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30811 Burch Goes Hitch -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >I don't know >why more supporters of the Soviet invasion haven't piped up to say, "See? >What did we tell you? You're finishing the job we started." Workers Vanguard has, for sure. WV recently reprinted an old piece, from 1980 I think, that compared the social indicators in Afghanistan (mass illiteracy, esp among women, life expectancies of 45, etc.) with those in neighboring Soviet republics (mass literacy, near-First World life expectancies, etc.). It makes me ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 09:03:47 PDT 2001

30812 anthrax similar to US military strain -- rank: 1000

New Scientist - October 24, 2001 Anthrax bacteria likely to be US military strain Debora MacKenzie The bacteria used for the anthrax attacks in the US is either the strain the US itself used to make anthrax weapons in the 1960s, or close to it. It is not a strain that Iraq, or the former Soviet Union, mass-produced for weapons. There have been charges over the past week that the sophistication of the anthrax suggests that it was produced with the backing of some government, such as Iraq. But n ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 08:47:05 PDT 2001

30813 bombing cutback?, Pakistani banking -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] U.N. SEEKS CUTBACK IN U.S.-LED AIR STRIKES. The UN has reached an understanding with the US that the air strikes against Afghanistan will be limited until arrangements are in place for a UN-led transitional authority, the Financial Times (p.1) reports, citing diplomats in Tehran. The US-led coalition is said to understand the need to prevent the opposition Northern Alliance from advancing on Kabul until a political framework is put in place. Air strikes a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 08:41:58 PDT 2001

30814 big Al on globo -- rank: 1000

<http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2001/20011024/default.htm> Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan Globalization At the Institute for International Economics' Inauguration of the Peter G. Peterson Building, Washington, D.C. October 24, 2001 I am pleased to be with you tonight as the Institute for International Economics dedicates this extraordinary new building. I am also pleased to note that you are celebrating your twentieth year in the business of thinking critically about ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 08:36:25 PDT 2001

30815 Fwd: Velocity of wages -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than the list] X-From_: grantlee at iinet.net.au Wed Oct 24 23:44:28 2001 Reply-To: "Grant Lee" <grantlee at iinet.net.au> From: "Grant Lee" <grantlee at iinet.net.au> To: <lbo-talk-approval at lists.panix.com> Subject: Velocity of wages Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:44:22 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Hi, Can anyone recommend literature giving a histor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 08:23:10 PDT 2001

30816 Fwd: Pacifica Executive Director Bessie Wash fired -- rank: 1000

X-From_: nobody at transbay.net Wed Oct 24 22:45:16 2001 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:32:52 -0700 (PDT) To: undisclosed at recipients.lst From: savepacifica at peacenet.org Reply-To: savepacifica at peacenet.org Subject: Pacifica Executive Director Bessie Wash fired NEW PACIFICA BOARD CHAIR FIRES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AGREES TO COURT-SUPERVISED MEDIATION Pacifica's board chair, former Los Angeles city councilman Robert Farrell, tonight announced he has fired Executive Director Bessie Wash. Wash, for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 08:18:10 PDT 2001

30817 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Thiago Oppermann wrote: >If I was feeling particularly bold, I'd say the US prefers the cold >calculation of using violence, terrible as it is and likely to invoke >terrible retribution, than the uncertainty of pursuing the novel course >of negotiating and compromising. Elites hate uncertainty. It's not just that - I think that U.S. war planners know that the empire is sustained through extravagant displays of violence - excessive, out of all proportion to the stimulus. For every whi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 08:11:52 PDT 2001

30818 Negri interview -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >You can spot initiates by those who slip the word "aporia" into >their communications. Hey, people at Yale were doing that in the early 70s, influenced by that crypto-Nazi, Paul de Man. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 07:41:47 PDT 2001

30819 Burch Goes Hitch -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >My old flame, Julie Burchill, finally speaks about 9/11, and goes >positively Hitchens in the process. Unlike her, though, Hitch didn't support the Soviets in Afghanistan, right (a position that looks wiser by the day)? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 07:36:21 PDT 2001

30820 email snoopin' -- rank: 1000

I asked Panix what they knew of this. Here's their answer: >Panix's response is likely to be what it has been-- we'll comply >with a court order. > >As of now, we have no specific information as to just how bad >it is, or what will be required, so it's hard to make a statement, >but if we refuse and they shut us down it doesn't do anyone >much good. Doug ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Murray wrote: >[can anybody confirm t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 15:36:33 PDT 2001

30821 Fwd: Reagan Stories In His Own Hand...interviews available w/editors. -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: October 24, 2001 Contact: Steve Becker Contact #: 617-254-4500 STORIES IN HIS OWN HAND The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan Edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson With a foreword by George P. Shultz >From the team that brought you the New York Times bestseller Reagan In His Own Hand comes STORIES IN HIS OWN HAND: THE EVERYDAY WISDOM OF RONALD REAGAN [Free Press; October 22, 2001; $21.00], a collection of 36 stories written by Ronald R ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 24 15:02:55 PDT 2001

30822 Negri interview -- rank: 1000

<http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/24/1043209> Interview with Toni Negri Le Monde, 03 October 2001 "Do you think that after the attacks of September 11th, it is necessary to make more clearly the distinction between anti-imperialism and anti-americanism? - I hope that anti-americanism is finished. I have never been so. Likewise I have never been anti-russian. I have always opposed the policy of american capitalism like that of russian socialism. When we ask someone if ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 24 14:25:08 PDT 2001

30823 Discrimination in Underpolicing -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >and also, has the causal claim (policing -> crime reduction) been >sufficiently reasoned out elsewhere? searching the web shows me >that there is a definite statistical correlation (at least if one >website is to be believed, crime in NYC is 3% of national crime, >the reduction of crime in NYC contributed to 70% of the reduction >nationwide). are there alternative possible causes? such as the >economy boom (which i would guess also favoured NYC >disproport ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 24 14:02:29 PDT 2001

30824 Will this work? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >This is well-argued. There may be a job waiting for you >with the Bland Corporation. But I think you stumble at the >end . . . > >NO political leader could be expected to >suffer an attack such as 9/11 and immediately >begin to negotiate with the attacker. And the >U.S. doesn't even have a political leader, unless >it's bill o'reilly. Hey, he's my hero. But what would be negotiated exactly? ObL & Co. want the U.S. out of the Middle East. That ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 13:49:48 PDT 2001

30825 Gore win suppressed? -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - October 24, 2001 Did Al Gore win after all? US newspapers would rather not say By Charles Laurence in New York (Filed: 21/10/2001) THE most detailed analysis yet of the contested Florida votes from last year's presidential election - with the potential to question President Bush's legitimacy - is being withheld by the news organisations that commissioned it. Results of the inspection of more than 170,000 votes rejected as unreadable in the "hanging chad" chaos of l ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 24 13:42:13 PDT 2001