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18406 [lbo-talk] 'bogus' WTC Collapse story -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >a top former Bush adminsitration official Huh? He was "former chief economist for the Department of Labo." That's not a top official - that's a functionary. And he's a resident of the conservative think tank world - "director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas." How do you know he's not just another right-wing nut? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 08:09:09 PDT 2005

18407 [lbo-talk] Sloterdijk lashes out at French (& Dutch) NO voters... -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:09:50 +0200 From: Patrice Riemens <patrice at xs4all.nl> To: nettime-l at bbs.thing.net Original article for French readers: <http://www.lepoint.fr/edito/document.html?did=164024> "The infantile narcissism of the French no" Peter Sloterdijk is among the 'maverick' fraction of European 'public intellectuals' who were for the Yes vote (Antonio Negri being probably its most famous exponent), and are now turning in anger against that of the majority, b ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 07:54:06 PDT 2005

18408 [lbo-talk] Hill & Rupe - a new power duo? -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - June 15, 2005 'They are very similar-both hard-nosed characters.' -Nicholas Wapshott, long-time New York bureau chief for The Times of London The Odd Couple '08 by Ben Smith Hillary Clinton hasn't had her Hayman Island moment. Yet. Hayman is a resort off Queensland, Australia, to which Rupert Murdoch flew Tony Blair in 1995 for the annual conference of his right-of-center media megalith, News Corp. It was a crucial step in the complex and surprising negotiation between the tw ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 07:50:57 PDT 2005

18409 [lbo-talk] workers of the world - divide! -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - June 14, 2005 Fraying House of Labor By Harold Meyerson The dissident unions of the AFL-CIO are meeting in Washington today to announce that they are building a halfway house. The Change to Win Coalition -- and boy, is that ever a provisional-sounding and utterly clunky name -- will begin life neither entirely within nor without the AFL-CIO. One of its founders, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the AFL-CIO's largest affiliate, passed a resolution last weekend a ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 07:25:49 PDT 2005

18410 [lbo-talk] Harvard, Shleifer, fraud, etc. -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 15, 2005 Harvard U. and Justice Dept. Agree to Settle Lawsuit Over Russian-Aid Project By ERIC WILLS Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice, Harvard University, and two other defendants reached a tentative agreement on Monday to settle a civil lawsuit in which the university, a professor, and a staff member were accused of conspiring to defraud the federal government through a program intended to help Russia make the transition to a market eco ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 07:05:26 PDT 2005

18411 [lbo-talk] gov sez prisons aren't full of potheads -- rank: 1000

From: NewsFromNCJRS at ncjrs.org Subject: Prisoners and pot: debunking the myth Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:22:58 -0400 The Office of National Drug Control Policy announces the release of a publication that debunks the myth that America's prisons are filled with low-level, nonviolent marijuana users. Pro-drug advocates actively spread misinformation about the number of people in prison for marijuana, and their claims are widely accepted as conventional wisdom. But they are lies. "Who's Really ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 06:28:52 PDT 2005

18412 [lbo-talk] (no subject) -- rank: 1000

[I'm not endorsing this by any means; I'm just circulating it for its news value.] From: "Stephen M Brown" <sbrown13 at nyc.rr.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:13:41 -0400 You might be interested in this short excerpt from a 4-year-old news article about trouble at WBAI. Here we go all over again. (Full article at <http://www.johntarleton.net/wbai_funds.html>.) ******************************************************************************* NEW YORK CITY--WBAI's efforts to fir ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 19:23:04 PDT 2005

18413 [lbo-talk] 'bogus' WTC Collapse story -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>I've noticed that retired engineers often have funny ideas about >>economics ... > >Funnier than the ideas economists often have about economics? Hard to say. Engineers seem to gravitate towards monetary quick fixes, be they the gold standard or post-Keynesian credit schemes. They also think the system could be run rationally, like a machine, as if you could just design your way around greed, ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 17:49:51 PDT 2005

18414 [lbo-talk] 'bogus' WTC Collapse story -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Do you have anything more 'concrete' if you'll excuse the expression...? I don't see why a retired economist is the go-to guy on structural engineering. I've noticed that retired engineers often have funny ideas about economics, so... Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 16:55:50 PDT 2005

18415 [lbo-talk] 'bogus' WTC Collapse story -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >UPI Hears... > >By John Daly >UPI International Correspondent > >Washington, DC, Jun. 13 (UPI) -- Insider notes from United Press >International for June 8 > >Former Bush team member during his first administration is now >voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center >on 9-11. Former chief economist... Wow. He's very versatile for an economist! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 16:27:20 PDT 2005

18416 [lbo-talk] Abe Rosenthal in diapers! -- rank: 1000

[pic at original] <http://www.gawker.com/news/media/village-voice/index.php#wednesdays-with-sydney-early-ill-see-your-foot-fetish-and-raise-you-a-diaper-kink-107860> Wednesdays With Sydney (Early!): I'll See Your Foot Fetish and Raise You a Diaper Kink That wunderkind new "Media Clips" columnist at the Voice, Syd Schanberg, this week looks at the Post/News pissing match. We think his point is that the two tabs should focus less on each other and more on aggressively covering the ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 16:21:41 PDT 2005

18417 Freddy's Buffet Religion Re: [lbo-talk] sheilaism -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >if that's the case, then I don't think I would find so many >religious adherents who don't ask questions of their faith at all. As I remember my Baltimore Catechism, it asked lots of questions - something like 100 in all - but also provided the answers, which we were supposed to memorize in order to get confirmed. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 11:01:41 PDT 2005

18418 [lbo-talk] Re: China [was: Blowing Up an Assumption] -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Washington: With the Khodorkovsky trial in Russia now concluded, >Western journalists and commentators need to ask themselves some >hard questions about the record of their profession. > >They might begin by making a comparison between the amount of space, >and outrage, devoted by the Western media to this trial and the >limited attention and anger directed by the same Western media to >the process by which Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the other " ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 09:20:35 PDT 2005

18419 overposted, sorry, last post: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: China [was: Blowing Up an Assumption] -- rank: 1000

When overposting, the thing to do is not acknowledge it an apologize - it's to stop posting! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 09:15:34 PDT 2005

18420 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly: journalist? -- rank: 1000

Many Americans Call O'Reilly a Journalist By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer Mon Jun 13, 6:29 PM ET WASHINGTON - About 40 percent of Americans say they consider talk show host Bill O'Reilly a journalist - more than would define famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward the same way, according to a poll conducted this spring. O'Reilly is on the Fox News Channel, offering his often tart conservative opinions, while Woodward has spent a career writing news stories and books. Only 30 percent ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 09:14:05 PDT 2005