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36826 Fwd: Unions Debate How Fiercely to Protest China Trade Deal -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >BTW, just bought my first cellphone. I love mine (917-865-2813), but I'm a techno-fetishist. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 12:48:22 PDT 2000

36827 Klein & radicalism -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That does not sound very encouraging at all. Corporations are real >entities with names and addresses, endowed with material resources, whereas >capitalism is well.... and abstraction, a heuristic model if you will. No, I think you've got this wrong. There's a certain kind of petit bourgeois radicalism that was popular in the late 80s and early 90s that railed against "corporations" as usurpers and besmirchers of the beauties of the Smithian market. ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 12:00:30 PDT 2000

36828 Fwd: Unions Debate How Fiercely to Protest China Trade Deal -- rank: 1000

[Via Micahel Eisenscher. Jo-Ann Mort is evil. It's ok to bomb Baghdad and Belgrade <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Dissent.html>, but bad to smash a Niketown window.] Wall Street Journal - April 7, 2000 Unions Debate How Fiercely To Protest China Legislation By HELENE COOPER and GLENN BURKINS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Do U.S. labor unions want another Seattle? Sunday begins another week of protests against the forces of globalization, this time in the nation' ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 11:20:37 PDT 2000

36829 Greenspan IQ query -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Huh? What makes you think so? I have heard him say, at least in one occasion, >that he thinks current valuations are justified by the wonderful advances in >techblah blah blah (though he graciously conceded that he might, gasp, be >wrong). He says lots of things. He's also said we may look back someday and call this a bubble. But we don't know. We're not wise enough to know better than millions of sophisticated market participants blah blah. Like I posted ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 11:11:57 PDT 2000

36830 Greenspan IQ query -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Has Prof. Robert Gordon come out with his revised numbers on >productivity growth within and without IT? Not yet. Still waiting... Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 10:52:50 PDT 2000

36831 Klein & radicalism -- rank: 1000

Naomi Klein said on my radio show last night that over the last few weeks she's noticed that when she talks to student audiences, she's now getting the objection: "You keep talking about corporations. But isn't the real problem capitalism?" Things are happening out there... Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 10:16:51 PDT 2000

36832 Nation on A16 -- rank: 1000

Excerpts from the Nation's special issue on A16 are now up at the mag's website, <http://www.thenation.com>. A forum on the "starving child defense" - the Economist's line that the real victims of Seattle were the poor - in part concocted from interviews I conducted with Dennis Brutus, Njoke Njehu, and G. Rajasekaran is at <http://www.thenation.com/issue/000424/0424forum.shtml>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 10:08:05 PDT 2000

36833 Greenspan IQ query -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >At present, I think US labor is only threatening to close off China exports >in order to get assurance that China will not prevent US companies from >importing crucial inputs and repatriating profits and having an actual >place in its market. I'm not sure what you mean by this, but my understanding is that U.S. labor wants to suppress competition from a huge workforce that works for pennies, and block membership of a state in the WTO that would forever doom a ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 10:02:15 PDT 2000

36834 Greenspan IQ query -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Just to clarify. Even assuming that unit labor costs were not to rise as >the entire US based industrial reserve army of labor is called into action, >capital still confronts a looming labor shortage due to the immensity of >the capital that is being accumulated--Greenspan is only being honest here. Actually, though, Greenspan has been celebrating the efficiency of U.S. investment as compared to the EU's & Japan's - we invest less, but smarter, and make mo ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 09:42:39 PDT 2000

36835 I want my shareholder value! -- rank: 1000

[I used to think the stock market was run by folks with the emotional makeup of early teenagers. Now I'm leaning towards 5-year-olds.] Financial Times - April 7, 2000 Aetna investors demand share rise in 90 days By Adrian Michaels in New York A group of powerful shareholders in Aetna Thursday demanded that the board of the US's largest health insurer take action within 90 days to improve the share price. The group, brought together by broker-dealer Providence Capital, which owns shares in Aetna ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 09:35:36 PDT 2000

36836 Council of Canadians -- rank: 1000

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: >On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:59:53 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> A loan is like that only in the very short term (though I should >>say this is >a topic of theological dispute among economists). > >What do you mean a matter of dispute?!? You can't be serious... Is it really >that bad, that no one has any clue about how the economy works? No wonder I'm >in religion - at least we can claim to st ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 7 09:25:52 PDT 2000

36837 Council of Canadians -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: > >>Yes, it is my understand that this is exactly what a loan is - money created >>out of thin air only to disappear again when it is paid back (this is exactly >>what the banks do... they open an account an put money it it - from where - >>from an 000-0001 account (or something like that - which isn't really an >>account, it's just a number that, at the end of the day [term of >>the loan], h ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 6 16:13:55 PDT 2000

36838 Council of Canadians -- rank: 1000

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: >Yes, it is my understand that this is exactly what a loan is - money created >out of thin air only to disappear again when it is paid back (this is exactly >what the banks do... they open an account an put money it it - from where - >from an 000-0001 account (or something like that - which isn't really an >account, it's just a number that, at the end of the day [term of the >loan], has >to be 0). Please, correct me. A loan is like ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 6 15:53:05 PDT 2000

36839 Fwd: Mexican Spy Has No Regrets -- rank: 1000

[reformatted into readability] (The Guardian) Mexican Spy Has No Regrets Thursday April 6, 2000 8:10 pm MEXICO CITY (AP) - Tall, white-haired and friendly, Gilberto Lopez y Rivas is a noted anthropologist and prominent congressman, a member of a commission trying to end the Zapatista rebellion in southern Mexico. But for the last 22 years he has guarded a secret: Lopez spied on the United States for Soviet military intelligence, passing on secrets for a decade until the FBI caught up with him an ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 6 15:49:44 PDT 2000

36840 panel -- rank: 1000

I was wrong; tomorrow's (Friday's) panel on labor & globalization at the Judson Church, Washington Square South, NYC, starts at 6 PM, not 6:30. Aside from me, the panelists are Naomi Klein, Thea Lee, and Anurhada Mittal, with the Nation's Betsy Reed as moderator. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 6 12:45:57 PDT 2000