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25561 Sending text e-mail instead of HTML -- rank: 1000

Timothy Francis-Wright wrote: >Last week (I think), Doug (I think) wanted to know how to keep AOL >from including HTML code in its e-mail massages. Anyone trying >to get AOL or another service to send text e-mail instead of HTML >might look at this in-depth document: > >http://www.expita.com/nomime.html And for users of AOL 8.0, the relevant entry is: >AOL 8.0 > >The easiest method is to use AOL Mail on the Web ><http://www.aol.com/aolmail> to send mail to In ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 13:05:29 PST 2003

25562 Gold -- rank: 1000

Randy Steindorf wrote: >What about gold as the universal equivalent commodity par >excellence. Does the "flight from paper assets" to gold under >economic duress confirm Marx's statement that a monetary system >based on paper currencies backed by state power can never break free >from gold as the basis of measuring value in a capitalist >economy? The continuing attempt to break free from a commodity >based monetary standard continually produces "currency cri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 12:10:51 PST 2003

25563 Graham: SA behind 9/11? -- rank: 1000

Newsweek - March 10, 2003 (via MSNBC.com) Graham: His 9-11 'Outrage' The Florida senator says reported FBI and CIA failures inspired his White House run What prompted Florida Sen. Bob Graham to join the Democratic presidential sweepstakes last week? The 66-year-old Graham - who recently had heart surgery - has toyed with the idea of running for years, but says he always lacked "fire in the belly." WHAT GAVE IT to him this time, he tells NEWSWEEK, was his experience last year overseeing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 12:00:31 PST 2003

25564 oh those French! -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 3, 2003 Toyota executive backs French workers By James Mackintosh in Geneva and Peter Marsh in Fukuyama, Japan American workers at Toyota's factories do not put as much effort into their jobs as French employees, a senior executive at the Japanese carmaker - the world's third largest - said. Toyota's French factory is 20 per cent more efficient than its US operations because well-off American workers do not need the money so much, while French staff are motivated to work ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 10:47:06 PST 2003

25565 Funding the War -- rank: 1000

Paul_A wrote: >There ARE Geneva Conventions against the use of natural resources by >an occupying force but ... Which is a nice lead-in to this, another example of how the U.S. doesn't give a damn about the "rules" it expects others to obey. Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - March 3, 2003 Come on, America, Play By the Rules! By PASCAL LAMY BRUSSELS -- Neither the U.S. nor the European Union has a 100% record to brag about when it comes to the implementation of rulings of the World ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 10:44:08 PST 2003

25566 Merrill Lynch on Turkey -- rank: 1000

Merrill Lynch circulated a research memo on Turkey this morning. Here are the bulleted highlights. Doug ---- Highlights: * On Saturday, the Turkish Parliament narrowly rejected a motion that would have allowed the deployment of American combat troops for a possible war against Iraq. * The Parliament is due to reconvene on Tuesday, but as of yet it is not clear when or even if the government will seek a second vote. Public opposition to war makes a second vote prior to this weekend's by elections ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 10:22:16 PST 2003

25567 Funding the War -- rank: 1000

Jeet Heer wrote: >Max B. Sawicky wrote: > > >> Borrowing for the most part. Drain some oil revenue, >> if they can get them pumping soon enough. >> >> They're not going to 'print money.' >> > >Doesn't the depend on how much the war costs? Of course, but barring a dollar crisis (which isn't impossible), the U.S. could probably fund a $200 billion war pretty easily through borrowing. I think people sometimes get carried away with their ideas of U.S. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 08:19:17 PST 2003

25568 question on unemployment stats -- rank: 1000

Chiang Ching wrote: >Current Unemployment Statistics are the percentage of the population >registered with the unemployment office and actively looking for work. >These statistics do not include those who have been unemployed for a >certain length of time. (I dont remember the exact length of time- maybe >someone else on the list does- I think it was something like 3 months) >It does not include those who have never worked or are otherwise outside >the 'workforce'. It also d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 2 15:09:14 PST 2003

25569 Luntz on faking green -- rank: 1000

[Frank Luntz is an evil genius.] New York Times - March 2, 2003 A Call for Softer, Greener Language By JENNIFER 8. LEE WASHINGTON, March 1 - Over the last six months, the Republican Party has subtly refocused its message on the environment, an issue that a party strategist called "the single biggest vulnerability for the Republicans and especially for George Bush" in a memorandum encouraging the new approach. The Republicans, as the memorandum advised them, have softened their language ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 2 11:14:32 PST 2003

25570 chemical weapons -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >US prepares to use toxic gases in Iraq Damn, first Vulliamy on the SC dirty tricks, now this. Americans have to read the British papers to find out what our government is up to. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 2 10:45:48 PST 2003

25571 Weird question for people in the States -- rank: 1000

Jeet Heer wrote: >Yep. My partner is Bulgarian and can read Russian. We were channel-surfing >on Tuesday night and lighted on the tonight show where Tatu were singing. My >partner was amazed at what they read on the tee-shirts. We're assuming Jay >Leno doesn't know Russian. ...and that no one on the staff knows Russian, and that they were too provincially American to ask what they words meant? God bless American, man. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 2 10:31:15 PST 2003

25572 Richard Dawkins on Iraq and GWB -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >there was clearly a difference, but on the war issue >the advantage may not be Gore's. Who knows, with a >Pres Gore maybe the UN would have been goosed into >supporting the invasion. But would Gore have been obsessed with invading Iraq in the first place? The PNAC people weren't his posse, were they? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 2 10:29:36 PST 2003

25573 huh? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > > there's no evidence that anyone in the ruling class has thought like >> this [about what constitutes its interests] [and therefore it can't be >> true] > >This isn't something you'd say about economic policy. Even though you have >more respect than almost anyone on the left for the intellectual and >policy cleverness of economic policy makers, in that field I think you'd >say that sometimes it at least seems like most of them are wron ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 2 10:05:39 PST 2003

25574 huh? -- rank: 1000

Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote: >One might reasonably claim that US support for Israel (putting aside the >question of whether or not that support is justified) is contrary to its >interests in ensuring a continual, stable, and cheap supply of oil from >the region. And, oh, I forgot: it also makes terrorists want to kill us. Of course there's no evidence that anyone of significance in the U.S. security establishment over the last couple of decades believed this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 1 15:37:22 PST 2003

25575 Perry Anderson -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >>It's not just being an academic - Anderson is a landed aristocrat >>and the son of a diplomat. > >As a matter of curiosity, why the deep animus, one which you so >rarely show towards others? I admire Verso & NLR a lot. They're responsible for a good bit of who I am. I'd rather not go into much detail, but I'll just say that the culture at 6 Meard St is mandarin and elitist in ways not unrelated to PA's pedigree. I'll concede that that situ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 1 15:01:59 PST 2003