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38761 Recent Polls on Taxing the Rich and Spending the Surplus -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >For just how disconnected the DC debate on tax cuts are from what the public >wants (and how sad the progressive movement is for not stirring up more >outrage) So you must agree with Ellen Frank that the "progressive movement," whatever that is, should also criticize the practice of running giant surpluses (and a debt paydown) off a regressive tax and talk about spending public money instead. The respectable parts of the "progressive movement" w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 09:27:11 PDT 1999

38762 FT on ruthless violence -- rank: 1000

[Wilkinson says "No-one should object to peaceful protests," so evidently he doesn't know about the mayor of NYC, who's put concrete barriers around City Hall Park and put an end to the demonstrations and press events that used to go on there, and keeps a tight lid on the right of assembly in the name of quality of life.] Financial Times - July 31, 1999 THE CHANGING FACE OF PROTEST: IDEALISTS OR SUBVERSIVES? Whatever your view, the nature of civil disobedience is being irrevocably tran ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 08:25:33 PDT 1999

38763 $164 a month -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] LOOSE CHANGE Mississippi is no longer the biggest cheapskate in the country when it comes to welfare benefits. That honor now goes to Alabama where a single mother of two children in need of support gets $164 a month.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 08:31:47 PDT 1999

38764 Three pre-occupation theses on Kosovo- evaulating the results -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >The left opportunists could not respond to Leninist concept that it is >sometimes true that > >"imperialism is progressive compared with pre-monopoly capitalism" Chris, is this the Marxist analogue of the new liberal imperialism theorized by David Rieff et al? I don't think there's much use in bringing up phrases like "Serb fascism" and "genocide" at this point. There aren't many people who've denied that the state run by Milsoevic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 08:20:22 PDT 1999

38765 High Rollers in Detroit -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >Doug wrote: > > >>The alternative would be God knows what agonies of despair; or > >>it might be attempted insurrections which, in a strongly governed place > >>like England, could only lead to futile massacres and a regime of savage > >>repression > > > >A repression aided by informant-supplied lists of names.... > >Supplied, that is, long after the above was written, by an extremely ill >and desperately lonely man ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 07:41:00 PDT 1999

38766 Giuliani, repressive prick -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: > >On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Carl Remick wrote: > > > >> > Last week Gulianni's Police Thugs ... > >> > >> Which is why there is *still* one vote left in me for the Clan Clinton. > >> Go get 'em, Hillary! > >If you hate Giuliani--which you should--better to vote FOR him and send him >off to the Senate where he can do much less harm to the everyday lives of >people. This option has the added bonus of sending HRC--who is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 15:27:02 PDT 1999

38767 Now You Know -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >Skolnick claimed that the CIA bombed a domestic flight into Chicago to >help coverup Watergate. That was the first I heard of him. Skolnick has many theories, doesn't he? What's his group, the Citizens Cmte to Reform the Courts, or something like that? Isn't he wrapped up with Alex Cockburn's Fully Informed Jury Assn pals? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 14:32:18 PDT 1999

38768 Giuliani, repressive prick -- rank: 1000

[A friend writes...] Last week Gulianni's Police Thugs routed the drummers at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. On the grounds they were an illegal concert and drawing a crowd they dispersed people and confiscated drums. Never mind that there are free concerts all over the park, all summer long, with and without permits. This Latino tradition in the park dates back as far as 50 years and is now threatened by a racist administration hell bent on silencing the people. Sunday August 1st @ 3pm co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 13:00:28 PDT 1999

38769 Now You Know -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >NOTE - Sherman Skolnick will be Jeff's Guest at 8 pm Pacific >tonight Jeff, are you hosting Skolnick? If not, who's this Jeff? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 12:07:56 PDT 1999

38770 Fwd: 1999-07-30 Fact Sheet on Trade and Investment In Southeast Europe -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:08 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> URL: <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1 999/7/30/6.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release July 30, 1999 FACT SHEET Promoting Trade And Investment In Southeast Europe At to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 10:12:00 PDT 1999

38771 KLA takes charge -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: I don't see the point of going over the deployment of the term "genocide" again. We did that months ago and no minds were changed. > >Remind me how it's an act of resistance to loot Serb-owned stores. > >Ah yes, abridging private property rights is now a horrific sin by the KLA >among leftists shocked, shocked I say, that such human rights violations are >allowed to occur during post-war reconstruction. That refugees who have >lost their homes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 10:19:15 PDT 1999

38772 Fwd: 1999-07-30 Fact Sheet on Promoting Democracy in Serbia -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:32 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> URL: <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/7/30/3.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release July 30, 1999 FACT SHEET Promoting Democracy in Serbia At today's Stability Pact ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 10:11:15 PDT 1999

38773 Fwd: 1999-07-30 Fact Sheet on Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:54 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> URL: <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/7/30/5.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release July 30, 1999 FACT SHEET Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Today President ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 10:09:06 PDT 1999

38774 Three pre-occupation theses on Kosovo- evaulating the results -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >3) MORAL STATEMENT ONE: Intervention could only be justified based on >International law: The point Charles and I were arguing when I left, the >subsequent indictment of Milosevic by the International Human Rights >Tribunal and the United Nations approval of KFOR occupation of Kosovo would >seem to, at least retroactively, shine a nice international law gloss over >the whole operation. > >So for those who held one or more of these positions at the b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 10:04:35 PDT 1999

38775 Russia shrinks -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Russian Population Declines Sharply July 30, 1999 MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's population fell during the first five months of the year, dropping by 346,700 people to about 146 million, the government said today. The drop was much larger than in the same period last year, when the Russian population shrank by 191,600, the Statistics Agency said. The increased decline was attributed to a rising death rate and a falling birth rate, as well as slumping immigration and increas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 09:51:35 PDT 1999