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37276 Flightless Waterfowl -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >OK. So can anyone tell me what the heck the socio-political-cultural >significance of Pen2 (Major Katsuragi's strangely Torvaldesque penguin) in >"Evangelion" is? What ever are you talking about? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 06:10:12 PDT 1999

37277 Euro rates driving U.S. rates? -- rank: 1000

[this one's going out to Dennis Redmond] Grant's Interest Rate Observer - October 22, 1999 MACHINATIONS OF CERTAIN FOREIGN INTERESTS Americans, being Americans, are prone to assume that the United States is the cause of all international phenomena, including the transatlantic rise in interest rates. However, there is another interpretation, and it happens to be the one we favor: The Europeans are leading this increase, the Americans are following. Like Roquefort, the bear market in U.S. fixed-in ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 20:56:25 PDT 1999

37278 Stratfor's zero-based intelligence method -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Sure. I should have said business constituency attuned to restrained and >selective interventionism. But the point is that there is a whole class of >business-based imperialists who saw no interests in Kosovo, which undermines >the argument that this intervention was driven by such interests. Is this a backdoor way of saying that intervention really was driven by humanitarian impulses and not power politics? You're always going to find business interests oppos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 10:28:13 PDT 1999

37279 What the heck? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Using my Doug Henwood inverse filter, I just bought January OEX >calls; the January effect this year is gonna be huge, at least 10% >I'd say, and to paraphrase the Lakota, it's a good day to be long! Jordan, once again you resort to this calumny! I haven't been a permabear since I learned my lesson from the 1987 crash. I've even taken lots of abuse from left permabears for betraying the cause. I sounded an almost-in-the-clear on the Asian crisis months before Alan G ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 10:20:29 PDT 1999

37280 Belgrade conference on environmental consequences of the war -- rank: 1000

[forwarded by Angela] ----- Original Message ----- From: Willi Firth <GraueMaus at compuserve.com> To: Balkan-Info <Balkan-Info at onelist.com> Sent: Thursday, 21 October 1999 5:45 Subject: [Balkan-Info] Belgrade conference on environmental consequences of the war -------------Weitergeleitete Nachricht----------------- Von: Spyros Psaroudas, INTERNET:psaroudas at arcturos.the.forthnet.gr An: [unbekannt], INTERNET:caw at freemail.gr Datum: 19.10.99 21:01 BE: Belgrade conference on env ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 09:12:32 PDT 1999

37281 What the heck? -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Bonds are down. Yields are up.(6.338% on the 30 Year). And the Dows up >about 400 points in the last few days. What the heck is going on? You don't expect the financial markets to resolve themselves into a coherent narrative now, do you - especially over the space of a few days? What's going on, I think, is that the great U.S. bull market, the one that began on August 13, 1982, is showing signs of old age. It's taking as long to die as Brezhnev, and I can't decide wheth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 08:47:40 PDT 1999

37282 World Bank to study K controls -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >A definite denting of neo-liberal dominance. But Stiglitz is regarded by >the chairman of the World Bank as controversial, is he not? I'm assuming you mean the president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn here. Wolfie did distance himself a bit from Stiglitz recently, but he rejected Clinton administration pressure (in the person of Larry Summers) to fire him. A Washington Post story a week or two ago said that Stiglitz is keeping a lower profile & refusing inter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 08:12:52 PDT 1999

37283 Fwd: Response to Jon Cina from Stratfor -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:08:41 -0700 From: Sid Shniad <shniad at SFU.CA> To: SOCIALIST-REGISTER at YorkU.CA I took the liberty of forwarding Jon Cina's message, forwarded by Jason Schulman to the SR list, to STRATFOR Inc. for a comment. (I didn't include any indication that it came from this list.) Here is Stratfor's response: Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 From: George Friedman <friedman at stratfor.com> Organization: STRATFOR Inc. Dear Mr. Cina: The assertion that the Serbian gove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 08:09:35 PDT 1999

37284 Mexico: social disaster, meet enviro disaster -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 21, 1999 ENVIRONMENT: Mexico suffering drought and flood By Henry Tricks There was a cruel irony barely noticed during the flooding tragedy in Mexico last week. While the south-east of the country was swamped by torrential rainstorms and mudslides, just 400 miles away one state was declared a disaster area because of drought. It is a phenomenon that threatens to become more common in a country where nature's bounty is distributed about as unevenly as wealth. For though ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 07:34:37 PDT 1999

37285 Stiglitz: make WTO "fairer" -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WORLD BANK OFFICIAL URGES FAIRNESS FOR POOR COUNTRIES IN WTO TALKS. World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz yesterday called on the big trading nations to create a "fairer" order for poor countries, and said prevailing views on non-tariff trade barriers and capital controls must be re-evaluated, reports AFP. The forthcoming Seattle round of WTO negotiations "must be fairer than previous rounds...particularly in relation to the dev ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 06:30:22 PDT 1999

37286 World Bank to study K controls -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WORLD BANK STUDIES MALAYSIAN CAPITAL CONTROLS. Malaysia's use of capital controls to recover from the regional financial crisis without adverse effects has prompted the World Bank to study more closely the consequences of using such measures, reports Asia Pulse. World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz said Malaysia's economy was recovering robustly and described the move to use controls as a logical plan given the uncertainty of the global econ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 20 08:21:28 PDT 1999

37287 Fwd: Robert Fisk writes about Depleted Uranium -- rank: 1000

t byfield wrote: >as an aside, this is one thing that rubs me the wrong way with >fisk. he's so enamored with the heroic task of dispelling mys- >teries that he ends up gadding about in a steambath, thrusting >the clouds aside. I've been more & more irritated by his style lately. I'm not sure whether he's changed - more self-righteous and self-indulgent - or I've just gotten tired of it. He does good reporting, but I'd like to see less attitude. >isn't there an editor at _the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 20 08:12:09 PDT 1999

37288 Japan on WTO agenda -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 20, 1999 JAPAN: Calls for revision of WTO declaration By Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo The Japanese government yesterday stepped up pressure on the World Trade Organisation to revise its draft declaration for the forthcoming ministerial meeting in Seattle. Keizo Obuchi, the prime minister, asked Mike Moore, director-general of the WTO, who is on a visit to Japan, to reconsider the wording of the document. The Japanese government believes it does not fairly represent the vie ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 20 06:54:15 PDT 1999

37289 NPG: too many people, too many immigrants -- rank: 1000

[From the repellent Negative Population Growth.] Date: 19 October 99 From: npg at npg.org To: population-news at npg.org State poll shows concerns about growth, population by Robin Benedick Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel October 13, 1999 More than four out of five Floridians surveyed think the state's growing population is a problem, and two-thirds want immigration scaled back, a poll indicates. The poll, commissioned by Negative Population Growth, a Washington, D.C.-based group committed to reduci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 19 18:07:11 PDT 1999

37290 Fwd: Robert Fisk writes about Depleted Uranium -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - October 4, 1999 I'd like to believe Nato that depleted uranium is harmless. But I don't. And this is why... by Robert Fisk TWO MILITARY voices on the use of depleted uranium bullets in Kosovo. First from a K-For cove - a spokesman, no less, in Pristina - who insisted that "there's more risk from striking a match than from depleted uranium." Quote of the week, Quote of the year, perhaps. Then there was the former Nato officer to whom I talked that same night, a we ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 19 16:13:22 PDT 1999