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37126 the New Sincerity -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >the alternative to leftish symbolpolitik is getting involved in >realpolitik, but i do not think that the idealistically oriented left is >ready for such a drastic move. Just who are you talking about here? Who are these symbolic politicians? Most of the left academics I've met are active, sometimes very active. Who are these detached demons you (& Lou Proyect) keep invoking? Or do you just have a need for them? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 10 14:12:16 PDT 1999

37127 FWD: KGB stash in unassuming fishing mecca -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >The archives also describe attempts by the KGB to discredit U.S. civil >rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. For instance, the KGB >planted stories in the press that King was secretly working with >President Lyndon Johnson and that he had sold out to the white >establishment. What an amazing thing to do. Why? To support more radical black leadership or just to fuck things up? What was the CPUSA saying then? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 10 14:08:45 PDT 1999

37128 mad money (ecuador defaulting) -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >It's entirely possible to communicate with all bondholders, wherever they >may be, by using the services of the two big securities depositories (Cedel >and Euroclear), who hold settlement for pretty much the entire Brady >market. Ecuador could make offers to the bondholders and get their >responses quite easily. Logistics are only part of the problem. In bondworld, you've got many holders who could easily sell or make separate deals. They don ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 10 13:52:07 PDT 1999

37129 Fwd: The Exterminator: Adolf Giuliani Gases New York -- rank: 1000

[The latest from the irrepressible Robert Lederman, who was arrested once again just last week for chalking "Giuliani = police state" on a sidewalk.] X-From_: ARTISTpres at aol.com Fri Sep 10 08:20:08 1999 From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:11:28 EDT Subject: The Exterminator: Adolf Giuliani Gases New York MIME-Version: 1.0 To: undisclosed-recipients: ; The Exterminator: Adolf Giuliani Gases New York "I ask you not to create any undue or unnecessary alarm or pa ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 10 09:55:17 PDT 1999

37130 mad money -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >Surely the main >thing we've learnt from the last few crises is that bondholders don't >really exercise any control at all? Ecuador's possible default on its Brady Bonds - they're almost halfway through a 30-day grace period, with a deadline of Sept 28 - is interesting in this regard. The IMF apparently wants to make a test case of Ecuador for its new "bail-in" strategy - i.e., making private creditors take a hit when a country gets into t ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 10 09:39:51 PDT 1999

37131 wages & immigration -- rank: 1000

"Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration?" BY: GORDON H. HANSON University of Michigan Department of Economics University of Texas RAYMOND ROBERTSON Syracuse University Department of Economics ANTONIO SPILIMBERGO International Monetary Fund (IMF) Research Department Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. 7054 Date: March 1999 Contact: GORDON H. HANSON Email: Mailto:gohanson at umich.edu Postal: University of Michigan Department of Economics 611 S. Tappan A ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 10 09:10:32 PDT 1999

37132 Derrida down under -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It seems that the "West" is the transcendental signified that >underwrites postmodernism, to put it deconstructively. Yoshie, how does the "pomo" canon play in Japan, if at all? Is any of it part of an undergraduate education? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 10 08:48:23 PDT 1999

37133 Nairn website -- rank: 1000

The excellent Allan Nairn is filing reports from East Timor to a website at <http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2487/>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 10 08:37:34 PDT 1999

37134 the New Sincerity -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Gen-X is a name for a media product, and nothing more. I heard recently that Grecian Formula is test-marketing a men's hair coloring product pitched to "Gen-X." O tempora! O mores!, indeed. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 12:31:24 PDT 1999

37135 Gates pere -- rank: 1000

All you Bill Gates haters out there: for a flavor of what his father does as the middle name of the Seattle law firm Preston Gates & Ellis, see a story The Stranger did on their defense of sweatshops, at <http://www.thestranger.com/archive/825/FEATURES/>. Thanks to Stranger editor Jennifer Vogel for pointing this out. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 11:41:04 PDT 1999

37136 Preston Gates & IP -- rank: 1000

With thanks again to Jennifer Vogel... check out the intellectual property page of Preston Gates & Ellis' website. Like father, like son? <http://www.prestongates.com/practiceareas.asp?practiceareaid=4> Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 11:58:51 PDT 1999

37137 South African CP on East TImor -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >It should be noted that the logical position argued by Yoshie and Carrol on >this list is that *as a matter of principle* it is foolhardy for any >individuals to support this principled call by the SACP. > >Time they did some serious thinking. Some South Africans I know say the SACP is masterful at talking left and acting right - of providing just the right quotation from Marx to justify the ways of capital to the working class. So maybe you too should do som ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 09:06:24 PDT 1999

37138 IMF worries about US stocks -- rank: 1000

[I didn't see a mention of this in the WSJ, though the Journal did do a story on the IMF's approval of Malaysia's capital controls.] Financial Times - September 9, 1999 IMF fears global effects of US slowdown By George Graham, Banking Editor The International Monetary Fund yesterday warned of the growing risk of a large correction in the US equity market that might spill over to other markets and create the sort of financial turbulence that swept the world a year ago. In its annual report on cap ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 08:22:40 PDT 1999

37139 radio -- rank: 1000

On my radio show tonight, Thursday, 5-6 PM NYC time, WBAI 99.5 FM: Chris Jochnick of the Center for Economic & Social Rights talking about Ecuador's economic crisis (the word is deserved here), with a good round of Texaco-bashing likely too; Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel talking about Russia; and David Henderson, former chief economist of the OECD, talking about the demise of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, and those evil net-linked NGOs that helped do it in. WBAI's webcastin ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 08:17:23 PDT 1999

37140 Cybill! -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >(You did see, >by the way, that Bill Hillsman was wined, dined, and debriefed >by Beatty about 10 days ago, right?) (For those of you who don't >know the name, Hillsman was the adman with Wellstone's '90 Senate >campaign and Jesse V.'s 1998 gubernatorial win.) ...and I just happen to have a copy of Hillsman's college yearbook photo (Carleton '74), which shows him bareassed, next to a similar pic of Burt Reynolds. Anyone who wants that, I'll be happy to forward! ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 21:21:24 PDT 1999