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27751 Elliott waves and Cambridge -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Will you allow me to say that lowering the interest rate is likely >to raise the number and aggregate total cost of investment projects >with positive risk-adjusted net present value? In theory, but why then do changes in interest rates do so little to explain aggregate investment? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 6 09:41:51 PDT 2002

27752 Moore snubbed by NY Film Fest -- rank: 1000

New York Post - September 6, 2002 PAGE SIX By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON Snubbed Moore rips film fest RADICAL moviemaker Michael Moore claims that his new documentary, "Bowling for Columbine," is being snubbed by the New York Film Festival over politics. The film - which examines violence in America from the Columbine HS massacre through the Sept. 11 terror attacks - has been critically acclaimed at festivals from Cannes to Telluride. But it is missing from th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 6 07:42:04 PDT 2002

27753 Hitchens: kill 'em before they start -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >ObL has already gotten started. Is Hitch suggesting we should assassinate all >the ObL wannabe's older than 4 years in age? Hey, it's sanctioned by the Bible, Psalm 137: 8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us- 9 he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 5 13:12:22 PDT 2002

27754 AFA pissed at O'Reilly -- rank: 1000

[ha ha ha] <http://www.afa.net/activism/aa090502.asp> AFA Action Alert! O'Reilly flogs Christians as 'religious fanatics' Popular talk show host comes out in favor of homosexual rights American Family Association said today it was disappointed in popular talk show host Bill O'Reilly for his comments on September 3 labeling Bible-believing Christians "fanatics." "Mr. O'Reilly makes a living using a hard-nosed, take-no-prisoners approach in his interviews, and that's why peopl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 5 12:58:08 PDT 2002

27755 magic touch -- rank: 1000

A bitchy list from a Brookings study of the economic impact of the "corporate governance" scandals (which looks rather uncurious about the effects of the bubble in the first place): Table 7: The many roads to failure* Day Event Market Reaction January 22, 2002 Bush speech assails Enron executives who heavily contributed to his campaign Down 0.73% January 27, 2002 SEC chair Harvey Pitt announces proposal to require CEO certification of annual report Down 0.08% April 24, 2002 House passe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 5 12:07:17 PDT 2002

27756 the smartest fascist? -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >I also remember a somewhat fawning Tom Frank sitting across from >Hitchens during dinner that night trying to engage an uninterested >Hitch in conversation. So what's wrong with Hitchens? Tom's a fine conversationalist - especially compared to that idiot Katie Roiphe, whom Hitch adores. Though I guess Katie is a bit more compelling to look at in one of her bandana skirts. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 5 09:19:10 PDT 2002

27757 Bye bye ms Coulter -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Hmmm. I am currently sitting in the Catholic University of America >campus, my alma mater. I don't know how things stand elsewhere in >Catholic America, but a remarkably high number of seminarians in the >theological college seem to subscribe to the Advocate. Back at Yale in the early 1970s, a semi-closeted queen told me that "I love the Latin mass" was a token of recognition among gay Catholics. I have no idea if this is true, but it's a nice twist on tr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 5 09:15:37 PDT 2002

27758 the smartest fascist? -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >If America were Fascist every American on this listerv would be dead >or in a concentration camp. No kidding. Thank you for making this point. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 4 15:34:19 PDT 2002

27759 security? what security? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > >> I'm all for raising the bar for what it takes to hijack planes. >> >> That seems to assume that many people would hijack plane if it >> were easy, so raising the bar decreases the incidence of >> hijacking. That assumption is not very plausible, as evidence >> by the fact that it is very easy to hijack a bus, yet bus >> hijackings are as rare as plane hijackings. > >Your logic Kung-Fu is better than my logic Kung-F ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 4 14:11:19 PDT 2002

27760 Bankruptcy for Teamsters? -- rank: 1000

Alan Jacobson wrote: >CF's failure was rooted in poor management. Not to mention overcapacity in the industry and CF's attempts to build market share by cutting prices. What my late friend John Liscio called the tractor beam of deflation strikes again. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 4 12:21:20 PDT 2002

27761 security? what security? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >In short, there is NO technology available to prevent another >September 11 style hijacking There's a difference between 100% security and 0% security. Missing 14 out of 14 smuggled box-cutters is a pretty poor record. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 4 11:01:04 PDT 2002

27762 black block -- rank: 1000

Chris Clarke wrote: >on 9/4/02 10:29 AM, Doug Henwood at dhenwood at panix.com wrote: > >> Look Buster, there are no "ivory tower academics" around here. I >> dropped out of grad school 23 years ago and have been self-employed >> since 1981. Carrol Cox is a retired academic, but he's surrounded by >> Illinois cornfields and, as far as I know, lives at sea level. > >The lowest elevation in Illinois is at the Mississippi River in Alexander >Coun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 4 10:53:19 PDT 2002

27763 black block -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >Michael Pollak wrote: >>On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Chuck Munson wrote: >> >>>In terms of the convention center, I was speaking metaphorically >> >> >>I always figured you were but really, Chuck, I think you of all people >>should be extremely leery of using metaphors like that. When your closest >>allies misinterpret you on an issue of central importance, you're >>expressly yourself badly. > >I didn't misinterpret ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 4 10:29:18 PDT 2002

27764 security? what security? -- rank: 1000

[Love UAL's reaction - you could be arrested for this!] New York Daily News - September 4, 2002 Weapons still fly at airports By MAKI BECKER and GREG GITTRICH DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Carry-on bags concealing potentially deadly weapons. Six major airlines. Eleven airports. Fourteen flights. And not once did anyone catch on. To test the supposedly more stringent security imposed at the nation's airports after the Sept. 11 attacks, Daily News reporters boarded flights over the Labor Day weekend ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 4 09:44:00 PDT 2002

27765 black block -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >In terms of the convention center, I was speaking metaphorically. >the point I wanted to make was about how dissent becomes recuperated >by leaders and organizations with agendas. Whew. What did you mean then? What would/should the crowd have done if it weren't for the droning gasbags? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 4 06:43:46 PDT 2002