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32356 Free Mike! -- rank: 1000

Today's Feed daily is my plea to Free Mike Milken! <http://www.feedmag.com/templates/select_template.php3?a_id=1581>. Though they wouldn't let me use those three words as the closing line. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 23 06:53:22 PST 2001

32357 The alleged "Racak Massacre" -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I think that's a bit naive: few of those questioning Racak are also >pointing out that there were other massacres... You mean like that NATO fly-by, with its light dusting of depleted uranium to remember it by? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 16:33:16 PST 2001

32358 Camille -- rank: 1000

If any further proof was needed that Camille Paglia repackages conventional thinking as transgressive, here's some: <http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2001/01/17/pre_inaug/index.html/index.html>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 15:49:47 PST 2001

32359 whitehouse.gov -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41319,00.html?tw=wn20010122> Anybody Home at Whitehouse.gov? by Declan McCullagh WASHINGTON -- President Bush not only got the keys to the White House this weekend, but he also took over the official whitehouse.gov website. While the new president's speedily organized inaugural celebration concluded without incident in a chill rain, the launch of the Bush administration's Web presence was not as successful. Dozens of links return error messages, a ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 13:24:15 PST 2001

32360 a healthy and lucid disgust -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Yes, but then Luxemburg and so many others taught us about a) >uneven development and articulations of modes of production (by which >K-ism survives by KEEPING ALIVE the worst traditionalism, racism, >patriarchy and eco-destruction of the old mode) Only in the most contradictory fashion (with the exception of the eco-destruction, which is another story). 19th century colonialism certainly thrived on not merely keeping alive these things, but recovering them or ev ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 12:37:53 PST 2001

32361 On the important French Fry Question -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote: >> >>>there are organzied boycotts >>>of many of the companies I choose not to buy from. Nike is perhaps the most >>>recognized >> >>Student anti-sweatshop activists, taking their cue from the >>workers, are opposed to boycotts against the likes of Nike. They >>want the workers to be well paid and decently treated and free to >>organize, not disemployed. >> >>Dou ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 11:33:38 PST 2001

32362 Null on AIDS -- rank: 1000

Gary Null is a massively popular programmer on WBAI. He does "alternative" health stuff. He doesn't believe HIV causes AIDS. What does? Among other things, "fear," AIDS drugs, and a bad lifestyle. Null is a bete noire of mine, so if anyone who knew the science could take a look at this, I'd be grateful. Here are some excerpts <http://www.garynull.com/Documents/aids.htm>: >Lifestyle. Remember the swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn? As a young >man, he charmed audience ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 11:28:04 PST 2001

32363 abortion polls -- rank: 1000

[on the 28th anniversary of the decision] __________________________________________________________________ Gallup Poll News Service SOCIAL ISSUES & POLICY NewsAlert __________________________________________________________________ Here is your requested Social Issues update from the Gallup Poll News Service. 1/22/01 - Majority of Americans Say Roe v. Wade Decision Should Stand Link to story: <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010122.asp>.

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 08:57:37 PST 2001

32364 On the important French Fry Question -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote: >there are organzied boycotts >of many of the companies I choose not to buy from. Nike is perhaps the most >recognized Student anti-sweatshop activists, taking their cue from the workers, are opposed to boycotts against the likes of Nike. They want the workers to be well paid and decently treated and free to organize, not disemployed. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 08:04:41 PST 2001

32365 college freshmen looking inward, thinking about money, and moving left -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - From the issue dated January 26, 2001 Looking Inward, Freshmen Care Less About Politics and More About Money By ALEX P. KELLOGG If this fall's perplexing presidential race provided a lesson in politics, college freshmen may have slept through the class. An annual survey of freshmen suggests that political engagement among first-year students has reached an all-time low, even though it typically jumps in election years. Only 28.1 percent of entering college stude ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 08:03:02 PST 2001

32366 On the important French Fry Question -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >It occurs to me to wonder why we're surprised the cancer rates are so high. Mainly because people live so much longer than they used to (and not just in rich countries). I never understood this kind of argument. All evidence is that people are not only living longer, they're staying healthy and active longer too. U.S. life expectancy (at birth) rose from 73.3 in 1977 to 76.5 in 1997 - more than three years, a nontrivial amount. It was 69.5 in 1957, and 60.0 in 1937. If ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 07:51:14 PST 2001

32367 On the important French Fry Question -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >Kel, the point is, whether they're good citizens or no, the mom and >pop shop owners ARE members of the community. Classed members of the community, a fact that's obscured in all the sentimental nostalgic discourse about community. A lot of the "antiglobalization" movement in the U.S. seems to draw its intellectual leadership from a petit bourgeois crowd who've been displaced by the grand b. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 07:30:45 PST 2001

32368 a healthy and lucid disgust -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >patronise the local strugglers instead of the styrofoam-wielding >invaders of our crossroads and neighborhoods "Despite recognizing all this, we insist on asserting that the construction of Empire is a step forward in order to do away with any nostalgia for the power structures that preceded it and refuse any political strategy that involves returning to that old arrangement, such as trying to resurrect the nation-state to protect against global capital. We clai ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 07:23:36 PST 2001

32369 the tears of W -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >"This is what he thinks: God is here and asks us to do good." > >'good' meaning in this case to look on in mute christian charity as w gets >about the real business of his administration, which has nothing to do with >the 700 club and everything to do with wall street. it bears repeating: bush >will be to the christian right as clinton was to the liberals. don't you >think? I hope so. But why did he appoint Ashcroft? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 07:12:14 PST 2001

32370 Fw: FW: GALE NORTON'S RADICAL LEGAL PHILOSOPHY (Richard Epstein Watch) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >My Mom used to carry around in her purse a >book published by the Council on Economic Priorities. An entity that received funding from one of the Rockefeller charities in its early years. And whose sweatshop-auditing operation, Social Accountability International <http://www.sa8000.org/> - which a coalition of Hong Kong NGOs denounced recently as little more than a PR tool of multinationals, because of its sloppy inspections, among other things - just receive ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 07:06:03 PST 2001