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39496 more WTO -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > Actually, I'm still here, at least for a little while >longer, if anybody can get it together to come up >with an intelligent response. But, the last time you >responded, Doug, mostly all you could do was declare >that I know nothing about nothing. Wow. You declared that yourself; I just pointed it out. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 15:02:12 PST 1999

39497 more WTO -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > I apologize in advance as this is strictly a >hit and run appearance. It's pretty antisocial behavior to sign on, lob a few stink bombs, and then disappear without listening to any corrections or comments on your ill-informed nonsense. So I'm not even going to respond to this. Merry Holidays. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 19 13:10:13 PST 1999

39498 Zizek on NATO -- rank: 1000

I asked Slavoj Zizek to clarify his position on the Kosovo war. He responded by sending me a 22-page piece, "NATO as the Left Hand of God," which is a longer version of a piece that has appeared elsewhere. It was written for a Verso collection on the war, but the editors rejected it. I haven't read it yet (though I'm about to). I'll send a copy to anyone who asks. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 12:10:00 PST 1999

39499 WTO, nationalism. -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Getting back to the pension angle. If you are called by the telephone >unemployment survey and you respond retired, even though, your in >your late 40's >or early 50's. Are you counted as unemployed? No. If you self-identify as retired, you're considered not in the labor force. To be classed as unemployed, you have to say you're actively looking for work. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 11:24:47 PST 1999

39500 armageddon hungry -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] From: "Steve Perry" <sperry at usinternet.com> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 07:30:20 -0600 from this morning's star tribune, a minnesota poll indicating that one-third of the citizens in this beacon of the north country believe (as tom waits put it) jesus gon' be here soon. doug, this will be especially cheering to you, as i know you squirrel away these kinds of data. http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=end18

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 11:23:43 PST 1999

39501 WTO, nationalism. -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Why not demand that America be a republic, not an empire (no >foreign bases, no military interventions overseas, no military assistance >to foreign countries, etc.)? That should resonate with American workers, >whether or not they are leftist. Compare & contrast with what Pat Buchanan said the other day: >As we end this American Century and this decade of national >preeminence, we remain a people divided over our role in the world. >It is a time ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 11:05:55 PST 1999

39502 Fwd: ready for massive action again! -- rank: 1000

[the latest on the etoy/etoys melodrama] X-From_: mailme at www.com Sun Dec 19 02:06:12 1999 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 08:04:55 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: blocked at etoy.com To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: ready for massive action again! Sender: mailme at www.com HEADLINES TODAY: business as usual? etoy.TOYWAR affects NASDAQ ?! etoy.DNS deleted by NETWORKSOLUTIONS! THE THING NEW YORK PERSECUTED BY FBI?! etoy.TOYWAR hits CNN: WAR ON THE NET! etoy.TOYWAR enters the MOMA NY! last saturd ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 08:17:03 PST 1999

39503 Zizek within the limits of mere reason -- rank: 1000

<kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> wrote: >On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:22:58 -0500 Yoshie Furuhashi ><furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: > > > Zizek helped to secure the support for ideology of humanitarian >bombings even >more effectively than otherwise. > >I doubt it. Do you really think anyone read his essay on the Double Blackmail >and left with the impression, "Zizek is just like a NATO fighter pilot." For what it's worth, Zizek told me with gr ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 18 11:04:30 PST 1999

39504 question re:post-war shift from economic rights to pseudo consumer rights -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:36:53 -0600 (CST) From: Jayson P Harsin <jph419 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Hello, LBOers. Like some other young lefty lurkers on this list, I rarely post but gain quite a bit from you all in terms of an education/training. I have a question I'm sure some of you can help me with if you have the time. I am working on a dissertation prospectus that analyzes shifts in American public discourse (and larger culture) from the New Deal to the ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 18 11:07:49 PST 1999

39505 overwork -- rank: 1000

<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/991220/overwork.htm> US News & World Report - December 20, 1999 World-class Workaholics Are crazy hours and takeout dinners the elixir of America's success? By James Lardner Chris Strahorn's parents haven't seen much of him lately. They're usually asleep by the time he gets home, anywhere between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. And he's often asleep when they leave for work. If his car is in the driveway, they know he made it back. (Sometimes his father says hi t ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 18 10:50:44 PST 1999

39506 state & markets -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Or we'll go to Filene's and I'll get >him a pair of socks. Speaking of socks, I heard a great story about Ralph Nader while in Seattle. Just after graduating from law school, Nader walked into a store where they were selling white socks at $0.25 a pair. He bought 1,200. His reasoning: not only was the price irresistible, he'd never have to think about buying socks again. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 18 10:55:18 PST 1999

39507 US and EU Summit Statement on the WTO -- rank: 1000

[trying hard to patch things up...] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release December 17, 1999 US - EU SUMMIT STATEMENT ON THE WTO The United States and the European Union consider the multilateral trading system one of world's principal bulwarks of peace, sustainable development, and economic growth; and a primary engine for rising living standards and broad-based ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 18 10:35:08 PST 1999

39508 Sierra Club On It's WTO Activities -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >But, it remains very bizarre that all the policies that anybody >brought up publicly in Seattle No, your version of the "policies that anybody brought up" are those that the media you consume chose to report on. You clearly have no idea of the diversity of people that were there, in fact or spirit, or what they think or say. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 18 10:29:36 PST 1999

39509 Barkley on WTO, etc -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >b. debt servicing, another 20-25 percent tax on export earnings > >Aren't we leftists here this least bit concerned with the effects of the >Seattle protests on the nationalism of the US working class? etc. There's a lot wrong with this resolution from the AFL-CIO's recent convention, but it's nowhere near as troglodytic as it could be: <http://www.aflcio.org/convention99/res1_6.htm> 6. New Rules for the Global Economy As the 20th century draws to a clos ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 18 10:14:21 PST 1999

39510 WTO, observations -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >As I said on pen-l, where >is the movement to shut down Washington until the US gets >serious about the multilaterally agreed upon Kyoto Accords. >No, the tepid groups are not calling for that. Instead we have >demands for LDCs to obey US enviro laws or face trade >sanctions. Still looks like hypocrisy to me. Barkley, I know you prefer fulminating to citation of actual positions, but even the tepid Sierra Club is highly exercised about global wa ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 18 10:24:42 PST 1999