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29836 Hersh interview -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?021223on_onlineonly02> December 20, 2002 A Reporter's Life NEW YORKER Issue of 2002-12-23 and 30 This week in the magazine and here online (see Fact), Seymour M. Hersh, in "Manhunt," looks at a new trend in the war on terror: the targeting of individual Al Qaeda leaders. Hersh, who has written for The New Yorker since 1971, is working on a book about the Bush Administration's military actions since September 11th. Here he discusses his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 21 13:05:26 PST 2002

29837 A Hundred Peace Movements Bloom -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Is anybody getting this yet? When I've made similar arguments over >these many months, that there is more than one peace movement, my >writing either fell on deaf ears or was attacked as being >"sectarian" and "divisive." So now that the Nation has recognized >this fact, am I vindicated or marginalized again? Villified by whom? You've got a lot of fans here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 21 12:54:04 PST 2002

29838 Keynes on wage cuts -- rank: 1000

Keynes, Treatise on Money, vol. 2, p. 154 "As between a policy of lowering money wages or one of letting prices rise, it would be natural - and sensible - to prefer the latter."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 20 14:07:10 PST 2002

29839 the problem with low inflation - you can't cut wages easily! -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug posted: > >>Another concern about deflation resides in labor markets. Some >>studies have suggested that nominal wages do not easily adjust >>downward. If lower price inflation is accompanied by lower average >>wage inflation, then the prevalence of nominal wages being >>constrained from falling could increase as price inflation moves >>toward or below zero. In these circumstances, the effective >>clearing of labor markets ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 20 12:55:51 PST 2002

29840 religious attitudes around the world -- rank: 1000

<http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=167> Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Survey Reports Among Wealthy Nations Š U.S. STANDS ALONE IN ITS EMBRACE OF RELIGION Religion is much more important to Americans than to people living in other wealthy nations. Six-in-ten (59%) people in the U.S. say religion plays a very important role in their lives. This is roughly twice the percentage of self-avowed religious people in Canada (30%), and an even higher proporti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 20 12:29:07 PST 2002

29841 Fwd: Population Estimate Problems -- rank: 1000

[via the AAPOR list] I posted new turnout rates based on official canvasses available on the Secretary of State web sites, available at http://elections.gmu.edu/VAP_VEP.htm. . These turnout rates will likely be the final rates, since the two states that have not certified their results are simply awaiting legislative approval early next year. I have calculated a VEP turnout rate of 39.9% in the 2002 election (using an estimate of total ballots cast). Minnesota had the highest VEP turnout rate of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 20 09:59:38 PST 2002

29842 the problem with low inflation - you can't cut wages easily! -- rank: 1000

The latest from St Alan <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/20021219/> >Another concern about deflation resides in labor markets. Some >studies have suggested that nominal wages do not easily adjust >downward. If lower price inflation is accompanied by lower average >wage inflation, then the prevalence of nominal wages being >constrained from falling could increase as price inflation moves >toward or below zero. In these circumstances, the effective cle ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 20 09:46:02 PST 2002

29843 Soros convicted! -- rank: 1000

French Court Finds Soros Guilty of Insider Trading Levied Fine of $2.3 Million Matches Amount He Made in SocGen Dealings A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP PARIS -- A French court on Friday convicted U.S. billionaire investor George Soros of insider trading, fining him ¤2.2 million ($2.3 million). The court's fine matches the amount the Hungarian-born magnate was accused of having made from buying stocks at French bank Societe Generale SA with insider knowledge 14 years ago. Mr. Soros, 72 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 20 07:19:32 PST 2002

29844 The roundups have begun -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2589317.stm This is worth posting in full: Thursday, 19 December, 2002, 11:37 GMT Mass arrests of Muslims in LA Families protested against the detention of relatives US immigration officials in Southern California have detained hundreds of Iranians and other Muslim men who turned up to register under residence laws brought in as part of the anti-terror drive. Reports say between 500 and 700 men were arrested in and around Los Angel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 19 10:50:21 PST 2002

29845 the cruise ship coverup -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 19, 2002 CALL it the Cruise Ship Coverup. The dirty secret behind the outbreak of stomach illness on 21 cruises this year is that the cause is other cruise ships in the narrow Caribbean shipping lanes. The big ships routinely dump raw sewage into the ocean. Ships following behind then draw in the polluted sea water for their desalinization plants, which take out the salt, but not all the bacteria. Passengers are soon suffering from diarrhea and vomiting - even ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 19 08:05:40 PST 2002

29846 HRW on Afg women -- rank: 1000

<http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/12/herat1217.htm> Afghanistan: Women Still Not "Liberated" Police Abuse, Forced Chastity Tests, and Taliban-Era Restrictions in Herat (New York, December 17, 2002) - Afghan women and girls have suffered mounting abuses, harassment and restrictions of their fundamental human rights during 2002, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The 52-page report, "We Want to Live As Humans": Repression of Women and Girls in Western Af ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 18 14:21:01 PST 2002

29847 military-industrial conflict -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 02:58 PM 12/18/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>"We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will >>lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US >>imperialism. In the coming months, and perhaps years, we may face a >>tragedy that we read about in the darkest periods of human history, >>when elites are incapable of acting in their own interest." > >Perhaps he's angling for a pundit/state depart ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 18 14:05:12 PST 2002

29848 Venez oil prod'n still down -- rank: 1000

Venezuela Oil Output Falls Further 38 minutes ago By Matthew Robinson CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Oil production by the world's No. 5 crude exporter slid to less than 15 percent of normal levels on Wednesday as a 17-day strike by opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez kept international oil shipments virtually halted. "We are producing less than 400,000 barrels per day from the entire nation," a spokesman for state oil firm Petroleos de Venezuela told Reuters. He said output ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 18 10:15:24 PST 2002

29849 How Should the Left Respond to a U.S. War Against Iraq? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> like her lifemate's attitude towards empirical evidence, thinks it >> doesn't really matter much. > >Who is her lifemate? Stanley Aronowitz.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 18 09:51:05 PST 2002

29850 How Should the Left Respond to a U.S. War Against Iraq? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted Ellen Willis: >And so do self-proclaimed anti-imperialists whose politics boils >down to general moral outrage against American power as such, >regardless of where exercised and for what reason I've admired a lot of Ellen Willis' writing in the past but this is awful (and in no small part the result of her Zionism). Right after 9/11, all she could talk about was the fundamentalist repression of desire and the Twin Towers locked in their mutual phallic sadomasochi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 18 09:06:09 PST 2002