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34816 [Fwd: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY] -- rank: 1000

Folks, sorry to be pissy, but if you're going to make a short comment on some earlier posts there's no reason to quote the entirety (like I'm doing here). Think of all that coal you're burning! Doug Ken Hanly wrote: >It seems to me that in UK libel law it is even possible to be found guilty of >libel even if what you say is true--under certain conditions of course. > Cheers, Ken Hanly > >Nathan Newman wrote: > >> All of this, going back to past debates on free speech ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 15 10:43:26 PST 2000

34817 [Fwd: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY] -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >So , I say the political value of freedom from racism is more >important than the value of freedom of speech. And who will decide what qualifies as "racism," and therefore unprotected? You? Bill Clinton? William Rehnquist? David Duke? Doug

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34818 you know.... -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >Then I show the European Central Bank's figures on >savings and investment, pointing out that the US underinvests in its >economy compared to the EU and Japan Dennis, you don't understand. U.S. investment levels are lower because Americans are smarter than those ponderous foreigners. We get more output and more profit out of every unit of capital, plus we're way ahead on all the stuff that really matters, like ideas and brands. When will you shed these materiali ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 15 10:13:52 PST 2000

34819 poverty, not AIDS, killing Africans -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In message <20000314202237.2879.qmail at rubella.ecst.csuchico.edu>, >michael at ecst.csuchico.edu writes >>The author is a former friend, now a very meanspirited conservative >>activist. > >Meanspirited, maybe, but is it a conservative argument to say that >African health problems arise out of poverty? Is it a radical argument >to say that, no, AIDS is responsible? I've been thinking about this, and I don't see why it's an either/or thi ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 15 09:48:17 PST 2000

34820 labor's election victories -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Since you posted this I forward all kinds of stuff, whether I approve of it or not. In this case, knocking off a conservative Dem in a primary is fine with me. Saving Al Gore's ass is another story. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 14:39:57 PST 2000

34821 poverty, not AIDS, killing Africans -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >The author is a former friend, now a very meanspirited conservative >activist. Patrick & Michael - hmmm, thanks for the pointers - that's the danger of forwarding stuff without checking it out - apologies to all - Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 12:46:14 PST 2000

34822 tech news -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address] Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:33:42 -0800 (PST) From: Scott Martens <Scott.Martens at eng.sun.com> Reply-To: Scott Martens <Scott.Martens at eng.sun.com> Subject: RE: Some tech news part 2 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com In-Reply-To: "Your message with ID" <14542.38838.631406.852274 at gargle.gargle.HOWL> Message-ID: <Roam.SIMC.2.0.6.953066022.25795.smartens at jurassic.eng> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASC ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 12:43:24 PST 2000

34823 email energy waste -- rank: 1000

kwalker2 at gte.net wrote: >last year doug posted a quip from Business week or Fortune about how much >k-wattage is burned on email. the piece showed what amt of k-wattage >burned the equivalent of a ton of coal or somesuch. apparently, doug >discovered that in one month alone lbo had burned a ton of coal. anyone >still have that email or know of the source of that ref? Sorry, been away from the computer that has the file on it... Doug ---- Forbes - June 23, 1999 Being digital ...

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34824 poverty, not AIDS, killing Africans -- rank: 1000

[via Sid Shniad] Globe and Mail (Toronto) - March 14, 2000 THE PLAGUE THAT ISN'T Poverty is killing Africans, not an alleged AIDS pandemic, says U.S. policy adviser Charles Geshekter By Charles Geshekter The United Nations calls it the "worst infectious disease catastrophe since bubonic plague." U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer advocates spending $3-billion to "fight AIDS." And delegates at last month's National Summit on Africa in Washington pleaded for more money to wage war on A ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 11:40:32 PST 2000

34825 race & wealth -- rank: 1000

March 14, 2000 Wall street Journal - March 14, 2000 U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Remains Huge Despite Booming Economy By YOCHI J. DREAZEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The booming economy has done much to boost the fortunes of many long-disadvantaged Americans. But the gap in well-being between whites and nonwhites didn't budge over the 1990s and remains huge, especially when measured by wealth. In 1998, the most recent year for which data are available, the median net worth ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 11:32:50 PST 2000

34826 labor's election victories -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] Washington Post - March 14, 2000 Lean Labor's Big Win By E. J. Dionne Jr When the envelopes were opened on Super Tuesday announcing the award winners for this stage of campaign 2000, most fans paid attention only to the already anticipated victories of the two leading actors, Al Gore and George W. Bush. But the prize that may carry the greatest significance for the long term went to the campaign's best supporting actor: Big Labor. Well, not exactly Big Labor, a term with ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 11:28:40 PST 2000

34827 Forbes.com -- rank: 1000

Billboard at the corner of 23rd St & 5th Ave in Manhattan, which is sometimes fashioned (e.g. by DoubleClick.com's billboard a few blocks down) as the entrance to Silicon Alley: <quote> Proliferate capitalism.... FORBES.COM Capitalism served fresh daily. </quote> Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 11:21:31 PST 2000

34828 Fwd: LM NEWS: Statement from Mick Hume/03-14-00 -- rank: 1000

[James - what was the verdict? any comments? - Doug] Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:19:26 +0000 To: "LM-commentary" <LM-commentary at mail.informinc.co.uk> From: LM <lm at informinc.co.uk> Subject: LM NEWS: Statement from Mick Hume/03-14-00 Sender: <LM-commentary at mail.informinc.co.uk> STATEMENT FROM MICK HUME, editor of LM magazine The only thing this court case has proved 'beyond reasonable doubt' is that English libel law is a disgrace to democracy and a menace to a f ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 09:37:10 PST 2000

34829 Am I from the third world? -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I am more than a little bit shocked that Doug is now referring to me in the >third person. Only because I was responding to Patrick, not you; no slight was intended at all, and I'm very sorry if it seemed that way. I was querying his characterization of you as representing the "Third World" - both the notion of a unitary Third World to be represented, and his criteria for authentic representation of said Third World. It's related to my questioning of Patr ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 09:35:01 PST 2000

34830 Japanese offshore assets -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment - I don't know the answer to Christian's question - if there's any movement of assets out of the US and into Japan it should show up in the exchange rate] From: "Christian A. Gregory" <christian11 at mindspring.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: bubble Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:34:35 -0600 Hey Rob, Here's an MoF press release that I found that might help with your question. It details the balance of offshore accounts at the end of ...

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