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27976 time to worry? -- rank: 1000

Steven Hertzberg wrote: >However, It was when I visited Doug's link that I realized that the >Federal Reserve uses a DOT-GOV domain name. > > >According to the legal case cited below, the Federal Reserve is a >privately owned and controlled corporation. In addition, under Final >Rule 16jn99-11 (see http://www.nic.gov/help_fr16jn99-11.html): >"[Dot-Gov] Internet registrations are limited to Federal, State, and >local Government organizations." Further, the G ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 7 13:14:01 PDT 2002

27977 time to worry? -- rank: 1000

At 12:34 PM -0400 10/7/02, Federal Reserve Board Notification Mailbox wrote: >Speech by Chairman Alan Greenspan >The continued strength of the U.S. banking system >http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/20021007/

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 7 10:01:55 PDT 2002

27978 working on the Cheney gang -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote > >> >The "war on terrorism" is just the thing. >> >> It has enormous political effects, but it's just not expensive enough >> - yet - to have much economically stimulative impact. > >Would there be considerable future economic impact, if oil price could be >brought down to, say, $10 per barrel? Could be, but it would also destroy the domestic U.S. oil industry (and it wouldn't be too good for other ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 7 10:01:30 PDT 2002

27979 A Henry Miller Moment [and, sort of, blogging] -- rank: 1000

Michael Ferro wrote: >Carrol Cox writes: > >> I think it worthwhile to distinguish between _ad hominem_ attacks and >> merely personal attacks, and I think DP's post is an instance of the >> latter. In my understanding, an _ad hominem_ attack tries to discredit a >> _position_ by discrediting the source of that position. > >There is, by the way, an interesting ad hominem "attack" on George Bush >currently on the Counterpunch.org website. The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 7 09:31:11 PDT 2002

27980 working on the Cheney gang -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>>It might take a total war to get out of an inexorable deflation >>>that neither monetary nor fiscal stimulation can reverse (if such >>>a deflation gets underway here). >> >>Total war with whom? The old Axis? >> >>Doug > >The "war on terrorism" is just the thing. It has enormous political effects, but it's just not expensive enough - yet - to have much economical ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 7 08:59:01 PDT 2002

27981 Hawkes in The Nation -- rank: 1000

David Hawkes takes on the critics of his Stephen Jay Gould review in the Nation, which was vigorously discussed here when it first appeared. <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021014&s=exchange> Hawkes assures all his critics that he's got the final word. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 7 08:53:31 PDT 2002

27982 FUCk COMPUTERS -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >It's a poor worker who blames his tools. Wow, it's not every day you see Byron quoted here. Hock & soda water for all! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 7 08:47:47 PDT 2002

27983 NION demo, Central Park -- rank: 1000

I've just uploaded some photos with captions of today's Not In Our Name antiwar demo in New York to the LBO website: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/NION.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 6 19:45:02 PDT 2002

27984 Buzzanco responds -- rank: 1000

[Bob Buzzanco responds to Brad DeLong, whom he says he has a history with. One off, he says, and no continuing exchange.] "My response, boycotting KPFT, was not conditioned principally by the slanders from Zionists; in fact, that had little to do with it. This tactic--accusing critics of Israel of anti-semitism--is becoming widespread and afffects many advocates of peace and justice. It must be countered, and I have been doing that. However, I expected, with great reason, Pacifica to act ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 6 15:34:10 PDT 2002

27985 Fwd: KPFT Controversy (from Counterpunch) -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >OK. Now I'm really puzzled. Buzzanco is attacked by Sharonites who >say that he is an anti-semite who has no business hosting a show on >Pacifica, and Buzzanco's response is to... resign from Pacifica? > >I'm missing something here... I don't get it either. I didn't understand why so many people provoked being fired during the civil war at WBAI. Why surrender the real estate? Make them haul you out, don't make it easy on them. I'm going to ask Buzz to comme ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 6 13:27:42 PDT 2002

27986 NY Times: Norman Brown, Playful Philosopher, 89, Is Dead -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >``Reading Brown was a little like taking drugs, only it was >more likely to lead to tenure,'' the sociologist Alan Wolfe >wrote in The New Republic in 1991. What a little shit Wolfe is. His rightward move has been great for his academic career. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 5 17:12:30 PDT 2002

27987 never believe anything until it's been officially denied -- rank: 1000

Top Stories - Reuters U.S. Assures It Does Not Seek to 'Conquer' Iraq Sat Oct 5, 5:44 PM ET By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent LEESBURG, VA. (Reuters) - The Bush administration, responding to criticism it has not planned sufficiently for a post-Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites) Iraq, promised on Saturday its military forces would not enter the country as "conquerors" or treat the Iraqi people as a "defeated nation." While reaffirming a decision on using force against ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 5 16:35:50 PDT 2002

27988 antiwar demos in Italy -- rank: 1000

Thousands Flock to Anti-War Rallies Across Italy Sat Oct 5, 1:18 PM ET By Shasta Darlington ROME (Reuters) - Waving banners and ringing church bells, thousands of Italians flocked to peace rallies across the country on Saturday to protest against a possible U.S. military strike on Iraq. Anti-war groups said demonstrators in 100 cities from the financial hub of Milan to the tip of the Italian boot participated in the protests. Thousands of people streamed through the historic centers of Milan, Fl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 5 14:38:41 PDT 2002

27989 pix -- rank: 1000

Apologies for the intrusion of personal news, but several listmembers wondered if pix of a certain recent wedding were available on the web. Yes, a batch is up now. Please contact me offlist for the URL. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 5 14:34:16 PDT 2002

27990 church folks against war -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In the United States and many other nations where the avowedly >secular are a minority, many people of faith, clergy as well as lay >persons, have been part of "the (broadly defined) left," especially >when it comes to "peace and social justice" issues (gender and >sexuality are another matter). What is noteworthy at present is >that even religious leaders normally outside of such "religious >left" circles as the Nation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 5 14:22:00 PDT 2002