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39796 Russian corruption -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service for the media] BILLIONS MISSPENT: MOSCOW TIMES In other news, the Moscow Times reported yesterday (8/19) that the Russian government has "grossly misspent" billions of dollars from the World Bank on salaries, offices and public relations, according to a former top economic official. Mikhail Delyagin, who has been a former economic adviser to President Boris Yeltsin and to First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, said at a news conferenc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 20 08:55:53 PDT 1999

39797 Columbine Nazism/Racism -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >They talked talked and talked about Littleton and Columbine, yet somehow >they neglected to mention in that article what I read elsewhere: that >the family of Isaiah Shoals, the black boy who got taunted and shot, had >got run right out of Littleton, following telephone death threats by >racists. New York Post - August 13, 1999 THREATS DOG FAMILY OF VICTIM IN LITTLETON Douglas Montero As students return to Columbine HS today -- four months after the massacre the ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 08:39:37 PDT 1999

39798 Colombia -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because of an attachment.] Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:01:59 -0700 From: Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:55:15 -0500 Sender: Private list on violence in Colombia <CSN-L at POSTOFFICE.CSO.UIUC.EDU> From: Colombian Labor Monitor <xx738 at prairienet.org> [NOTE: In what I think is a first, this article quotes a Pentagon spokesman admitting --on the record-- that American personnel are, in fact, fighting "in the field!" The ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 08:23:31 PDT 1999

39799 death penalty -- rank: 1000

Amnesty International's latest on race & the death penalty in the U.S.: <http://www.amnesty-usa.org/rightsforall/dp/race/race-1.html>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 08:29:54 PDT 1999

39800 SK GDP almost 10% -- rank: 1000

[Folks who want something to worry about should probably look at Latin America.] Wall Street Journal - August 20, 1999 SOUTH KOREA'S GDP SURGED BY 9.8% IN THE 2ND QUARTER By Michael Schuman Staff Reporter Of The Wall Street Journal SEOUL, South Korea -- The recovery of the South Korean economy is picking up speed, and economists expect the good news to continue. Gross domestic product grew a higher-than-expected 9.8% in the second quarter of 1999 from the year-earlier quarter, when the economy s ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 08:00:20 PDT 1999

39801 politics of Asian crisis -- rank: 1000

"The Politics of Economic Crisis in East Asia: Some Longer Term Implications" BY: RICHARD HIGGOTT University of Warwick Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=146971 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CSGR/wpapers.html SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 20 08:02:14 PDT 1999

39802 Where is Henry Liu? Depression in China. -- rank: 1000

paula wrote: > >Other economists recommend that Beijing continue to expand its issuing > >of treasury bonds to finance the setting up of a social safety net, > >including a nationwide social security system and a national medical > >insurance plan. > >Anyone wanna venture a guess at which economists they might be referring to >here? Could be World Bank types. The Bank has been arguing since the early 1990s that Asian countries need "safety nets" so that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 20 08:18:07 PDT 1999

39803 DOW 36,000 Redux -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I love the way they use an entirely different formula from the first time >around and somehow finagle it to end up with exactly the same weird >estimate of 36,000 that just happens to be in the title of the forthcoming >book that they've been flogging since June. Their major theoretical claim - that investors have been mispricing the risk of stocks for several centuries - is truly hilarious. (Risk, of course, is defined in the financial analyst's sense of volat ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 07:48:39 PDT 1999

39804 more anticapitalist riots! -- rank: 1000

[The headline in the U.S. edition is much better: "Police predict more riots against capitalism." What a beautiful thought!] Financial Times - August 20 1999 LONDON: Police reorganise riot control in City Warning of more anti-capitalism demonstrations, write Jimmy Burns and Sathnam Sanghera A reorganisation of riot control policing in London is under way in anticipation of further anti-capitalism protests in the next few months. The command structure for dealing with potentially viole ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 20 07:15:48 PDT 1999

39805 wow -- rank: 1000

[Wow, Steve Perry wasn't kidding.] <http://godhatesamerica.com/> America has rejected God's Word in favor of filthy fags "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6.7. This evil nation is mocking God, accepting the lie that It's OK to be gay. As a stroke of divine judgment, God has sent America strong delusion, to believe a lie, that they all might be damned, who received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 20:43:50 PDT 1999

39806 Where is Henry Liu? Depression in China -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >I would appreciate comments on this NY Times article. >It sounds to me like Depression. It's odd to fight a deflation/depression by prohibiting investment, since depressions are usually characterized by a collapse in investment, which every capitalist policymaker wants to prevent. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 17:02:36 PDT 1999

39807 DOW 36,000 Redux -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez cited two bulls: >This means that, assuming no risk >premium is accorded stocks, the proper dividend yield for stocks should >be 0.6%. Average dividend yields by decade, U.S. stocks 1820s 6.0% 1830s 7.3% 1840s 9.7% 1850s 9.1% 1860s 8.1% 1870s 6.2% 1880s 4.8% 1890s 4.0% 1900s 4.1% 1910s 5.6% 1920s 5.2% 1930s 4.7% 1940s 5.5% 1950s 4.9% 1960s 3.2% 1970s 4.1% 1980s 4.3% 1990s 2.7% Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 17:06:44 PDT 1999

39808 Phelps hacked! -- rank: 1000

Someone's hacked the site of the notorious Rev Fred Phelps, author of the God Hates Fags campaign. Check it out, while it lasts, at <http://www.godhatesfags.com/>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 15:55:26 PDT 1999

39809 gentrification -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >the >US is the only advanced industrial country (am i right on this?) >that uses the death penalty Japan does too, as does South Korea, if you want to consider it an "advanced industrial country." There's a list at <http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/dp/abrelist.htm>. When I last looked into this, Japanese practice was to keep an execution secret - the condemned was informed only at the last minute of his imminent demise. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 13:13:04 PDT 1999

39810 Cockburn no fan of Southerners -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because of an address oddity] From: "Eric Beck" <rayrena at mail.accesshub.net> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 15:15:44 -0400 Is there a working journalist more schizoid than Cockburn? In his NYPress column last week he wrote a brilliant, trenchant piece about Hillary's run for the Senate; a political and historical tour de force it was, with massive scope and astute analysis. This week, he's back to vintage Alexandrian-idiocy. This piece, pasted below, has nearly every eleme ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 12:28:55 PDT 1999