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39916 Dubba Bush in legal crosshairs -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Ah...it looks like Georgie junior's coronation may be hitting some bumbs >with not one but two court cases threatening to hall him into court for >malfeasance by his administration. Hey, Nathan, if gubernatorial malfeasance disqualified one for the presidency, Bill Clinton would still be living in Arkansas and New Yorkers would be spared the agony of his wife's "listening tour." Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 11 13:52:30 PDT 1999

39917 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >This is a subset of the broader issue of left-religious links, but the >Catholic Church is a particularly interesing institution for that analysis. Almost everything I know about Catholic social teaching I learned from a lecture I heard earlier this year by a Marxist Jesuit. He said that the Church philosophy was fundamentally corporatist - not socialist and not anticapitalist - and based on notions of fair shares (a fair wage, a fair profit, etc.). While it's certain ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 11 12:01:14 PDT 1999

39918 crash! war! -- rank: 1000

Market astrologer Arch Crawford was just on CNBC. He expects wars to break out along the path of Augusst 11's eclipse - a path that includes the Balkans, Turkey, India, and Pakistan - and a 1,000 point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average sometime in the next two weeks. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 11 06:09:44 PDT 1999

39919 Dee-fense -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it had an attachment - I've got attachments blocked, to cut down on volume, because people might not want files unasked, and to block viruses - I'll change this if there's mass support for a change] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:12:22 -0400 It's finally happened. Republican proposed defense spending is below both Clinton's and the Congressional Democrats. Put that together with the last eight years of military activities and the Dems a ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 10 13:21:20 PDT 1999

39920 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Organic farming is more labor intensive. Stoop labor, to me, suggests both >physical procedures as well as a certain type of social relationship. In >this sense, gardening is not stoop labor. > >It requires more direct physical work to prune a tree and open it up so >that the insects do not become as much of a problem then to drive past and >spray. I would rather do the pruning. Assuming that most of us will continue not to grow our own food - tha ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 10 12:36:39 PDT 1999

39921 uni elites -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >having taught at small elite >institutions it's clear to me that a college degree from the likes of these >places surely is nothing more than a badge and says nothing about ability. As a product of one, I can say that they also encourage a confidence and sense of entitlement that serve one well in the real world. They do this in at least two ways - one, the constant reminders of the institution's history, prestige, and connections, which really inculcate a belief that the ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 10 10:39:45 PDT 1999

39922 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >We should beware of false dichotomies -- the idea that we are destined >to be dependent on exploited stoop labor OR on environmentally >dangerous GM technology. There has to be a way of reducing the scale >and adverse environmental impact of high-productivity modern farming >without simply reverting to subsistence farming. Yes there must be, and that's what I wanted to hear about. I hear too much of "we can't go on this way" without hearing much abo ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 10 10:23:00 PDT 1999

39923 Clinton, snoop (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:24 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> URL: <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/8/9/11.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Little Rock, Arkansas) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release August 6, 1999 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - WORKING GROUP ON UNLAWFUL CONDUCT ON THE INTE ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 10 09:46:49 PDT 1999

39924 only 75%? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What's the difference between this and casinos/lotteries ? WIth a lottery some of the money may go into public budgets. Otherwise, there's no difference, except that the illusions are probably greater in day trading. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 10 09:12:39 PDT 1999

39925 Y2K mania -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >I believe the planets *are* aligned. It will be interesting to see what >various astrologers say when the time is near. Top market astrologer Arch Crawford says the markets will crash on Aug 11. He also said we were supposed to be at war by Aug 7, but that's a bit behind schedule. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 9 18:14:39 PDT 1999

39926 the social change thing -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because of a taboo word - "who." I changed the spec so that majordomo no longer looks for such words; it's just too undiscriminating for me.] Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 18:27:10 -0400 From: kelley <kcwalker at syr.edu> hey ange, thanks for the discussion of marx and althusser. ange writes: >no, I'm saying in a roundabout and hesitant way I guess that if you're a >part of an institutional research agenda who isn't? >then you should either get the >hell out of ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 9 17:17:33 PDT 1999

39927 only 75%? -- rank: 1000

[Day-trading firms encourage accounts in the black to lend money to accounts in the red. Some of the people that Slay Trader shot were people he'd borrowed money from.] Wall Street Journal - August 9, 1999 PROBE OF DAY-TRADING FIRMS FINDS 75% OF SURVEYED ACCOUNTS IN THE RED By Rebecca Buckman Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal A random sample of brokerage accounts at one Massachusetts day-trading concern found that nearly three-quarters of them weren't profitable, a group of state securit ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 9 16:55:40 PDT 1999

39928 Chilean pensions -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >My first time posting, but I could not resist. How did you get quoted in the >Miami Herald? The reporter called me! Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 9 14:32:46 PDT 1999

39929 abortion & crime -- rank: 1000

I got a copy of the abortion & crime paper from one of the authors. I'll email copies to interested parties - specify MS Word or WordPerfect format. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 9 13:04:33 PDT 1999

39930 Chilean pensions -- rank: 1000

Miami Herald - August 8, 1999 CHILE'S BALLYHOOED PENSION SYSTEM HAS A DARK SIDE, EXPERTS SAY By Jane Bussey Herald Business Writer It is hard to rain on Chile's pension parade. After all, the private pension fund system has been touted as one of the key factors in Chile's economic success, copied by a handful of Latin American countries and boosted as a model for the United States. But a number of economists now caution that the system has its flaws, which Chileans are discovering, and it may no ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 9 08:42:23 PDT 1999