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35041 Ralph worth $3.8m, heavily into tech stox -- rank: 1000
Washington Post - June 18, 2000 Nader's Worth At $3.8 Million By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer After 35 years of bashing big business, rumpled Ralph Nader is worth at least $3.8 million and is heavily invested in technology stocks. For decades, Nader refused to reveal even the name of his stockbroker, let alone any personal financial information, leading to criticism from conservatives that he was building a secret financial empire (sometimes derided as "Nader Inc.") even as ...
Document Size: 12798
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 19 08:34:42 PDT 2000
35042 Fwd: Kewl Stats -- rank: 1000
Chris Doss wrote: >I didn't know that the US had more people in prison than China. According to the most recent stats, China incarcerates 115 people per 100,000 population; the U.S., 645 (second only to Russia, at 685). >>HARTFORD ADVOCATE >>-- According to Nader, the top 1 percent of the richest Americans >>have wealth equal to the combined wealth of 95 percent of other >>Americans: "It used to be said a rising economic tide lifts all >>boats. Now a rising ...
Document Size: 5157
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jun 18 08:18:29 PDT 2000
35043 "We'll cut off the blood to their brains" -- rank: 1000
Institutional Investor - June 2000 The new financial activists by Deepak Gopinath In December masses of protesters took to the streets of Seattle, decrying the depredations of globalization. They snarled traffic, smashed a Starbucks coffee shop and spray-painted buildings as they denounced the World Trade Organization. A few months later thousands converged, full of sound bites and fury, for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Now this un ...
Document Size: 25351
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jun 18 08:38:44 PDT 2000
35044 Fwd: [McLibel] [pressrelease] Residents defeat McDonald's after mammoth 552-day occupation -- rank: 1000
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:15:01 +0200 (CEST) To: list at mclibel.org From: mclibel at globalnet.co.uk (McLibel Support Campaign) 16/06/00 p r e s s r e l e a s e from McLibel Support Campaign Residents defeat McDonald's after mammoth 552-day occupation On Sunday 13th December 1998 local residents in Hinchley Wood, Surrey moved caravans on to the car park of their well-loved local pub ['The Hinchley Wood'] which had been leased by McDonald's - their aim was to occupy the site and stop it from bei ...
Document Size: 10626
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jun 17 10:46:18 PDT 2000
35045 complete Bushisms -- rank: 1000
<http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp> The Complete Bushisms Compiled by Jacob Weisberg Jacob Weisberg is Slate's chief political correspondent. You can e-mail him at ballotbox at slate.com. Posted Friday, June 16, 2000, at 10:30 a.m. PT "I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read--I understand reality. If you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I do."--On abortion, Hardball, MSNBC; May 31, 2000 "There's not going to be enou ...
Document Size: 18314
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 16 12:32:15 PDT 2000
35046 Nasdaq polishing its boots? -- rank: 1000
Nasdaq's Nay Threatens Dot Coms (Culture Thursday) <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,37019,00.html?tw=wn20000616> Wired News reporter Joanna Glasner talks to Lisa Picarille about how some of the dot coms that once delighted investors are now in danger of being delisted from the Nasdaq.
Document Size: 4754
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 16 11:51:38 PDT 2000
35047 Red Hat loss narrows -- rank: 1000
[for all you Linux-heads out there, from TheStandard.com] Linux Has a Nice Day It was a day of positives for the Linux operating system. First off, "Linux bellwether" Red Hat, as ZDNet Interactive Investor described the software company, yesterday reported a smaller than expected loss for its first quarter (2 cents a share instead of 4 cents). It also reported a 95 percent increase in revenue, to $16 million, from $8.2 million a year ago. What this means, company president and CEO Matt ...
Document Size: 7216
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 16 11:42:53 PDT 2000
35048 Krugman on IHT -- rank: 1000
[Speaking of Krugman, from the new (summer) issue of Foreign Policy.] Krugman Rules! <http://members.home.net/copernicus/main.html> You won't see him wearing tight leather pants and singing "Livin' La Vida Loca," but Massachusetts Institute of Technology (soon to be Princeton University) economics professor Paul Krugman has won his fair share of groupies. One example: "The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web page" was launched by Kevin Deenihan, a California teenager who credit ...
Document Size: 5911
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 16 11:25:50 PDT 2000
35049 WB: civil wars caused by greed -- rank: 1000
[from the WB's daily clipping service] MOST CIVIL CONFLICTS MOTIVATED BY GREED, SAYS WORLD BANK. Rebels fighting civil conflicts around the world are more often motivated by greedy pursuit of lucrative commodities, like diamonds and drugs, than by political, ethnic or religious goals, the New York Times (p.A14) reports a World Bank study released yesterday concludes. The Bank, which studied 47 civil wars that took place from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe between 1960 and 1999, found that the single b ...
Document Size: 8575
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 16 09:33:52 PDT 2000
35050 immigrants ravage American landscape! -- rank: 1000
[from the icky folks at Negative Population Growth] Immigration's dire effect on environment By B. Meredith Burke Op-ed in The Seattle Times June 15, 2000 Editors decide daily which stories to print and how much space to give them. If unbiased, they lead with the important points, subordinate all others. Discerning the important from the trivial is a judgment call. The recent resignation of David Brower from the board of the Sierra Club was unarguably newsworthy. The San Francisco-based organiza ...
Document Size: 9582
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 16 09:31:58 PDT 2000
35051 NYC: take back Central Park -- rank: 1000
[for the Noo Yawkuhs out there] ACTION ALERT FROM NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN-NYC: NEW YORK WOMEN, TAKE BACK CENTRAL PARK! LAST SUNDAY, OVER 30 WOMEN WERE HARASSED, ATTACKED AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTED IN CENTRAL PARK IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BY A GANG OR SEVERAL GANGS OF 15-20 MEN. ACCORDING TO SOME OF THE VICTIMS, THE COPS REFUSED TO INTERVENE. WE HAVE A RIGHT TO BE SAFE IN CENTRAL PARK AND IN ALL OF NEW YORKíS PUBLIC SPACES. WE HAVE A RIGHT TO HAVE SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN TAKEN ...
Document Size: 5360
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jun 16 09:29:51 PDT 2000
35052 Florida man kills "queer" dog -- rank: 1000
Associated Press, June 15, 2000 Fla. Man Convicted for Killing Dog OCALA, Fla. (AP) – A man accused of fatally beating a dog because he thought it was gay was convicted of animal cruelty. George Stephens Finley, 58, could get up to a year in jail. Witnesses testified that Finley was upset that his wife's neutered male poodle-Yorkshire terrier repeatedly tried to engage in sexual activity with another family dog, a male Jack Russell terrier. "He felt that the dog was a queer-type dog and it ...
Document Size: 5348
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 15 17:36:47 PDT 2000
35053 Japan: Asia must have bigger voice in IMF -- rank: 1000
[via Rob Weissman] Asia must have bigger voice in IMF: Japan TOKYO, June 15 (AFP) - Japan will press its Group of Seven partners for Asia to be given a bigger voice in International Monetary Fund decision-making, a top government official said Thursday. The IMF, long dominated by the United States and Europe, had to take account of Asia's growing role in the world economy, said vice finance minister for international affairs Haruhiko Kuroda. The IMF must "reflect the reality of the world ec ...
Document Size: 6896
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 15 17:34:28 PDT 2000
35054 WB on its critics, again -- rank: 1000
Michael Pollak wrote: >Doug, would you be able to get a copy of the draft version from one of >these folks it was circulated to? Sound like it might be interesting. You can download it (in Acrobat format) at <http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty/draft100.htm>. Doug
Document Size: 4913
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 15 16:51:42 PDT 2000
35055 loser.com -- rank: 1000
Wired News - 3:00 a.m. Jun. 12, 2000 PDT Dot Coms? They're for Losers by Joanna Glasner If 1999 was the Year of the Dot Com, 2000 might very well be the Year of the Not Com. A lot of start-ups that stuck a trendy dot com at the end of their names to woo investors in last-year's Net-obsessed market are finding they may have hopped on the wrong bandwagon. Now that shares of many highly hyped dot-com companies have taken a tumble, executives are reconsidering the all-important process of choosing a ...
Document Size: 9809
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 15 15:47:08 PDT 2000
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