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37246 Fwd: [FAIR-L] ACTION ALERT: Media Overlook Embassy Bombing Repor -- rank: 1000

[Ah, our free press!] Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:25:09 GMT From: FAIR <FAIR-L at USA.NET> FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports ACTION ALERT: U.S. Media Overlook Expose on Chinese Embassy Bombing October 22, 1999 A detailed investigative article in the October 17 London Observer reported that NATO deliberately bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May, after discovering that the embassy was relaying Yugoslav military radio sign ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 26 08:14:17 PDT 1999

37247 US deeper into Colombia -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 26 1999 COLOMBIA: Shades of Vietnam By Adam Thomson in Bogota Chewing gum and wearing wrap-around mirrored sunglasses, the sunburnt US army officer looks distinctly out of place against the ochre soil, mango trees and lush mountains of Tolemaida, Colombia's largest military base. Hands on hips, and sporting the badges of the airborne division, he parades through the seething heat along a line of young Colombian soldiers who pepper a row of distant targets with their aut ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 26 06:25:28 PDT 1999

37248 Seattle -- rank: 1000

Christine Peterson wrote: >What are you going to be doing? You aren't a lucky person who gets >to go inside, are you? Heavens no. But judging from the three World Bank/IMF annual meetings I've been to, there's not much but hot air being generated inside such things. The real action is in private meetings, cocktail parties, etc., to which only elite journalists are invited (on the condition they not report the interesting stuff). > Seattle Free Radio is planning to have a full time broa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 20:47:47 PDT 1999

37249 review of bhaskar -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >When I 'hear' (actually read in this instance) people 'say' (actually >write in this instance) above, I ask whether they think that conscious >planning of publicly owned and socially controlled means of production >will improve upon capitalism's clumsy and costly privatized way of >governing and correcting balance of production between main and >subsidiary sectors of economy. I also ask whether they think that >decommodification of labor-power holds k ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 20:50:17 PDT 1999

37250 Seattle -- rank: 1000

Christine Peterson wrote: >I haven't been on this list for a while. Are any of you going to be >in Seattle during the WTO? I am. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 17:55:59 PDT 1999

37251 Laurance S. Rockefeller '32? -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Princeton University's Center for Human Values says it "is >dedicated to teaching, research, and deliberation about >ethics and human values." >It was founded in 1990 through a gift from Laurance S. >Rockefeller '32. > >The Rockefellers where behind the eugenic movement in the >U.S., but I never heard of Laurance. Does anyone happen to >know anything about him? <http://www.funkandwagnalls.com/encyclopedia/low/articles/r/r022000934f. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 15:49:03 PDT 1999

37252 Underpopulation -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >who are the American Enterprise Institute and the Harvard Center for >Population and Development Studies? Don't know anything about the latter, but AEI is one of the oldest right-wing think tanks in the U.S. Generally a bit stodgier than the "policy entrepreneurs" at the Heritage Foundation and the corporate libertarians at Cato. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 13:17:07 PDT 1999

37253 Underpopulation -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >Maybe this has been discussed before (just got back on >the list after a several month hiatus), but I just saw >this on Slashdot: >http://www.pop.org/students/popimplode.html > >How real do people think this "population implosion" >is? Is this "The Rising Tide of Color" all over >again? Speaking of population, check out <http://www.igc.apc.org/desip/malthus/>, the Malthus Fan Club. Eberstadt's line is the right-wing, American ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 11:40:02 PDT 1999

37254 Fwd: 1999-10-23 Fact Sheet on Social Security -- rank: 1000

<http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/10/25/10.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 23, 1999 THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES THE TRANSMITTAL OF HIS SOCIAL SECURITY LOCKBOX PLAN TO CONGRESS: A FISCALLY DISCIPLINED WAY TO EXTEND THE LIFE OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND PAY OFF THE DEBT October 23, 1999 In His Radio Addres ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 11:21:21 PDT 1999

37255 review of bhaskar -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In any case, though, I agree with the reviewer to the extent >that I am not in favor of market socialism. When I hear people say this I have ask, what are you in favor of then? Gosplan? Gosplan plus fiber optics? When Radical Chains criticizes Bhaskar & Co. for failing to reject the value form, what do they want? Cooperatives producing locally? I just don't see how you can run a complex industrialized society without retaining some form of market exchange at an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 07:34:49 PDT 1999

37256 Stratfor: hyperbulls -- rank: 1000

[All you Stratfor fans seen this?] [...] On balance, therefore, the Stratfor view is this: * The United States is undergoing a short-term correction in a long-term bull market of unprecedented proportions. Speculative fever, extremely high price earnings ratios and the appetite for profit all argue for a pause in the bull market. At the same time, sentiment figures indicate that a great deal of the enthusiasm has been beaten out of the market. We are continually startled by how quickly sentiment ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 07:29:14 PDT 1999

37257 the list is listing, yes? -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >Is it just me, or have the same 6-8 comp lit revolutionaries >finally commandeered this list once and for all? I can't remember >a time when so few people have posted on such a narrow range >of topics. Feel free to introduce your own topics of conversation. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 07:09:49 PDT 1999

37258 Fwd: Re: Fwd: offlist - review of bhaskar -- rank: 1000

[another remote intervention from Rakesh] From: "bhandaric" <bhandaric at prodigy.net> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:35:05 -0700 Haven't read Bhaskar himself, and am away from my books. But I highly recommend several important works influenced by him (well not his writing style): Peter Manicas' history of the social sciences (an imposingly erudite philosophical argument for the social sciences as an explanatory rather than predictive enterprise), Andrew Sayer's book on method (the d ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 25 06:17:37 PDT 1999

37259 Zizek on Havel -- rank: 1000

Zizek's review of a Havel bio is finally up at the LRB website <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n21/zize2121.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 21:06:18 PDT 1999

37260 truth as highest truth -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > This sounds like Deepak Chopra. Could any Bhaskar fans on the list > > offer explanations to the contrary? > >Who is Deepak Chopra? New Age shyster who works the money-spirituality nexus. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 20:10:14 PDT 1999