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27841 Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The Post couldn't even be bothered to put an article about the >protests on the front page of Sunday's newspaper. So? Why are you so obsessed with what the big media do? Surely the Post editors, and the rest of the ruling elite they work with and for, noticed it and made a conscious decision not to put it on the front page. Or is the Black Bloc strategy to have a small group pull off some dramatic action that will grab some headlines, rather than organizing larger activities ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 08:45:16 PST 2002

27842 Anderson abridged (was Re: Anderson weighs in) -- rank: 1000

s-t-t at juno.com wrote: >Shane summarizing Anderson Thanks. Two questions: 1) why do you like poring over him so?, and 2) did he really need 10,000 words to make those unremarkable observations? The gloom and windbaggery seem like two symptoms of one underlying pathology of mandarin detachment. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 08:07:50 PST 2002

27843 US deficit -- rank: 1000

Goldman Sachs writes: > In a highly uncertain environment, one element >of our economic outlook in which we have a lot >of confidence is that the US trade and current >account deficits will keep rising. This is because >a decade of severe deterioration has produced >nasty self-reinforcing dynamics for both trade >and investment income flows, creating high >hurdles for the US export growth needed to trim >these deficits. > There are three ways to break these dyna ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 28 18:41:02 PST 2002

27844 a jury of one's peers -- rank: 1000

Winona Ryder jury includes producer Sunday, October 27, 2002 Posted: 10:26 PM EST (0326 GMT) BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- A jury made up of several members of the entertainment industry, including former Sony Entertainment Pictures Chairman Peter Guber, was sworn in Friday to judge actress Winona Ryder on shoplifting charges. Lawyers on both sides accepted the eight-woman, four-man panel after questioning whether their occupations might prevent them from being fair. Defense attorney Mark Ge ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 28 18:33:25 PST 2002

27845 Clarifications -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote: > >> No, there is no great Moderator in the sky to protect us. >> >> If there was, He would be splitting His sides. I bet Doug will, if he >> can be bothered checking the archives, which I doubt. >> >> Bill Bartlett >> Bracknell Tas > >I have to agree with Bill on this one. Why on earth would anybody >stop having fun and fucking in Florence to rubberneck the ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 17:11:16 PST 2002

27846 Brazil's Lula Wins Huge Mandate in Watershed Vote -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Brazil's Lula Wins Huge Mandate in Watershed Vote Ok, so what's this mean? How accommodating to the IMF will his government be? Who's advising him? How likely is it that the PT is strong enough as a party to keep Lula from getting too accommodating? Are they already reading Norman Strong's primer on how to default <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/HowToDefault.html>? Is there anyone here who knows Brazil? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 16:36:40 PST 2002

27847 American Prospect "crackup" according to Kaus -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>Bradford DeLong wrote: >> >>>Maybe I should talk about it on my weblog, in the interest of >>>making Kaus's predictions come true. I've always found that Robert >>>Kuttner rubs me the wrong way (for reasons I have not analyzed)... >> >>Just catching up... >> >>Is TAP still alive? And have you analyzed those reasons yet? >> >>Doug > > >No! I don't dare! The minute I point out Kaus's long h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 28 16:27:03 PST 2002

27848 Hitchens in the Post -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >I'm curious to hear what people think of Saddam opening up the >prisons. Speaking of prisons, just got the Bureau of Justice Statistics "Prisoners in 2001" in the mail. It reports that 3.5% of black men in the U.S. are sentenced prisoners - i.e., not merely in local jails awaiting booking or trial or sleeping off a binge, but serving time in a state or federal prison - and 10% of all black males between age 25 and 29. Truly fucking remarkable numbers. A mere .5% ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 28 15:38:04 PST 2002

27849 American Prospect "crackup" according to Kaus -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Maybe I should talk about it on my weblog, in the interest of making >Kaus's predictions come true. I've always found that Robert Kuttner >rubs me the wrong way (for reasons I have not analyzed)... Just catching up... Is TAP still alive? And have you analyzed those reasons yet? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 15:33:27 PST 2002

27850 barlow at anti-war demo -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] From: "John Perry Barlow" <barlow at eff.org> 100, 000 March in San Francisco. Media Fail to Notice. So I went down to the demonstration yesterday. Instead of getting my fair share of abuse - the San Francisco police were as non-confrontational as Muppits - I was ignored. Along with anywhere from 50,000 to 150,000 other people. In spite of its being largest and most demographically diverse demonstration I've seen in a long career of dissent, the closest the Bay Area ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 13:28:28 PST 2002

27851 US attitudes on marijuana ease up -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 28, 2002 AMERICANS 'HIGH' ON MARIJUANA: POLL By NEIL GRAVES America's conservative attitude toward marijuana is going up in smoke, according to a new survey. The Time/CNN poll revealed that 72 percent of Americans now feel that people arrested with small amounts of marijuana should not do any jail time, while just 19 percent favored sending pot smokers up the river. Nearly 60 percent of Americans still want marijuana possession to be considered a criminal offense - but 34 ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 28 07:54:59 PST 2002

27852 Wall Street offers Lula a nervous handshake -- rank: 1000

Reuters Wall St. offers Brazil's Lula a nervous handshake Sunday October 27, 6:40 pm ET By Hugh Bronstein NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Many on Wall Street were willing to give Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva the benefit of the doubt as the next president of Latin America's largest nation, but some remained nervous that the one-time socialist firebrand may revert to his old ways once in office. With more than half the votes counted in Sunday's election, the former metal worker and union boss - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 27 16:38:58 PST 2002

27853 Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s >Organizers Say 100,000 Turned Out Wonderful to come back to this good news. I'm no fan of ANSWER, but I'll bet a lot of the people there had no idea who Sam Marcy was, and the major point is that >100,000 were there. (I would have been, but I was in Rome.) The best way to reduce WWP's influence is to get 200,000 to your demo. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 27 14:16:53 PST 2002

27854 Anderson weighs in -- rank: 1000

s-t-t at juno.com wrote: >FORCE AND CONSENT >by Perry Anderson ><http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25101.shtml> Wow. 10,000 words. Landed aristocrats have a lot of time on their hands. What'd he say? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 27 13:52:46 PST 2002

27855 enemies -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >But please don't tell me what I should post. The only one who has the >authority to do that is Doug. And when he does, it's between me and him. Like I've said several times, Dennis, you undermine your own position by making the same point over & over spiked with ad hominems. We know you don't like Carrol or Yoshie. Try writing about something else. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 27 13:48:06 PST 2002