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31456 Green Party official busted at gunpoint -- rank: 1000

X-From_: radred at ix.netcom.com Sat Nov 3 09:31:02 2001 XGREEN PARTY USA COORDINATOR DETAINED AT AIRPORT PREVENTED BY ARMED MILITARY FROM FLYING TO GREENS MEETING IN CHICAGO "I was targeted because the Green Party USA opposes the bombing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan." --Nancy Oden (The Green Party USA statement on the war against Afghanistan is at http://www.greenparty.org/911.html They are the original Green Party in the U.S. since 1986) ========== PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL MED ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 3 06:59:39 PST 2001

31457 worms -- rank: 1000

"Worms: Education and Health Externalities in Kenya" BY: EDWARD MIGUEL University of California at Berkeley Department of Economics MICHAEL KREMER Harvard University Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) The Brookings Institution Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=284053 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W8481 Date: September 2001 Contact: EDWARD MIGUEL Email: Mailto:emiguel at e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 16:17:16 PST 2001

31458 work is the curse of the drinking classes? -- rank: 1000

"Alcohol Taxes and Labor Market Outcomes" BY: DHAVAL DAVE Graduate Center CUNY Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) ROBERT KAESTNER University of Illinois at Chicago Institute of Government and Public Affairs National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), at New York Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=288475 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W8562 Date: October 2001 Contact: ROBERT ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 16:00:56 PST 2001

31459 Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Do you have the slightest idea how "we" could change this? I really >don't have any idea. If you have an idea that could be implemented in >the next 14 days by 3 or 4 hundred people to save millions of lives, you >rather owe it to the world to let us know. And if you don't, why are you >pestering Yoshie? She clearly doesn't have any such suggestion either. Do nothing. You win. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 15:44:02 PST 2001

31460 Chaos Theory and Leftist Economics -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >They argue against planning, despite its existence. > >On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:08:41PM -0800, Ian Murray wrote: >> >> From: "Michael Perelman" <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> >> >> >> >> > The Hayek crowd has pushed hardest in this direction, arguing that >> the >> > spontaneous order of markets is the appropriate response to chaos, >> since >> > planning is virtually im ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 15:21:40 PST 2001

31461 NYPD vs FDNY -- rank: 1000

NY1.com - November 2, 2001 Firefighters Protest Removal From WTC Site, But Mayor Stands Firm Angered by a decision to cut back on their presence at the World Trade Center site, firefighters participating in a union march broke through police barriers Friday morning and made their way to the disaster site to protest the city's decision, but Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Friday afternoon that the cutbacks would go ahead as planned for the safety of the firefighters themselves. Five police officers w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 14:02:02 PST 2001

31462 Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That millions of Afghans were already on the verge of starvation and >bombings and border closures would make mass deaths a certainty was >said numerous times, even before the bombings began, but that in >itself didn't faze too many Americans & probably won't in the near >future either, just as Iraqi deaths by economic sanctions have yet >to touch a sufficient number of Americans to change US policy. It >will move the masses in the Arab and/or M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 13:36:09 PST 2001

31463 lbo-talk-digest V1 #5201 -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Actually, one of the nicest aspects of living in the middle of nowhere is >never having to worry about crime. Unless you're, say, Matthew Shepherd. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 13:23:48 PST 2001

31464 Maxes wager -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Firstly, I don't think any method likely to be used can match the >death toll of 9/11. Massive bio-weapons attack? Suitcase nuclear bomb? Plane crash into a nuclear reactor? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 13:27:35 PST 2001

31465 record American economic expansion over -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >[It's official, no?] It's true, but not yet official - until the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the NBER says so <http://www.nber.org/>. And they ain't said so yet. In the 1990-91 recession, they made the official declaration when the recession was almost over. Today's employment report was awful. The stock market, populated by plucky optimists, was unfazed, certain that prosperity is just around the corner. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 13:14:34 PST 2001

31466 Indianapolis? -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] MURRAY WEISS, NY POST: Threatening letters mailed to the media before the World Trade Center attacks - bearing striking similarities to the current anthrax-tainted letters - were mailed from Indianapolis, where the deadly bacteria was discovered yesterday, The Post has learned. The pre-Sept. 11 letters were addressed in block letters that virtually match the lettering on the anthrax-laced missives sent to Sen. Thomas Daschle, the New York Post and NBC, law- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 12:58:39 PST 2001

31467 China helping taliban? -- rank: 1000

[better late than never...] Washington Times - October 31, 2001 Taliban leader cites help by China By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Taliban commander Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani told an Urdu-language newspaper in Pakistan that the ruling militia's strategy is to conduct a long war aimed at entrapping U.S. forces on the ground. Asked about the Taliban's relations with China, Mr. Haqqani said: "China is a good country. Taliban are in contact with it even now. "China is also extending sup ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 12:53:36 PST 2001

31468 SSRC page -- rank: 1000

The Social Science Research Council has a page of links on 9/11: <http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 2 09:34:11 PST 2001

31469 Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Undoubtedly so, but only if it's a realistic concern: >http://www.tnr.com/110501/chait110501.html With Aaron gone, I guess we need someone else to channel Peretz and Beinart. The anxieties about famine come from aid workers who are there. The bromides come from neoconservatives in editorial offices in DC. I love this bit from Chait: >In fact, the more territory the United States liberates from Taliban >control, the more food it can deliver to starving Afghans. Has ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 08:47:49 PST 2001

31470 no protests in Qatar! -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] IN QATAR, W.T.O. WILL AVOID PROTESTS When ministers from the 142 member countries of the WTO gather next Friday, the anti-globalization protesters who hijacked its last meeting two years ago in Seattle won't be there, reports the Wall Street Journal Europe (p.3)-but their demands could still threaten the outcome of the talks. The protesters will be kept away from this WTO gathering by the decision taken 10 months ago to stage the meeting in Doha, in the rem ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 08:28:01 PST 2001