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1306 Marc Cooper responds -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Local oversight boards might be useful, especially for those who are > already on the recipient lists. But what of people who are entitled to help > but have not received it, because they don't know that it exists, or > because there are too many obstacles that discourage applications, etc.? > Thanks for the reading suggestions. I would see a function of the oversight board being community outreach in as many forms as possible to make people aware of gove ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 1 14:21:15 PST 1999

1307 Marc Cooper responds -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > An excellent post! The only qualification I would add is that means-tested > govt. social programs have been also run as if they were private charities, > even before the 'welfare reform.' > > As far as I know, never in the history of US welfare programs has everyone > who is legally entitled to assistance received it, and not simply because > of technical mistakes on the part of social workers. In fact, the gap > (between entitlement and actual ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 1 08:35:59 PST 1999

1308 Marc Cooper responds -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: > Well said, Marta. Cooper trying to make something of the Huff's charity > was a real disappointment. This woman is cold-blooded. Probably just put > compassion into the name of her charity so's she could hear herself say the > word. I know I like the way she says it. Green Acres is one of my all time > favorite works of art. > > In a huff-p Thanks, I greatly appreciated your insight on Arianna's new "do." It must have been very difficult for her t ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 1 08:24:24 PST 1999

1309 MediCal scams -- rank: 1000

When Pete Wilson was governor, his tactic to control rising MediCal costs was to cut the budget - and harm the poor needing medical services. Now we find out that some CA government officials had been tipped off during his administration that there were big scammers (not individuals who cheat the system but capitalist business owners) ripping off the state program but no one did nothing about it. The newspapers report that the FBI and Gov. Davis are the ones responsible for bringing this to li ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 16:24:54 PST 1999

1310 Tax breaks and WTO -- rank: 1000

This may be the one and only progressive thing the WTO has done. Of course Spotlight woud complain. "The United States has appealed a ruling by the World Trade Organization that condemed the $2.5 billion in tax breaks for US. companies with overseas subsidiaries as being illegal subsidies. According to the UPI, if the United States loses the appeal, "one outcome could be the loss of a naton's control over its own domestic tax statutes." (Spotlight 12-99) -- Marta Russell

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 15:23:05 PST 1999

1311 Colleges closing -- rank: 1000

A friend sent this list of 14 Black Colleges that are closing due to financial problems: Allen Univ.(Columbia, SC) Arkansas Baptist College(Little Rock, AK) Barber-Scotia College(Concord, NC) Central State Univ.(Wilberforce, OH) Houston-Tillotson College(Austin, TX) Jarvis Christian College(Hawkins, TX) Lane College (Jackson, TN) Mary Holmes College(West Point, MS) Miles College(Birmingham, AL) Paul Quinn College(Dallas, TX) Southwestern Christian College(Terrell, TX) Texas College(Tyler, TX) Te ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 22 08:00:07 PST 1999

1312 The Problem with Chomsky -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > > Libertarian. Socialist. Anarchist. I wish Chomsky would make up his mind. > > Why does he have to? He's a tireless, intelligent, well-read, and > generous critic of U.S. imperialism, a thoroughly admirable writer > and human being. How many other people can you say that about? > > Doug I agree about Chomsky even though he told me after complimenting me on something I had written that he was too busy "with more important things" (than di ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 17 13:59:08 PST 1999

1313 handicapitalism -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > [The WSJ website includes a link to a slick webzine, WeMedia > <http://www.wemedia.com>, targeted at this market. Marta, any > comments?] > > Wall Street Journal - December 15, 1999 > > People With Disabilities > Are Next Consumer Niche > > By JOSHUA HARRIS PRAGER > Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL > > Handicapitalism. snip Comments yes, yuck and no surprise to me that the propaganda is flowing so freely in the Wall Stre ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 15 11:22:09 PST 1999

1314 Is the Coalition Falling Apart? -- rank: 1000

This message is from a coordinator of the People's Global Action Caravan in Pennsylvania that dozens of organizations have already formed a coalition around demonstrating at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Listserves have been created, and they want to coordinate with protests at the Dem Convention in L.A. I haven't yet checked to see what groups are participating. If you want to contact this coalition, email: Philly2000-subscribe at listbot.com for action alerts only July3-s ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 9 09:33:45 PST 1999

1315 JKSCHW at aol.com: Re: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>: Re: Re: Posner and Gates -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz - who must be a libertarian himself, could not be more wrong, to insinuate that Posner does not impose his belief system on cases. He has consistently ruled for business and the interest of business every opportunity he gets. Judges and lawyers who come from the opposite pole - have written excellent criticisms on Posner. These can be found in law journals. See for instance, Valparaiso University Law Review Vol. 24, Robin Paul Malloy (winter 1990). marta russell James Farmelant ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 2 07:25:13 PST 1999

1316 JKSCHW at aol.com: Re: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>: Re: Re: Posner and Gates -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: > --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- > From: JKSCHW at aol.com > To: farmelantj at juno.com > Cc: JKSCHW at aol.com > Subject: Re: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>: Re: Re: Posner and > Gates > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:18:56 EST > Message-ID: <0.6d428034.25773f20 at aol.com> > > snip > > This is all academic theory, good clean fun in the journals. Mostly it > does > not infect Posner's interpretation ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 2 08:04:04 PST 1999

1317 Independent Media Center Under Siege -- rank: 1000

http://www.indymedia.org Independent Media Center Under Siege by David Murphy and David Potter Reported at 9:08pm on Tuesday, November 30, 1999 Police attack reporters as they try to enter the Independent Media Center. Pursuing protesters, a line of some 35 police in full riot gear stretched across the 3rd Ave. between Union and Pike some 10 feet North of the Independent Media Center (at 1415 3rd). Approximately 10 protesters sat across from them 30 feet to the South, with another 20 persons sca ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 1 15:45:21 PST 1999

1318 Posner and Gates -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Posner is damn prolific, pieces in The New Republic > and National Review pretty frequently. Tons of books, "Sex > and Reason,"(!!!) and one on impeachment that just came > out.Just checked at amazon.com, the guy has over a dozen > books at least. Anybody in law school ora law school > professor, on lbo list, to summarize Posner and the law > and econ folks to us non-lawyer > types? Michael > ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 1 09:41:40 PST 1999

1319 social planning (was 'revolution and proletariat') -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: > I'm not Angela nor do I play her in cyberspace but you might check out > Beatrice Webb's _My Apprenticeship_ where she expresses her admiration > for Herbert Spencer and her _Our Partnership_ where she expresses a > lack of faith in the abiliies of the 'average man' (her phrase) and > suggests that a room full of working people approaches 'raving > imbecility' (again, her phrase). > > Anthony Crosland discusses the Webbs' eugenicism in his book _Th ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 12:00:33 PDT 1999

1320 Murder vs. Killing (specifically, euthanasia) -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: citation from Girorgo Agamben's _Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life_ , Stanford Uni. Press, 1998 (cut) > the irony perhaps, is that the physicians found guilty of crimes against > humanity at the Nuremberg trials were put to death; but not such a > contradiction perhaps if you follow Agamben's argument of the connection > b/n the decisions on life/death and sovereignty -- that the assertion of > an Allied victory (of its sovereignty) had to include a spectacul ...

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