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37096 Who nOZe? -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Yo, OZ dudes . . . > >What up with this rubbing noses I saw Clinton do with one of y'all? I believe the guy was Maori, from the land Paheka call New Zealand. Australia, NZ - they're all just remote islands to the likes of Thomas Friedman. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 22:32:09 PDT 1999

37097 Fwd: Fewer Workers Have Health Insurance On The Job, EBRI Finds -- rank: 1000

EBRI News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 9, 1999 New EBRI Analysis: Fewer Workers Have Health Insurance On The Job, EBRI Finds WASHINGTON, DC -- Even though workers are just as likely to say their employer sponsors health insurance plan today as a decade ago, fewer workers are eligible for coverage from their employer's plan, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). Eleven years ago, in 1988, virtually all workers whose employers sponsore ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 10:46:11 PDT 1999

37098 Harper's -- rank: 1000

The new Harper's has two fine pieces, one an annotation of a Washington Post graphic by Seth Ackerman, and the other a piece by Dan Lazare arguing that the gun nuts are right, the Second Amendment is on their side, but that's an argument for wrecking the constitutions, not endorsing mass gun possession. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 10:08:02 PDT 1999

37099 Bush donors sorted -- rank: 1000

Kirsten Nielsen forwarded something from politech saying that the multiple PDF donor files on the George W Bush website have been recoded into a single text file importable into spreadsheets & databases for home analysis. In several formats at <http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/bush/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 08:56:15 PDT 1999

37100 global riot! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Folks should keep in mind that this is from a right-wing newspaper that >truck in hysteria about radicals. But isn't it nice to know they're worried? The bourgies do seem to be getting nervous about net-linked radicals. The guy I interviewed on the radio last Thursday, David Henderson, former chief economist of the OECD, is beside himself at the way webbed-up NGOs were able to derail the MAI. That cross-border solidarity we've been talking about for ages is now a possibility ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 08:40:34 PDT 1999

37101 easy credit -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I'm not so sure this is bad. Why shouldn't individuals have the >same kinds of access to capital that corporations have? Amazon >has never made a penny, but they were able to sell $1B of convertable >bonds. And for the lender: if your clients cover the cost of carry, >the cost of any defaults, and produce a profit for your investors, >why shouldn't you loan to just about anybody? > >Did you get your $400k yet? Who said it's "bad"? Whateve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 08:33:17 PDT 1999

37102 easy credit -- rank: 1000

From Grant's Interest Rate Observer, September 10, 1999: "Rock Financial Corp. (RCCK), Bingham Farms Mich., an Internet-based lender, has begun to offer a 'nothing down' loan in amounts of up to $400,000, even for persons who happen to have a bankruptcy in their past (really, who doesn't?). Of course this versatile instrument is offered online: Just log onto to <http://www.RockLoans.com>. 'We're already seeing a positive response from borrowers...,' Rock claimed in an August 31 press ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:59:20 PDT 1999

37103 WB/IMF pressure on Indo -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] INDONESIA GIVES GO-AHEAD FOR EAST TIMOR PEACE FORCE. Indonesian President B. J. Habibie yesterday invited UN peacekeeping troops to enter East Timor in a dramatic reversal of policy, reports the Financial Times (p.1). ?I have made the decision to give our approval to a peacekeeping force together with the Indonesian military to maintain the security of East Timor,? Habibie said in a televised speech, yielding to international pressure and threats o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:34:42 PDT 1999

37104 global riot! -- rank: 1000

Sunday Times (London) - September 12, 1999 ANTI-CITY ANARCHISTS PLOT GLOBAL RIOT Mark Macaskill and Jessica Berry ANARCHISTS who masterminded this summer's riot in the City of London are planning a second protest to target banks and financial institutions, a Sunday Times investigation has revealed. Militant groups including Reclaim the Streets and Earth First, which co-ordinated the June 18 (J18) action, have been in contact with their American counterparts to launch a simultaneous campaign on N ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:22:44 PDT 1999

37105 mad money (ecuador defaulting) -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >What's needed is a gentlepersons' agreement among bond brokers You mean there's honor among thieves? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 06:27:33 PDT 1999

37106 GM suit -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 13, 1999 GM foods groups face huge lawsuit By Jean Eaglesham, Legal Correspondent The world's biggest life science companies and grain processors will face a multi-billion dollar antitrust action to be launched in up to 30 countries later this year. The unprecedented lawsuits will claim that companies such as Monsanto, DuPont and Novartis are exploiting bioengineering techniques to gain a stranglehold on agricultural markets. The action is being brought jointly by the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 06:08:27 PDT 1999

37107 US inequality -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 13, 1999 The Outlook WASHINGTON America's prosperity in the late 1990s has, by many measures, been more generous to more people than any U.S. boom in two decades. Unemployment and poverty rates are falling. Wages for those at the bottom of the pay scale are accelerating. Yet, the gap in wealth -- which includes investments, in addition to paychecks -- between the richest Americans and everyone else has continued to widen. By some estimates the gulf approaches that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 06:04:38 PDT 1999

37108 dreamin'... -- rank: 1000

They may not read anything longer than a short magazine article, but they sure have high expectations. From the front page feature on inequality in today's Wall Street Journal: "A recent survey by KPMG LLP, the accounting and consulting firm, found that 77% of college students expect to become millionaires in their lifetimes." Lire millionaires, perhaps. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 06:00:57 PDT 1999

37109 audio links -- rank: 1000

For a mess of audio links to news/talk radio from all over, see <http://ListenToTheNews.com/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 12 19:27:36 PDT 1999

37110 Russians nostalgic for Brezhnev & Andropov! -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Russians miss strong Soviet leaders, poll finds MOSCOW, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Late Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov would have better chances than any living politician to become Russia's next president if they could run in elections, a poll published on Sunday showed. Commercial NTV television presented results of a survey by the respectable Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), in which Russians were asked who among living or dead politicians and state lea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 12 18:21:38 PDT 1999