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29671 away -- rank: 1000

Hey coms, off to Amsterdam for a few days, for Boris Kagarlitsky's world economic crisis conference. Tough assignment, I know. But I won't be paying much attention to email. So don't solve the transformation problem without me! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 14 15:45:28 PST 2002

29672 Twinkling -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Bradford DeLong wrote: >> >>>>I thought Cooper's piece was a pile of crap -- why spend the first part of >>>>precious space about PA on trashing domestic folks >>> >>> >>>Its part of the process of molting that turns one into a >>>neoconservative. First one finds the attempted implementations of >>>"non-hierarchical participatory democracy" (i) boring. Then one >>>finds them ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 14 11:32:04 PST 2002

29673 Twinkling -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>I thought Cooper's piece was a pile of crap -- why spend the first part of >>precious space about PA on trashing domestic folks > > >Its part of the process of molting that turns one into a >neoconservative. First one finds the attempted implementations of >"non-hierarchical participatory democracy" (i) boring. Then one >finds them (ii) counterproductive and time-wasting. Then one finds >them (iii) culturally offensive. Then one ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 14 11:09:39 PST 2002

29674 JEC on BWIs -- rank: 1000

Vikash Yadav wrote: >Opposition to the WB & IMF is not a sign of virtue per se. Of course not. But it's a tough call whether right-wing attempts to starve the WB & IMF might weaken their power and, on balance, be an act of good for the world's poor. In their ideological fervor, sometimes right-wingers underestimate the degree to which state institutions are necessary to establish and maintain market relations, which they imagine to be the natural state of affairs that are only distort ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 14 10:46:19 PST 2002

29675 Rev Al vs. ENE -- rank: 1000

[from today's New York Post's Page Six] Scandal angle JUST call him "Enron Al." Presidential wannabe Rev. Al Sharpton wants to use the Enron mess as a springboard to the White House. The perspicacious pol huddled with Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf yesterday at Cipriani Downtown, and proposed making the Enron scandal a cornerstone of his populist campaign. Sheinkopf, who's mulling signing on with Sharpton, says the Enron issue "would give him tremendous public recognition an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 14 08:40:44 PST 2002

29676 IMF praises "new start" with Argentina -- rank: 1000

News Brief No. 02/12 February 13, 2002 International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20431 USA IMF's Köhler: Good Start to New Relationship with Argentina IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler said in Washington, D.C. today: "IMF Management and staff have had very positive and cordial discussions with Argentina's Economy Minister Jorge Remes Lenicov and his colleagues over the past two days. This was a good start to a new relationship, and there was broad agreement on the an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 14 07:55:16 PST 2002

29677 JEC on BWIs -- rank: 1000

[Saxton was on CNBC this morning, talking about the WB & IMF. He didn't really seem like he knew what he was talking about. But anyone who makes life difficult for the Bretton Woods Institutions is doing something at least partly virtuous.] For Immediate Release Press Release #107-70 February 14, 2002 Contact: Christopher Frenze Executive Director (202) 224-5171 STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN JIM SAXTON REFORM OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND WORLD BANK It is a pleasure to welcome Under Secreta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 14 07:34:54 PST 2002

29678 Bush decides to topple Saddam -- rank: 1000

Philadelphia Inquirer - February 13, 2002 Bush planning to topple Hussein Aides say that although no military action is in the works, the President has decided the Iraqi leader poses too much of a threat. By Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - President Bush has decided to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power and ordered the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies to devise a combination of military, diplomatic and covert steps to achieve that goal, sen ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 13 14:02:25 PST 2002

29679 Osama lottery -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >Gordon Fitch wrote: > >> But I don't remember when we didn't have a torrent of >> righteousness, bombast, hucksterism, bellicosity, and self-pity, >> as well as sanctimony, sentimentality, tribal fetishism and >> the worship of moronic simple-mindedness. When was that? > >The late Pleistocene? Gosh, guys. I'm not evoking any nonexistent Golden Age. You don't see an increase in righteousness, bombast, etc., since 9/11? Admittedly from an a ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 13 12:48:12 PST 2002

29680 Damned if you do -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >From Monday's FT: > ><quote> > >Euphoria over the [S&P] upgrade, however, was followed by a drop in >Mexican markets after the central bank tightened monetary policy to stave >off inflation sparked by higher taxes and decliing electricity subsidies. >Provisional figures, meanwhile, suggest the ecnomy shrank 1.2 per cent in >the 2001 fourth quarter. > ><unquote> > >Let me get this straight -- even if you agree, as ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 13 12:39:21 PST 2002

29681 Osama lottery -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >It looks bad for us and I don't know about you, but I'm no spring chicken. 49, I am. Not quite autumnal yet, but getting there... Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 13 11:52:55 PST 2002

29682 The New Nazism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Isn't it becoming necessary for all honest publicists to call the >U.S. in 2002 what it really is ? The New Nazism So why aren't you in jail? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 13 11:23:10 PST 2002

29683 Jude W on dead Iraqi kids -- rank: 1000

"The Politics of Dead Children" Memo To: Matt Welch, Reason From: Jude Wanniski Re: How Many Died in Iraq? Re your article in the March Reason, "The Politics of Dead Children," you seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to whittle down the number of children who have died under the age of 5 as a result of the embargo on Iraq. The UN had the number at 500,000 in 1996. Baghdad now says 600,000. After slicing and dicing from afar, you say it has "contributed to more than 100 ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 13 09:25:24 PST 2002

29684 Osama Lottery -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Take that, Osama bin Laden Fuck, when is this going to stop, this torrent of righteousness, bombast, hucksterism, bellicosity, and self-pity? It makes me want to scream. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 12 18:36:49 PST 2002

29685 Boy Scouts declare same-sexers ungodly -- rank: 1000

February 6, 2002 Boy Scouts of America Resolution WHEREAS the Resolutions Committee of the Boy Scouts of America (on behalf of the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America) on June 1, 2001, assigned the Relationships Committee of the Boy Scouts of America with he responsibility for considering and making recommendations to the Executive Board with respect to various resolutions submitted by members of the National Council at the Annual Meeting concerning the appropriate flexibility to be emp ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 12 18:31:59 PST 2002