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35446 Fwd: AFSCME Report Exposes Systemic Corruption -- rank: 1000

[A bit late...] New York Times - January 21, 2000 Report Details Corruption Within Government Union By STEVEN GREENHOUSE An internal union report lays out a picture of extensive corruption in the nation's largest union of government workers, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The report, which was made available by a union official eager to have the federation take a tougher stance on corruption, provides an unusual look at a major union's internal problems and des ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 22 08:31:52 PST 2000

35447 nationalism & imperialism (jim o'connor) -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Possibly also because this is not a Marxist list. In case you >haven't noticed ideologies like pomo are pretty pervasive >here so I guess it is possible that some or even many >people on this list share in the kinds of illusions that >you have been referring to concerning the US. Uh-oh, pomo alert! Get out the decontamination equipment! Please identify any of these folks who are infected with the pomovirus (or is it a chemical agent? a bacterium? a spiroch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 22 08:29:31 PST 2000

35448 Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 1000

kayak3 wrote: >I'll have to read some of his stuff. A couple of weeks ago I listened to >the debate on trade that you talked about on your web site. It seemed >that secretary of trade Aarons (SP?) really nailed Nader a couple of >times during the debate while Nader continued to repeat the same old >anti-corporate line without any effective rebuttle. Because of this I'm >even more disinchanted with Nader than I was before the debate. Yes, I thought Aarons did nail Ralph, esp on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 22 08:18:06 PST 2000

35449 disenfranchisement -- rank: 1000

>forwarded by Michael Hoover > > > Published Friday, January 21, 2000, in the Miami Herald > > > > Florida, other states may let ex-felons vote > > > > BY FRANK DAVIES > > fdavies at herald.com > > > > WASHINGTON -- One year after a report found that > > 3.9 million Americans could not vote because of > > felony records, Florida and 12 other states are > > debating whether ex-offenders should have the right & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 22 07:59:43 PST 2000

35450 In defense of Nader -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>I think that the attack on Ralph Nader is ill-founded. Nader has worked >>on an incredible array of issues, ranging from automobile safety, >>medical and pharmaceutical malpractice, trade issues, etc. > > >According to Andrew Tobias, Nader's people are really far on the >wrong side on auto insurance issues... What's the right side, and why is Ralph wrong? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 21 12:04:23 PST 2000

35451 Kovel -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >The Greens should consider themselves fortunate that someone of >Nader's profile would consider running as their candidate instead of >savaging his choice of personnel on what I will add are remarkably >vague and unclear grounds. As I recall, Nader disowned the Green platform in '96 and ran a half-assed and embarrassing campaign which reflected well neither on candidate nor on party. Scholars of the Life of St Ralph speculate that one reason he ran such a ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 21 11:23:50 PST 2000

35452 Kovel -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >anti-labor Dolan Please elaborate... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 21 08:10:45 PST 2000

35453 FCC release on low-power radio -- rank: 1000

[More at <http://www.fcc.gov/mmb/prd/lpfm/>.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: News Media contact: January 20, 2000 David Fiske (202) 418-0513 FCC APPROVES NEW NON-COMMERCIAL LOW POWER FM RADIO SERVICE Washington D.C. --The FCC today voted to create a class of radio stations designed to serve very localized communities or underrepresented groups within communities by authorizing two new classes of noncommercial low power FM radio services (LPFM). In authorizing the new services ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 21 07:25:00 PST 2000

35454 Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 1000

kayak3 wrote: >Who is Joel Kovel and what makes him a better candidate than Ralph >Nader? Joel was originally a psychoanaltic psychiatrist who worked at a hospital in the Bronx for years and wrote books like White Racism. A reviewer of that book commented that Joel could use a good dose of Marx, and he took up on that suggestion and fell under the Old Guy's influence. So he's one of those precious folks who work the nexus between the social and psychological, in the spirit of the Frankfurt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 21 06:53:10 PST 2000

35455 credit after bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

[Someone asked about getting credit after "going chapter" the other day.] "The Reacquisition of Credit Following Chapter 7 Personal Bankruptcy" BY: DAVID K. MUSTO University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=180431 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/ SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 21 06:40:34 PST 2000

35456 stocks boosted by stocks -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 20, 2000 Portfolio Profits Boost Bottom Line, But Stir Controversy for Some Firms By GREG IP, GARY MCWILLIAMS and SUZANNE MCGEE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Happily tallying up your profits on the stock of Microsoft and Intel? They're nothing compared with what Microsoft and Intel are earning on their stock investments. The companies' profits from investments -- which are entirely separate from their operating income -- are eye-popping: Intel recently ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 16:15:08 PST 2000

35457 WSJ on wealth -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: > Just as importantly, don't those financial assets include stocks? If >the stock values fall, the debts do not... Yes, but they made that point later on. They didn't class angle the balance sheet issue though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 16:16:19 PST 2000

35458 WSJ on wealth -- rank: 1000

The Economist wrote: >Optimists claim there is nothing to worry about, because the >increase in debt has been more than matched by an increase in >financial assets. On the surface, balance sheets do indeed look >healthy. Households’ net wealth (assets minus debt) has increased >from just under five times personal disposable income in 1990, to a >historic high of more than six times. People, including the skeptics at The Economist, always forget the fact that different sets of h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 14:54:14 PST 2000

35459 Bradley's Health Care Proposal (RE: West on Bradley's Gravitas -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Universal benefits often use of a lot government funds on middle class and >wealthier citizens, often essentially redistributing from middle class tax >payers to middle class recipients with little economic redistribution. Social >security is a good program, but for all its universality, the rich pay very >little into it proportionate to their income. The argument for universal >programs is that they are politically bulletproof, but social >security i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 13:33:08 PST 2000

35460 Bradley's Health Care Proposal (RE: West on Bradley's Gravitas -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > How else would the Gov redistribute income, > >They could start by not taking it away in the first place. Oh Jordan, you whining about your tax bracket now? So unseemly. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 13:24:27 PST 2000