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34471 Fwd: New Issue Brief on Social Security Privatization -- rank: 1000

From: socsec_list at www.socsec.org Subject: New Issue Brief on Social Security Privatization Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:16:32 -0400 The Social Security Network released a new issue brief today entitled "Social Security Privatization: Eleven Myths" (available at http://www.socsec.org/facts/Issue_Briefs/ss_privatization_11myths.htm). This new brief takes apart the arguments of Social Security Privatization advocates one by one. This brief is released on the heels of presidential candidat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 15 16:27:03 PDT 2000

34472 kennan & the necessary lie -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >In this month's Harper's, Lewis Lapham sez: > ><quote> > >George Kennan in 1949 advanced the "messianic concept" of the >"necessary lie;" his doctrine of Cold War containment (cultural as well >as military) embraced the virtues of plausible deniability, the >vocabularies of misleading statemetns, the manufacture of ideologcial >consent. > ><endquote> > >I can't find those two quoted phrases associated w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 15 15:16:45 PDT 2000

34473 Russian males dropping dead -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] RUSSIA'S Male Mortality Highest in World Report. MOSCOW, May 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has the world's highest male mortality, the director of the Institute for Family Research, Valery Chervyakov, said at a press conference on Monday. He said the difference in life expectancy of men and women makes 14 years. Russia's annual loss of human potential in work age populations because of the high mortality rate is only comparable with consequences of war, Chervyakov said. He ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 15 12:27:03 PDT 2000

34474 Suicide in New Zealand (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >Jim O'Connor writes: > >>Excepting Finland and Norway, highest suicide rates are in three >>anglophone countries (where individualism ideologies are deeper and >>best-developed). > >not sure where you're getting the data, jim, or if i'm understanding >you correctly but the numbers i pulled from the WHO last summer are >different. The numbers I posted were for youth suicide only. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 15 12:27:48 PDT 2000

34475 Punk rock and contemporary anarchism -- rank: 1000

Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote: >Kathleen >Hanna built the entire Julie Ruin album around French feminist theories Really? How? Which ones? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 15 10:27:18 PDT 2000

34476 "The Peasant Associations' Own Slogan" was Re: Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote, amidst a litany of declarations: >Fore example, the proto-slogan, "Nix don't >fix" is clever, but it does not even contain a gesture towards >formulating >the experience of those whose practice generated it. Oh really? Who coined it do you think? From having gone to several demos and talked to many participants, my sense is that the practitioners generated and propagated the slogan. Perhaps you have different information, which I'd be happy to hear. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 15 10:18:28 PDT 2000

34477 Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

M A Jones wrote: > > Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> >Hint: How do 10 million people, not in communication with each >> >other and all having to act on their own initiative make their >> >actions coherent? >> >> By watching the same TV program? > > Which TV programme you know of has this effect? Buffy? Advertising has the same effect, though I know Carrol is skeptical of the political uses of advertising (though ad folks love slogans as much ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 13 13:17:07 PDT 2000

34478 Fwd: Website Up for Democratic Convention Protests! -- rank: 1000

[Didn't someone ask about actions planned for the Dem convention in LA?] Here in Los Angeles, radical and progressive activists have been working hard for several months to put together a broad network of organizations and individuals to protest at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles August 13-17. We have finally, in coordination with folks protesting at the Republican National Convention, completed a call and put it up with some other basic info on a website. We have also set up a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 13 13:08:44 PDT 2000

34479 Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Hint: How do 10 million people, not in communication with each >other and all having to act on their own initiative make their >actions coherent? By watching the same TV program? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 13 12:44:51 PDT 2000

34480 MSFT v Slashdot -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: >Hmm, actually, I don't know a single free software hacker who really >gives a damn about the MS source code. Sure, if it's ever available, >we'll look and laugh and point and guffaw. But I don't know anyone who >wants to *work* on it. <shudder/> Hey, I'm no programmer, I just use Microsoft stuff (on a Mac, though). From a user's point of view, it seems klunky and visually ugly. I'm assuming the guts of the code are like that too. Why? It can't be the lack ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 12 16:27:10 PDT 2000

34481 Wealth effect -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Demand for stocks (so far as I can see) seems to have >done nothing but increase. The only possible exception would be cash >takeovers, >which did slump this year. However, so far it seems that the cause of the >decline was a dramatic increase in insider selling and IPOs. The >basic function >of the US stock market in the late 90s, the redistribution of wealth toward >corporate insiders and financial intermediaries, does not appear to have bee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 12 15:05:44 PDT 2000

34482 Love Bug Hacker as Hero -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >"People are so strange. Everybody is deranged. Every time I try to >speak, they don't get it for a week." (Lyrics from Philippine punk >group Eraserheads, cited in the Wall Street Journal as one of Love >Bug hacker Onel de Guzman's favorite groups.) > >I'm surprised de Guzman hasn't received any discussion on this list >as some sort of populist hero. He claims he developed the virus as >a thesis project, of all things, and that it was inte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 12 14:28:30 PDT 2000

34483 MSFT v Slashdot -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - May 12, 2000 Microsoft Pushes Slashdot's Buttons Once again, Slashdot.org is raging against the Microsoft machine. This time, it's personal. First, some background. Microsoft developed its own version of Kerberos, a security system that authenticates users' identities, for inclusion in Windows 2000. Nodding to Kerberos' open-source roots, Microsoft posted its Kerberos code on the Web a few weeks ago. But this wasn't a classically open-source move; users had to run a licensing a ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 14:25:42 PDT 2000

34484 diamonds behind bloodshed -- rank: 1000

[the headline in the print edition is blunter: "Diamonds Lie Behind Africa Bloodshed: U.S., U.K. Sought to Curb Rebels In Sierra Leone] Wall Street Journal - May 12, 2000 Diamonds Appear to Be at Center Of Widening Sierra Leone Crisis By ROBERT BLOCK Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- What appears to lie behind the breakdown of the peace process in Sierra Leone and the return of chaos to West Africa is U.S. and British determination to wrest control of S ...

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Date:	Fri May 12 13:32:18 PDT 2000

34485 bubble-prickers -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 12, 2000 Group Says Fed Must Look to Equities, Real Estate as Movement Indicators By DAVID WESSEL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL GENEVA -- An unusual quartet of economists, challenging conventional wisdom among central bankers and academics, say the U.S. Federal Reserve and its counterparts should raise interest rates when stock markets or real-estate prices are grotesquely out of line with fundamentals or rise well above historical norms. "Incorporating ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 12 13:20:27 PDT 2000