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18826 [lbo-talk] Judy's new digs -- rank: 1000

Miller's New Home in Virginia Known as a 'New Generation' Jail--But Moussaoui is Fellow Inmate By E&P Staff Published: July 06, 2005 8:55 PM ET NEW YORK When the judge sentenced New York Times' reporter Judith Miller to jail Wednesday afternoon, he did not say where it would be, but E&P soon learned that it would be just outside Washington, D.C. Later, she was seen entering the Alexandria (Va.) Detention Center. The Virginia facility's best-known resident is convicted terrorist Zacarias ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 7 06:36:56 PDT 2005

18827 [lbo-talk] Re:Dropping the B Out of LGBT -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Grace Loehr: > >There's much more to say on this, but I'll shut up for now before I get >kicked and flamed. > >================== > > >Actually Grace, I'm very interested to read more of what you have to >say about this as I'm not up-to-speed on the points and counter >points. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I was mystified by Grace's comment. I drove Dawson off the list for his rudeness to her, and I'd never try to stop her or anyone else ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 06:17:59 PDT 2005

18828 [lbo-talk] Group identification -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: 5 posts today. 7 on Tuesday. 7 on Monday. 4 on Sunday. The limit is 3. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 6 15:56:28 PDT 2005

18829 [lbo-talk] Judy in Chains -- rank: 1000

New York Times reporter sent to jail in leak case By James Vicini 4 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York Times reporter was jailed on Wednesday after she said she could not break her promise and reveal her confidential source to a grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative's name to the media. Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan ordered correspondent Judith Miller to jail immediately and said she must stay there until she agreed to testify or for the rest of the gran ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 6 13:38:55 PDT 2005

18830 [lbo-talk] sharia = polio epidemic -- rank: 1000

New from DIRELAND, JULY 6, 2005 http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/07/theocracy_watch.html THEOCRACY WATCH #3: POLIO EPIDEMIC IN AFRICA FUELED BY ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS A major epidemic of polio in the 12 Islamified states of Northern Nigeria has spread to 14 other African countries, as well as the Muslim countries of Yemen and Indonesia, Le Mond reports today. In these 12 Nigerian states under the sharia, the religious authorities responsible for interpreting and enforcing it --known as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 6 11:36:38 PDT 2005

18831 [lbo-talk] stupid political judgments -- rank: 1000

[This seems a principle of wide applicability.] At 11:47 PM -0600 7/5/05, Thomas Allen Heald wrote: >The Pridelets Files for July 6 > In 1969, (in what he later recalls as one of the biggest mistakes of >his life), activist Randy Wicker tells a crowd in the East Village's >Electric Circus that last week's Stonewall Riots really won't accomplish >anything because "Throwing rocks at windows doesn't open doors."

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Date:	Wed Jul 6 06:43:50 PDT 2005

18832 [lbo-talk] NYT only 6th-best paper in the world -- rank: 1000

FT tops list of world's best newspapers - survey Tue Jul 5, 2005 10:44 AM ET BERLIN, July 5 (Reuters) - The Financial Times topped a list of the world's best newspapers, according to a survey of executives, politicians, university lecturers, journalists and advertising professionals conducted by a Swiss-based consultant. Among 1,000 respondents from 50 countries, 19.4 percent chose the FT as the best paper, according to the survey by Zurich-based Internationale Medienhilfe published on Tuesday. ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 6 06:40:45 PDT 2005

18833 [lbo-talk] Re: Dropping the B from LGBT -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >taints >unclean >sordid Topic make you a little anxious? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 6 05:54:37 PDT 2005

18834 [lbo-talk] Army Times on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Army Times - July 4, 2005 "You Do Not Know Who The Enemy Is" "He Melts Back Into Society" "The Battle Space Returns To The Insurgent Control" Col. Robert Davis, who commanded the explosive ordnance disposal teams in Iraq, said that when a U.S. patrol leaves a street, "the battle space returns to the insurgent control." By Greg Grant, Special to the Army Times FORT IRWIN, Calif. - U.S. commanders grudgingly concede they remain a step behind insurgents' ever ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 5 21:18:41 PDT 2005

18835 [lbo-talk] The eXile reviews "Mao: the Unknown Story" -- rank: 1000

That's a very good review - who's Dolan? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 5 15:11:30 PDT 2005

18836 [lbo-talk] Re: Dropping the B Out of LGBT -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Dear List: > >Joanna asks: > >> And the question is, why does it matter? > >& > >> Why do I have to construct an identity around >who I happen to be attracted to? > >As long as we give rights in this country on the >basis of identity, we are forced to construct these >identities. Identities will only become obsolete >after a different system to apportion rights is >established. > >Brian Dauth >Queer Buddhist ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 5 12:58:40 PDT 2005

18837 [lbo-talk] US delight as Iraqi rebels turn their guns on eachother -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Doug hates this (Casey can be just as self rightous as his >antagonists) but, the piece refutes the Pelletaire BS that Leigh >believes. PBS several years ago aired footage, several minutes long, >of the Iraqi planes dropping the bio-chem on Halabja.And long >interviews with survivors. What's your point in harping on this? Saddam was a prick, and his regime a horror. What serious person doubts this? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 5 09:51:43 PDT 2005

18838 [lbo-talk] US delight as Iraqi rebels turn their guns on eachother -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >On Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:53 AM [PDT], >Charles Jannuzi <jannuzi at mint.ocn.ne.jp> wrote: Keep this creep's correspondence to yourself, please. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 5 07:45:24 PDT 2005

18839 [lbo-talk] Newsweek on Rove/Cooper -- rank: 1000

Newsweek - July 11, 2005 The Rove Factor? Time magazine talked to Bush's guru for Plame story. By Michael Isikoff Its legal appeals exhausted, Time magazine agreed last week to turn over reporter Matthew Cooper's e-mails and computer notes to a special prosecutor investigating the leak of an undercover CIA agent's identity. The case has been the subject of press controversy for two years. Saying "we are not above the law," Time Inc. Editor in Chief Norman Pearlstine decided to comply w ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 5 07:24:32 PDT 2005

18840 [lbo-talk] von Mises gang on unions -- rank: 1000

The Union Hunt for More Victims by George Reisman <http://www.mises.org/story/1861>[Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005] The New York Times has proved once again that it is a reliable font of economic ignorance. This time, it's through an op-ed piece titled "<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/opinion/30milkman.html?>A More Perfect Union," by a lady named Ruth Milkman, whose credentials in economics are that she is a "sociologist" and "director of U.C.L.A.'s Inst ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 5 07:00:30 PDT 2005