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29776 Bill Gates takes rich to task -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >wasn't that a turnabout? i remember that he was roundly criticized a >while back because he wasn't much of a philanthropist. the argument >was that cyberlibertarians tends not to be especially generous >because their wealth was all on paper. there was an entire spread on >the topic here, when i first moved to FL. Soros said a few years ago that given his antitrust troubles, it was inevitable that Gates would turn to philanthropy as a business strategy. It must be sa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 13:44:44 PST 2002

29777 Bill Gates takes rich to task -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >And according to the Times of India, Bono had this to >say about the drug companies: > >"I don't think they (the big pharmaceutical companies) >are the bete noir that all my friends think. I think >they need to make profits, we need to do research," >Bono said. That's not the way I remember it - they need to make profits so they can do the research. He also uttered a lot of crap about not pitting good guys against bad guys, since we all ne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 13:35:38 PST 2002

29778 Bill Gates takes rich to task -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The way Gates got rich was illegitimate but the way he is spending the >proceeds is, as far as I can tell, quite admirable. He is following in the >footsteps of the elder Rockefeller, but more consciously and earlier in his >connection of private philanthropy to the broader social conditions. At the press conference, someone asked Gates if he thought private philanthropy was a substitute for government action. Gates said "certainly not." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 13:25:54 PST 2002

29779 Terrorism and drugs commercial -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >Apparently there was a commercial during the Superbowl last night >that said people who use drugs are supporting terrorism. There's a full-page ad in today's NYT with the same message. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 12:32:25 PST 2002

29780 Bill Gates takes rich to task -- rank: 1000

[from a WEF press release] At 12:15 PM -0500 2/4/02, Charles McLean, Director, Communications, World Economic Forum wrote: >Turning to the challenges to corporate power by demonstrators on the New >York streets during the Annual Meeting, Gates said: "It's a healthy thing >there are demonstrators in the streets. We need a discussion about whether >the rich world is giving back what it should in the developing world. I >think there is a legitimate question whether we are."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 12:24:08 PST 2002

29781 Fwd: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #5634 -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Daniel Davies" <dsquared at al-islam.com> To: " owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #5634 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 01:38:29 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 >How about the Koran? What's it sold? >Doug Sales of the Koran quite severely hampered by the fact that a lot of mainstream opinion has it that Allah dicatated it to the prophet Mohammed in Arabic for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 07:15:12 PST 2002

29782 WEF news -- rank: 1000

I was surprised to discover that Danny Schechter, the self-styled Media Dissector and founder of mediachannel.org, is a particiapant at the World Economic Forum, along with Ariana Huffington. Danny writes up some of his experiences at <http://www.thefileroom.org/weblog/dannylog.cfm>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 07:08:21 PST 2002

29783 Now this is scary... -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >http://foxnews.com/images/47031/1_21_020302_wef_bono_gates.jpg I've got my own pix from the WEF which I'll be putting up on the LBO website soon. Including "Bono and Mr Gates," as the MC of the session said. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 3 15:05:57 PST 2002

29784 Enron action Monday -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] From: Lflanders at aol.com Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:00:54 EST Subject: Fwd: ENRON ACTION MONDAY - NYC ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE! www.anotherworldispossible.com Contact: Kate Cooper (917) 374-7087 THEY ARE ALL ENRON! WE ARE ALL ARGENTINES! Participatory street theater, nonviolent direct action tomorrow at Arthur Andersen and the Argentine Consulate General (Mon., Feb. 4, 12 noon, 6th Ave. betw. 55th and 56th Streets) Another World Is Possible, the coalition that org ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 3 14:49:36 PST 2002

29785 Interview with Hardt; My two cents on P.A. -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> This is from an article by Rick Perlstein in the current New York Observer: >> >> >The surveys show Americans now slightly more concerned with the >> >economy than with terrorism; and that, perhaps, is why a Fox News >> >poll reported that "if the election were held today," only 49 >> >percent of Americans would vote for Bush-despite his wartime >> >approval rat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 3 14:30:49 PST 2002

29786 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Okay now, who was this host who was so good? Michael Enright? I've liked him when he's interviewed me. Some Canadians think he's a right-wing jerk. Canadians? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 3 14:17:31 PST 2002

29787 Interview with Hardt; My two cents on P.A. -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >I don't see multi/unilateralism as being any kind of issue for US capital, >especially with the massive public support Shrubya has. This is from an article by Rick Perlstein in the current New York Observer: >The surveys show Americans now slightly more concerned with the >economy than with terrorism; and that, perhaps, is why a Fox News >poll reported that "if the election were held today," only 49 >percent of Americans would vote for Bush-d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 3 10:23:41 PST 2002

29788 Interview with Hardt; My two cents on P.A. -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >In a free market world, the US could not survive; it is simply not >competitive. Who designed - and probably manufactured - the chips inside the computer you typed that on? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 3 09:29:30 PST 2002

29789 Interview with Hardt; My two cents on P.A. -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >It's more likely Nunn is worried about unilateral US threats losing their >credibility rather than unilateralism per se. No, I think a lot of the U.S. ruling class takes some degree of multilateralism seriously. You know, they run multinational corporations. They've got many interests to balance. As Slavoj Zizek said a while back, you could argue that the Dems represent capital-in-general, and the Reps represent narrower regional, sectoral, and ideological interes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 3 09:28:47 PST 2002

29790 Interview with Hardt; My two cents on P.A. -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Doug, if you've been at the Waldorf-Astoria, Not allowed to the Waldorf. The "reporting press" is confined to the neighboring Inter-Continental, where we read press releases, watch some events on TV, and are treated to the occasional press conference. > what evidence did you see of >South Africa (aside from Tutu/Bono photo ops)? This AM's Jo'burg papers are >full of a) the great successes of Mbeki pushing the New Partnership for >Africa's Developmen ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 3 09:22:19 PST 2002