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36736 left-right (Coniff) -- rank: 1000

< http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue364/item9048.asp> Fighting the Power: Should the Left Join the Right? by Ruth Conniff Thursday, April 13, 2000 If you want to see the nadir of progressive politics, just watch "West Wing," NBC's weekly drama about a kinder, better, less scandal-soaked Clinton administration. President Jedidiah Bartlett, played by Martin Sheen, is a likable pater familias. He and the Democratic White House staff are clearly the good guys. Since the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 14 09:47:07 PDT 2000

36737 Greenspan, our teacher, says no bubble -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 14, 2000 Greenspan Warns Against Changing To Centralized Stock-Trading System By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER and MICHAEL SCHROEDER Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan suggested at a congressional hearing that the recent plunge in high-technology stocks would do little to deter the central bank from its current campaign to raise interest rates. "Let's remember that the overall market is still significantly abov ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 08:55:43 PDT 2000

36738 Fwd: Anti-Microradio Bill Passed by House -- rank: 1000

X-Sender: eileensutton at mail.earthlink.net Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:50:00 -0500 Dear Friends, The grassroots movement to protect microradio across the country over the last decade has been an extraordinary one, and culminated in the FCC recently passing historic regulations to protect micro. The fight was muscular, and hard-won. Corporate broadcasters were not happy about it, and took the battle to congress. The news below represents the first blow from congress to undo the FCC regulations ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 08:51:09 PDT 2000

36739 this is progressive? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Who are you trying to kid ? We are the allies of the workers of >the world. You are the junior partners of big business. Really? Max, you should have told us long ago! Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 10:24:16 PDT 2000

36740 networking question -- rank: 1000

If there's anyone out there who understands Ethernet networks, could you contact me offlist? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 10:15:33 PDT 2000

36741 Wilson on drugs -- rank: 1000

[The latest from the evil Wilson.] Wall Street Journal - April 13, 2000 A New Strategy For the War on Drugs By James Q. Wilson, a professor of public policy at Pepperdine University and author of "The Moral Sense," available in paperback from Free Press. The current Senate deliberation over aid to Colombia aimed at fighting narcotics reminds us that there are two debates over how the government ought to deal with dangerous drugs. The first is about their illegality and the second is ab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 13 10:08:28 PDT 2000

36742 A16 forecast -- rank: 1000

The Weather Channel's forecast for A16 for the IMF's zip code: warm, scattered thuderstorms <http://www.weather.com/weather/us/zips/20431.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 09:29:37 PDT 2000

36743 this is progressive? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Labor's campaign has zero to do with the history of >U.S. militarism in Asia. All of the fulminations on >this list have no connection with what is happening >on the ground in Washington this week. There's an >evolving movement, and you ain't in it. Tough. >Either shape up or find a hobby. Hey, Max, wait a minute. You mean you can't be part of this evolving movement - I like to think of myself as a member - and be critical of it too? What the hell is Pat ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 09:23:01 PDT 2000

36744 A quip and some questions -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >1. What counts as information? If I'm stock market >investor, I can make choices according to the >fundamentals of a stock or the so-called "technical" >analyses. Even if I grant that markets are efficient >in the sense its defenders give (and that the >definition they give isn't a tautology but has some >real meaning), that means the current stock prince at >any given time takes into account both of these models >of valuation. But t ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 09:18:48 PDT 2000

36745 fresh hot Slavoj -- rank: 1000

[Two excerpts from Slavoj Zizek's The Fragile Absolute, advance copies of which just hit the Verso office. It will no doubt irritate people who don't like phrases like "Marx's fundamental mistake."] [pp 1-2] One of the most deplorable aspects of the postmodern era and its so-called 'thought' is the return of the religious dimension in all its different guises: from Christian and other fundamentalisms, through the multitude of New Age spiritualisms, up to the emerging religious sensitiv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 13 09:10:46 PDT 2000

36746 MOre boring crap on money creation -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >But that's just one fo the tools, right? The other is the ability to regulate >how much money is created through the addition/substraction of reserves, >through open market operations. And in out-of-control bubbles, when people >don't really care how much interest they are paying, that one is more >important, isn't it? > >Also, I am not sure that the ability to set interest rates in unaffected by an >alternative, unregulated banking system. Th ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 09:14:58 PDT 2000

36747 pie Bill -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> has a little game - Pie Bill Gates - he's happy to share with anyone who'd like it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 13 08:24:34 PDT 2000

36748 WB on itself & its neighbor -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >"Much of the world"? Isn't it just the US? Well the U.S. is home of the World Series, isn't it? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 08:25:12 PDT 2000

36749 unions -- rank: 1000

A pal inside The Building - AFL-CIO HQ - tells me that 1) yesterday's rally was a Teamster rally, not an AFL-CIO affair, something the press has been lax in pointing out, 2) AFL-CIO people were appalled that Buchanan would speak at a labor rally, 3) they do not endorse the rhetoric of the rally, preferring instead to fight in a "principled and forward-looking way," 4) the AFL-CIO has no control over what its member unions do or say, and 5) it's a very diverse movement, so one should ne ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 08:33:28 PDT 2000

36750 A not Unminor problem -- rank: 1000

Peter K wrote: >Here's a new article on finance theory, "convergence arbitrage," and the >problems that Russia’s devaluation of the rouble and partial default on its >rouble-denominated debt in '98 caused for Long Term Capital Management: > >http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n08/mack2208.htm > >In it, the author writes, "As [LTCM's] difficulties grew, the Federal >Reserve Bank feared the consequences for already nervous capital markets of >a sudden forced liquida ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 08:14:30 PDT 2000