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29686 taking in each other's swaps -- rank: 1000

FT.com - February 12, 2002 KPNQwest says 15% of revenue came from swaps By Martin Arnold KPNQwest, the pan-European data communications provider, on Tuesday reported its first annual operating profit but revealed that it had earned 15 per cent of its revenue from sales to customers from which it had made reciprocal purchases. The company said about E120m ($105m), out of total revenues of E810.1m last year, had come from sales of optical capacity to customers from which it had in turn purchased a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 12 18:22:28 PST 2002

29687 warning! -- rank: 1000

A couple of excerpts from a Reuters story on the terror warning for today: >The FBI urged law enforcement agencies around the world to stop or >detain Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, a Yemeni national who was born in >Saudi Arabia in 1979 and has a number of aliases, as well as 16 of >his known associates. > >FBI officials said there was no record that al-Rabeei had ever >entered the United States. His current whereabouts are unknown, and >he may even be dead, the FBI said in its ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 12 13:11:53 PST 2002

29688 Taliban-approved sports -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >at the cost of being accused of doug's "anti-americanism", i must >say that the winter olympics and its coverage have done nothing but >enforce the lack of it (sportsmanship): after a couple of days of >speculating on whether "north america" would take the pair skating >gold away from russia, yesterday's result was summed up as >"controversial" by american media and blown out of proportion. I'm entirely comfortable with that brand of & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 12 08:59:41 PST 2002

29689 "scholars" support war on terrorism -- rank: 1000

[The full text of the letter is at <http://www.propositionsonline.com/Fighting_For/fighting_for.html>. It's mostly hot air, and the words "Afghanistan" and "Iraq" don't appear.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 12, 2002 Scholars' Statement Says Fight Against Terrorism Is Consistent With Idea of 'Just War' By JENNIFER K. RUARK Washington A group of 60 prominent American scholars will release a letter today supporting the government's war on terrorism. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 12 08:47:43 PST 2002

29690 US & SA -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for excessive length - here's the lead & URL for more] From: "Hakki Alacakaptan" <nucleus at superonline.com> Subject: US & SA: Petrodollars, oil, arms, and wahhabism Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:04:16 +0200 Excellent analysis in the WP: Hakki <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55265-2002Feb10?language=printer> Oil for Security Fueled Close Ties But Major Differences Led to Tensions By Robert G. Kaiser and David Ottaway Washington Post Staff Write ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 12 08:29:20 PST 2002

29691 Getting out the thumbscrews (RE: Cheney to come out of hiding) -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >The current level of US intimidation may lead one to think that Cheney & >Wolfowitz are going to make Turkey & the Gulf states an offer they can't >refuse. The Guardian article indicates what this will involve: > >--------------------------------------------------- >(...)action to be taken by neighbouring states to "tighten the political >noose" [and] a military campaign relying heavily on air power and defections >from within ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 12 08:27:31 PST 2002

29692 Do you *really* think it's immoral for a U.S. employer to hire Cambodians as typesetters? -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Do you *really* think it's immoral for a U.S. employer to hire >Cambodians as typesetters? To whom is this addressed? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 18:17:06 PST 2002

29693 Kinsley leaves Slate -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com - February 11, 2002 Kinsley Will Resign as Editor Of Microsoft's Slate Magazine By NICK WINGFIELD Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL After more than six years at the helm of Slate magazine, Michael Kinsley is stepping down as editor of the Microsoft Corp. politics and culture Web site. In an e-mail to the online magazine's staff Sunday evening, Mr. Kinsley said he would leave the top editorial job as of Monday, adding that he will continue to write his weekly column, entitled &quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 15:58:43 PST 2002

29694 Kissinger's phone chats -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:43:02 -0500 From: NSARCHIVE <mevans at GWU.EDU> Subject: Update: Archive Hails Final Turnover of Kissinger Telcons National Security Archive Update, February 11, 2002 *Archive Hails Final Turnover of Kissinger Telcons* GWU Group Persuades National Archives to Recover Telephone Transcripts Washington, D.C.,11 February 2002 - In answer to a three-year-old National Security Archive request, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) today confirmed that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 15:55:37 PST 2002

29695 economists getting cheerier -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >All this prosperity talk is fine, but just where exactly do these >everyones think the prosperity is going to come from? We've already >tried thin air, hot air, foul air, now what? Sealed Air? The Bubble-Wrap economy! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 15:28:09 PST 2002

29696 British not patsies! -- rank: 1000

[of course you can tell the author's a terror-symp by his name] Observer (London) - February 10, 2002 UK tells White House to rein in the hawks Kamal Ahmed, political editor Britain revealed its increasing irritation with America over the war against terrorism yesterday when senior Government sources said that hawkish elements in the White House were using 'unnecessarily belligerent' language. Referring to President Bush's comment that Iraq, Iran and North Korea formed an 'axis of evil', Whiteha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 13:50:53 PST 2002

29697 NYPress on WEF demos -- rank: 1000

New York Press - February 6-12, 2002 New York City Alan Cabal Signs of Life A certain mad hubris seems to have gripped the Power Elite lately, what with the state of Illinois confiscating legally registered guns from law-abiding citizens and Posse Comitatus safeguards tossed down the old memory hole in the name of Homeland Security. It's like the opening of The Turner Diaries. The radical right is bubbling with conspiracy theories and stockpiling guns, ammo, MREs and water filtration systems. Th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 12:54:17 PST 2002

29698 inquiring minds -- rank: 1000

A query from deep America about those mysterious furriners, in this week's New York Press letters column: >Even Taki Does Not Know > >Taki: I'm impressed with your insight. Can you explain why France is >so - let's say - the way they are? I'm amazed that their leaders >seem so wishy-washy, I would be interested in your view and insight! > >Floyd E. Holcom, Astoria, OR

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 12:40:53 PST 2002

29699 economists getting cheerier -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 10:27 PM 02/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>So how's Sun doing? Any visibility, as they say? >> >>Doug > >I don't know what "visibility" means. It's the word Wall Streeters and CEOs/CFOs have been using to describe the presence or absence of expected future sales and profit growth. No visibility = no end to the slump in sight. I think it's a bit past its prime, now that everyone's convinced prosperity's around the corner. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 11:55:25 PST 2002

29700 the Breindel prize -- rank: 1000

[this is almost as hilarious as Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize - Breindel was a thuggish right-winger of the lowest sort with a taste for heroin] New York Post - February 11, 2002 BREINDEL JOURNALISM PRIZE OFFERS $10,000 February 11, 2002 -- Organizers of the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism announced yesterday that they are accepting submissions for the fourth annual competition. The $10,000 award, which recognizes the editorial pursuit of freedom and American ide ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 11:43:59 PST 2002