&C publishes reviews of books principally from academic publishers dealing with literature, culture, history, and politics. Other kinds of writing are also welcome, from polemics to creative work, and we also welcome scholarly writing which is organized in a book review format and deals with contemporary issues. Ou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 29 10:52:30 PDT 2000

36590 Mugabe etc. -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:43:44 +0200 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Patrick Bond <pbond at sn.apc.org> Chris Burford wrote: >The land movement (not just Mugabe) is trying to complete the >anti-imperialist anti-colonialist struggle of 20 years ago, and reclaim >the land seized by British settlers in the 1890's. Quite right. >Quite right that Britain should pay compensation. Sure, advance the demand for reparations (I'm typing now while ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 29 10:28:17 PDT 2000

36591 Richebacher's comments -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >This Richebacher fellow seems >reasonably intelligent. He's also been saying stuff like this for at least 20 years. Maybe he's right this time. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 29 10:06:03 PDT 2000

36592 Fwd: NYC Mayday Weekend Events: RTS -- rank: 1000

Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca Reply-to: srduncombe at earthlink.net Here it is, what you've all been waiting for, your official RTS Mayday itinerary: WHAT: Guerrilla Gardening! WHEN: Monday, May 1, 4:30 sharp -- after the Workers March WHERE: Meet in Battery Park (at the tip of Manhattan) by "The Immigrants" statue and the Garden of Hope BRING: Plants, soil, seeds, instruments of gardening and music, yourself, friends This is a non-violent direct action ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 28 16:08:38 PDT 2000

36593 drugwar -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] AMERICAN INDICATORS The Drug War -- Number of Americans in prison: 2,000,000 -- Number there for non-violent drug offenses: c. 400,000 -- Number of arrests last year for drug possession: 1,400,000 -- Number of arrests last year for drug trafficking: 300,000 -- Annual cost of drug war when Nixon kicked off his version of it: $100 million -- Annual cost of drug war today: $18 billion -- Amount older Americans would be receiving today if Social Security had inc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 28 15:30:29 PDT 2000

36594 Fwd: SPOON-ANN: IAPL SPIVAK PANEL IAPL New York -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:14:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Purushottama Bilimoria <pbilimo at emory.edu> Saturday, 13 May 2000 9:00 AM - 12:00 noon REGISTRATION IAPL PUBLISHERS' BOOK EXHIBIT & CAF (Coffee, tea, juice, and pastries in the morning) Student Activities Center Auditorium, SUNY/Stony Brook All concurrent sessions will be held on the third floor of the SUNY/Stony Brook Student Activities Center [SAC]. 10:00 AM-1:30 PM X CLOSE ENCOUNTERS CE - 1S: Gayatri Spivak and the Limits of Postc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 28 14:48:59 PDT 2000

36595 Zero Tolerance -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >Isn't the notion of victimless crime problematic with regards, at least, to >drugs? Given the spillover effects [drivin' while blind, beating up whoever >while blind etc.] doesn't the other side's argument score a few pretty >significant points on these issues? Driving while blasted and beating someone up while blasted are and should be crimes. Why should being blasted while doing no harm to others be criminalized? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 28 14:19:12 PDT 2000

36596 NYT on janitors -- rank: 1000

New York Times - April 28, 2000 Janitors, Long Paid Little, Demand a Larger Slice Thousands in Strikes and Rallies Across U.S. By STEVEN GREENHOUSE HICAGO, April 26 -- Amid a record economic boom, janitors -- some of America's lowest-paid, least-visible workers -- are taking to the streets and the picket lines from coast to coast to demand a bigger share of the nation's prosperity. More than 4,000 janitors who clean office buildings in suburban Chicago have been on strike for more than a week, d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 28 11:18:55 PDT 2000

36597 the new student movement -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/issue/000515/0515featherstone.shtml> The Nation - May 15, 2000 THE NEW STUDENT MOVEMENT By Liza Featherstone "We have the university by the balls," said Nati Passow, a University of Pennsylvania junior, in a meeting with his fellow antisweatshop protesters. "Whatever way we twist them is going to hurt." Passow was one of thirteen Penn students--the group later grew to include forty--occupying the university president's office around the clock i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 28 10:36:42 PDT 2000

36598 Hoffa endorses pig -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] Teamsters Back Rep. Hoekstra Associated Press Last Updated: April 27, 2000 at 5:10:08 p.m. WASHINGTON - In a strange political marriage, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has endorsed Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Republican who voted against all the union's key bills last year. Teamsters officials said the endorsement was due to Hoekstra's support for ending the federal government's 11-year supervision of the 1.5-million member union. ``He's the first candidate that h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 28 09:49:43 PDT 2000

36599 Summers' memo -- rank: 1000

Ken Hanly wrote: >What are their real sentiments that are being "cloaked"? That the worth of a human life can be measured by a discounted cash flow analysis. On some level they feel embarrassed to be so crass, but it's the impeccable logic of their discipline. >If they believe in >the principles that are expressed ironically in the memo this is hardly >cloaking. Swift was not throwing a cloak over his views that Irish infants >could be a tradeable commodity in his Modest ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 28 09:11:21 PDT 2000

36600 Justice for Some -- rank: 1000

The full text of the report on racial disparities in the U.S. juvenile "justice" system, "And Justice for Some," and links to press reports (including the NYT story I posted the other day) are at <http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/newsroom.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 28 09:17:07 PDT 2000