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21001 [lbo-talk] more Fallujah reports -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - November 24, 2004 Witnesses say US forces killed unarmed civilians By Kim Sengupta in Baghdad Allegations of widespread abuse by US forces in Fallujah, including the killing of unarmed civilians and the targeting of a hospital in an attack, have been made by people who have escaped from the city. They said, in interviews with The Independent, that as well as deaths from bombs and artillery shells, a large number of people including children were killed by American snipers. ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 14:25:28 PST 2004

21002 [lbo-talk] hunger as a workplace issue -- rank: 1000

[this is a bit odd for a headhunter...] CHALLENGER, GRAY & CHRISTMAS, INC. DATE November 24, 2004 For Release Upon Receipt Hunger Becoming A Workplace Issue 8.8 MILLION BELOW POVERTY LINE ARE EMPLOYED The number of people holding down one or more jobs but unable to make ends meet is rising, a fact which is seeing demand rise sharply at the nation's food banks this Thanksgiving. In interviews with food banks and through a survey of news reports, global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 14:12:15 PST 2004

21003 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Zogby Vs. Mitofsky (Keith Olbermann) -- rank: 1000

[no source given, but it must be MSNBC] Zogby Vs. Mitofsky (Keith Olbermann) NEW YORK - It was a spectacular irony - a Republican senator using the word "fraud" about the presidential election. More spectacular still, he was visiting his condemnation of apparent election manipulation on the incumbent party. And beyond all that, he and others based their conclusions largely on the incredible disparity between the last exit polls and the vote count itself. Of course, Indiana's Richard L ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 12:39:37 PST 2004

21004 [lbo-talk] Tom Hayden: a strategy for the antiwar movement -- rank: 1000

How to End the Iraq War By Tom Hayden The anti-war movement can force the Bush administration to leave Iraq by denying it the funding, troops, and alliances necessary to its strategy for dominance. It is in the nature of truly mass movements that people choose the paths that seem to promise effective results, even victories. So it should surprise no one that much of the energy of the peace and justice movement flowed into presidential campaigns for Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich and ultimately Joh ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 11:35:40 PST 2004

21005 [lbo-talk] making the rounds... -- rank: 1000

Subject: Not to worry..... after the election With the Blue States in hand, the Democrats have firm control of 80% of the world's fresh water, over 90% of our pineapple and lettuce, 93% of the artichoke production, 95% of America's export quality wines, 90% of all cheese production, most of the US low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Stanford, CalTech and MIT. We can live simply but well. The Red States, on the other hand, now hav ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 11:27:21 PST 2004

21006 [lbo-talk] Iraqi journo reports on U.S. hospitality -- rank: 1000

November 23, 2004 · Last updated 3:33 p.m. PT Iraqi journalist tells of U.S. captivity By MARIAM FAM ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Iraqi journalist who stayed in Fallujah to report on the battle for his hometown says he and hundreds of other civilians who eventually turned themselves in to escape the violence suffered tough, sometimes humiliating, treatment from American and Iraqi guards. Abdul-Qader Saadi said he was subjected to multiple searches and interrogations; went unfed th ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 11:18:47 PST 2004

21007 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart in China -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Lassen wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Is the FT right? >> >>>Independent unions are banned in China, and the federation unions >>>have traditionally been an instrument for the communist party to >>>control workers, not a vehicle for agitation and strikes, which >>>are almost never allowed. > >If 'communist party control' means that (very progressive) labor >laws are enforced, what's to be opposed? Does that mean there are f ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 10:48:32 PST 2004

21008 [lbo-talk] voting machine oddities in Columbus -- rank: 1000

Full text at: <http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/columbus.htm>. Nut graf: >Thus I conclude that the withholding of voting >machines from predominantly Democratic wards in the >City of Columbus cost John Kerry upwards of 17,000 >votes.

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 10:41:44 PST 2004

21009 [lbo-talk] Ike the liberal -- rank: 1000

[People who talk about how the Dems have moved right and how little difference between D&R remains should consider this excerpt from a post-election piece by Blanche Wiesen Cook. The rightward move of the Reps is the real shift in American politics.] To see how far along this dastardly path we have crawled, it is important to remember that Dwight David Eisenhower called himself "a militant liberal." On l6 November l953, he wrote to John Foster Dulles that his Administration was &qu ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 10:35:17 PST 2004

21010 [lbo-talk] Marxist Movies in NYC -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >"a cinematic representation of the dialectic" > >Two questions: > >1. What is "the dialectic?" > >2. How do you show it in a movie? I took a silent cinema course in college in which the prof, Standish Lawder, talked about Eisenstein's view that the relationship of successive scenes in a movie should be dialectical. It's been a long time since I saw an Eisenstein product, but I guess that's how. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 10:29:55 PST 2004

21011 [lbo-talk] exiting the dollar -- rank: 1000

Excerpt from Merrill Lynch's morning memo, attributing dollar weakness to: >comments out of Russia's central bank that it is considering >reweighting its $113 bln cache of FX reserves out of dollars (64% >share) and into euros (20% share).

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 10:25:37 PST 2004

21012 [lbo-talk] NYT & casualty "inflation" -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - November 23, 2004 Why Does 'New York Times' Call Casualty Count from April Fallujah Battle 'Unconfirmed' or 'Inflated'? NEW YORK While debate continues over the death toll in this month's assault on Fallujah, Daniel Okrent, public editor at The New York Times, is trying to find out why the paper, in its news pages, continues to claim that civilian casualties were unconfirmed or inflated in last April's aborted offensive. "I have a response from the foreign de ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 06:46:55 PST 2004

21013 [lbo-talk] hire a hitman -- rank: 1000

Scariest spam of the year: At 6:46 AM +0200 11/24/04, Unspecified wrote: >I'm a freelance european hitman for hire. >If you need to take down someone, I will do the job and be gone long >before anybody notice. > >I am an ex-special forces soldier and i'm offering you, 8 years of >experience and professional skills. > >I can be EVERYWHERE. >Use me for your private justice. > >This is NOT a game nor a joke !!! > >BTW : you will be amazed if you knew how many ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 24 06:23:42 PST 2004

21014 [lbo-talk] Liddy -- rank: 1000

[This bounced for length, so I trimmed it and cleaned up the formatting.] Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:54:28 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Wenn Ich Sozialismus hoere .... Independent (London) - November 22, 2004 G Gordon Liddy: Voice of unreason G. Gordon Liddy is vibrating with rage. "Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them," he quivers. "Osama beli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 23 16:11:50 PST 2004

21015 [lbo-talk] Re: whose welfare? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >but please, guaranteeing a bureaucracy for serving the poor, is not the >same as making poverty impossible...that second idea calls for a totally >different economic system than the one that could, or would, provide a >welfare state... And that would look like what? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 15:37:49 PST 2004