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25906 [lbo-talk] Microsoft Plans An End Run Around, Oh, Everyone -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chuck0" <chuck at mutualaid.org> > >> This scheme will never work. They have been trying to come up with shit >> like this for years, yet we aren't any closer to it than before. >> >> This also depends on a healthy Microsoft being able to throw money at >> Area 51 projects like this. Given the recent announcements of layoffs at >> Microsoft, I suspect that a cash crunch will e ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 9 10:15:07 PDT 2003

25907 [lbo-talk] W is for wobbly? -- rank: 1000

[from the daily ABC News political thumbsucker, The Note <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html>] NEWS SUMMARY For the maniacally focused eviction crew at the Democratic National Committee led by Vilmain and Wachs, today might be a good time to call for a snap election. While the president kept up his obsession with reporters asking multi-part questions at his Pretorian press conference this morning, back here at home, he might just be thanking his lucky stars that t ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 9 09:55:45 PDT 2003

25908 [lbo-talk] Ward Connerly about to parachute into Michigan -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - July 9, 2003 Foes of Affirmative Action in Michigan Plan to Take Their Battle to the Ballot By PETER SCHMIDT Ward Connerly, who led successful campaigns to ban racial and ethnic preferences in California and Washington State in the 1990s, announced on Tuesday that he and other affirmative-action foes plan to embark on a similar campaign in Michigan, and may take the battle to other states. Mr. Connerly made his announcement on the campus of the Univers ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 9 09:28:19 PDT 2003

25909 [lbo-talk] Re: Note on Lieven -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Exactly which 'failed states' do the terrorists that are a problem for them >emanate from? Saudi Arabia? Egypt? Michigan? Don't ask me - this is the standard bourgeois line. Afghanistan, Sudan, etc. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 9 09:22:33 PDT 2003

25910 [lbo-talk] My Hitch Piece -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Just out in Steve Perry's City Pages. > ><<http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1179/article11370.asp>http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1179/article11370.asp> Nice piece, Dennis. Is the artist who did the graphic really named Erica Blair? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 9 09:21:14 PDT 2003

25911 [lbo-talk] stalin vs. hitler, the comic book -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >You mean its OK to refight the Hitler wars? Does AH have any defenders on this list? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 9 09:10:17 PDT 2003

25912 [lbo-talk] stalin vs. hitler, the comic book -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: > >>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> > >> >> Symbol of the neo-fascist, National Alliance, over AH left shoulder. >> Not kewl. > >What is the NA? Why should a Russian comic artist have the slightest >clue what it is? Please, let's not refight the Stalin wars. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 8 16:20:05 PDT 2003

25913 [lbo-talk] gender & writing -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - July 6, 2003 He and she: What's the real difference? According to a team of computer scientists, we give away our gender in our writing style By Clive Thompson, 7/6/2003 IMAGINE, FOR A SECOND, that no byline is attached to this article. Judging by the words alone, can you figure out if I am a man or a woman? Moshe Koppel can. This summer, a group of computer scientists-including Koppel, a professor at Israeli's Bar-Ilan University-are publishing two papers in which they describe t ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 8 15:04:42 PDT 2003

25914 [lbo-talk] Lieberman -- rank: 1000

Alarmingly, Gallup reports that Lieberman is leading the Dem field among almost all demographic groups - men, women, whites, young, old... Sharpton leads among blacks, but Lieberman is #2 (ahead of Moseley Braun). Further, Page Six reports today: >GO TEAM > >JOE Lieberman's new press secretary has an unfortunate moniker. >Lieberman's old flack, Dan Gerstein, has left to head up the >senator's presidential campaign, and his replacement is Matt Gobush. >"How funny is that?&q ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 8 08:53:54 PDT 2003

25915 [lbo-talk] NAMBLA child molesters put out anti-war statement -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >As if yuppie limousine liberals, sexual "identity" radicals and lifestyle >Birkenstock wearing, patchoulli smelling hippies had not done enough to >try and seize the mantle of the left to drag it from it's working class >base, the NAMBLA child molesters have recently "come out" against the war >in Iraq. Wonderful. I'm sure the supreme court will be rubber stamping >their goings on soon amidst minor decisions upholding Taft-Hartley, ax ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 8 08:23:41 PDT 2003

25916 [lbo-talk] Re: Note on Lieven -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >is chaos really a problem for them? I thought the line was that failed states are breeding grounds for terrorists, like stagnant pools are for mosquitos. So yes, chaos should be a problem for them. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 8 08:07:34 PDT 2003

25917 [lbo-talk] Re:Liberia -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I think this is on track. The U.S. intervenes in >Liberia to justify its intervention in Iraq -- to >demonstrate it is not always and everywhere self- >interested. > >More to the point, perhaps, is whether this should >be supported, or at least not criticized. Given the >lack of a compelling U.S. interest and the limited >intervention implied, we might expect some good to >come of it. So they're going to send a token force of 500-2,000 - or ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 7 16:06:16 PDT 2003

25918 [lbo-talk] Liberia -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >Can you say Firestone tires? :-) Is there a place on earth that doesn't have some valuable resource? It was some coal mine in Serbia, a pipeline in Afghanistan, and now rubber trees in Liberia? These explanations all seem after the fact. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 7 15:22:16 PDT 2003

25919 [lbo-talk] Liberia -- rank: 1000

Ok, so does anyone understand the pressure for U.S. intervention in Liberia? Counterpunch creatively attributed it to all those oil tankers being registered as Liberian flag vessels, but that seems like a real stretch. Is it that Bush is looking to improve his image? Or what? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 7 14:03:44 PDT 2003

25920 [lbo-talk] Iraq: death, sabotage, and menace -- rank: 1000

[what a great headline] Death, Sabotage and Menace Greet Iraq Economic Plan By Nadim Ladki BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More killings, reports of rising sabotage and a CIA (news - web sites) assessment that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) may be lurking in the shadows greeted an economic reconstruction plan from Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.S. civilian administrator Paul Bremer on Monday. Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded overnight in a spate of guerrilla attacks which also left at least tw ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 7 13:57:26 PDT 2003