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751 (Resend with corrections) Shekel Rate, Interest Rate, Stagflation and 'Good' Inflation -- rank: 1000

Hey all, Excuse, perhaps, my economic ignorance, but I have some questions revolving around the Israeli economy, specifically centering on the drastic weakening of the shekel in the past year or so, and the responses of the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Israel. First off, it seems to me that there are basically two general types of inflation (I don't know real definitions so I am just making up my own names for them): Strong Economy Inflation: Falling unemployment, rising real wages, highe ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Jun 12 01:33:18 PDT 2002

752 Tanzim intended to stop terrorism -- rank: 1000

From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> > But under present conditions the only people who will come to the hall, > no matter how you phrase the invitation, will be people who already > agree, and there aren't enough of them now to carry out (e) above. > > It is just so fucking easy to sit and dream up what "we" (whoever we is) > should say or call for. It is so fucking hard to find and/or build a > responsive audience willing to listen and capable ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Jul 27 03:31:24 PDT 2002

753 Tanzim intended to stop terrorism -- rank: 1000

Sorry I am longwinded today, but it is infrequent, so I am excused...;-) Doug: 2) How is that attack playing in Israel? Any sense that Sharon has gone too far? Bryan: The Israeli government and media are doing full time damage control on the incident, and my guess is that when the first retaliatory bombing comes from Hamas et al., that the Israeli public will react just as their now being primed to do...rightious indignation and demands for a retaliation (but it won't be a retaliation, because n ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jul 25 15:47:13 PDT 2002

754 Tanzim intended to stop terrorism -- rank: 1000

Tanzim intended to stop terrorism' - Alex Fishman in Yediot Aharonot Once again Yediot Aharonot's Alex Fishman (strategic and military correspondent) publishes important information and commentary, apparently reflecting the views of dissident elements within the army. The following articles (I separated into two separate mailings) take up two full pages in today's (July, 23) issue of Yediot, Israel's largest mass-circulation paper. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jul 25 10:00:52 PDT 2002

755 Strategic/Military correspondent of Yideot Aharonot accuses Isrrael of deliberately sabotaging chance for cease-fire -- rank: 1000

[second article - published alongside the first one] A justified target, a strange timing By Alex Fishman Is it possible that somebody in Israel's high political and military echeleons wanted to deliberately sabotage the chances for a cease-fire? God forbid. Such a thing is unthinkable in our country. But then, how to explain that exactly an hour and half after the Tanzim heads agreed upon the text of their call for a unilateral ceasefire, Israel liquidated in such a clumsy way the head of the H ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jul 25 10:03:53 PDT 2002

756 Bankruptcy cloud has silver lining for some...lawyers, bankers and employees in retention schemes -- rank: 1000

Bankruptcy cloud has silver lining for some >From the Financial Times By Joshua Chaffin in New York Published: July 22 2002 1:12 | Last Updated: July 22 2002 1:12 WorldCom - a disaster to its shareholders and bank lenders - is now likely to prove a bonanza to its lawyers and bankruptcy advisers. After succumbing to the biggest bankruptcy in US corporate history, the troubled telecommunications company is expected to generate enormous fees for the specialist attorneys and investment bankers wh ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Mon Jul 22 00:26:04 PDT 2002

757 don't boycott israeli academics -- rank: 1000

Hey All, I just want to clarify that the call for economic boycott coming from Israeli academics and, in my understanding Chomsky also, is for a boycott only of Israeli academic institutions and the government itself, not for boycotting of individual academics. I add here links to several articles from Indymedia Israel on the issue of academic boycott. I do not publish here the articles, knowing the majority's annoyance with long articles: Why Economic Boycott - A reply to an Israeli comrade. ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Jul 16 01:18:05 PDT 2002

758 Bourdieu list says he died today (RUMOR) -- rank: 1000

I am on a Bourdieu list, and someone just sent this letter that Pierre Bourdieu died. I did a search and could find no other news about it. So if it isn't true, I am sorry. DISCLAIMER: I am just trying to find out if anyone knows one way or the other if it is true. DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!!!! (I hope that was obvious enough so that I don't get flack if it turns out to be untrue) Bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremias Blaser" <Jeremias.Blaser at iepi.unil.ch> To: &l ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jan 24 05:52:47 PST 2002

759 Sharon upping the Ante -- rank: 1000

Hey all, Two weeks ago, while I was moving apartments, someone broke into my old apartment through a window and stole some boxes of my stuff, including my computer (plus my Israeli and American passports, drivers liscence, etc.) It took until two days ago to get my girlfriends old computer updated with more memory and such, so that I could use it. Finding the thousand some e-mails (moslty LBO) was real fun. Sorry if I don't read all of them. Anyway, here is a decent article from todays Ha'aretz ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Jan 22 23:31:19 PST 2002

760 Israel's image of itself -- rank: 1000

Hey all, Someone published this cartoon onto Indymedia Israel and I thought it was pretty good. It is Israel's ideological dream of itself and it's 'enlightened occupation'. Take a look at: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/local/webcast/uploads/love.gif Bryan Atinsky IMC-Israel English Editorial Coordinator http://www.indymedia.org.il -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20020103/83ded155/attachment.htm>

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Jan 3 01:40:31 PST 2002

761 Selfish Genes & Population Demographics -- rank: 1000

Hey all, Haven't really had the time to follow this thread too closely, but have any of you read Sober and Wilson's book Unto Others? I thought the book gave a pretty thourough argument for group selection in evolution and for the selection of altruistic behaviour. They argue that altruism can arise in groups even when there are high costs to the individual, as long as selection at the level of the group is stronger than that taking place at the level of the individual. The book is broken up i ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Fri Feb 22 11:41:20 PST 2002

762 The Fantastic Flying Plastic Wrapped Rabbi -- rank: 1000

Plastic wrap gets passenger kicked off plane El Al prevented an ultra-Orthodox passenger from flying wrapped in a plastic bag this Friday, even returning the taxiing plane to its parking spot at Ben-Gurion Airport in order to remove him from the aircraft. Faced with this threat, the passenger agreed to remove the bag. The passenger, a cohen (member of the priestly caste), had wrapped himself in the bag for fear the plane would fly over the Holon cemetery. Cohanim are not supposed to enter a ceme ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Feb 10 02:12:09 PST 2002

763 bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

> Folks can blame Gore for all his failings, justifiably, but the refusal to > deal with Nader's responsibility as well shows how absolutely resistant > third party folks are to analysis. They make predictions and when they are > proven false, they just pretend they didn't make them. On two level's this argument seems specious. First, as you stated "The fact is that he won more votes than Bush", so in this sense it wasn't either Gore or Nader's fault for Gore's loss...it ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Tue Feb 5 07:55:34 PST 2002

764 Israel jails 600 reservists -- rank: 1000

As O'Conner stated, there have been some of the people willing to talk to the foreign press...as with his BBC example. However, it may very well be that some of the individual reserve duty officers who are refusing to serve do hold back, as you stated, and don't want to talk to the foreign press. I think that one has to seperate the individuals who refuse to serve from the organizations like Yesh Gvul and New Profile. From what I heard today on Israeli television (a half hour interview with one ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Feb 2 14:20:51 PST 2002

765 Israel jails 600 reservists -- rank: 1000

Hello Peoples, Yesh Gvul ("There is a Limit/Border"), one of the two main conscientious objector organizations (Yesh Gvul backs soldiers who refuse 'certain' assignments "supporting soldiers who refuse assignments of a repressive or aggressive nature," while New Profile is a conscientious objector organization in the more explicit sense)...Anyway, Yesh Gvul published this petition (in Hebrew and English) onto the Indymedia Israel site yesterday. Hebrew version: http://www.ind ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Feb 2 03:37:35 PST 2002