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38776 High Rollers in Detroit -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com 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.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 09:44:46 PDT 1999

38777 Philipine take on Summers -- rank: 1000

BusinessWorld (Philippines) - July 26, 1999 [no author given] PERSPECTIVE: What the new US Treasury chief has in store for Asia Larry Summers, the new US Secretary of the Treasury, first crashed into my consciousness in 1991, when, as chief economist of the World Bank, he penned the notorious internal World Bank memo justifying toxic waste exports to the Third World on the grounds that they were "underpolluted." "Just between you and me," he asked close colleagues, "shou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 09:32:45 PDT 1999

38778 London, New York jettison mutual status -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Has Doug got a comment on this? In their original form companies are >cooperatives and semi socialist or communist. British capitalism and >imperialism have done very well for 200 years with the London Stock >Exchange legally existing as a gentleman's club. This is about to be swept >away by the latest technological revolution. > >It comes hard on reports that the New York Stock Exchange is going the same >way. The solemn answer would be that mutual ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 09:36:04 PDT 1999

38779 heads rolling, says Stratfor -- rank: 1000

[from those mysterious folks at Stratfor <http://www.stratfor.com/world/Commentaries/w9907300300.htm>] <0300 GMT, 990730 - Washington Begins the Post-Kosovo Purge The first of the heads responsible for the Kosovo crisis rolled on July 27, when Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Wesley Clark was sacked. Clark was ordered to resign his post in April, three months before the end of his current term, to be replaced by Air Force General Joseph Ralston, Vice Chairman of the Join ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 09:28:52 PDT 1999

38780 Giddens distances from New Labour -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: > Any good soundbites from the interview >Doug? Unfortunately, I forgot to bring a tape to the studio, so the show was lost to the ozone. Benn argued that the reason he's leaving parliament (after 52 years) when his term expires in 2002 is that he thinks more can be done organizing and agitating outside government, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of big money. When people say that, I always wonder when it wasn't, but I didn't want to give the guy a hard time. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 09:08:14 PDT 1999

38781 KLA takes charge -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Again, though, we have the moral equivalence between state-sponsored >systematic murder of Kosovars and their acts of resistance. But if after >all the reports of the systematic and planned atrocities committed by the >Serb forces in Kosovo, you still see the Serb actions as morally equivalent, >no amount of argument is going to bridge the gap on this issue. > >Hell, by your logic, Native Americans deserved what they got (or at least >whites are mor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 08:43:55 PDT 1999

38782 Kemp contra austerity -- rank: 1000

[Hey, maybe a good followup to the left-right anti-imperialist coalition would be a left-right anti-austerity coalition!] Wall Street Journal - July 30, 1999 THE PARTY OF REAGAN--OR OF HOOVER? By Jack Kemp, the Republican vice presidential nominee in 1996. Two decades ago, some congressional Republicans colluded with liberal Democrats on at least 13 different votes to defeat the Kemp-Roth bill calling for 30% tax-rate cuts over three years. Conservatives were so obsessed with balanced budgets, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 30 07:55:27 PDT 1999

38783 Revised Update: Berry's Offer and Bramson's statement -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:30:50 -0700 From: savepacifica <savepacifica at peacenet.org> Subject: Revised Update: Berry's Offer and Bramson's statement The following contains the Pete Bramson Press statement ommitted in the last update: BULLETIN: DR. BERRY OFFERS KPFA STAFF ALL JOBS BACK EXCEPT SAWAYA AND BENSKY, NO GAG RULE, RE-EVALUATION IN SIX MONTHS Pacifica Board Chair Dr. Mary Frances Berry, finally yielding to weeks of community and political pressure, Wednesday afternoon offered th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 29 12:06:08 PDT 1999

38784 can SS be saved by buying stocks? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: > Doug, what do you think of the exchange between Mark Weisbrot and >Robert Greenstein in the pages of the Nation? The combatants weren't really >allotted enough space to make their statistical arguments very clear, I >thought. But Greenstein seems to be generally a man of good will and >certainly deft with a calculator. Is he right that Social Security does need >some saving? As I recall the argument, Greenstein just said the Trustees were right - dismal p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 29 09:54:44 PDT 1999

38785 KLA takes charge -- rank: 1000

New York Times - July 29, 1999 AS U.N. ORGANIZES, REBELS ARE TAKING CHARGE OF KOSOVO By Chris Hedges PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- The Kosovo Liberation Army has taken sweeping political control in the province, establishing a network of ministries and appointing local councils, seizing businesses and apartments, and collecting taxes and customs payments in the absence of a strong international police presence. Despite a peace agreement that calls for a United Nations-appointed administration, and the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 29 08:54:00 PDT 1999

38786 Gordon on technological stagnation -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I looked over that Gordon essay recommended by Doug. > >To explain that productivity surge (which for him is much more historically >delimited than hiterto recognized), Gordon points less to tight labor >markets from restricted immigration or protectionist policy than to the >exceptionality of the tech revo built on electricity, the internal >combustion engine, chemicals, etc. > >Gordon makes the argument that increased computer power >must ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 29 08:22:46 PDT 1999

38787 Deal with the Devil: Pacifica Board's divide and conquer strategy -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 02:01:35 -0700 This is the proposal as explained to me 1) On Monday, KPFA would reopen with all staff except Sawaya and Bensky 2) No guards or gag rule - "the union would run the station" (what about the community?) 3) The Board would monitor "ratings and diversity." This in itself is enough to keep the station in bondage, because... 4) For 6 months the Board (of criminals, still in place) would dec ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 08:24:10 PDT 1999

38788 can SS be saved by buying stocks? -- rank: 1000

[Of course the question in the subject heading implies that it needs to be saved, which it doesn't, but...] "Asset Allocation and Risk Allocation: Can Social Security Improve Its Future Solvency Problem by Investing in Private Securities?" BY: THOMAS E. MACURDY Stanford University National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) JOHN SHOVEN Stanford University National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Paper ID: National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 7015 Date: March 199 ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 08:10:10 PDT 1999

38789 German governance -- rank: 1000

[More on German corporate governance.] "Corporate Governance in Germany: Institutional Background and Empirical Results" BY: EKKEHART BOEHMER Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=157823 Contact: EKKEHART BOEHMER Email: Mailto:boehmer at wiwi.hu-berlin.de Postal: Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin Spandauer Str. 1 Berlin 10178, GERMANY Phone: +49 (30) 2093-5661 Fax: +49 (30) 2093-5 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 29 07:59:27 PDT 1999

38790 Giddens distances from New Labour -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >The Third Way is treated as fit only for derision by some. You betcha. Speaking of which, I'm going to be interviewing that renegade aristocrat, Tony Benn, on my radio show tonight at 5 PM NYC time - WBAI, 99.5 FM. Finally, you can get the WBAI signal on RealAudio now, at <http://www.wbaifree.org>. I'm sure there will be some Third Way derision on tap. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 07:55:08 PDT 1999