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32311 former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Are you suggesting that the leadership had anything other than the best >interests of the rank and file in mind in their support of that great >friend of labor, Al Gore? > >How dare you! Hey, blame Fitch, not me! Fitch has an interesting dissent from the classic left critique of U.S. unions as "bureaucratic." Bureaucracies, he points out, operate by rules and, for all their stodginess, can be very effective. U.S. unions, however, operate on personality ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 27 09:53:06 PST 2001

32312 U.S. & Japan: 'eerie similarities' -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I think they mean that optimists aren't as concerned about spiraling >debt if the money is used to purchase assets (as opposed to spending >it on crack I suppose). > >When they say "private-sector" they don't mean your Chase line-o-credit. Yes they do, or at least most people who talk about debt include household debt. Besides, my l-o-c is Chase's asset. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 16:42:57 PST 2001

32313 former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >A few months back, Doug posted a Newsday article by Bob Fitch which >claimed that that the Clinton justice department held off on the >prosecution of, among others Trumka and Stern, for illegally channelling >union funds to the Carey campaign. > >Are these guys next-having now lost what Finch called their "get out of >jail free" card? By chance, I just talked to Fitch an hour ago, and he used exactly that phrase, predicting that there's a good ch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 12:17:08 PST 2001

32314 U.S. & Japan: 'eerie similarities' -- rank: 1000

Suresh Naidu wrote: >Do they mean fixed assets, then? I can see how private sector fixed >capital mushroomed here, but not how this balances out the >ridiculous margin that it was bought on. If they mean fixed assets, >then people with lots of debt often do still hold lots of assets; >enough to at least pay some of the interest, if they're not already >bankrupt. Lots of fixed assets may be commensurate with lots of debt. I doubt they mean fixed assets. But even if they did, for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 11:52:16 PST 2001

32315 report from Porto Alegre -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:31:40 +0100 (MET) From: "Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen at idi.ntnu.no> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > PORTO ALEGRE LOOKS AT OTHER SIDE OF GLOBALIZATION. Writing this at the press center in Porto Alegre, and I must say I'm really impressed with this NGO-summit. 2200 delegates from almost 500 organisations worldwide, and, I am sure, over 10 000 other participants - this is huge. The march through Porto Alegre yesterday was at least as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 11:35:49 PST 2001

32316 U.S. & Japan: 'eerie similarities' -- rank: 1000

The Economist wrote: >Optimists retort that private-sector balance sheets look healthy, >because the increase in debt has been more than matched by increased >assets. I've never understood this argument. First of all, one set of people owe, another set are owed to. People deep in debt probably don't have any assets, and people with lots of assets mostly have light debts. And second, one person's libaility is another's asset: the money I owe Chase on my checking account's line of credit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 10:41:31 PST 2001

32317 AIDS: Africa, Polio Vaccine, Kaposi Sarcoma -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >That's not only a fact, it's LM's entire worldview. Sheer >bloody-mindedness as a way of life. Fuck 'em. LM doesn't exist anymore. They've been reborn as <http://www.spiked-online.com/>. Though I don't see James Heartfield's name there. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 10:32:06 PST 2001

32318 AIDS: Africa, Polio Vaccine, Kaposi Sarcoma -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Chris writes: > >> > Apparently, Kaposi (an opportunistic infection) was quite prevalent in >>> AIDS patients in the 1980s (60% or so), but has since declined >>> significantly, to 20% or less: >> >>So the question is, why did it decline and why did it never show up in more >>than 60% of the affected population? And I might add: why did it never show >>with gay "white" men? >> > > >On ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 10:11:01 PST 2001

32319 Defending Bullshit -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Christopher B. Hajib-Niles wrote: > >> I expected that people would disagree with me. My position >> is definetly an unusual one but it can be well defended and >> then some. > >Then fucking defend it, instead of whining like a baby. Show us >the study that show hundreds of people getting better from >'massive doses of vitamin C'. > >> >> There is not even any evidence that HIV has been isolated. > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 09:28:11 PST 2001

32320 Davos, anti-Davos -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] DAVOS LEADERS GAUGE GLOBAL IMPACT OF US SLOWDOWN. The US is likely to avoid recession this year, but the jolt of a rapid and bumpy economic slowdown will feel a lot like a recession for certain sectors, the International Herald Tribune (p.1) leading bankers, economists and business leaders attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos said yesterday. Former US Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Alan Blinder and others stressed that since the US ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 07:34:25 PST 2001

32321 former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: This is another whiff of fascism from Bush, punishment/message >to working class for following leftwing lead of TDU. Fascism? The U.S. has a long long history of repressing labor. In the late 19th and early 20th century, only Czarist Russia killed more striking workers than the U.S. We don't even need fascism here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 26 07:24:29 PST 2001

32322 Null on AIDS -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >I think you missed an opportunity. You could have mentioned >that if the prospective layees-off exited their bodies, they >too could watch the scene from above. And later, they wouldn't >have to worry about eating or paying the rent. It would almost >be like upper management. I'd thought of that, but the segment I heard was going out live, and mine was being recorded for broadcast later on the evening news. Too bad. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 25 17:12:40 PST 2001

32323 Kosova Redux -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >However the balance of suffering still looks good to outside observers. What a strange concept, and strangely phrased. I guess I do like my suffering to be well-balanced, especially if I'm not feeling any of it personally. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 25 16:13:50 PST 2001

32324 Max on Alan -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:35:55 -0500 Greenspan's testimony today is a remarkable departure from his operational, hard-right conservative mode. It's like a mini-Ayn Rand burst out of his chest, a la Alien. I do not refer to his acquiesence to tax cuts. This was not unexpected, merely a sign of his political scruples. Boy, isn't it great that the Fed is politically independent? Rather, it was his j ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 25 15:57:01 PST 2001

32325 Null on AIDS -- rank: 1000

Peter Kosenko wrote: >Does that compare to the very good looking (female) "nutritionist" I >heard talking to somene in a Santa Monica coffee house about the >importance of colonics and how it takes a "few years" to "completely >purify one's system"? That and her special dietary advice and >planning. I hear you see colors more brightly after a high colonic. Must be a lot of toxins that back up from your intestines to your retinas. >Sad to say, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 25 15:53:19 PST 2001