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18421 [lbo-talk] global warming? Exxon doesn't care! -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 14, 2005 Digging In Exxon Chief Makes A Cold Calculation On Global Warming BP and Shell Concede Ground As Raymond Funds Skeptics And Fights Emission Caps A 'Reality Check' on Kyoto By JEFFREY BALL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ANNANDALE, N.J. -- At Exxon Mobil Corp.'s laboratories here, there isn't a solar panel or windmill in sight. About the closest Exxon's scientists get to "renewable" energy is perfecting an oil that Exxon could sell to compan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 14 08:12:19 PDT 2005

18422 [lbo-talk] Freedom Fries dude comes out for withdrawal -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - Jun 13, 6:00 PM ET Polls, and Reports from Iraq, Reveal Pessimism on War NEW YORK A flood of pessimistic articles in major newspapers this weekend, calls by some in Congress for a timetable for withdrawal, and now a new Gallup poll suggest to at least one military historian that the American public has reached a "tipping point" on Iraq. The new Gallup survey finds that 59% of Americans say the United States should withdraw some or all of its troops from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 14 08:08:07 PDT 2005

18423 [lbo-talk] Poddy Jr on Dean -- rank: 1000

New York Post - June 14, 2005 DEAN'S VIRTUES John Podhoretz 'I REALLY hope Democrats do not wise up and fire this guy. He's priceless." So says a Republican blogger about Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic Party. The blogger, Alexander McClure of Polipundit.com, was responding to Dean's latest bit of news-making: Calling the Fox News Channel "a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party" even as he was saying "I don't comment on Fox News." "What does this s ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 07:53:13 PDT 2005

18424 [lbo-talk] MJ jurors didn't necessarily think he was innocent -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >"He's just not guilty of the crimes he's been charged >with," said Ray Hultman, who told The Associated Press >he was one of three people on the 12-person panel who >voted to acquit only after the other nine persuaded >them there was reasonable doubt about the >entertainer's guilt in this particular case. I think this was the guy on CNN last night, and he reminded me how excellent the jury system is. He was really thoughtful, serious, and articulate. When T ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 07:32:47 PDT 2005

18425 [lbo-talk] Rationality of the Masses -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >SDS chapters in Texas were heavily influenced by radical left >Christianity. I wonder if we shouldn't view the influence of religion on the US left as not as something to be celebrated or noted but instead yet another symptom of the American left's weakness. A country founded by a bunch of religious nuts just can't escape the curse... And then there's this, an excerpt from Adolph Reed's book on Jesse Jackson <http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/reedjess.html& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 14 07:10:16 PDT 2005

18426 [lbo-talk] RE: An Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >In my socialist utopia, I'd >certainly leave a space open for the kind of religious inquiry that >interests you. Whatever happened to the old Museum of Atheism in the USSR? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 14 07:04:15 PDT 2005

18427 [lbo-talk] MJ gets off! -- rank: 1000

Joe Barrera wrote: >Chuck0 wrote: > >> I want to know what those 2200 journalists covering the MJ trial are >> going to do now. Are there going to be mass layoffs? > >Maybe they could look into that Iraq thing? Matt Taibbi, who's been covering the trial for Rolling Stone, was just on with Aaron Brown. Taibbi said the whole thing was a joke. Brown countered that it was about whether a boy was molested. Taibbi said that's not what it was about - it was about gawking at a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 13 20:40:28 PDT 2005

18428 [lbo-talk] Re: An Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >At 06:23 PM 6/13/2005, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > >>but the whole question, dearest, > > > >I mean this in the kindest way possible, honeychunks: go fuck yourself. Hey, the two of you - that's not nice. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 13 15:46:58 PDT 2005

18429 [lbo-talk] MJ gets off! -- rank: 1000

I don't really know, of course, but it is striking that Shanley was convicted solely on the basis of recovered memory, and MJ got off despite actual testimony. How Doug Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Do you have an opinion on whether he is in fact >guilt of the charges? I'm just wondering since I >personality have not seen any evidence to allow >me to form a fair opinion one way or the other. > > >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 13 15:32:34 PDT 2005

18430 [lbo-talk] MJ gets off! -- rank: 1000

Jacko not guilty on all counts! Is this a great country or what?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 13 14:29:02 PDT 2005

18431 [lbo-talk] support for Iraq withdrawl grows -- rank: 1000

[Note the chart - in Sep '03, the difference between those who wanted to keep troops in Iraq until "stabilized" less bring them home as soon as possible was 32 points - now it's 4 points] <http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=246> Iraq News Increases Calls for Troup Withdrawal Guantanamo Prisoner Mistreatment Seen as Isolated Incidents Released: June 13, 2005 The steady drip of negative news from Iraq is significantly undermining support for the U.S. military ope ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 13 13:33:10 PDT 2005

18432 [lbo-talk] Re: An Appeal to Ignorance -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Buddha himself said How do we know that? Is there videotape? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 13 12:03:13 PDT 2005

18433 [lbo-talk] fewer signing up for military academies -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - June 13, 2005 Fewer applying to US military academies Observers cite Iraq conflict, decline from post-9/11 surge By Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff WEST POINT, N.Y. -- The Long Gray Line of cadets still drills on the impeccably groomed parade field as it has throughout the 203-year history of the US Military Academy. Reminders of the calling and challenge of military service are everywhere, from the statues of Generals Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower to the meticulously main ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 13 11:03:15 PDT 2005

18434 [lbo-talk] more Gitmo horrors -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/12/gitmo.time/index.html> Time report fuels Guantanamo criticism Logbook traces treatment of detainee possibly part of 9/11 plot WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay drew fresh criticism Sunday following a Time magazine report on a logbook tracing the treatment of a detainee who officials believe was intended to take part in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Time's report on the treatment received by Mohammed al-Qahtani prom ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 13 10:58:47 PDT 2005

18435 [lbo-talk] extra! extra!! Bill raped Hillary to conceive Chelsea!!! -- rank: 1000

[Isn't Ed Klein the guy who wrote in the NYT mag about a trip to Cambodia he never took?] <http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3ek.htm> XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JUNE 12, 2005 20:02:25 ET XXXXX RAGE AT AUTHOR AFTER CLAIM: BILL RAPED HILLARY, CONCEIVED CHELSEA **Exclusive** Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton turned furious and considered legal action after learning bestselling author Ed Klein would allege in a new book: Bill Clinton raped her -- resulting in the conception of daughter Chelsea ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 13 07:58:25 PDT 2005