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39841 Central bank targets -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >The European central bank has a differently set target of inflation less >than 2%. It is suggested that it is also constitutionally allowed to take >into account other factors, but I have not heard exactly how this is >spelled out. The language in the "Constitution of the European System of Central Banks" <http://europa.eu.int/abc/obj/treaties/en/entr8d.htm#25> is very restrictive, more restrictive than the language of U.S. law on the Fed. Its ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 08:47:10 PDT 1999

39842 Unreported Bush Interview -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: > Fair dinkum Could you translate into non-Aussie English? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 08:48:15 PDT 1999

39843 Turkey & Caspian oil -- rank: 1000

[Those of you who read Greg Nowell's piece on Caspian oil intrigues in LBO #90 might be interested in this bit from the friendly folks at Straftor...] http://www.stratfor.com/MEAF/commentary/m9908170045.htm 0045 GMT, 990817 - UNITED STATES SQUEEZES TURKEY ON PIPELINE DEAL On August 16, U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson arrived in Turkey to discuss, among other things, the future of the proposed Baku-Ceyhan pipeline. On August 11, the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), a conso ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 08:36:44 PDT 1999

39844 Baker on IP -- rank: 1000

[I've been meaning to post this here for a couple of weeks. ITT doesn't have the full text of this on their website, or I'd just point to a URL.] In These Times - August 22, 1999 THE REAL DRUG CRISIS by Dean Baker AI Gore's recent campaign events have been marred by some uninvited guests. The vice president has been heckled by protesters who object to his efforts to pressure South Africa to enforce U.S. patents on AIDS drugs. On its surface, the issue is a simple case of lives versus profit. In ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 08:28:24 PDT 1999

39845 Fwd: Re: Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

[this was addressed to me rather than the list] Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:44:00 +0900 (JST) From: Brian Small <bjsmalld at sun-net.ne.jp> Eric wrote > Though Chomsky has admitted admiration >for Orwell's early work, he has said that 1984 >(the "Orwellian" Orwell) is >a rather cowardly novel because it attacked the >official enemy rather than >Big Brother it was written under. Doesn't Chomsky also mention a Foreword or something, where Orwell says we can point th ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 08:31:19 PDT 1999

39846 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >Currently I'd support a democratic plan a la Albert and Hahnel. I'm a bit mystified by all these utopian blueprints. It's not like there's going to be a revolution in the U.S. or any other OECD country where everything will be changed overnight. (Anyone who thinks there is, please provide an imaginable scenario.) Seems to me you push where you can - more unionization, more worker control of the workplace, more socialization of consumption and investment (free day care, ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 07:57:42 PDT 1999

39847 master race scheme -- rank: 1000

[This is by the same reporter who did the June 11 story about the Morgan banker who subsidized southern segregation that was posted here; I'll forward a copy of that story to anyone who asks for it. These must be part of a book project.] Wall Street Journal - August 17, 1999 THE PIONEER FUND TRIED TO SPREAD 'NATURAL ENDOWMENTS' OF TOP PILOTS By Douglas A. Blackmon Staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal WARE, Mass. -- On Wednesday, Ward and Darby Warburton, twin brothers born on Aug. 18, 1940, ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 06:47:32 PDT 1999

39848 Fwd: RTMark Quarterly Report (second quarter, 1999) -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:26:02 -0400 To: RTMark Investor <dhenwood at panix.com> From: "rtmark.DHENWOOD" <announce0055 at rtmark.com> Subject: RTMark Quarterly Report (second quarter, 1999) Sender: admin at bbs2.thing.net This is not a commercial message. Remove by writing mailto:remove at rtmark.com?subject=dhenwood at panix.com "MAYORAL AIDES CAN'T UNPLUG PARODY PAGES" (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/14rudy.html) Rudy Giuliani is kno ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 06:53:32 PDT 1999

39849 Rand In The Groves -- rank: 1000

[bounced for mysterious reasons] From: G*rd*n <gcf at panix.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:14:40 -0400 (EDT) Those of you who don't read alt.postmodern or alt.society.anarchy (all?) may not have seen this. The idea of an academia where Ayn Rand is at last taken seriously is indeed, well, postmodern. Post-something, anyway. Camille leads the charge! (For a little while, anyway.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaking of decadence and pseudo-this-and- ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 06:38:14 PDT 1999

39850 $1b stolen in Bosnia -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/081799bosnia-corruption.html> Leaders in Bosnia Are Said to Steal Up to $1 Billion By CHRIS HEDGES ARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- As much as a billion dollars has disappeared from public funds or been stolen from international aid projects through fraud carried out by the Muslim, Croatian and Serbian nationalist leaders who keep Bosnia rigidly partitioned into three ethnic enclaves, according to an exhaustive investigation by an American-led ant ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 06:31:58 PDT 1999

39851 Metzger sez... -- rank: 1000

After an event like the racist daycare shootup in Los Angeles, I like checking in with Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance hotline (760-723-8996). Turns out Metzger's commentaries are now also on the web, so you don't have to waste money on a 20-min phone call - at <http://www.whiterace.com>, follow the link to the Aryan Video Page. Metzger's also got a website at <http://www.resist.com> - his "White Aryan Resistance Hate Page," full of what he proudly calls racist cartoon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 19:10:03 PDT 1999

39852 always already -- rank: 1000

Anyone know the locus classicus of this phrase, "always already," and what the original French? German? was? Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 16 17:37:10 PDT 1999

39853 Argentina & Intl Income Inequality -- rank: 1000

david dorkin wrote: >las cuentas nacionales I just read that it's common in Latin America to refer to these national accounts as cuentos nacionales, or national tales, so bad are the statistics. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 16 14:12:54 PDT 1999

39854 Argentina & Intl Income Inequality -- rank: 1000

david dorkin wrote: >I should probably point out why I was looking for more info today on >inequality. In Pagina1 12, the Argentinian left daily, a report came out >from an establishment consulting firm (FIEL)that the income share of the >top 10% is 49.3% and not 37 as stated by Indec, the official agency in >Argentina . Any comments on this? What definition of income? In U.S. pretax, posttransfer distribution in 1997, the top 20% had 49.4% of income, and the top 5%, 21.7%. They d ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 16 13:25:16 PDT 1999

39855 Unreported Bush Interview -- rank: 1000

[From Chris Caldwell's column in NY Press. He's writing about the premiere issue of Talk, and this is about his Weekly Standard colleague Tucker Carlson's profile of young Bush. The full column, which blasts Lucinda Franks & Hillary, is at <http://www.nypress.net/col1.cfm?content_id=194>.] Carlson's article on Bush was a considerably more professional job, and the consensus among righties in Washington is that it's going to do Bush a great deal of damage. Not because of the governor's ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 16 13:11:43 PDT 1999