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36616 Humble Pie -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Hey go all the way retro to the 1970s and go vinyl :) Just read on another list... ><http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/MusikMesse00/Articles/Synth/Vestax.html> > > >...Certainly the most revolutionary piece of DJ related equipment at >the Messe was the Vestax VRX-2000 Vinyl Recorder. The machine will >cut vinyl records that can be played on regular turntables from any >audio source, including radio and MP3. The sound quality and >durabilit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 27 09:40:18 PDT 2000

36617 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >Supposes it's a bit antiquarian of me to suggest in swamp that is lbo >that battery of individual liberties/rights of which liberal societies >are so proud amount to 'repressive tolerance.' By giving impression >of choice and freedom without offering prospect of fulfillment, >'bourgeois democracy' creates seductive and compelling form of >oppression. > >So have at it to your heart's content lboers, jump on the virtual >soapbox and express yourse ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 27 09:07:41 PDT 2000

36618 Negri's status -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:32:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Hardt <hardt at duke.edu> To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Dear Doug (and Michael), Toni has a work release arrangment by which he gets out of prison to go to work each day and returns to prison each night. He has had some form of work release arrangement for over a year. The next step would be for him to receive some sort of parole, but it is unclear when that will be implemented. yours, Michael

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Date:	Thu Apr 27 08:47:56 PDT 2000

36619 Summers' memo -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Didn't Summers claim that he had meant it as a joke? He admitted >authorship, I think. Summers claimed at the time he was being "ironic" and "provocative." He didn't actually write the memo, though it went out under his name; it was written by WB economist Lant Pritchett. Read all about my impromptu interview with Summers in LBO #94, going to press any day now. Here's the relevant passage from the Dec 91 memo. The last sentence of the excerpt is a de ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 27 08:05:45 PDT 2000

36620 growth down, inflation up -- rank: 1000

Dow Jones newswires/Wall Street Journal Interactive - April 27, 2000 GDP Growth Slows to a 5.4% Rate, But Employment Costs Jump 1.4% An INTERACTIVE JOURNAL News Roundup WASHINGTON -- The economy grew at a slower rate than expected in the first quarter, but a surprisingly strong uptick in employment costs signaled renewed inflationary pressure. Gross domestic product, or the country's total output of goods and services, increased at a 5.4% annual rate during the first quarter, the Commerce Depart ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 27 07:59:49 PDT 2000

36621 Amazon.com's bright future -- rank: 1000

Dow Jones Newswire/Wall Street Journal Interactive - April 26, 2000 Amazon.com Reports a Huge Loss As Revenue Surged in First Quarter An INTERACTIVE JOURNAL News Roundup Amazon.com Inc., the online-retailing giant that has yet to report a profitable quarter as a public company, late Wednesday served up what Wall Street has come to expect: huge losses and admirable revenue growth in the first quarter. Reporting after the close of regular stock-market trading, the Seattle-based company posted a ne ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 14:50:33 PDT 2000

36622 zero tolerance -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >So is to be done to fight that injustice? Abolish penalty for violent >crime altogether, as the Loonie Left seems to suggest, or bring the >sentences given to white criminals to the level served by their black and >hispanic cronies? Public executions, say? While the home teams are on the road, we could put some depraved criminals on the field, maybe along with some of those loonie apologists and some ACLU lawyers, torture them extravagntly (the opening of F ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 14:26:31 PDT 2000

36623 Zero Tolerance -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Another thought on the same subject. I see here another pathetic failure >of the Left to formulate a reasonable policy on crime abatment and law >enforcement, thus conceding ground to assorted fascists like Giuliani et >al. The only thing the Left has to say on the subject is a concern over >rights of criminals and delinquent elements. That is a sure way of loosing >popular support. > >What kind of lunacy is that to side with gangsters against ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 14:22:55 PDT 2000

36624 DPRK cont. -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett quoted Bruce Cumings: >If East Asian development in recent decades has demonstrated anything, >it is that rapid capitalist growth is not incompatible with strong >central state power. Thus it was quite predictable that Kim Jong U told >reporters that P'y6ngyang "would like to take Singapore as a model"; it >combines, in his view, "great freedom in business activities" with "good >order, discipline and observation of laws. So many creative d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 26 12:38:55 PDT 2000

36625 Fwd: [toninegri] chat about Empire -- rank: 1000

From: Michael Hardt <hardt at duke.edu> Subject: [toninegri] chat about Empire Toni and I will do an online chat about our book Empire at bn.com (barnes & noble website) on Monday 1 May, 12 noon East Coast US time. Please log on and join the discussion. And please circulate this to others who might be interested. Michael

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 26 12:26:50 PDT 2000

36626 zero tolerance -- rank: 1000

[Another take on zero tolerance...] New York Times - April 26, 2000 Racial Disparities Are Pervasive in Justice System, Report Says By FOX BUTTERFIELD lack and Hispanic youths are treated more severely than white teenagers charged with comparable crimes at every step of the juvenile justice system, according to a comprehensive report released yesterday that was sponsored by the Justice Department and six of the nation's leading foundations. The report found that minority youths are more likely t ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 11:26:07 PDT 2000

36627 Zero Tolerance -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >These numbers speak for themselves - Black criminals threaten the Black >community to an incomparably greater degree than they do the White (mostly >suburban) community. Ironically, the bleeding heart intellectuals, who >live sheltered lives in suburbs and campus communities, worry about the >rights of criminals while ignoring those of the Black victims. Spoken like Mayor Rudy. If this were so compelling a case, why is Rudy's approval rating high among w ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 11:09:12 PDT 2000

36628 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >To put it bluntly, I don't see a rush of people migrating to North >Korean from the US, but I do see people migrating from East Asia to the >US. Can they be so deluded? Actually I was also kind of curious about the relative traffic of refugees from South Korea to North vs. North to South. Any data? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 10:42:50 PDT 2000

36629 CUNY union -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 26, 2000 Activists Win Control of CUNY Faculty Union, Vow to Challenge Political Establishment By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN A new activist faction of the City University of New York's faculty union won nearly all of the group's leadership posts in an election Monday -- ousting an old guard that had reigned for two decades. The New Caucus, as the group is called, includes big-name scholars like Stanley Aronowitz and Blanche Wiesen Cook, and campaigned o ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 10:43:10 PDT 2000

36630 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox fulminated: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Some leftists apparently like to defend North Korea because it helps >> position themselves as more righteous & militant than those who >> won't. That doesn't make any North Korean better off, either. > >This is what I call red-baiting -- and whether I and others are right >or wrong on North Korea is completely irrelevant to the judgment >of such statements as this. It is *not* about North Korea. It is a ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 10:42:50 PDT 2000