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32821 Finance and Economics -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Are you saying you are a Marxist ? Yup. Some Marxists disagree, though. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 14:39:15 PST 2001

32822 Dueda Eternal, a game -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 21, 2001 The Americas Play 'Deuda Eterna' And Learn All About the IMF By Mary Anastasia O'Grady. Ms. O'Grady edits the Americas. Looking for a last-minute gift for that someone special in Russia, Indonesia, Turkey, Mexico or Argentina? How about the new board game "Deuda Eterna" (Eternal Debt)? The Spanish-language Argentine export, which landed on my desk a few weeks ago, carries the provocative subheading: "Who can defeat the IMF?" More than a ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 12:44:53 PST 2001

32823 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from ["Christopher Cantor" <dalek at uclink4.berkeley.edu>] -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address - please, folks, if you're playing address and forwarding games, post from the right address so I don't have to forward them! - and don't append html text, either!] >Reply-To: "Christopher Cantor" <cantor at atlas.cz> >From: "Christopher Cantor" <dalek at uclink4.berkeley.edu> >To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:01:19 -0800 > >No, its not odd. Its tit for tat. Our State Dept doesnt ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 11:54:28 PST 2001

32824 Fwd: Re: Finance and Economics after the Dotcom Crash -- rank: 1000

Jesus, for people who like to call other people idiots, they should be careful what they say. >At 1:46 PM -0500 12/21/01, kwalker2 at gte.net quoted: >> >>From: "Russell Turpin" <deafbox at hotmail.com> >>To: fork at xent.com >><...> >>I enjoyed reading that. Thanks for posting it. I cannot >>resist making one comment on the substance. >> >>Doug Henwood says: >>>I'd also like to make the point that there's somethin ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 11:53:06 PST 2001

32825 War: Gore wouldn't have been much different from Bush... -- rank: 1000

...and don't take my word for it, take that of the good liberals at The American Prospect: >Were it not for the butterfly ballots in Palm Beach County and the >Democratic Party's failure to insist on a statewide recount of the >Florida vote, the crisis that has engulfed America since September >11 would be unfolding in a vastly different political landscape. >Both houses of Congress would still be controlled by Republicans. >Attorney General John Ashcroft would likely be in ret ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 11:01:54 PST 2001

32826 Afghan aid -- rank: 1000

[more from the WB] CONFERENCE YIELDS PLAN FOR MASSIVE AID TO REBUILD AFGHANISTAN Major donors launched an extensive aid plan for Afghanistan on Thursday, saying it could grow into funding worth billions of dollars if the country's new government keeps peace among rival ethnic groups, the Los Angeles Times (p. A17), CNN.com and Reuters report. A two-day conference in Brussels led by the EU, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United States assessed how to coordinate aid needed to rebuild the impoverished ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 09:05:46 PST 2001

32827 Argentina -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] ARGENTINA IN CHAOS AS PRESIDENT RESIGNS. President Fernando de la Rúa resigned Thursday as tens of thousands of Argentines defied a state of siege he had declared less than 24 hours earlier when violence tore through the recession-ravaged country, the Los Angeles Times (p. A1) reports. De la Rúa stepped down after opposition legislators in the Peronist party declined his offer to form a government of national unity, the president's last hope of holding on t ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 09:00:20 PST 2001

32828 Pravda chats with Pat Buchanan -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of excessive length - here's the intro, with the URL for the rest] From: Chris Doss <chrisd at russiajournal.com> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:10:39 +0300 Talk about a wierd world. Chris Doss The Russia Journal Pravda.RU:Main:More in detail 19:35 2001-12-18 AN AMERICAN POPULIST: PRAVDA.RU INTERVIEWS PATRICK BUCHANAN NATO expansion, Russia's place in Europe, and the coming clash of civilizations: Patrick Buchanan gives an exclusive interview to PRAVDA.Ru Q. You are known as being ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 08:27:17 PST 2001

32829 Fwd: Multiple Windows Security Problems -- rank: 1000

[as a public service, we offer you Panix' MOTD] Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:33:13 -0500 (EST) To: motd-system at panix.com (The following article has been automatically mirrored from MOTD) (Posted by Ed Ravin [staff]) Thu, Dec 20 2001 -- 5:31 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multiple Windows Security Problems All Windows users should read this notice carefully. In the last two days, two major security vulnerabilities with Microsoft Windows products w ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 08:06:10 PST 2001

32830 Fwd: SF screening in Castro Theater -- rank: 1000

From: "John Scagliotti" <stonewal at sover.net> Subject: SF screening in Castro Theater Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:02:37 -0500 I'd love to see all our alumnae and friends in the Bay Area for this. The number is growing over the years. We need to fill the Castro and it's a mighty big theater so please email any friends you have in the Bay Area and ask them to bring their friends. It should be a very diverse and interesting crowd and it's a fun place to see a movie. A special ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 20 10:05:30 PST 2001

32831 oh goody -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com > >The Human Identity Chip: No Longer Science Fiction >Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Service >Thursday, December 20, 2001 > >U.S. Doctor Plants Device Under His Own Skin > >A surgeon in New Jersey has embedded under his skin tiny computer >chips that can automatically transmit personal information to a >scanner, a technology that his employer hopes will someday be widely >used as a way to ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 08:22:11 PST 2001

32832 return to normalcy (cont.) -- rank: 1000

DATE December 21, 2001 FOR Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. CONTACT Herbert H. Rozoff, Laura S. Trossman For Release Upon Receipt Pulse Of The Workplace THREE MONTHS AFTER SEPTEMBER 11.... Holiday office gatherings "seems just like it used to be." Commuters say road rage hiatus over. Workplace radios return to light music vs. all-news stations. High-rise workers no longer apprehensive when planes fly low. Workers not rushing home at 5:00 p.m. Mo ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 11:21:38 PST 2001

32833 profit motive behind anthrax attacks? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 21, 2001 FBI Investigates Possible Financial Motive in Anthrax Attacks By Susan Schmidt and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writers The FBI is pursuing the possibility that financial gain was the motive behind the mailing of letters containing deadly anthrax bacteria and has conducted extensive interviews of personnel at two laboratories and possibly more, according to government officials. Although investigators have not ruled out other possible motives, they have ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 12:42:51 PST 2001

32834 ObL translation missed SA refs -- rank: 1000

Friday December 21 2001 02:52 AM EST Bin Laden Translation Omitted Sections By John Miller ABCNEWS.com A new ABCNEWS translation of the Osama bin Laden videotape released last week reveals information that may be embarrassing to Saudi Arabia, a very important U.S. ally. When the videotape of Osama bin Laden talking about the Sept. 11 terror attacks was released by the United States government on Dec. 13, administration officials spoke at length about the extensive effort to achieve a full and ac ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 12:41:57 PST 2001

32835 today's b'day -- rank: 1000

Happy birthday to Joe Stalin, who would be 122 today. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 14:06:28 PST 2001