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26386 Australia not happy with postwar plan -- rank: 1000

Sydney Morning Herald - February 25, 2003 Australia baulks at US plans for a postwar Iraq By Marian Wilkinson in Washington and Tom Allard Australia has expressed concern to the United States about plans to rule Iraq for up to two years following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Canberra voiced its fears after Australian observers attended a secret two-day meeting in Washington on how Iraq was to be run after a war. The meeting, held by the Pentagon's postwar Iraq planning office, was described ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 14:46:03 PST 2003

26387 aphorism -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review, which usually opens with a quote - this one's for Carrol Cox, who hates uncertainty!] The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 14:43:31 PST 2003

26388 Medicaid (and Medicare) Changes -- rank: 1000

westrich at miser.umass.edu wrote: >The benefit the states get is increased "flexibility". But what does >this "flexibility" mean? That's what it almost always means. With few exceptions, when employers or politicians talk about "flexibility" they're looking for a way to cut material benefits or security or both. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 14:39:49 PST 2003

26389 forget clark (was ramsey clark fights for peace) -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 01:09 PM, Thomas Seay wrote: > >>I dont see the big deal one way or the other about the >>Clark meeting. > >i agree. frankly, i think it was barely noticed. It's a good thing, though O'Reilly bears close watching. But even if it's never noticed beyond this little forum, it makes you wonder what goes through the guy's head. Either he has no sense of how things are perceived, or he's actively trying to fuck things up. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 13:02:32 PST 2003

26390 Saddam to W: debate me! -- rank: 1000

[what's so bizarre about this?] New York Daily News - February 25, 2003 Saddam to W: Debate me By HELEN KENNEDY DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) has issued a direct challenge to President Bush (news - web sites): Let's go head to head in a live TV debate on war. Saddam made the bizarre challenge in a three-hour interview with CBS anchorman Dan Rather, to air tomorrow night on "60 Minutes II." "I am ready to conduct a direc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 11:21:21 PST 2003

26391 mood music in wartime -- rank: 1000

[patriotic songs in wartime? ah the land of the free!] New York Times - Feburary 24, 2003 Radio Plans Shift in Tone as Drumbeat of War Builds By LYNETTE HOLLOWAY After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, listeners denounced many radio stations for playing songs insensitive to a nation in mourning. Now, program directors are planning to adjust their playlists if the United States goes to war with Iraq. Expect to hear more patriotic tunes, and songs that appear right for the moment. The changes most l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 11:18:04 PST 2003

26392 competition bad for news, everyone follows the NYT -- rank: 1000

[an op-ed version of Bourdieu! <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Why_TV_sucks.html>] Christian Science Monitor - February 25, 2003 Regulating the news By Janet Kolodzy Within the next few months, the Federal Communications Commission will decide if fewer companies should have more control over how Americans get news. The impending decision, for which a public hearing will be held Thursday, is making strange bedfellows of liberals and conservatives who both oppose cross-ownership of loca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 10:50:13 PST 2003

26393 so much for Hollywood liberalism... -- rank: 1000

[...though I guess a real conservative would boycott French bread too.] <http://www.ExpertClick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=3666> Hollywood Publicist to Lead French Wine Boycott Los Angeles, CA 90024 February 24, 2003 Click Here or on the RealAudio icon to listen. <http://www.ExpertClick.com/realaudiofiles/3555319.ram> You can also listen over by telephone by dialing (703) 243-6572 and entering 3555319 and the pound (#) key. HOLLYWOOD PUBLICIST TO L ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 07:44:08 PST 2003

26394 Ramsey Clark Fights For Peace -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >At 9:12 PM -0500 2/24/03, Doug Henwood wrote: >>one of you Clark apologists > >That's a very courteous way of saying that there is nothing more to >discuss on the matter. It's neither courteous nor an assertion that there's nothing more to discuss. It was a provocatively phrased invitation to someone more sympathetic to Clark than I to provide some rationale that doesn't make him look like a naif or worse. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 25 06:07:14 PST 2003

26395 Ramsey Clark Fights For Peace -- rank: 1000

LouPaulsen wrote: >What IS your point? Would Hans Blix be a bad man if he met with Saddam >Hussein? Would Colin Powell be a worse man if he met with Saddam Hussein? >Then why is Ramsey Clark a bad man if he meets with Saddam Hussein? > >I bet you wouldn't have acted that way about someone who met with Bill >Clinton. I'm judging the relative evil-doing of a U.S. president and SH - there's no question that the occupants of 1600 have killed far more people than SH could dream of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 21:03:31 PST 2003

26396 Ramsey Clark Fights For Peace -- rank: 1000

Reed Tryte wrote: >I really know nothing about Ramsey Clark and his >compatriots, and it's hard for me to want to learn. >But this does make me curious. Can anyone with real >knowledge of Clark explain why he would do this exact >thing at this exact time? Is it just the excitement of >feeling he is an Important Person? Is he in fact >everything Charles Krauthammer would claim? Or is it >something else? [...] >Saddam later met Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney >gene ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 18:12:42 PST 2003

26397 Pious, not religious? -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: > >s-t-t at juno.com wrote: >> >>>What is the difference? I don't mean that to be snide about religion, >>>it's simply not clear to me. >> >>Pious = great public professions of belief & sanctity, like the >>Pharisees > ><http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=MATT%2B23&showfn=on&showxref=on&language=english&version= >KJV&x=11&y=9>. >>Religious = what Jesus was talking about. > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 17:54:47 PST 2003

26398 Pious, not religious? -- rank: 1000

s-t-t at juno.com wrote: >What is the difference? I don't mean that to be snide about religion, >it's simply not clear to me. Pious = great public professions of belief & sanctity, like the Pharisees <http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=MATT%2B23&showfn=on&showxref=on&language=english&version=KJV&x=11&y=9>. Religious = what Jesus was talking about. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 17:13:20 PST 2003

26399 Feds bust bong ring! -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Salvia Divinorum Revealing how old & out of it I am...what's that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 16:14:56 PST 2003

26400 letting AQ go -- rank: 1000

[more via Sam Smith] JANE WALLACE INTERVIEWS SY HERSH ON PBS JANE WALLACE: It's your story, take it. SY HERSH: Okay, the cream of the crop of Al Qaeda caught in a town called Konduz which is near ... it's one little village and it's a couple hundred kilometers, 150 miles from the border of Pakistan. And I learned this story frankly-- through very, very clandestine operatives we have in the Delta Force and other very... We were operating very heavily with a small number of men, three, 400 really ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 24 15:33:21 PST 2003