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20431 [lbo-talk] categories -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Yah but he aint got no bling bling and he is still hanging out with us :) Travis, didn't you advise me to shave my head and become a spokesman for the right? I'm thinking of shaving my head if the bald spot gets much larger... Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 14 11:49:31 PDT 2004

20432 [lbo-talk] Jeff Davis Won In The End ? -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >I'm well aware Counterpunch is hated on LBO. Not exactly. They publish some obnoxious crap, often with no apparent editorial or political filter. This piece you like so much is just a bunch of speculative ranting on the basis of not much evidence. Hmm, obnoxious, ranting, evidence-free.... Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 14 10:44:15 PDT 2004

20433 [lbo-talk] Hersh extract -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - September 13, 2004 Rumsfeld's dirty war on terror In an explosive extract from his new book, Seymour Hersh reveals how, in a fateful decision that led to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, the US defence secretary gave the green light to a secret unit authorised to torture terrorist suspects Seymour Hersh Monday September 13, 2004 The Guardian In the late summer of 2002, a CIA analyst made a quiet visit to the detention centre at the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 14 09:18:04 PDT 2004

20434 [lbo-talk] Hersh, part 2 -- rank: 1000

[cont. from previous installment] Fredrik Laurin, a Swedish journalist who worked on The Broken Promise, extensively researched the leased Gulfstream jet that was used to take Zery and Agiza to Cairo. Laurin told me that he was able to track the aircraft to landings in Pakistan, Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, England, Ireland Morocco, as well as the Washington DC area. It also made visits to Guantánamo. The company told Laurin that the plane was leased almost exclusively to the US government. Significa ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 14 09:19:04 PDT 2004

20435 [lbo-talk] me on Blackburn's pension scheme -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> I just posted the text of my comments on Robin Blackburn's Banking on >> Death, his 530-page program for transforming the public pension >> system, which I delivered at a New School conference last Saturday. >> It's at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/NSPensions.html>. Sorry, >> it's mainly text - a few links, minimal graphics. > >Great piece. Thanks. >Two minor comments: > >1. You argue against &q ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 14 09:08:42 PDT 2004

20436 [lbo-talk] more from Merrill -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch's morning market commentary] Polls Pinch President: Looks like conventions should be avoided because just as Mr. Kerry failed to see a sustained bounce (or any bounce for that matter), we see on the front cover of today's Investors Business Daily the latest IBD/TIPP poll (Sept 7-12) that the post-GOP convention lift has faded - now a tie at 47% apiece and in fact, Mr. Kerry leads by 2 points among registered voters (and that is with or without Nader). Will this result, along ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 14 07:27:32 PDT 2004

20437 [lbo-talk] car bomb kills 47 in Baghdad -- rank: 1000

[as awful as the U.S. military is, their enemies aren't much to cheer either] Blast in Baghdad Rebel District Kills at Least 47 39 minutes ago By Mariam Karouny and Luke Baker BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A huge car bomb blast tore through a crowded market close to a Baghdad police headquarters building Tuesday, killing at least 47 people in the deadliest single attack in the Iraqi capital in six months. An Internet statement in the name of the Tawhid and Jihad group led by Jordanian al Qaeda ally Abu Mu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 14 07:16:03 PDT 2004

20438 [lbo-talk] plagiarism epidemic -- rank: 1000

[It sure seems that there's an epidemic of plagiarism afoot. Is that just one of those "news spasm" artifacts - or is it easier to detect now - or is it that people are under more pressure than ever, and more likely to steal others' words?] Chronicle of Higher Education - September 14, 2004 Plagiarism by Design? MIT Press Seeks Recompense From McGraw-Hill for Copying in Architecture Book By SCOTT MCLEMEE MIT Press has demanded compensation from McGraw-Hill for infringing MIT's copyrigh ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 14 07:04:59 PDT 2004

20439 [lbo-talk] categories -- rank: 1000

Yale is publishing a new alumni directory and I was just asked to update my info in their database. I'm used to filling out demographic forms with income ranges - usually the top category is $100,000+ or, on business-related sites, $250,000+ Not Yale. Here are the categories: $0-49,999 $50,000-99,999 $100,000-249,999 $250,000-749,999 $750,000-1,499,999 $1,500,000-2,999,999 $3,000,000+ Man, now I feel like a failure. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 14 06:57:41 PDT 2004

20440 [lbo-talk] first gay marriage, then polyamory -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >tolerance for queerness is a sort of 'gateway drug' of social policy And if we're honest, it is, no? And that's a good thing. A few years ago, an old neighbor of Liza's started a "polyamorous lesbians of color" group, a real precise demographic if there ever was one. It'd be nice to track her down and see how things were going. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 14 06:25:31 PDT 2004

20441 [lbo-talk] Stop Talking About the "Election" -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >My sentiments exactly. The same goes for America's phony elections >everywhere, like the one they plan for Iraq, requiring that they >kill a lot of people ahead of time. > >Short of Nader miraculously appearing on every state ballot,"doing" >anything in connection with this election is positively harmful. Yawn. Actually I asked for a moratorium on election chatter the other day, which seems to have reduced, if not eliminated, that as a topic of con ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 18:50:44 PDT 2004

20442 [lbo-talk] Re: Powerless religious right? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Some will argue that Bush is the avatar of the religious right. This >is fallacious because his agenda is that of the secular wing of the >conservative ruling class. He has done very little to advance the >ideas and goals of the traditional religious right. No more so than >what happened under Bill Clinton. Without thinking too hard, I come up with: the war on Iraq, provoked in significant part by millennarian Christian thinking and the certainty that God put Bush i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 13 16:31:49 PDT 2004

20443 [lbo-talk] me on Blackburn's pension scheme -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >This piece is awesome! Thanks, Doug. > >-----Original Message----- >From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] >On Behalf Of Doug Henwood >Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 1:38 PM >To: lbo-talk >Subject: [lbo-talk] me on Blackburn's pension scheme > >I just posted the text of my comments on Robin Blackburn's Banking on >Death, his 530-page program for transforming the public pension >system, which I ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 16:26:11 PDT 2004

20444 [lbo-talk] U.S. bombs an ambulance, Turkey threatens to bail -- rank: 1000

15 killed in US strike on Fallujah, Turkey warns US over Iraq FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - Fifteen people died when US jets pounded Fallujah as Turkey warned Washington it would halt cooperation over Iraq (news - web sites) if US forces did not stop an assault on the Turkmen town of Tall Afar. Amid the country's relentless hostage crisis and desperate efforts by Canberra, Paris and Rome to secure the release of, or word on, nationals, grisly footage of the execution of a Turkish hostage was posted on ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 16:09:50 PDT 2004

20445 [lbo-talk] first gay marriage, then polyamory -- rank: 1000

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - September 12, 2004 Whole lotta love: 'Polyamorists' go beyond monogamy By REID J. EPSTEIN Town of Newport - Sitting in the shadow of an oak tree, John Wise described how the gay rights movement is laying the groundwork for polyamorists to acquire legal status for their three-, four- and more-way relationships. With the fight over gay marriage and civil unions at full tilt in Wisconsin and across the country, the 60 polyamorists who gathered this weekend at an Easter ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 14:44:17 PDT 2004