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1291 Capitalist support for fascism.... -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: > I I don't know how many times I've heard cretinous > history teachers say "Remember, Hitler was a member of the National > *Socialist* party..." I'm looking for something to refute the lazy, > facile claim that Hitler was a socialist, once and for all. > > ___________________________________________________________________ Alex, If my memory serves me, I think Hitler said it himself in Mein Kampf - something to the effect of "we [National ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 13 09:04:57 PST 1999

1292 students -- rank: 1000

sokol at jhu.edu wrote: > Changes in college culture. I do not think that schools and colleges ever > required anything other than following rules and instructions. Just spit > back at the teacher what you've been told, point, clink, no think. What > changed, however, is the college informal culture. Some 20 years ago > being original and different was cool. Standing out of the crowd was a > sure way of gaining popularity, meeting new people, getting into > interesting ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 08:30:46 PST 1999

1293 Oregon will pay for you to die -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > I'm going over limits, but this is strictly informative. As I understand > it, the chief actual effect of the suicide law in Oregon has not been to > increase the suicide rate but to vastly increase the prescriptions > physicians give for pain medication. > Carrol, I haven't heard this one before. I can tell you that Oregon Medicaid tried to restrict doctors in giving pain medication to Medicaid patients. They tried to bump Oxytonin prescription levels down to ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 11 11:07:44 PST 1999

1294 Oregon will pay for you to die -- rank: 1000

Nat got a piece published on Oregon Medicaid paying for assisted suicide (posted below). I've been writing about this issue for over a month and not one paper picked it up. I'm starting to think that since I wrote my book (published by Common Courage Press) that I've been labeled "red." Nat, who is a good person, is basically a liberal. Could that be it??? Or maybe I just can't write these short pieces anymore, maybe I get into more detail than op-ed editors want. Dazed and confused. ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 11 08:17:18 PST 1999

1295 students -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > > Might it have something to do with the perception that education is > "easy"? I mean, most of these students are pretty much guaranteed a B+ > just for showing up and going through the motions, whether they learn > anything or not. Fear of flunking is a surprisingly good substitute for > (and often a precursor to) love of learning, I think. Well Clinton or was it Gray Davis (gov of california) just made a b ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 21:25:11 PST 1999

1296 students -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: > snip > > I have always tried not to an elitist academic. I seldom lose my temper > and I always treat students with respect. I am not telling you these > things as a joke or to make fun of students. But it seems to me that > capitalism has succeeded rather well in preparing young people to > believe just about anything and not to know how to analyze anything. > > Mike, I think your analysis is right on the mark about what has happened to stud ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 17:50:23 PST 1999

1297 [Fwd: [BRC-ALL] CBS Evening News Attacks Us] -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: > I know all work is compelled; but does the return of > explicitly-officially sanctioned and organised slave-like forms of > work such as these tell us something - this 'something' being related > to increases in work time, maybe? > It probably is more connected to keeping wages low and unions under control. If workfare workers and prison labor are subsidized by the government, they do the work for less than the "regular" worker (in some cases threaten th ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 13:16:09 PST 1999

1298 [Fwd: [BRC-ALL] CBS Evening News Attacks Us] -- rank: 1000

> rc-am wrote: > > >carrol, anyone, have any ideas about slavery (or slave-like forms of > >work) in the US today? > There was a case in New York (last year) where deaf Mexicans were being forced to sell trinkets on the streets against their will. Some were abducted from their home villages in Mexico. Marta Russell

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 21:15:02 PST 1999

1299 BRC-NEWS mysterious new subscribers -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: > Yes. I too seem to have been added to the BRC list. Took me awhile to > realize it wasn't just a matter of getting fowards. "Ditto"(I hate theway Limbaugh ruined this phrase, it has its place) but it's cool, I don't want to unsub. Marta > > > At 02:36 AM 2/7/99 -0200, you wrote: > > > >Liza Featherstone <lfeather32 at erols.com> said on Sat, 06 Feb 1999 about > >Subject: Re: [BRC-NEWS] : > > > >this is happening to me, ...

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1300 Gus & John -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: > > > Just think of the media presence this money could buy. Think what one > little decently funded community outreach office in a hundred towns, > helping non-union folk, in everyday ways, could do to make the US of A a > union town. It really makes me sick. > > If the union rank and file took to the streets to demand refunds, half the > population would be knocking on the union door. If union folk have no > control of leadership, why should the peop ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 6 10:27:45 PST 1999

1301 Himmelfarb erupts -- rank: 1000

Doug, Max, and Barkley, Mucho thanks for the info. I knew that Gingrich wrote glowingly of her in one of his books, (Gertrude says socks should be a replacement for a welfare check) so the Kristol connection makes since. The extreme political shift is somewhat astounding, going from red-tolerant to conservative. With such an extreme shift, how can any of what she goes on and on about be geniune? marta Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: > Doug is correct that Billy Kristol is the son of > ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 5 14:50:39 PST 1999

1302 Himmelfarb erupts -- rank: 1000

Does anyone know what Himmelfarb's background is? Like where her money comes from, family political background, etc., you know, the skinny on her. Isn't she a board member of AEI, for starters? Marta Russell Doug Henwood wrote: > [More madness from the WSJ. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come - > having lost the impeachment battle, and with Clinton's approval rating > still at 66%, will the right go completely volcanic?] > > Wall Street Journal - February 4, 1999 > Co ...

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1303 Pacifica (CounterPunch) -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood posted: > THE NEUTERING OF PACIFICA > from CounterPunch, January 16-31, 1999: > > > snip > At least a dozen people were banned from Pacifica for publicly criticizing > administration policies and actions. In Los Angeles, following the removal > of radical black programmers who violated Pacifica's "dirty laundry rule" > by airing a show discussing the treatment of black programmers at Pacifica. > KPFK's general manager Mark Schubb posted a proh ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 4 15:25:28 PST 1999

1304 Murray erupts -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood forwarded: Wall Street Journal - February 2, 1999 > AND NOW FOR THE BAD NEWS > By Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. > snip > Suppose we turn instead to a less-publicized statistic, but one of the most > significant in trying to track the course of the underclass, the percentage > of young males not in the labor force. When large numbers of young men > neither work nor look for work, most are living off the underground economy > or ...

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1305 Marc Cooper responds -- rank: 1000

Paula, Sorry for the delay, I went over my limit yesterday and had to contol my urges to post. pms wrote: > Marta, > > Several years ago(during the Bush adm.) the Atlanta Regional > Commission(ARC), through their something or other, on Ageing, did an SSI > outreach program here in East Point. That's when I first realized that we > > had a high proportion of poor people, also a lot of elderly. > > I was a volunteer, and coordinated other volunteers. During training I ...

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