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37606 Environmental Review of Trade Agreements -- rank: 1000

<http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/11/16/5.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 16, 1999 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF TRADE AGREEMENTS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to further the envi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 11:56:22 PST 1999

37607 fascism defined -- rank: 1000

[another address oddity] From: "Chip Berlet" <cberlet at igc.org> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:23:42 -0500 Hi, >From Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash (South End Press, 1995): What is Fascism? Some General Ideological Features by Matthew N. Lyons I am skeptical of efforts to produce a "definition" of fascism. As a dynamic historical current, fascism has taken many different forms, and has evolved dramatically in some ways. To understand what fascism has en ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 11:50:59 PST 1999

37608 Clinton -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Clinton seems to have even less presence than that, being a shadow >of a shadow -- a *virtual* hologram, if such a thing is possible. Hey, Clinton's a scumbag, but give him more credit than that. The guy is smart, articulate, and a brilliant politician who's been running for president since he was 5. I don't doubt that he had a substantial influence over policy and personnel. Monica & others say he's got a very powerful gaze. What evidence of his insubstantiality do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 11:55:11 PST 1999

37609 guns and nazis (was: White trash) -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] From: "Chip Berlet" <cberlet at igc.org> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:08:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi, USC Title 10. The rallying cry of the militias. One small problem. Overwhelmingly the federal courts do not recognize and individual right to belong to or call up militias, but recognize that states have that right historically, now exercised through the National Guard. That this patriot movement/NRA fantasy lives on is a testament to the triumph ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 11:48:17 PST 1999

37610 Fwd: ON BEYOND COOKIES -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 13, 1999 Fearing a Plague of 'Web Bugs' Invisible Fact-Gathering Code Raises Privacy Concerns By Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer In a scramble to monitor the behavior of consumers online, marketing companies on the World Wide Web are increasingly using a tool to surreptitiously track what computer users do on the network and automatically report the details to centralized advertising services. The tool, known as a "Web bug," lets advertising ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 09:29:51 PST 1999

37611 Third Parties (was RE: Fulani's endorsement of Buchanan) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >As to the Labor Party strategy Doug describes. Does this mean >that, in the meantime, the Party will urge its members to boycott >elections or will it in practice "allow" or "urge" its members to >support this that or the other Demirep? If I am correct that room >will emerge for a real new party only from the wreckage of one >of the old ones, cooperation with even the most progressive >Democrats would seem unwise. > >What is the & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 08:52:34 PST 1999

37612 guns and nazis (was: White trash) -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >This is *not* "the militia thing" -- the idea is that "the militia" >is every citizen Really? All 273 million of us? What about noncitizens, them too? Organized or just armed freelancers? With pistols? Assault rifles? Personal cruise missiles? Please enlighten. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 08:35:50 PST 1999

37613 Third Parties (was RE: Fulani's endorsement of Buchanan) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm not at all supporting the Buchanan/Fulani combo, neither of whom is a >friend of the working class. I'm just wondering if left third party >efforts (the Labor Party, the Greens, etc.) have any sort of political >strategy to break the two-party system. Nathan seems to think they don't, >and I'm inclined to agree with him. In fact, as far as the Labor Party is >concerned, I'm not even sure if it wants to be an independent political >party or jus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 16 08:07:34 PST 1999

37614 'Democratic Money' & the Tragedy of Anti-Marxism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Indeed he does. Money neutrality is the sine qua non >of neo-classical macroeconomics. I'm certainly not a neutral money or neutral finance guy; I wrote a whole book arguing the contrary. I'm talking about what monetary/financial effects are, and what their limits are. As for Friedman & neutrality, he sure blamed a lot of the Depression on the Fed, which is a monetary explanation. There he wants to externalize the blame from the inner workings of capitalism to botc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 20:11:22 PST 1999

37615 Feed the hungry, go to jail -- rank: 1000

Salt Lake Tribune - November 12, 1999 <http://www.sltrib.com:80/1999/nov/11121999/nation_w/46434.htm> PROFESSOR FACES FINE FOR FEEDING HOMELESS Riverside Press-Enterprise SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Feeding 50 hungry people doughnuts and sandwiches in San Bernardino could end up costing a college professor thousands of dollars -- and not for food. San Bernardino laws are clear: Anyone distributing food in public parks must obtain an operating permit and purchase $1 million in liability insur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 18:53:55 PST 1999

37616 Miranda, Alex, & the Solidarity t-shirt -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Liza Featherstone for pointing out Bryan Burrough's article, "The Miranda Obsession," in the December Vanity Fair. "Miranda" was the nom-de-phone of a Louisana woman who struck up telephone relationships with a variety of famous men from the early 1980s through the early 1990s. Claiming to be a rich, beautiful blonde, she'd call them up and chat. All report she was smart, charming, and sexy; quite a few fell in love with her. Among the men she "jacked," a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 17:54:20 PST 1999

37617 protest Rudy -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >How do progressives in New York intend to take sides against the >re-election of Giuliani without sacrificing strategic independence by >tailing after H Clinton? Giuliani can't get re-elected as mayor, because of term limits. I actually think the world might be a better place if he's elected to the Senate, where he'd be 1 of 100 egomaniacs, instead of serving, as has been rumored, as attorney general, should Bush win the presidency. It would be terrifying if Giulia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 16:32:39 PST 1999

37618 'Democratic Money' & the Tragedy of Anti-Marxism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Umph. Milton Friedman. Hope Louie doesn't see this. Now responsible folks like us - leaving LNP3 out of this - don't argue from personality, right? Just because Uncle Miltie says something doesn't mean it isn't true. And doesn't he have a point? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 16:03:28 PST 1999

37619 protest Rudy -- rank: 1000

>Giuliani Fundraiser Tues 11/16/99 8 PM >Minskoff Theater 200 West 45 St. NYC > >New York City's anti-art, anti-people, anti-free speech Mayor >will be hosting a fundraiser for a few hundred of his wealthiest >supporters and accessories in crime. Please feel free to join the >anti-Giuliani party outside and to pass this message on to others >who might be interested. > >Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. >(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics) >AR ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 13:05:14 PST 1999

37620 'Democratic Money' & the Tragedy of Anti-Marxism -- rank: 1000

Ellen Frank wrote: >Well, I don't know which "populist assumption" you're referring to, since >I'm not sure what populist means these days. But the loose money >argument is not so much that inflation is "good" but that deflation and >tight money are "bad." There is a difference. Inflation is tolerable, >may, with institutional changes to protect wages and minimize conflict, >be socially beneficial. The idea of democratic money is that such > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 12:56:40 PST 1999