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29731 Was boom a dream? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >From CBS MarketWatch chief economist Irwin Kellner, "Enron, Andersen and the >double-dip: Will debacle spread to economy?": > >"Finally, if corporate earnings restatements become ubiquitous, can >the economic statistics be far behind? Clearly, the government's >measurements of the economy's performance depends in large part on >the data it gets from Corporate America. > >"If the profits many firms said they racked up in the latte ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 12:01:39 PST 2002

29732 lbo-talk-digest V1 #5659 -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Oh Christ. Chuck, mate, what I was hoping to see here was an outright, >outraged denial that anyone you knew ever "twinkled". If anything like the >hand gestures described above actually take place, this movement is never >going to be taken seriously. In the name of sanity, stop the twinkling. Tony Mazzocchi, the 70-something founder of the Labor Party, spoke at a green gathering last year, and there was much twinkling in response to his speech. Aft ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 11:36:23 PST 2002

29733 US wants overhaul of IFIs -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - february 8, 2002 US wants overhaul of global financial agencies By EDWARD ALDEN The US said yesterday that it wanted a broad overhaul of international financial institutions that would help stabilise emerging markets and reinvigorate economic growth in the world's poorest countries. John Taylor, the top Treasury official on international affairs, said the threat of future terrorist attacks made it imperative that new ways be found to end the poverty that "can be a breeding ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 11:32:33 PST 2002

29734 Cooper on PA -- rank: 1000

<http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/12/cover-cooper.shtml> L.A. Weekly - February 8 - 14, 2002 Left With Hope Some un-American thoughts from Brazil on global Justice by Marc Cooper PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- AFTER SPENDING last week here with 50,000 others at the World Social Forum -- what the press has dubbed the "anti-globalization summit" -- it would be easy to make fun of the guy who was wearing a red-and-blue Che Guevara cape. Or the clumps of balding, middle-aged Belgians and Dane ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 08:01:08 PST 2002

29735 WEF -- rank: 1000

Some interesting names, as I page through the participants' list for the World Economic Forum - Homi Bhabha, Manuel Castells, Naomi Campbell, Danny Schechter, Warren & Annette, Ossie Davis, George Friedman (Stratfor), Jenny Holzer...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 7 16:09:44 PST 2002

29736 Polyagmy, and bad noos -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >I never understood why the Unions don't put more of their money into >initiatives and less into donations to hack politicians. Well there's always Bob Fitch's explanation - they're looking for friendly politicians who won't indict them! Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 15:32:46 PST 2002

29737 Fwd: Support Turkish publisher of Noam Chomsky facing trial -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 12:42:36 -0500 From: Anthony Arnove <arnove at igc.org> Subject: Support Turkish publisher of Noam Chomsky facing trial Dear friends, MIT linguistics professor and activist Noam Chomsky is headed for Turkey for the February 13 trial against Fatih Tas of Aram Publishing House, the Istanbul-based publisher of his book American Interventionism. The chief prosecutor of the Istanbul National Security Court has charged the publisher with the crime of "propaganda again ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 10:12:22 PST 2002

29738 bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >How are the wage increases of the late '90s >holding up, incidentally? Continuing, so far - expanding, even. The average real hourly wage for all private sector workers was up 3.2% between Jan 01 and Jan 02, a lot better than a year ago, when the annual growth rate was bobbing between 0 and 1%. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 10:11:10 PST 2002

29739 Fwd: Re: bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

X-From_: john.halle at SNET.Net Thu Feb 7 12:25:25 2002 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:38:17 -0500 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: John Halle <john.halle at SNET.Net> Subject: Re: bad nooz for Dems >I'm sorry- John is just failing to be be accurate. DeStephano has denounced >repeatedly Yale's failures to negotiate with the Yale unions, denounced >their failure to sign card checks, and a variety of other failures of Yale. >Does he give in to the blackmail Yale has ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 10:08:07 PST 2002

29740 bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And yes, compared to the vast numbers of suburban officials whose idea of >urban planning is preventing poor people from moving in, DeStephano's >politics are ultraliberal. Back when I lived in Oakland, the majority of >the city council were former members of Marxist organizations. It barely >made a difference in how city policy effected peoples lives, because cities >don't have the power to create the jobs and control many of the issues that >most im ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 07:43:35 PST 2002

29741 Eurodollar Statistics -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > > Do you mean the Euro currency? >> > >> > There's no such noun as "eurodollar" . . . >> >> Even more than a noun, it is money deposited and withdrawn from >> banks! :-) > >So I stop getting mail about this, I KNOW WHAT EURODOLLARS ARE. > >But I stand by my claim; if you want to prove me wrong, please send >me 12 eurodollars as soon as you can. > >Sheesh. > >/jordan The Fed reports $223 ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 07:17:10 PST 2002

29742 Fwd: Re: bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

X-From_: john.halle at SNET.Net Thu Feb 7 07:00:33 2002 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:13:24 -0500 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: John Halle <john.halle at SNET.Net> Subject: Re: bad nooz for Dems According to Newman, when we engage in local politics we're marginal, "disconnected from the real ideological battles in the country" when we engage in national politics we're "spoilers." And when we fight battles at a local level which actually have a tangi ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 07:06:26 PST 2002

29743 investigating civilian death -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 7, 2002 Human-Rights Group to Estimate Civilians Killed in U.S. Campaign By CHIP CUMMINS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL With the U.S. air campaign in Afghanistan largely complete and the security situation across the country generally improving, the Pentagon is facing closer scrutiny about the extent of civilian casualties reported since American bombs started falling in October. Human Rights Watch, a privately funded human-rights advocacy group, plans t ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 06:57:33 PST 2002

29744 Bill & Slobo -- rank: 1000

New York Post - February 7, 2002 BILL COZIES UP TO SLOBBO IN SECRET TAPES By BILL HOFFMANN February 7, 2002 -- In a major embarrassment for Bill Clinton, newly released tapes reveal the former president in a friendly chat with Slobodan Milosevic, treating the Butcher of Belgrade like a good ol' boy. "It's nice to hear your voice!" Clinton gushes to Milosevic in a call from Air Force One after visiting U.S. troops in Bosnia in January 1996. Later, in another chat, Clinton schmoozes with ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 06:55:54 PST 2002

29745 warmongering -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Exactly. They want the country to maintain a war psychology, even though >they don't have a war on offer. Bush is currently in this odd position of >having to talk like a warmonger while not waging war. They're so desperate, >they're forced to pass off sending a few dozen US advisors to the >Phillipines as "the next war." Hence the reliance on rhetoric - the "axis of >evil." The budget is scary though. They're pumping money into the Pen ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 16:05:05 PST 2002