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21931 [lbo-talk] Karen Ryan: I'm no actress, I'm a PR professional! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000305.asp> "I feel like political roadkill," complains VNR star Ryan CJR Campaign Desk Karen Ryan (left) wants to set the record straight about those video news releases put out by the Health and Human Services Department. She is a PR professional <http://www.karenryangroup.com> and not an actress, she says. "To me, an actress would have a SAG [Screen Actors Guild] card," Ryan tells Zachary Roth. "I do feel I was singled ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 19 10:09:24 PST 2004

21932 [lbo-talk] sadness makes you want to buy stuff -- rank: 1000

[record levels of consumption in the U.S. & heavy Prozac use - a connection?] Wall Street Journal - March 19, 2004 SCIENCE JOURNAL By SHARON BEGLEY How Do You Keep The Public Shopping? Just Make People Sad March 19, 2004; Page B1 I know none of you would ever take advantage of someone in distress, so I can safely share this: If you are looking to unload an asset, be it a car or an eBay gewgaw, try to find buyers who are feeling sad, and stay away from those who are feeling disgusted, happy o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 19 09:48:31 PST 2004

21933 [lbo-talk] a friend writes... -- rank: 1000

[Some powerful reasoning & argumentation here!] >Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:43:52 -0800 (PST) >From: One World Living <oneworldliving at yahoo.com> >Subject: Critique of Null >To: dhenwood at panix.com > >Your attack upon Gary Null demonstrates two points. > >1) Your professional jealousy concerning a man whose >knowledge far surpasses all the garbage that you were >taught in med school, and the fact that he does not >have the dubious title of "MD&q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 19 07:54:09 PST 2004

21934 [lbo-talk] really bad political music -- rank: 1000

[You gotta hear this to believe it - sung from the personna of a "real" cowboy, a rebuke of the "fake" one in the White House.] From: TrueMajority <alerts at action.truemajority.org> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:40:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: A Gift of Music It's great, isn't it, when someone bakes you cookies or gives you flowers they grew - or a handmade sweater or something they drew. Those types of gifts are the best. That's why we are so happy and touched that Stephan Smi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 19 07:52:40 PST 2004

21935 [lbo-talk] Trump wants to copyright "You're fired!" -- rank: 1000

Donald Trump seeks to copyright "You're Fired" catchphrase Mar 18 '04 NEW YORK (AFP) - At a time when the US jobless rate is running at 5.6 percent, property tycoon Donald Trump is trying to copyright his "You're Fired" catchphrase from the hugely successful TV reality show "The Apprentice." A Trump spokeswoman said Thursday that the billionaire real estate mogul had filed a copyright request with the US Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the document posted on ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 07:48:39 PST 2004

21936 [lbo-talk] Osama's brain -- rank: 1000

Zawahiri: bin Laden's top lieutenant and Al-Qaeda's intellectual ISLAMABAD, (AFP) - Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qaeda deputy leader who the Pakistani military believes it has cornered in a village near the Afghan border, is Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s closest aide and personal doctor. The United States believes Zawahiri is the main strategist behind the Al-Qaeda network and terrorist group's ideologue, and has placed a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head. "Ayman al-Zawahiri is the b ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 20:55:08 PST 2004

21937 [lbo-talk] Garner: another casualty of not following the line -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - March 18, 2004 General sacked by Bush says he wanted early elections by David Leigh Jay Garner, the US general abruptly dismissed as Iraq's first occupation administrator after a month in the job, says he fell out with the Bush circle after he called for swift and free elections and rejected an imposed programme of privatisation. In an interview to be broadcast on BBC Newsnight, Friday, March 19, he says: "My preference was to put the Iraqis in charge as soon as we can, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 18 17:02:39 PST 2004

21938 [lbo-talk] question on poverty and world bank's PPP -- rank: 1000

jeffrey fisher wrote: >On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 07:03 PM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >> >>>is there any reason why it >>>*should* be as >bad as when the first world was developing, whether it is >>>or isn't? >> >>No. It doesn't have to be as bad as when the first world was developing. >>There is, however, a POV which is dismissive of the development in the "Third >>World" and is inherently incapable accepting that such ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 18 16:50:42 PST 2004

21939 [lbo-talk] WBAI -- rank: 1000

There's a proposal circulating within WBAI to put programs on a rotating 13-week tenure with no presumption of renewal. Apparently the thinking is we need more "authentic" voices of the "community" - at a station that desperately needs more people who know what they're talking about and how to talk about it. My god. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 16:48:36 PST 2004

21940 [lbo-talk] Coming back to the list with... historical ephemera, or something -- rank: 1000

I've got an interview with Hitchens on his Orwell book at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. Scroll down to the November 7, 2002 show, or search for "Orwell." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 18 16:41:24 PST 2004

21941 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Alternative medicine -- rank: 1000

> >From mailman-bounces at lbo-talk.org Thu Mar 18 18:52:27 2004 >Delivered-To: dhenwood at panix.com >Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:52:06 -0500 >Subject: Alternative medicine >From: Mark Pavlick <mvp1 at igc.org> >To: <lbo-talk-owner at lbo-talk.org> > >Doug, > > Didn't want to post this on LBO-talk, but the National Institutes of >Health now has a whole Institute devoted to looking critically at >alternative medicine: > > http://ncc ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 16:24:06 PST 2004

21942 [lbo-talk] re: Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null -- rank: 1000

Part two of the question: how much of it goes on? Michael Perelman wrote: >it is true. > > >On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:32:19PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Hari Kumar wrote: >> >> > However, I do seem to recall that various plants in threatened >> >areas such as the Amazon were being 'snapped' up & 'patented' >> >> Standard story in almost every anti-globalization rant. Is it really >> true, and if so, how much of it goes on? ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 16:23:46 PST 2004

21943 [lbo-talk] re: Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null -- rank: 1000

Hari Kumar wrote: > However, I do seem to recall that various plants in threatened >areas such as the Amazon were being 'snapped' up & 'patented' Standard story in almost every anti-globalization rant. Is it really true, and if so, how much of it goes on? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 18 15:32:19 PST 2004

21944 [lbo-talk] Iraq poll -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood quotes an ABC News poll: > >> more oppose than support the presence of coalition >> forces there now (although most also say they should >> stay for the time being) > >What the fuck is that supposed to mean? They don't like being occupied, but fear chaos if the troops left tomorrow, I guess. Some people don't like to hear that, but it's pretty much what Christian Parenti and the Gallup guy have said. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 18 15:26:30 PST 2004

21945 [lbo-talk] Re: Natural/Herbal medicine (was Gary Null) -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Doug also asks: > >> If there really were an untapped trove of "cures" in the >>alternative armamentarium, wouldn't the drug industry be all over >>them, trying to standardize, patent, and overcharge? > >Patent is the problem. You cannot patent something found in nature. But you can patent substances removed from nature and subsequently processed. As I recall, many, if not a majority, of commercial drugs originate in plants. And if it ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 13:24:47 PST 2004