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32866 Fw: Virus Alert - see info -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >[Just to be on the safe side -- DP] > > > Virus: sulfnbk.exe This is a hoax: <http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html>. Description: The following hoax email was first reported in Brazil. The original email is in Portuguese; it is followed by several other versions. CAUTIONS: * This particular email message is a hoax. The file that is mentioned in the hoax, however, Sulfnbk.exe, is a Microsoft Windows utility that is us ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 17 09:58:56 PST 2001

32867 permissiveness: the cause of terrorism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >On the shows I've heard, you can also detect >euphemisms "New Yorkers" or "anti-christian bigots" that have >an anti-semitic (broadly speaking) undertone. It's there for sure, but "New York" also represents red, queer, foreign, heterogeneity, mixing, cosmopolitanism, urbanity, density - all those things that make paranoid nativists anxious. "The Jew" also represents a lot of those things, and since there are a lot of Jews in Ne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 17 13:19:58 PST 2001

32868 permissiveness: the cause of terrorism -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>Max Sawicky wrote: >> >>>On the shows I've heard, you can also detect >>>euphemisms "New Yorkers" or "anti-christian bigots" that have >>>an anti-semitic (broadly speaking) undertone. >> >>It's there for sure, but "New York" also represents red, queer, >>foreign, heterogeneity, mixing, cosmopolitanism, urbanity, density - &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 17 16:23:00 PST 2001

32869 Glaberman dies -- rank: 1000

From: "Alex LoCascio" <alexlocascio at mail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:59:48 +0800 Comrades, I'm very saddened to announce the passing of a veteran of American radicalism. Martin Glaberman, professor emeritus of Social Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, passed away on Sunday. An autoworker, shop steward, and union comitteeman for twenty years, Marty was one of the greats of the generation of radicals who had come to politics through the American Trotskyist movemen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 18 08:16:04 PST 2001

32870 Coca-Cola - catastrophe? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fuckedcompany.com/extras/cocacola_email.cfm> Excerpt of a memo from Coca Cola in Atlanta to employees It has become necessary to notify all divisions that CCE [Coca Cola Enterprises] has become the target of pending lawsuits from 16 states including Washington and California. CCE has estimated that the total cost of the suits could exceed $110 billion dollars. 3,600 employees or former employees of CCE, have or will file suits ranging from Sexual to Racial Discrimination in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 07:08:58 PST 2001

32871 life at the extremes -- rank: 1000

[Triple the panel's recommendation and it's still just 0.05% of Harvard's endowment. But there are no doubt "financial issues" and workforce quality matters to deal with, as even a good liberal labor economist like Katz understands.] New York Times - December 19, 2001 Panel Asks Raise for Low-Pay Harvard Workers By LOUIS UCHITELLE A study commission forced on Harvard University by protesting students recommended yesterday that the university sharply increase the pay of its janitors, gu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 07:34:10 PST 2001

32872 permissiveness: the cause of terrorism -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Whether Bloomberg who was elected with stratospherically >high expectations can come close to meeting or whether >things will spin out of control for him as they did for >Lindsay, we will have to wait and see. Wouldn't it be nice if Bloomberg were to spin out of control, bringing an end to the cult of the billionaire entrepreneur, in the same way that Lindsay's failure represented the terminal crisis of 60s big city liberalism? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 07:36:18 PST 2001

32873 Secret and other affairs -- rank: 1000

Tahir Wood wrote: >And now, what if it turns out that the US has also been funding RAWA >and Afghan women's opposition in general? Gee wizz wow! Capital >really does have no outside after all. This is so ... you know ... >enlightening and all Yes, and agitating on behalf of Afghan women is really patronizing, culturally insensitive, and in the objective service of imperialism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 08:21:10 PST 2001

32874 027802.html -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >And this from Ralph Nader " At Citizen Works, we remain focused on >building citizen participation in power to advance justice." and >then a list of goals the last of which is: > >10. Strengthen investor-shareholder rights, remedies and authority over >managers and officers and boards of directors so that those who own the >companies also control them. > http://www.citizenworks.org > >hmmm ...excuse me but isn't it investors who dem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 10:45:47 PST 2001

32875 027798.html -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >To be fair, shareholder litigation is a major tool by unions and others to >mess with management and extract concessions in other areas-- all part of >corporate campaigns. Which, I'm told by people who used to work on them, mare pretty ineffective. Not corp camp, but the shareholder activist component. > The capitalists fight such accountability rules tooth >and nail -- they spent hundreds of millions weakening them in a statewide >initiative a few years ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 11:24:00 PST 2001

32876 jamming the jammers -- rank: 1000

From: Culture Jammers Network <jammers at lists.adbusters.org> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:34:39 -0800 Have your activities come under increased scrutiny in the aftermath of S11? Ours have. Recently, our Corporate America Flag billboard in Times Square, New York, attracted the attention of the federal Department of Defense, and a visit by an agent who asked a lot of pointed questions about our motivations and intent. We wondered: What gives? "Just following up a lead from a tip line,&qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 12:57:15 PST 2001

32877 Cockburn on "crackpot realism" -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Why Cockburn would waste precious newspaper space in his mainstream column >bashing the ACLU at a time like this is beyond me. He is so far gone it is >sad. You need to think outside the box, Nathan. Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan have quirks that can be overlooked. The ACLU and the Nation are the enemy, and deserving of nothing but withering scorn. And the New Deal is indistinguishable from Mussolini's fascism. Does that help? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 13:57:05 PST 2001

32878 Argentina: state of seige -- rank: 1000

At 5:35 PM -0500 12/19/01, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >BUENOS AIRES, Argentina _ President Fernando De la Rua decrees state >of siege amid surging violence, top government official says.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 14:41:08 PST 2001

32879 027782.html -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Not necessarily. There are union and state/local gov pension >fund owners who have interests that are broader than rates of >return. That's what this is really about. Legally, they're not allowed to assert those broader concerns. If you're managing a pension fund, you're supposed to maximize returns, not promote unions or social concerns. Unions have sometimes tried to push an organizing agenda behind a screen of shareholder rights, but it's a ruse. I'm told the la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 15:40:06 PST 2001

32880 Argentina erupts -- rank: 1000

Wednesday December 19 6:01 PM ET State of Siege Declared in Argentina By KEVIN GRAY, Associated Press Writer BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - President Fernando De la Rua signed an order declaring a state of siege Wednesday, seizing special powers after a day of looting and violence engulfed recession-racked Argentina, a high-ranking government official said. De la Rua will address the nation Wednesday evening to explain why he was taking special steps to quell violence in the capital and in major ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 19 16:15:40 PST 2001