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37756 Chechnya - a far off country -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Why the lack of interest in Chechnya among progressive lef-wingers by >comparison with East Timor? Russia's war, from this distance, looks barbarous & criminal. For my part, the lesser interest is the result of the fact that it's not my government that's prosecuting the war, or my media that's lying about it. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 07:26:59 PST 1999

37757 Force & Truth (was Re: litcritter bashing...) -- rank: 1000

All you postie-bashers out there, who wrote this: "...in the sense a mathematical truth holds good even when we are asleep and even if it does not exist in nature"? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 07:24:08 PST 1999

37758 liberated corporations -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:38:14 -0600 From: t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu (T. C. Frank) LBO-pals: I'm looking for someone who can speak authoritatively about how the various new management theories -- as opposed to the old Taylorist ones -- work out on the ground from a worker's perspective. Please send me your suggestions off-list. Thanks Tom Frank

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 15:58:04 PST 1999

37759 Well-Regulated Militias, and More -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >In any event, amending process is one of a number of anti-democratic >features of US constitution And it says in the Constitution that the Senate, which by giving small (rural, conservative) states exactly the same weight as large (urban, less conservative) ones is one of the U.S. system's greatest offenses against democracy, cannot be abolished without the consent of every state. Since that's impossible, there's no way to get rid of the damn thing short of shredding ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 12:42:27 PST 1999

37760 60% in market: Gallup -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Okay, so why don't they report the fact that 90% of the stock wealth >is owned by about 10% of stockholders? Are they too lazy to mention >this, or could there be political reasons for sweeping this objective >fact under the rug? Both. The 90%/10% figure comes from a different report. You'd have to look it up. Lot easier to rewrite a press release than do real research. A conscientious reporter might call up Ed Wolff - if the reporter knew who Ed Wolff is - for ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 11:17:45 PST 1999

37761 anti-immigrant site -- rank: 1000

Jeff St Clair pointed out this scary site: <http://www.americanpatrol.com/>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 11:19:39 PST 1999

37762 Richebacher's bleak scenario -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >As Stanley Fischer never tires of saying, the primary point of the >peso support package was to help *Mexico.* This is a bit hard to believe. Why this concern for Mexico and not, say, Africa? Insofar as there was any IMF (meaning U.S. Treasury) concern about Mexico's domestic economy, it was to keep it together enough to slow the northward flow of migrants. I'm not even going to mention the relative role of private creditors (large for Mexico, tiny for Africa). Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 10:54:45 PST 1999

37763 more Pacifica censorship -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 21:48:08 -0700 From: Gary Evans <gde at wco.com> To: FreePacifica <freepacifica at recordist.com> From the savepacifica website: Here is another example of Lynn Chadwick's very unhappy and bitter behavior. I don't understand the many examples of bitterness, distrust, and rigidity we've seen played out over the past several months. How shallow must be the lives of intelligent mercenaries? How much energy is required to maintain this level of isolation and me ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 10:35:31 PST 1999

37764 Uraguay to elect socialist? Analysis on Latin America Left? -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >How to define socialism nowadays and how to put in practice politics >that could be considered socialist? I would love to see some discussion of that question. It's related to my pissy question of yesterday - how to deal with the fact that the (US) masses basically don't give a fuck about politics. The post-WW II depoliticization of the US population is one of the great accomplishments of our ruling class - through a combination of coercion, constitutional mechani ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 09:17:03 PST 1999

37765 market cap factoids -- rank: 1000

Andrew Hill writes in today's Financial Times: "As J.P. Morgan pointed out in a report at the end of last week, US information technology shares are now worth $2,700bn (£1,626bn) - slightly more than the value of all shares in the UK equity market, the world's third largest. Microsoft alone is worth as much as all listed Italian companies together." Back in 1989, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph was capitalized at more than the entire German stock market. Not, of course, to suggest tha ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 08:01:45 PST 1999

37766 60% in market: Gallup -- rank: 1000

Steve Grube wrote: > I've been listening to this stat since it hit the news. It gives > the impression that wealth is being broadly distributed. > And this is where polls and journalists lie, not statistics: it never > says anywhere what percentage this stock mkt participation > is of each groups personal economy. It doesn't divulge that > a large chunk of those stock owners are marginal participants > and won't be making much from their investment: ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 07:02:38 PST 1999

37767 Buffet dixit -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Who's Katharine Graham? Washington Post owner, power broker, friend of the national security state. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 20:35:58 PST 1999

37768 Buffet dixit -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Excellent stuff by Warren Buffet. Then again, we already knew all this, >didn't we? > >The article is at: > >http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/1999/11/22/buf.html > >Doug, did you send him a copy of your book? He's the only mainstream >commentator I know who dares talk about the financial industry's take as >essentially dead weight, instead of blabbing about "increased financial >productivity". Buffet's worth, what, $5 billi ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 20:14:44 PST 1999

37769 another take on Japanese consumer finance -- rank: 1000

[This, from Nikkei Weekly, is a different take on Japanese consumer finance from the FT's.] Nikkei Weekly - November 1, 1999 Consumer finance adds color to gray sector Winning respect Demand for convenient loans propels 'sarakin' lenders from back alleys to main street MINA HASEGAWA Staff writer Japan's leading consumer-finance companies have reeled off year after year of double-digit growth with no help from the Finance Ministry, thank you, while others in the financial sector scrape to survive ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 20:12:03 PST 1999

37770 broke? sell a kidney, or an eyeball even! -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 1, 1999 Japanese debtor told 'to sell a kidney' By Paul Abrahams in Tokyo A former employee of Nichiei, a Japanese consumer finance company, was arrested over the weekend for allegedly telling a loan guarantor to raise money by selling body parts. Japanese police said the employee had told the 62-year-old man he could earn ¥3m ($29,000) for his kidney and ¥1m for his eyeball to help finance a loan he had guaranteed to a now-bankrupt company. The police reported that Ei ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 18:58:33 PST 1999