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38836 more on prison workers -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 22, 1999 MR. SCHWALB PUTS HIS INMATES TO WORK FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR By RODNEY HO Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FORT WORTH, Texas -- If it weren't for the drab green and gray uniforms worn by the clerks, this office would look much like many in Corporate America. A hundred women, some listening to Walkmans, clack away on computer keyboards, entering used-vehicle sales data for CCC Information Services Group Inc., a Chicago insurance-claims processing compan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 09:03:41 PDT 1999

38837 more immigrants to keep wages down! -- rank: 1000

[This is half of a pair of articles on the WSJ's edit page, the other being a recommendation to repeal the Humphrey-Hawkins law that requires the Fed chair to testify before Congress twice a year.] Wall Street Journal - July 22, 1999 How to Keep Growth Alive: Welcome More Immigrants By Stephan-Götz Richter and Daniel Bachman. Mr. Richter is president of TransAtlantic Futures Research Institute. Mr. Bachman is the institute's chief economist. In today's Humphrey-Hawkins testimony, Federal Reserve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 08:08:44 PDT 1999

38838 Say It Isn't So, Mike! -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >apologies for my ignorance, but a few questions: > >is giuliani still the mayor of NYC? is Clinton running against him for this? Yes. She's running against him for Senate, to replace the retiring Pat "benign neglect" Moynihan. >what does Hilary have to say about 'zero tolerance' if anything? Ha. She's unlikely to be asked, but it's pretty universally supported by the ruling class. >and, finally, what's been happening with all the 'zero tolerance' stuff of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 16:12:09 PDT 1999

38839 Verso authors getting sued -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Alex LoCascio wrote: > > > Man! This isn't the first time something like this has happened! > > Remember the brouhaha over Cockburn and Silverstein's Washington Babylon > > and the passages about Larry Pressler? That book they just took out of > > circulation altogether. > >I must have been out of town for this flap. And I've got a copy of >Washington Babylon to look it up in. So do tell. To put it gently, the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 12:51:06 PDT 1999

38840 poll vindicates masses -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] CULTURE WARS JFK Jr. Coverage A Portrait of America survey finds that most Americans think the media overdid their coverage of the JFK Jr. story. The national telephone survey found that 67% said that the television networks should have continued with regular programming and simply provided news updates. Only 23% thought that the decision to cancel regular network shows was appropriate. Americans over 65 were most likely to say it was appropriate to cancel r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 12:57:14 PDT 1999

38841 Fed neutral? -- rank: 1000

At Odds Inside the Fed Members Differ Over Meaning of 'Neutral' Directive By John M. Berry Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 21, 1999; Page E01 In the quiet, polite world of Federal Reserve policymaking meetings, no one ever shouts or pounds the table, but during the last two days of June there was a palpable sense of strain and disagreement as 17 officials struggled to reach their usual consensus, according to Fed sources. The sticking point wasn't so much over what to do about inter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 11:41:51 PDT 1999

38842 Pseudo-populism, the idiotic masses, and gadfly Nation columnists -- rank: 1000

bill fancher wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > one of the founding concerns of this list, > > Judy B's analysis of the origins of the subject in subjection. > >Where can we find this? In her (Judith Butler) book, The Psychic Life of Power, affectionately known as PLOP. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 08:51:25 PDT 1999

38843 Pacifica turns to prior restraint -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 07:50:25 -0700 Reply-To: freepacifica at recordist.com A member of WBAI's staff has informed us that Democracy Now Producer Amy Goodman has been told that she has to call Garland Ganter and Mark Schubb, every day at 2pm with the line- up for the next day's Democracy Now. In effect they are now the censors of Democracy Now. Amy asked for it in writing which was refused. Garland Ganter is the Manager of Houston statio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 08:40:57 PDT 1999

38844 currency boards -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I accept that currency boards do put severe deflationary pressure on an >economy when the balance of payments turns unfavourable, but I cannot see >that logically the central bank should not be able to lower interest rates >(the USA and Europe have just done so in 1998) or why a country with a >currency board should not be able to have the option of changing the parity >level with the reserve currency. If you set up a currency board, your central bank beco ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 08:36:05 PDT 1999

38845 Pseudo-populism, the idiotic masses, and gadfly Nation columnists -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >So when are you going to give us an introduction to B's book that >explains some of her terms (e.g. "trope", which annoys me no end) that >us non-pomo-literate, tough-minded empiricists have trouble with? Trope is an old friend to anyone who's been through a literature program. I don't have time to do this sort of blow-by-blow thing, and there are people far better qualified than I to do the job. But what I find valuable - and I'm appropriating this for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 08:28:47 PDT 1999

38846 Irish richer than English? not yet. -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >In Ireland, the ratio of GNP to GDP is about 80% -- they have a lot of >foreign companies which pay their earnings straight out overseas and so are >part of GDP but not GNP. In the UK, the ratio is substantially above 100%, >because we're such big net owners of overseas assets. A few years ago, a story was circulating that Ireland's growth figures were inflated by the transfer pricing trickery of multinationals. I feel some attachment to this li ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 07:58:16 PDT 1999

38847 lyrical correction -- rank: 1000

Sorry, got that Bad Religion lyric wrong. It's "I want to conquer the world/give all the idiots a BRAND new religion...." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 07:41:19 PDT 1999

38848 John-John, RIP -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >The issue in dispute between Kelley ( her whole post) and Doug here >seems to me to be so central to the left. There is no left movement >without the vast majority of people making it. The American organic >intellectuals can see a way out for the people, the working class, >and we should be confident that this left view is substantially >accurate. Yet, as Kelley says, this valid vision will not be taken >up by people who are victims being blamed. What ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 07:29:56 PDT 1999

38849 Heartfield on Barak's Israel -- rank: 1000

[James Heartfield asked me to forward this to the list; he hadn't re-sub'd yet.] Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:56:33 +0100 From: James Heartfield <James at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Subject: Back from the unholy land A kid with a new toy James Heartfield reports from Ehud Barak's Israel The new Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's diplomatic offensive promises a fresh start to Arab-Israeli relations. Barak has suggested that an agreement with Syria could lead to a compromise over the Golan Height ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 07:15:50 PDT 1999

38850 currency board -- rank: 1000

[this bounced, also because it was posted from a non-sub'd address] Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:06:52 -0300 From: Juan Jose Barrios <jota at netgate.com> Doug Henwood wrote: > Oh yes, the present crisis in Argentina, with its much touted > currency board (i.e., effective dollarization), is a good negative > example of the relationship between a currency's value and national > productivity levels. Argentine industry is just no match for the > U.S., but it's adopted the U.S. cur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 17:57:59 PDT 1999