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18751 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (smashing windows) -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >The Lumpen snarled: > >> Enjoy your Moveon house parties, Lacny. > >OK, Chuck, you really have to help me out here. My question is: are you for >real? Or do you do this stuff just for kicks? Because I'm having a hard time >believing that any one person could be as dumb as you appear to be. Is this >boneheaded sandbox "anarchist" routine the real you, or is it a caricature >you've parlayed into your "online personality"? Boys, ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 15 10:50:32 PDT 2005

18752 [lbo-talk] Pew survey on terrorism -- rank: 1000

Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics Support for Terror Wanes Among Muslim Publics Concerns about Islamic extremism, widespread in the West even before this month's terrorist attacks in London, are shared to a considerable degree by the publics in several predominantly Muslim nations, most notably Morocco, Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia. Most Muslim publics are also expressing less support for acts of terrorism in defense of Islam and less confidence in Osama bin Lade ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 14 16:27:39 PDT 2005

18753 [lbo-talk] Low Life (was "Come friendly bombers" ) -- rank: 1000

Richard Harris wrote: >The evidence points to Remick being a pompous sneering buffoon. Enough with the invective. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 14 16:22:22 PDT 2005

18754 [lbo-talk] "Come friendly bombers" -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Carl 'bomb on' Remick affects boredom to conceal his hatred of >London's bomb victims: James! That's outrageous. You're sounding like a screaming head on Fox, which is not how I think of you at all. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 14 16:21:31 PDT 2005

18755 [lbo-talk] Low Life (was "Come friendly bombers" ) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >UKers were asking for it because of their reckless foreign policy Foreign policy, British and American, is obviously a big part of the story, but these guys were British, and hardly poor. So the mechanism is a bit more complex than simple blowback. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 14 16:12:54 PDT 2005

18756 [lbo-talk] Rep King: Tim Russert should be shot -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - July 13, 2005 Rep. King Says Russert and Others in Media Should 'Be Shot,' Not Karl Rove By E&P Staff NEW YORK From the transcript of an interview on Tuesday night on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country," between host Joe Scarborough and Congressman Peter King, a Republican from New York, on the Plame case and the possible leak of the CIA agent's name by White House aide Karl Rove. *** SCARBOROUGH: The last thing you want to do at a time of war is reveal th ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 16:41:54 PDT 2005

18757 [lbo-talk] Amnesia Express -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Chomsky's analysis below (which in some respects also applies to >some of his own positions) applies to the (very unfortunate) >tendency of lbo'ers to dismiss as 'conspiratorial' or 'conspiracy >theory' any ideas that deviate from mainstream conventional wisdom. If you think that the kind of stuff you retail has anything in common with Chomsky, I really have to doubt your powers of reading comprehension. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 15:56:31 PDT 2005

18758 [lbo-talk] Solzhenitsyn -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >ugly people Here? Nah! We're all beautiful!! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 14:58:40 PDT 2005

18759 [lbo-talk] Fartback -- rank: 1000

KJ wrote: >And then, there is this side -- which I suppose could not be published >in any NY daily today? -- Nope. We're more likely to get something like this, what Marx described as: >And then it should not be forgotten that, while the cruelties >of the English are related as acts of martial vigour, told simply, >rapidly, without dwelling on disgusting details Doug ---- New York Times - November 21, 2004 In Falluja, Young Marines Saw The Savagery of an Urban War By DEXTER FILKIN ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 14:46:41 PDT 2005

18760 [lbo-talk] "Homicide Bombers?" -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >I obviously haven't been paying attention: When did Fox begin using the >term "homicide bombers"? Doesn't that, well, kind of, you know, omit >the distinctive characteristic of a "suicide" bomber? It's a Murdoch thing. The NY Post says the same. It's been a year or two. (Didn't Ari Fleischer use it too?) And yes, you're right about obscuring the unique selling proposition of suicide bombing, but sometimes propaganda takes precedence over the co ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 14:29:21 PDT 2005

18761 [lbo-talk] Santorum: liberal Boston to blame for pedophile priests -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - July 13, 2005 Santorum resolute on Boston rebuke Insists liberalism set stage for abuse By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, refused yesterday to back off on his earlier statements connecting Boston's ''liberalism" with the Roman Catholic Church pedophile scandal, saying that the city's ''sexual license" and ''sexual freedom" nurtured an environment where sexual abuse would oc ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 13:00:04 PDT 2005

18762 [lbo-talk] did London bombings increase US support for Iraq war? no! -- rank: 1000

[from Ruy Teixeira] Did the London bombings increase support for the Iraq war, as many speculated it might? In a word, no. Here are <http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j6344625&u28607>the results of the latest Gallup poll, showing no increase-in fact, a general decrease-in support for the Iraq war and Bush's foreign policy after the bombings. 1. In the Gallup poll prior to the July 7 bombings, 46 percent said it was worth going to war ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 12:51:13 PDT 2005

18763 [lbo-talk] Communique from Anarchist Action Organizers of the SF July 8 Anti-G8 March -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >Ian M. wrote: > >>I read this on San Francisco Indymedia... >> > > >the whole thing? I couldn't make it past "Social rage boiled and >riotous and militant conditions began to coalesce" Wow, give me Workers Vanguard's defense of Michael Jackson & NAMBLA anyday! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 11:33:44 PDT 2005

18764 [lbo-talk] Chinese shark attack! -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: >The last paragraph hit the nail on the head. However, "but the daily >sensations...: disappearing in Aruba", I take this story rather seriously >(as I do any murder story). Young blonde women who disappear while on vacation in Aruba are a bit more newsworthy than kids who get popped in the Bronx. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 11:11:19 PDT 2005

18765 [lbo-talk] did Miller out Plame? -- rank: 1000

<http://media.nationalreview.com/069194.asp> Media Blog Stephen Spruiell Reporting [ home | archives | email ] MEDIA CULTURE Did Miller Out Plame? It's a good question. I'm not sure I believe this theory, but Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media does raise some interesting points: Speculation is mounting that Miller is protecting herself Ρό that Miller was herself a source of information about Plame that made it to several Bush administration officials and was then recycled to columnist Robe ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 11:08:03 PDT 2005