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29551 Negri on globo -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >The worker with $1 million in retirement funds ...is very rare. Somewhere around the top 5% of the U.S. wealth distribution, and in all probability a member of the professional/managerial class. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 9 06:20:02 PST 2002

29552 aliases -- rank: 1000

Quite a few people subscribe under one address and have posts forwarded to another. If they bounce, it's often hard to figure out who the culprit is and unsub him or her. If you do this, please let me know what you're up to so I don't have to waste time decoding headers and playing pattern-matching games. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 15:33:30 PST 2002

29553 manna for conspiracists -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >More great logic: If it's on CNN, it can't be a conspiracy. CNN also >reported the Unocal story, even mentioning Unocal Veep John Maresca's >testimony before the house subcomittee on Asia and the Pacific in 1998. But >it left out the juciest parts and ended the story with: "So the idea that >oil is now driving this war is totally unrealistic. It would be more >sensible to be considering a pipeline on the moon." Lemme see if I have this straig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 15:26:54 PST 2002

29554 manna for conspiracists -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >More great logic: If it's on CNN, it can't be a conspiracy. CNN also >reported the Unocal story, even mentioning Unocal Veep John Maresca's >testimony before the house subcomittee on Asia and the Pacific in 1998. But >it left out the juciest parts and ended the story with: "So the idea that >oil is now driving this war is totally unrealistic. It would be more >sensible to be considering a pipeline on the moon." Lemme see if I have this straig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 15:23:20 PST 2002

29555 Negri on globo -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>>It is not as if international inequality would disappear if the >>>rest of the world all became subjects of the American Empire, as >>>opposed to citizens of their respective nations. >> >>Here we go again - only two choices. >> >>Doug > >Is there any "choice" here? It's not as though Negri, you, I, or >anyone else can today "choose" not to be a cit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 13:32:37 PST 2002

29556 Negri on globo -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It is not as if international inequality would disappear if the rest >of the world all became subjects of the American Empire, as opposed >to citizens of their respective nations. Here we go again - only two choices. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 12:43:25 PST 2002

29557 Negri on globo -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug says: > >>But if you blame capitalism, you can avoid the unpleasant issue of >>the nation-state. > >Conversely, one may say that if you blame citizenship and the >nation-state, you can avoid the unpleasant issue of capitalism. Black-white. Left-right. East-West. Never the twain shall meet. Yours in evasive, unproductive opposition, Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 12:42:49 PST 2002

29558 Negri on globo -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Doug makes the right point, IMO. >> >>You could have the same problem under socialism. >>Imagine two nations, one rich, the second less so, >>and social benefits that paralleled their overall >>resources. There would be the same interest in >>conditioning benefits on citizenship and related >>obligations. Inequality breeds exclusion, and >>capitalism is not a necessary condition for >>inequality. >> > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:54:09 PST 2002

29559 manna for conspiracists -- rank: 1000

Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban Aired January 8, 2002 - 07:34 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Time to check in with ambassador-in- residence, Richard Butler, this morning. An explosive new book published in France alleges that the United States was in negotiations to do a deal with the Taliban for an oil pipeline in Afghanistan. Joining us righ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:52:33 PST 2002

29560 Negri on globo -- rank: 1000

But if you blame capitalism, you can avoid the unpleasant issue of the nation-state. And if you like, you can take the next step, which is saying you can't really do anything politically until capitalism disappears, which is such a tall order that you might as well just do nothing and wait for the FROP to hit 0. Doug Max Sawicky wrote: >Doug makes the right point, IMO. > >You could have the same problem under socialism. >Imagine two nations, one rich, the second less so, >and soci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:49:49 PST 2002

29561 Fed turns over $27b to Treasury -- rank: 1000

<http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2002/20020108/> Release Date: January 8, 2002 For immediate release Preliminary figures indicate that the Federal Reserve Banks distributed approximately $27.14 billion of their $31.87 billion total income to the U.S. Treasury during 2001. Federal Reserve System income is derived primarily from interest earned on U.S. government securities that the Federal Reserve has acquired through open market operations. This income amounted to $30 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:16:19 PST 2002

29562 Fwd: Press Release: NYC Still Mostly Car-Free -- rank: 1000

[further proof that NYC is not like the rest of America...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2000 CENSUS DATA: CAR OWNERS STILL MINORITY IN NEW YORK CITY Newly released U.S. Census data show that 54% of New York City households do not own or lease a motor vehicle (down a scant 3% from 1990). Manhattanites are the most car-free; 78% of households there do not have a vehicle. The car-free share of Bronx households is 60%, and Brooklyn is also majority car-free, with 54%. Only in Queens and Staten Island are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 7 15:44:17 PST 2002

29563 acting opp't'y - own equipment required -- rank: 1000

Subject: Open Auditions for Off-Broadway Hit, Puppetry of the Penis 04-JAN-02 Contact: ADRIAN BRYAN-BROWN/JACKIE GREEN/MARTINE SAINVIL 212-575-3030 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE Open Auditions for Off-Broadway Hit, Puppetry of the Penis SO YOU WANNA BE A STAR? ASPIRING PENIS PUPPETEERS WANTED FOR OPEN AUDITIONS FOR OFF-BROADWAY HIT, PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS ON JAN 17 AT 11 AM MUST HAVE OWN EQUIPMENT PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS, the internationally acclaimed phenomenon, has announced plans to further expa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 7 14:43:59 PST 2002

29564 bobbing ballot boxes -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - January 7, 2002 Scavenged ballot box lids haunt S.F. elections Erin McCormick, Chronicle Staff Writer Beachcombers find them on sand dunes west of Point Reyes. Rowers come upon them bobbing in the bay. The bright red box tops that keep washing up around the Bay Area are floating reminders of a problem in San Francisco, the remnants of ballot boxes that somehow got beyond the control of the city's embattled Department of Elections. The corrugated plastic ballot box lids, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 7 10:38:57 PST 2002

29565 Negri on globo -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Auschwitz wasn't inevitable even in Germany, much less other "nation states." Few things in social life are inevitable, but consider this - the good things you've mentioned that some nation-states provide, like social benefits, do depend on notions of citizenship, which depend on notions of exclusion. The Scandinavian welfare state, as admirable as it is, couldn't survive a regime of open borders. Nor could even our very minimal welfare state in the U.S. sur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 7 10:04:53 PST 2002