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22891 [lbo-talk] U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 500 -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >[This is mostly posted as a test of how well mailman strips html >code, but it's not without news value either.] Hmm, well that didn't work. Back to the drawing board. Doug

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22892 [lbo-talk] U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 500 -- rank: 1000

[This is mostly posted as a test of how well mailman strips html code, but it's not without news value either.] Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq, Toll Reaches 500 By C. Bryson Hull TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi officials on Saturday, taking the death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites) to 500 since the war to oust Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) began last March. The mounting toll is a problem for President Bush (news - web sites) i ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 17 10:48:10 PST 2004

22893 [lbo-talk] Tips For Limiting The KB Size Of Your Posts -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Using this simple method I was able to confirm that >the posting which prompted Doug to mention excessive >kilobytage - > >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040112/001181.html > >- is, in fact 25 KB as he said. Eudora gives sizes in inboxes and outboxes. Two things can add invisibly to length: 1) headers, which add about 1k, and 2) HTML coding, which can add 5k or more to a post. It looks like this new version of mailman can s ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 17 10:46:20 PST 2004

22894 [lbo-talk] conspiracies, not theories -- rank: 1000

overqualified wrote: >To avoid the problems of a previous thread, i propose to discuss about >plain facts, not deductions or suppositions, like this article, which reaches >quite disturbing conclusions. If we self censor ourselves fearing to >be labeled >conspiraciest, we are playing the conspiracist game :-) >>From a radical point of view, dismissing conspiracies as the normal way of >working of capitalism seems to me not much intelligent politically, because >exposin ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 17 09:33:50 PST 2004

22895 [lbo-talk] Indology: Vandalism and preservation -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com quoted: >THE RECENT attack on a member of the Bhandakar Oriental Research Institute >at Pune by an ill-informed mob of one section of nationalists (Shiv Sena), >and the subsequent rampage and destruction of the BORI offices and library >by another (Sambhaji Brigade) How prevalant are these sorts of forces in India? And how popular are they? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 17 09:28:04 PST 2004

22896 [lbo-talk] Chomsky Question -- rank: 1000

Robert D. Day wrote: >What sort of archiving/transcription will be available for this interview? Not sure yet. The station's going to use it as a fundraising premium, so I may hold back on posting it to the website for longer than usual. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 17 09:25:23 PST 2004

22897 [lbo-talk] America's Fool -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >DeWrongs How subtle, how clever!

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Date:	Sat Jan 17 09:21:09 PST 2004

22898 RES: RES: [lbo-talk] Keiretsu Capital -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I don't think factoring them in would change very much. Unless we're >talking about the top-top of the CPSU hierarchy, the elite >(political, scientific, cultural) had better access to housing and >the special shops where you could buy Western goods legally, but I >don't think your average apparatchik or Soviet physicist was living >high on the hog. Certainly nothing like today -- Alla Pugacheva >(Russia's Bette Midler) used to pull in maybe $100 a concert ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 14:48:57 PST 2004

22899 [lbo-talk] CBS rejects anti-Bush MoveOn ad -- rank: 1000

Advertising Age - January 15, 2004 CBS REJECTS ANTI-BUSH SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL Cites Network Policy Barring Issue Ads By Ira Teinowitz WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- Viacom's CBS today rejected a request from liberal group MoveOn to air a 30-second anti-President Bush ad during the Super Bowl, saying the spot violated the network's policy against running issue advocacy advertising. Network policy A CBS spokesman said the decision against broadcasting the spot had nothing to do with either the Super B ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 14:43:28 PST 2004

22900 [lbo-talk] Kerry Poised to Win Iowa, Surging in New Hampshire -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: ><http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_01_11.html#002420>http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_01_11.html#002420 The Zogby polling numbers in Iowa are probably useless. They don't disclose their methodology, and it's nearly impossible to predict who's going to show up at the caucuses. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 14:41:43 PST 2004

22901 [lbo-talk] AFP on WSF -- rank: 1000

Anti-globalisation activists head to first post-Iraq war strategy forum Fri Jan 16,12:38 PM ET BOMBAY (AFP) - Tens of thousands of anti-globalisation activists began the movement's first convention in Asia, the six-day meeting blasting off late afternoon with a peace concert by Pakistani band Junoon. Opposition to the US occupation of Iraq (news - web sites) is expected to top a litany of causes during the six-day carnival of discussions, debates and dancing. Mallika Sarabhai, Indian dancer and ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 13:06:11 PST 2004

22902 [lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Ah, but a pill you have to take every day is so much more profitable than an >injection once every 6 years ... (apologies if this was already posted here.) But, to take the information asymmetry angle, why should a woman believe a man if he said he's on some kind of contraceptive? She has to live with possible consequences, and he may just wanna get his rocks off. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 12:07:21 PST 2004

22903 [lbo-talk] Chomsky Question -- rank: 1000

Thanks for all the suggestions - I just recorded the interview (about 40 mins). I only asked about 5 questions - the man can talk! Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 11:10:26 PST 2004

22904 [lbo-talk] raise money for WBAI, earn not very big bucks -- rank: 1000

Position: DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR WBAI Radio is seeking a full-time Development Director to create and manage a comprehensive fundraising program that will include: - Major Donors: Supervise, develop and monitor major donor program, increase the giving level of existing donors, supervise and coordinate on-air membership drives in conjunction with programming department. - List Management: Director Candidate must know how to identify prospective lists, segment a list of prospective mailing lists for ...

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22905 [lbo-talk] Re: fundraiser -- rank: 1000

There was an article in NLR long ago that aruged, as I remember, that the link between NC's linguistics & politics was his belief in a deep structure of human rationality. Lies by politicians and the media can confuse that structure, which is why truth-telling is important: clear away the lies, and truth will win out. Doug Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Mike, Chomsky has denied such a connection about 50-thousand times. >Personally, I agree with his logic: You don't have to be eminent in ...

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