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29011 "Accuracy In Media, " on WWP -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > Just surfed over to http://www.FrontPageMagazine.com > See, the AIM staffer, "Fourth Estate...Fifth Column..." piece >there, fwiw. <http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2002/08.html> "New York Times reporter Stephen Labaton appears to be unfamiliar with the tactics and strategies of Communists and their front organizations...." What decade was this report filed from? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 10 12:54:23 PDT 2002

29012 is the New Economy a fad -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >That's not fair Doug. Chuck is not advocating a return to the stone >age; he was taking part in a debate about the relative costs of >public transit and he was reminding everyone that there are huge >costs associated with some of our modern amenitites, which, when >taken into account, make spending on public transportation >relatively cheaper than private transport. When you invoke an unmixed catalog of horrors lurking behind the flip of a light switch, wit ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 10 11:09:15 PDT 2002

29013 at home -- rank: 1000

Anyone know where Marx said something like "a worker only feels like himself at home"? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 9 16:40:00 PDT 2002

29014 Bowie on IP -- rank: 1000

Excerpt from a profile of David Bowie by Jon Pareles, in today's NYT <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/arts/music/09PARE.html?todaysheadlines>: >Heathen" is the first album from Mr. Bowie's own recording company, >Iso, which has major-label distribution through Sony. In 1997, he >sold $55 million of Bowie Bonds backed by his song royalties; the >next year, he founded the technology company Ultrastar and his own >Internet service provider-cum-fan club, Bowienet (davidbo ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 9 14:30:44 PDT 2002

29015 Roger, Bruce, and Lori -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.ncpa.org/oped/bartlett/sep2000a.html ...and in case you didn't follow that link, the conlusion (the reference to Nader's Freeman article is his 40-year-old essay denouncing public housing, which sadly is no longer there): >It is easy to dismiss these conservative sentiments. After all, >Nader's campaign consists mainly of attacks on big corporations and >he has long advocated expanded government power to protect >consumers. Nevertheless, there i ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 9 14:24:38 PDT 2002

29016 Roger, Bruce, and Lori -- rank: 1000

[that Raynor and Wallach have anything to do with this guy is seriously icky] New York Times - June 9, 2002 A Cloth Man With an Iron Will on Trade Policy By JANE TANNER SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A few months ago, Jim DeMint expected an easy path to a third term in the House from a western section of South Carolina. Instead, he is facing a tough Republican primary on Tuesday. What changed was simple: the textile billionaire Roger Milliken put his considerable weight behind Mr. DeMint's challenger, Phil ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 9 07:56:06 PDT 2002

29017 avatar of collectivism -- rank: 1000

At 9:35 AM -0400 6/7/02, Grants Publishing wrote: >L. DENNIS KOZLOWSKI, MESSENGER OF SOCIALISM > > The freshly indicted chief executive officer of Tyco International is a >cardboard cutout for every market cycle. In the boom of the 1990s, he was >the epitome of the hard-driving, earnings-conjuring, ostensibly value- >creating CEO. With his resignation and disgrace, he even more persuasively >slips into the bear-market role of "boss." > Bosses, of course, ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 8 13:45:09 PDT 2002

29018 Japanese turnaround? -- rank: 1000

At 9:31 AM -0400 6/7/02, The Dismal Scientist wrote: >GDP for Japan (1.4%) > >Japanís economy rebounded sharply during the first quarter, >advancing at an annualized pace of 5.7% during the first three >months of the year, after falling at an annualized rate of 4.9% >during the last three months of last year. The 10.6 percentage point >turnaround is surely one of the most dramatic ever experienced by an >industrialized economy, though one should caution against viewing &g ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 8 13:25:47 PDT 2002

29019 ready for 9/11/02? -- rank: 1000

Any editorial comment or mention that you may give this press release would be greatly appreciated. - - - IS YOUR ORGANIZATION READY FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11? _____________________ HAS A PLAN Dateline: June 6, 2002 Contact Name: Contact Phone: E-mail: June 6, 2002 - Is your organization ready for 9/11/02? The trauma response experts at _____________________, Inc., a national employee assistance program (EAP), were concerned that their corporate clients might not be prepared for the upcoming f ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 8 13:18:46 PDT 2002

29020 Russia's demographic crisis -- rank: 1000

The economic recovery hasn't raised pop growth? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 8 11:17:55 PDT 2002

29021 mass layoffs -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >For the third straight month telecommunication companies led all >other industries in announced layoffs—14,687, or 17 percent of cuts >in May—according to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a company that >tracks reports of job cuts. The mass layoffs in the US are part of >an international trend throughout the slumping telecom industry. The CGC numbers are widely quoted, but they don't seem to correlate with anything - not the BLS's mass layoffs or general trends in employm ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 8 11:15:00 PDT 2002

29022 Protest against Singer's views -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >michael savage Who's he? I've heard the name, don't know the story. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 8 10:56:29 PDT 2002

29023 fuel cell cars -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >cell-schmell - it is still a car - the vehicle for suburban sprawl, >traffic congestion, licensing to move around, expensive maintenance >and repair, kangaroo justice and searches and seizures without a >warrant. It's a delight to have you back, Wojtek. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 8 10:57:29 PDT 2002

29024 Salaries -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Having lived in this country for forty years, I can vouch for the >fact that people will talk about anything (private sex lives, >addictions, anything) except for their salaries. Corporations don't >have to work very hard to enforce this; it's in the culture. As I wrote in a footnote to the first page of Wall Street: "There is a curious reticence about money, not only in economics, but more throughout American culture - curious because both the discipline an ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 8 10:24:43 PDT 2002

29025 is the `New Economy' a fad? -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Okay, let's be even more literal. What is in that other 99.9999...%? > >Consider the de-forested desert landscape where the rusted rail cars >drop the strip mined coal (miners and rail workers early deaths and >long term health costs) to burn (to warm up the planet) to help run >the steam plant that runs the electric generator, and then consider >sometime later a nuclear reacter was build to augment the aging fossil >fuel burning power plant ... So I ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 8 10:18:02 PDT 2002