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26356 Judis on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Before September 11, neither Bush nor Powell favored confrontation with Iraq. Not Powell, but Bush? Why'd half his administration sign the 1998 PNAC letter to Clinton? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 27 08:52:05 PST 2003

26357 Gold -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Christians used to use the same charade. > >On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:41:22AM -0500, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > > I thought Islamic finance entailed selling notes at > > a discount, on the pretext that the repayments were > > not the same as interest. And, in 14th century Italy, complicated foreign exchange transactions that buried interest in the exchange rate. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 27 08:33:14 PST 2003

26358 poor Hank -- rank: 1000

[tough times all around...] Goldman cuts CEO Paulson's pay for third year Thursday February 27, 9:39 am ET NEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS - News), which struggled with declining revenues and Wall Street probes last year, cut Chief Executive Henry Paulson's 2002 compensation package by 36 percent, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. TGoldman, one of Wall Street's premier firms, posted an 8 percent decline in 2002 earnings. Shaky stock markets meant corpor ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 27 06:57:28 PST 2003

26359 gold standard cranks -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >I almost always run into the "gold-bugs" as they are called in right-wing >circles, but apparently once in a while one of them is not a "crank." > >This assumes one can accept the fact that not everyone who is right-wing is >a crank. Since the left is currently being out-organized by the right, I >think the term "crank" is a little self-serving. By labelling right-wingers >as "cranks" or "religious political e ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 27 06:49:08 PST 2003

26360 Donahue inconvenient in wartime? -- rank: 1000

[dunno who this is...] <http://www.allyourtv.com/0203season/news/02252003donahue.html> Commentary: The Surrender Of MSNBC by Rick Ellis, Wednesday, February 25th, 2003 While the official announcement wasn't a surprise to anyone working at the network, MSNBC officially canceled the primetime show "Donahue" on Tuesday, citing disappointing ratings. And in fact, if you look at the raw ratings numbers, the struggling news channel may have a point. Originally conceived as a liberal al ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 21:27:32 PST 2003

26361 Shock And Yawn -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >The way I remember it was that Chomsky said a silent genocide >was coming and that the US wanted it to happen. Here's what Chomsky said <http://www.zmag.org/GlobalWatch/chomskymit.htm>: >1. What's Happening Right Now? > >Starvation of 3 to 4 Million People > >Well let's start with right now. I'll talk about the situation in >Afghanistan. I'll just keep to uncontroversial sources like the New >York Times [crowd laughter]. According to the New York ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 18:34:00 PST 2003

26362 Savagery -- rank: 1000

GLAAD Alert Feb. 26, 2003 URGE MSNBC TO RETHINK TV SHOW FOR ANTI-GAY 'SAVAGE' For eight years, Michael Savage has used his San Francisco-based radio talk show as a platform to spew hateful, defamatory rhetoric targeting women, people of color, immigrants and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. On February 12, MSNBC announced it had offered Savage his own weekly cable television talk show, to begin mid-March. On the radio and in his writings, Savage launches venomous att ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 18:00:30 PST 2003

26363 Hubbard out, Mankiw in -- rank: 1000

Bush economic aide Hubbard resigns, Mankiw tapped Wednesday February 26, 7:19 pm ET WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The White House announced on Wednesday the resignation of Glenn Hubbard as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and tapped Harvard University's Gregory Mankiw to replace him. Hubbard's departure is the latest in a series of dramatic shifts in President George W. Bush's economic team, following last year's rapid-fire resignations of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, White Hous ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 17:03:52 PST 2003

26364 PNAC letter -- rank: 1000

[has this appeared here before? - it was written only months after the U.S. profit rate peaked, so I guess these guys were prescient, if you buy the FROP explanation for war - most of the signatoriesn now work for Bush or CNN] <http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm> January 26, 1998 The Honorable William J. Clinton President of the United States Washington, DC Dear Mr. President: We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not s ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 15:30:49 PST 2003

26365 JosÈ Ramos-Horta: East Timor & Iraq -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >To understand where he's coming from, all you need to >know is that he is East Timor's "Minister of Foreign >Affairs and Cooperation." In other words, he's got >his hand out to Washington. Given his country's >desperate poverty and history of conflict with >Indonesia, I can't say I blame him. Didn't the U.S. already get ET to sign on? The U.S. ambassador to ET is my old Party of the Right chairman, Grover "Rocky" Rees. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 14:49:38 PST 2003

26366 $95b for war -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 26, 2003 Bush to Seek Up to $95 Billion To Cover Cost of War in Iraq By GREG JAFFE and JOHN D. MCKINNON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is preparing supplemental spending requests totaling as much as $95 billion for a war with Iraq, its aftermath and new expenses to fight terrorism, officials said. The total could be as low as $60 billion because Pentagon budget planners don't know how long a military conflict will l ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 14:24:15 PST 2003

26367 Mexico joins the war party? -- rank: 1000

Mexico Appears to Shift Stance on Iraq By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS - Mexico appeared to be the first among a handful of undecided U.N. Security Council members to shift toward the U.S. position on Iraq as Canada sought to find a middle ground among members split between disarming Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) by force or giving weapons inspectors more time. The Canadian proposal was rejected by the United States Wednesday after Secretary of State Colin Powell (new ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 14:05:32 PST 2003

26368 Gold -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Since someone brought it up...I'm curious. What I see in the >capitalist press are two contradictory positions: > >1. Gold is commodity and like all commodities, its value will go down. The value of most commodities goes down because there are lots of substitutes for them, and productivity in basic extractive industries doesn't grow anywhere near as fast as in more advanced sectors, so the relative prices of commodities are almost always in decline. Not gold, for ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 14:01:23 PST 2003

26369 Jude Wanniski: War Is Off -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >Please excuse my naiveté, but what is it about mentioning the gold >standard that gets one branded a "crank"? Because 1) it imposes a very austere constraint on economic activity, allowing only 1-2% annual nominal growth, 2) it's usually advocated by right-wing government-hating libertarians, 3) experience with it in the 19th century was associated with frequent panics and depressions, 4) people who advocate it are, empirically speaking, quite frequently very weird ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 13:58:28 PST 2003

26370 Fwd: Query -- rank: 1000

Robin Hahnel writes: >I wanted to let people on the LBO discussion list know about a new >book I wrote that may be of use to them: The ABCs of Political >Economy: A Modern Approach, just published by Pluto Press. > >I wrote it, first and foremost, to provide young activists in the >anti-globalization movement with the essential intellectual tools we >political economists use to analyze how labor markets, credit markets, >international trade, and fiscal and monetary polic ...

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