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38521 billionaires: Query -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >A query. If Bezos wanted to realize his wealth (transform it, say, into >other securities) how much of it could he realize without knocking its >value way down? If he sells very many of thos shares quickly, >wouldn't it knock the bottom out of the price? > >Just curious. Same question for all those whose wealth is all or mostly >in the shares of just one company. I imagine Bill Gates by this time >has a few Billion "diversified." Microsoft mak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 11:52:05 PDT 1999

38522 Americans' concerns about moral decline -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Somehow, >we have to create psychic space so that simple truths and honest values >can prevail. That's not enough. There has to be some passionate/fantastic core - some It, to use the Zizekian/Lacanian terminology - to bind them together and to make it all seem worthwhile. PR and ad people understand that - they know that commodities and ideas have to be suffused with an emotional glow, whether we're talking soft drinks ("Coke is It!" indeed) or political i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 11:47:23 PDT 1999

38523 more disasters! -- rank: 1000

Environmental News Network - June 24, 1999 REPORT PREDICTS DECADE OF SUPER-DISASTERS The combination of human-driven climate change and rapidly changing socio-economic conditions will set off chain reactions of devastation leading to super-disasters, according to a report released today by international aid organizations. "Everyone is aware of the environmental problems of global warming and deforestation on the one hand, and the social problems of increasing poverty and growing shanty town ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 10:17:53 PDT 1999

38524 The GMP and Budweiser -- rank: 1000

Mr P.A. Van Heusden wrote: >I am rather concerned that the slogan for this campaign is: > >Demand AMERICAN BEER in AMERICAN BOTTLES! You don't expect American unions to target the boss, do you? So much easier to target Mexicans! Like that vile Teamsters campaign against Mexican truck drivers clogging our patriotic highways. Besides, the beer sucks too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 10:16:03 PDT 1999

38525 Americans' concerns about moral decline -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >To me, this stands as yet more evidence that there is a huge, growing >amount of latent hostility toward capitalism in the United States. >People are fed up with squandering their lives in the pursuit of cheesy, >unneeded commodity goods and "services" such as mindless, sordid mass >entertainment. > >The question, as always, is: how can this resentment be tapped to >advance a *real* leftist agenda and not simply manipulated to serve the > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 10:00:53 PDT 1999

38526 EU goes soft -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) June 24, 1999 BRUSSELS BREAKS RANKS ON AID TO SERBS Stephen Bates in Brussels The European Commission broke ranks with national governments and Nato yesterday, saying it might channel aid towards rebuilding parts of Serbia opposed to President Slobodan Milosevic even if he is still in power. The suggestion by Hans van den Broek, the outgoing Dutch foreign affairs commissioner, immediately raised eyebrows among British and other diplomats. Tony Blair and President Clinton have i ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 24 09:59:59 PDT 1999

38527 billionaires -- rank: 1000

[Hust for the record... Only in America could the founder of a firm that has never made a profit be the 26th richest person in the world!] NEW YORK (AP) -- The ranking of the world's richest people as estimated by Forbes magazine, excluding dictators and royalty. Listings include name, home country, wealth in billions of dollars and source of wealth, where available. 1. Gates, William H. III, United States, 90.0, Microsoft 2. Buffett, Warren, United States, 36.0, Berkshire Hathaway 3. Allen, Pau ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 24 09:58:46 PDT 1999

38528 World Bank goes soft -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily development clipping service] TAPPING EUROPE FOR SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY. At a conference of economists in Paris, World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn searched for European thinkers who he hoped could offer new ideas after 20 years of utter trust in free-market forces, the Christian Science Monitor (p.6) reports. "Europe has a longer tradition of deeper concern for equity, and a different view of the role of the state," the World Bank's Chief Economist, ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 24 09:56:59 PDT 1999

38529 Fwd: Transcripts - Pacifica Coverage on KPFA 6/23/99 -- rank: 1000

[More Pacifica news.] From: "John Sommers" <rags at loop.com> Subject: Transcripts - Pacifica Coverage on KPFA 6/23/99 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 99 05:23:58 PDT For your morning reading pleasure -- transcripts below: ------------------------------------------------------------------ KPFA Evening News - 6/23/99 Dennis Bernstein: Attorney General Janet Reno reportedly instructed a top aide to inquire why the Berkeley Police didn't more aggressively pursue arrests against protesters outsid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 09:49:40 PDT 1999

38530 Marx on Smith -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >On the other hand, there is stuff from Keynesians now on how >the current boom MUST end relatively soon. Like that of Wynne Godley, who says basically that the U.S. has been living way beyond its means, consuming in excess of income, and that it will sooner or later hit the wall. How soon or how late is, of course, the $64 trillion question. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 08:56:07 PDT 1999

38531 Wither Report -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >What a gross epidemic of self-righteousness on >PEN-L and LBO these past few weeks! This has >taken the form of denunciations of non-existent >racism on the list, unnamed neo-classical >economists, or the universe of "liberals." >We sure like ourselves, don't we? Max, I'm a bit perplexed by this, since I made it pretty clear that I don't want to see personalized insults here, and we recently lost HCKL because of one pointed rebuke. It's not easy f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 07:49:46 PDT 1999

38532 young lefties MIA -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education web daily - June 23, 1999 A GLANCE AT THE SPRING ISSUE OF SOCIAL POLICY: THE PAUCITY OF YOUNG LEFTIST INTELLECTUALS Leftist intellectual work has been all but outlawed in our culture today, writes Kevin Mattson, research director at the Walt Whitman Center for Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University. Mr. Mattson says a rightward shift in American public opinion since the 1980s and downsizing in academe are to blame. "It is not so much academia p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 24 07:41:36 PDT 1999

38533 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >Doug. I am surprised by your claim that you don't see anything Marxian >categories can tell you about capitalism, that you can't devine equally as >well using bourgeois stats. Particularly since, in the short time I have >been reading this list, a number of posts have used the categories in their >analysis in ways that are clearly distinct from the kind of analysis that >can be done using bourgeios stats and categories. In any case, in this >state of ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 24 07:29:40 PDT 1999

38534 China: minimum income contra deflation? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 24 1999 CHINA LOOKS TO GUARANTEE INCOMES By James Kynge in Beijing Chinese policymakers are drafting proposals for an unprecedented issue of social guarantee bonds in an attempt to reassure the country's lowest paid workers, the unemployed and pensioners that they can expect a steady stream of income. The proposal, for which government approval is still required, is part of a series of measures that policymakers are putting forward to head off a deepening deflationary spir ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 24 07:08:37 PDT 1999

38535 bonobos -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because of an attachment] From: Steve Perry <sperry at usinternet.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:20:23 -0500 Well, we shouldn't have these sex-mad monkeys--who are genetically closer to humans than any other primate species--around to embarrass god's chosen creatures much longer; they are much less numerous than chimps, and their habitat is being destroyed at a pretty rapid pace.

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Date:	Wed Jun 23 15:17:39 PDT 1999