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25231 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Ugh, Yoshie, how is "psychoanalysis" or "introspection" a form of >"blaming yourself"? Doug's reply bothered me only to the extent that >he minimizes the incredible difficulty, the pain and labor of >introspection -- of facing what seems at first an endless and >endlessly painful emptyness. I would hesitate to call anyone a wimp >for avoiding it. I spent three years on the couch but it was not the >result of valor or superi ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 30 08:01:27 PST 2003

25232 Agent Orange -- rank: 1000

Spectre orange Nearly 30 years after the Vietnam war, a chemical weapon used by US troops is still exacting a hideous toll on each new generation. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy report Saturday March 29, 2003 The Guardian Hong Hanh is falling to pieces. She has been poisoned by the most toxic molecule known to science; it was sprayed during a prolonged military campaign. The contamination persists. No redress has been offered, no compensation. The superpower that spread the toxin has done not ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 14:58:44 PST 2003

25233 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >You can't manage a chronic illness, be it a "mental" illness or >otherwise, by blaming yourself. Who's blaming oneself? Blame mom! Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 15:12:46 PST 2003

25234 Why Oil Is Not A Strategic Good -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >I mean, I'd like to not think that this war is all about keeping profit rates >from falling by restricting the production of a needed resource (by contrast, >attacking a country to take its resources seems almost charming) but I still >haven't heard a convincing argument otherwise. Are you assuming that if Bush is successful with his war, it will result in a lower oil price than otherwise would have prevailed? I don't buy that at all. Low prices would be ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 14:48:11 PST 2003

25235 WBAI newsletter -- rank: 1000

WBAI, the NYC radio station I do my show on, has started a daily email newsletter. To subscribe, visit <http://www.wbai.org>. They've also significantly upgraded their website, adding breaking news, program announcements, etc. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 14:14:39 PST 2003

25236 hackers playing games with al-Jazeera -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - March 28, 2003 Hackers divert al-Jazeera users to US porn and patriot sites by Jason Deans The al-Jazeera website has suffered further attacks from hackers, who hijacked the Arabic news broadcaster's domain name and redirected users to what appears to be an American patriot's website. Users trying to log onto the al-Jazeera website in the US found a message that read "Hacked by Patriot, Freedom Cyber Force Militia" beneath a logo of the US flag. A spokeswoman for al ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 13:36:07 PST 2003

25237 thanks -- rank: 1000

Thanks to all of you who responded to my plea for contributions to offset list expenses (and for those of you who didn't, it's not too late! - either via paypal to <dhenwood at panix.com> or by dead-tree means to the address below). The list will soon be moving to Jordan's server, which should save lots of money. -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 38 Greene St - 4th fl. New York NY 10013-2505 USA voice +1-212-219-0010 fax +1-212-219-0098 cell +1-917-865-2813 email <mailto:dhe ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 11:43:37 PST 2003

25238 Iraq spam -- rank: 1000

Wow. The Nigerians have moved onto Iraq! At 1:17 PM -0500 3/29/03, Farouk Al-Bashar wrote: >Re: Urgent Assistance Needed > >By way of introduction I am Eng. Farouk Al-Bashar, I represent my >family as the oldest son of the Al-Bashar family, who are the >descendants of Ibrahim Al-Bashar Ali from one of the oil rich areas >in Iraq. Over the years my family has acquired huge sums of money >from royalties for the exploration of oil in our region but over the >past 15 years, S ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 11:40:07 PST 2003

25239 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I have yet to see anyone explain a social event in terms of >pscycho-social factors without reaching the same conclusions that he/she >would have reached _not_ invoking psycho-social factors. Another point, not unrelated to my last: you can't understand why poorer whites, especially men, in the U.S. vote against their material interests without examining issues of sex and race - the thrill that comes with belonging to the dominant group (whites, men), and anxiety over ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 11:37:15 PST 2003

25240 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I have yet to see anyone explain a social event in terms of >pscycho-social factors without reaching the same conclusions that he/she >would have reached _not_ invoking psycho-social factors. Oh, let's see. How about race in America - e.g. white anxiety over allegedly ravenous black sexual appetites, white jealousy of alleged black sexual license? Or how about male anxiety over female sexual freedom? For proof texts, pick up George Gilder's early books on race and sex ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 11:34:22 PST 2003

25241 Daschle eats his words, and then some -- rank: 1000

[So Nathan, can you tell us how this is anything but revolting?] Daschle Says His Iraq Criticism of Bush Ill-Timed Fri Mar 28, 6:52 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle labels as ill-timed his charge that President Bush (news - web sites) "failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war." Daschle said in Washington on March 17: "I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war.& ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 29 09:58:55 PST 2003

25242 dixie chick hoax -- rank: 1000

Robert Brenner wrote: >DAMN, SOMEONE JUST SAID IT'S A HOAX. PHOOEY. Bob, the world in turmoil, the U.S. economy in a very murky state, and you only de-lurk to kvetch about the Dixie Chicks hoax/satire/parody? I'm crushingly disappointed! Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 15:49:02 PST 2003

25243 Fwd: Dixie Chick apologises -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >>Apology from Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks >> >>As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush >>because my remark was disrespectful. I now realize that whoever >>holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect. >> >>I hope everyone understands, I'm just a young girl who grew up in >>Texas. As far back as I can remember, I heard people say they were >>ashamed of President Clinton. I saw b ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 15:36:07 PST 2003

25244 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Tell her to stay away from search engines. She ain't gonna to >generate any encomiums in these precincts with her current views. She was annoyed that I'd said something about her companion, Stanley Aronowitz, in conjunction with her - and that someone else here (she didn't specify who) had pointed out the difficulty he sometimes has with tucking in his shirt. Fair enough. Separate but equal critique! Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 15:11:46 PST 2003

25245 UAL delisted -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: > > Meanwhile, a whole major sector of the U.S. economy is in meltdown. >> Not only is this a cyclical problem, but the cumulative effects of >> over 20 years of deregulation. And no one seems to care. > >Are we headed toward a state owned and operated airline industry? Hey, c'mon, this is America. A nonunion, low-wage airline industry is more likely, maybe with some government loan guarantees to ease the transition. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 28 14:29:43 PST 2003