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20236 [lbo-talk] So anyway, the Progressive Income Tax... -- rank: 1000

<linette at taxwisdom.org> wrote: >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:35 , Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> sent: > >>What evidence do you have that the arguments of economists were ever a >>major influence on policy. It seems rather that from the 17th c. on the >>arguments of the economists always _followed_ rather than precipitated >>economic and political practice. > >Since I am not well versed in economic history, I cannot debate your point. Warning: you ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 10:18:08 PDT 2004

20237 [lbo-talk] dirty bombs: a fraud -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Plutonium dust may cause lung and bone cancer. Again, assuming the Popbitch rendition of the BBC special is accurate, then I have to think that the BBC knows at least as much about radiation risks and the dispersion of toxins by dirty bombs as you do. So maybe we should wait to see what they have to say before we jump to our own conclusions. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 10:12:44 PDT 2004

20238 [lbo-talk] more undreadble stuff from Cde Pug -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > True? >http://www.pdhealth.mil/downloads/Chem-Rad-DU.pdf >>...Once absorbed in the blood stream, uranium circulates as the >uranyl ion (U0 >22 >+), forming uranium-carbonate and uranium- >albumin complexes. >24 >Approximately 90% of a single uranium >exposure is renally eliminated in the first 24 hours. >14 >The re- >maining 10% is rapidly redistributed to the bones and other >organs. Sixty-six percent of the total uranium ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 09:36:02 PDT 2004

20239 [lbo-talk] draft? -- rank: 1000

ThatRogersWoman wrote: >I found it ironic that, after lengthy discussions about the alleged >stupidity/lack of awareness/obliviousness - pick a word - of >Americans, that many on this list either had never heard of this bill >or had forgotten Rangel's motives behind it, which, by the way, were >well-publicized at the time, and, having not scanned LBO archives (I >leave that to Yoshie), may have even been discussed here previously. It was. Rather extensively, as I recall. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 09:24:00 PDT 2004

20240 [lbo-talk] add racism to Paris Hilton's list of crimes -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - September 30, 2004 [Rush & Molloy] A sorry tale of Hilton's latest tape Paris Hilton has two faces - and one of them is very, very ugly. In a recently surfaced 12-hour videotape, Hilton is shown in a rather disturbing scene with two African-American men who ask her if she would model their fashion line. Hilton, standing with pal Brandon Davis, is polite to the men, but calls them "dumb n--s" after they leave, according to British reporter Carole Aye Maung, who ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 09:22:25 PDT 2004

20241 [lbo-talk] dirty bombs: a fraud -- rank: 1000

Do you know something the BBC doesn't? andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I am not sure that this is true. Plutonium and Uranium >238 are, I believe, highly carcinogenic in even very >small quantities, if inhaled. > >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> [via Popbitch, of all places] >> >> >> >> Dirty Lies << >> Radiation bombs are a government fantasy >> >> Last week's BBC drama abo ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 09:14:02 PDT 2004

20242 [lbo-talk] Russia just about brings Kyoto into force, maybe -- rank: 1000

Russian Move Clears Way to Bring Kyoto Into Force By Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government approved the Kyoto Protocol (news - web sites) Thursday, giving decisive support to the long-delayed climate change treaty that should allow it to come into force worldwide. The controversial pact will now be passed to the Kremlin-dominated parliament for ratification. President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites)'s government acted despite worries by many officials who say the 1997 U.N ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 08:08:30 PDT 2004

20243 [lbo-talk] dirty bombs: a fraud -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Doug Henwood Posted: > >"[via Popbitch, of all places]" > > >> Dirty Lies << > Radiation bombs are a government fantasy >~~~ >Right... and DU is an excellent source of heat to "cook" MREs. Do you have some source of info that the BBC doesn't? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 08:02:45 PDT 2004

20244 [lbo-talk] US killing twice as many civilians as resistance -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - September 25, 2004 Knight Ridder Scoop: Iraqi Civilian Casualties By E&P staff NEW YORK An exclusive report from Knight Ridder's Washington office, which has gained much renown for this sort of thing in the past year, revealed Saturday that U.S. and multinational forces and Iraqi police are killing twice as many Iraqis, most of them civilians, as attacks by insurgents. The statistics were compiled by the Iraqi Health Ministry and obtained exclusively by Knight ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 06:28:09 PDT 2004

20245 [lbo-talk] India: 7.4% growth -- rank: 1000

[comment from anyone who knows India on what this means?] At 3:53 AM -0400 9/30/04, The Dismal Scientist wrote: >GDP for India: 7.4% > >India's massive economy expanded 7.4% during the second quarter, >surprising on the upside as strong manufacturing and service sector >growth offset a poorer performance in the rural sector. While this >Q2 growth was a retreat from the first quarter's 8.2% pace, the >underlying trend is solid, highlighting the diversity and evolving >stre ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 06:25:09 PDT 2004

20246 [lbo-talk] must have been the CIA, right? -- rank: 1000

Scores of children killed in wave of Baghdad car bombings BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 45 people were killed, most of them children, and 200 others wounded in a string of car bombings in and around Baghdad, medics and the US military said. Most of the casualties were children who had gathered to watch ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new water pumping station in a working class district in the southwest of Baghdad when two car bombs exploded. Almost simultaneously, another car bomb went off near an Ira ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 06:10:26 PDT 2004

20247 [lbo-talk] draft? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 27, 2004 Rumors of Draft Are Hard to Kill Despite Denials By CHRISTOPHER COOPER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The e-mails popped up this past spring and have been circulating at an increasingly furious pace. Their unsettling message: The Bush administration, bogged down in Iraq, has made a secret pact with a lame-duck senator and a liberal congressman to resume the military draft as early as next June. Like many rumors, this one contains a germ of trut ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 06:07:08 PDT 2004

20248 [lbo-talk] dirty bombs: a fraud -- rank: 1000

[via Popbitch, of all places] >> Dirty Lies << Radiation bombs are a government fantasy Last week's BBC drama about a dirty bomb in London has helped keep everyone terrified about terrorism. But a forthcoming documentary shows that dirty bombs are actually a fantasy. The Americans should know: the CIA tried for years to make one, before realising that blowing up radioactive material won't hurt anyone. Radioactive dust disperses so quickly you'd need to be exposed to it for about a ye ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 06:00:41 PDT 2004

20249 [lbo-talk] weird stuff going down -- rank: 1000

<http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=499> Latest National Harris Interactive Online Poll Shows Bush with Two-Point Lead Among Likely Voters Some unusual things are happening The latest Harris Poll conducted between September 20 and 26, 2004 shows President George W. Bush with a two-point lead over Senator John Kerry among likely U.S. voters (48% to 46%). This poll was conducted online with the same methods used by Harris Interactive to predict the 2000 elections with ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 29 20:12:37 PDT 2004

20250 [lbo-talk] Apparently there was some error... -- rank: 1000

<linette at taxwisdom.org> wrote: >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><../attachments/20040929/134049bf/attachment.htm>../attachments/20040929/134049bf/attachment.htm > >...clicking on the link produces nonsense. .. > >Perhaps you could delete that message and then let me try to send it >again without any "attachments?" that must have happened on your end - I got it intact - but here's a resend as plain text Doug ---- Greetings to all! I confe ...

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