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30301 Wolfowitz Booed at Pro-Israel Rally -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What was decent? How about affirming that many Palestinians want peace, that >their national aspirations need to be honored for any "just and lasting >peace", and that poverty will only spur more violence. Let's look at the whole text again. We have: * Israel's "darkest hour" * the parallel to 9/11 * "how terrifying the suicide bombs have made daily life in Israel" * "assaults on innocent civilians" - in Israel, that is * &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 16 12:11:25 PDT 2002

30302 rate of return on capital -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco wrote: >At 01:47 PM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>One version of that can be estimated by looking at BEA's direct >>investment data for the U.S. >><http://www.bea.gov/bea/di/di1usdop.htm> - divide profits by the >>capital stock. When I've done it, I've been surprised at how low >>returns are in some "developing" countries, and how high they are >>in some "developed" ones. > >Well that's precisely what I'm finding ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 16 11:59:06 PDT 2002

30303 demographics of economic optimism -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco wrote: >At 09:17 AM 4/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: >>so it is getting better for the people who vote? > >Who needs to vote when you control the choices. Not to mention the counting. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 16 11:53:15 PDT 2002

30304 rate of return on capital -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco wrote: >I am looking for information on the rate of return on capital in >developing countries and how it compares to the rate in developed >countries. Can anyone point me in the right direction? One version of that can be estimated by looking at BEA's direct investment data for the U.S. <http://www.bea.gov/bea/di/di1usdop.htm> - divide profits by the capital stock. When I've done it, I've been surprised at how low returns are in some "developing" countries ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 16 10:47:20 PDT 2002

30305 Wolfowitz Booed at Pro-Israel Rally -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>This is amazing stuff. Just what is up with the Bushies? One of >>their leading hawks booed by wacko Zionists, and Sharon disobeying >>W's orders to withdraw. Can we conclude from this that 1) Bush & >>Co. secretly approve of what Sharon is up to, and they're using >>Powell's mission as PR cover, or 2) they're going to run out of >>patience with Israel and its domestic allies, or 3) they're >>confused and divided about what to do ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 16 10:43:20 PDT 2002

30306 "millions" in Italian general strike -- rank: 1000

[can we please have one of these?] Millions Take to Streets in Italian General Strike Tue Apr 16,10:45 AM ET By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Millions of Italians staged a general strike on Tuesday to protest against government labor reforms, filling city centers with carnival-like demonstrations that brought much of the country to a standstill. Air and rail transport ground to a halt, schools, banks and post offices shut down, and production lines at many top firms stood idle in Italy's firs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 16 10:45:04 PDT 2002

30307 demographics of economic optimism -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >so it is getting better for the people who vote? Probably, yes, since turnout rises with income. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 16 09:54:52 PDT 2002

30308 Rainforest Fund - a trickle for the forest & its people -- rank: 1000

[from today's Page Six] New York Post - April 16, 2002 STING and his wife, Trudie Styler, hosted the "biggest environmental fund-raising event in the world" Saturday night at Carnegie Hall with Elton John, James Taylor, Wynonna Judd and Smokey Robinson. But donors to the event's beneficiary, the Rainforest Foundation, ought to check out the charity's latest financial filing with the state attorney general before they open their wallets again. Worthy-cause watchdogs recommend that chari ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 16 09:43:28 PDT 2002

30309 casualties -- rank: 1000

Someone - Paula, maybe? - asked the other day about casualty figures in the Israeli-Palestinian fight. I just added up B'Tselem's numbers, to counter an Israeli Zionist on my college class list. Doug ---- total deaths (summary) ---------------------- from the first Intifada (Dec 1987) through Jan 2002 Palestinians 2,329 civilian 2,166 military 163 Israelis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 16 09:37:49 PDT 2002

30310 demographics of economic optimism -- rank: 1000

Interesting demographic breakdown in the latest Gallup poll on the U.S. economy. Here's how various groups answer the question, is the economy getting better or getting worse? If you're rich, white, and male, you're far more likely to answer "better" than if you're not any of those things. Doug ---- Summary Table: Economy Getting Better/Getting Worse better worse difference TOTAL 53 37 16 Gender Men 62 28 34 Women ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 16 08:50:05 PDT 2002

30311 Wolfowitz Booed at Pro-Israel Rally -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I saw the speech by Sweeney on C-SPAN-- actually it was pretty decent if not >all I'd want. He talked about travelling to Israel where he and other labor >leaders met with trade unions in both Israel and with the Palestinian unions >and noted how they both wanted peace. He noted the need for Israel to be >secure and the need for fulfillment of the aspirations of the Palestinian >people. He noted how violence was spreading dispair "among all people& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 16 08:36:51 PDT 2002

30312 Wolfowitz Booed at Pro-Israel Rally -- rank: 1000

This is amazing stuff. Just what is up with the Bushies? One of their leading hawks booed by wacko Zionists, and Sharon disobeying W's orders to withdraw. Can we conclude from this that 1) Bush & Co. secretly approve of what Sharon is up to, and they're using Powell's mission as PR cover, or 2) they're going to run out of patience with Israel and its domestic allies, or 3) they're confused and divided about what to do? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 16 08:26:01 PDT 2002

30313 IMF lends $1b to Turkey -- rank: 1000

[part of the war effort, no doubt] News Brief No. 02/32 April 15, 2002 International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20431 USA IMF Approves US$1 Billion Tranche to Turkey Under Stand-By Credit The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first review of Turkey's economic performance under the three-year stand-by credit. The decision will enable Turkey to draw up to SDR 867.6 million (about US$1 billion) immediately. The stand-by credit was a ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 16 08:22:43 PDT 2002

30314 Fwd: sweeney & wolfowitz comments yesterday at pro-israel rally -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Tim Shorrock" <tshorrock51 at hotmail.com> To: "lbo-talk-digest" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: sweeney & wolfowitz comments yesterday at pro-israel rally Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:22:58 -0400 Apparently Wolfowitz was a little too sympathetic to the Palestinians for this crowd (note the boos). But not Sweeney, who couldn't utter a single word about the Palestinians and their suffering. TS JOHN SWEENEY ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 16 08:21:21 PDT 2002

30315 China PNTR & AFL 'funding' for IPS -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >My complaint is that folks keep defaming quite principled people at the >AFL-CIO Defaming? Always with the loaded words. How about criticizing? Or is criticism of Sweeney a form of lese majeste? By the way, is Sweeney among the "quite principled"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 15 15:23:00 PDT 2002