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31576 judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So much for federalism. So much for democracy. This is the price you pay for letting courts have enormous power to overturn laws on "constitutional" grounds. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 10:32:35 PDT 2001

31577 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 14, 2001 Ashcroft's Faith Plays Visible Role at Justice Bible Sessions With Staffers Draw Questions and Criticism By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer The Bible study begins each day at 8 a.m. sharp, with Attorney General John D. Ashcroft presiding. A group of employees gathers at the Main Justice building in Washington, either in his personal office or a conference room, to study Scripture and join Ashcroft in prayer. Ashcroft held similar meetings each morning as a U ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 10:20:48 PDT 2001

31578 Keynes Question -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >If not, then the socialization of losses seems the most pragmatic option... Whose losses get socialized at whose expense? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 10:17:50 PDT 2001

31579 Northeastern students chase president, block traffic -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 14, 2001 Decision to Raze Building That Houses Black Institute Stirs Rowdy Protest at Northeastern U. By ANDREW BROWNSTEIN More than 300 students at Northeastern University -- angered over a decision to raze a building that houses the campus center for black students -- chased the university's president to his car Thursday and blocked rush-hour traffic for close to an hour. The episode capped a month of protests and sit-ins at the John D. O'Bryant ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 09:52:14 PDT 2001

31580 judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

[yet another reason to despise the Supreme Court] May 14, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ High Court Rules That Marijuana Can't Be Used for Treating Illness Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court handed medical-marijuana users a major defeat Monday, ruling that a federal law classifying the drug as illegal has no exception for ill patients. The decision was a major disappointment to many sufferers of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis and oth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 09:39:17 PDT 2001

31581 gasoline prices on the web -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: >New web sites listing low and high prices gasoline prices, helps in finding >low priced gas in your area. This link is for Los Angeles. A drop down >menu on the left on the home page has links to dozens of other cities. > >http://www.losangelesgasprices.com/ > >In my area of L.A., regular is about $2.05 and premium about $2.25. And >rising. Yes! Only $2.95 to go (for regular)!! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 09:16:25 PDT 2001

31582 doctor disease -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >I vaguely remember being brought up short a while back hearing Null >endorse something which might be described, without going into to too much >detail, as "urine therapy". He says he drinks his own pee, and recommends others do it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 09:03:34 PDT 2001

31583 platform shoes and bear markets -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > Burton Malkiel exposed some technicians to >> some charts he'd randomly generated, and they found their usual >> pennants, double bottoms, and rising wedges anyway. > >Why is that surprising? Technical analysis basically says that you can >spend your time trying to figure out what's going on, or you can get an >aggergate of that information as expressed by all participants in the >market itself by simply looking at the price action. P ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 09:01:27 PDT 2001

31584 platform shoes and bear markets -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: >Well, how about punk girl groups like L7 or the Donna's. Are they bullish >or bearish??? Girl groups are associated with "corrections," so girl punks are doubly bearish, I guess. Maybe Le Tigre will dissolve and Bikini Kill will do a reunion tour. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 12 11:31:19 PDT 2001

31585 doctor disease -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >The Spotlight (which Green loon, Mitchel Cohen reads and tells me he found >an article from there on HIV believable (!), does he pass it on to pals, >Gary Null or Robert Lederman afterwards?!) Null's had some rightwing Fed "experts" on. Don't know if they were Spotlighters, but they had the line down - secret island meeetings, British control.... Which, as of a couple of years ago, the NOI had adopted too. Null's theory of the healthworld is pretty con ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 12 11:02:25 PDT 2001

31586 OECD & Tax Havens -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The statement was utter demagogy. The OECD initiative >is not about harmonization but about curbing tax evasion. Amity Schlaes had yet another of her mad columns in the Financial Times arguing that tax havens are necessary to keep the tax maximizers at bay. She says it's no accident that the thing was led by the French. Of course, these clowns can't say that they & their friends would lose a lot of money if tax havens were shut down, so they have to come up with so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 12 10:54:04 PDT 2001

31587 doctor disease -- rank: 1000

Steve Rafferty wrote: >This isn't really fair -- as there's no real "they" to >be the object of your jab. One of the problems with >"alternative medicine" is that it's a category that >simply tosses together everything that's not a part of >the standard allopathic toolbox. As a result, >proponents of acupuncture or homeopathy (systems for >which there is some legitimate evidence of efficacy), >are lumped with people who make and/or believe amazing &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 12 10:38:46 PDT 2001

31588 platform shoes and bear markets -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: > >>>EWT founder Robert Prechter argues that you can analyze the stock >>>>market by following cultural trends. Punk is bearish. Girl groups are >>>>popular during corrections. > >Victor Neiderhoffer, in Education of a Speculator, explains cogently why >mapping two stock charts together and discovering "similarities" is often >just looking at random noise. Much less plotting the Dow to something >unchartable like pu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 12 10:22:09 PDT 2001

31589 CinCity Rioters Face Hate-Crime Penalties -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: > CINCINNATI RIOTERS FACE HATE-CRIME PENALTIES > > Steve Miller > THE WASHINGTON TIMES > > ----------------------------------------------------------- >> The FBI in Cincinnati is pursuing hate-crimes charges > against black rioters who randomly attacked whites in three > incidents last month. Damn, isn't that getting to the heart of the matter. My friend Dan Lazare was on a black talk radio show in Cincinnati the other day to promote his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 11 15:44:53 PDT 2001

31590 doctor disease -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: > > It would be interesting to study how much medical cultism exists in >> Cuba. >> > >http://www.cubasolidarity.net/waitzkin.html > >Green medicine" and other "alternative" treatments. This sounds excellent. I don't doubt that there's a lot of value lurking in herbal and other traditional/alternative approaches. The problem is that most quacks don't share patient info with outsiders - like that major cancer-treating fraud, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 11 14:03:25 PDT 2001