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30166 Poor me and US the econ. -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >My question is, how tanked is the economy, really? Am I going to have to get >a job as a dishwasher? Oh, woe is me. If you're lucky. Job loss has slowed a lot, but new hiring is virtually nonexistent. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 7 10:55:34 PDT 2002

30167 Anarcho-Stalinism (chuck) -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Why doesn' t the same thing applies to Nader? It does. He's a boss who hates unions <http:/www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Nader.html>. > Recently I >was discussing politics with an experienced conservative >and I borrowed Vidal's line about the two parties being >two butt cheeks on the same derriere I thought that was Hitch's line. I heard him say it on TV - "two cheeks of the same derriere." Did he lift it from GV? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 7 10:54:18 PDT 2002

30168 Gore did it to himself -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >First, no group in the Dems are supporting privatization of Social Security, >even the DLC. Clinton would have done it except for Monica. Or doesn't the ex-president count as a Dem? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 7 10:51:05 PDT 2002

30169 Tyrell back in control at the Spectator -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - August 7, 2002 MEDIA NOTES Conservatism is again a Spectator sport By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff The last few years haven't been kind to The American Spectator. Circulation, once around 300,000, is now about 65,000. Writer David Brock, once the conservative magazine's top gun, wrote a book repenting for his sins as a right-wing journalist. Technology analyst George Gilder's decision to buy the magazine two years ago and focus more on economics didn't pan out. And the Spectator do ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 7 09:27:12 PDT 2002

30170 Greenspan joins Bob Hope in knighthood -- rank: 1000

AP Europe Fed Chief Greenspan to Be Knighted Tue Aug 6, 4:43 PM ET He won't get to call himself "Sir Alan" but Federal Reserve ( news - web sites) Chairman Alan Greenspan ( news - web sites) - often known as the second most powerful man in the United States - will get another title: knight. Queen Elizabeth II ( news - web sites) has approved an honorary knighthood for Greenspan's "outstanding contribution to global economic stability," the British Treasury announced Tuesday. ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 16:04:54 PDT 2002

30171 Ralph, from the right -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.ncpa.org/oped/bartlett/sep2000a.html Where Bruce Bartlett writes: >I am not sure if it is his first published article, but the earliest >piece I was able to find by Ralph Nader was published in the >ultra-conservative American Mercury magazine in March 1960. (The >American Mercury was a highly respected magazine in the 1920s and >1930s, but fell on hard times and was sold to some >ultra-conservatives in the 1940s, who turned the magazine s ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 14:57:42 PDT 2002

30172 Anarcho-Stalinism (chuck) -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 8/6/2002 1:24:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >dhenwood at panix.com writes: > >>They accepted unions right after WW2 because they thought they didn't >>have much choice. Thirty years later they started busting them in >>earnest (not that they were ever so mighty in the south). Why, if the >>co-optation/distraction strategy was so effective? >> > > > >Would the precense of the Soviet Union and the Co ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 14:52:10 PDT 2002

30173 Anarcho-Stalinism (chuck) -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Well, the bosses experienced the classical authoritarian paradigm shift. >They figured out once again that is make more sense to co-opt the >opposition (via the AFL-CIO and Teamsters) than it was to kill them. >Capitalism requires workers to function, so the boss strategy of >legitimizing the moderate unions was a smart move. > >Then they did the next important thing, after WW2, and that was to give >workers lots of consumer goods to keep them distrac ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 13:24:01 PDT 2002

30174 can Ralph Nader save capitalism? ( was Re: Fast Track Passage) -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >But Doug, just in the last month he's written blistering >analyses like these: >"Citigroup, Heal Thyself" ><http://www.counterpunch.org/nader0727.html> >"Corporate Socialism: The CEO Crimewave" ><http://www.counterpunch.org/nader0718.html> >"The Secret World of Banking" ><http://www.counterpunch.org/nader0715.html> > >And how do you read this paragraph without making a mad dash >for the barricades? ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 12:47:27 PDT 2002

30175 gays in Cuba -- rank: 1000

[via David McReynolds] La Jornada (Mexico City) - August 5th 2002 Breaking the barriers of Cuban homosexuals An investigation opens up the argument so as to reevaluate intolerances and taboos GERARDO ARREOLA CORRESPONDANT Havana, August 4th. The Ernesto Gonzalez Piug Gathering of Graduates of the Psychology Faculty bursts into applause. It would be for another professional investigation at Havana University, but this one was different: the graduation thesis is the first investigation of its type ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 12:41:48 PDT 2002

30176 Intellectuals vs. activism -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Offlist (over my limit for the day) Ooops. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 12:28:23 PDT 2002

30177 Anarcho-Stalinism (chuck) -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >I certainly wouldn't choose any organized labor union at this point. I'm >more likely to see some improvements at work through wildcat actions than >I am waiting for the union bureacracy to sell me out through some >agreement with my bosses. If you recall, labor had more power when it was >autonomous and NOT organized into a few national unions. Or, just look at >the cozy relationship between organized labor and the Democratic wing of >the Corporate Part ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 12:19:33 PDT 2002

30178 Fast Track Passage -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Austere yes and I disagree with him on a lot of issues, but he is still one >of the foremost activists of the last generation. Except for a few heated >comments at points when I was particularly pissed off, I never went in for >the personal bashing some folks did on Nader. It's nice to see that you equate criticism with "bashing" even when it's directed against Ralph. And yes, he is "one of the foremost activists of the last generation" - whi ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 11:38:55 PDT 2002

30179 Anti-Capitalism Reader -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >No offense, Doug, but this a pretty mainstream selection of >anti-globalization writers. Hey, don't complain to me. Complain to the editor, Joel Schalit <riotgoy at ix.netcom.com>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 11:06:07 PDT 2002

30180 sue Exxon, support terrorism -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - August 6, 2002 US tries to halt rights lawsuit By Edward Alden in Washington The US is trying to quash a human rights lawsuit launched by Indonesian villagers against Exxon Mobil, claimingit could undermine the war on terrorism. The State Department said the action alleging complicity in human rights abuses by the oil group could also have a "potentially serious adverse impact" on US interests. The lawsuit was filed last year by the International Labour Rights Fund on ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 6 10:45:34 PDT 2002