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18496 [lbo-talk] Ralph writes... -- rank: 1000

At 3:46 AM -0700 6/3/05, Ralph Nader wrote: >Forty years ago, I used a manual Underwood typewriter to write >"Unsafe at Any Speed" - my book length critique of the automobile >industry that led to the auto safety laws. > >And I still use my manual Underwood. > >I don't write on a computer. > >Never have. > >It's my little reminder of the false promise of modern technology. > >As long as the ribbons hold out, I'll continue to write my books and > ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 10:51:27 PDT 2005

18497 [lbo-talk] Re: Deep Throat -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.commentarymagazine.com/production/files/epsteinwatergate.html >This article, which explores the tendency of journalists to magnify >the role of the press in scandals and identifies Mark Felt as the most >likely source of a "Deep Throat," appeared in the July 1974 Hmm, was this when Epstein was channelling James Jesus Angleton? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 10:43:04 PDT 2005

18498 [lbo-talk] Looking for Color in the Anti-War Movement -- rank: 1000

lbo at inkworkswell.com quoted: >Why, for example, is there >not more color in today's anti-war movement when the troops who fight and >die are disproportionately black, brown, and red? Why isn't there more >color when those who pay such a heavy price for cutbacks in vital social >services due to military spending are often people of color? > >The first answer is the way that racism conditions the attitudes and >conduct of many anti-war activists, often without their real ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 10:39:32 PDT 2005

18499 [lbo-talk] Sweeney on SEIU -- rank: 1000

At 8:42 AM -0400 6/3/05, Jonathan Tasini wrote: >Colleagues: I've posted a memo I just received that John Sweeney >sent out internally which is, effectively a message that "when SEIU >leaves, it can't participate in local central labor bodies." His >comments are simply a reiteration of AFL-CIO policy. But, it's the >clearest sign that labor's leadership throughout the country expect >SEIU to pull out and are worried about how it will effect work >throughout the lab ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 08:42:45 PDT 2005

18500 [lbo-talk] Canada-US health care (was Vive La France!) -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: > The cheaper one, >$10/week for the employee, covers something like $10K >of hospital bills (no surgery, IIRC), and max. $10K >for accidents, $5K per accident. You know, like if >you break your arm twice in a year. My mother, who's in a nursing home in NJ, broke her elbow last year. She was taken to the hospital, her arm put in a cast, stayed there two nights, and returned to the nursing home. The bill, for extremely low-tech interventions: $21,000. So don't break ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 08:41:28 PDT 2005

18501 [lbo-talk] US employment -- rank: 1000

Mark S wrote: >Even if this report is not an aberration, earnings appear to be >rising. It was noted that hourly earnings over the past three >months are up at a 3.1% annualized rate compared with the previous >three months, for the fastest growth in a while. Productivity >growth is also slowing. What does Greenspan do??? March and April were up 0.3%, but May was up just 0.2%, and the average for the year so far is 0.2%. If May's CPI comes in at recent averages, real hourly ear ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 08:36:04 PDT 2005

18502 [lbo-talk] US employment -- rank: 1000

Pretty weak US employment report this morning - just 78,000 new jobs in the establishment survey, with the under-the-surface details not offering much consolation. The household survey was stronger, with a gain of 425,000 nonagricultural jobs, but this is a less reliable measure, and there was a decidedly downscale skew to the jobs (or at least the gainers of jobs) - people without a high school diploma gained the most, and those with bachelor's degrees or more lost. The US labor market is still ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 07:06:08 PDT 2005

18503 [lbo-talk] Canada-US health care (was Vive La France!) -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >Even if 84% of the population has insurance during any given years >snapshot The Census numbers are for people without insurance for the whole year. A snapshot reading would be higher. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 06:56:16 PDT 2005

18504 [lbo-talk] Re: bile -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: > >>I guess that means you can't help it. Thanks for the clarification. > >Doug>> > >Since he monitors your list under a fake name --and you probably do >his--this could apply as much to Louis Proyect as it does you, DH. >Basically, if you would simply follow your own rules of moderation >most of the time, you wouldn't need so much clarification. You sound like Jannuzi. Bye. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 06:13:02 PDT 2005

18505 [lbo-talk] the full Paris file -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Thu Jun 2 16:47:30 PDT 2005

18506 [lbo-talk] there are limits to IP protection -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/culture/paris-hilton/index.php#paris-hilton-fails-to-trademark-self-106224> Paris Hilton Fails To Trademark Self Filed under Culture : Paris Hilton Now that she's getting married, Paris Hilton may soon find herself having to support a whole family on her meager reality television income. Hoping to parlay some of her fame into a modest bit of merchandising cash, she attempted to trademark herself last year. How did it go? According to the US Patent and Trademark ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 2 16:46:33 PDT 2005

18507 [lbo-talk] Canada-US health care (was Vive La France!) -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Jordan: > >Maybe my problem with this is the vagueness of "lower- and >middle-income" and "most" ... many? some? sure. most? I >seriously >doubt it. > >=================== > > >What a strange thing to write. Indeed. For the demographic details, see <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthin03/hi03t5.pdf>. 24% of those with incomes under $25,000 were uninsured throughout 2003; 8% of those with incomes above ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 2 16:15:07 PDT 2005

18508 [lbo-talk] David Brooks has a point -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >An actual rightist intellectual Brooks? Maybe he was one once, but he's devolved into a total hack. His NYT column sucks out loud. And, as that clever fellow from the Philadelphia alt-weekly showed, his stuff doesn't survive routine factchecking. He's no Schumpeter or Hayek. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 2 16:06:51 PDT 2005

18509 [lbo-talk] Canada-US health care (was Vive La France!) -- rank: 1000

Health Affairs - July/August 2002 Paying For National Health Insurance - And Not Getting It Taxes pay for a larger share of U.S. healthcare than most Americans think they do. by Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein ABSTRACT: The threat of steep tax hikes has torpedoed the debate over national health insurance. Yet according to our calculations, the current tax-financed share of health spending is far higher than most people think: 59.8 percent. This figure (which is about fifteen percent ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 2 15:42:52 PDT 2005

18510 [lbo-talk] David Brooks has a point -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >If the anti-GOP policy world doesn't figure out where it stands on >social democracy, they might as well join the Cato Institute. But they lack the energy and ideological passion. Doug

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