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26431 Has anyone heard about a new debt ceiling yet? -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >We have blasted through the $6.4 trillion debt ceiling by 46 billion >now, and I haven't heard of a new ceiling being approved by Congress. >Anyone? So? You think they won't pass one? And what if they do? How much closer would that bring us to the end of the world? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 16:24:04 PST 2003

26432 TIME Poll - Which Country Poses greatest danger to World Peace -- rank: 1000

Wow. This started out with the U.S. around 70%! - Doug Steven wrote: >The Biggest Threat to Peace: TIME asks for readers' which country really >poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003? > >Results thus far: > >North Korea 5.9 % >Iraq 7.0 % >The United States 87.2 % >Total Votes Cast: 537,051 > > >Vote at http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html (go to >bottom of page)

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 15:46:51 PST 2003

26433 rapture & Iraq -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] THE END IS NEAR; GET RAPTURE GEAR READY PAUL S. BOYER, ALTERNET - Does the Bible foretell regime change in Iraq? Did God establish Israel's boundaries millennia ago? Is the United Nations a forerunner of a satanic world order? For millions of Americans, the answer to all those questions is a resounding . . . Abundant evidence makes clear that millions of Americans - upwards of 40 percent, according to some widely publicized national polls - do, indeed, believ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 14:48:19 PST 2003

26434 Bello -- rank: 1000

Walden Bello wrote: >et the world has been here before. In the summer of 1940, after the >fall of France, when Nazi Germany's determined drive to global >dominance seemed unstoppable by any possible combination of forces. Things are a bit different now. The U.S. is picking on small, weak countries. It's not marching into Poland or France. And its mechanisms of domination are often much subtler than blood & iron. >In fact, as the nineties rolled on, it became clear that what the e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 12:39:04 PST 2003

26435 Hardt -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: > > >One of the great achievements of the globalisation protest movements, in >> >other words, has been to put an end to thinking of politics as a contest >> >among nations or blocs of nations. > >If true, this would be a big big problem. Thank goodness it's not. E.g., see >Walden Bello's recent take on geopolitics (albeit with a strange conclusion) >in the latest ATTAC newsletter (let me know if you need it). Is that the same piece I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 12:27:39 PST 2003

26436 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

And poorly formatted with no paragraph breaks. Do you think about people on the receiving end when you hit the send button?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 11:48:12 PST 2003

26437 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

Michael, goddammit, this is 35k for an article with a URL. Next time you do that, I'm going to filter your posts for approval. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 11:47:03 PST 2003

26438 NY Fed pres praises Lula -- rank: 1000

Fed's McDonough praises Brazil's new government Friday February 21, 1:54 pm ET By Susan Schneider NEW YORK, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank (News - Websites) of New York President William McDonough commended Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva on Friday, saying that the new leader's austere fiscal policies and new economic team had put the regional powerhouse on the right path. Speaking to a Latin American forum at Columbia University's business school, McDonough praised Brazil' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 11:38:32 PST 2003

26439 Rice Protest Idea -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >I think clogging up the post office and generating news is a not bad >idea. As a woman in PR once told me, bad news is news. A related maxim: there's no such thing as bad publicity. (Another variation: you don't read your publicity, you weigh it.) Sometime in 1980, I was sitting in a deli eating a pastrami sandwich, eavesdropping on a conversation between Lydia Lunch's manager and some unknown. The manager complained that the problem with Lydia was that she didn't know how t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 11:30:29 PST 2003

26440 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

steve philion wrote: >--might i recommend a study of the history of the independence mov't in >Taiwan and China's stance toward it? That might help you get to the answer. For those of us who don't have the time to do that - e.g., those of us trying to deliver a book manuscript to a publisher in just a week - could you summarize? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 11:26:45 PST 2003

26441 Newspaper Names -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >This is all untrue? Most papers were once party-aligned? Whence then >(and when) came our peculiar notion of journalistic objectivity? I think it came about in the late 19th/early 20th century, when the "quality" press was trying to distinguish itself from the yellow press. The NY Times was a major player in the transformation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 08:33:55 PST 2003

26442 Major Layoffs so far in 2003 -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >TOTAL 84,573 Which, by the way, is about 0.07% of total U.S. employment. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 21 08:30:08 PST 2003

26443 Major Layoffs so far in 2003 -- rank: 1000

The job market is pretty weak, but be careful about making too much of these layoff announcements. They're motivated in large part by the companies' attempts to impress Wall Street that they're cutting costs. It's not clear whether they'll actually happen. The headhunting firm Challenger, Gray, & Christmas collects them and puts out a monthly count, and I haven't been able to find any correlation between them and the national employment numbers. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 21 08:28:27 PST 2003

26444 Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >A typically overwrought statement by the former(?) London >spokesman for the PCP, and yet, not totally lacking in truth, >since to the extent that Pinochet challenged the legitimacy >of the British and Spanish judiciaries to charge and prosecute >him for crimes that he committed as head of state in Chile, >he was indeed, acting in defense of the sovereignty of >Latin American states, against European and American >imperialism, and so in that limited ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 08:13:30 PST 2003

26445 NYers cool to war -- rank: 1000

[The other day Yoshie asked for evidence for my claim that New Yorkers, who are among the most likely targets of any terrorist attack on the U.S., are also less bellicose than the rest of the country. I responded anecdotally. Here's something more rigorous. I suspect that, aside from being more "liberal" than the rest of the U.S., New Yorkers' fears are rational, and worry that a war on Iraq only increases the risk of retaliatory attacks, which means on us; in the heartland, the fears ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 21 08:11:32 PST 2003