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21811 [lbo-talk] maximize killing of Palestinians, says IDF -- rank: 1000

[from something calle the Alef mailing list, forwarded by Sara Roy.] On 22.3.2002 wrote the Israeli journalist Uri Blau that the Israeli High Command gave an order to maximize the killing of Palestinians (http://oznik.com/news/020315.html). Now there is a confirmation for this info through the respected Ha'aretz military exeprt Amir Oren (Heb. version - http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/objects/pages/PrintArticle.jhtml?itemNo=408809 from last Friday). Shraga Elam elams at dplanet.ch A must read. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 11:50:11 PST 2004

21812 [lbo-talk] Bush's flying career - ended by a drug test? -- rank: 1000

Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.) - March 14, 2004 Bush's partial history Stringent military screening program may explain gaps on president's record Bill Morlin and Karen Dorn Steele Staff writers Military rules used in 1974 to ground two Washington Air National Guard airmen with access to nuclear weapons also applied to a Texas Air National Guard unit where Lt. George W. Bush was a fighter pilot. Some military researchers and a former Texas Guard lieutenant colonel believe the stringent regula ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 09:39:36 PST 2004

21813 [lbo-talk] NY Paper Accused of Lies -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: > "encouraging democracy while maintaining stability" All I want > to know is, when will they padlock the offices of the NYT? Don't give them any ideas, please. I'll be a lot of people in the Bush admin would love to do just that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 09:35:59 PST 2004

21814 [lbo-talk] Zizek watch 2 -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - April 2, 2004 Zizek Watch Second in a series tracking a seemingly ubiquitous thinker By SCOTT McLEMEE The world's leading cultural theorist has held exactly the same academic title for a quarter of a century. Slavoj Zizek is a "researcher" at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, in Slovenia. He attributes his great intellectual vitality to the fact that he has no reason to work very hard. "I'm on a permanent sabbatical,& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 09:20:37 PST 2004

21815 [lbo-talk] House prices -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >a) the US ratios of price/earnings and rental yield are not even all that >extreme by UK standards No, but P/E's in the U.S. stock market in 2000 were only a third or so as high as those at the Japanmese peak in 1989. But, as I learned in my London visit in January, housing speculation is the driving force of the British economy. Maybe we can learn from the former Mother Country. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 07:34:14 PST 2004

21816 [lbo-talk] Video: William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal debate Constitutional Rights: Part 4 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.e-pix.com/1968/BV4.html > Yes! How wonderful. I'd long wanted to relive that great moment. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 07:08:28 PST 2004

21817 [lbo-talk] poll results so far -- rank: 1000

If you haven't voted yet, please do, at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/PresPoll.html>. Turnout so far: 16%. Whom do you support for president of the U.S.? percent votes George W. Bush 0% 0 John F. Kerry 58% 39 Ralph Nader 10% 7 a neo-nazi, to heighten the contradictions 0% 0 candidate of a small left party (SWP, SP, etc.) 7% 5 someone else ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 06:57:37 PST 2004

21818 [lbo-talk] IRA & ETA? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I'm not really sure what the point at issue is here, to tell you the >truth. Why it's the purity of Marxist thought, of course! And if you ever wondered why Marxism isn't exactly thriving these days, take a look at this impulse to purify. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 06:48:34 PST 2004

21819 [lbo-talk] W: fighting for Jesus -- rank: 1000

New York Times - March 29, 2004 <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/arts/29KAKU.html?pagewanted=print&position=> BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'THE BUSHES' The Bush Family: Father, Son, Freud and Oedipus By MICHIKO KAKUTANI THE BUSHES Portrait of a Dynasty By Peter Schweizer and Rochelle Schweizer Illustrated. 574 pages. Doubleday. $27.95. [...] In their fascinating new book, "The Bushes," Peter and Rochelle Schweizer depict former President George H. W. Bush as being proud but somewha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 06:36:38 PST 2004

21820 [lbo-talk] dueling a-holes -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 28, 2004 PEEVED TV PUNDIT FIRES BACK FRESH from a bizarre on-air showdown with CNBC talk-show host Dennis Miller, left-wing MSNBC pundit Eric Alterman has accused The New York Observer of doing a second "hatchet job" on him. The lathered-up lefty is apoplectic over a piece in the latest Observer that details how Miller humiliated Alterman when he went on Miller's show to critique the war in Iraq. Miller repeatedly mocked Alterman, pretended to fall asle ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 28 20:53:15 PST 2004

21821 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk poll -- rank: 1000

Listmembers only, please. I just put up a presidential poll at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/PresPoll.html>. Non-U.S. citizens and nonregistered U.S. citizens welcome to vote. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 28 15:47:48 PST 2004

21822 [lbo-talk] 2008 + Florida Ex-Felons (GOP donors funding Nader) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Four posts on Thursday. Five on Friday. Six on Saturday. Eight so far today. The limit is three. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 28 15:27:00 PST 2004

21823 [lbo-talk] GOP donors funding Nader -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >(C) Right-wing Greens (e.g., Green advocates of a "safe state" >strategy) and (D) tactical supporters of some Green Party candidates >(e.g., Manning Marable) have rationales different from the one held >by (A) and (B). For (D), the main rationale for supporting Ralph >Nader in 2000, for instance, must have been "sending a message" of >protest to the DLC wing of the Democratic Party, without necessarily >believing in (A) and (B)'s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 28 14:19:35 PST 2004

21824 [lbo-talk] Bush touts tax cuts as fuel for house sales -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Right, so my question is: can't this be explained by >other-than-bubbiliciousness? Can't it just be explained as a one-time >jump due to a significant shift in how we view the "cost" of ownership? You sound like the authors of Dow 36,000. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 28 13:42:16 PST 2004

21825 [lbo-talk] Bush touts tax cuts as fuel for house sales -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >This is certainly a trend that started a long time ago (pre-Clinton >even?), and I think it's a positive one. I don't know exactly how much >the tax cuts helped, but how much of this 'bubble' is really accounted >for by bubbiliciousness and how much of it is really first time >homeowners finally being able to afford mortgages? Access to credit, >especially in the lower quintiles, is a big barrier to mobility. I don't see the bubble in the homeownership st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 28 13:13:58 PST 2004