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31681 US economy may have bottomed out -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >All we know for sure, as Thomas S. Eliot of Lloyd's Bank once noted, >is that "In a minute there is time / For decisions and revisions >which a minute will reverse." Or, do I, after tea & cake & ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 1 07:37:28 PDT 2001

31682 FT defends capitalism -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 1, 2001 LEADER: May Day Today's planned demonstration in London against global capitalism is part of a pattern. It follows mass protests, marred by violence, over the past 18 months in Seattle, Washington, Prague, Melbourne and Quebec City. What inspires these events and what should be done about them? For the police, the priority must be to steer a fine line between preserving order and overkill. Those who break the law should be subjected to its full rigour. However, care ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 1 07:36:26 PDT 2001

31683 John Stuart Mill (was Re: Student Protests Against Horowitz Ad) -- rank: 1000

These personal taunts are getting out of control. Please stop. They're not amusing or enlightening to 98% of outside observers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 31 09:58:15 PST 2001

31684 European protectionism -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >I'm surprised that people are taken in by this European protectionism. > >Anyone can see that European support for the global warming treaty is >just an attempt to make a virtue out of Europe's mediocre industrial >performance. James, do you still think there's no risk to humans from mad cow disease? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 31 09:53:32 PST 2001

31685 recession "inevitable" -- rank: 1000

Saturday March 31 08:03 AM EST `Recession is unavoidable' in 2001, economic research firm predicts BY DAVID A. SYLVESTER , Mercury News One of the nation's best-known economic research firms, breaking with the consensus of economists, now predicts the United States will slip into a recession by the end of the year -- the first time the firm has officially announced a recession since 1990. ``A recession is unavoidable,'' said Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Ins ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 31 09:52:42 PST 2001

31686 stock market loses allure -- rank: 1000

Friday March 30 6:07 PM ET Poll: Lack of Economic Enthusiasm By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans' enthusiasm for President Bush (news - web sites)'s idea of investing Social Security (news - web sites) contributions in the stock market has dropped sharply along with the market, says an Associated Press poll. The poll taken after two of the roughest weeks the market has had in recent years shows they're about evenly split on that idea now. About half in the poll, 4 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 31 09:22:48 PST 2001

31687 Pastor pay not linked to performance -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 06:18:02 -0800 From: "Barna Update" <barnaupdate at barna.org> ----AM_AltBoundary_22682_34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Personal message from Christopher: Following up on Doug's post of the Gallup Poll. This is George Barna, whose investigations of these things, as an evangelical consultant to evangelical churches, shows a more detailed and rather different picture than Gallup. I suspect Gallup was looking more ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 30 09:41:05 PST 2001

31688 Where's Pacifica campaign getting its money? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Anyone know where the anti-Pacifica campaign is getting its money. I just >got a direct mail piece with Juan Gonzales signature that was incredibly >slick and glossy. Now, it may be pure speculation on direct mail, but it >looked like it was backed by some serious money. > >So are there any big funders of the anti-Pacifica campaign at this point? I have no idea, but I doubt it. It's all on a shoestring, as far as I know. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 30 09:24:07 PST 2001

31689 Fwd: National Call to Action -- rank: 1000

A NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION Dear Friends, Please join the Institute for Policy Studies, IPPN, and the Center for Constitutional Rights in creating an immediate nationwide response to the expected news concerning the fraudulent Florida vote count. We are proposing *DAYS OF ACTION* to follow the release of the news media's study of the 180,000 "undervotes" and "overvotes" in Florida. Please give us your suggestions for action ideas, and consider joining us for a press conference ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 30 09:19:16 PST 2001

31690 Bush droops further -- rank: 1000

3/30/01 - Bush Approval Drops to 53% Link to story: <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010330c.asp>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 30 09:15:18 PST 2001

31691 "Practicalities" of Reparations (was Re: Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The Census? You always boast that the U.S. government has the best >stats in the world. The Census relies on how people identify themselves - though the boxes they offer up for checking influences how people identify themselves. Many now call themselves "interracial" - a category that barely existed a few decades ago, and didn't exist officially on the 1990s Census. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 30 09:03:17 PST 2001

31692 "Practicalities" of Reparations -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >As I say, bog class settlements provide an excellent model that >often face harder administraive problems. While I have no idea what a "bog class settlement" is, I doubt any of them ever involve 35 million people. Though if money were on offer, I'm sure there would be a lot more than 35 million people; hell, Bob Barr might even end up self-identifying as black. Which might be a good thing. On what you call the "political" question - I think the m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 30 09:01:13 PST 2001

31693 "Practicalities" of Reparations (was Re: Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers) -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>>Mat & Justin have already made an argument that practicalities are >>>not the problem. What's your objection to them? >> >>1) Defining race. > >Elibigity has to be on the basis of descent from a slave, not on the >basis of race. > >> 2) Defining eligibility after defining race. > >Not a big deal. Anyone who can show to some reasonable standard that >she or he had at l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 30 08:55:55 PST 2001

31694 Duke students on Horowitz ad -- rank: 1000

[posted by Chris Kromm (I think) from an unsub'd address - reformatted by ed.] From: "Michelle Hughes" <mhughes10 at mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:34:09 -0500 Pretty good... CK DUKE STUDENT MOVEMENT A little over one week ago, the Chronicle carried an ad that amounted to a wholesale attack on the character of African Americans, an ad which suggested that slavery was beneficial for African Americans. This is an insult to us, to our forebearers and everyone who detests ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 30 08:44:59 PST 2001

31695 "Practicalities" of Reparations (was Re: Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >(1) Affirmative action demands that we define race. Not for 35 million people all at once. > Racial profiling demands that cops define race. So we get a bunch of NJ State Troopers who know 'em when they see 'em to set social policy? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 30 08:37:29 PST 2001