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39571 NYT sucks -- rank: 1000

[another address oddity] Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:29:39 -0500 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at ee.cornell.edu> David Dorkin wrote: > As > an American raised in 5 countries, I can assure you that Le Monde, La > Jornada, Liberation, La Repubblica, El Pais, Frankfurter Rundschau, Die > Zeit, the Guardian and the Independant all provide top-level > international coverage (not just of disasters or one-time events as the > Times tends to do, not to mention the othe ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 20:43:28 PST 1999

39572 Who Owns the Movement? -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >"Who Owns the Movement? Or: Since No One Owns the Movement, How Do We Have >A Multi-Issue, Multi-Tactic Movement, Mutually Respectful and with >Constituency Identities Preserved" > >By Michael Albert >the rest at: http://www.zmag.org/who_owns.htm > >"How can peaceful marchers, those who engage in illegal civil disobedience, >and those who engage in illegal acts of destroying corporate property >coexist without turning on each other and d ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 20:41:59 PST 1999

39573 clarification -- rank: 1000

Mattcapri at aol.com wrote: >But wait, has anyone mentioned primitive accumulation yet? Nope, but that'd be ok. So would be primitive disaccumulation and neoprimitive accumulation. And we could interrogate the use of the word" primitive." Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 18:47:39 PST 1999

39574 140 million Indonesians below poverty line in 2000 -- rank: 1000

From: Robert Weissman <rob at essential.org> To: Multiple recipients of list STOP-IMF <stop-imf at essential.org> X-Comment: Please see http://lists.essential.org for help Indonesia Observer - Dec 14, 1999 Two-thirds of population below poverty line in 2000: Report JAKARTA (IO) - After enjoying decades of growth and relative prosperity, it is estimated that nearly two-thirds of Indonesia's total population of 210 million will be living below the poverty line at the beginning of the ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 17:28:21 PST 1999

39575 Is "jargon" jargon, was Re: dead topix -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >(2) In part I think your concern is based on lack of acquaintance >with how these users of jargon *actually talk to people* when >they are (using the old Plekhanov-Lenin-etc distinction) engaged >in agitational work (as opposed to theory, propaganda, or >intra-movement polemics). In over 30 years not *once* have >I ever offended a *non-marxist* whose political solidarity >I wanted with what you call jargon. It doesn't even occur to >me. I'm not arguing ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 17:19:44 PST 1999

39576 clarification -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >You're not, pray tell, narrow-mindedly putting the beliefs or interests >of your 'sect' before more general interests, are you? Michael Hoover No. I'm the soul of broadmindedness! Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 16:01:47 PST 1999

39577 Is "jargon" jargon, was Re: dead topix -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >You have long championed the virtue of psychoanalysis against churlish & >curmudgeonly skeptics like Carrol, and your eloquence has made me a >convert, so here's my psychoanalytic reading of your relationship with >"sectarians." Obviously any dissent on my part will only be coded as "resistance," but let me associate... >A: You feel ashamed & embarrassed to find your thoughts clothed in the >untutored rhetoric of "secta ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 15:59:55 PST 1999

39578 productivity -- rank: 1000

Ted Byfield mentioned longer hours as the secret of the productivity miracle. Technically, the productivity measure is output per hour worked, so longer hours shouldn't affect the calculation. But the hours worked figures are based on what employers report to BLS surveyors. An item from Business Week quoted by Sam Smith in today's Progressive Review suggests that hours may be seriously underreported: >Throughout the economy, the speedup is well under way. The 40-hour >week has all but disa ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 14:56:16 PST 1999

39579 money flowing into anti-biotech campaign -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 14, 1999 Raising the Anti: For Those Fighting Biotech Crops, Santa Came Early By LUCETTE LAGNADO Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Elizabeth Wilcox, who runs a consortium of small family philanthropies in Oakland, Calif., wasn't particularly interested in the controversy surrounding bioengineered food until she heard Nell Newman speak in October. Ms. Newman, the daughter of actor Paul Newman and head of the organic division of Newman's Own Inc., spoke to fo ...

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39580 Malthusians on the March -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Interesting - wetlands and forests are cleared to acommodate poipulation >growth rather than suburban sprawl. Of course nobody mentioned the fact >that those who move to these developments that consume our wetlands and >forests and not poor immigrants but middle-classers who escape cities. Of >course, a much easier solution to these problems would be stopping suburban >sprawl, urban redevelopment, gasoline tax etc. No kidding. It's especially rich c ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 14:15:57 PST 1999

39581 clarification -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wondered privately why I was singling him out in urging an end to refighting the Cold War. I wasn't. I want everyone to stop refighting the Cold War. It's unproductive and uninteresting to everyone but hardcore partisans. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 13:06:35 PST 1999

39582 Is "jargon" jargon, was Re: dead topix -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >So, what was the topic of discussion? Who was trying to pesuade whom on >what issue? Are you going to tell us? Or is the Labor Party run on the >basis of centralism that doesn't allow you to discuss such things in front >of non-members? The meeting was open to the world, and there were no secrets involved. It was a discussion about the WTO. The sectarians were making points I'd agree with - e.g. that the focus should be on capitalism and imperialism rather ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 13:13:42 PST 1999

39583 Malthusians on the March -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair quoted: >WHEREAS: The population of the U.S. is six percent of the world's >population, consuming up to 25 percent of the world's natural >resources. This is what I can't understand about the Malthusians' argument. Why is the problem the population and not the resource consumption (and waste production)? Is it that they want to be able to maintain *their* high level of consumption, so eliminating almost everyone else might make the arrangement more sustainable? Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 13:03:34 PST 1999

39584 The City and Nucleur Weapons -- rank: 1000

matt hogan wrote: > Like others, I sympathize with the plight of those who must live >in our crumbling cities. We should help out those who live in these >places, however, it would be unwise--in the long term--to support >the idea of rebuilding our cities. Instead, we should support >DECENTRALIZATION. > The reason why I support decentalization can be summed up in four >words: weapons of mass destruction. As nucleur weapons become cheap >and plentiful I fear it will ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 14 11:38:05 PST 1999

39585 [fla-left] [news/action] Immokalee, FL farmworkers strike!! (fwd) -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of a taboo word] Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:09:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael Hoover" <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> forwarded by Michael Hoover > email your letters of solidarity and support to > CoaImmwkr at aol.com > *** > > Immokalee Farmworkers Walk Out to Protest Falling > Wages > > [Monday, December 13, 1999, Immokalee, Florida]: > Today, hundreds of tomato pickers in Immokalee joined in a > community-wide strike to protest 20 ...

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