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29641 As the smoke clears, Britain's organised left expose themselves as the fad rebel tossers we always knew they were -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of some attached gibberish] Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:38:40 -0500 From: Chuck Munson <chuck at tao.ca> As the smoke clears, Britain's organised/liberal left expose themselves as the fad-rebel whip crackers we always knew they were Flaco Feb 2002 Three weeks ago New York City got to host the World Economic Forum. As a 'tribute to the victims of September 11th', Manhattan taxpayers got to indulge a bunch of tobacco, oil and airline magnates, and a wannabe-planetary-cabinet of sh ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 24 10:48:29 PST 2002

29642 advances in commodity fetishism -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 03:54 PM 02/23/2002 -0500, Doug wrote: >>If you don't have a taste for blasphemy and offbeat sex, don't follow >>this link: <http://www.divine-interventions.com/index2.html>. > >Hmmm. Was much inspired by the dolphins, so I did look this up, but >all it brought up was a black window.??? > >Anyone have better luck? Try a different browser? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 23 17:09:15 PST 2002

29643 advances in commodity fetishism -- rank: 1000

If you don't have a taste for blasphemy and offbeat sex, don't follow this link: <http://www.divine-interventions.com/index2.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 23 10:14:24 PST 2002

29644 WSWS on Pearl -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/pear-f23.shtml> The killing of Daniel Pearl By David North 23 February 2002 For reasons that have nothing to do with jingoism, let alone sympathy for the war policies of the Bush administration, the murder of reporter Daniel Pearl has been met not only with revulsion, but also with deep sadness. From the release of the initial photos that showed Pearl as a captive-his hands bound and with an automatic weapon pointed at his head-the young man was s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 23 10:03:12 PST 2002

29645 Response to Marc Cooper's letter -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Does Gunther's vision of Pacifica give any reason why Pacifica would >need a radio transmitter? It's not about reaching an audience. It's about your own authenticity. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 23 09:48:50 PST 2002

29646 Response to Marc Cooper's letter -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell quoted: >The following is Marc Cooper's original missive, to which the above is a >response >--CG Perhaps this email was inadvertently truncated, and Cooper's letter omitted. Otherwise, I can't imagine why partisans of free speech wouldn't include it. Here it is, for the sake of completeness. Since I don't know the details of the situation, I have no comments of my own to add. Doug ---- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:02:20 -0500 From: Marc Cooper <mcooper at thenation.com> ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 23 09:48:05 PST 2002

29647 Dimitrov/"The Oligarchs" -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: >if the eXile was still around they'd slam >it. It came back, didn't it? Chris Doss? Can't raise the website, though. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 16:24:08 PST 2002

29648 these guys are fucking mad -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - February 22, 2002 U.S. drops pledge on nukes By Nicholas Kralev The Bush administration is no longer standing by a 24-year-old U.S. pledge not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, a senior administration official said yesterday. Top Stories Washington is "not looking for occasions to use" its nuclear arsenal, John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, said in an interview. But "we would do whatever is necessar ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 16:06:39 PST 2002

29649 NYC: FILM PREMIERE: WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM -- rank: 1000

From: "Ben Cashdan" <bcashdan at igc.org> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:20:40 -0500 World Premiere of Film on Racism Conference On Thursday 28 February 2002, at 12.00 noon, at Columbia University, New York, catch a sneak preview of the unreleased official documentary on the World Conference Against Racism (NGO Forum). Starring Kofi Annan, Thabo Mbeki, Angela Davis, Louis Michel, Jesse Jackson, Danny Glover and 20 000 others! Hear the Presidency of the European Union defending colonia ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 15:53:04 PST 2002

29650 Savimbi dead? -- rank: 1000

At 2:51 PM -0500 2/22/02, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >LUANDA, Angola _ The army has killed UNITA rebel leader Jonas >Savimbi, government and army say in a statement.

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 12:39:44 PST 2002

29651 O'Neill: "WB has driven poor countries into a ditch" -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >And how are countries to get the hard currency to buy the >western-made capital goods that embody so much technology? That's not the most urgent priority for a low-income country, which needs to feed and house people and teach them to read. A lot of hard currency debt is just a millstone, and the compulsion to earn dollars and euros is a distraction from a lot of humanly urgent tasks. If the model worked, why are debt burdens still so high, and income gaps (aside from C ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 12:08:53 PST 2002

29652 Greenspan and Lindsey worry about stox -- rank: 1000

[sometimes old news can be pretty interesting] Thursday February 21, 6:44 pm Eastern Time Greenspan's 1996 stocks anxiety shared by Lindsey By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's anxiety in 1996 about over-valued stock markets was amply shared by his colleagues, including Lawrence Lindsey, now President George W. Bush's top economic adviser. Minutes from the 1996 meetings of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee, made public on ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 08:20:44 PST 2002

29653 O'Neill: "WB has driven poor countries into a ditch" -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >What would the US get out of doing such a thing as destroying or >weakening the WB? Nothing, as far as I can tell - it makes no sense from an empire-management perspective. That's why I was saying that a smooth clever bourgeois like Stanley Fischer has a much better sense of how crucial state power is to maintaining and expanding the rule of capital than do the ideological hacks in the Bush admin. Maybe I'm missing something though. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 08:11:07 PST 2002

29654 fighting inflation -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >I like this line from Stanley Fischer... > >--- > >In 1982 when you >looked at the numbers you couldn't tell that Korea would do better >than Latin American countries during the debt crisis, but of course >Korea was so much more capable of taking hard, dramatic action. I >suspect that China is more like that in terms of the political system >and the determination of the team when they see things coming. > >Remember [the 1989] Tiananmen [M ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 08:02:52 PST 2002

29655 O'Neill: "WB has driven poor countries into a ditch" -- rank: 1000

Vikash Yadav wrote: >I would rather reform the World Bank than destroy it. Where will the >concessional loans for development come from if these institutions are >destroyed? (I am not convinced by those who believe that development aid is >the problem, as their target seems to be corruption but they still have no >solution for actually addressing poverty alleviation). The WB isn't entirely a bad thing, but it mostly is. It lends largely for export-oriented projects, which means ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 22 07:50:47 PST 2002