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22561 [lbo-talk] Iraq denies Allawi shooting story -- rank: 1000

Christian Science Monitor - July 19, 2004 Did Allawi shoot Iraqi prisoners? Iraqi PM denies reports in Australian newspapers about alleged killings. by Tom Regan The Australia n Broadcasting Corporation reports Monday that Iraq's Human Rights Minister Bakhtiyar Amin said he will investigate claims that Iraq's new Prime Minister Iyad Allawi killed six prisoners just days before he took office. Mr. Amin said he does not believe they are true. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, two ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 09:04:54 PDT 2004

22562 [lbo-talk] Anti-Chomsky Reader -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Hmm, I guess that boycott is one of those things that, as Chomsky >notes, "we take for granted now [that] didn't exist 40 years ago." > >Every day in every way we grow incomparably more civilized. What is it about the left that it draws so many people of gloomy temperament who only want to see the worst in the world? We used to be about possibility, transformation, finding the seeds of the new in the womb of the old. Now we're about why everything sucks ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 07:09:34 PDT 2004

22563 [lbo-talk] Bush approval -- rank: 1000

Interesting chart of Bush's approval ratings, with the crisis spikes clearly noted: <http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 06:43:21 PDT 2004

22564 [lbo-talk] Ends and Odds -- rank: 1000

paul wrote: >Since Chucky seems determined not to answer any of the criticisms I've >brought up, perhaps someone else on this list would like to reiterate >them in their own language, so he can at least answer them? My >criticisms of his position seem really straight forward, I'm not too >sure why he's having difficulty even acknowledging that they exist. > >And no, chuck0, you don't need to develop your skills at dealing with >hecklers, you need to develop your skills at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 06:25:49 PDT 2004

22565 [lbo-talk] False Statement Statute -- rank: 1000

jared wrote: >"It seems self-evident that section 1001 is intended to promote the >smooth functioning of government agencies and the expeditious processing >of the government's business by ensuring that those who deal with the >government furnish information on which the government confidently may >rely. To this end, section 1001 in and of itself constitutes a blanket >proscription against the making of false statements to federal agencies. >Thus, while section 1001 pro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 16:56:13 PDT 2004

22566 [lbo-talk] Ends and Odds -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >paul wrote: Etc. Cool it guys. You're sounding as sectarian as a roomful of Trots. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 14:36:24 PDT 2004

22567 [lbo-talk] the biggest dividend like ever -- rank: 1000

At 8:28 PM +0000 7/20/04, CBS MarketWatch Alerts wrote: >Breaking News Bulletin: Microsoft sets $32 billion one-time dividend >http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/newsfinder/default.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=bnb

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 13:36:43 PDT 2004

22568 [lbo-talk] more polling data -- rank: 1000

Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of Gallup (who'll be on my radio show a week from Thursday), writes: >Gallup Poll data show that of the five most recent incumbents to win >re-election -- Eisenhower 56, Johnson 64, Nixon 72, Reagan 84, and >Clinton 96 -- none were behind their opponents among registered voters >at any point after January of their election year. > >Truman obviously was behind his opponent in polling conducted in 1948, >yet went on to win. W, of course, has been ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 13:35:49 PDT 2004

22569 [lbo-talk] women in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Gallup.com - July 20, 2004 Gallup Poll of Iraq: What Prospect for Women's Rights? by Richard Burkholder, International Bureau Chief Iraqi women are already using their new political powers to guard against extremism and intolerance in any form, whether it be religious or secular. -- President George W. Bush, March 12, 2004 Part one of a two-part article on the future of women in Iraq. This article looks at the future of women's roles in Iraqi society and their equality under the law. Over the co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 13:33:36 PDT 2004

22570 [lbo-talk] Ends and Odds -- rank: 1000

paul wrote: >re: Chucky's "blog" No need to personalize things like this.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 12:31:10 PDT 2004

22571 [lbo-talk] Bohemian Grove -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >The fact that you cannot see the fascistic motif behind your song and >dance only makes it more Chevalier than Brecht. Three pennies for your >thoughts. But I still smell an Ophuls outcome. Chip, would you concede that institutions like BG are channels through which a ruling class constitutes itself? It's not like they get together and plan the world, but it is one of the adhesives that help make it a conscious, well-oiled machine. In other words, would you draw a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 12:13:44 PDT 2004

22572 [lbo-talk] poverty pimp... -- rank: 1000

[speaking of "poverty pimp"...] <http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=923> Capitalism Magazine - June 11, 2001 The Poverty Pimp's Poem by Thomas Sowell MY FELLOW-ECONOMIST WALTER WILLIAMS has for years kept track of how much money it would take to lift every American man, woman and child in poverty above the official poverty level. That sum has consistently been some fraction of the money actually spent in "anti-poverty" programs. In other words, if you gave every poor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 12:07:54 PDT 2004

22573 [lbo-talk] a plug for nathan newman -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I say, why wait? What kind of stuff can we discuss now? What can we >do to reverse the Republican hold on the red states? How can we >create some prairie populism? Which way should the >anti-globalization movement go? What's the best way to monkeywrench >corporations? How about that grassroots anti-Wal-Mart movement? Yup. Wasn't it Leonard Bernstein who said "I dig absolutely"? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 10:53:12 PDT 2004

22574 [lbo-talk] a plug for nathan newman -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Probably sounds that way because this list has moved so far to the >right with this constant talk about supporting Kerry and the >constant trashing of Yoshie, who is only presenting leftist views >that would have dominated this list four years ago when everybody >was on the Nader bandwagon. Times change, Chuck. But I am worried that many of us are getting lazy. Yeah Bush is a dolt and a liar, but suppose he's gone come November. What then? Isn't that when some serio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 10:21:15 PDT 2004

22575 [lbo-talk] petition: Assassination of Iraqi Intellectuals -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I"m stumped by this.... Other than the fundies and Mossad, cui bono? Dunno. The guy who's circulating it, Andrew Rubin, was a student of Said's, and quite close to him, so I just signed & forwarded. I'll ask him. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 09:48:56 PDT 2004