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39556 LMD -- rank: 1000

[bounced for a taboo word] Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:43:01 -0500 From: t byfield <tbyfield at panix.com> given the talk about LMD, it seemed worthwhile to pass this on. cheers, t ----- Forwarded Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:33:53 +0100 To: "English edition dispatch" <dispatch at london.monde-diplomatique.fr> From: Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch at london.Monde-diplomatique.fr> Subject: December 1999 Le Monde diplomatique ------------------------------------------------- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 10:47:59 PST 1999

39557 Mark Ritchie comments... -- rank: 1000

I forwarded the latest Cockburn/St Clair salvo to Mark Ritchie of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, who says: >"I am struck by the conscious ignoring or ignorance of all of the thousands >of people who were there from the rest of the world, both North and South, >who were active on both the inside and outside of the meetings and who >eventually brought them to a stop. Unless I am missing something, no one >here seems to be trying to understand wha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 10:05:48 PST 1999

39558 Is "jargon" jargon, was Re: dead topix -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >If memory serves, Doug, this doesn't seem to square with your >spirited defense of Judith Butler in the past. Different audiences. She's writing for like-minded sorts, a small audience of high-end intellectuals; I'm talking about doing agitprop among the people. I don't think one should be judged by the standards of the other. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 09:08:08 PST 1999

39559 Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle -- rank: 1000

John Nichols, who co-hosted the RadioNation broadcasts from Seattle and has written about the events for the magazine, responds: >This is kind of a sad commentary. I was in the Direct Action headquarters >weeks before the WTO sessions began and they not only knew who Mike Dolan >was, they were meeting with him. Additionally, I saw Dolan defend the >Direct Action folks in a heated argument with the mayor and the police >chief. I also heard him -- in press conference appearances an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 09:03:16 PST 1999

39560 IMF reform, G20 born -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] SUMMERS URGES IMF REFORM. US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers proposed yesterday night scaling back the role of the IMF to allow the private sector a greater role in providing finance to poorer countries, the Financial Times reports (p.1). In a speech given to the London Business School, Summers said the IMF had to reflect changes in the global financial system, and focus on preventing and responding to international financial crises. The Wall Stre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 08:44:58 PST 1999

39561 Is "jargon" jargon, was Re: dead topix -- rank: 1000

>Carrol Cox wrote: > > > > So if you really want to get rid of jargon, you are going > > to have to discover a way to give a 3-week equivalent > > of a Yale education to people who barely got through > > high school. Missed this the first time around. I don't agree. One of the benefits of a Yale education, at least in my experience, is the exposure to how the bourgeoisie thinks and acts. I can look, act, and talk like them even though I find them largely rep ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 08:37:50 PST 1999

39562 Dissent on NY's newspapers -- rank: 1000

Mattcapri at aol.com wrote: >I can't believe I read the Who-o-ole thing. What tripe. On the subject of >papers are folks aware of the existence of Le Monde Diplomatique? Excellent, >but a monthly, available in French at well stocked newspaper stores. The >truncated English translation is a bit of a pain in the ass to get a hold of. >You must first subscribe to the Manchester guardian Weekly then you have the >option of a piggy-back subscription. You can get LMD by email and we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 08:23:40 PST 1999

39563 Ammiano's quasi-communist leanings -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I gather sex is uncontroversial between the two candidates. Sure would be more interesting to watch than those stupid debates, though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 08:26:17 PST 1999

39564 handicapitalism -- rank: 1000

[The WSJ website includes a link to a slick webzine, WeMedia <http://www.wemedia.com>, targeted at this market. Marta, any comments?] Wall Street Journal - December 15, 1999 People With Disabilities Are Next Consumer Niche By JOSHUA HARRIS PRAGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Handicapitalism. It's a brand-new term that describes what's behind a dawning realization in business: People with disabilities shouldn't be viewed as charity cases or regulatory burdens, but rather as pro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 08:15:46 PST 1999

39565 Malthusians on the March -- rank: 1000

Russell Grinker wrote: >But surely you are not implying that too much consumption by some >(mal-distribution?) and too much waste production are the fundamental >problems with the system? "The" fundmental problems? I don't know that I'd use the definite article; there are many problems with The System. But here's where I strongly part company from LM & its sympathizers: yeah, the present structure of production and consumption is environmentally disastrous, and the work ef ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 07:34:08 PST 1999

39566 Who Owns the Movement? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >As I pointed out to Albert, it's the wrong question. The worldwide N30 >actions were organized via a NETWORK. Albert is looking at this with his >rose-colored 1960s glasses. This is why most of the Left was caught be >surprise by what happened in Seattle. Those of us involved in the June >18th network and the anarchist mileau were not surprised at all. In an email exchange with Albert, I mentioned the J18 actions, assuming he'd know what I meant. He didn't. I was a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 07:41:42 PST 1999

39567 productivity -- rank: 1000

t byfield wrote: >only 5 hrs/week more? maybe, but only by some pretty tendentious >measures; if one redefined those measures such that they gauged >not more-time-working but less-time-not-not-working, the results >would be quite different. for example, someone who holds down 2 >jobs loses a lot of time to commuting. sole proprietors, entre- >preneurs, partnerships, etc. have been a huge area of growth: do >these people really work only 5 more hours than they would have > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 07:39:16 PST 1999

39568 productivity -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >24 hr Kinko's? Who reports *that* time? The employer is supposed to report the time to the BLS surveyors. Or, more precisely, a representative sample of employers is surveyed every month, reporting number of hours worked and the hourly wage rate. Once a year, the BLS compares this monthly survey with detailed state unemployment insurance data that covers over 98% of the workforce, producing its annual "benchmark" revisions. (What it learns from these full sam ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 07:31:29 PST 1999

39569 Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair have an excellent column in >NY Press this week -- "Who Won in Seattle? -- about the attempt of >liberal "respectable demonstrators" to swipe credit for the success >of the anti-WTO protests from the "pernicious rabble" who did the >heavy lifting and actually did achieve that stunning success. >Unfortunately, the article is not available on NY Press's web site. >I have no idea how those out ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 07:23:50 PST 1999

39570 Nandor Tanczos on NZ greens -- rank: 1000

[Nandor Tanczos asked me to forward this.] From: Nandor Tanczos <nandor.tanczos at parliament.govt.nz> To: "'dhenwood at panix.com'" <dhenwood at panix.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:12:31 +1300 I was tempted to try and reply in detail to the postings on this discussion group but decided that it would be a waste of my time. The vast majority was personal abuse and misinformed crap, which I'm sure I will get plenty enough of once I take my seat in parliament. Why go looking ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 15 07:00:50 PST 1999