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28381 Fwd: Important links to Gujarat carnage -- rank: 1000

IMPORTANT LINKS TO GUJARAT CARNAGE VIEWS OF BUSINESS LEADERS/JUDICIARY/EDITORIALS/NRI FUNDING FOR VHP, etc. ONE OF THE FIRST INDIAN BUSINESS LEADERS TO SPEAK UP: Deepak Parekh HDFC Chairman Indian Express Exclusive 3/28/2002--India Inc. speaks up: ëIf govt canít protect lives, it should goí "Which kind of govt allows killings of women, children?...Home Minister, even the Prime Minister should take their share of blame" http://www.indian-express.com/archive_frame.php THE COST OF VIOLENC ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 11:18:33 PDT 2002

28382 Bush line on Iraq: No Dissent allowed... -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >WASHINGTON, May 22 ó Senior military officials have >serious doubts about the wisdom of a U.S. invasion of >Iraq, but their concerns have not been passed on to >civilian leaders because of the Bush administrationís >determination to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, >defense sources told NBC News on Wednesday. > >Full Story: >http://www.msnbc.com/news/735563.asp This military is so full of wimps. 'What's the point of having this superb mil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 11:13:44 PDT 2002

28383 Do Everythinger -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >At 11:08 AM 5/24/02 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >>k >>> >>>I'm back to what has been more or less central to everything I've >>>written on maillists for five years. Arguments have to be directed at >>>those who already accept them but don't know they do. Put otherwise, the >>>first task of agitation or organizing is not in forming a persuasive >>>message; it is in creating an action which involves peo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 11:10:26 PDT 2002

28384 FBI Phoenix memo -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >So should the "left" be fighting for more funding to >the FBI, CIA, NSA, ect? The "Bush Knew" crowd seems >to be arguing that point. Yup, that's a problem, isn't it? In celebrating W's embarrassment, we don't want to end up calling for a more effective police state (whoever "we" is). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 10:06:10 PDT 2002

28385 scandal! -- rank: 1000

National Journal - May 24, 2002 COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA Some Like It Hot By William Powers, National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Friday, May 24, 2002 The standard rap on the media is that we are hopeless ideologues, our work corrupted by blatant bias. Problem is, no one can agree what kind of bias. The Right sees a liberal tilt on the networks and in the big newspapers. The Left sees a conservative tilt among the pundits and all over talk radio. For the news media, scandal trumps ideo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 09:20:17 PDT 2002

28386 FBI Phoenix memo -- rank: 1000

Fortune.com - May 22, 2002 <http://www.fortune.com/articles/phoenix_memo.html> BREAKING NEWS FBI's 'Phoenix' Memo Unmasked Fortune's investigative reporter, the only journalist to see confidential document, reveals its true name and nature. By Richard Behar What happ ens when bosses ignore memos from subordinates? The country is now learning the answer to that question in a most painful way. On July 10, 2001, an FBI agent in Phoenix wrote a memo raising serious concerns about Middle Easter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 08:55:32 PDT 2002

28387 don't dare take a vacation! -- rank: 1000

DATE May 24, 2002 FOR Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. 24/7 Global Economy Demands... TO SECURE JOB, STAY CONNECTED ON VACATION Do you want to really enjoy your summer vacation? Then keep your cell phone handy and stay on top of those e-mails. In a fiercely competitive global economy, where downsizing is a fact of life, no one can afford being completely out of touch for an extended period, advises workplace authority John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of international ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 08:39:21 PDT 2002

28388 Woolhandler/Himmelstein on national health insurance for US -- rank: 1000

[apologies for the length, but excellent people on a largely forgotten issue] Dear PNHP Members and Friends, FYI, this article by Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein appears in the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, a publication of the American Medical Association. --Joanne Landy, Executive Director, Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Chapter National Health Insurance Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH; David U. Himmelstein, MD ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 08:20:06 PDT 2002

28389 Brock lunches with Hillary -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 24, 2002 Liberal lapdog DAVID Brock, who made his reputation attacking Hillary Clinton before his conversion to the left, had lunch yesterday with the freshman senator, plus a couple of dozen other Democrats. Brock, the first to interview the Arkansas state troopers who knew the Clintons up close and personal, had never met Hillary before. After the lunchroom love fest in the Capitol, lawmakers like Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy emerged singing the praises of Brock ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 08:24:46 PDT 2002

28390 Do Everythinger -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >oh, no no no. you have forgotten all the claims made about how we >can't influence the administration, we can't stop a war. were these >claims not made repeatedly in criticism of doug? but, doug, why >bother? we can't change what the administration does. we can't >influece it. doug, you should be out beating the streets. But not looking for converts, of course.... At 4:28 PM -0600 4/6/02, Carrol Cox wrote: >This is roughly my basis for claiming ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 08:08:57 PDT 2002

28391 Another claim of negligence -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >I don't understand the question. I am not sure how joint military maneuvers >contradict what I have said. The US is not about to abandon Pakistan. No, but the U.S. doesn't go on military dates with just everyone, does it? Doing maneuvers together suggests some degree of cooperation. How much, and why? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 07:50:50 PDT 2002

28392 question for the list -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Where can I look at the international >money flows anyway? (who needs sleep) If you're having trouble sleeping, here's a narcotic: the U.S. international accounts are at <http://www.bea.gov/bea/di1.htm>. The Bank for International Settlements has lots of stats at <http://www.bis.org/statistics/index.htm>. The IMF has lots of stats, but you've got to pay through the nose for them. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 24 07:30:01 PDT 2002

28393 question for the list -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >He's definitely talking about total net investment income, portfolio and >direct combined: > >"These annual imbalances add to the negative net international investment >position of the United States, which reached $2.2 trillion at the end of >2000 as a cumulative result of the deficits of the past twenty years. As >recently as 1980, the United States was the world's largest creditor >country. It has now been the world's largest debtor for some t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 23 14:57:00 PDT 2002

28394 religion & economics -- rank: 1000

[The abstract says nothing about faith in laissez-faire.] "Religion and Political Economy in an International Panel" BY: ROBERT J. BARRO Harvard University Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) RACHEL M. MCCLEARY Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=312644 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W8931 Date: May 2002 Contact: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 23 14:28:55 PDT 2002

28395 creative tax accounting -- rank: 1000

Check out Wesley Snipes's tax return, in which his accountant reduced his $19 million income to $0, and asks for a $7m refund: <http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.shtml>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 23 13:52:11 PDT 2002