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36631 Jude on Cuba -- rank: 1000

Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from http://www.polyconomics.com) April 26, 2000 In defense of Fidel Castro To: Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. From: Jude Wanniski Re: Cuban Reconciliation In October 1993, you invited me to a dinner at your home in Harlem to meet the Cuban Foreign Minister, Roberto Robaina. You did so because you were aware of my interest in helping communist countries -- the USSR and People's Republic of China -- convert to market economies. You told me the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 26 10:01:26 PDT 2000

36632 phone in sick on May 1 (or May 2) -- rank: 1000

April 26, 2000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RTMARK DECLARES MAY 1 AN AMERICAN HOLIDAY May 2 elsewhere; holiday to protest corporate erosion of leisure Mayday info, Phone In Sick Day press, Andrei Codrescu clips: http://rtmark.com/sick/, http://gatt.org/sick/; contact mailto:sick at rtmark.com Decadent Action: http://www.underbelly.demon.co.uk/decadent; contact mailto:decadent at underbelly.demon.co.uk RTMark, a U.S.-based corporation whose "bottom line" is cultural profit, has acquired the th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 26 09:43:49 PDT 2000

36633 MS Breakup: Conservatives Fear the Market -- rank: 1000

]Here's an op-ed on the MSFT breakup from the WSJ.] Wall Street Journal - April 25, 2000 Why the Case for a Breakup Breaks Down By Richard B. Mckenzie and William F. Shughart II. Mr. McKenzie, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, is author of "Trust on Trial: How the Microsoft Case Is Reframing the Rules of Competition" (Perseus, 2000). Mr. Shughart, a professor at the University of Mississippi, is author of "Antitrust Policy and Interest-Group Politics" (Quor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 14:03:32 PDT 2000

36634 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >This is a false comparison, Doug, and I am surprised that you fall for that >crap. You need to compare apples to apples, that is, countries under >similar conditions. So to compare NK or Cuba to the US - you would have to >perform a mental experiment of imagining the US being under similar >conditions to the two countries in question, i.e. the same level of foreign >threat, foreign induced economic instablity etc. - and then try to imagine >how mu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 13:07:44 PDT 2000

36635 skirt indicator -- rank: 1000

[further proof that the great bull market is ending?] New York Times - April 25, 2000 The Mini Rebellion Is Over. Long Skirts Reign By GINIA BELLAFANTE ne recent morning, Becky Michaels, who handles advertising at a Midtown publishing house, left her Upper West Side apartment with the kind of look that hadn't called to her in many months: a skirt that sat somewhere in the mezzanine section of her thigh, not in the orchestra. Her husband, a musician, asked if she intended to go to the office &quo ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 25 12:51:41 PDT 2000

36636 No Subject, was, purportedly, on North Korea -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >the contents of some article in French Wow, that's some rigorous textual analysis. You were a professor of English for how long? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 25 11:08:42 PDT 2000

36637 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I consider the USA today to be the most repressive society, not just >abroad but also at home, based upon the rate of incarceration. The >USA is decidedly more repressive than North Korea in this regard. >Cuba is incomparably freer than the USA. I hate the US carceral state, but could you make similar statements about Cuba or NK in public in those countries without risk of being jailed? "Incomparably" freer? I'd say bourgeois democracy is a bit mor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 11:04:10 PDT 2000

36638 Free the Tibetans from the Dalal Lama -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Jim, the US might have the most advanced military technology, but that does >not justfy calling it an "advanced society." In fact, the US is mostly a >backward provincial society whose imagery and perceptions of the world are >shaped by small-town petty bourgeois mentality, religious morality plays, >Hollywood movies, self-righteousness, ethnocentrism and ignorance of truly >colossal proportions. Now wait a minute. There's lots about U.S. cul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 10:53:01 PDT 2000

36639 change of address -- rank: 1000

John J. Simon wrote: >I don't know if this is the right place to send change of address notices Please send them to me privately, or to majordomo. For a list of majordomo commands, send a "help" to <majordomo at lists.panix.com>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 25 10:46:04 PDT 2000

36640 Fwd: A Call To Anarchists and Revolutionarys -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:34:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis Not Bombs <vegan31 at excite.com> Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca The Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc is converging on New York City for May Day. This May 1st, meet at 1 pm Union sq. NYC to march for Amnesty for Migrant Workers sponsered by UNITE!, the Direct Action Network and many others. We'll then regroup at Battery Park @ 4:30 and join with Reclaim the Streets. Look for the black flags. Bring your ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 10:24:32 PDT 2000

36641 Wall Street asks the hard questions -- rank: 1000

[From an article in TheStreet.com about Amazon.com. Aspiring to the negative single digits!] "We want to understand the mechanics of profitability," says Sara Farley, an analyst with PaineWebber who rates Amazon shares neutral. (Her firm hasn't done banking for Amazon.) Farley and other analysts want a road map and more information on the performance of different product lines. When will gross margins improve, and by how much? When will operating margins, which last year were -22%, mov ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 25 09:51:32 PDT 2000

36642 NK -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >what is that term you use ?, phony ignorant one Idiot questioner. From William Blake originally, though I got it from that old bourgeois canoneer, Harold Bloom. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 25 09:31:20 PDT 2000

36643 pseudo... -- rank: 1000

All you gluttons for punishment out there, there's an interview with me now playing at Pseudo's new politics channel <http://www.pseudopolitics.com/>. You need all kinds of plug-ins to see it, like Shockwave and RealPlayer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 15:49:33 PDT 2000

36644 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>[Zizek] thanked me for forwarding him all the comments from his >>critics here, and said wait til you see his book on "totalitarianism," >>due out in January. Very pro-Lenin, or so he claims. > >And I was just starting to warm up to the guy (Zizek, that is). I'm guessing our Leninists won't approve of his Lenin or Leninism. By the way, he says Alain Badiou - about whom I know nothing - is fascinated by old V.I. these days ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 15:43:08 PDT 2000

36645 dollar dilemma? -- rank: 1000

Barron's - April 24, 2000 Worries About the U.S. Current-Account Deficit Are Hitting Closer To Home, Including at the Fed By William Pesek Jr. It seems the newest thing about the New Economy is the U.S. dollar. The greenback's remarkable resilience during Wall Street's near-collapse two weeks ago has analysts grasping at a new currency paradigm to explain why it, too, didn't plunge. In reality, though, the old rules still apply to the dollar, which is why concern is growing about a plunge in the ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 15:40:08 PDT 2000