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35011 WHO health system rankins -- rank: 1000

Here's the WHO health system rankings. 1 France 2 Italy 3 San Marino 4 Andorra 5 Malta 6 Singapore 7 Spain 8 Oman 9 Austria 10 Japan 11 Norway 12 Portugal 13 Monaco 14 Greece 15 Iceland 16 Luxembourg 17 Netherlands 18 United Kingdom 19 Ireland 20 Switzerland 21 Belgium 22 Colombia 23 Sweden 24 Cyprus 25 Germany 26 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 17:43:44 PDT 2000

35012 Savings vs Social Security? -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >Indeed. That is what I am after. My feeling is that Social Security >isn't savings if it goes to my pocket for me to use, but it is >savings if it goes to somebody else's pocket for somebody else >to use. I might get some small change trickled down. Whether it feels like savings or not, according to conventional definitions, a government surplus = government savings = higher national savings. >Max asks the question: What is the material interest underlying th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 17:38:23 PDT 2000

35013 Fwd: Endorse "D2k" at www.d2kla.org today! -- rank: 1000

Dear Friends, We are writing to ask your endorsement of the D2K Network's Call to Action and the mass mobilization: "Human Needs Not Corporate Greed--March for Our Lives" being planned for Monday, August 14, 2000. Building on the spirit of Selma to Seattle, the D2K Network is composed of groups and individuals working to coordinate and support events and nonviolent protests during the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, August 14-17. The D2K Network is also coordinating wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 17:36:39 PDT 2000

35014 Fwd: Bad news re Phyllis Jacobson -- rank: 1000

[from David McReynolds] From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:24:38 EDT Some of you getting this do know the magazine New Politics, and its editors Phyllis and Julie Jacobson, members of the ISL in the old days, and for years editors of the fiercely independent "New Politics". Some of you won't know them - forgive my hit and miss approach. Back in the early 60's Phyllis was the Organizer of the Lower Manhattan Branch of the Socialist Party. I just learned to today that Ph ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 17:35:55 PDT 2000

35015 WHO's ranking of health systems -- rank: 1000

[This must be based on the UK edition. The headline in the U.S. edition reads: "US health system ranks just ahead of Cuba, says WHO, and opens with this lead: "The US health system is ranked 37th in the world - just two places ahead of Cuba's..." The report is accessible at <http://www.who.int/whr/2000/index.htm>.] Financial Times - June 20, 2000 France tops world health league By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor France has the world's best performing health system acc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 16:56:31 PDT 2000

35016 Patrick Califia-Rice -- rank: 1000

[Possible news for all you Macho Sluts fans out there. Pic at <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0025/califia-rice.shtml>.] Village Voice - June 21 - 27, 2000 THE QUEER ISSUE Family Values BY PATRICK CALIFIA-RICE Two Dads With a Difference-Neither of Us Was Born Male ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our mornings follow a set routine that any parent with a high-needs baby would recognize. We stagger out of bed, sleep deprived and anxious. Our eight-m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 16:01:13 PDT 2000

35017 Beyond the Whiteness in Seattle -- rank: 1000

"Beyond the Whiteness in Seattle". ".. a four part workshop to help build a radical grassroots movement against global capitalism that has an anti-racist analysis as part of its core... This workshop is primarily intended for white grassroots activists working in some part of the movement against global capitalism. Activists of color are welcome to attend. Workshop limit 15 to 20 participants." Starts in late July and run for four consecutive weeks at a location TBA in San ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 16:04:35 PDT 2000

35018 BurnRate.com -- rank: 1000

Barron's - June 19, 2000 Up In Smoke Dot.coms are still burning cash, but the market has forced big changes By Jack Willoughby What a difference three months make. When our cover story, "Burning Up," appeared March 20, the technology-laden Nasdaq had just topped 5000 and the initial public offerings market still was raining buckets of money on Internet companies. But all that was about to change. By focusing on 'Net companies' burn rate -- how fast they were depleting their cash reserv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 14:25:27 PDT 2000

35019 SK to back NK joining BWI -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] SOUTH KOREA TO BACK NORTH KOREA JOINING IMF, WORLD BANK. South Korea will help North Korea join international financial organizations which could provide access to financial aid, Reuters reports South Korean Trade Minister Han Duck-soo said yesterday. Han said joining institutions like the IMF or the World Bank could help North Korea to develop its social infrastructure. "If the conditions are met for entering those organizations, it will certa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 13:26:34 PDT 2000

35020 CNN on Graham -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Hi Steve: > >>Thanks Yoshie. Yeah, i see where it mentions Graham's bragging, but it >>isn't the author stating that, it's the victim of his rape stating that he >>had bragged about it to her. The article seemed to give pretty fair play >>to the supporters of a new trial. > >Yes, fairer than Wojtek, Kelley, Marc Cooper, etc.! Speaking of fairness, Cooper believes no one, guilty or innocent, should be executed, and that Mumia deserves a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 13:24:50 PDT 2000

35021 sweatshop news -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 21, 2000 Anti-Sweatshop Group Votes to Require Members to Demand Locations of Apparel Factories By MARTIN VAN DER WERF Washington The 137 universities of the Fair Labor Association agreed Tuesday to demand that the locations of all factories where their licensed goods are manufactured be made public. A little over a year ago -- prior to a wave of anti-sweatshop protests on campuses -- no colleges were making such demands. The institutions in the o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 13:14:36 PDT 2000

35022 Two Cheers for Bureaucracy (Re: Where was the Color at A16 in D.C.? -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Yeah, and workers with union representation make better pay and benefits. >So what? That still isn't an argument for bureaucracy. Bob Fitch rejects descriptions of U.S. unions as bureaucratic because, he says, bureaucracies are effective, and U.S. unions aren't. Curious, though: what would a non-bureaucratic union look like? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 13:01:27 PDT 2000

35023 Savings vs Social Security? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I'll take your word for it. >My euphemism reflects a lack of a precise >political-economic picture underlying what >is to me a very clear drive to liquidate >public debt, rather than cut the hell out >of income & wealth (i.e., estate and gift) >taxes. Why is there so little elite support >for dunking the top income tax rate(s) and >repealing the estate and gift tax? Here in >Beltway land, it's pretty obvious what >elites favor (with exce ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 10:33:34 PDT 2000

35024 A16 = white? -- rank: 1000

[I asked Njoki Njoroge Njehu, the director of the U.S. 50 Years Is Enough campaign, to comment on the ColorLines piece, and the subsequent commentary here. Here's her response. By the way, Njoki is neither white nor American - she's Kenyan.] I started a response to Colin Rajah, but I didn't finish it yet, I have to go out of country for two weeks and I am a little STRESSED OUT!!! I'm going to try to finish it on my flight and hopefully will find a way to email it out and posted on a couple lists ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 09:40:27 PDT 2000

35025 Savings vs Social Security? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >My only explanation is that in >the new era we have entered, financial markets and their >underlying interests no longer desire that ultra-safe assets >be floating around. You may be giving the "financial markets" too much credit for thinking something through beyond the next 2 months. I really don't think the significance of the alleged disappearance of U.S. Treasury paper has dawned on them yet. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 13:43:49 PDT 2000