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27706 anniversary -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >And with each post Tahir you sound more and more >like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft. Right. It's so easy to confuse autonomist Marxism with imperialism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 12 08:33:31 PDT 2002

27707 strength in Oz -- rank: 1000

Any Australians around who could comment on this? Are things as good as they seem? At 8:17 AM -0400 9/12/02, The Dismal Scientist wrote: >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >The Employment Situation for Australia economic release has been updated. >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Employment Situation for Australia (6.2 % Unemployment) > >Unemployment held steady at 6.2%, and strong August hiring ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 12 08:13:36 PDT 2002

27708 interruptus -- rank: 1000

Panix had a "connectivity failure" from about about 7 AM - 10 AM NYC time. Messages to and from the list languished. All seems well once again. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 12 07:00:04 PDT 2002

27709 repent! -- rank: 1000

[making the rounds - apologies if you've seen this before, and another thing to be sorrowful over...] LIST SERVE REPENTANCE For the sin we have committed in posting copyrighted material to the listserv, and for the sin we have committed by forwarding virus warnings, NEA appeals, and dying child requests. For the sin we have committed in harshly judging other List members by their spelling or use of punctuation, and for the sin we have committed in posting a message without spellchecking it first ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 11 17:09:34 PDT 2002

27710 redundancy -- rank: 1000

An excerpt from a bio on the Blue Mountain Center's website <http://www.bluemountaincenter.org/residents.htm#staff>: "'98 & '99 intern Lizzy Kirkham returned to BMC for a month in 2002. She is studying ecomonics and astrology in Seattle, WA." Wonder if she ever gets her textbooks mixed up? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 11 15:20:14 PDT 2002

27711 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Well, let's assume (as Marc Herold did) the Taliban's estimates are >accurate. If so, the number dead would be somewhere around 5,000--horrible, >but probably justified given the apparent end results. A mere 5,000 - just 67% more than were killed in the original attacks. And since they're Afghans, their death toll has to be adjusted in accordance with the "Life Is Cheap Over There" factor. Compelling math indeed. Madeleine Albright would be proud of you! A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 11 15:05:33 PDT 2002

27712 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Your use of the word "mistake" suggests that the U.S. ruling class is >well-intentioned and did not want to set a precedent for further >offenses. >You are on a slippery slope. Gosh, I don't know what we'd do without you to police our thought and expression. Oh, I do know - we'd descend into an irrecoverable sloppiness, even complicity. It's a mighty task, and you perform it tirelessly. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 11 14:59:08 PDT 2002

27713 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Wish I could take this as a compliment, but I can't. I was stuck in an old >mindset, at least as far as the attacks were concerned. And even though >inside I did feel something quite different, it took me months of reflection >and research to articulate what this was. And when I did . . . well, read >the responses from last spring. Memory strains, and I don't have the time to check the archive. Could you reprise the inner conflict? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 11 12:47:01 PDT 2002

27714 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >I think the leaders of democratic states (and those of a fair number of >despotic ones, as well) care about the potential deaths of many thousands or >millions of people. However, that concern can be easily overriden by the >ends said leaders are pursuing. In the case of Afghanistan, banishing the >Taliban and eradicating Al Qaida didn't necessitate killing untold numbers >of civilians. Nor, I hasten to add, did such an outcome appear likely to >the mo ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 11 12:27:43 PDT 2002

27715 James responds to DeLong -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:01:24 -0700 Subject: Re: Amateur hour in Jo'burg/Yo. Mr. Bond? From: Deborah James <deborah at globalexchange.org> Brad, Actually, the By the way was a reference to MANY papers that erroneously covered the situation as a response to Powell's comments about Zimbabwe. The protest started (with my group raising our banner Bush: People and Planet, Not Big Business) as soon as Powell finished his Thank-Yous. But the chanting started after our banners were taken - whi ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 11 12:03:56 PDT 2002

27716 Fed's McDonough Calls for CEO Pay Cuts -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Federal Reserve President William McDonough on >Wednesday called on U.S. corporate executives to take pay cuts, saying their >salary packages are bloated and morally hard to justify. When McDonough became president of the NY Fed, he almost immediately convened a conference on income distribution. Gossip was that he was worried that polarization could lead to an upsurge of populism, which might mean political constraints on the Fed's independence ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 11 11:49:17 PDT 2002

27717 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >At least now you can acknowledge it... whereas the Chomskys of the world >still hold that the US gov't was prepared to inflict a "silent genocide" >upon Afghanistan. You think that isn't true? You think the U.S. government actually cares about the potential deaths of thousands or millions? The burden of proof is on you on that one, man. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 11 11:29:22 PDT 2002

27718 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Was just reading my posts from a year ago. Phew. How wrong I was... ...about what exactly? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 11 09:10:42 PDT 2002

27719 Florida does elections so well -- rank: 1000

[are things as bad as this press release says?] US Newswire 202-347-2770 Ballot Debacle Again in Florida Election: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Demands Investigation Into Apparent Voter Fraud To: National Desk Contact: Miami Action and Media Center: Jubi Headley of the NGLTF, 202-320-1869 MIAMI, Sept. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In today's Miami-Dade election that featured a historic gay rights ballot measure, registered voters have once again been denied the right to cast votes. Rampant brea ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 15:43:29 PDT 2002

27720 Daschle, the creditors' friend -- rank: 1000

[I guess it could be worse - if the Reps controlled the Senate, they might have brought back debtors prison.] Business Week - September 16, 2002 Populism Takes a Bank Holiday Tough times and corporate crimes don't stop a bankruptcy bill In the wake of the corporate crime wave, when most pro-business bills are sinking like stones, one proposal seems headed for enactment. What's different about an overhaul of federal bankruptcy laws that is highly favorable to Big Business? Simple: A massive lobby ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 14:46:57 PDT 2002