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38176 more diary entries -- rank: 1000

[These will be posted as they arrive to Rewired <http://www.rewired.com> REWIRED March 27, 1999 Living in Bombland: A Serbian Diary by Vladislava Gordic <insomnia at EUnet.yu> -- Vladislava Gordic is an assistant professor of American and English Literature at the University of Novi Sad. We met in Ljubljana nearly two years ago, poking around for literary resources on the Web. We'll be updating Rewired with her diary entries as they come in. /dwh -- Living in Bombland Date: Sat, 27 M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 11:17:00 PST 1999

38177 Not Good -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >A useful aspect of all this is seeing how a variety of left >viewpoints develop and are expressed -- all the varieties of >rhetorical excess, credulous cross-posting of obviously biased >and sometimes wacky sources, resort to ad hominem argument, >resurrection of hackneyed revolutionary doctrines, etc. Max, I see the same sort of shit in the New York Times every morning. Rhetorical excess? Hitler parallels. Credulous cross-posting? See Financial Times article b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 11:11:27 PST 1999

38178 A politico-tactical justification for the strikes -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >A very sound idea. At this point, I would be surprised if NATO ground >troops are *not* used in an offensive. U.S. troops? Do you really think Clinton would commit the U.S. army to a ground invasion where there's a serious risk the enemy might actually shoot back effectively? With hundreds, thousands of possible U.S. casualties? Hard to believe. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 10:54:44 PST 1999

38179 Fwd: <nettime> serbian diary, 26 march -- rank: 1000

[more...] Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:47:52 -0800 From: insomnia <insomnia at EUnet.yu> To: nettime-l at Desk.nl Subject: <nettime> serbian diary, 26 march Sender: owner-nettime-l at basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk Status: U hi everybody, this is vladislava gordic from novi sad, yugoslavia, one among millions of angry, frustrated and morally and mentally devastated NATO bombs attack victims.although my town is situated in the province of vojvodina, in the northern part of yugoslavia, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 10:52:07 PST 1999

38180 Fwd: <nettime> serbian diary, march 30 -- rank: 1000

[from another list] Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:48:18 -0800 From: insomnia <insomnia at EUnet.yu> To: nettime-l at Desk.nl Subject: <nettime> serbian diary, march 30 Sender: owner-nettime-l at basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk Status: U at the crack of dawn, two missiles fell on greater novi sad - civilian targets, as usual. at noon, a first concert of protest against nato intervention started. it gathered thousands of people, a lot of slogans. by the way, this was the first day of nato b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 31 10:50:41 PST 1999

38181 America policy towards Iraq (Was RE: Noam Chomsky on Kosovo) -- rank: 1000

curtiss_leung at ibi.com wrote: > Didn't the Busher himself recently write that deposing Saddam Hussein > wasn't on the agenda -- only getting him out of Kuwait? I thought > deposing Saddam in favor of one of his military chiefs only became an > objective under Clinton, and then only recently... My guess - who knows for sure? - is that Zinni just said aloud what the adminstration and the security establishment really think. How do we know that Clinton wants Saddam ou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 13:33:16 PST 1999

38182 Jim O'Connor on expansiveness -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote: >It would be interesting to see what percent of increments to GDP over these >years is accounted for by investment and government spending -- taxes. Funny you should mention it... SHARE OF GROWTH BY SECTOR, U.S. EXPANSIONS nominal real ----------------------------- ------------------------------------- C I G X C I G X residual 49Q4-53Q2 45.3% 19.7% 38.7% -3.7% 36.0% 16.8% 63.4% -5. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 13:30:56 PST 1999

38183 Fwd: 1999-03-30 Fact Sheet on Social Security Trustees Report -- rank: 1000

>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:56 -0500 >From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> >To: Public-Distribution at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov >Subject: 1999-03-30 Fact Sheet on Social Security Trustees Report >Keywords: Economy, Fact-Sheet, Federalism, Fiscal-Policy, Government, Labor, > Social, Staff-Report >Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/3/30/3.text.1 >URL: > >http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/3/30 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 12:59:56 PST 1999

38184 bouncing ethnicity -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Not so simple, Doug. From the same article: New York Times, Nov 1, 1987 >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >"The violence is the worst in the past seven years, according to a >journalist in Kosovo. > > Many Yugoslavs blame the troubles on the ethnic Albanians, but the >matter is more complex in a country with as many nationalities and >religions as Yugoslavia's and involves economic development, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 12:49:08 PST 1999

38185 fun with numbers -- rank: 1000

A compelling (that word again) factoid just reported on CNBC: AOL's market capitalization is $148 billion. That is more than the combined market caps of 9 Dow stocks: Allied-Signal, Alcoa, Caterpillar, Eastman Kodak, Goodyear, International Paper, JP Morgan, Sears, & Union Carbide. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 12:26:35 PST 1999

38186 DOW 36,00 from J. O'Connor -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote on behalf of Jim O'Connor: >Doug, am I crazy or is Glassman and Hasset's calculations based on earnings >only, not capital gains from stock sales? If you assume that everyone will >stay in the market no matter what, and that more people will enter as more >join the labor force, then it would seem that they're right? or, again, am >I crazy? Their reasoning doesn't make much sense; according to Brad De Long, Glassman doesn't seem to understand basic arithmetic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 11:59:07 PST 1999

38187 The National Question. (redux) -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >> This idea of a bourgeois Europe is compelling, Greg, but the eastern half >> of the continent is to be absorbed in a distinctly subordinate mode, no? >> Doug > >hardly as compelling as democratic socialist federation of the Balkans, >linked to a socialist united states of Europe and a democratic socialist >Russia...if one is going to wax utopian... I meant "compelling" in the purely narrative sense (as in coherent and convincing), ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 11:50:14 PST 1999

38188 bouncing ethnicity -- rank: 1000

from Sam Smith's Progressive Review: >FOLLOW THE BOUNCING EVIL ETHNICITY > >"Albanians in the government have manipulated public funds and regulations >to take over land belonging to the Serbs. Slavic Orthodox churches have been >attacked and flags torn down. Wells have been poisoned and crops burned. >Boys have been knifed and some young ethnic Albanians have been told by >their elders to rape Serbian girls. - From a New York Times article in 1987

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 11:47:55 PST 1999

38189 Noam Chomksy on Kosovo (FWD) -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: > Doug wrote about Saddam: > >> but it's clear the U.S. didn't want to depose him, >> only shorten his leash a bit. >> > [Seth Ackerman] > > Actually, they really do very much want to get rid of Saddam, >but they want to replace him with some clone from the military, or >perhaps a junta. Well, this is what I had in mind, along with Bush's decision to stop the war before marching on Baghdad (Eugene Genovese's main reservation in voti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 10:33:22 PST 1999

38190 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >But in the first three post-WWII decades the U.S. "allowed" the development >of political democracy Only on the conditions that the people not elect communist or socialist governments. As Henry Kissinger said of Chile, we couldn't just stand by and let a country go communist due to the irreponsibility of its own people. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 08:30:56 PST 1999