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36376 AMA & IP in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 25, 2000 AMA Moves to Fight the Posting Of Its Price Codes on the Internet By ANN CARRNS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Entrepreneur Timothy Pickering had an idea for helping consumers penetrate the mystery of health-care costs. Three years ago, he set up a free Web site that estimated prices for medical procedures, based on the amounts the federal government typically reimburses doctors for the treatments. Remove a ruptured appendix? $601. Take out a chil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 25 10:35:21 PDT 2000

36377 Gore's kiss wins votes -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal August 25, 2000 Gore Gains Ground in Missouri, Partly Due to Convention Kiss By DENNIS FARNEY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DES PERES, Mo. -- What a difference a kiss makes. The one Al Gore planted on his wife Tipper at the Democratic National Convention seems to have packed a political wallop. That is the message from a focus group here in the St. Louis suburbs -- swing voters in a swing state. Because of the vice president's uncharacteristic show of emotion, alo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 25 10:36:34 PDT 2000

36378 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Try reading less market analysis >and more Alinsky. Do I have to? He's such an awful writer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 24 17:34:51 PDT 2000

36379 Plain Talk -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >No, but I'm curious to find out. Where did it publish from? Washington and Baltimore. Pacing through it, they hate Wall Street, the AMA, Communists, and the Pope. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 24 11:37:39 PDT 2000

36380 NYC MoMA support -- rank: 1000

> Please mark your calendars! > > Monday, August 28, 4:30-6:00 pm > RALLY TO SUPPORT THE MOMA STRIKERS CALLED BY THE NEW YORK > STATE AFL-CIO > IN FRONT OF THE MUSEUM AT 11 WEST 53RD STREET (BETWEEN 5TH & > 6THAVENUES) > > Wednesday, August 30, 8 pm > Music Benefit for the MoMA Striker Hardship Fund > at TONIC, 107 Norfolk Street, near Rivington > Featuring: MARC RIBOT and members of LOS CUBANOS POSTIZOS > and unplugged set by KIRK KELLY > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 24 16:28:20 PDT 2000

36381 Plain Talk -- rank: 1000

Someone just sent me copies of Plain Talk magazine from 1932. Seems to be some kind of populist thing. Anyone know about it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 24 10:18:38 PDT 2000

36382 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The race/class divisiou is indeed tedious, as would be a debate over whether >numerator or denominator was more important. But the identiy/class division >more resembles (say) a >Should-I-flap-my-wings-and-fly / Should-I-walk division. "Identity" has about >as much reality as the Holy Ghost. Yeah, except that perceptions of class are a kind of identity. Why is "I am a worker," or even "I am a member of the working class," all that d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 24 09:11:24 PDT 2000

36383 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Are you or have you ever been a known binarist? :) >I feel the cold wind of a postmodernist purge. Burn the essentialist >binarists. Hardly. The only person I've purged recently is the intensely annoying Jim Jaszewski. >One of the luxuries of pure speculation is that you can avoid hard choices >and either/or decisions. But in most organizing, there are choices, in >time, in energy, in resources devoted to one strategy or another. To quote a great inclusi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 24 07:53:27 PDT 2000

36384 Canadian intelligence on The Movement -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Sid Shniad for pointing this out. One of the highlights of the global ruling class's social calendar, the KC Fed's annual Jackson Hole retreat, which brings together central bankers, financiers, industrialists, and the journalists who serve them, is this weekend. I bet this sort of thing will be on their agenda.] The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service: "Anti-Globalization: A Spreading Phenomenon" http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/eng/miscdocs/200008e.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 24 07:32:22 PDT 2000

36385 Finkelstein's background -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I did read beyond p. 13; I think that Goldhagen's book has a number >of very big problems. But that Goldhagen is an unwitting apologist >for Hitler is not one of them... Who said that? I think Norman's point (I don't have the book nearby, so I can't check the context) is that a theory of collective guilt absolves anyone of personal or collective political responsibility and absolves the analyst of having to explain why the Nazi holocaust happened. That's not far fro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 24 07:17:30 PDT 2000

36386 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Nathan Newman wrote: > >> Strategy and organization may not always have the PR sizzle of puppets and >> random mayhem, but they are infinitely more successful in the long-term. > >Is this an either/or argument? ;-) Looks that way to me. But Nathan is a known binarist. >Why can't we have both? From where I stand, the sizzle of puppets and >mayhem has certainly helped my organizing efforts and long term >strategies. Absolutely. And sizzle & may ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 23 17:10:57 PDT 2000

36387 Fwd: 2000-08-23 Memorandum on Presidential Determination No 2000-28 -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (South Brunswick, New Jersey) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release August 23, 2000 August 22, 2000 Presidential Determination No. 2000-28 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Waiver of Certification Under Section 3201 "Conditions on Assistance for Colombia," in Title III, Chapter 2 of the Emergenc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 23 13:55:12 PDT 2000

36388 beating the net censors -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] NET CENSORS DEFEATED AT OWN GAME Peacefire has found a new method for disabling censoring software. Just run the URL through the Akamaitech server. For example here is how you would get to Yahoo this way: http://a1.g.akamaitech.net/6/6/6/6/www.yahoo.com/ Peacefire has a page that explains details and how to handle pages that won't load. Says the anti-censorship group: "Akamai's servers are set up so that they allow anybody to use their Web servers to ac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 23 10:46:46 PDT 2000

36389 vanishing surplus? -- rank: 1000

Ok Max, what's the word on this? Doug ---- >Perspectives on the Budget Surplus >Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale > > >NBER Working Paper No. W7837 >Issued in August 2000 > > >---- Abstract ----- > > >This paper provides alternative measures of federal budget surpluses >over 10-year and long-term horizons. Official baseline budget >forecasts are based on a series of statutory requirements that may >be at variance with reasonable expectation. More plau ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 23 12:51:20 PDT 2000

36390 Fwd: HM 5 -- rank: 1000

[I've been asked to forward this.] JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND MAILING LISTS Historical Materialism: research in critical marxist theory "Historical Materialism is already among the most highly regarded journals in Marxian theory published in any language. In an age of increasing specialization, it is committed to high quality articles from across a broad range of disciplines. If a resurgence of Marxian thinking occurs in the twenty-first century, Hist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 23 14:07:10 PDT 2000