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32416 On the Defense of Parasitic Finance -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >Concentration within banking certainly lends >itself to the parasitism metaphor. Though money deposited in a small-town bank is highly likely to end up on the fed funds market, and *not* in local and/or productive loans. Barbara Garson's forthcoming book traces a deposit in a small-town bank in upstate New York through the fed funds market and to Chase. She then follows Chase's loan book to a shrimp farm and an oil refinery in Southeast Asia - not an ecologically pleasi ...
Document Size: 5080
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 09:07:13 PST 2001
32417 Fwd: Feed, Suck, and Altculture Present Plastic -- rank: 1000
Dear Feed, Suck, and Altculture subscribers, Your days of clammy palms, paranoid nightmares, and baited breath are over. Today marks the day when we reveal to the world the hulking frankenstein's monster we've been cobbling together in the basement of Automatic Media for all these months: Plastic. In case you hadn't yet caught word of what we're up to with Plastic, here's the simple explanation: Plastic is a pop-culture version of Slashdot, serving the audiences of and edited by some of the best ...
Document Size: 6602
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 09:03:58 PST 2001
32418 union woes -- rank: 1000
Wall Street Journal - Wall Street Journal - January 16, 2001 As Economy Cools, Union Leaders Predict Further Decline in Ranks By YOCHI J. DREAZEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The slowdown in economic growth threatens to reduce the size and clout of the nation's unions -- just as their political agendas are under fire from a Republican-controlled Congress and White House. After nine years of economic prosperity that failed to reverse a long decline in union ranks, many ...
Document Size: 10434
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 06:26:58 PST 2001
32419 Hitch on Bill -- rank: 1000
Wall Street Journal - January 16, 2001 The Peronista Presidency By Christopher Hitchens. Mr. Hitchens, a columnist for Vanity Fair and The Nation, is the author of "No One Left To Lie To: The Politics of the Worst Family" (Verso Books, 2000). The present "legacy" moment has degraded the term to something vague and inchoate, on a par with "destiny" at the upper end and "agenda" at the lower one. Striving to be heard above the ruffles and flourishes, perhaps ...
Document Size: 10546
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 06:22:48 PST 2001
32420 Minimum Wage -- rank: 1000
kelley wrote: >curious, how is the min wage figure derived, below? i assume >they're including migrant labor wages and those paid to immigrants >who are working off the books? > >"Bush opposes affirmative action, and presides over a state that has a >minimum wage of only $3.15 an hour. " Hmm, weird, since the national minimum wage is higher (and the national minimum exempts most ag workers). Doug
Document Size: 4869
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 08:57:17 PST 2001
32421 SC attitudes -- rank: 1000
[legitimation crisis update...] Gallup Poll News Service POLITICS & ELECTIONS NewsAlert __________________________________________________________________ Here is your requested Congress update from the Gallup Poll News Service. 1/16/01 - Election Controversy Apparently Drove Partisan Wedge Into Attitudes Towards Supreme Court Link to story: http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=galluppoll&CriteriaID=1218&Destination=http://www.gall ...
Document Size: 5111
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 09:01:00 PST 2001
32422 Fwd: WBAI Mail -- rank: 1000
[for those who care...] Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:22:18 -0500 To: efsutton at earthlink.net From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> Subject: WBAI Mail Friends, The email list I have been moderating in association with Concerned Friends of WBAI is now housed on a web page: www.savewbai.tao.ca However, if you are receiving this note, I have not subscribed you, but will continue to send you mail with discretion through one of my personal lists. If you could please advertise the site f ...
Document Size: 5418
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 09:45:55 PST 2001
32423 Who Rules America Today? (was Re: On the Defense of Parasitic Finance) -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >There are also issues of transparency in Fed >governance, accessibility of meetings, records, >etc. All of which is true of Congress. Clearly that's not enough. Doug
Document Size: 4997
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 11:54:29 PST 2001
32424 On the Defense of Parasitic Finance -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: > The critics of financial reform >have no political program worthy of the name. Union organizing. A better welfare state. Comparable worth. Not real complicated. Doug
Document Size: 4733
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 13:17:49 PST 2001
32425 Ashcroft's bright college years -- rank: 1000
[from Inside.com] JOHN ASHCROFT IN NEW HAVEN. OR WAS THAT NEW BABYLON? Hard to believe that Confederate-honoring, dance- and alcohol-abstaining, creeping-socialism-hating John Ashcroft had a tough time at Yale in the early '60s, but that's what the student paper is reporting. A plucky voyager who descended into Hell for four years to journey home with a Yale diploma. Among the highlights included in the Yale Daily News report is this quote from David Wyles -- a roommate of Ashcroft classmate Jos ...
Document Size: 6017
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 13:50:29 PST 2001
32426 Ashcroft's bright college years -- rank: 1000
Gordon Fitch wrote: >Doug Henwood: >> ... And John definitely hated New Haven." > >In those days, though, _everyone_ hated New Haven, didn't >they? It's a hardy perennial. Except I sort of liked it. Doug
Document Size: 4771
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 14:11:35 PST 2001
32427 Who Rules America Today? -- rank: 1000
Vikash Yadav wrote: >A reasonable possibility for adding democratic accountability to the Fed >might entail democratizing the FOMC (financial open market committee). >While the Federal Reserve chair would still be appointed by the President, >perhaps it would be possible to elect some or all of the other members of >the FOMC. Congress is elected, and its deliberations are televised in narcotic detail, but it still produces barbaric legislation. Doug
Document Size: 4994
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jan 15 12:17:14 PST 2001
32428 Anti-Asscrafting -- rank: 1000
kelley wrote: >"I'll be honest with you: I'd love to lunge across the table and pull >their necks out with my teeth, but I have a book that restrains me from >doing that . . ." > > Janet Parshall of the Family Research Council, on the opponents of >Ashcroft's nomination, on National Public Radio, Thursday, Jan. 11 Psalm 137, verse 9: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Doug
Document Size: 4832
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jan 15 10:50:03 PST 2001
32429 defending managed care -- rank: 1000
[the latest from the always-lovely Epstein] "The Assault on Managed Care: Vicarious Liability, Class Actions and the Patient's Bill of Rights" BY: RICHARD A. EPSTEIN University of Chicago Law School ALAN O. SYKES University of Chicago Law School Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=253328 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Publications/Working/ SSRN only offers technical support for pa ...
Document Size: 8023
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jan 15 10:22:59 PST 2001
32430 Fwd: [afalert] Senate Hearings Begin Tuesday For John Ashcroft -- rank: 1000
[why not piggyback on their links for some anti-Ashcroft agitation?] AFA Action Alert American Family Association Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President Tim Wildmon, Vice President Buddy Smith, Editor P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, MS 38803 Phone (662) 844-5036 Fax (662) 842-7798 URL: http://www.afa.net ************************* Please forward this Alert to a friend and encourage them to subscribe. To Subscribe go to http://alerts.afa.net or send e-mail to: afalert-join at lyris.afo.net NOTE: No further inf ...
Document Size: 12892
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jan 15 10:03:04 PST 2001
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