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28396 Do Everythinger -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > Tahir: This sentiment may look merely despicable to ordinary >human beings, which it is, but it is more important to realise that >this epitomises the 'strategy and tactics' mentality, which is >Lenin's great legacy to us all. > >Tahir believes that whenever something unfortunate or tragic happens >leftists should immediately stop organizing because avoiding taking >advantage of disaster is the only purpose in life of left forces. > >We sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 23 13:25:19 PDT 2002

28397 Bono/O'Neill travelogue -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] O'NEILL, BONO DIFFER ON NEEDS OF POOR GHANA. Three days into their tour of Africa, US Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill and rock singer Bono staked out opposing positions Wednesday on whether private enterprise or more aid was best to help the world's most impoverished continent, Los Angeles Times reports (p. A9). As O'Neill's entourage, shepherded by Secret Service agents, pushed its way through the smiling throng in the teeming Makola market here in Ghan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 23 12:33:35 PDT 2002

28398 Another claim of negligence -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >The US is not in this game for the love of humanity. Pakistan has always >been a close ally of the US (and China). Pakistan is located at the key >point with respect to the Persian Gulf and the Central Asia. Pakistan acts >as a useful counter weight to India in the Anglo-American perspective. The >US is not going to abandon Pakistan. The mess in Afghanistan was created by >the Soviet Union and the US. India has to cope with the 'collateral damage' >fro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 23 11:33:27 PDT 2002

28399 another view of Daschle -- rank: 1000

At 5:12 PM -0400 5/22/02, PROGRESSIVE REVIEW wrote: >INTERVIEW IN PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE - Q: You were the lone Senator to >oppose the USA Patriot Act. How would you describe Senate Majority Leader >Tom Daschle's reaction to you? > >SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: Fairly brutal. I want to thank Tom Daschle on >campaign finance reform. He really came around and helped us move it >through. I had a reverse experience on the USA Patriot Act. When the >original Ashcroft anti-terrorism bi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 23 11:26:55 PDT 2002

28400 lowly assistant bitches, gets fired -- rank: 1000

New York Post - May 23, 2002 PAGE SIX By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON Media aide bitches too much A LOWLY assistant at Hearst magazines was fired yesterday after telling her high-maintenance bosses in an anonymous memo: "Buy your own candy, stop rifling through my desk and, yeah, guess what - I have to p- - too!" The blistering harangue - which she posted on mediabistro.com's "Bitch Box" - begins: "Hey editors, get off your [bleeping] high horses ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 23 07:15:48 PDT 2002

28401 Wall St rallies on OBL rumor it started -- rank: 1000

[People will stop at nothing to talk up a position.] U.S. Military Denies Rumor That Bin Laden Captured Wed May 22, 4:33 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday denied a rumor circulating on financial markets that fugitive al Qaeda guerrilla leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) had been captured. "We have no indication of that whatsoever. I wish it were true," Navy Rear. Adm. Craig Quigley, a spokesman for the U.S. military's Central Command, told Reuters. He r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 22 14:16:10 PDT 2002

28402 Another claim of negligence -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >Damn, Doug, you've just crossed the limits of my acronym-deciphering >capability. WITBD = What's the big deal??? IOW=??? IOW = In Other Words. WITBD = What Is To Be Done? I find it a bit hard to believe that armed fanatics would lie low, only to be aroused from their slumber by U.S. war on Afg. Had they given up on their mission? Were they freshly inspired by B-52s? And why, if AQ is hot to kill Americans and destroy our property at home & abroad, why would t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 22 11:54:56 PDT 2002

28403 Moonie rag -- rank: 1000

[This *is* from the WT's hometown rival, but still...] Washington Post - May 22, 2002 Moon Eclipses Birthday Bash For Times By Roxanne Roberts What do you call a gathering of 3,000 people, a self-aggrandizing lecture by Dr. Laura Schlessinger and an hour-long sermon from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon? The Washington Times 20th-anniversary bash. An eclectic crowd convened at the Hilton Washington last night to celebrate the other paper in the nation's capital. The party was to honor the success of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 22 11:10:12 PDT 2002

28404 dynamic duo update -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] O'NEILL SIGNALS SHIFT IN U.S. AID POLICY. Paul O'Neill, US treasury secretary, has signaled a significant shift of emphasis in development policy during his trip round Africa, by softening the traditional US opposition to directly underwriting poor country government budgets with US overseas aid, FT.com reports. The move was hailed by Bono, the rock star traveling with O'Neill, as an early success of their joint fact-finding mission to Ghana, South Africa, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 22 10:54:52 PDT 2002

28405 Another claim of negligence -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >The story in the Guardian understates the depth of the disaster in >Kashmir. Lashkar-e-Toiba, the group responsible for the attack >noted below, is not simply a group of nasty Pakistani-based >militants; it's an arm of al-Qaeda. This attack, timed to coincide >with a U.S. diplomatic visit to the region, was intended to send a >signal: we're still in operation, and the U.S. will do nothing to >stop us. > >The solution proferred is far too simp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 22 10:32:40 PDT 2002

28406 Buffett charges for making him a loan -- rank: 1000

[This is one for the Warren Buffett cult. Would *he* buy securities like this? I doubt it.] New York Times - May 22, 2002 Is Lending Money to Buffett a Privilege Worth Paying For? By FLOYD NORRIS Warren E. Buffett wants to borrow up to $287.5 million, and he thinks he should pay a negative interest rate on the money. That is, he thinks the lenders should pay him money. And what do the lenders get in return, aside from negative cash flow? They receive the right to buy shares in Berkshire Hathawa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 22 10:14:10 PDT 2002

28407 Fwd: Times Online Newsletter -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >most of the papers seem to be following this pay for the >archives model, with the notable exception of WSJ. with >WSJ, what kind of archival access do you get? 7 or 14 days, then you pay like $2.50 a pop. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 22 08:19:23 PDT 2002

28408 Fwd: Times Online Newsletter -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >On Tue, 21 May 2002 at 6:44pm Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [hmmm, how much of this is going on? is the free lunch over, or they >> going to have to retreat? $58 ain't cheap] > >that's about what you pay for the WSJ online, isn't it? It's like $29 if you subscribe to the print edition. And while the Times runs some good stuff, the WSJ runs great stuff, like no other paper around. So I guess it comes down to the Journal is worth it, and the Times isn't. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 22 08:18:55 PDT 2002

28409 question for the list -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >People always say that foreigners keep funding our current account >deficit because the returns on investments in the US are so much >higher than in the rest of the world. > >But why, then, are America's debt service payments on its external >liabilities so small compared to the size of the liabilities? Here's >what Fred Bergsten says: > >"These payouts are surprisingly small so far, amounting to only >about $14 billion in 2001, because fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 21 16:11:51 PDT 2002

28410 Fwd: Times Online Newsletter -- rank: 1000

[hmmm, how much of this is going on? is the free lunch over, or they going to have to retreat? $58 ain't cheap] Subscription to newspaper editions on Times Online Dear Times Online reader, I am writing to let you know that this week we will be introducing subscription for overseas readers wishing to read The Times and The Sunday Times newspaper editions online and to explain why we are introducing a fee for a service you previously received free of charge. In order to make further improvements t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 21 15:44:59 PDT 2002