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31861 Peter Singer on brand ethics -- rank: 1000

[does this guy have any redeeming characteristics?] Financial Times - March 12, 2001 COMMENT & ANALYSIS A buoyant market for ethics Co-ordinated mass market action by consumers increasingly compels corporations to rethink policies, says Peter Singer By PETER SINGER For those who fought "the battle of Seattle", and the various other battles that have become routine whenever the World Trade Organisation, the World Bank, or the World Economic Forum meet, transnational corporations are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 17:17:26 PST 2001

31862 Reich: Dem Party "dead" -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The leadership by Gephardt and Daschle is not as verbally strong as it could >be - see piss-poor response on the State of the Union - but they are herding >cats well in lining up votes in opposition to Bush's agenda. But what's their agenda? It looks like Bush lite so far. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 12 15:46:40 PST 2001

31863 Pat Robertson on the faith-based thing -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 12, 2001 Mr. Bush's Faith-Based Initiative Is Flawed By Pat Robertson. Mr. Robertson is founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Regent University, Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corp., the Flying Hospital, the Christian Coalition, and the American Center for Law and Justice. The Faith-Based Initiative proposed by President Bush is an official acknowledgment of the tremendous role that faith-based institutions play in society as mediatin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 15:28:18 PST 2001

31864 Balancing the Japanese economy down -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Stratfor had a very relevant freebee on Japan today. Stratfor proprietor Friedman co-wrote a book with his now-wife Meredith (who had a different last name then that I can't recall) in the late 1980s with the eye-catching title The Coming War With Japan. That's when it seemed like Japan was taking over the world and the U.S. was on the ropes. Now, it's Japan on the ropes. I wonder if he's getting too carried away on the downside now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 14:45:00 PST 2001

31865 Taft-Hartley -- rank: 1000

[interesting that Carter paved the way for Reagan even here...] "Death by Lethal Injunction: National Emergency Strikes Under the Taft-Hartley Act" BY: MICHAEL H. LEROY University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Economics/Labor and Industrial Relations JOHN H. JOHNSON University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Economics/Labor and Industrial Relations Paper ID: Bureau of Econ. & Bus. Research Working Paper No. 00-0116 Date: July 25, 2000 Contact: MICHAEL H. LEROY Email: Mailto: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 13:50:47 PST 2001

31866 queries -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Two unrelated questions: >> >> 1) When did the use of "space" illustrated in the quote below become >> common? Is it a techie word originally? >> >> >"If desktop processors were our only problem we would be >> >close to forecasts. What's driving our problem is that it is >> >spreading into the server space as well." >> > >> >--Intel CFO Andy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 11:43:03 PST 2001

31867 Fwd: Fw: Stick It To The Manarchy -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Chris Kromm] Stick It To The Manarchy by Maggie, Rayna, Michael, and Matt The Rock Bloc Collective Bard College rm479 at bard.edu <http://nyc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=2566> Manarchy: Aggressive, competitive behavior within the anarchist movement that is frighteningly reminiscent of historically oppressive male gender roles. Such behavior includes acting macho, holier than thou, and elitist. Manarchy often results in exclusivity. We feel obliged to share our discomfo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 11:41:12 PST 2001

31868 Reich: Dem Party "dead" -- rank: 1000

[Nathan, maybe you better give Reich a call - I've got his number if you need it. He obviously needs a little cheering up.] Washington Post - March 11, 2001 They Aren't 'Just Resting' The Democratic Party is Dead by Robert B. Reich If I were a political consumer, I would -- with apologies to the late Monty Python parrot -- be going back to the store right about now and registering a complaint: "This political party -- the Democratic Party. It's dead." "No, no, no no," he repl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 11:09:54 PST 2001

31869 raging against RATM -- rank: 1000

[from today's FuckedCompany.com sporadic] I love my chicken kentucky fried Rumor has it that the e-tail home of pinko-rockers Rage Against the Machine, among others, just handed out yet another round of pink slips. Maybe the fired workers can get work polishing the platinum records of all the anti-establishment millionaire rock stars whose greed for internet IPO bucks helped inflate this fucked balloon that's about to pop. Company: ARTISTdirect Points: 178

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 6 07:51:15 PST 2001

31870 Beyond Face Value -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of attached html code - please, no html! no attachments! nothing but text, plain text! - the site is devoted to images of slaves/slavery on Confederate currency] Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 10:49:41 -0500 From: Christopher Rhoades Dykema <crdbronx at erols.com> Check out this extremely interesting site. Christopher Rhoades Dykema <http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/BeyondFaceValue/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 6 08:04:17 PST 2001

31871 Cato on "faith-based initiatives" -- rank: 1000

Cato Daily Dispatch March 12, 2001 <http://www.cato.org/> <http://www.cato.org/dispatch/03-12-01d.html> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Criticism from Religious Conservatives Delays Bush's Faith-Based Funding * Capital Gains Tax Cut May Be Added In Senate * Failure in Kosovo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICISM FROM RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVES DELAYS BUSH'S FAITH-BASED FUNDING The Bush administra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 11:01:22 PST 2001

31872 queries -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >>2) Why did techno music happen in Detroit? > > >Ever been in an auto plant? So you're saying it's an Owl of Minerva thing? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 10:56:19 PST 2001

31873 queries -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >The exact same day that office equipment vendors stopped selling >machines and started selling "solutions." The cafe around the corner sells "coffee solutions" to businesses. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 10:45:35 PST 2001

31874 queries -- rank: 1000

Two unrelated questions: 1) When did the use of "space" illustrated in the quote below become common? Is it a techie word originally? >"If desktop processors were our only problem we would be >close to forecasts. What's driving our problem is that it is >spreading into the server space as well." > >--Intel CFO Andy Bryant, explaining the company's newly >downgraded profit forecast. 2) Why did techno music happen in Detroit? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 10:27:56 PST 2001

31875 reparations & exploitation -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >calling it combat pay is simply reproducing the very prejudices that >make it combat pay in the first place. the lack of physicians in >rural areas has everything to do with prestige, status, biases >reinforced in medical training, etc. . as just one example. Don't forget the idiocy of rural life! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 10:17:22 PST 2001