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26341 dollars buy votes -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >the jewish vote is very important in some places, but - for instance - >it didn't amount to much in the two congressional districts in the south >where black candidates were defeated by less-critical-of-israel blacks, >whose campaigns were financially helped by the lobby... > >it isn't votes alone, but the money with which to purchase them that >loom larger...money is why american blacks , though greater in numbers >than american jews, have much less p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 06:26:25 PST 2003

26342 "Israel's proxy war" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20011119013421514 >> >Sharon Says "we control America", Congressional Pandering to Israel >Proves Him Right Monday, November 19 2001 @ 01:34 AM GMT By Dr. >Mohamed Khodr On October 3, 2001, I.A.P. News reported that >according to Israel Radio (in Hebrew) Kol Yisrael an acrimonious >argument erupted during the Israeli cabinet weekly ...etc. 12k in one block paragraph. Michael, w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 06:22:24 PST 2003

26343 AOL -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown just rejoined the list after a long absence - welcome back, Charles! - and is having problems getting his AOL mailer to send text only messages. Can anyone advise him, and all other AOLers who might be interested? All the nontext coding adds bandwidth, and makes a lot of messages hard to read. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 06:14:32 PST 2003

26344 gold standard cranks -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >But yeah, I admit that most of my information comes from the internet. I >swear that I have on a number of occasions seen libertarian nutcases >attempt to defend their self-professed "political neutrality" by putting >themselves in contrast to the religious types. It's really quite >extraordinary. On the feminist economics list, the so-called dean of feminist economists, Barbara Bergmann has been worrying about immigration. (I'd forward the posts, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 28 04:33:56 PST 2003

26345 FAIR: Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >"Kamel said Iraq had not abandoned its WMD ambitions." > >Which is partly why it is about to be invaded. By the only country that's ever used atomic weapons. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 19:05:24 PST 2003

26346 Support for Bush's re-election falls below 50 percent -- rank: 1000

Thursday, February 27, 2003 Posted: 5:35 PM EST (2235 GMT) Worries about the economy appear to be hurting President Bush's poll numbers. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The percentage of registered voters who say they would support President Bush in 2004 fell below 50 percent for the first time, according to a new CNN/USA TODAY/Gallup poll, which finds more Americans concerned about the economy. Two-thirds of those who responded to the poll, released Thursday, describe current economic conditions as poor, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 14:54:57 PST 2003

26347 gold standard cranks -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I think Bryan had a point. HLM would, of course, beg to disagree. This makes Woj's POV look tolerant and generous! Doug ---- <http://www.albion.edu/history/tchambers/mencken.htm> "Has it been marked by historians that the late William Jennings Bryan's last secular act on this earth was to catch flies? A curious detail, and not without its sardonic overtones. He was the most sedulous flycatcher in American history, and by long odds the most successful. His quarry ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 13:52:09 PST 2003

26348 celebrate the liberation of Grenada with the NRA! -- rank: 1000

This is a beaut: <http://www.tcacruise.com/freedomcruise2003/>. And <http://www.freedomalliance.org/view_article.php?a_id=228>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 13:16:49 PST 2003

26349 Jude on war -- rank: 1000

[for all you Jude W fans out there!] A War Scenario Feb 27 2003 Memo: To Website Fans, Browsers, Politicians From: Jude Wanniski Re: The War Scenario This is the letter we sent to clients on Feb 11. We have sent several subsequent letters with greater detail and nuance, but this still represents a fundamental view of what we expect if the United States uses military might in Iraq without the support of the United Nations: Even some of the best economists I know are now saying the reason Iraq is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 12:37:34 PST 2003

26350 Fwd: Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed -- rank: 1000

FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism MEDIA ADVISORY: Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed: Bombshell revelation from a defector cited by White House and press February 27, 2003 On February 24, Newsweek broke what may be the biggest story of the Iraq crisis. In a revelation that "raises questions about whether the WMD [weapons of mass destruction] stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist," the magazine's issue dated March 3 repo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 11:49:05 PST 2003

26351 "Israel's proxy war" -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >The argument that US politicians have to do the bidding of right-wing >Zionists in order to court the Jewish vote and get elected is also >unconvincing and is basically mistaking effect for cause. Jews are something like 3% of the U.S. electorate and concentrated in New York and LA, places that Republicans almost never carry in presidential elections. Right-wing Christians are the major pro-Israel force in electoral politics. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 11:40:36 PST 2003

26352 feds seizing domain names -- rank: 1000

CNET via BusinessWeek.com - February 27, 2003 Feds confiscate 'illegal' domain names Federal police adopt a novel crime-fighting tactic: seizing control of domain names for Web sites that allegedly violate the law. WASHINGTON--Federal police have adopted a novel crime-fighting tactic: seizing control of domain names for Web sites that allegedly violate the law. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday that the domain names for several Web sites allegedly set up to sell illegal "drug parap ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 11:29:33 PST 2003

26353 gold standard cranks -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >It always cracks me up that being in favour of the teaching of the Theory >of Evolution is a "left-wing" political view in America. You ever spend much time here? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 11:21:39 PST 2003

26354 Donahue inconvenient in wartime? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Oh please! Let's hope that the left doesn't go through an >embarassing display of anguish over this development. Donahue's show >simply sucked. Yup, it did. Unwatchably awful. But what's disturbing about the cancellation is that MSNBC wanted him off before the war starts - they couldn't have anyone offering a platform to the antiwar cause. It was on Donahue's show during the First Gulf War that I saw Hitchens say that a state broadcasting system couldn't have done the pro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 08:57:25 PST 2003

26355 the CIA said it, I believe it, that settles it -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Reuters was quoted as saying: > >> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA on Monday denied a Newsweek magazine > > report that Saddam Hussein's son-in-law told the U.S. intelligence > > agency in 1995 that Iraq after the Gulf War destroyed all its chemical > > and biological weapons and missiles to deliver them. > >Nice subject line. > >Barry (the reporter) says he's got a verified copy of the transcript. I >do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 27 08:55:24 PST 2003