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18811 [lbo-talk] Fox's Brit Hume on London attacks: "Time to buy" -- rank: 1000

As a trading recommendation, he was right. Ethics and good taste aside, of course. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 9 07:47:22 PDT 2005

18812 [lbo-talk] Meth is king? -- rank: 1000

I'd like to remind everyone sharing drug histories that this is a public list with a highly searchable archive. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 14:51:25 PDT 2005

18813 [lbo-talk] Andrew Rubin on The Wall -- rank: 1000

Al Ahram Weekly - July 7-13, 2005 We are no longer able to see the sun set On 9 July last year the International Court of Justice issued its opinion on the apartheid Wall Israel is constructing in the West Bank. The opinion, argues Andrew Rubin*, should open up other arenas of resistance The Israeli wall -- the so-called security fence -- is daunting and ominous matrix of social control and demographic separation that is currently planned to be 670km long. It is thick and concrete, eight metres ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 13:45:57 PDT 2005

18814 [lbo-talk] Judy's address -- rank: 1000

[via Gawker, if you feel like writing] Attn: Judith Miller Inmate Number 45570083 Alexandria Detention Center 2001 Mill Road Alexandria, Virginia 22314

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 12:04:52 PDT 2005

18815 [lbo-talk] MBH -- rank: 1000

[via Popbitch] Get a G8 commemorative "Make Bono History" t shirt: http://www.teefly.com

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 09:40:32 PDT 2005

18816 [lbo-talk] London bombings -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> >> >>So today, the bombings find Blair at the top of his game. The G8 >>protestors who were getting a very generous press yesterday have >>disappeared from the newservices, and he is striking a Churchillian >>note. Even Bush, who was being rubbished as the Toxic Texan >>yesterday, is taken as a welcome ally today. > >Allow me then to share the potent defe ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 09:25:46 PDT 2005

18817 [lbo-talk] Pennsylvania's Anarchist Experiment: 1681-1690 -- rank: 1000

[this is too long to post in full, but here's a taste] Pennsylvania's Anarchist Experiment: 1681-1690 by Murray N. Rothbard <http://www.mises.org/story/1865> [This essay, never before online, is from Rothbard's magisterial 4-volume history of the Colonial period of the United States, <http://www.mises.org/store/Conceived-in-Liberty--P96C0.aspx>Conceived in Liberty] In the vast stretches of America, William Penn envisaged a truly Quaker colony, "a Holy experiment...that an exampl ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 08:34:25 PDT 2005

18818 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 17:03:04 PDT 2005

18819 [lbo-talk] librarians: out of Iraq! -- rank: 1000

PRESS RELEASE ALA Council Calls for Withdrawal from Iraq - June 29, 2005 The Council of the American Library Association (ALA) has passed a resolution that calls for the withdrawal from Iraq of all U.S. military forces and a return of full sovereignty to the people of Iraq. The resolution passed June 29 during the annual conference of ALA in Chicago. The resolution further urges the U.S. government to switch its budgetary priorities from the occupation of Iraq to the improved support of vital do ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 15:36:53 PDT 2005

18820 [lbo-talk] Deep Impact devastates orthodox space science -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: some odd stuff...lemme forward Les Schaffer's response from PEN-L Doug ---- >Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:22:27 -0400 >From: Les Schaffer <schaffer at OPTONLINE.NET> > >Shane Mage wrote: > >> >>Consider this. Even in the face of one of the great shocks in space >>exploration-the stupendous blast produced by the "impact"-it appears >>that not one NASA scientist paused to ask if something might be >>missing in their ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 12:48:58 PDT 2005

18821 [lbo-talk] RFC: some books on israel, ww2, ... -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >The Politics of Anti-Semitism >by Alexander Cockburn (Editor), Jeffrey St. Clair (Editor) I think that's a pretty bad book. It's big on the line that Israel has hijacked American foreign policy. There's one essay by the obnoxious Jeffrey Blankfort bashing Noam Chomsky for failing to see this, and insisting instead on the usefulness of Israel to Washington. Cockburn has some icky asides about Jewish ownership of the media. I interviewed Joel Schalit about the book: <http://w ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 12:24:17 PDT 2005

18822 [lbo-talk] Re: books on israel -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >>"Paul Findley is a former Republican Congressman from Illinois. He >>probably doesn't/didn't give a damn about the Palestinian people but was >>quite simply anti-semitic." >> >>Carrol >> > >that's really a surprise, coming from you... > >devastating use of the intellectually renowned adhominem argument... > >so, you and abe foxman were separated at birth? Just because Zionists abuse the term anti-Semite to derai ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 12:20:52 PDT 2005

18823 [lbo-talk] Re: Dershowitz/Finkelstein -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick wrote: > > >> And most unfortunately, it appears that University of California Press might >> not publish Beyond Chutzpah after all. >> > >According to an update on Finkelstein's site today, it will be published and >will "hit the shelves fairly soon". I love Norman and admire his work, but he's a little excitable, so take his announcements with a grain of salt. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 12:14:09 PDT 2005

18824 [lbo-talk] Ted K writes... -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/media/commentary/index.php#you-take-subscribers-where-you-can-get-em-111544> You Take Subscribers Where You Can Get 'Em Filed under Media : Commentary At first we thought this was our favorite thing in the current New York Review of Books: To the Editors: In "Survival of the Smallest" [NYR, March 10], István Deák writes on page 22: "In anciect Egypt, dwarves were often venerated like gods." Deák here is discussing pathological dwarves. Howeve ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 10:26:39 PDT 2005

18825 [lbo-talk] London bombings -- rank: 1000

So will this increase or decrease the pressure on Blair to pull out of Iraq? Or neither? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 10:16:11 PDT 2005