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37171 Immanuel Wallerstein -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >I just returned from the American Political Science Association conference >in Atlanta where Immanuel Wallerstein gave a lecture in which he argued >that the world capitalist order was headed towards a crisis. Hmm, I was just reading a paper that claimed it's been in crisis since 1973. Or was it 1997? I forget. It's so hard to keep all these crises straight. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 5 19:44:52 PDT 1999

37172 LBO No. 91 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >In the "profiles in expansiveness" chart on page 6, I'm a little unclear >on the column titled "Consumption Share." It's a cool number (big jump), >but what's it a share of and how is it calculated? Ooops. That was supposed to be in the table caption. It's personal consumption as a share of GDP. Damn, it sure undermines your point not to make your terms clear. Donning sackcloth & ashes, Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 5 14:35:37 PDT 1999

37173 Serbs to freeze? -- rank: 1000

[of course they deserve it because of their collective guilt...] Financial Times - September 4, 1999 UN warns of power crisis in Serbia By Guy Dinmore in London Serbia faces a humanitarian crisis this winter through shortages of electricity and heating, according to a UN report that criticises western governments for denying help to repair the Nato-damaged power industry. Electricity supply is likely to fall 30-50 per cent below minimum needs and much of the system could collapse completely, war ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 4 06:10:35 PDT 1999

37174 stocks, labor -- rank: 1000

[Friday's weaker-than-expected employment report, showing slower job and wage growth than capital feared, caused a strong rally in stocks - which will only make Stanley Fischer & the IMF more nervous. Poor Greenspan....] Wall Street Journal - September 3, 1999 [from the Washington Wire front-page column] THE IMF QUESTIONS the Fed's reluctance to prick the stock market. The Fed resists as impractical IMF official Fischer's suggestion that the central bank raise margin requirements on borrowin ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 4 06:43:12 PDT 1999

37175 interview with Mike Moore -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 3, 1999 FT INTERVIEW: Mike Moore The World Trade Organisation needs to promote the benefits of globalisation for poor as well as rich countries, its new head tells Guy de Jonquieres Mike Moore, who took over this week as head of the World Trade Organisation, is a committed champion of the underdog. The son of a poor New Zealand farming family, he was a social worker and trades union official before he entered politics and served briefly as the country's prime ministe ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 16:56:44 PDT 1999

37176 Fwd: fw: What is Globalisation? -- rank: 1000

[Angela points out... The link she gives is the front door; this article, by "Dr Woo," is at <http://www.ratical.org/corporations/wwwmesgs/300.html>] the rest at: <http://www.ratical.org/corporations/wwwboard.html> I. What is Globalisation? Globalisation has become a bÍte noire for all sorts of people--activists and academics, reformists and revolutionaries. At a time when nationalism is resurgent, we see an internationalisation of struggle. And yet... confusion reigns--con ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 11:43:52 PDT 1999

37177 GDP is unscientific and unfair for poor people. -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I'd be surprised to find an introductory text which >does not make clear the distinction between GDP and >well-being, or between GDP and the condition of the >poor. The use of GDP in political debate as a welfare >indicator is another matter, but this thread is getting >ridiculous. There's no question though that the media report and people in politics talk about big macro indicators like GDP and class-biased indicators like the stock market and even labor ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 11:19:54 PDT 1999

37178 Fwd: tompaine.com -- rank: 1000

News Release - September 3, 1999 A FRESH VOICE ONLINE AND IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ~ New Opinion Journal Launched ~ TomPaine.com Washington, D.C. - There's a new voice on the Internet and on the op-ed page of the New York Times. TomPaine.com debuts Tuesday, September 7 with the first of its weekly op-ed page advertisements in the Times. Find it online at www.TomPaine.com. "The op-ed page of the New York Times is the front yard of the government and media establishment," says John Moyers ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 11:00:16 PDT 1999

37179 CIA and Seattle -- rank: 1000

[belatedly...] Financial Times - August 14, 1999 AMERICAS CIA: Rehearsal for sleepless night in Seattle By Mark Suzman in Washington Forget nuclear espionage and fomenting unrest in third world countries. As part of a long search for a raison d'etre in the post-Cold War era, the US Central Intelligence Agency is turning its attention to potential trade wars and adverse economic trends. The National Intelligence Council, a body charged with advising George Tenet, director of the CIA, on potential ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 10:12:31 PDT 1999

37180 New approach to debt called for -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >you >come from a position of militant cynicism and I come from a position of >militant reformism. >That is because of your mechanical and superficial approach to the problem. >How unimaginative you are in your concept of the state. >you are presenting yourself as the left face of Jessie Helms. >But if one is a >militant cynic there is no need to get your hands dirty with such details. >What side are you on, for Christ's sake, Christian? Are you ma ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 09:54:11 PDT 1999

37181 Facing "facts" with fantasy -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >But if it could be shown that of the group of women experiencing >unplanned and or unexpected pregnancy who chose not to mother, a >substantial proportion could trace their decision to fear of something >associated with mothering. And if that something could be manipulated by >social engineering, reducing that fear, then society would have been >improved. But can the "willingness to mother" variable be put forward as >a servicable indication ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 3 08:15:58 PDT 1999

37182 lingo -- rank: 1000

Just heard from a friend of mine who went to a meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that the staffers and visiting "prestige" economists kept referring to the masses of New York City as "the indigenous population." Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 07:50:06 PDT 1999

37183 market-driven higher ed -- rank: 1000

For a look at the future of U.S. education - and the world, if the World Bank has anything to say about it - see the promo page for "Market-Driven Higher Education," a conference sponsored by University Business Magazine <http://www.universitybusiness.com/conferences.html>. University Business is owned by the same people who own Lingua Franca, led by underwear heir Jeffrey Kittay. The Sept issue has a story on "how UMass created an award-winning logo." Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 2 19:44:37 PDT 1999

37184 Countering bigoted rightwing attack on Free Speech -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >I still get a kick out of reading his "letter to conservatives": >http://www.bradkeena.com/logs/Paul6.htm and Suck.com's response: > http://www.suck.com/daily/99/03/01/ Whose author, who wrote under the nom de Suck Ambrose Beers, has joined the Army. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 2 18:01:37 PDT 1999

37185 Fwd: Artist arrested at One Police Plaza Protest -- rank: 1000

From: <ARTISTpres at aol.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:32:11 EDT Artist arrested at One Police Plaza Protest Artist/activist Robert Lederman was arrested outside One Police Plaza today (9/2/99) as he wrote "Giuliani = Police State" in chalk on the sidewalk. Approximately 25 police officials, including attorneys from the NYPD legal division, were present in addition to a group of artist demonstrators. The demonstration was held in order to protest the shooting on Monday of Gidone ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 2 15:53:28 PDT 1999