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28591 apathetic bomber -- rank: 1000

Luke Helder, suspect in the midwestern pipe bombing, has a band with a web page at: <http://artists4.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Apathy_MN/>. Hard to get in, but I managed a little while a go, and nabbed a sample song. If you can't get into his site, I've uploaded it to <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Apathy_MN_-_Conformity.mp3>. Other music lurking on the woefully negclected LBO website (which will be updated very very soon, I swear): Mark Crispin Miller's truly deeply profoundly awful ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 7 14:27:01 PDT 2002

28592 FOMC does nothing -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco wrote: >At 02:53 PM 5/7/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>[Very mellow of them, though not a surprise.] >> >><http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2002/20020507/default.htm> > >Yes, it's certainly no surprise considering how ineffective changes >in the interest rate have been in affecting investment. Well, the >business sector is really no longer dependent on lending from banks >-- so again no surprise. It varies, but bank lending ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 7 14:24:32 PDT 2002

28593 FOMC does nothing -- rank: 1000

[Very mellow of them, though not a surprise.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2002/20020507/default.htm> May 7, 2002 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate unchanged at 1 3/4 percent. The information that has become available since the last meeting of the Committee confirms that economic activity has been receiving considerable upward impetus from a marked swing in inventory investment. Non ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 7 11:53:54 PDT 2002

28594 Pound/Eliot/Stevens & Amusement Parks -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >http://www.brokennewz.com/usnews/ezra.asp Clearly sexist, these amusement moguls. Where's Emilyland, to celebrate the life and work of Ms Dickinson? The attic redoubt, the did she/didn't she speculation about her lover(s).... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 7 08:45:50 PDT 2002

28595 Mandela keeps strange company -- rank: 1000

[Forstmann is the rather simple-minded libertarian financier who subsidized The American Spectator for years.] New York Post - May 7, 2002 THE top power lunch yesterday was the meal Teddy Forstmann laid out in honor of Nelson Mandela. Forstmann, the Wall Street dealmaker who rails against hostile takeovers and junk bonds, is the father of two adopted South African boys who are now in prep school. Mandela, who led the decades-long campaign that ended apartheid, was toasted at Teddy's Fifth Avenue ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 7 08:25:33 PDT 2002

28596 Gore Vidal -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Has he disinherited his dauphin, C. Hitchens? No. He describes Hitchens' latest political turns as "growing pains" - "like acne...it will clear up." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 7 08:17:55 PDT 2002

28597 Terror, etc. -- rank: 1000

Tahir Wood wrote: > >So bomb Afghanistan for Halliburton, Avenge Enron and start a war with >Iraq to make the world safe for Chevron. Well, so much for my >mealy-mouthed answer. >Chuck Grimes > >Not bad though >Tahir Never hurts to quote this classic <http://www.fas.org/man/smedley.htm>: Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 7 08:13:50 PDT 2002

28598 It's Official: Oiligarchy Really Is Nuts -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >This will make Eurozilla *reeeaaal* happy: > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1971000/1971852.stm > >-- Dennis Why are the so obsessed with these pipsqueak "rogue states" when the real long-term imperial rival is China? They too eager to do business with China to care? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 7 07:58:04 PDT 2002

28599 conspiracy? -- rank: 1000

[too bad Hakki isn't around anymore...] Globe and Mail (Toronto) - May 4, 2002 Scientists' deaths are under the microscope By ALANNA MITCHELL, SIMON COOPER AND CAROLYN ABRAHAM COMPILED BY ALANNA MITCHELL It's a tale only the best conspiracy theorist could dream up. Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biologic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 6 15:23:05 PDT 2002

28600 help wanted -- rank: 1000

>The Chicago Reader is looking for a music editor. > >The job is primarily editing--though writing on the side is not out >of the question. Besides sharp general editing skills, it requires >significant knowledge of music and, perhaps more important, the >ability to think (and guide others in thinking) about music and the >music business in a broader cultural context. Day-to-day duties may >not be limited to music coverage. > >Interested parties should send cover le ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 6 15:05:12 PDT 2002

28601 selling Gore to Japan -- rank: 1000

Keynes in effect, though probably supply-side in intent (though the Reagan people seemed to have more of a philosophy than the Bushies, who just want to hand over more money to rich people). Doug eric dorkin wrote: >another victory for Keynes? or is that a supply-side victory? both? neither? > > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >Ian Murray wrote: > >>But Bush trashed years of fiscal discipline in mere months > >Thank god! We might be in a depres ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 6 14:51:39 PDT 2002

28602 RAWA vs FMF/Ms. -- rank: 1000

This letter was posted on the RAWA's (Revolutionary Association of Women in Afganistan) list a few days ago. Strong & well-articulated criticism of the Feminist Majority (and US-based feminist networks in general)... Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 12:35 AM Subject: An open letter to Ms. Magazine re: Afghan women April 20, 2002 An Open Letter to the Editors of Ms. Magazine The feminist majority's self-serving appropriation of 11 pages of a magazine they now own, in order to claim a foremost rol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 6 14:50:01 PDT 2002

28603 Fwd: U.S. Arms Transfers and Security Assistance to Israel -- rank: 1000

U.S. Arms Transfers and Security Assistance to Israel Arms Trade Resource Center Fact Sheet William D. Hartung and Frida Berrigan May 6, 2002 For more information Contact: William D. Hartung: 212-229-5808 ext. 106 hartung at newschool.edu Frida Berrigan: 212-228-5808 ext. 112 berrigaf at newschool.edu U.S. press coverage of Israeli attacks on the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian towns on the West Bank often treat the U.S. government as either an innocent bystander or an honest broker in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 6 14:46:26 PDT 2002

28604 Noam in the News -- rank: 1000

At 4:55 PM -0400 5/6/02, Greg Ruggiero [of Seven Stories Press] wrote: >NEW YORK TIMES FEATURE >On Saturday, the New York Times ran a feature about Chomsky's 9-11, >including quotes from Greg and Dan, Chomsky, book stores, as well as >several adversaries of the book's point of view. Full text of the article >can be read at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/arts/04TANK.html. > >WASHINGTON POST FEATURE >Citing that modern linguists "regard Chomsky as their Einstein, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 6 14:41:51 PDT 2002

28605 selling Gore to Japan -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >But Bush trashed years of fiscal discipline in mere months Thank god! We might be in a depression if he hadn't. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 6 14:21:21 PDT 2002