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28711 Russian Israelis -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > If NF is concocting facts or making observations >he believes to be false, he is a scoundrel. I've known Norman for years, and I've always found him to be scrupulous. And the opposite of a scoundrel. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 13:45:58 PST 2002

28712 ice shelf collapses -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I guess its oil depletion that you are skeptical about ? Right. I think there's lots of oil - and I even entertained that story from the WSJ that upset Mark Jones so much about new oil popping up from deep in the earth, making supplies renewable. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 13:42:29 PST 2002

28713 85 per cent of all journeys by car -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Check the state tax incidence study on the CTJ web site >www.ctj.org So it seems that gas taxes hit the poorest 20% about twice as hard as the middle 20% - though the numbers are pretty small (e.g., 0.75% of income for the bottom 20% in California, vs. 0.40% for the middle 20%). A refundable tax credit could handle this easily. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 13:41:25 PST 2002

28714 cars -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >replying to Gar > >>Suprisingly this >[energy tax] >>probably is NOT the best way to reduce energy consumption. > >Hmm, why not? Greenhouse gas emissions are lots lower in Europe and >Japan than they are in the U.S. > >Correspondence is not cause. Europe and Japan have had much lower >growth rates than America in recent years. I cited energy use per dollar of PPP GDP, so growth rat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 13:29:34 PST 2002

28715 KPFK -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> (Marc Cooper, a favorite of many on this list, asked me to post this. >> Since it's quite long, I've included some excerpts and a link. Enjoy!] >> > > >doug, how about giving us marc's email address so this gets to be more >of a two-way conversation? i critiqued his ad hominem attacks on amy >goodman the last time you posted one of his lengthy diatribes but it >would be silly to just keep repeating ourselves here on LBO ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 13:30:30 PST 2002

28716 genuwhine swine (Re: class in america) -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> ravi wrote: >> >>> my own approach to the book is not to take the meaner parts seriously >>> but use it more to poke fun at my own middle-class pretensions, which >>> fussell accurately and effortlessly exposes... >> >> I haven't read the book (which I loved) in almost 20 years, but I >> remember that he also had an out - Class X, where hipster intellectuals >> could take refuge from his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 12:40:18 PST 2002

28717 time to pay up -- rank: 1000

star.matrix at verizon.net wrote: >freemail services will likely be heading toward paid service as >advertisers pull ads and spam control costs rise... As a "listowner," I gotta tell you these free services generally suck. Their memory allocations are generally so small that things bounce back at me like crazy. Even worse is when someone automatically forwards list mail from the subscribed address to a free service, and the free service bounces the mail back. Sometimes it's impos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 12:38:16 PST 2002

28718 Russian Israelis -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Well, you *did* say it. > >I haven't read his books. I can't vouch for all the facts he puts forward. >I did read the interview on the posted link. There are some bothersome >parts, but he's been f**cked over pretty bad. We have some non-trivial >things in common. I'd buy him a drink. Norman hardly drinks, though I did watch him order and consume a Sex On The Beach a few years ago. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 12:21:16 PST 2002

28719 85 per cent of all journeys by car -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >The regressivity of the gas tax is true but irrelevant; You have any info on the incidence of gas taxes by income quantile? I don't see anything on the CBO website about that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 12:11:31 PST 2002

28720 Bobby Fischer on 9/11 -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Is Fischer anti-semite or just anti-zionist? >FISCHER, I was really for the generals, you know, but in the end the >president of the so-called democracy won. I'm hoping for some kind >of a Seven Days in May scenario in the lakes of Ontario, where the >country will be taken over by the military, to close down all the >synagogues, arrest all the Jews, execute hundreds of thousands of >Jewish ringleaders, and, you know, apologize to the Arabs by killing > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 12:08:19 PST 2002

28721 WSJ overhaul -- rank: 1000

I learned last night that the Wall Street Journal will unveil a major overhaul of its front page in a few weeks. The first three columns will remain more or less as they are now, but the layout of the rest of the page will vary. The number of "leaders" - the long, usually excellent stories on either side of the current front page - will be cut to one, and the "A-head" - the often whimsical, usually clever stories in the middle of the page that it's hard to imagine any other U ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 11:26:38 PST 2002

28722 KPFK -- rank: 1000

(Marc Cooper, a favorite of many on this list, asked me to post this. Since it's quite long, I've included some excerpts and a link. Enjoy!] <http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/18/cover-taylor.shtml> LA Weekly - March 22-28, 2002 Family Feud The left eats its own at KPFK by Ella Taylor WORD IS OUT THAT I'M WORKING ON A STORY about the latest coup at KPFK, and troops from both sides are massing on my voice mail, my e-mail, my editors' voice mail in varying tones of panic, paranoia and PR. The r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 11:15:21 PST 2002

28723 genuwhine swine (Re: class in america) -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >my own approach to the book is not to take the meaner parts seriously >but use it more to poke fun at my own middle-class pretensions, which >fussell accurately and effortlessly exposes... I haven't read the book (which I loved) in almost 20 years, but I remember that he also had an out - Class X, where hipster intellectuals could take refuge from his otherwise pitiless taxonomy. That's not on the test, though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 10:48:25 PST 2002

28724 Ice shelf climb-down -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >But green insincerity is not about scientific knowledge, and so is >indifferent to the weight of factual evidence. Instead factoids must >be mobilised in support of a preconceived idea: that the consumption >goods of the masses must be held down at all costs. C'mon James, this is ridiculous. I have no interest in holding down mass consupmtion; I'm a member of the masses, and I like consuming goods & services. I despise hair-shirtism, whether it's coming f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 10:38:00 PST 2002

28725 ice shelf collapses -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > ice shelf collapses >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > > > > >-clip-. But for two, I >like James, and I think he's a smart and interesting guy - even when >he's peversely wrong, as he is on cars and global warming. > >Doug > >^^^^^^^^ > >CB: Do we detect a shift in thinking on these issues from DH, or am >I missing some humor ? Shift on which issues? I've long been hostile to cars, and worried about climate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 10:19:41 PST 2002