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29746 warmongering -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >The "war on terrorism" was a war on Afghanistan. That's it. I hate to >disappoint the likes of Michael Kelley. But they want it to be a 50-year struggle that will inoke all the disciplinary beauties that Bourne wrote about in "War is the health of the state." It can't stop now, it can't, it can't! Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 15:27:59 PST 2002

29747 bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >All I note is John Halle's typical abuse of anyone who disagrees with Green >strategy. I don't go around attacking the integrity of Green advocates (some >of them are my best friends), just their strategic choices. > >But the ability of many leftists to continually insult anyone who disagrees >with or questions their strategy is why the left is so marginal. > >And the guy was opportunistic enough to call me asking me to help him on his >election. ...

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29748 Fwd: Re: bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:00:11 -0500 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: John Halle <john.halle at SNET.Net> Newman: "This is the typical definition of "success" by the Greens- adding a couple of more (usually white) liberal members of a city council where many if not most of the other Dems are already very liberal or left, but because they use the Green label, this is considered a magic moment of left transcendance. The Greens have been organizing in various ways for almost a d ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 14:50:22 PST 2002

29749 warmongering -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 6, 2002 War on Bush's Watch By Michael Kelly On Jan. 29, about midpoint through his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush gave modest (humble, he might say) notice that he intends to change the world. Speaking of Iraq, Iran and North Korea, the president said: "States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world." To respond to this threat with "indifference," said Bush, ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 14:45:19 PST 2002

29750 how big are MNCs -- rank: 1000

[the De Grauwe and Camerman paper is at <http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/ew/academic/intecon/DeGrauwe/PDG-papers/How%20big%20are%20the%20big%20multinational%20companies.pdf>.] Financial Times - February 6, 2002 COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Countries still rule the world: The notion that corporations wield more power than governments rests on flawed calculations and conceptual confusion By MARTIN WOLF <martin.wolf at ft.com> Of the largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations; only 4 ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 11:54:09 PST 2002

29751 bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The turnout and help for Dem candidates down ballot argument is pretty weak, >since if Nader played such a great role, Dems running for Congress would have >done far better than four years earlier. Yet the Congressional votes between >Dems and the GOP was almost exactly the same as four years earlier. Nader's >3% seems to have had almost zero effect on changing the overall vote for >Congress. Why should a vote for Nader mean a vote for a Dem for Congress ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 11:46:33 PST 2002

29752 A window into the bedroom of the ruling class -- rank: 1000

Pablo Jallez wrote: >I may be tardy in joining any discussion of Enron. But I am hearing >several voices in the mainstream that are questioning the legitimacy >of a core tenet of the dominant neoliberal ideology---namely, >privatization/deregulation. At the same time, we are also seeing a >series of reports that question the legitimacy of US democracy under >capitalism in the transnational phase. Financial Times - February 6, 2002 America's crony capitalism Enron's collapse cou ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 11:40:55 PST 2002

29753 bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I'm pissed as shit at Gephardt and if I thought voting Green would change his >behavior< I'd do it. I just see no empirical evidence that it will. So instead you'll keep voting for Dems, and Gephardt can continue to do as he likes. Do you have something to show for this strategy? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 10:53:28 PST 2002

29754 Fwd: Re: bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

X-From_: john.halle at SNET.Net Wed Feb 6 12:09:06 2002 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:21:53 -0500 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: John Halle <john.halle at SNET.Net> Subject: Re: bad nooz for Dems Newman writes: > > marginal, spoiler > > Green parties that can wield no power but make them feel good > > with their righteous no-compromise no-success purity. "marginal": of five races we entered in New Haven, we elected two with substantial majorit ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 09:46:19 PST 2002

29755 Fwd: Farrakhan Letter to the President -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:26:23 -0500 To: politics at polyconomics.com From: Jude Wanniski <jwanniski at polyconomics.com> If you go to my website, you will find a previously unpublished letter sent to President Bush by Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam on December 1. http://www.polyconomics.com Here is my introduction, explaining why I decided to post the letter today. I called Min. Farrakhan this morning to tell him I had just posted it, as he had no foreknowledge of my intent to d ...

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29756 Fwd: Employee Loyalty- Challenger -- rank: 1000

DATE February 6, 2002 FOR Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. For Release At 10:00 A.M. EST February 6, 2002 'As You Sow, So Shall You Reap' LOYALTY PAYING OFF; SHORT-TIMERS GET CUT Employees who resisted the urge to switch jobs frequently during recent labor shortages may now be reaping the rewards of greater job security, as the number of short-tenured managers and executives falling victim to job cuts rose by 50 percent in 2001. Baby Boomers, who have been a more s ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 09:34:37 PST 2002

29757 Wanniski, Farrakhan, Pearl -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:57:35 -0500 To: politics at polyconomics.com From: Jude Wanniski <jwanniski at polyconomics.com> Sorry I did not think about this earlier, re Dan Pearl, but I asked Min Farrakhan if he would call for Pearl's release and he issued this statement to the news wires earlier today. February 1, 2002 Press Release by: Minister Louis Farrakhan Leader of The Nation of Islam The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan today called for the release of Mr. Daniel Pearl, believed to ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 09:23:19 PST 2002

29758 bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >The Dems stink worse every day. In case nobody has noticed, the leader >of >the 'left wing' has just gone over to the DLC, and the leaders of the DLC >are >attacking Bush's military policy from the right. What leader you talking about? And who's attacking Bush from the right, and for what, exactly? I've been kind of busy, and not paying attention. Doug

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29759 VV letter -- rank: 1000

[Somehow this letter didn't get delivered last week, when the Village Voice ran a bunch of letters critical of Richard Esposito's awful article about preparations for the WEF protests. It made it this week.] BREAKING NEWS I was a bit surprised to see Richard Esposito use a piece I wrote for the Left Business Observer in 1996 in his strangely cop-friendly take on the World Economic Forum demos in New York ["Law of the Fist," <http://villagevoice.com/issues/0204/esposito.php> Janua ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 6 06:42:20 PST 2002

29760 Argentine scandals -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] Headline: Bankers accused of dirty tricks in Argentina Source: euromoney.com Date: January 28 2002 Author: Jules Evans <http://www.euromoney.com/public/markets/banking/news/30jan02-1.html> Some of the most senior members of Argentina's financial community, as well as several foreign investment banks, are facing judicial investigations into accusations of financial wrong-doing in Buenos Aires. Among those facing judicial investigations are Domingo Cavallo, former minister of t ...

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