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22141 [lbo-talk] more on Aristide's "abudction" -- rank: 1000

Aristide Tells U.S. Contacts He Was Abducted WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ousted as Haitian president on Sunday, told U.S. lawmakers and other contacts by telephone on Monday that he was abducted by U.S. soldiers and left his homeland against his will. Washington immediately denied this, saying Aristide had agreed to step down and leave his country. "It's complete nonsense," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters. "We took steps to protect Mr. Arist ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 11:58:41 PST 2004

22142 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Aristide Confirms He Was Kidnapped -- rank: 1000

From: "David Mcreynolds" <david.mcr at earthlink.net> Subject: Aristide Confirms He Was Kidnapped Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:39:25 -0500 For now, the third and last post from me on the story of the coup. David > [Original Message] > From: <nyt at blythe.org> > To: <nyt at blythe.org> > Date: 3/1/2004 10:14:06 AM > Subject: Aristide Confirms He Was Kidnapped > > > Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit > > 1 ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 10:00:43 PST 2004

22143 [lbo-talk] Nearly Half of Black Men Found Jobless -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** The New York Times >February 28, 2004 >Nearly Half of Black Men Found Jobless >By JANNY SCOTT > >It is well known that the unemployment rate in New York City rose >sharply during the recent recession. It is also understood that the >increase was worse for men than for women, and especially bad for >black men. But a new study examining trends in joblessness in the >city since 2000 suggests that by 2003, nearly one of every two black & ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 09:52:14 PST 2004

22144 [lbo-talk] Re: Guardian on Miliband -- rank: 1000

Kenneth MacKendrick wrote: >Did you see the big nickel? Yup, I did. Enormous. I was impressed by the scale of stuff in Sudbury - a real antidote to postindustrial delusions. If Sudbury stopped producing nickel, the world economy would be in trouble. > What would you estimate that to be, about 25m? >The Science Centre is a lot of fun... the landscape has been decimated by >the mining industry No kidding. Even after the quarter-mile-high smokestack, which was supposed to preserve the ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 09:37:34 PST 2004

22145 [lbo-talk] Haiti Coup -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >But the coup may not necessarily have the effect of preventing an >exodus from Haiti If the Marines are there, they'll try. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 09:21:39 PST 2004

22146 [lbo-talk] Slavoj on Mel -- rank: 1000

In These Times - February 27, 2004 Passion: Regular or Decaf? By Slavoj Zizek Those who virulently criticized Mel Gibson's The Passion even before its release seem unassailable: Are they not justified to worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic known for occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, may ignite anti-Semitic sentiments? More generally, is The Passion not a manifesto of our own (Western, Christian) fundamentalists? Is it then not the duty of every Western secularist to reject it, to ma ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 09:19:12 PST 2004

22147 [lbo-talk] Harold Bloom -- rank: 1000

Eubulides quoted: >scarcely a dream date: vastly corpulent, snow-haired, >triple-chinned, phlegmatic as a Buddha and camp as a fly-sheet I remember Bloom giving a lecture to a roomful of undergrads in 1973 or 1974. He was wearing a navy blue sports jacket and a non-matching pair of navy blue pants. Both seemed made of the hideous polyester that was ubiquitous at the time. On his feet, unfasted galoshes. In the middle of the lecture, in which he remarked on his inability to prounounce the w ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 09:10:48 PST 2004

22148 [lbo-talk] Re: gibsonoia -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >if not >for the obsessive jewish groups trying to stop it, the damned thing > >as far as the anti-Semitism angle, either totally accepted or >non-existent, depending on fanatic belief system, am reminded of a >comment made here about preliminary evidence of anti-Semitism being >found on mars...sorry i forgot who said it, but thanks to whoever it >was... Shit like this - "Anti-Semitism? What anti-Semitism?" - discredits critiques of Zionism. D ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 09:00:14 PST 2004

22149 [lbo-talk] Haiti Coup -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Dwayne Monroe asks: > >>I'm inclined to cut to the chase, accept this account >>as accurate and ask the logical question which follows >>- what, in the opinion of knowledgeable observers, >>does the Bush admin hope to gain by removing Aristide? > > >Credibility, Mafia-style. At least as importantly, the prevention of refugees. The last thing Bush and probably 90% of the U.S. population want is thousands of Haitians landing in Florida. Dou ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 06:51:18 PST 2004

22150 [lbo-talk] Haiti Coup and Left KneeJerks -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I dont know if this was a coup or not. Hey, the NYT is saying that Aristide left after a "shove from the U.S." So even if it wasn't a literal coup, his options were severely limited. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 06:05:42 PST 2004

22151 [lbo-talk] RE: L.A. grocery strike. -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >It follows that all criticism of "The Left" on lbo-talk has been >unprincipled. > >Carrol > >I never know what marxists mean when they say that. It means Carrol disagrees with it, but he wants to lend his disagreement a note of "objectivity." Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 06:02:29 PST 2004

22152 [lbo-talk] FOMC statement -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> The Committee perceives the upside and downside risks to the >> attainment of both sustainable growth and price stability for the >> next few quarters are roughly equal. With underlying inflation still >> expected to be relatively low, the Committee believes that policy >> accommodation can be removed at a pace that is likely to be measured. >> Nonetheless, the Committee will respo ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 30 19:08:01 PDT 2004

22153 [lbo-talk] doug a hit on KPFK -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >wish you were on KPFK all the time. Thanks again. Tell 'em to pick up my show!

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Date:	Wed Jun 30 18:44:22 PDT 2004

22154 [lbo-talk] doug a hit on KPFK -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >oh, while i'm thinking of it, will you remember us when >you're rich and famous? ;-) For sure, but I'm 51. Not a lot of time left to strike it rich! And thanks for all the kind words, too. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 30 17:17:01 PDT 2004

22155 [lbo-talk] silence on Cobb -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Democrats in Arizona are challenging signatures Nader submitted to >get on that state's ballot. Word from the field is that there are >probably enough suspect signatures to keep Nader off the ballot. >In addition to suspect signatures, entire reams of signatures can be >invalidated if the person collecting them is a felon. Turns out that >out of the 122 paid people who gathered the Nader signatures, at >least 19 are confirmed felons. One of them was ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 30 14:55:59 PDT 2004