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To: John Hunt who wrote (32523)	4/26/1999 7:51:00 AM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116760

Nostradamus thinks the US people will tolerate 7 months worth of body bags? What a nut. Watch silver gain another .15 this week.

To: John Hunt who wrote (32523)	4/26/1999 8:46:00 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116760

OT And where do those great Wall Street profits come from? Why do we sorry about prison labor in the third world? And they'll be making a lot more than license plates and road signs. One product of Oregon's inmate factories are uniforms for McDonald's. Tennessee inmates stitch together jeans for Kmart and JC Penney, as well as $80 wooden rocking ponies for Eddie Bauer. Mattresses and furniture are perennial favorites in prison factories, and Ohio inmates even produced car parts for Honda, until the United Auto Workers intervened. Prisoners have been employed doing data entry, assembling computer circuit boards and even taking credit card ticket orders for TWA. But private industry isn't the only sector eager to exploit cheap prison labor. On June 14, 1995, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly rejected an amendment to the 1996 Defense Authorization bill which would have permitted the Defense Department to use nonviolent offender inmates provided by state or local corrections facilities to do construction and maintenance services at military installations. Although prison manufacturing facilities do offer short-term benefits at a time when budgets are strained to the breaking point, the system is ripe for exploitation and abuse by government and corporate entities seeking to cut financial corners. Proponents of prison labor say it is "good" for inmates, providing income and on-the-job training they would have never received otherwise. But due to a lack of restrictions to prevent abuse of the prison labor force, many inmates view the situation very differently. At Soledad near Monterey, California, prisoners earn 45 cents per hour making blue work shirts, which, once deductions are taken out, adds up to $60 for a month of 40-hour work weeks. "They put you on a machine and expect you to put out for them," Soledad inmate Dino Navarrete told Arm the Spirit. "Nobody wants to do that. These jobs are jokes to most inmates here." So why do they do it? In California, prisoners who refuse to work are moved to discliplinary housing and lose canteen priveleges, as well as "good time" credit that slices hard time off their sentences. Corporatization of prison labor abuses inmates, exploits their labor and inevitably reduces the value of the private sector work force. What is a troubling trend today may become a social and economic disaster in the future. ParaScope will be keeping a close eye on the trend towards prison labor; stay tuned for future updates on the situation. For more information, see the sources below, or consult the Prison Activist Resource Center. parascope.com

To: John Hunt who wrote (32523)	4/26/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116760

John : When I read Cape Town I nearly fell off my chair! A war zone it is, but there is no way WW3 can start there?! Those folks are so busy smoking marijuana that they wouldn't know what day of the week it is. In fact, if they called a war in Cape Town most of them wouldn't even know it. By the way, it's not me who wrote it, it's an "academic" called Breytenbach. Amazing how, every time there's trouble, an "expert" appears and starts quoting Nostradamus. Because Nostradamus' prophesies stop in year 2000 some believers say that's going to be the end of the world. So, it looks like we shouldn't worry about the POG. We should just go out and enjoy ourselves. Only seven months left.