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33241 UAW losses in 2000 -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >DETROIT (AP) - The United Auto Workers (news - web sites) lost more >than 90,000 >members last year as slackened U.S. sales caused automakers and >major suppliers to >cut blue-collar jobs. > >The UAW at the end of 2000 had 671,853 members, down 90,586 from >762,439 the year >before, according to the union's annual financial report. > >It was the second year in a row that the UAW's membership roster >sharply declined. In >1999, membership ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 27 13:56:49 PDT 2001

33242 eXile site down -- rank: 1000

DMJ wrote: >Anybody know what's up with eXile? The site's been down for a couple of >days now. Dunno, but Matt Taibbi's in New York right now, and I'm supposed to call him. I'll ask. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 27 12:20:46 PDT 2001

33243 Fwd: IMC/Seattle - GAG ORDER LIFTED -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:45:45 -0700 From: Sheri Herndon <sheri at indymedia.org> GAG ORDER LIFTED; INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER N FREE SPEECH BATTLE IN WAKE OF FBI /SECRET SERVICE VISIT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEATTLE INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER 27 APRIL 2001 CONTACT: Seattle Independent Media Center 206.262.0721 On the evening of Saturday, April 21, a day during which tens of thousands demonstrated against the FTAA in the streets of Quebec City, the Independent Media Center in Seattle was served ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 27 10:53:13 PDT 2001

33244 smash windows, get noticed -- rank: 1000

<http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/commentary/essays/rall_fruits_violence.html> Peaceful protests are doomed to be ignored. Only a dose of destruction leads to real social change. by Ted Rall April 25, 2000 "Violence is the only thing That will make you see sense." -- Mott the Hoople, "Violence"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 27 07:51:52 PDT 2001

33245 Cato on Cal power -- rank: 1000

[The prob with dereg is always not enough dereg!] Cato Daily Dispatch April 26, 2001 http://www.cato.org/ http://www.cato.org/dispatch/04-26-01d.html PRICE CONTROLS FOR A PROBLEM CAUSED BY PRICE CONTROLS Responding to growing political pressure, federal regulators are ordering price caps during California electricity emergencies in an attempt and avoid severe price spikes this summer, the Associated Press reports. ( http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010426/ts/power_prices_7.html ) The Federal En ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 26 09:05:06 PDT 2001

33246 suppression -- rank: 1000

[from InfoWorld's daily scoop] UNDER RIAA PRESSURE, ACADEMIC DOES NOT PRESENT PAPER Posted at April 26, 2001 08:44 AM Pacific EDWARD FELTEN, THE Princeton computer science professor who has been at the center of some controversy this week due to a paper he wrote detailing ways to crack the encryption in the SDMI digital music system, chose not to present his findings at a conference Thursday. Felten chose not to present and publish the paper due to the threat of a lawsuit by SDMI (Secure Digital ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 11:51:26 PDT 2001

33247 wealth -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:23 +0100 (BST) From: m.blackmore at blackmore-sly.co.uk (M.Blackmore) Are these assets "real" in terms of their liquid or realisable value, or paper assets, e.g. properties on which purchase loans are still outstanding. I wonder how many people are "asset rich but income poor" in this regard? Quite a few I suspect, looking to the long term (20-30 years) and don't want to trust things to the stock markets, given a " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 16:29:52 PDT 2001

33248 MMWR celebrates Workers' Memorial Day -- rank: 1000

[Did anyone ever hear of Workers' Memorial Day before?] Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:59:17 -0400 Subject: April 27, 2001 MMWR Table of Contents To: MMWR-TOC at LISTSERV.CDC.GOV The April 27, 2001 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is enclosed in Adobe Acrobat format. View this week's MMWR as a web page at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr and http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5016.pdf April 27, 2001/Vol. 50/No. 16 (file size 1,172,376 bytes) * Workers' Memorial Day -- April ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 15:40:01 PDT 2001

33249 Fwd: Machinists Union Supports National Missile Defense -- rank: 1000

[Isn't this inspiring? First, they support intellectual property restrictions, now this.] X-From_: MichaelKoenig at XpressPress.com Thu Apr 26 15:51:12 2001 X-Sender: news at XpressPress.com (Unverified) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:45:11 -0400 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: "Xpress Press(tm) News Service" <MichaelKoenig at XpressPress.com> Subject: Machinists Union Supports National Missile Defense Mime-Version: 1.0 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Machinists Union Supports National Missile ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 13:07:14 PDT 2001

33250 What's Stock, Really? (was Damage caused by options and derivatives) -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >The Left (what's left of it) tells me I was wrong to use stocks >for savings. Not this left. I realize that people have to live in the actually existing world, not the utopia that exists in our heads, if there. I just want people to be clear on what stocks are and where profit comes from. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 12:17:59 PDT 2001

33251 Creeping up on fascism, ehh Justin -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >WHEN THEY TOOK THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT, I WAS SILENT BECAUSE I AM NOT BLACK. > >When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. >When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. >When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. >Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all. I relied on the Constitution to protect me. And now look where I a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 09:57:13 PDT 2001

33252 QUEBEC CRACKPOTS -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Chris Kromm wrote: >> >>> Things that indicate that Chuck and the Black Bloc are successfully leading >>> a glorious revolution. Criticism is not appreciated. >> >>Whoever said that a revolution was happening? I was merely commenting on >>an LBO list phenomenon that I've observed in the past. Something really >>exciting happens that you think would excite leftists on this list, yet >>the same threads continue ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 26 08:30:59 PDT 2001

33253 secret funding -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of HIgher Education - web daily - April 26, 2001 Few Scientific Journals Disclose Authors' Potential Conflicts of Interest, Study Finds By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Very few scientific or biomedical journals report the financial interests of authors that relate to the research they are writing about, a study on disclosure policies has found. This is so even for journals that have conflict-of-interest policies, the study shows, and for journals with policies calling for such conflicts to be rep ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 08:18:44 PDT 2001

33254 Germans' Wealth Restricted to Small Group -- rank: 1000

Johannes Schneider wrote: >The numbers look like this: In the western states, one-tenth of the >households held 42 percent of the total wealth in the region. The lower 50 >percent had 4.5 percent. The richest 10 percent had assets valued at about >DM1.1 million on average, while the bottom half had about DM22,000. > >A similar division exists in the east. Here, the richest 10 percent has 48 >percent of the wealth, which averaged about DM422,000. The bottom half also >had ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 26 08:14:24 PDT 2001

33255 QUEBEC CRACKPOTS -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >If we got >rid of the World Bank, what sort of alternative should there be, if any? Why do you have to sketch it out in detail? Get rid of the damn thing because it's a prime agency of imperialism. In its absence, who knows what would happen? At least it would give the neo-colonized some breathing space. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 26 07:57:29 PDT 2001