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15676 [lbo-talk] Ian Williams -- rank: 1000

On Dec 30, 2006, at 5:42 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > So who, except for ordinary Palestinians trying to > make a living, raise kinds, or go to school, is > innocent in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? Hamas? > Hezbollah? Fatah? And how is that different from the > Balkans and the FYS? Israel was created by driving a large number of people out of their homes. That's not the story in the Balkans. I think you know that. Doug

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15677 [lbo-talk] what next? -- rank: 1000

[from an AP story on Saddam's demise] "First it was weapons of mass destruction. Then when there were none, it was that we had to find Saddam. We did that, but then it was that we had to put him on trial," said Spc. Thomas Sheck, 25, who is on his second tour in Iraq. "So now, what will be the next story they tell us to keep us over here?"

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15678 [lbo-talk] Ian Williams -- rank: 1000

On Dec 30, 2006, at 12:59 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Having read big chunks of testimony to the Milosevic ICTY and way > too many other sources on the Bosnian and Kosovar conflicts, one could > take the volumnious excerpts from human rights reports on the > Israeli-Palestinian conflict as Norman Finkelstein does in, "Beyond > Chutzpah, " and see the same racist, rapist chauvinism. > -- But the difference is that the other parties in the Balkans weren't innocent ...

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15679 [lbo-talk] Ian Williams -- rank: 1000

On Dec 30, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > On 12/30/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Yup. Ian's an old friend of mine. I don't like his position on the >> Balkans at all, but he's not the enemy. >> >> Doug > > He writes for http://meionline.com/ Middle East Int'l. Ian's position on the Middle East is excellent. He saw the Serbs, in fact, as analogous to the Israelis in their persecution of Muslims. I don't agree with ...

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15680 [lbo-talk] Ian Williams -- rank: 1000

On Dec 30, 2006, at 1:33 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Ian Williams of ITN and Ian Williams of The Nation are different > individuals, I think. Yup. Ian's an old friend of mine. I don't like his position on the Balkans at all, but he's not the enemy. Doug

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15681 [lbo-talk] Re: AFA Alert (Don Wildmon Salutes Bill O'Reilly?!?!?!) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 29, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Chuck wrote: > Have I ever told the story here about how the AFA used my > activities for a smear campaign against the American Library > Association? No - please do! Doug

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15682 [lbo-talk] Re: AFA Alert (Don Wildmon Salutes Bill O'Reilly?!?!?!) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 29, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Anthony Kennerson wrote: > Nice mailing lists you sign on to, Doug. Ugh. Know the enemy, I say. How else would I know that Ford Motor Co. is supporting The Homosexual Agenda (TM)? Doug

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15683 [lbo-talk] AFA Alert: Bill O'Reilly calls George Soros public enemy number 1 -- rank: 1000

AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION Donald E. Wildmon Founder and Chairman December 29, 2006 Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by forwarding it to your entire email list of family and friends. Bill O'Reilly, host of "The O'Reilly Factor" on the Fox News Channel, calls George Soros public enemy number 1 Bill O Reilly says George Soros and Progressive Insurance Chairman Peter Lewis are leading enemies of traditional values Dear dhenwood at panix ...

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15684 [lbo-talk] Hitch makes an exception: hefty, Jewish, & dykey women are funny -- rank: 1000

<http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/12/hitchens-still-stirring- controversy-women-still-not-funny.php> Hitchens, Still Stirring Controversy; Women, Still Not Funny Christopher Hitchens wrung just a little bit more manufactured umbrage out of his "Why Women Aren't Funny" shtick this morning, appearing on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC to defend the oh-so- controversial thesis of his recent Vanity Fair column. The seldom-sober polemicist told guest host Alice Rhee that the id ...

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15685 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Global Sense author Judah Freed at Vox Pop in Brooklyn Jan 5 -- rank: 1000

[don't know anything about this but I've been asked to forward it] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 December 2006 Contact: Penny Sansevieri:, Publicist 1- 619-808-BOOK (2665) Judah Freed: 1-888-887-1776 (Cell: 720-256-9585 Global Sense author Judah Freed slates January 5 reading at Vox Pop Books in Brooklyn Evening event features top New York political comic Scott Blakeman. NEW YORK - Celebrating the January 1776 anniversary for the publication of Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Vox Pop Books in Brookly ...

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15686 [lbo-talk] Lerner + Carter (+ Soros?) = liberal alt.AIPAC? -- rank: 1000

[Sentence-completion exercise: "What I like about the Soros enterprise..." is that they have lots of money & I want some!] <http://www.forward.com/articles/lerner-reaches-out-to-president- carter/> Lerner Reaches Out to President Carter WEB EXCLUSIVE Gabriel Sanders | Wed. Dec 27, 2006 While leaders from across the Jewish spectrum have rushed to condemn former president Jimmy Carter and his new book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," at least one prominent Jewish ...

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15687 [lbo-talk] Lerner re-takes Tikkun, plans less, though more loving, coverage of Israel -- rank: 1000

<http://www.forward.com/articles/founder-retakes-reins-of-liberal-mag- plans-less-i/> Founder Retakes Reins of Liberal Mag, Plans Less Israel Coverage Gabriel Sanders Fri. Dec 29, 2006 As two of his top editors leave to work on other projects, Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal Jewish bimonthly Tikkun, has indicated that he is looking to redirect his magazine's energies away from Israel and toward a greater focus on interfaith matters. In a December 4 e-mail to writers for the magazi ...

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15688 [lbo-talk] Fidel -- rank: 1000

On Dec 28, 2006, at 5:37 PM, joanna wrote: > Well, OK, not instant. But pretty quick. I had two neighbors that > were diagnosed in the late eighties; they died within six months of > the diagnosis. That looked quick to me. > > I never voted for quarantine, but I am taken aback by the reaction > on this list that the only motive for quarantine would be gay > bashing/oppression. I don't know if that's the only motive, but it does seem to be an active influence. Quarantining ...

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15689 [lbo-talk] Raimondo on the Litvinenko poisoning, Part Four -- rank: 1000

On Dec 28, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Chris Doss quoted: > What does add up, > however, is that powerful economic and political > interests, both here and in Britain, have targeted > Putin's Russia for "regime change" and are > apparently willing to go to any lengths to accomplish > their ends. There's going to be some regime change, soon, right? Putin's term is coming to an end. What's the word on succession? Doug

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15690 [lbo-talk] Google gets evil -- rank: 1000

On Dec 28, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > And they can have real-world consequences > for "little guy" businesses on the 'net And "little gal" businesses too - the sublime Babeland says its online sales fell by 30% after the Google adjustment. Doug

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