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28801 Vegans kill animals too -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: >Easily avoidable animal suffering aside, a vegetarian diet is pretty >widely conceded to be more healthy for its consumer than a meat-rich >diet. Surely there's *some* moral value in maximizing one's own >health? Moral value? I don't know, why should health be a moral value in itself? Does that make the sick guilty of some transgression against morality? That makes me a bit nervous (though I don't want to bring up the Nazis, so as not to upset Gordon). Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 11:27:38 PST 2002

28802 Jesus Christ's body found in Kashmir -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Aren't there sects that believe Jesus went to India and learned >eastern mysticism, ethics etc.? Even more wackily, there are sects that believe he was born of a virgin, turned water into wine, rose from the dead, and ascended bodily into heaven! Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 10:21:50 PST 2002

28803 Ace on The Jews -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >I would certainly be the last person to duck the issue of Mossad >infiltration in the US. Hakki, I read this in today's Financial Times: >EUROPE: E-mail scandal spurs Turkey to introspection EUROPEAN UNION >ENTRY INTERCEPTION OF ENVOY'S MESSAGES PROMPTS DEBATE ON HUMAN >RIGHTS AND READINESS FOR MEMBERSH: >By LEYLA BOULTON > >A scandal over the inter-ception of the e-mails of Karen Fogg, the >European Commission's envoy to Turkey, may ultimatel ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 10:18:25 PST 2002

28804 Vegans kill animals too -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> I talked to an East Coaster a while back who spent some time in >> Berkeley, hating it. She said the final straw, though, was when she >> bought a pound of coffee that had a label assuring that "no birds were >> harmed" in the production of the beans. >> > >doug, i dont get your point. are you saying that veganism is some sort >of silly california fad and has no moral value? I fail to see the mor ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 10:10:40 PST 2002

28805 Greenspan on U.S. foreign balance -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >It--large unhedged derivative books that transform the U.S. foreign >debt from something denominated in $$$$ to something denominated in >pounds or euros or yen--is the obvious point failure source for the >U.S. macroeconomy. Peter Fisher, John Taylor, and Glenn Hubbard are >highly competent, none of them is attached to the belief that >competitive financial markets work well (indeed, Glenn made his >reputation on studies of how the capital market did ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 10:06:49 PST 2002

28806 Vegans kill animals too -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >OSU SCIENTIST QUESTIONS THE MORAL BASIS OF A VEGAN >DIET I talked to an East Coaster a while back who spent some time in Berkeley, hating it. She said the final straw, though, was when she bought a pound of coffee that had a label assuring that "no birds were harmed" in the production of the beans. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 08:44:28 PST 2002

28807 legal advice = terrorism -- rank: 1000

[Wondering if this is the NLG booklet he was carrying?] New York Post - March 14, 2002 BUSTED EGYPTIAN PACKED 'HOW TO HANDLE COPS' GUIDE March 14, 2002 -- LANCASTER, Pa. - An Egyptian arrested for allegedly using a fake ID at a nightclub was held without bail after he was found carrying instructions on how to deal with authorities if he was stopped for questioning, police said yesterday. In court papers filed after Ahmed Ebrahim Moussa's arrest last week, authorities said he had documents " ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 07:56:02 PST 2002

28808 Greenspan on U.S. foreign balance -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >So then the dollar falls in value until they start buying our goods. >It's a problem. Yup, it's a problem. But will they buy enough of our goods? And which goods? Chicken and oranges? Or Pentiums and 747s? Goldman Sachs did a report the other day estimating that the dollar would have to fall by over 40% to balance our c/a. That's a big drop that could have some serious effects on the financial markets and the exports of other countries. And if we import less and exp ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 07:22:27 PST 2002

28809 Greenspan on U.S. foreign balance -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >The Treasury, the SEC, and the Federal Reserve care. I don't know >whether they knew. I hope they did... They may care enough to worry, but do they care enough to do anything? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 07:23:12 PST 2002

28810 Greenspan on U.S. foreign balance -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Can someone explain what this means? If the "NY financial institutions' >derivatives' books had a net notional principal that was long the dollar to >the tune of 3 trillion." > >If they did, and the dollar fell by, say, 25 %, would that mean their >liabilities would rise by 25%? If so, how? > >Is there something good online that explains how these derivatives work? >Seems complicated to me. My pal Randall Dodd is running a Derivatives St ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 13 14:40:24 PST 2002

28811 Greenspan on U.S. foreign balance -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I'm not exactly arguing -- it's just that it's hard to imagine a >military power so overwhelming as the U.S. being pushed around >economically if "it" (who?) doesn't want to be. When you need to borrow over a billion a day from foreigners, it's not clear how much having a big military helps. There are economic constraints on empire, after all. I don't know the answers on this - I'm just thinking out loud. But how and when the U.S. gets its foreign accounts b ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 13 14:35:00 PST 2002

28812 Greenspan on U.S. foreign balance -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> So how will this be resolved? With >> a dollar crisis and capital flight, leading to an externally imposed >> austerity regime? A big question as the U.S. economy recovers... >> > >Has such an "externally imposed austerity regime" ever occurred in which >powers that might impose it were under the military occupation of the >power on which it was to be imposed? All they'd have to do is stop buy ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 13 13:15:37 PST 2002

28813 Greenspan on U.S. foreign balance -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>This is one of those rare instances where somebody important >>worries about this in public. The orthodox thing for AG to do would >>be to tighten policy and restrain U.S. growth rates to reduce >>imports. > >Under a gold standard, yes. Or for ordinary countries (i.e., nonsuperpowers) under the present regime. Ask Mexico or Thailand. Or, to a lesser degree, Australia and Canada. >But--as long as the U.S. foreign debt is made up of foreign equ ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 13 12:26:00 PST 2002

28814 Greenspan on U.S. foreign balance -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >This is one of those rare instances where somebody important worries >about this in public. > >Half of the 2000 Federal Reserve Jackson Hole Conference was devoted >to this and related topics... For most of us, JH isn't a public event. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 13 12:19:20 PST 2002

28815 So Long Saddam -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >How about we take all the time of those who prepare for the rally, attend the >demo, and the time many spend in jail and doing work getting them out-- >instead, skip the demo and spend the same amount of time door-knocking to >talk to folks about why war is a bad idea and global justice is a far better >approach to assuring global security. ...and in the interim, vote for Democrats who'll support the war. Demos, as opposed to mere Dems, can scare the ruling c ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 13 11:04:00 PST 2002