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36991 car-free report -- rank: 1000

GRASS, BIKES, HORSES IN PARIS AS THREE COUNTRIES STAGE "CAR-FREE DAY" PARIS, Sept 22 (AFP) - Grass sprouted in a central Paris square, politicians took to their bikes and others to their horses on Wednesday as more than 160 cities and towns in three countries staged a "car-free day" to fight the tyranny of the auto. French Environment Minister Dominique Voynet, a Green, led a parade of cycle-borne ministers as they headed for a weekly cabinet meeting at the presidential Elyse ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 08:51:23 PDT 1999

36992 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Whether we are talking about the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil, the >Indonesian labor movement, the South Korean democracy movement, or the >upsurge of latino power in California, there are incredibly dramatic >examples of movements that have continued to grow globally. I alternate between thinking that these are promising examples of a newer left - popularly rooted and democratic - and thinking that their very dispersion and specificity, untied to any bro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 07:47:06 PDT 1999

36993 why a mother hates her baby -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >Who could not love a little kid. [from D.W. Winnicott, "Hate in the Counter-Transference," The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 30, part 2 (1949), pp. 69-74] The mother, however, hates her infant from the word go. I believe Freud thought it possible that a mother may under certain circumstances have only love for her boy baby; but we may doubt this. We know about a mother's love and we appreciate its reality and power. Let me give some of the reasons ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 07:42:37 PDT 1999

36994 Australian pressure to intervene -- rank: 1000

I was talking to a journalist who covers Indonesia at a party last night. She told me that the Australian government threatened a cutoff of military and intelligence cooperation with the U.S. if the U.S. didn't agree to an East Timor intervention. Has anyone else heard this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 07:12:32 PDT 1999

36995 Stiglitz rebuked -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 22, 1999 WORLD BANK: Economist rebuked over Russia By Alan Beattie in Washington James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, yesterday rebuked Joseph Stiglitz, his chief economist, saying Mr Stiglitz's views on the failure of market reform in Russia had been made with the benefit of perfect hindsight. Speaking at a press conference just before the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, Mr Wolfensohn said he did not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 06:31:23 PDT 1999

36996 war criminal talks to model -- rank: 1000

I just got the new issue of Talk. There, amidst all the images of their launch party, is a picture of Henry Kissinger talking to Kate Moss. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 21:35:26 PDT 1999

36997 Saddam -- rank: 1000

I think Newsday had a piece during the Gulf War saying that the CIA coached Bush to mispronounce Saddam as a calculated insult. Doug Stephen E Philion wrote: >I speak 4 languages myself, so I can appreciate part of this argument. >But, I would hope it doesn't go too far. The guy is a world leader, with >whom we are in an undeclared state of perennial war,so we could make an >argment that correct pronunication might be a bit more of a high priority, >perhaps. But, I'm not sure I b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 20:47:52 PDT 1999

36998 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

[this bounced from a re-s*ubscriber who posted before rejoining] From: Oiboy27 at aol.com Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:35:23 EDT Doug I think you should try to explain to us or at least figure out for yourself why you don't want to give such an interesting eccentric as LaRouche even the time of day. He's been accused of many things, including of being an anti-Semite. For a few years I had a friend who was involved in the LaRouche organization and I met several people in it, many of whom were Jews a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 16:23:33 PDT 1999

36999 Challenging US imperialism -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >What good can forming a society of pure left wingers do? Oh, I dunno, maybe we could smash the state or something. >That you cannot conceive of a global future except one dominated by US >imperialism is a major constraint. It arises out of the US domination of >the internet, in lists such as these You're kidding. I thought it had to do with the U.S. military and the massive power of U.S. capital. >Or put another question: how do you think US imperialism can b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 16:07:06 PDT 1999

37000 manna for bears (a series) -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:53:13 -0400 From: WSJ Interactive Edition Editors <usmarkets at LISTSERV.DOWJONES.COM> Subject: U.S. MARKETS: Trade Report Sends Stocks Skidding Sept. 21, 1999 Stocks Decline as Trade Data Stoke Rate Fears BY ANDREW FRASER INTERACTIVE JOURNAL The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its third-worst point drop of the year Tuesday in a broad market decline that was stoked by worries about interest rates and a drop in the dollar. Bond prices fell. The D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 14:20:12 PDT 1999

37001 Migrant Labor in NYC -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >I'm looking for information on the use of Chinese migrant labor(legal >and illegal but especially from Fu Chien province [sp?]) in New York >City (sweatshops). Any help appreciated. There's Peter Kwong's work, like his book Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor (New Press). Fujian province, I think it is. Peter is adamant that we code them as "workers" and not "immigrants." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 14:10:44 PDT 1999

37002 CAR SURVEY -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >But in all fairness, I don't think that Alex, Bill, Carrol, Michael, >Doug, Wojtek, Stephen or Carl should be denouncing car use without >telling us how they get about. > >Wojtek makes a very closely argued case that the car is a waste of >money. So how about it gents? Have you got rid of your car yet? > > Car owner? Cyclist? Public transport to work? >Alex >Bill >Carrol >Michael >Doug >Wojtek >Stephen >Carl I haven't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 12:02:12 PDT 1999

37003 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > It was clear very early on that there was going to >be a response from the US and others. He went >into a defensive mode. > To answer Doug's original question, I have no >handy published source for this. Maybe it is false. >I can say, however, that it was widely believed in >Saudi Arabia for a lot of reasons that I shall not go >into here. It was also widely believed in the early 1980s that a Libyan hit squad was loose in the U.S. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 11:56:56 PDT 1999

37004 why cars suck (was: car-free Europe) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >My dim opinion of the LIRR notwithstanding, I agree with you here. >And to get really nostalgic about it (at the risk of giving J. >Heartfield apoplexy), I have to say I consider steam locomotives the >only really beautiful machines ever created. C'mon Carl. The iMac is beautiful, just to take an example of something I've got 6 feet away from me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 11:51:15 PDT 1999

37005 more on Goldsmith, etc. -- rank: 1000

[Angela asked me to forward these after running them through my handy reformatter - ungarble it!, a Macintosh desk accessory. Normally I wouldn't post something this big, but I think this analysis is extremely important, with all the anti-WTO agitation going on. For an old LBO rant on similar topics, see <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Globalization.html>.] Millionaire Goldsmith supports the Left and the extreme Right All over Europe New Right ideologists are seeking contact with Left wing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 10:59:09 PDT 1999