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25216 Hutton: Blair and the US hard right -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > Productivity and social mobility are now higher in Old Europe >than in the US - > >Doug can correct me on this, but I believe US productivity still >tops Europe. I don't know about social mobility figures. Mobility stats aren't much different between the U.S. & WEur. On productivity, depends on how you measure it. On a very broad measure - GDP per hour worked - there's not much difference between the U.S. and EU. (More Americans work, and wor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 12:46:50 PST 2003

25217 You are not authorized to view this page -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: > > http://english.aljazeera.net/ Which has now disappeared from namespace: "The specified server could not be found."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 12:38:02 PST 2003

25218 Explananda Re: Psycho-sexual explanation -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >We are also interested in historical differences and causal >explanations of them as well. When and how did the myth of black >men's sexual rapacity arise? What gave rise to it? What changes >has the myth undergone? What caused the changes? When and how did >the ideal of manliness as the ability and willingness to kill when >you are ordered by your commanders to do so arise? What gave rise >to it? What changes has the ideal undergone? What cau ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 12:36:50 PST 2003

25219 Monster's Ball -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Kate Smith. For them as don't get this reference, she was a fat pop >singer, now forgotten, who made a rep by singing the Star Spangled >Banner. Wasn't it God Bless America? When I was a youngster first listening to WBAI, one of the host tried to encourage pledges during a fund drive by playing the record over & over, saying he'd only stop when he'd raised $1,000. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 12:31:58 PST 2003

25220 Why Oil Is Not A Strategic Good -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Doug: >>Are you assuming that if Bush is successful with his war, it will >>result in a lower oil price than otherwise would have prevailed? I >>don't buy that at all. > >No, the opposite. Hmm, so Paul A thinks the war will result in lower oil prices; you, higher. Clearly opinions differ. My prejudice is that the oil market is too big to be manipulated for very long. Further research is clearly necessary. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 12:28:29 PST 2003

25221 Why Oil Is Not A Strategic Good -- rank: 1000

Paul_A wrote: >I basically agree with your line of thinking Doug, but doesn't it >become complicated? If things go their way, those Texas companies >will soon own a lot more oil in Kirkuk and Ramaillah than in Midland >and Odessa. Do the majors own Texas fields, or independents? > The Iraqi fields produce very low cost crude and may only be >paying taxes to the Military govt and its successor. Won't this >change these companies mind a bit - move them towards lower >pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 12:26:21 PST 2003

25222 covering the war -- rank: 1000

New York Magazine - April 7, 2003 This Media Life Live From Doha . . . . . . it's a TV-ready war update spoonfed to hundreds of journalists by the U.S. military! A report from the surreal, over-air-conditioned million-dollar briefing center in the middle of nowhere. By Michael Wolff I've embedded myself in the million-dollar press center at General Tommy Franks's Central Command (centcom) forward headquarters in Doha, Qatar. Camp As Sayliyah, where the press center is safely stowed, is far enoug ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 09:17:30 PST 2003

25223 Arnett fired -- rank: 1000

NBC Severs Ties With Journalist Arnett 41 minutes ago By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - NBC fired journalist Peter Arnett on Monday, saying it was wrong for him to give an interview with state-run Iraqi TV in which he said the American-led coalition's initial plan for the war had failed because of Iraq (news - web sites)'s resistance. Arnett called the interview a "misjudgment" and apologized. Arnett, on NBC's "Today" show on Monday, said he was sorry for hi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 06:54:38 PST 2003

25224 Israel looking for cheap Iraqi oil? -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - March 31, 2003 Paritzky requests assessment of old oil line from Iraq to Haifa By Akiva Eldar National Infrastructures Minister Joseph Paritzky has requested an assessment of the condition of the old oil pipeline from Mosul to Haifa, with an eye toward renewing the flow of oil in the event of friendly post-war regime in Iraq. Paritzky explained to Haaretz Sunday that resurrecting the pipeline to Haifa could save Israel the high cost of shipping oil from Russia. He is certain that the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 06:42:24 PST 2003

25225 Perle still touting short war -- rank: 1000

Perle: Iraq War Could Be Shorter Than Gulf War Sun Mar 30, 2:31 PM ET By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Controversial Pentagon (news - web sites) adviser Richard Perle said on Sunday the Iraq (news - web sites) war could be shorter than the six-week Gulf War (news - web sites) in 1991, predicting again the conflict could be easier than it has so far turned out to be. "The last Gulf War involved several weeks of bombing before the first ground forces touched Iraqi soil. I don't think it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 06:25:27 PST 2003

25226 more war polls -- rank: 1000

Poll: Washington Too Optimistic Entering Iraq War Sun Mar 30, 5:55 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of Americans believe the U.S. government was too optimistic in its assessments of the probable course of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) and one in three would not support the war if more than 500 U.S. troops were to die, according to a poll released on Sunday. The Time/CNN poll also suggested Americans are resigned to a long conflict, with 46 percent saying they expect the war to la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 31 06:23:13 PST 2003

25227 dead -- rank: 1000

Reuters writes: >The United States has lost at least 39 dead and 104 injured with 17 >listed as missing since the war began. Britain has lost 24 dead. >Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, in a letter to U.N. Secretary >General Kofi Annan (news - web sites), said 420 Iraqi civilians had >died and at least 4,000 were wounded since the start of the war. And <http://www.iraqbodycount.net> is saying 433-541 Iraqi civilian deaths. But what's with the U.S./UK ratio? Brits are gettin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 30 20:26:48 PST 2003

25228 Too simple (Was Re: Radio Doug) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >At 10:11 PM -0500 3/30/03, Michael Pollak quoted Ellen Willis: >>Rather, Islamist passion for Israel's obliteration has at its core >>revulsion at the perceived contamination of the holy land by an >>infidel nation; worse, a modern democracy; even worse, one >>populated by that quintessentially alien, bloodsucking tribe of >>rootless cosmopolitans, the Jews. > >I suspect that Willis means to say we are missing the "psycho-sexua ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 30 20:09:45 PST 2003

25229 Hitch -- rank: 1000

A friend writes to point out: >According to the Observer one C. Hitchens said on 28 Feb the >following: "There will be no war--there will be a fairly brief and >ruthless military intervention. The President will give an order. >[The attack] will be rapid, accurate and dazzling...It will be >greeted by the majority of the Iraqi people as an emancipation." Also, CH thought they Rep Guard would fold quickly because "no one wants to be the last to die for Saddam Hussei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 30 19:49:32 PST 2003

25230 Daschle eats his words, and then some -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I of all people make no excuses for Dems, but 70% of the public >supports this way. Those are hard numbers for politician to >disregard. jks There's a lot of ambivalence and complexity behind those numbers. And if someone prominent managed to articulate that, the poll numbers might look different. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 30 08:02:33 PST 2003