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30586 Jude on Farrakhan on 9/11 -- rank: 1000

X-From_: rbrosnan at polyconomics.com Wed Sep 19 11:23:44 2001 From: "Rita Brosnan" <rbrosnan at polyconomics.com> To: <memo at polyconomics.com> Subject: Memo on the Margin: What Does Farrakhan Think? Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:23:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: memo-request at polyconomics.com September 19, 2001 What Does Farrakhan Think? Memo ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 10:58:29 PDT 2001

30587 financial angles -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] TURKEY, PAKISTAN EXPECT MORE HELP FROM I.M.F., OTHERS. Turkish Economy Minister Kemal Dervis said the international community led by the IMF is likely to provide additional financial help to Turkey should it suffer from any conflict that follows from last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, reports the Wall Street Journal Europe. In a speech to investors, Dervis said Turkey and the EU were likely to draw closer, as the latter reali ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 10:49:00 PDT 2001

30588 Crikey.com --Debka File (fwd) -- rank: 1000

kelley forwarded: >The United States is going to war to avenge itself for the catastrophic >hijack-suicide attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. >The first stage of the conflict, according to initial, conservative >estimates, could last two to three years. Its success will determine the >scope and timeframe of the second phase. > >DEBKAfile's military experts can disclose that the U.S. 82nd and 101st >airborne divisions, or nearly half of the airborne c ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 10:20:28 PDT 2001

30589 Geraldine Brooks -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - September 16, 2001 Rattling Sabers of Bigotry By GERALDINE BROOKS Geraldine Brooks is a former Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and the author, most recently, of "Year of Wonders." SAN FRANCISCO -- I spent last week on a road trip I never expected to take. Like thousands of others with busted flight itineraries, I passed my hours in a rented car with the radio on and the voices of America filling my ears. Driving through the mountains of Oregon ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 10:09:19 PDT 2001

30590 press secrecy -- rank: 1000

'New war' to be fought with unprecedented secrecy September 18, 2001 Posted: 1:03 PM EDT (1703 GMT) By Jamie McIntyre CNN Washington WASHINGTON (CNN) -- America's "new war" against terrorism will be fought with unprecedented secrecy, including heavy press restrictions not seen for years, Pentagon sources said Monday. Planning for possible military action has been "highly compartmentalized" to ensure the fewest number of people possible have access to classified war plans, the ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 09:51:34 PDT 2001

30591 Civil Liberties -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Max you are right. I replied to the comment from memory, when I looked >in the archive I could not find. That was a schumcky thing to do, and I >apologize. Thanks for doing that. Let's try not to hammer on each other too much, please. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 08:29:28 PDT 2001

30592 so how do we know it was OBL? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 19, 2001 Proof of bin Laden Link Still Isn't Firm As U.S. Attempts to Sway World Opinion By DAVID S. CLOUD NEIL KING JR., IAN JOHNSON and JAY SOLOMON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- By the standards of the Old West, President Bush has good reason to declare Osama bin Laden wanted in last week's terrorist attacks, "dead or alive." But by 21st-century Western standards of law and international relations, how much actual evidence do ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 08:27:00 PDT 2001

30593 Hatch, songman -- rank: 1000

Tuesday September 18 8:33 PM ET Sen. Hatch Pens Song After Attacks By ROBERT GEHRKE, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Moved by the carnage of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Sen. Orrin Hatch has set out to compose ``Americans United,'' a song about last week's events. Hatch, R-Utah, started his latest work on Monday, scrawling the lyrics on a yellow legal pad. ``The whole terrorist attack has had him thinking about what has happened and he's had a couple ideas about th ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 07:05:48 PDT 2001

30594 Fwd: Arab-American Center Needs Help -- rank: 1000

From: Sylvie Myerson <sandbox at echonyc.com> Subject: Arab-American Center Needs Help Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:23:17 -0400 The Arab-American Family Support Center is on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.... Subject: help needed at the Arab-American center Date: 13 Sep 2001 16:18:34 EDT From: EMILY JACIR <ejacir at usa.net> Dear friends, We are really swamped here at the Arab-American Family Support Center. We have kids scared to go to school, mothers to scared to leave their homes to buy ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 20:42:00 PDT 2001

30595 hoax? -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:17:41 -0400 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Jim Westrich <nodimension at mediaone.net> First, thanks to Kelley for a comprehensive websearch on the matter. Second, I originally read the story in the St. Paul Pioneer Press in an article by their media critic, Brian Lambert. http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/ncl_docs/137030.htm Third, it is not a hoax and I do not think "quasi-hoax" is a good description as I underst ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 20:29:48 PDT 2001

30596 Goldman Sachs: stimulate -- rank: 1000

DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 9/19/01 Goldman Sachs Economics * Additional monetary and fiscal policy stimulus is needed in order to offset the contractionary forces unleashed by lower equity prices and a more uncertain, risky economic environment. * The federal funds rate needs to be reduced significantly further in order to make financial conditions more accommodative. * Fiscal policy should also be made more accommodative in order to facilitate an upward adjustment in the household saving ra ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 18:05:54 PDT 2001

30597 RR proclaims Afghanistan day -- rank: 1000

[a relic of a different time] Proclamation 5034 -- Afghanistan Day, 1983 March 21, 1983 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The tragedy of Afghanistan continues as the valiant and courageous Afghan freedom fighters persevere in standing up against the brutal power of the Soviet invasion and occupation. The Afghan people are struggling to reclaim their freedom, which was taken from them when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979. In this three-year p ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 18:02:47 PDT 2001

30598 Irony -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But there was also something to be said for having someone acknowledged to >be a hardass on crime preaching againt hate crimes from second one. I think >he had some influence on making public denunciations of arab-bashing and >hate crimes a bipartisan mantra. Even Georgie and Ashcroft were singing the >tune soon. This was amazing to watch, and another amazing thing about watching Rudy over the last week is that he seemed to have evolved into a human being. ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 18:00:32 PDT 2001

30599 Another Voice of the Reactionary Right Heard From -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >First off, the journal founded in 1954, by Howe and Coser, Geltman and >others from the Shactmanite and Partisan Review mileus, was supported >financially by Joseph Buttinger, an Austrian Socialist exile from when the >Nazis took over there in '34 after heroic resistance by armed workers >militias. (Not all socdems are weanies.)Buttinger's wife, btw, Muriel >Gardner, was the real model for , "Julia, " This comes from LBO #92: >More substant ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 15:00:39 PDT 2001

30600 Cronkite: form censorship board -- rank: 1000

[from an AP story] Retired CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite called for the immediate appointment of a censorship board to monitor the strict secrecy that Ashcroft has announced. Cronkite said that secrecy is necessary in the war against terrorism, but that the government should immediately appoint a board of journalists and historians that will be aware of all the government's plans and actions. Secrecy must not be used to protect political decisions or government failures, but only for milita ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 14:52:04 PDT 2001