1999-01-27 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Well, quite the coincidence just occured. I was just rooting around my backpack for something and found where I had written down the subscription information for a magazine I just found out about called _Monetary Reform_. It looks very good; the issue I looked at had a great article … Read more
1999-01-23 Jan Slakov Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 07:07:57 +0000 From: Paul Swann <•••@••.•••> Subject: Fwd: NASA looks to native elders to help save the earth From: Stephanie Bruce <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Subject: [GAIA-L] Fwd: NASA LOOKS TO NATIVE ELDERS TO HELP SAVE THE EARTH FROM UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE FOR RELEASE: WEEK OF JANUARY 15, … Read more
1999-01-23 Jan Slakov Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 23:41:50 -0200 From: •••@••.••• (R. Magellan) Subject: (ing) A nova Guerra do Ópio Jan’s attempt at a translation of César Roberto Magellan’s Portuguese introduction: The article below compares the US diplomatic offensive aimed at increasing cigarette comsumption in Asia to the Opium War, which afflicted colonial China … Read more
1999-01-23 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Jan. 23 It is likely that many of you on this list already subscribe to the Rachel’s newsletters, as they are certainly worthwhile. I am sending you this one in particular because the information it provides on two particularly offensive industries, the oil and gas industry and the tobacco … Read more
1999-01-22 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Jan. 22 Yesterday Richard (rkm) posted information on Monsanto’s Terminator technology to the cyberjournal. Meanwhile, I have been collecting quite a bit of information on Monsanto of late, thinking of this list. By now, there is way too much to send to you, so I will post only 3 … Read more
1999-01-20 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Jan. 20 Well, it looks like the cyberjournal server is working again. Good news! Increases in military spending are so wrong-headed; I feel we ought to all refuse to pay for military forms of defence as we need most to defend ourselves now from non-military threats: environmental destruction, financial … Read more
1999-01-13 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Jan. 13 Just today the Brazilian currency, the real, was devalued. This is about all the news that most people in North America, at least, are likely to get about what financial warfare means for Brazil. But the real news is about what happens to people and nature when … Read more
1999-01-12 Jan Slakov Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:53:09 -0500 From: Robert Weissman <•••@••.•••> To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <•••@••.•••> Subject: The Price We Pay: The 10 Worst Corporations of 1998 What did we learn in 1998? Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates’ net wealth — $51 billion — is greater than the combined … Read more
1999-01-11 Richard Moore —————————————————————————- From: “Brian Hill” <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: Fw: ALTER DAVOS – EN Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 06:53:32 -0800 —–Original Message—– From: Laurent JESOVER <•••@••.•••> To: ATTAC MAILING <•••@••.•••> Date: Sunday, January 10, 1999 06:05 Subject: ALTER DAVOS – EN For the past twenty years, financial globalisation has increased economic insecurity … Read more
1999-01-11 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Jan. 11 The MAI is dead, right? Well, no, not quite. As we know, it is no longer being negotiated at the OECD, but the MAI agenda is looking for a new “home” and for all we know, may have found one. The Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee is … Read more