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25846 [lbo-talk] Be Seeing You -- rank: 1000

Cliff Staples wrote: >Is there some sort of spam filter for whoever the hell this is? It's gone, and I've set it so that new subscriptions require my approval for a while. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 20 20:19:52 PDT 2003

25847 [lbo-talk] Be Seeing You -- rank: 1000

Gosh, go away for a weekend and don't check email and an ASCII artist signs on. And off too, at least. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 20 18:20:59 PDT 2003

25848 [lbo-talk] Democrats' Weapons of Mass Distraction -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The question is not whether we should be happy or unhappy. We >aren't spectators. The question is what we, as organizers and >activists, should be doing now, now that we have an opportunity -- >the cultural tide is turning against Bush & Co. -- but also _a >danger_ -- the likelihood that they are going to send _more_ troops >for _longer_ terms for a campaign of _counter-insurgency and >"pacification"_ in order to defend the occupation ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 17 16:06:50 PDT 2003

25849 [lbo-talk] the ruling class speaks -- rank: 1000

NEWS RELEASE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS First Independent Review of Iraq Reconstruction, Requested by the Pentagon, Urges U.S. to Bolster Security and Accelerate Iraqi Role or Risk Losing the Peace July 17, 2003 --With Iraqi expectations and frustrations on the rise, the window for cooperation with the United States is closing rapidly. If Iraqis do not see progress on delivering security, basic services, political involvement and economic activity, the security situation will likely worsen and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 17 15:59:42 PDT 2003

25850 [lbo-talk] five years for sharing a file! -- rank: 1000

At 2:46 PM -0400 7/17/03, CBS MarketWatch wrote: >FEDS COULD SEND MUSIC SHARERS TO JAIL > >WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Allowing someone to copy music off your hard >drive could cost you prison time, under legislation introduced by >lawmakers from Michigan and California. > >The bill was introduced Wednesday by Reps. John Conyers, D-Mich., and >Howard Berman, D-Calif. It makes uploading a single copyrighted file a >felony, with penalties including five years in prison and a ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 17 11:59:08 PDT 2003

25851 [lbo-talk] Re: I don't get it -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >It attacked Kuwait, but famously stopped short of advancing on Baghdad. >His possession of chemical weapons might have been part of the reason. I doubt it - I'm guessing they didn't want to cope with the mess that Junior has to deal with now. Didn't Zinni say as much a few years ago? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 17 11:09:47 PDT 2003

25852 [lbo-talk] denial & deception -- rank: 1000

This is pretty funny: as BuzzFlash pointed out, the headline on the White House transcript of the 2003 State of the Union is "denial and deception": <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/print/20030128-19.html>. For now - let's see how long it lasts. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 17 10:39:56 PDT 2003

25853 [lbo-talk] more infighting -- rank: 1000

Tenet Says Official Wanted Iraq Claim 1 hour, 46 minutes ago By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet told members of Congress a White House official insisted that President Bush (news - web sites)'s State of the Union address include an assertion about Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s nuclear intentions that had not been verified, a Senate Intelligence Committee member said Thursday. Sen. Dick Durbin, who was present for a 4 1/2-hou ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 17 09:20:47 PDT 2003

25854 [lbo-talk] political gossip -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - July 17, 2003 WE HEAR . . . THAT political columnist Michael Tomasky is leaving New York magazine and moving to D.C. to edit the American Prospect, the political journal he describes as "somewhere to the right of the Nation and to the left of the New Republic" . . . THAT Shari Yost, who resigned as finance director for the Joe Lieberman campaign in what could be a big shakeup, was getting $24,000 a month.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 17 07:10:28 PDT 2003

25855 [lbo-talk] A Crack in the Imperalist Consensus -- rank: 1000

ooops, sorry for reforwarding that...caffeine has not yet crossed blood-brain barrier

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Date:	Thu Jul 17 06:56:00 PDT 2003

25856 [lbo-talk] Fwd: A Crack in the Imperalist Consensus -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 15, 2003 POLITICAL CAPITAL By ALAN MURRAY Manifesto Warns of Dangers Associated With an Empire An unusual manifesto is circulating through the e-mail boxes of prominent Washingtonians from an ad hoc group calling itself the "Committee for the Republic." Its five sponsors include conservative C. Boyden Gray, a White House lawyer in the first Bush administration; Chas. W. Freeman, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Stephen Cohen, a senior fellow at the Br ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 17 06:55:14 PDT 2003

25857 [lbo-talk] U.S. recession ended in November 2001... -- rank: 1000

...though 938,000 jobs have been lost since then <http://release.nber.org/july2003.html> >Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research > >CAMBRIDGE July 17 -- The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the >National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday. At its meeting, >the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred >in the U.S. economy in November 2001. The trough marks the end of >the recession that began in March 2001 ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 17 06:31:52 PDT 2003

25858 [lbo-talk] I don't get it... -- rank: 1000

RE wrote: > > Henwood: Didn't let the inspectors in, eh? That is not quite how Observer >(or >> Hans Blix) recalls events. Not me. The FT's "Observer" columnist. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 16 15:55:57 PDT 2003

25859 [lbo-talk] I don't get it... -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Whose burden of proof here? It's reasonable to believe >that the US govt is lying when it moves its lips. Financial Times - July 16, 2003 OBSERVER: Come again? President Bush caught Observer's ear this week during a press conference with Kofi Annan, UN secretary-general. Asked about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Mr Bush had this to say: "The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons programme? And the answer i ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 16 15:17:21 PDT 2003

25860 [lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >Poor neighborhoods have more nail >salons than rich ones And the hair salons are open until very late. I've seen women in a Dominican neighborhood of Manhattan getting their hair done at 10 on a Sunday night. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 16 12:14:13 PDT 2003