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30571 Economic Cycle Research Unit -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >What is this unit, interviewed on CNN a few hours ago. > >And what is the theory underlying its model, that allows it to >suggest that the cycle will start picking up again in the spring??? ECRI <http://www.businesscycle.com/> is a highly respectable outfit. It was founded by Geoffrey Moore, one of the gurus of business cycle research. They have a bunch of leading indexes that consist of components that tend to lead up- and downturns in the business cycle. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 17:13:14 PDT 2001

30572 Cooper weighs in -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> , and when 5,000 people are still >> entombed in the ruins of what can only be called a crime against >> humanity, > >"Crime against humanity" was first introduced, I believe, in the >Nuremberg trials to describe the deliberate and methodical killing of >six million jews, romani, homosexuals, "mentally deficient," etc. It is >idiocy to use the same term for the September 11 attacks. Agai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 15:40:32 PDT 2001

30573 Pentagon orders new computers -- rank: 1000

Leave it to Computerworld... At 5:11 PM -0400 9/19/01, Computerworld_Daily at Computerworld.com wrote: >IT operations were hit in Pentagon attack; new equipment ordered > >The Pentagon has placed an emergency order for desktop and >workstation security >equipment after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack destroyed several classified >communications and technical help desk centers. > >http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO64017_NLTPM%2C00.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 15:31:31 PDT 2001

30574 NYC event -- rank: 1000

Subject: Please circulate: "The World Trade Center and After: Critical Perspectives" Please come to join a teach-in organized by a group of concerned graduate students: "The World Trade Center and After: Critical Perspectives," Date: September 20th (Tomorrow!) Time: 7:00pm Location: St. John The Divine Chapel-Synod Hall, located at 110 street and Amsterdam Avenue. Speakers include: Timothy Mitchell, Hamid Dabashi, Mahmood Mamdani, Drucilla Cornell, Brinkley Messick and Partha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 15:29:58 PDT 2001

30575 GL troops ok to serve - for now -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address] Date: 19 Sep 2001 13:58:12 -0700 From: ThatRogersWoman <debburz at yahoo.com> Gay, lesbian troops can serve openly -- for now Pentagon suspends discharges during conflict Christopher Heredia, SF Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, September 19, 2001 In the aftermath of last week's terrorist attacks, the Pentagon has issued an order suspending discharges -- including those of service members who disclose their homosexuality -- a spokesman for the Department o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 15:25:06 PDT 2001

30576 Operation Infinite Justice -- rank: 1000

Randy Earnest wrote: >"The Washington Times has called on the Bush administration the use >of nuclear weapons against Afghanistan and Iraq. Absurd? Dick Cheney >and Donald Rumsfeld had the question put to them directly and >neither would rule out the use of nuclear bombs as an option." > >maybe their refusal to forswear the use of nukes is simply >aggressive posturing, in line with tactical advice of Eagleburger, >who said that at times it's useful to act irrati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 15:12:39 PDT 2001

30577 Operation Infinite Justice -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i got the impression doug was disturbed by all the arm chair analysis Yeah. There's almost a pornographic aspect to it (which is unfair to porn, sorry), a laptop bombardier aspect to it, a cheap yellow j'ism aspect to it, and even some kind of unexamined weapon envy and bloodlust. It only inflames things, which is not what we need right now. Everybody seems to know an FBI agent, second or third hand, who's said something or other, or has talked to a cousin who knows a lieutenan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 15:06:48 PDT 2001

30578 Buchanan weighs in -- rank: 1000

[Patrick Buchanan's comments, via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] Consider the diplomatic dilemmas our president confronts. Does he, like his father in Desert Storm, enlist Syria in the war coalition, or are the Syrians enemies? Does he reach out to President Mohammad Khatami, the elected leader of an Iran that is deeply hostile to the Taliban, or are they too on the enemies list? Does Bush seek Vladimir V. Putin's help, or does Russia's war against the Chechens, who have committed acts of terro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 15:00:39 PDT 2001

30579 Diversity -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug is the first image that comes to my >mind when LBO-Talk is mentioned, and he is the closest person we have to >a "chair" for the group. Well, not to get too proprietary or anything, but I pay for the list, moderate its content and membership, and hold the passwords for its management. I don't know how much closer to a "chair" you could get than that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 14:48:28 PDT 2001

30580 Operation Infinite Justice -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >At 04:03 PM 9/19/01 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >>Randy Earnest wrote: >> >>>the tactical nuke >>>strikes Counterpunch discusses this week www.counterpunch.org >> >>How the hell do they know? What's the point of this sort of thing? >> >>Doug > > >same reason that Stratfor does it. Which is what, to attract attention? Move product? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 13:37:02 PDT 2001

30581 Operation Infinite Justice -- rank: 1000

Randy Earnest wrote: >the tactical nuke >strikes Counterpunch discusses this week www.counterpunch.org How the hell do they know? What's the point of this sort of thing? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 13:03:28 PDT 2001

30582 Cooper weighs in -- rank: 1000

L.A. Weekly - September 19, 2001 Behind Bush: Those ìWag the Dogî Democrats By MARC COOPER "Pow! Bang! Boom! Zap!" So might read the complete and official transcript of the congressional floor debate staged over the resolution authorizing George W. Bush to retaliate with "all necessary and appropriate force" against last week's terror attacks. In case anyone got lost in the complicated syntax, Democratic Senator Evan Bayh spelled it out for the TV cameras: "There is no d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 11:54:58 PDT 2001

30583 Fw: [World-Action] FW: [tuffmilitia.com] Fw: Fw: [RMNEWS2] (Fwd) (Fwd) Konformist: Top View on 911 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted: <a bunch of right-wing nonsense> Michael, I've worried for your mental health in the past over your obsession with some of the creepiest species in the political bestiary, but it seems especially worrisome now. I'm far more worried what the loons in power might do than what a handful of loons far from power think. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 11:44:22 PDT 2001

30584 Maher draws heat -- rank: 1000

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/headline/entertainment/1053183 Bill Maher calls U.S. cowardly; FedEx pulls ads from show By MIKE McDANIEL Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle TV Editor Federal Express ordered its ads removed from the ABC late-night series Politically Incorrect on Tuesday after the show's host referred to recent U.S. military actions as "cowardly." After receiving complaints from around the country, including Houston, Federal Express reviewed Monday's edition of the s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 11:22:06 PDT 2001

30585 018693.html -- rank: 1000

The blank subject heading on this should be a hint: enough already with the Leo v. Noam thread. It's played. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 19 11:18:21 PDT 2001