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26371 virtual march report -- rank: 1000

steve philion wrote: >I've called Mark Dayton's office (D-MN), got through and left a message >opposing an invasion of Iraq. >Cannot get through to Norm Coleman's office, voicemail is full. >Joseph Lieberman's line is down. >Virtual March should be done every day.... Can't place a phone call to DC. I was scheduled at 3:36, 3:41, and 3:46, and I keep getting an "all circuits busy" message from Verizon (office line) and AT&T (cell phone). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 26 12:45:45 PST 2003

26372 Shock And Yawn -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > the point remains that the U.S. started bombing despite >> credible warnings that millions could starve because they >> didn't really care. > >Are you sure it's because they "didn't really care" ...? Sure. Since when has Washington shown much care about killing people? 2-3m in Indochina, 1-1.5m in Iraq, etc. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 11:09:54 PST 2003

26373 In Defense of the Cowboy -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> For some reason, the [Ayn Rand Institute] signed me up for these daily >> gems > >Out of curiousity, did this signing up happen shortly after your Party of >the Right reunion? Maybe someone saw a lost soul in need of reclaiming :o) Ha, no it was months ago. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 11:09:11 PST 2003

26374 Shock And Yawn -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: > > I don't know where you get this stuff, Dennis. >> >> Seth > >Chomsky: > >"Well we could easily go on..but all of that..first of all indicates to us >what's happening. Looks like what's happening is some sort of silent >genocide. We know now that that didn't happen. But right before the war, aid officials from NGOs and the UN all said the risk was very high - and the U.S. didn't care. Thank god it didn't happen, but the point rem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 26 10:41:28 PST 2003

26375 In Defense of the Cowboy -- rank: 1000

[For some reason, the ARI signed me up for these daily gems, and some of them are so ridiculous that I haven't signed off. Here's a goodie.] From: "ARI Media" <davidh at aynrand.org> To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Op-Ed In Defense of the Cowboy Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:19:17 -0800 Dear Editor, Please consider this Op-Ed submission from the Ayn Rand Institute. For your convenience, you can download this Op-Ed from: http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/cowboy.shtml In Def ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 26 10:38:32 PST 2003

26376 Jude Wanniski: War Is Off -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Let me rephrase that: is he one of the authors of >"supply side" economics as he claims? He has a bunch >of interesting looking articles on his website. > >-Thomas >--- Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Who is this guy Jude Wanniski? Yup, that's Jude. He worked along with Robert Bartley on the WSJ edit page during the 1970s, where they jointly developed SSE. He's a quirky fellow (unlike Bartley, who's a dull, humorless ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 09:54:42 PST 2003

26377 Hedges -- rank: 1000

Couple of interesting pieces featuring NYT reporter Chris Hedges, who sounds like an unusually smart fellow for a newspaper reporter, pointed out in today's Romenesko. <http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1824790> >"I have a problem with reporters who play war correspondent, sit >around hotels in Saudi Arabia bitching about restrictions," he tells >E&P. "It was the press that administered the system - ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 09:50:22 PST 2003

26378 NYU symposium: why war? -- rank: 1000

Why War? A public forum on Iraq, North Korea, and U.S. foreign policy What are the real motives behind the Bush administrationís plans to invade Iraq? What are the likely consequences of the war for Iraq and the Middle East, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Why has the Bush administration taken a different approach toward North Korea? Does Bush administration policy depart significantly, and dangerously, from recent U.S. foreign policy? * * * * * Speakers: Chris Toensing Editor, Middl ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 09:34:06 PST 2003

26379 Poor White Republicans was Re: white trash -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Quoting Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>: > > > Why should they do any damn thing but get by day by day? > >Because getting by day by day isn't enough, it doesn't feel like enough. And most people do more than just getting by, day by day. They go to football games, Tupperware parties, church, and watch TV. But most working class Americans just don't give a damn about politics. Workweeks were much longer in the 19th century, but that didn't keep ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 09:02:55 PST 2003

26380 RES: Lula in the shadow of Chávez -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >Once investors see that Brazil's fiscal policy is sustainable, and they see >continued low interest rates in the industrial core, Brazil will look more >attractive. Foreign direct investment will flow in, bringing more access to >world-class technology and further boosting economic growth. > >-The old cry of neoliberals who ruined our country! We received unprecedent >-levels of foreign investment in the last 8 years, to reach a GNP growth >-near ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 06:19:45 PST 2003

26381 Shock And Yawn -- rank: 1000

cuito61 at onebox.com wrote: >Plan could kill millions in 48 hours. Why don't Americans Care? > >http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=3119 > >"Are Americans -- politicians, media executives, and ordinary >citizens -- so numb, or oblivious, or callous to the horrors of war >that we cannot raise ourselves to be bothered by what would be, if >it works as planned, one of the greatest massacres, one of the >greatest war crimes, in the his ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 05:58:13 PST 2003

26382 aphorism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 Doug Henwood wrote: > >> > Echoes of Yeats' "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are >> > full of passionate intensity >> > >> > Though according to Harold Bloom, this is a fascist sentiment. > >Do you happen to remember what his argument was? Nope. It's in his book on Yeats, which I lost to the divorce. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 05:43:26 PST 2003

26383 Ari cracks 'em up -- rank: 1000

[you can watch this via C-SPAN - <http://www.c-span.org/> - scroll down to White House Press Briefing 2/25/03 - the set up starts around 29 minutes in] Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer Today Feb 25 <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030225-9.html> [...] Q -- the French press is quoting actually two different diplomats from the United States State Department that -- they're highlighting that the United States is giving some sort of agreements or benefits to Colomb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 17:11:40 PST 2003

26384 forget clark (was ramsey clark fights for peace) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >O'Reilly gets enough viewers as it is. Tonight's topic: should illegal immigrants get organ transplants, and are they displacing citizens on waiting lists? Vile-sounding stuff, O'R at his worst. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 25 15:08:25 PST 2003

26385 aphorism -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >Echoes of Yeats' "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of >passionate intensity Though according to Harold Bloom, this is a fascist sentiment. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 25 14:54:33 PST 2003