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26326 presidential prayer -- rank: 1000

Make sure your barf bag is accessible: <http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/itempopup.php?ID=84>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 15:22:26 PST 2003

26327 Thing.net & corporate censorship -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] February 28, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THING.NET REMAINS ONLINE WITH NEW PROVIDER; SEEKS GREATER INDEPENDENCE Contact: thing-group at rtmark.com Contribute to Thing.net's independence drive at https://secure.thing.net/backbone/ As has been widely reported in the press, NTT/Verio, Thing.net's upstream service provider, recently informed Thing.net that it would unilaterally terminate its service contract. While the original date given for the cutoff was February 28, it is now timed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 13:42:42 PST 2003

26328 Fwd: Re: POCs -- rank: 1000

>X-From_: DavidMcR at aol.com Fri Feb 28 16:00:05 2003 >X-Original-To: dhenwood at panix.com >From: DavidMcR at aol.com >Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:59:51 EST >Subject: Re: POCs >To: dhenwood at panix.com >Cc: ethanyoung at earthlink.net >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >This is a follow up. There was an earlier letter, also public, attacking WRL >and me personally - in part for a very stupid comment I'd made. > >I was shopping in Key Food one day, trying to get home, t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 13:38:34 PST 2003

26329 Perry Anderson -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 02:07 PM 02/28/2003 -0500, Gregory wrote: >>Erudite, logical, dangerously wrong. > >I agree. Anderson's getting old and displaying the dangers of >tenured academic life. He argues like a man who believes that >nothing happening out there will trouble his life in the least. It's not just being an academic - Anderson is a landed aristocrat and the son of a diplomat. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 12:05:57 PST 2003

26330 Perry Anderson: Casuistries of Peace and War (As the republic an structure crumbles) -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >As the republican cookie crumbles . . . . > >http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030228/ap_on_re_us/teachers_iraq_2 > >Can't have impressionable school kids questioning the uses and abuses >overwhelming military power. Who knows where that will lead . . .. Wow >In Maine, Department of Education (news - web sites) Commissioner >Duke Albanese sent a memo to superintendents and principals, writing >that it had been brought to his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 12:08:02 PST 2003

26331 Mankiw once supported a higher gas tax -- rank: 1000

[Mankiw's gonna be eating a lot of crow! first he calls supply-side economics crankery, and now this] Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:42:19 -0500 From: Charles Komanoff <kea at igc.org> Subject: Bush econ adviser urged higher gas tax A letter published in the New York Times in November 2001 urged a gasoline tax hike as a means to reduce U.S. oil consumption. No news there, except that the writer, N. Gregory Mankiw, professor of economics at Harvard, was nominated Wednesday to head the President' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 12:05:01 PST 2003

26332 gold standard cranks -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On the feminist economics list, the so-called dean of feminist >> economists, Barbara Bergmann has been worrying about immigration. (I'd >> forward the posts, but it's against the rules.) Immigration lowers >> wages, puts a strain on public budgets, and - her latest worry - is >> bringing in a lot of antifeminist religious nuts. My first reaction to >> the last worry was "co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 10:01:13 PST 2003

26333 FAIR: Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >The Southern California chapter of ADA is honoring Condolezza Max Sawicky, you still hang with this gang? What are they thinking? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 09:32:19 PST 2003

26334 Pentagon: get out of Baghdad -- rank: 1000

[of course, ordinary Iraqi civilians needn't worry about how really really bad it's going to be] New York Daily News - February 28, 2003 Get out now, reporters told Thomas M. DeFrank WASHINGTON - The Pentagon warned journalists yesterday that they should consider getting out of Baghdad. "If there is military action, it is going to be a really, really bad place to be," said chief Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke. She and other Pentagon officials stopped short of urging news organiza ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 09:30:57 PST 2003

26335 not quite black helicopters.... -- rank: 1000

FBI Acknowledges Ind. Plane Is Monitoring BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - An airplane that raised questions in this college town is being used by the FBI (news - web sites) to monitor people who might have terrorist connections, agency officials acknowledged. The FBI denied knowledge of the plane earlier this week after aviation officials disclosed that the aircraft was conducting law enforcement surveillance. Agent Thomas V. Fuentes said the FBI issued the denial because a reporter asked if the airpla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 09:24:22 PST 2003

26336 Yuli Vorontsov- war will start March 15 -- rank: 1000

John Mage quoted: >I think the >war will begin around March 15 and the Americans will try to >end it by April 15-20. Nice. I always like writing the IRS a check when the Pentagon is dropping bombs. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 08:10:54 PST 2003

26337 World Bank Press Review: Headlines for Friday, February 28, 2003 -- rank: 1000

[this is from the World Bank's daily press summary on development issues] Today's Headlines: Friday, February 28, 2003 World Bank Chief Says Afghanistan is Proving Ground Desperate Iraqis Face Mass Starvation, Warns UN [...] =================================================================== World Bank Chief Says Afghanistan is Proving Ground =================================================================== The rebuilding of Afghanistan will be a litmus test of the world's commitment to countr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 07:38:07 PST 2003

26338 big bourgeoisie distressed: Laurie Garrett's notes on Davos -- rank: 1000

[making the rounds, as the headnote says - thanks to CRD for forwarding this] -----Original Message----- From: Hughes, James [mailto:jhughes at changesurfer.com] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 13:20 PM To: Wta-Talk (E-mail); DemocraticLeft (E-mail) Subject: [DemocraticLeft] Laurie Garrett's notes on Davos Laurie Garrett [http://www.lauriegarrett.com/] is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: The Peabody, The Polk and The Pulitzer. She wri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 07:01:11 PST 2003

26339 dilomats resignation letter -- rank: 1000

New York Times - February 27, 2003 February 27, 2003 U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation he following is the text of John Brady Kiesling's letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. Mr. Kiesling is a career diplomat who has served in United States embassies from Tel Aviv to Casablanca to Yerevan. Dear Mr. Secretary: I am writing you to submit my resignation from the Foreign Service of the United States and from my position as Political Counselor in U.S. Embassy Athens, effect ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 06:51:34 PST 2003

26340 doggie masks -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - February 28, 2003 She's prepared NOW that she's made preparations to survive any terrorist attack by biological or chemical weapons, Georgette Mosbacher wants to ensure her beloved King Charles spaniel Eve will make it, too. The flame-haired Republican fund-raiser is trying to buy the pooch a gas mask. "I found one on the Internet. The only place you can get one is Israel," she said as she packed for a visit to Windsor Castle. "I need someone to buy one ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 06:41:00 PST 2003