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29356 MC from PA -- rank: 1000

All you Cooper fans! Marc is reporting from Porto Alegre for the Nation's website: <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=cooper20020130>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 31 11:44:33 PST 2002

29357 U.S. blocks aid -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Ian Murray wrote: >> >> >> The internal WB heretic William Easterly comes at the same problem >> from just a slightly different angle--the neoclassical take on the >> cumulativeness of perverse incentives/corruption-- in "The Elusive >> Quest for Prosperity". >> > >Doesn't aid 1) merely flow into the pockets of local oligarchs and >military thugs, etc. and 2) usually come with strings forcing the money >to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 31 06:44:11 PST 2002

29358 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >d uniqueness they then associate with the >politics. And vice versa. The problem with pacifica stations now is >their utter sameness -- they are as monotonous in their own way as MOR. >Creativity, variety and change -- and a programming staff with a large >helping of the young, the inspired and the short term. One of the distressing things about WBAI today is that there are so few young people flocking there. If it were healthier, you'd think scores of kid ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 31 06:25:20 PST 2002

29359 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug said: > >>I started listening to WBAI in 1967 or 1968, as an alienated and >>weird teenager in Joisey. In those days, you could hear Wagner's >>Ring, broadcast complete every Washington's Birthday, as well as >>drama and poetry. There's a schedule from the early 1960s up at the >>station, and it was even more highbrow then. > >Not meaning to sound like a rabid nationalist but, MY GOD, DOUG, >HAVE YOU EVER LISTENED TO CBC RADIO ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 15:08:31 PST 2002

29360 vote early & often -- rank: 1000

At 5:37 PM -0500 1/30/02, Fast Company wrote: >Online Poll: How would you punish the leaders of >Enron Corp.? >Imprison them >http://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=410&vote=1 > >Seize and distribute their stock profits among Enron employees >http://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=410&vote=2 > >Leave the punishment to a court of law >http://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=410&vote=3 > >Other

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 14:55:05 PST 2002

29361 Karzai, fashion plate -- rank: 1000

This just in...the editor of Glamour will be on CNN tomorrow morning with Jeanne Moos, 8:50 AM EST, talking about "the fashionable and chic new Afghanistan leader, Karzai and his fashion statement suits, robes, and hats."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 13:47:02 PST 2002

29362 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >are you always this pissy? No. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 13:06:38 PST 2002

29363 Fwd: Betty Bowers' State of the Union -- rank: 1000

mongoH at earthlink.net wrote, quoting Betty Bowers: >>adopt the Lord as our own bellicose mascot Wow, I love this. Who is BB, really? Does anyone know? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 30 12:56:35 PST 2002

29364 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >don't be modest about your limitations. Right. I should follow your example and overlook my limitations completely! >10 years ago was about the time the pacifica mess started. so you >know nothing about pacifica before then? since i'm not familiar >with WBAI, and Samori Marksman, i have to assume you don't know much >about what pacifica was like 15 or 20 years ago. I started listening to WBAI in 1967 or 1968, as an alienated and weird teenag ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 30 12:21:56 PST 2002

29365 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >glad you were able to keep the emotional language and value >judgements to a minimum in this one, doug. Heavens, that's a model we should all aspire to - no emotions and no value judgments. Just fairness, balance, and objectivity - like the New York Times! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 12:23:37 PST 2002

29366 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >you assigned the hats, doug, by running cooper's essays without >criticism and with no contrasting opinion. There's no shortage of contrasting opinion on Pacifica. I feel no need to balance anything. In a list with well over 300 subscribers, anyone can post info to the contrary. It's not my job to be fair, balanced, or objective. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 30 12:15:06 PST 2002

29367 FOMC sez... -- rank: 1000

[sounding more optimistic, but not bouncingly so] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2002/20020130/default.htm> Release Date: January 30, 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. Signs that weakness in demand is abating and economic activity is beginning to firm have become more prevalent. With the forces restraining the economy starting to diminish, and with the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 11:58:26 PST 2002

29368 rah rah -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: "Mark McEahern" <mark at mceahern.com> To: "Lbo" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: rah rah Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:15:46 -0800 i think bush would make a great cheerleader. too bad he didn't do any backflips last night. this seemed to be the recipe for the evening: 1. bush: [insert positive keyword or phrase]. 2. audience: clap wildly. 3. repeat. hey, i thought these were serious times. i guess that doesn't mean somber. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 09:17:51 PST 2002

29369 slogans -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> >Lenin says somewhere that anarchism is the penalty the working class >> >pays for its sins of opportunism. >> >> So Lenin said that. That makes it true? You have a habit of quoting >> him and Mao as if they were scripture. >> > >Does it make it false? Nope. But it's not enough to invoke it - either as scripture, or with the rhetorical authority of a good ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 30 09:09:32 PST 2002

29370 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Cooper is an interesting duck. He is very good at producing shows that >air the left-liberal perspective. With respect to Pacifica, he is >abominable. Do you spy an interesting contradiction in this paragraph? He does good radio, but there's no place for him in Pacifica? Is it better to do tedious, hectoring, morally self-satisfying programs that appeal to no one but the hard core? Why? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 30 09:00:00 PST 2002