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1351 Pacifica update: Bensky fired -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > This just in.... > > Pacifica has fired 30-year veteran Larry Bensky for breaking the network's > gag rule, under which staffers are forbidden to discuss network and station > internal struggles on the air. Bensky was going to devote his entire > weekend show to the Pacifica purges. So what can one do about all this censorship?? That is what it amounts to. I've never gotten a response from Pacifica to my letter asking why they haven't had Not Dead Yet on ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Apr 10 13:54:50 PDT 1999

1352 2-bit pricks -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > [today's Sam Smith excerpt...] > > >FOREIGN POLICY > > > >"'We're not inflicting pain on these fuckers,' Clinton said, softly at > >first. 'When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers.' > >Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his > >thigh, he leaned into Tony [Lake], as if it was his fault. 'I believe in > >killing people who try to hurt you. And I can't believe we're be ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Apr 7 10:36:45 PDT 1999

1353 Treatment of GI's -- rank: 1000

The front page of the LA Times has a picture of the three captured GIs with Clintons warning to the Serbs "Don't mistreat U.S. GIs." Thousands of people are being bombed and mistreated by NATO agression and he says this. It is so disgustingly American, so ethnocentric. We can ignore all the dead and dying from the escalation of this conflict, and all the Iraqi people and the Kurds and the Timorese not being mistreated to focus on 3 GIs because they are Americans. We have a very sick ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Apr 2 10:09:57 PST 1999

1354 HMO doctor admits causing death -- rank: 1000

Returning to a subject of the past. Ctting us out of the herd. Some may remember there was discussion about Peter Singer and infanticide which turned to a discussion about health care rationing and the impact of that on disabled people. I suggested that disabled(or ill) people were being cut out of the herd under present health care economics that had shifted the way providers and hospitals get paid from fee for service to HMO profiteering off a set fee. Those in need of care are now viewed as ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Apr 1 18:28:32 PST 1999

1355 Renegades: Cockburn, Mandel, etc -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: > Re Marta's: "The Unibomber, although brilliant in some of his > analysis, failed in my book because he specifically stated that it was > ridiculous to spend any effort on bringing disabled people into the > mainstream of society" > > Basically, the Unabomber seemed interested in *creating* disabled > people. He was a profoundly disturbing figure who reminded me of > Vonnegut's characterization of the totalitarian mind as a "cuckoo cloc ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Sep 18 17:22:07 PDT 1998

1356 Renegades: Cockburn, Mandel, etc -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > Mr LoCasio's criticism is a brilliant one, only marred by his neglect of > Cockburn's greatest outrage--his dimwitted psychobabble critique of the > Unabomber, the authentic voice of the revolutionary proletariat. > I must agree with Cockburn. The Unibomber, although brilliant in some of his analysis, failed in my book because he specifically stated that it was ridiculous to spend any effort on bringing disabled people into the mainstream of society - I am ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Sep 18 13:23:06 PDT 1998

1357 Rush Limbaugh Wet Dream 1: Ressentiment -- rank: 1000

A reliable source told me that Clinton has been collecting details of members of congress personal lives for years - their sexual liaisons - and basically let them know that if he goes down they will go down. Anyone else hear of anything similar? Marta Russell MScoleman at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 98-09-13 00:30:38 EDT, bautiste writes: > > << Isn't the reason the ruling elite want to get rid of Clinton because > they can use his sex life as a way to delegitimize t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Sep 13 13:05:35 PDT 1998

1358 To Impeach or Not To Impeach -- rank: 1000

I don't mean to imply that I was FOR eliminating AFDC. It was one of the most atrocious things Clinton did. Rereading what I just wrote, I don't want to be unclear about that. Marta Marta Russell wrote: > Tom Waters wrote: > > > I think that it would be a good parlor game and probably something much > > more useful to come up with a list of Clinton's more historically > > significant crimes and put them in Starr-like form. > > > > Tom > > Here is a cri ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Sep 12 18:12:46 PDT 1998

1359 To Impeach or Not To Impeach -- rank: 1000

Tom Waters wrote: > I think that it would be a good parlor game and probably something much > more useful to come up with a list of Clinton's more historically > significant crimes and put them in Starr-like form. > > Tom Here is a crime of OPPORTUNISM at the expense of disabled children to start the Significant Crimes list: When Clinton signed the last version of welfare "reform," the Work Opportunity and Personal Responsibility Act contained a provision unrelated to tr ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Sep 12 18:07:54 PDT 1998

1360 HMO Found Responsible for Suicide -- rank: 1000

Carrol, I will risk the wrath of the master by going over my limit to answer your question. pwd is a person (or people) with a disability (or disabilities) Usually I try to redefine it before I abbreviate it, but maybe I missed this time. Best, Marta Carrol Cox wrote: > Marta Russell wrote: When a pwd saw > > Marta, please. Perhaps some people can see an abbreviation once and remember it > forever -- but not me. What is a pwd? > > Carrol

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 30 16:20:18 PST 1998

1361 HMO Found Responsible for Suicide -- rank: 1000

Fellows, Jeffrey wrote: > Thanks Marta for the post. Although I think the decision is a good one - I > believe that HMOs should be held accountable - the issue of extending legal > liability to organizations for the poor care they provide can have some > serious unintended consequences. For instance, a result of this process > could be a drive to have organizations "licensed" in the same way physicians > and advanced practice nurses are. As part of my dissertation on ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 30 14:14:21 PST 1998

1362 Barlett and Steele... -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > > I wonder what the charity was. Aid to Contras with Dependent > > Machetes? Seriously, though, aren't charitable deductions something > > that by and large only the rich can really take advantage of? Though > > I do remember seeing somewhere that the poorer one were, the more one > > tended to give, percentage-wise, of income... > > The deduction is available to all, whether or not > they itemize. Of course, the less your income th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 30 09:05:32 PST 1998

1363 HMO Found Responsible for Suicide -- rank: 1000

At least one court seems to be getting around the congressional failure to enact a bill of rights for people relying on mismanaged care. There was a big article in the LA Times today about how the insurance and HMO industries have doubled their contributions to members of congress since 1994 - this is when the talk began about the need for a bill of rights. Marta Russell > A crack in ERISA. View the original article at: > > http://www.msnbc.com/local/WVIT/122278.asp > > Here's ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 30 08:32:32 PST 1998

1364 Bill Gates Evil Empire -- rank: 1000

Alec, I should have named the post "Bill Gates family values." Another asset to Gate's thievery is the impenetrability the Microsoft empire by a smaller company. The CEO of one of the companies that Gates ripped off (I cannot remember its name) said he "suspected" Gates of doing something underhanded but could not prove it. The government, on the other hand, had the evidence in the form of Microsoft memos and documents which they had gotten in the anti-trust probe, that pro ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Oct 21 10:47:00 PDT 1998

1365 Bill Gates Evil Empire -- rank: 1000

There was a report on Pacifica re Gates being charged with anti-trust violations by the government. That is old news like the Archer Midland Daniels price fixing scandal, but Gates has done far more. Charges include that Gates stole software and other innovative business-building ideas from competitors. He did this by picking their brains in business meetings where there was some kind of mutual business promise, but then would run home with the goodies and do his own version of these smaller ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Oct 20 15:33:11 PDT 1998