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32401 Fwd: Jazz, again -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than the list] From: "paul childs" <npchilds at connect.ab.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:48:33 -0700 I’ve been meaning to write this little screed for another listserver dealing with African-American music but I thought I’d subject this list to it first. Indulge me for a second and let explain my background. I come from one of the ‘better’ neighborhoods in Ottawa, Ontario. Senior bureaucrats, lawyers, diplomatic staff, military officers, a former Prime Minister ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 18 15:34:23 PST 2001

32402 Kristol on imagination -- rank: 1000

"American conservatism lacks for political imagination. It's so influenced by business culture and by business modes of thinking that it lacks any political imagination, which has always been, I have to say, a property of the left....If you read Marx, you'd learn what a political imagination could do." - Irving Kristol, quoted in a fascinating Lingua Franca article by Corey Robin on John Gray and Edward Luttwak, two rightwingers who've "moved left" in recent years <http:// ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 18 13:18:07 PST 2001

32403 Feed: after the bubble -- rank: 1000

R E C E N T F E E D A R T I C L E S FEATURE | 01.17.01 "After the Fall" The post-bubble recession will be worse than you can possibly imagine. http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1573&referrer=alert

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 18 10:25:58 PST 2001

32404 advances in capitalism -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >200 years of rich multicultural infusions - all kinds of ethnicities daily >bent over all kinds of cookers - and American culinary debate has come to >this? A poignant moment ... > >>What a hopeless mission. They could never surpass McDonald's fries! > >I prefer my chips with a bit of spud in 'em, meself ... Hey, I'm as much of a food aesthete as anyone. I love chanterelles, ancho chiles, duck breast, and California fusion cuisine as much as the next f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 18 10:18:50 PST 2001

32405 union numbers -- rank: 1000

[Full text at <ftp://146.142.4.23/pub/news.release/union2.txt>.] UNION MEMBERS IN 2000 The share of wage and salary workers who are union members averaged 13.5 percent in 2000 as compared with 13.9 percent in 1999, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of union members, 16.3 million, also fell slightly from its 1999 level. The union membership rate has fallen from 20.1 percent in 1983, the first year for which comparable data are available. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 18 10:09:23 PST 2001

32406 advances in capitalism -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >IMO, it isn't news, it's junk mail masquerading as news, and >I wonder just how much of a newspaper is filled with junk mail. >Anybody have any ideas? > >Does Kimberley-Clark pay the WSJ or DMN to run this article, or >is providing reader fodder enough? > >When we get to politics or ideas, how much of that is PR nonsense? Lots. When I got into the journalism racket, I was really surprised to learn how big a part publicists play in it. A lot of what n ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 18 07:46:24 PST 2001

32407 advances in capitalism -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >And yesterday the Wall Street Journal described the heroic efforts of >Burger King to improve its french fries. What a hopeless mission. They could never surpass McDonald's fries! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 18 07:16:48 PST 2001

32408 strange operations -- rank: 1000

[from another list...] Below is an excerpt from the transcript of CNN's "The Point With Greta Van Susteren" (Aired January 15, 2001) Van Susteren is interviewing Mark Seibel of the "Miami Herald", which is part of the media consortium conducting a review of the under votes and over votes in all of Florida's 67 counties. VAN SUSTEREN: What about the equipment? Is there any truth or have you found any evidence to support -- at least some people said the poorer equipment went to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 17 14:24:10 PST 2001

32409 blackouts! -- rank: 1000

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 -- 4:06 PM EST ------------------------------------------------------------ California Orders Blackouts as Power Crisis Escalates Pushed over the brink by its botched experiment with deregulation, California began imposing rolling blackouts today for the first time, ordering utilities to turn off the power to hundreds of thousands of people. Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/?0117na

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 17 13:41:09 PST 2001

32410 NAM -- rank: 1000

I've long wondered why the National Association of Manufacturers never misses a chance to call for lower interest rates - but, at the same time, this position has so little resonance at the elite political level. It's not something you hear from, say, the Business Roundtable. I suspect it's that of the Association's 14,000 members, 10,000 are "small and medium-sized." The easy money crowd has the numbers, but not the capital - so the trade association makes noise, but there's not much ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 17 10:38:09 PST 2001

32411 advances in capitalism -- rank: 1000

[$100 million is nothing compared to the $1 billion that Gillette spent on deveoping the Mach3 (which I enthusiastically use, of course)] Kimberly-Clark Corporation Announces Cottonelle(R) Fresh Rollwipes, America's First Dispersible Pre-Moistened Wipe on a Roll First Major Toilet Paper Innovation in Over 100 Years Breakthrough Product Will Fuel Growth of Toilet Paper Category DALLAS, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) today announced the launch of Cottonelle Fresh(T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 17 10:27:03 PST 2001

32412 Maher/Disabled are Dogs -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Every chance Bill Maher gets on PI he slams disabled persons. Further proof that the whole politically (in)correct thing is just a self-righteous pseudo-transgressive cover for conventional bigotry. Was comedy always this oriented to pissing on the weak? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 17 10:20:50 PST 2001

32413 IDF, 'trigger-happy'? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[From today's NY Times. Love the line about the "danger of troops >being worn out" – strained muscles in their trigger fingers, I >guess.] [...] >The uprising, now in its fourth month, has claimed more than 350 >lives, most of them Palestinian. Isn't this an amazing sentence? "The uprising...claimed lives." No responsible parties anywhere! In fact, you could read it as implying that those who started the uprising brought it on themselves! ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 17 10:11:04 PST 2001

32414 Ashcroft's record -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ASHCROFT: THE RECORD National Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers On Drug Policy As Governor, advocated a drug control strategy that focused law enforcement efforts on casual drug users. This strategy included treating second-time marijuana possession as a felony, automatic revocation of professional licenses for drug possession, denial of public housing eligibility, and revocation of state scholarship benefits. A St. Louis columnist had this to say ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 16 15:42:22 PST 2001

32415 Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done? -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >This is not a statement about the strength of the Naderite movement. >It is a statement about the weakness of the American left when it >tries to split off from the Democratic Party... And it's so strong when it stays within the Democratic party. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 16 11:42:17 PST 2001