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29056 Pearl video -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > Skimming last night the andrew sullivan blog saw him comment >on the recent column by Robert, "Beat Me Up, " Fisk on the John >Malkovich speech in the UK. > "...a Professor Judea Pearl at UCLA..." hurling invective >at Fisk. > Some factchecking there at The Independent would have found >out that that Judea is the Father of Daniel. On the video, and in some of his WSJ writing, Pearl sounded more like Fisk than Sullivan. D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 4 12:49:35 PDT 2002

29057 more quotes -- rank: 1000

This again from Reuters. Tough times on Wall Street! >"It's like a perfect storm in stocks," said Philip Ruffat, senior >vice president at Mizuho Securities USA. "You have high valuations >that are not being supported by visibility from senior management, >you have fraud and deceit accounting. Right now you have the >visibility of a brick."

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 12:46:14 PDT 2002

29058 Pearl video -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >at what point do I have to stop watching if I have a weak stomach? >I am curious to hear hios comments, but I can leave the rest ..... It happens pretty suddenly - it cuts from him speaking to some blurry but bloody stuff, and ends with someone holding his severed head by the hair. Can't give you a time or a marker on the progress bar, though. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 10:10:11 PDT 2002

29059 music for bears -- rank: 1000

Reclusive market guru Robert Prechter of the Elliott Wave Theorist - a crackpot of sorts, but an interesting one - theorizes that the stock market reflects the broader social mood, and he uses pop music to illustrate the point. For example, he argues that 70s punk reflected the nihilism of the time, which was also one of the worst decades for stocks in U.S. history. When the bull market began in the early 1980s, punk receded from view (though there was the early 80s hardcore movement, but it was ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 10:08:32 PDT 2002

29060 Blake, "America, A Prophecy" Re:Star Spangled Banner -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Oh, now I'm being simplistic, love it or leave it? For heaven's sake. jks You're the one who said that people were questioning your posish were from the Hate America school. I was just quoting you: >Justin Schwartz wrote: > >>I give up. I will start all my public speeches from now by burning >>the flag and saying, I hate the fascist pig Amerikkka. That should >>solidify my left credentials. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 09:55:40 PDT 2002

29061 Pearl video -- rank: 1000

The Boston Phoenix site <http://www.bostonphoenix.com/> has a link to the infamous Daniel Pearl video: <http://prohosters.com/pearl/>. Don't click if you have a weak stomach. Before his head was severed, Pearl criticizes U.S. mideast policy - the presence in Afghanistan, support of corrupt and dictatorial Arab regimes, and repeated use of the Security Council to justify the slaughter of children. Has that part been reported before? I didn't see the excerpt that CBS ran. Do people cla ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 09:50:09 PDT 2002

29062 What would it do to the Social Security system -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >if the dollar was devalued sharply? Just humor me, 'k? Depends on lots of other things. If there were major capital flight, the stock market collapsed and interest rates spiked, the U.S. economy would hit a wall, and unemployment would skyrocket. SS, like the rest of the budget, would take a hard hit. But if it were a gentle adjustment, it probably wouldn't have much effect. Higher inflation, which could result from a dollar decline, would actually be good for SS. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 09:53:47 PDT 2002

29063 Blake, "America, A Prophecy" Re:Star Spangled Banner -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >I give up. I will start all my public speeches from now by burning >the flag and saying, I hate the fascist pig Amerikkka. That should >solidify my left credentials. Justin, you're playing the debased binary game, in which you have to choose only one (1): [ ] Love America [ ] Hate America Why can't you be more ambivalent than that. A place so big & complex with such a messy history deserves complicated feelings. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 09:30:17 PDT 2002

29064 MWO -- rank: 1000

Does anyone subscribe to Salon? They've got an article on Media Whores Online which is critical enough to have the BuzzFlashers all worked up. (BuzzFlash criticizes the press for taking dictation from the Bush White House - but MWO is reputed to be a front for Joe Conason, who used to take dictation from the Clinton White House. Whoring is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.) Anyway, it'd be interesting to see what the fuss is all about. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 09:21:09 PDT 2002

29065 Malcolm X's 'plaint -- rank: 1000

New York Post - June 4, 2002 PAGE SIX By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON Malcolm X's sexual suffering MALCOLM X was a henpecked husband who couldn't keep up with his wife's sexual demands, he confided to Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in a heartfelt 1959 letter. The type-written, single-spaced missive was rescued by a lawyer for Muhammad's family as it was about to be thrown in the trash, and now it is up for sale for $125,000. "This will change history's view o ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 09:10:49 PDT 2002

29066 Why not emigrate? -- rank: 1000

Ismail Lagardien wrote: >what happens if you end up in Australia; will you ignore "the >Aboriginal problem" and the Right-wing thuggery of that government? Actually, my visit to Australia last July made me realize how important it was that the U.S. has a history - however hypocritical - of welcoming immigrants. Australia doesn't. When I was there, a cabinet minister had just published a book quoting PM Howard as saying there are too many Asians walking the streets of Australian c ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 09:07:04 PDT 2002

29067 nontrads dominate -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 4, 2002 Nontraditional Students Dominate Undergraduate Enrollments, U.S. Study Finds By JAMILAH EVELYN Washington Almost 75 percent of today's undergraduate students are considered "nontraditional" because of their age, financial status, or when they enrolled in college, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Education Department. Each year, the department's National Center for Education Statistics prepares a report, "The ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 09:00:41 PDT 2002

29068 Why not emigrate? -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Still, despite our anachrobistic Federalism, states are largely >admistrative regions. Some patriot you are! The federal system is so essentially American - part of the stupid separation of powers - that to dismiss it so makes me wonder just what you love about the U.S. Most patriots love the Constitution, and since that document is all about the separation of powers, it's kind of weird to dimiss this essential feature as an anachronism, and the states as merely adm ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 08:37:39 PDT 2002

29069 a confession -- rank: 1000

A listmember asked me to post this anonymously, for fear of retribution... >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> [most interesting spam I've gotten in some time] >> >> From: "Officer Web" <bxabl at dsbc.icl.co.uk> >> Subject: Spy on your employees! >> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:35:45 -1900 >> >> Protect your family on the Internet >> Make sure they are being safe on the Internet with >> [x] Interne ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 08:33:40 PDT 2002

29070 headlines we never thought we'd see -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Rohatyn waxed nostalgiac for the Protestant Ethic >yesterday... Where? What crypt did they unseal to let out Felix the Fixer? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 07:51:12 PDT 2002