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25081 [lbo-talk] Mises guy waxes anarchist -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1222> Does Iraq Show That We Need a State? by Hans-Hermann Hoppe [Posted May 21, 2003] The experience of "regime change" in Iraq raises fundamental questions about political economy and philosophy. For example, the looting and vandalizing occurring after the military defeat of the Saddam Hussein government in Baghdad <http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-041103G>has been cited as proof o ...

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Date:	Wed May 21 10:51:31 PDT 2003

25082 [lbo-talk] During the second Chechen war... -- rank: 1000

Boys, boys, stop the fighting!

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Date:	Wed May 21 10:21:49 PDT 2003

25083 [lbo-talk] DD on the USD -- rank: 1000

X-Sent: 21 May 2003 06:03:12 GMT To: dhenwood at panix.com From: dsquared at danieldavies.com Subject: The mighty dollar X-Sent-From: dsquared at danieldavies.com Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 23:03:11 -0700 (PDT) I am in email hell at the moment, which is why I haven't managed to switch my lbo-talk address over to the new system. But I'm keepng track of things via the archive and I couldn't resist chipping in my two cent's worth (EUR0.017 and falling). I don't suppose I could prevail on your good na ...

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Date:	Wed May 21 09:51:23 PDT 2003

25084 [lbo-talk] embedding - a stroke of genius -- rank: 1000

[also via Sam Smith] EMBEDDING MEDIA WAS MILITARY VICTORY AGAINST TRUTH "Americans placed the correspondents within the units and they in effect were transformed into hostages of the U.S. forces" AMNON BARZILAI, HA'ARETZ - By `embedding' more than 600 journalists with the invading troops during the Iraq war, the U.S. scored a public relations coup, while giving the public very little information. . . Since the end of the war in Iraq, a number of Israeli bodies have been studying the w ...

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Date:	Wed May 21 09:39:59 PDT 2003

25085 [lbo-talk] the classics -- rank: 1000

Quoted by Sam Smith in his Progressive Review: In a community regulated only by laws of demand and supply, but protected from open violence, the persons who become rich are, generally speaking, industrious, resolute, proud, covetous, prompt, methodical, sensible, unimaginative, insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, . . . the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, th ...

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Date:	Wed May 21 09:32:56 PDT 2003

25086 [lbo-talk] Soros selling USD -- rank: 1000

[the decline of the pounds after Soros broke the BoE was a good thing for the Brit economy, which was suffering under the preposterously high rate at which it was brought into the EU's exchange rate mechanism] Soros Selling Dollars, Hits U.S. Policy Tue May 20, 4:14 PM ET By Javier David NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros, once dubbed "The Man who broke the Bank of England," said in a television interview on Tuesday he was selling dollars in currency markets, briefl ...

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Date:	Tue May 20 19:34:51 PDT 2003

25087 [lbo-talk] West and the Wachowski's -- rank: 1000

speaking of which, from today's Page Six in the NY Post... >'MATRIX'-MAKER 'STOLE' A WIFE > >THE estranged husband of the sexy dominatrix who accompanied >reclusive "Matrix Reloaded" director Larry Wachowski to the movie's >L.A. premiere says the filmmaker is a cross-dressing wife-stealer. > >Jake Miller, 40, says he's still married to Karin Winslow, 36, a >professional dominatrix who walked down the red carpet with >Wachowski, 37, alongside "Matrix" ...

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Date:	Tue May 20 19:28:05 PDT 2003

25088 [lbo-talk] Post snookered by freelancer -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - May 20, 2003 Post writer borrows a page from Blair By BEN WIDDICOMBE and LEO STANDORA DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Enquiring minds noted familiarity of Post story. Holy kangaroo - the New York Post has its own plagiarizing scandal! After writing gleefully about The New York Times' Jayson Blair scandal, the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid admitted yesterday that it published a plagiarized piece last week. The Post identified its bad boy as Robin Gregg, a freelancer who the paper's ...

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Date:	Tue May 20 14:33:37 PDT 2003

25089 [lbo-talk] Emails you never thought you would get. -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Got this email in the site my collaborator and I run. > >From: V.Zhirinovsky >Date: Saturday, May 17, 2003, 3:49:59 AM > >wonderful newsletter and site. > >V.Z. Pugliese, you hacking again? Doug

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25090 [lbo-talk] GS on the dollar -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >The thing I don't get about the dollar's drop against the euro is how it's >supposed to do much about the trade deficit, when something like three >quarters of the deficit is with five or so East Asian countries -- most of >whose currencies so far haven't risen very much (and China's hasn't changed >at all, of course). Europe doesn't account for much of our trade deficit. >Yet most of the dollar's slide has happened there. The only thing I can >think of ...

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Date:	Tue May 20 12:38:03 PDT 2003

25091 [lbo-talk] GS on the dollar -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >1) Doesn't the J-curve dictate that the trade balance should get worse >before it gets better when the dollar falls? Wouldn't that be covering >exactly these next two quarters? No. They say in the full piece that the USD started falling long enough ago that the stimulus is now about to kick in (they say the best regression fit is a 3-year change). >2) When they say the dollar's fall should be just enough to to stem the >deterioration of the trade balance, t ...

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Date:	Tue May 20 12:36:10 PDT 2003

25092 [lbo-talk] 911 urban legend? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >I always thought the tale of alleged millions "made" by some unknown >investor based on stock in airlines which were involved in 911 was >complete fabrication, but it still seems to be floating around...anybody >know where it came from ( doug?) or how it can be put to rest, with more >than just alleged common sense...as in, who the hell could make such an >investment, given that trying to collect would mean instant arrest..?? I've always thought it ...

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Date:	Tue May 20 12:19:11 PDT 2003

25093 [lbo-talk] GS on the dollar -- rank: 1000

>DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 05/20/03 Goldman Sachs Economics > >* Today's comment takes a statistical look at the likely impact >of the dollar on net exports. We estimate that the >depreciation seen to date should be just about sufficient to >stem the deterioration in the real trade balance over the next >few quarters. Thus, net trade should become a neutral rather >than negative factor for growth. This constitutes a modest >upside risk relative to our current ...

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Date:	Tue May 20 11:21:21 PDT 2003

25094 [lbo-talk] TV makes you a jingoistic idiot -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - May 15, 2003 TV Sanitized the Iraq Conflict, But a Paper Gets the Hate Mail There must have been two wars in Iraq (news - web sites). There was the war I saw and wrote about as a print journalist embedded with a tank company of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized). Then there was the war that many Americans saw, or wanted to see, on TV. That is the only conclusion I can draw while going through the e-mail messages I have received from irate readers whose ...

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Date:	Tue May 20 07:42:27 PDT 2003

25095 [lbo-talk] MCI to pay $500m -- rank: 1000

Nomiprins at aol.com wrote: >The fine is two-tenths of one percentage point of value lost. Nice. There's a heartwarming article in today's NYT about the baseball league at San Quentin. One fan is doing life under the Calif three strikes law for having broken into the coin receptacle at a laundromat. Doug

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