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26041 Whither the "Anti-Globalization" Movement? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: ...eleven posts so far today. "Andie" has written a mere five. Slow it down or I'm going to divert your posts for moderator approval. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 27 13:04:36 PST 2003

26042 Whither the "Anti-Globalization" Movement? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >For 5-10 % of Americans, probably yes. What of the rest? 5-10% is a lot! You were taking comfort in the 8% that disapproved of GWB right after 9/11 just the other day. The Xian right is about 20%. I'd be grateful for a third their numbers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 27 12:36:11 PST 2003

26043 Lula goes to Davos -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >Evidently, here's someone who believes the Iraqis of Baghdad, all >four million of them, deserve the "shock and awe" that's coming to >them, have their city taken out, the power and water supply done >in... > >I'll remember this the next time I see the US flag flying in some crowd... > >Really -- search as I could through Thiago's post, I nowhere found >the Baathist regime mentioned. Still, the presence of Iraqi flags is >eno ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 27 10:55:54 PST 2003

26044 media bigs tiny vocabularies -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 27, 2003 Tempest over Tina's column TINA Brown ignited a raunchy e-mail frenzy among New York media heavies the other day, after sending them to the dictionary for a word she used in her latest Times of London dispatch. Brown's column lambasted disgraced - but extremely rich - corporate CEOs and in the process used the obscure word "detumesce." "The great Viagra days of the Nineties," she wrote, "buying another player's company over a r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 27 08:22:57 PST 2003

26045 super bowl indicator -- rank: 1000

According to MarketHistory.com: >The NFC's Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the AFC's Oakland Raiders in >Sunday's Super Bowl. How do stocks perform in years when the NFC >champions prevail? > >The tables below show the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial >Average and the S&P 500 index (SPX) through the end of the year that >the NFC wins the Super Bowl (Table 1) versus the years when the AFC >has won (Table 2). As you can see from the aggregate statistics in >each ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 27 08:18:19 PST 2003

26046 Same old same old (Was DeLeuze, etc.) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Second, as to my own privileges, I am quite confident that a >nonmarket socialism would require even more lawyers (my job) Why? The U.S. is the most marketized of the rich countries, and it also is the most infested with lawyers. It makes sense that the more individualist/adversarial/contract-oriented a system the more lawyers in needs. Why would a nonmarket socialism require more lawyers than a market one? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 27 08:15:08 PST 2003

26047 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >I don't think people view that sort of thing as serious and I don't >think Salma Hayek is a serious actor, mostly a body who should be a >model for bikini magazines. Which is a completely separate question from her mode of dress. People can be talented and dress sexy or untalented and dress sexy or... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 27 08:16:06 PST 2003

26048 California time -- rank: 1000

billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote: >I am reluctant to set my clock to California time to solve the >problem for you however, aside from the fact that this would create >other problems, I have vowed never to set foot in that police state. Ah yes, Australia is known worldwide for the warm welcome it shows to refugees too! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 27 07:57:48 PST 2003

26049 Fwd: smoke n'mirrors - US policy seen from OZ -- rank: 1000

Sydney Morning Herald - January 27, 2003 OIL BEHIND ANNIHILATION PLAN, WARNS EX-UN OFFICIAL Former UN official Denis Halliday warned in Baghdad today that the United States and Britain were ready to "annihilate" Iraqi society in order to control the country's oil wealth. The comments come amid reports that the Bush administration is to give the weapons inspectors more time before launching a strike against Iraq. Halliday told a press conference: "The United States and Britain are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 27 07:52:02 PST 2003

26050 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Living in LA I do know that Salma shows up at the Academy and >elsewhere in completely see through clothing. What's wrong with see-through clothing? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 26 21:30:05 PST 2003

26051 Fwd: Lula goes to Davos -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:25:37 +1100 From: topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Hi Doug, I will follow this up with texts of the actual speeches if time permits and someone else doesn't beat me to it. The forum is quite impressive, though appallingly organized. I will do a wrap up on the workshops I attended at some time in the future. Right now it's been 72 hours of nonstop politics. With some beers placed here and there... Could you please forward this t ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 26 20:14:56 PST 2003

26052 Decriminalizing it all! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Are you identifying the the modern women's movement with neoclassical >economics? Of course not. I'm identifying your ridiculous instruction to start from the most abstract level rather than the level of individual example with bourgeois econometrics. Of course, generalizing by example can be a very risky business. And of course we all have theoretical maps in our heads - some explicitly acknowledged, some not - by which we read the world. But if you don't let theory and ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 26 12:33:11 PST 2003

26053 Decriminalizing it all! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I would suggest to _start_ with the >most abstract level, and while qualifying that _never_ letting it >disappear from view: the united states is a male-supremacist social >order. You sound like a bourgeois econometrician! Peter Kennedy, from his econometrics text: >The first and most important ingredient in such a search is economic >theory. If economic theory cannot defend the use of a variable as an >explanatory variable, it should not be included in th ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 26 12:14:41 PST 2003

26054 Louis Paulsen on "WWP's *Deep Pockets* [!!snort!!]" -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Although I have had no luck resubscribing to Henwood's list since my >e-mail >address changed etc. There's no need to forward Paulsen's comments, especially if formatted in line breaks that make it read like language poetry. He's free to join the list any time he wants, and his hard-luck tale of trying unsuccessfully to re-sub doesn't really make much sense, given how easy it is. And, as I said to him, if he still has trouble addressing the message "subscribe ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 26 12:09:57 PST 2003

26055 shock & awe -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 01:23 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>[time to dust off Workers Vanguard's classic history of US terror bombing] Which is almost 30k long, so I just posted it to <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/TerrorBombing.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 26 11:52:59 PST 2003