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40051 welfare coverage -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >It is one big incestuous pit with opm (other people's money) Yeah, but after you play with enough OPM for long enough, you get to call some of it your own. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 16:16:27 PDT 1999

40052 no bail ins! -- rank: 1000

Australian Financial Review Tuesday, April 27, 1999 Investors to boycott national bail-outs, bankers warn By Joanne Gray, Washington Amid signs that capital flows to emerging markets will remain modest in 1999, international bankers warn that private investors might stay away if they are forced to take part in country bail-outs. The Institute of International Finance, which represents major banks and securities houses worldwide, is bristling at the attempts by the "official sector" to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 14:48:15 PDT 1999

40053 Sillygism -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Carrol is a person > >Carrol lives in the United States > >Carrol is therefore permeated with racism? Insofar as you can't have race without racism, it's everywhere James. I can't speak for the rest of the world, but you can't live in the U.S. and not be embedded in a racialized social system. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 14:27:19 PDT 1999

40054 eXile on William Walker -- rank: 1000

The eXile #08/63 April 22 - May 6, 1999 Meet Mister Massacre Once US diplomat William Walker Covered Them Up; Now He Makes Them Up by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi Years from now, when the war in Serbia is over and the dust has settled, historians will point to January 15, 1999 as the day the American Death Star became fully operational. That was the date on which an American diplomat named William Walker brought his OSCE war crimes verification team to a tiny Kosovar village called Racak to investi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 13:43:35 PDT 1999

40055 welfare coverage -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >So yeah, the welfare system in the US is alive and well, it just underwent >*gentrification* lately. E.g., Long-Term Capital Management, bailed out last fall by its Wall Street colleagues & the New York Fed, is up 20% and trying to raise fresh money. Doug ---- Financial Times - April 20 1999 Corzine and Meriwether to explore LTCM buy-out By William Lewis in New York Jon Corzine, current co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, has linked up with John Meriwether and other ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 13:36:26 PDT 1999

40056 Fwd: Update on Yugoslavia, No. 7 -- rank: 1000

From: "Jay Moore" <pieinsky at igc.apc.org> Subject: Update on Yugoslavia, No. 7 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:07:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Dear Friends, A brief update: I was one of 14 people arrested yesterday for trespassing in a sit-in at Vermont "progressive" Congressman Bernie Sanders's office. Below is a report by support person Ron Jacobs on what happened. At my Web site, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 13:21:29 PDT 1999

40057 Race & Murder -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >how this relates to the discussion on the shootings I'm not at all sure. I once spent the better part of a day trying to think of an aspect of American social life that wasn't touched by race, and couldn't come up with one. The identity of a place like Littleton is bound up with white suburbanization. It's no surprise the killers' murderous fantasies were so racialized - racialized images of sex and violence are in every American head. (We make our fantasies but not with element ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 13:16:14 PDT 1999

40058 jobs jobs jobs! -- rank: 1000

[This bounced for an unsub'd address.] From: "Max B. Sawicky" <maxsaw at cpcug.org> Subject: FW: [progressive] job openings Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:02:20 -0400 -----Original Message----- From: progressive-owner at mail.johnsonfdn.org [mailto:progressive-owner at mail.johnsonfdn.org] On Behalf Of John Howley Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 11:54 AM To: progressive at mail.johnsonfdn.org Subject: [progressive] job openings JOB OPENINGS FOR UNION RESEARCHER-CAMPAIGNERS The nation's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 13:01:52 PDT 1999

40059 The People's Right to Bear Arms -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9904260017510.2852-100000 at panix7.panix.com>, >Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes > >> As for numbers, >>in 1996, 9,390 people were murdered by handguns in the US. (The total >>figures, including suicides and accidents are 4 times as high). During >>the same period, 30 people were murdered with handguns in Britain. > >Are you sure these figures are right? Sourcebook of Criminal Justi ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 27 11:55:26 PDT 1999

40060 I AM A CLASSIST PIG. -- rank: 1000

digloria at mindspring.com wrote: >good job doug. unsubsribe someone who doesn't agree with what you say or >how you say it. Nope, I've never booted anyone for disagreeing with me, and never will. Ask Chris Burford. I just don't like people with phony names who act like assholes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 15:32:09 PDT 1999

40061 I AM A CLASSIST PIG. -- rank: 1000

Jennifer A Young wrote: >From: Potscreamr at cs.com <Potscreamr at cs.com> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 3:40 PM >Subject: Re: White Trash & "Gummo" > > >>CLEANBYRD at prodigy.net writes: >> >>> Has anyone seen the movie "Gummo". >> >>No, but you certainly sound like a real classist pig. >> >> >>Tupaat S.Kreemur > > >Dear ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 14:50:41 PDT 1999

40062 welfare coverage -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The fact is that more dollars spent on fewer people means that there is an >economic transfer of funds occuring within those in poverty. In the case of Medicaid, it could just mean that doctors and drug companies are getting more money, not that people are being better cared for. But we're operating in an informational vacuum here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 10:34:41 PDT 1999

40063 Fwd: 1999-04-24 NATO Fact Sheet on Defense Capabilities Initiative -- rank: 1000

[The New NATO] Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:43 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> Subject: 1999-04-24 NATO Fact Sheet on Defense Capabilities Initiative To: Public-Distribution@[198.137.240.100] Precedence: Bulk Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/4/26/7.text.1 URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/4/26/7. text.1 Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electronic Publications Keywords: Defense, Fact-Sheet, Forei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 10:06:15 PDT 1999

40064 Video Killed the Radio Star -- rank: 1000

[Another view on the video-violence connection. As usual, don't take a forwarding as an endorsement.] New York Times - April 26, 1999 DIGITAL COMMERCE Linking Entertainment to Violence By DENISE CARUSO By producing increasingly violent media, the entertainment industry has for decades engaged in a lucrative dance with the devil. Over the years, parents and consumer groups have continued to sound alarms about the effects that violent films, television and ever-more-realistic video games are havin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 10:02:44 PDT 1999

40065 Race & Murder -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Maggie also suggested that the fact that the victims were overwhelmingly >white did not mean that this was not a race killing - which seems a bit >far-fetched to me. Racism normally implies that you think your own race >is superior to other races - not that they too should be exterminated. Seems to me that people seething with poorly articulated hatreds can choose race as one of many pre-existing channels for their rage. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 26 08:54:42 PDT 1999