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38791 Fwd: Civilians Expelled from South Lebanon -- rank: 1000

[Yesterday brought Human Rights Watch's report on Kosovo; to be fair, here's today's on Israeli actions in South Lebanon.] Date: 28 July 1999 From: hrwatchnyc at igc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk Sender: owner-hrw-news at igc.apc.org Subject: Civilians Expelled from South Lebanon To: hrw-news at igc.org =================================================== Civilians Summarily Expelled from Israeli-Occupied South Lebanon Israeli Authorities Responsible, Says Rights Group (July 28, Jerusale ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 15:16:23 PDT 1999

38792 Who the fuck is Luther Blissett? -- rank: 1000

[from nettime] Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:39:10 +0200 To: nettime-l at bbs.thing.net From: Luther Blissett <luther at syntac.net> Subject: <nettime> Who the fuck is Luther Blissett? l'Unita (Italian left-wing daily paper), 30 April 1999, Friday: The affair: ALL LUTHER BLISSETT'S MYSTERIES >From the *Q* breakthrough to the latest book on our republic's plots, *Enemies of the State*, an essay on Italian "emergencies" from the Seventies to these days by Stefania Scateni &quo ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 11:44:43 PDT 1999

38793 Clinton, snoop -- rank: 1000

New York Times - July 27, 1999 U.S. DRAWING PLAN THAT WILL MONITOR COMPUTER SYSTEMS By John Markoff The Clinton Administration has developed a plan for an extensive computer monitoring system, overseen by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to protect the nation's crucial data networks from intruders. The plan, an outgrowth of the Administration's anti-terrorism program, has already raised concerns from civil liberties groups. A draft prepared by officials at the National Security Council last ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 10:56:43 PDT 1999

38794 Clinton, snoop -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because it had an attachment.] From: Steve Perry <sperry at usinternet.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:34:21 -0500 Well, one can mock the Internet all day long, and god knows there's plenty to laugh at--but it becomes more and more clear that "democracy" market-style is pretty upset at all the unkind and subversive chattering that goes on there. ---------- New York Times - July 27, 1999 U.S. DRAWING PLAN THAT WILL MONITOR COMPUTER SYSTEMS By John Markoff The Clinton ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 11:38:55 PDT 1999

38795 Anglo vs. Euro-style capitalism (begging letter) -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >Alright, I'm begging. My darling girlf is doing a PhD on how the French >financial sector was taken over by Anglo-Saxon values, and has been >requested to come up with some references to the literature other than >spivvy business-school texts. Does anyone know of references relevant to >the development of the European (bank based) and Anglo-Saxon (market-based) >styles? There's a pint in "Jude the Obscure" on Walton St in it fo ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 10:52:39 PDT 1999

38796 Mayer on international finance -- rank: 1000

"Risk Reduction in the New Financial Architecture: Realities, Fallacies, and Proposals" BY: MARTIN MAYER Brookings Institution Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=165550 Paper ID: Levy Institute Working Paper No. 268 Date: April 1999 Contact: Triveni Kuchi Email: Mailto:kuchi at levy.org Postal: The Jerome Levy Economics Institute Bard College Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 USA Phone: (914)758-7 ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 10:30:47 PDT 1999

38797 lost it all in '29? -- rank: 1000

I just got a call from a BBC researcher who's working on a 6-part TV series on "the history of the world economy." They're looking for someone whose family lost it all in the 1929 stock market crash and can talk about it on camera. Contact me offlist if you or anyone you know fits this bill. Failing that, they're looking to hire someone for a day to do the research tracking someone down. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 10:19:28 PDT 1999

38798 KPFA SALE VOTE TODAY -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 99 09:20:12 -0700 From: Belinda Griswold <belindag at media-alliance.org> NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: July 28, 1999 Andrea Buffa 415-546-6334 x.309 mobile: 415-309-6334 Aileen Alfandery 510-644-3971 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE EXPOSES PACIFICA PLANS TO SELL KPFA PRESS CONFERENCE ON IMPENDING SALE AT NOON IN BERKELEY Bad news from Pacifica national board of directors comes on heels of victory at Berkeley City Council meeting. BERKELEY, CA - The San Fra ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 10:20:45 PDT 1999

38799 just deport 'em! -- rank: 1000

"The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants" BY: KRISTIN F. BUTCHER Boston College Department of Economics ANNE MORRISON PIEHL Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. 6974 Date: February 1999 Contact: KRISTIN F. BUTCHER Email: Mailto:kristin.butcher at bc.edu Postal: Boston College Department of Economics Carney Hall 145 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02167-380 ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 17:14:28 PDT 1999

38800 Jackie D! live on the net!! -- rank: 1000

[8 PM Sydney time is like 6 AM New York time the same day, right?] From: "Harkin, Brendan" <Brendan.Harkin at noie.gov.au> To: spoon-announcements at lists.village.virginia.edu Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:39:36 +1000 Derrida Live Online! See Jacques Derrida live on the internet from the Sydney Town Hall, Australia at 8.00pm, 12 August 1999 (Aust EST) The world's most famous philosopher, Jacques Derrida, in his first visit to Australia is being webcast live over the internet. Derrid ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 12:19:54 PDT 1999

38801 McKinnon on Japan -- rank: 1000

[Seth Ackerman asked me to post this for comment.] The Economist - July 24, 1999 WADING IN THE YEN TRAP Ronald McKinnon The origins of Japans deflation lie not in the domestic economy, but in the movements of the yen* IN THE 1990s, the inability to diagnose Japan's prolonged economic slump, with private investment and consumption languishing and the banking system in perpetual crisis, has become the great failure of modern macroeconomics. Massive publicspending programmes seem to have given the ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 10:41:02 PDT 1999

38802 Measurement of poverty and profit rates -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote (ages ago): >I enjoyed you article on statistcal measures of the US economy in the latest >Monthly Review. In there, you contrast two measures of poverty, (1) >absolute (which is used for the "official" rate), and (2) relative. As I'm >sure you know, both are deeply flawed. As I explain below I think relative >and absolute measures can be combined to make a better measure than either, >and, in fact, the BLS used to publish such a measure. > &g ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 09:34:51 PDT 1999

38803 Nathan Newman on IP -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because the original was too long. Here's the URL and the intro. Nathan, you stuck a "Berkeley" in your email address in the Contact line, which I deleted.] From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: New Book on Web: NET LOSS: GOVERNMENT, TECHNOLOGY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNITY IN AGE OF INTERNET Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:25:02 -0400 I've finally gotten around to an initial revision of my di ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 08:27:55 PDT 1999

38804 women, immigrants, and labor quality -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I don't get it: if tight labor market =>then faster growth of c in relation >to v, i.e., adoption of labor saving technique=>then industrial reserve >army of labor grows anew, leading to downward pressure on the real wage, >i.e., a loose labor market. How does Gordon expect to preserve a tight >labor market if its main effect is the assimilation of labor saving >equipment? Is he confused? Well he is writing about historical change. He didn't say a ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 08:10:25 PDT 1999

38805 CAFOD calls for Global Intervention Fund -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Can anyone get the text of CAFOD's statement? It seems not to be on their website yet <http://www.cafod.org.uk/>. But their most recent press update is from mid-June, so maybe they're a bit slowmoving. Doug

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