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37981 Spike Lee, war's adman -- rank: 1000

SPIKE LEE SIGNS ON WITH THE U.S. NAVY Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press NEW YORK (May 15, 1999 2:24 p.m. EDT - Spike Lee is setting sail with a series of recruiting ads for the Navy. The filmmaker signed on to make six commercials for the oceangoing branch of the military. Using hand-held cameras for a fresh look, Lee did documentary-style spots on Navy SEALS, sailors in a rock band, exotic travel opportunities and other service-related topics. "Spike may attrac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 10:00:26 PDT 1999

37982 bombing theory -- rank: 1000

A couple of texts to clarify the thinking behind the war. >From a U.S. Air Force pamphlet on the art of choosing bombing targets, on the FAS website <http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/usaf/afpam14-210/part15.htm>: "By the 1930s the Air Corps developed a doctrine based on the belief that airpower could achieve victory by breaking the enemy's will and capability to fight. It would accomplish this by: Destroying organic industrial systems in the enemy interior that provided for the enemy' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 09:55:25 PDT 1999

37983 simulacra -- rank: 1000

Rock & Rap Confidential - May 1999 DOUBLE YOUR STANDARD, DOUBLE YOUR FUN? ... Colin Powell and William Bennett helped sponsor an April 29 benefit for the Best Friends Foundation, which asks teenage girls to postpone sex and reject drugs and alcohol. The event was a pseudo-sock hop in which Powell's Roll team beat the other side, dubbed Rock, in a Name That Tune contest. Hideous as it is to contemplate, Bennett, Powell, AOL honcho Steve Case and their wives actually "sang" the Marvi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 15 20:15:14 PDT 1999

37984 war web site -- rank: 1000

Lots of articles on the war are collected at <http://www.brasscheck.com/yugoslavia/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 15 18:05:52 PDT 1999

37985 1920s/1990s -- rank: 1000

The other day, Samuel Brittan devoted his Financial Times column to the madness of the U.S. stock market. (For the moment, it's at <http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/qcf5b2.htm>, but the FT doesn't keep stuff up for long. The thing has been circulated on other lists, but not this one.) Brittan is no alarmist - he's a pretty orthodox, level-headed, verging-on-boring guy, and he says "This is the first time that I recall expressing a view on stock markets anywhere." But his phrase for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 15 09:30:43 PDT 1999

37986 the wilderness of mirrors -- rank: 1000

I'm getting paranoid. I forwarded a copy if the MI6 list yesterday, but someone just wrote saying she hadn't seen it. I got my own copy, so I'm worrying that some NSA filter blocked it once it left Panix. Anyway, there's a website that's posted the list, for now - <http://jya.com/mi6-list.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 15 08:12:07 PDT 1999

37987 NATO: "a good day" (Fisk/Independent) -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - May 15, 1999 War in the Balkans - 'It all went very well,' said the general. 'Another effective day' By Robert Fisk in Brussels A massacre on the road to Prizren, more than 100 civilians - most of them ethnic Albanians - torn apart in the village of Korisa, stories of women and children ripped apart by Nato cluster bombs. And how did Nato kick off its three o'clock follies yesterday afternoon? Without a single word about these frightful reports, not a single bloody word of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 21:27:35 PDT 1999

37988 Summers & the Planet: A Reminder -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>This backgrounder on the environmental philosophy of Treasury >>Secretary-in-waiting, Larry Summers. >> >>JSC >> > >I remember meetings at which LHS still leading the charge for the BTU tax >in the summer of 1993--as a good policy in itself, and as something that >would finance *some* public investment--at a time when the High Politicians >were turning tail and running from it... To be fair to Summers, and god knows why I feel im ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 21:21:50 PDT 1999

37989 SALON: Give War a Chance- US versus European Leftists -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >(yawn) yeah, right - so where exactly can we see the signs of the >overwhelming support of the massess these "lefties" represent, the >unionists, the workers, the activists ? Or is it social democracy soviet >style - a few true consciouness leaders and the masses of false >consciousness proles? Helped by a former speechwriter for Neil Kinnock writing defenses of the bombing in Salon and The Nation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 11:51:08 PDT 1999

37990 Today's Salon (continued) -- "Abrasive prick" -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >The Economist ran a chart a couple weeks ago, showing Korean GDP growth. >No '99 data yet, but GDP shrank in all 4 quarters of '98, including over >-5% in Q4. The "recovery" looks virtually all financial to me. A financial recovery can be, though it doesn't have to be, a prelude to a real recovery. But the Journal article also has a chart showing a strong recovery in industrial production, starting last November and gaining speed earlier this year. Of cou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 11:49:22 PDT 1999

37991 NATO kills again -- rank: 1000

Friday May 14 12:30 PM ET NATO Missiles Said To Kill 100 In Kosovo By Philippa Fletcher BELGRADE (Reuters) - At least 100 ethnic Albanians were killed and scores injured when NATO missiles tore into a village in southwest Kosovo during the night, survivors and Serbian civil defense officials said Friday. NATO said it was investigating the report which, if confirmed, would mark the Western alliance's deadliest error so far in its 52-day-old campaign of air strikes on Yugoslavia. The Civil Defense ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 11:19:30 PDT 1999

37992 Today's Salon (continued) -- "Abrasive prick" -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Doug is respected not because his views are from the left, but that his >views are often validated by subsequent facts. An invalidated. For example, I thought the U.S. and IMF would really succeed in restructuring Korea to their liking. But a front-pager in today's Wall Street Journal says, with palpable sadness, that Korea is recovering without "reform." Anyone know what the truth is? Oh yeah, and the WSJ has an op-ed by Rudi Dornbusch saying that while U. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 08:05:16 PDT 1999

37993 URPE camp -- rank: 1000

[I didn't include the attached files. Interested parties, contact me & I'll forward them.] Information on speakers and registration for this year's URPE Summer conference is in the attached files. ( A short description is included in the body of the email.) We have a special conference fee for graduate students who participate in a forum where students will talk about their research interests for 5-10 minutes each. The fee is $50 for the conference (includes food, lodging, and conference). ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 07:52:46 PDT 1999

37994 Bubble bursts finally with a vengence! -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >It looks like the real thing this time. >All shares dropping rapidly, Europe lost an average of 2% overnight. >Dow is dropping faster than I can type - 121 points in 8 minutes since >opening and falling. >30 yr bond edges towar 6%. >If it continues into next Monday, it will be all over. >If it doesn't, the next correction will try again within days. >Summers is facing a tst of fire! Henry, you optimist! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 07:50:12 PDT 1999

37995 Berkeley TAs vote union -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web update - May 14, 1999 Teaching Assistants Vote to Unionize at U. of Cal. at Berkeley By DENISE K. MAGNER Teaching assistants at the University of California at Berkeley have overwhelmingly voted to unionize, according to election results released Thursday by a state labor board. The California Public Employment Relations Board announced that 833 graduate-student employees had voted in favor of a union and 293 against. Nearly 71 per cent of the 1,590 eligible ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 14 07:47:59 PDT 1999