Search LBO-Talk Archives

31951 Gore and Murdoch -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >Take a look at the picture in the NYT of Gore and >Murdoch. >http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/politics/05DEMS.html > >If that isn't rich. The picture is clearer in the paper >than on the net. > >Murdoch is cracking a smile, as if encouraging Gore's >progress, as if an understanding was reached. > >Gore is a sight. The sun is in his eyes so he has to >squint, which gives his eyes a puffy look. His lips are >pursed reminding me of a suc ...

Document Size:	5439
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 6 07:11:03 PST 2001

31952 Fwd: Asian Developmental Bank -- rank: 1000

[no word yet on the illegitimate events] Counter ADB Events in Honolulu May 4-11, 2001. Official list of legitimate NGO events planned from May 4-11, 2001. Venues, times and details to follow. May 4-6 KAHEA's conference on indigenous economics and cultural rights. May 7 - evening: Teach-in on Globalization by the International Forum on Globalization. This is a speaker's bureau of world-renowned experts on globalization addressing the impacts on the environment, governments, Indigenous people, e ...

Document Size:	5269
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 6 07:06:01 PST 2001

31953 l'etat du ROI -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 6, 2001 Corporate Donors Seek Return On Investment in Bush Campaign By TOM HAMBURGER, LAURIE MCGINLEY and DAVID S. CLOUD Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- For the businesses that invested more money than ever before in George W. Bush's costly campaign for the presidency, the returns have already begun. MBNA America Bank was one of the single largest corporate donors to the Bush campaign and other GOP electoral efforts last year. The bank and its ...

Document Size:	28724
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 6 06:55:46 PST 2001

31954 bankruptcy reform $ -- rank: 1000

From: "Nancy Watzman" <nwatzman at h2net.net> To: <ouch at linuxcare.com> Subject: OUCH! #69 BANKRUPTCY DEFORM REDUX Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:55:32 -0700 -------------------------------------->$$$$$<------------------------------- OUCH! A Regular Bulletin on How Money in Politics Hurts You #69 Public Campaign March 5, 2001 -------------------------------------->$$$$$<------------------------------- PUTTING CREDI ...

Document Size:	10274
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 16:01:43 PST 2001

31955 New Balance -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >The thing that I find >infuriating about this article is that our ace reporter (and this should come >as no surprise since the source is Biz Week) Biz Week isn't ever brilliant, or even infuriating like The Economist - it's just solid and informative. That was a useful article, even if the political economy is banal. I think that the author, Aaron Bernstein, is the son of long-time LA Times labor reporter Harry Bernstein. Does anyone know if that's true? Doug

Document Size:	4903
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 16:08:18 PST 2001

31956 Fwd: {FP} Building Bridges Pulled ff the Air -- rank: 1000

X-From_: owner-freepac at recordist.com Mon Mar 5 16:24:01 2001 X-Authentication-Warning: recordist.com: majordom set sender to owner-freepac at recordist.com using -f From: "Save WBAI" <savewbai at tao.ca> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:16:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: {FP} Building Bridges Pulled ff the Air Sender: owner-freepac at recordist.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: freepacifica at recordist.com Ken Nash and his guests on Building Bridges were pulled of the air abruptly ...

Document Size:	8408
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 14:04:11 PST 2001

31957 Fwd: KEN NASH PULLED FROM WBAI AIRWAVES -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:52:16 -0500 From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> Friends, WBAI's *Building Bridges* co-host Ken Nash was on the air today, when his show was interrupted by WBAI's interim general manager Utrice Leid. Obviously agitated by the content of Nash's program (at that moment Nash was interviewing Congressman Major Owens about WBAI and Nash's co-host Mimi Rosenberg), Leid came into the master broadcast studio and tried to take over the mic. There were 2 cuts to ...

Document Size:	5932
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 13:00:18 PST 2001

31958 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: It seems that Reich's studies are just as "much" empirical >evidence as Boushey's , but evidence supporting the opposite >concluson than that that Boushey draws. Boushey's study doesn't seem >to be the only statistical evidence on the issue in dispute Exactly. Which is why I said the case is not proved, and probably not conclusively provable by statistical techniques. Doug

Document Size:	4760
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 12:49:07 PST 2001

31959 Jesse V's tax scheme -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 5, 2001 Politics & Policy Minnesota's Gov. Ventura Takes On The Challenge of Overhauling Taxes By WILL PINKSTON and RUSSELL GOLD Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura -- political rebel, former professional wrestler, part-time football commentator -- is winning fame for yet another pursuit: trying to overhaul his state's tax system. Fiscal-policy experts around the country credit him for tackling one of the nati ...

Document Size:	13374
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 12:47:29 PST 2001

31960 Fwd: {FP} URGENT: Tune into WBAI -- rank: 1000

The WBAI webcast seems no longer to be working, though no one is sure why. I don't have a radio at the office, so I couldn't tune into this, but I was just told that Nash was pulled off the air during this show. More to follow... Doug >X-From_: owner-freepac at recordist.com Mon Mar 5 14:07:36 2001 >X-Authentication-Warning: recordist.com: majordom set sender to >owner-freepac at recordist.com using -f >From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> >To: freepacifica at ...

Document Size:	7111
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 12:01:20 PST 2001

31961 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > >>> dhenwood at panix.com 03/03/01 08:20PM >>> >Carl Remick wrote: > >>Loss of vision is surely a chief factor in the such-as-it-is quality >>of the left today. > >I agree with this. I think the best way to fight working class racism >is by appeals to universality and justice, emotional appeals to human >solidarity, and not by appeals to some vague unprovable long-term >material self-interest. > >((((((((((( > ...

Document Size:	5265
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 11:53:57 PST 2001

31962 Sznaider & Levy on Holocaust Memory -- rank: 1000

[part 2 of this bounced bec of excessive length - please contact Michael Pollak if you'd like a copy] Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:06:01 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> Natan Sznaider The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel Danny Levy Center for European Studies, Harvard University IV. THE GLOCALIZATION OF THE HOLOCAUST IN ISRAEL, THE US, GERMANY, AND THE WORLD The idea of the holocaust did not spring full grown from the facts. And yet, surprisingly perhaps, al ...

Document Size:	5873
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 11:57:50 PST 2001

31963 "Purposiveness" and Austrian economics -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >The economist is truly the new priest, eh? Yeah, but what does s/he have to offer? Not intercession with god or eternal salvation, but... Pareto-optimality? Doug

Document Size:	4779
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 09:59:19 PST 2001

31964 doubting evolution -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010305.asp> POLL RELEASES March 5, 2001 Substantial Numbers of Americans Continue to Doubt Evolution as Explanation for Origin of Humans Some Americans appear uncertain as to meaning of terms, however by Deborah Jordan Brooks GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Although most scientists subscribe to the theory of evolution as the best explanation for the origin of human beings, a recent Gallup poll shows that the American public is much more divided i ...

Document Size:	5423
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 09:50:24 PST 2001

31965 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Have you discussed the study by Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell, "The >Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of >Workers to Organize," commissioned by the NAFTA Labor Secretariat? I know about it. But it's one factor among many, and I think attention to this sort of thing eclipses everything else. How much is the UAW doing to organize nonunion parts plants in the U.S.? Are unions doing all they could be to organize the service ...

Document Size:	14346
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 09:18:42 PST 2001