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25321 embedded text -- rank: 1000

By the way, NY Press inserts the following text block, rendered invisible by being in white type, into its web pages. A crude trick to snare the indexing bots? I thought Google was wise to this. Or is this just a subtle joke? WEB TOP 40 SEARCH 1. spiderman 2. shakira 3. winter olympics 4. world cup 5. avril lavigne 6. star wars 7. eminem 8. american idol 9. morrowind 10. warcraft 3 11. natalie portman 12. dungeon siege 13. trillian 14. las ketchup 15. neverwinter nights 16. battlefield 1942 17. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 09:37:10 PST 2003

25322 Taibbi's latest -- rank: 1000

[It's just great to have weekly doses of Taibbi.] New York Press - March 26, 2003 Deeply Embedded The Pentagon and the news media set the sheets on fire. We've all seen a version of the scene in the movies before. The two lusty young leads finally find themselves alone after the agonizing sexual cat-and-mouse game of the film's first hour. The furtive across-the-office glances and loaded cocktail party repartee are over, and the two stars have finally broken down the hotel room door and begun te ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 09:35:17 PST 2003

25323 If this is true, hot damn -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >If anybody hears anything else about this, please let >us know! Does it sound remotely credible to you? Can you imagine W & Co. giving up on their holy war? I'm more afraid of what they'll do to escalate, as we used to say during the Vietnam days. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 09:28:23 PST 2003

25324 Where's Peter K? -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Has anybody seen our old friend Peter? Please don't tell me that he's gone. > >I know, I know -- he's memorizing Hitch's last three columns. But >what's the point if he can't parrot them here? He is gone - he unsub'd on March 1. And not missed in the least, I must say. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 09:26:41 PST 2003

25325 no uprising -- rank: 1000

Iraqi Shi'ite Opposition Says No Uprising in Basra 40 minutes ago TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim opposition group said on Wednesday there had been disturbances, but no uprising, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. A spokesman for the Tehran-based Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (news - web sites) (SCIRI) said there were "some disturbances" in Basra. Asked if this amounted to an uprising, the spokesman, Abu Islam, said: "No, there is no uprising." B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 06:39:55 PST 2003

25326 Mao auction -- rank: 1000

Mao material, via Sotheby's/eBay: <http://pages.sothebys.ebay.com/buy/single_auctions_browse/MAO.html>. Get an early Red book for just $11,500. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 20:44:33 PST 2003

25327 Perle -- rank: 1000

Just read in Eric Alterman's Nation column that Richard Perle is a director of Hollinger, Conrad Black's firm. (I think he picked this up from a Hersh article in the NYer, but I didn't read that.) Black's Jerusalem Post was big on the chem weapons factory story yesterday right? Interesting. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 19:44:19 PST 2003

25328 Shia leader tells US not to stick around -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 25, 2003 Shia leader warns US not to stay on By Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran The most prominent Iraqi Shia Muslim opposition leader warned the US on Tuesday that staying on in Iraq after a successful war to depose Saddam Hussein could trigger an armed uprising of Iraqis. Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iran-based leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri), said that diplomatic channels would be examined first. But he told a press conference: &q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 19:23:03 PST 2003

25329 best spam header ever -- rank: 1000

>Satisfy your woman you pindick

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 19:12:21 PST 2003

25330 IRAQWAR.RU: 100 vehicles disabled by weather, Franks criticized -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >It's a great site Steven, and US intelligence is working hard to shut it >down. In your first post you didn't post the entire daily report in >English from "Venik" due to a concern about "fair use." That's not a >problem (free legal advice-JM). If Doug doesn't object to the use of the >bandwith, I think we should post the daily report (todays is ><http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news078.htm>) here as a way of >doing our bit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 19:09:04 PST 2003

25331 say hi to Schumer -- rank: 1000

Thursday, March 27th, 5:30-7pm TELL CHUCK--NO WAR. Demo at Sen Schumer's house to demand peace. Both Clinton & Schumer support war on Iraq. Bkln Society for Ethical Culture, Peace Initiative/Turkey, War Resisters League/Bkln & NYC & Kings County Green Party. At 9 Prospect Park West at Carroll St. Info: 718-788-2260, daniliebling at yahoo.com, 718-369-2998, glomatt at aol.com

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 15:59:19 PST 2003

25332 unionbuster gets Iraq contract -- rank: 1000

From: rjrossi Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:21 PM Subject: [wrench] World-wide union buster gets Iraq contract ----- Original Message ----- Subject: World-wide union buster gets Iraq contract According to Reuters, the White House today awarded a $4.8 million contract to Stevedoring Services of America (SSA) to manage the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. SSA is a notoriously anti-union company that has led efforts to break longshore unions around the world. Last year's lockout of West Coast longshore wor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 15:43:44 PST 2003

25333 NYC DA call for Thursday -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >Doug, is anyone targeting the FED? I have no idea. And I'm a wimp who doesn't want to get arrested. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 14:43:45 PST 2003

25334 more on Moore -- rank: 1000

Globe & Mail (Toronto) - March 25, 2003 Hollywood revolutionary or stupid white man? Michael Moore's risky antiwar Oscar speech provided the only real, hard-line political message of the evening. How will this affect his career? JAMES ADAMS reports By JAMES ADAMS Five minutes before he was invited to take the stage of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, Michael Moore had convinced himself that Bowling for Columbine wasn't going to win the Oscar for best feature documentary, so, he said, any sp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 14:43:08 PST 2003

25335 POW's -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The problem with the "countercultural" was not that it was "merely >cultural," but that it wasn't a culture of any kind. It astounded me at >the time to see how many people believed Time magazine more than they >believed the evidence of their own experience. Michael Novak (the >Catholic philosopher) spoke at ISU in 1967 or so (he was a radical then) >and he had bought the whole thing. He compared the hippies to the >Franciscans as the & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 25 14:33:01 PST 2003