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21541 [lbo-talk] Re: A brave man -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> >> >>I don't trust the military mind, at all. > >The military should never be trusted, and it should not be credited >with having a "mind" either. Though it seems the military wasn't pleased with going to war with Iraq - including military alum Powell - but the civilians overruled them. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 14 10:08:29 PDT 2004

21542 [lbo-talk] Roy on Indian election -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - May 14, 2004 India's real and virtual worlds have collided in a humiliation of power Arundhati Roy For many of us who feel estranged from mainstream politics, there are rare, ephemeral moments of celebration. Today is one of them. When India went to the polls, we were negotiating the dangerous cross-currents of neo-liberalism and neo-fascism - an assault on the poor and minority communities. None of the pundits and psephologists predicted the results. The rightwing BJP-led co ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 10:06:31 PDT 2004

21543 [lbo-talk] TV news: passing for gay -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 14, 2004 Fox Puts Foot in Its Mouth, Kicks Self By Lisa de Moraes There are a lot of things you can say about the folks at the Fox network. You can call them hypocritical for airing racy stuff designed to attract young viewers and then giving Bill O'Reilly an hour of prime time to rant about the entertainment industry on a special called "The Corruption of the American Child." You might say they're cruel to animals in airing their "When Animals Attack" s ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 09:58:51 PDT 2004

21544 [lbo-talk] Zeitgeist notes: ciao Graydon? -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - May 14, 2004 An Editor's Hollywood Ties Pay Off Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter strikes business deals with some people his magazine covers. By Claudia Eller, Michael Cieply and Josh Getlin, Times Staff Writers In all of Hollywood, no magazine cover is more coveted than that of Vanity Fair. The publication is filled with pages of high-end ads and glamorous photo spreads. Its famed Oscar party has made pretenders of the rest. The editor, Graydon Carter, has long luxuriated in his ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 09:47:37 PDT 2004

21545 [lbo-talk] Yey for torture, boo for perversity -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 09:59 PM, Luke Weiger quoted: > >>>From National Review's The Corner: >> >>EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER [John Derbyshire] >>My mental state these past few days: > >Etc. > >I always wonder about screeds of this kind. Are the authors serious, >or do they think their stuff is funny? (Probably the latter, but >it's certainly a very weird sense of humor.) Speaking as a former right-winger, I'd say seri ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 07:56:42 PDT 2004

21546 [lbo-talk] Michigan Womyn's Music Festival -- rank: 1000

When: August 10-15, 2004 Where: Hart, Michigan (20 miles east of Lake Michigan, 100 miles North of Grand Rapids, which is the nearest airport - they provide shuttles to and from) on 650 acres of private wooded lovely lush land. What: 6 days of all-day concerts, performances and activities with offerings of pop, punk, bluegrass, gospel, rap, comedy, dance, circus arts, spoken word and a rock opera as well as workshops, a film festival, and a huge arts and crafts show, good food, fabulous people, ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 07:53:23 PDT 2004

21547 [lbo-talk] Berg pere: son died for Bush's sins -- rank: 1000

[Like the "Jersey Girls," Berg's father isn't playing according to the approved script.] Berg Died for Bush, Rumsfeld 'Sins' - Father By Jon Hurdle PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The father of Nick Berg, the American beheaded in Iraq (news - web sites), directly blamed President Bush (news - web sites) and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday for his son's death. "My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this," Berg said in an in ...

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Date:	Fri May 14 07:24:57 PDT 2004

21548 [lbo-talk] repulsive event -- rank: 1000

For Immediate Release Contact: xxxxx Sean Hannity & Freedom Alliance to Host Star-Studded Tribute to the Troops Event to Benefit Scholarship Fund for Children of Military Personnel Killed or Permanently Disabled in Line of Duty Dulles, Virginia - Sean Hannity, nationally syndicated radio personality and the co-host of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, has teamed up with Freedom Alliance to raise money for the dependent children of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who have bee ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 15:31:52 PDT 2004

21549 [lbo-talk] Who killed Nick Berg? -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >My money would be on al Zarqawi: >http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Investigation/nick_berg_clues_040513-1.html > >I'm not a retributivist, but if suffering qua suffering is ever morally >desirable, it would fit al Zarqawi nicely. And what punishment would fit the architects of the sanctions against Iraq, which killed a million or more? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 13 15:29:05 PDT 2004

21550 [lbo-talk] Kerry Solidly Ahead in Ohio, With or Without Nader -- rank: 1000

Damn. Yoshie, get to work! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 14:44:46 PDT 2004

21551 [lbo-talk] Bush as the lesser imperialist evil -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Small? Didn't I read in LBO about a year ago that the lifetime >risk of spending a year in poverty is about 50% for Americans? >I know not all poor people get government aid, but this does >imply that a relative large number of people at some point >in their lives have relied on government assistance. Not AFDC, though. AFDC was highly stigmatized - so much so that even many recipients had internalized a horrific self-image. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 13 13:35:24 PDT 2004

21552 [lbo-talk] WB corruption -- rank: 1000

World Bank Corruption May Top $100 Bln By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank (news - web sites) corruption may exceed $100 billion and while the institution has moved to combat the problem, more must be done, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Thursday. Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, charged that "in its starkest terms, corruption has cost the lives of uncounted individuals contending with poverty and diseas ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 12:28:56 PDT 2004

21553 [lbo-talk] Hitch on Ralph -- rank: 1000

Vanity Fair - May 2004 Unsafe On Any Ballot By Christopher Hitchens For me, it was all over as soon as it began. The day after he announced himself as a candidate for president on Meet the Press, Ralph Nader held a press conference at which he said, "I think this may be the only candidacy in our memory that is opposed overwhelmingly by people who agree with us on the issues." Hold it right there, Ralph. First, don't you realize that politicians who start to refer to themselves in the p ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 12:20:27 PDT 2004

21554 [lbo-talk] photos leaked by military dissatisfied with Bush? -- rank: 1000

[so says Spiked] - LEAKING SELF-DOUBT - by Brendan O'Neill The Abu Ghraib torture scandal was pushed into the media by disgruntled military men, not campaigning journalists. http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CA521.htm

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Date:	Thu May 13 12:05:22 PDT 2004

21555 [lbo-talk] a victory of sorts in india... -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Shane Mage writes: > >> yesterday there would have been plenty >> around to tell us how voting Communist >> Party (of your choice) would throw the >> election to the BJP. > >Bullshit. No one would have made any such claim, because there was >no such danger, India having a parliamentary system. > >Marxism is supposed to involve "the concrete analysis of concrete >conditions." Marxism appears to be in short supply amo ...

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Date:	Thu May 13 11:43:27 PDT 2004