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40531 Mickey protected! -- rank: 1000

[from TheStreet.com] Disney Poised to Win Copyright Battle By Alex Berenson Senior Writer Walt Disney (DIS:NYSE) can breathe easy. Sometime in the next week, President Clinton is almost certain to sign a bill that will extend U.S. copyright protection by 20 years, keeping Mickey Mouse out of the public domain until at least 2024. Passage of the copyright extension legislation will mark a major victory for Hollywood, which waged a low-key lobbying campaign this year to make sure Congress would pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 07:51:02 PST 1998

40532 European ignorance -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug, it sounds like you're saying there is no moral difference between: > >a) Barging in, stealing land, and inadvertantly spreading microbes that >kill many > >and > >b) Barging in, stealing land, and slaughtering millions with swords and >guns. > >The reason people try to "put this in perspective" is because they >strongly sense a moral distinction between the two. I think that's >utterly valid. "Inadvertently" i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 15:32:43 PST 1998

40533 Globalvision program -- rank: 1000

Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:52:28 -0500 From: dschechter at igc.org (danny schechter) Subject: CHANNEL 13 AT l0 PM TOMORROW--PLEASE PASS IT ON Below please find an email posting that would be appropriate to publicize the release of GLOBALIZATION & HUMAN RIGHTS from Globalvision. It would be great if you could forward this to other parties that might be interested. It premieres tomorrow, October 29 at 10 p.m. EST. (on CH 13 in New York) Please call your local PBS station to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 13:13:56 PST 1998

40534 Vallone /WFP /Nation editorial -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >This message will put me over my limit for the day so I'll just put >it out there for others to comment on. > >I read the revolting lead editorial in _The Nation_ of the issue with >the Lewinsky sillouete on the cover. It was a call for people to >support The Working Families Party candidate Vallone in the coming >election. My simple question for supporters of this strategy is this: > >Why has *every* account I've read in favor of this candidate sta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 12:17:19 PST 1998

40535 Oldies (Was For Louis Proyect) -- rank: 1000

[This bounced, because as the Panix mailer put it, "This may be hard to believe, but there was no "From:" field in this message I just received. I'm not gonna send it out, but you can...[.]" Chuck, check your <From:> field!] Sender: cgrimes at tsoft.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:15:49 -0800 (PST) To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Oldies (Was For Louis Proyect) Ken Lawrenc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 10:39:51 PST 1998

40536 European ignorance? -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >Again, I'm specifically addressing the issue of disease as a factor in >reducing the native american population. The numerous cases of massacres >and theft and destruction of resources that took place should be denounced >as horrible, indefensible crimes. But someone who tries to determine, as >objectively as possible, the facts of the situation shouldn't be denounced >for it (although they could be criticized for other reasons, i.e., shoddy >scholar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 05:08:10 PST 1998

40537 European ignorance? -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: >The point is not to minimize the colonial crime but to put it into >correct perspective. Oh, and what is that? An unpleasant externality of the advance of cilization? A microbial accident? You mean the Europeans didn't mean to kill and enslave all those Africans, Asians, and Indians? Is it just a historical misunderstanding? Gosh, Boddhi, I think they need your rich talents in the Ministry of Propaganda. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 18:43:06 PST 1998

40538 Leftist Ravings? -- rank: 1000

[another address glitch from Wojtek] >>Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:47:45 -0500 >>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >>From: Wojtek Sokolowski <jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> >>Subject: Re: Leftist Ravings? >>In-Reply-To: <v04101a15b259abe33b59@[136.152.90.200]> >>References: <3633D87D.20D9BB3D at cns.bu.edu> <199810250951.EAA09113 at dont.panix.com> <3.0.2.32.19981026000516.00f8bb08 at pop.gn.apc.org> >> >>At 09:12 PM 10/25/98 -0800, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 27 12:14:43 PST 1998

40539 Leftist Ravings? -- rank: 1000

[another bum address problem] Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:21:05 -0500 From: Wojtek Sokolowski <jhu.edu at jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> Subject: Re: Leftist Ravings? X-Sender: sokol at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Message-id: <3.0.6.32.19981026122105.007ee660 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sorry for reposting but I think my return address got screwed u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 27 07:39:21 PST 1998

40540 Leftist Ravings? -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Getting your head together is a private thing... Brad, you bourgeois. Heads are formed and reformed socially. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 26 17:46:20 PST 1998

40541 Leftist Ravings? -- rank: 1000

[this post from Wojtek bounced because of a mangled return address] Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:47:45 -0500 From: Wojtek Sokolowski <jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu at jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> Subject: Re: Leftist Ravings? In-reply-to: <v04101a15b259abe33b59@[136.152.90.200]> X-Sender: sokol at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Message-id: <3.0.6.32.19981026114745.008197a0 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Content-t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 26 17:44:22 PST 1998

40542 homeownership -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for inexplicable reasons] Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:58:09 -0700 From: Tim Stroshane <.TIS1 at ci.berkeley.ca.us> Subject: Home Owmership This High -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Clinton's HUD also strives to take credit for the high home-ownership rate. Increasing homeownership has been one of the wispy threads of urban policy the Clinton admin has had since 1993. One way HUD has done this is to raise the limits on home mortgag ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 26 17:25:07 PST 1998

40543 Churchill article -- rank: 1000

Lou Proyect also sent along an article by Churchill from Z, which was over 60k long. Anyone who wants a copy, email me & I'll send it as an attachment. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 26 15:02:01 PST 1998

40544 Proyect/Cockburn/Churchill 1 -- rank: 1000

[this bounced as too long, and I'm just getting to forwarding it - sorry for the delay] Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:08:35 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> Subject: Re: Cockburn to Indians: get over it! In-Reply-To: <19981026135548.BWEK1148 at default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dont.panix.com id JAA13286 1. W ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 26 14:55:49 PST 1998

40545 Home Ownership This High? -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Larry Summers, didn't I read that Lant Pritchett actually wrote the infamous toxic waste memo? Do we have to stop hanging that one on Summers? Damn, it was a good one. But it's just the consensus of the profession with euphemism stripped away, right? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 26 14:44:52 PST 1998