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35161 logic -- rank: 1000

I find this argument from Wynne Godley completely convincing: >It is impossible to over-emphasise the fact that the entire fiscal >plan which the authorities have set out, since it combines a rising >budget surplus with continued economic growth, can only form part of >a coherent macroeconomic strategy on the assumption that private net >saving continues to fall into increasingly negative territory. If >saving does not continue to fall - if private expenditure rises less >th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 13:33:05 PDT 2000

35162 Gore, friend of labor? -- rank: 1000

I just visited Al Gore's website to look for evidence for the great friendliness to labor that Nathan seems to spy. I looked at the "Briefing" page, a collection of recent press releases, and saw nothing; just in case I'd missed something, I searched for a couple of key words, but Explorer reported "the text 'union' was not found" and "the text 'labor' was not found." Hmm, ok, so let's check the economic agenda page. "Labor" showed up as something to be pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 21 14:32:53 PDT 2000

35163 Greenland melting at the edges -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - July 21, 2000 Greenland Is Skating on Thinner Ice By Curt Suplee The massive Greenland Ice Sheet--which contains nearly 10 percent of all the frozen water on Earth--is melting at a rate of about 12 cubic miles per year, accounting for 7 percent of sea-level rise worldwide. That estimate, the most comprehensive to date and the first ever based on precision measurements, is the conclusion of new laser surveys by scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt who ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 21 11:55:47 PDT 2000

35164 Dem Primary versus Third Party Strategies (Re: Grad Unions and Other Labor Leaders -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >No matter how many times I ask about >primaries, you invariably delete the sentence from your response to act as >if I am just talking about general elections, as if pro-Dem strategies are >just to suck-it-up and vote for whoever randomly gets the nomination. The problem with this strategy is that the Dem party is a wretched institution, but one with immense organizational and financial power. I think it's unreformable. Say some fine person runs in the primary a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 21 10:55:48 PDT 2000

35165 Grad Unions and Other Labor Leaders -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Trying to get 5% or 10% of the vote by a minor candidate is just a useless >attempt at a shortcut to that tougher day-to-day organizing. And 5% or >10% of the vote is no substitute to building a political movement that can >get 51% or better yet 60% or 70% support for our issues and our projected >leaders. Nathan, you're a master of false binaries! Who said voting for Nader was a substitute for organizing? Most Nader activists are activists in other realms, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 21 08:43:42 PDT 2000

35166 Grad Unions and Other Labor Leaders -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Your argument for threatening to vote third party as a threat to keep Dems >paying attention to our issues is no different from the always existing >threat not to show up to vote or just vote for the Republican candidate >(as some urged back in 1968 and even 1972 as a protest against the Dems). Let me see if I understand this. The day after the election. Dem strategists convene. Scenario 1: Republicans win by 3 points. Exit polls and focus groups show that forme ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 21 07:29:22 PDT 2000

35167 Fwd: available positions at Voter News Service -- rank: 1000

Voter News Service is looking for several Exit Poll Recruiters for the Fall 2000 election season. These are full-time positions based in New York City lasting from August, 2000 to November, 2000, paying $575 a week. Ideal first job for recent college graduate. Recruiters build and manage nationwide exit poll operation: locating, screening and hiring interviewers; overseeing training and rehearsal exercises; managing Election Day operations. Good project management experience while learning so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 20 12:40:19 PDT 2000

35168 Grad Unions and Other Labor Leaders -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I know careful strategy that is not self-defeating has less appeal than a >purist lost cause like Nader, but it may actually help change policy and >improve people's lives rather than just be an excuse to bash other >activists for not being pure enough in their methods. Nathan, this is a very cheap shot, which I'll charitably attribute to the remnants of a guilty conscience. I'm not looking for an excuse to bash activists; you're the one doing the bashing in thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 20 12:37:02 PDT 2000

35169 California water -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 20, 2000 In California, Water Pressure Builds With New Development By JIM CARLTON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL VALENCIA, Calif. -- Newhall Ranch here in the Santa Clarita Valley, a development that plans to include 22,000 master-planned homes in this suburb north of Los Angeles, has become the bull's eye in California's intensifying water war. Planned to sprawl for several miles along the Santa Clara River, one of the last free-flowing tributaries in South ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 20 11:52:05 PDT 2000

35170 Grad Unions and Other Labor Leaders -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >If Nader could win, I'd happily vote for him. Since he can't, he's a vote >for Dubya. Maybe like other grad unionists, you think you are so much >smarter than other union leaders, including their support for Gore. Yeah, good thing we've had a Dem in the White House for the last 7 1/2 years. Otherwise NAFTA would have passed, domestic spending wouldn't have expanded, the wealth and income gaps wouldn't have narrowed, and union density wouldn't have risen by a rema ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 20 10:17:27 PDT 2000

35171 pres polls -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >What's the sample size? 1,063. Which is apparently pretty standard in these periodic horserace polls. >Chances are the sub-categories aren't big enough for the >results to mean anything. That's probably overstating it a bit. Less than statistically significant, but not entirely meaningless. And substantially in line with a Fox News poll that I also got sent. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 20 09:48:55 PDT 2000

35172 pres polls -- rank: 1000

nathan.newman at yale.edu wrote: >As is also true every election, the Dem vote increases as incomes drop. The tragedy of American politics. Of course, the abstention rate does too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 19 17:49:10 PDT 2000

35173 pres polls -- rank: 1000

It was just pointed out that there was an error in the presidential breakdown table I just sent. Liberals for Nader should be 10%, not 20%. The corrected chart follows. Oops. Sorry. Doug ---- CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, July 2000 Gore Bush Buchanan Nader no opinion total 43 45 3 5 4 sex male 38 50 3 5 4 female 48 39 3 6 3 race white ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 19 16:07:38 PDT 2000

35174 campus update, Australia branch -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ON CAMPUS AUSTRALIAN STUDENT UNIONS representing 600,000 members will campaign against clothing and sporting good companies to raise awareness of child labor in the lead-up to the Olympics in Sydney. The National Union of Students, working with the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia, will organize 48 Australian university campuses, focusing on Nike, Fila and others who have refused to sign the code of conduct. The union is also planning a &quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 19 14:19:56 PDT 2000

35175 horserace poll -- rank: 1000

I got curious about the demographics of Nader's support, so I just got this from Gallup. Note that there's no gender pattern to Nader's support (or Buchanan's, for that matter); Katha Pollitt's been quoting David Brooks's remark that Nader is the candidate of the "white male left," which isn't borne out by these numbers. - Doug CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, July 2000 Gore Bush Buchanan Nader no opinion total 43 45 3 5 4 sex mal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 19 15:15:48 PDT 2000