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37216 Fwd: quarky malarkey -- rank: 1000

[sent to listowner rather than list, thanks to dumb defaults from Lotus Notes] From: DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:38:47 +0100 >> But are happy with ones which are based on very clear >> misunderstandings of simple English words. "Up" as a property of >> quarks is not the opposite of "down". Evocative or nay, that's a >> wrong use. >what on earth are you saying? (can't you read a map???) Well, not without difficulty, but ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 29 08:21:35 PDT 1999

37217 lazy public servants -- rank: 1000

>"Why Do Lazy People Make More Money? The Strange Case of the > Public Sector Wage Premium" > > BY: UGO PANIZZA > Inter-American Development Bank > Office of the Chief Economist > University of Torino > Department of Economics > >Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: > http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=174710 > > Other Electronic Docu ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 29 07:42:44 PDT 1999

37218 Trump's fans -- rank: 1000

[From Sam Smith's Progressive Review. Trump wasn't exactly self-made; his father was a rich developer. A friend of mine once speculated that the reason Trump is so arrogant - and unwilling to emulate his social betters - is that he grew up with money, and doesn't have the anxieties of an arriviste.] Jane Mayer reports in the New Yorker that surveys find that Donald Trump's biggest supporters are blacks, latinos, and white voters who earn less than $25,000 a year. Says one of Trump's associates: ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 29 07:28:30 PDT 1999

37219 tosspot -- rank: 1000

All you British-speakers out there: what's a tosspot (a word that figures prominently in the Momus song I was just listening to)? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 29 06:53:01 PDT 1999

37220 WB & corruption -- rank: 1000

[An update on the World Bank & corruption, from the Bank's daily clipping service. The WB's corruption portal is <http://www.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/>] INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FIGHT CORRUPTION. Agence France-Presse reports that the World Bank on Wednesday released a list of 48 countries where it is working with local authorities to combat corruption. "It is important to note that this is not a list of countries that the World Bank has singled out to investigate ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 11:55:47 PDT 1999

37221 FROP = bear market -- rank: 1000

<http://about.delphi.com/ab-stocks/messages/?msg=177%2E22> From: TOMBLOM 7:59 am To: Mike G (ab_stocks) #177.22, in reply to 177.21 22 of 24 Let's face it, friends: It's over. The bear's at the door. Like it or not, Marx had it right: capitalism's starting to experience one of its periodic, inevitable crises due to a declining rate of profit worldwide. Call me a Red capitalist. I've made tons of money over the years by taking Marx seriously. I may not like his prescriptions for social ch ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 11:08:02 PDT 1999

37222 radio self-promo -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I just tried the web link and heard that quack Gary Null talking >about urinary tract infections, so it's working. You do need >RealPlayer 5.1 or higher. >Doug >------------- > >The guy who says the Birchers were right about fluoridation >all along? I don't know his posish on fluoridation, but I'd guess he's against it. He also claims to cure baldness, not to mention AIDS. He thinks vaccinations are bad, and cause the disease they purport to cure. I on ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 10:55:46 PDT 1999

37223 radio self-promo -- rank: 1000

On my radio show this evening, 5-6 PM NYC time (WBAI 99.5 FM, and on the web at <http://165.254.215.25:8080/ramgen/encoder/wbai.rm>, or follow the link from <http://www.wbaifree.org>: - Susie Bright, talking about sex, politics, and the erotics of Marxism - Christian Parenti, talking about his new book, Lockdown America. I just tried the web link and heard that quack Gary Null talking about urinary tract infectdions, so it's working. You do need RealPlayer 5.1 or higher. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 09:46:03 PDT 1999

37224 New era, one way or the other -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I couldn't find any documentation of the new methodology, so if >anybody has it I'd appreciate a link. <http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/bench.htm> Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 09:21:14 PDT 1999

37225 New era, one way or the other -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Doug, some of the more paranoid bears I read are convinced there is a >fairly concerted effort on the part of government statisticians to >massage the numbers and revise calculations in order not to upset the >markets. Do you think there is anything to this? Some of the revisions are pretty defensible, like counting software as an investment. This is in accordance with prevailing international standards. Counting public pension fund contributions as perso ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 08:28:28 PDT 1999

37226 Yecch -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an attachment - the AFL-CIO's signing is the news here] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:21:55 -0400 Wednesday October 27, 10:47 pm Eastern Time Business Leaders Back WTO Agenda By KEVIN GALVIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite protests over the upcoming World Trade Organization meeting, labor leaders have joined with their corporate counterparts on a presidential advisory board to support the administration's trade agenda. A handf ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 07:28:15 PDT 1999

37227 The World Socialism Movement -- rank: 1000

"THE WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT(via THE SOCIALIST PARTY of Great wrote: >And? We do not oppose reforms either. What we say is that it is not the >business of a revolutionary party, any more than it is our business to help >little old ladies across roads. Unions are the vehicles for struggle within >capitalism; when they die, don't blame revolutionaries. The real reason >that bolshevik-type revolutionaries need reformists slates is because, >since their analysis is of a vangu ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 07:11:06 PDT 1999

37228 razoring vivisectionists -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 28, 1999 Animal-Rights Group Sends Booby-Trapped Letters to Dozens of Primate Researchers By ALISON SCHNEIDER An extremist animal-rights group mailed more than 80 letters booby-trapped with razor blades to scientists who study primates. The activists, who call themselves the "Justice Department," threatened to step up the violence if the researchers don't stop their experiments. The letters, which were mailed on Friday, contained a su ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 06:44:47 PDT 1999

37229 taxes & R&D -- rank: 1000

[I think there was a question here recently about the relation between tax breaks & R&D.] "How Effective are Fiscal Incentives for R&D? A Review of the Evidence" BY: BRONWYN H. HALL University of California at Berkeley National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) JOHN VAN REENEN University College London Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. 7098 Date: April 1999 Contact: BRONWYN H. HALL Email: Mailto:bhhall at econ.berkeley.edu Postal: University of California at Berkeley ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 06:25:57 PDT 1999

37230 litcritter bashing and the academic factory -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Foucault seemed capable of mixing deep insights with a lot of nonsense. Could you give examples of each? Doug

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