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26626 ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Stannard's answer pretty >much convinces me that he is lying. How do you fucking know? You're such a prick. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 08:53:37 PST 2003

26627 a better world? -- rank: 1000

I'm doing a two-hour radio special for the WBAI fundraiser on Feb 13 on the theme "if a better world is possible, what might it look like?" I've already got Naomi Klein and Walden Bello lined up. Any ideas on a third interviewee? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 08:52:35 PST 2003

26628 FBI going after Iraqis in US -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - February 6, 2003 FBI Effort to Interview Iraqis on Campuses Could Lead to Protests, College Officials Fear By MICHAEL ARNONE As part of its effort to interview all Iraqi citizens living in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to talk to any Iraqis studying at American colleges, and college officials predict that the campaign could ignite fresh rounds of protest against law-enforcement agencies for targeting certain ethnic groups. The FBI ap ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 08:49:04 PST 2003

26629 Bush to dead Israeli pilot's kids: I'll finish the job! -- rank: 1000

New York Post - February 6, 2003 BUSH: WE'LL FINISH THE JOB THAT ISRAELI HERO STARTED By URI DAN JERUSALEM - President Bush consoled the children of Israel's first astronaut by telling them he would finish the job begun by their father - who bombed Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor. During a memorial service in Houston on Tuesday, Bush praised Ilan Ramon, an Israeli Air Force colonel, along with the six other Columbia crew members who perished. Afterward, the president embraced some of four Ramon ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 08:34:24 PST 2003

26630 ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

LouPaulsen wrote: >We all have to try to keep our good humor, I guess. Well folks, we've heard a lot of complaints about ANSWER/IAC/WWP, but Comrade Paulsen here sure seems like a sane, reasonable fellow. Could it be that they're not the monsters of myth? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 07:58:20 PST 2003

26631 ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > This is rather vile unless you can cite the specific source of "the >rumors." Until you cite such a source I would have to assume this is a >deliberate lie. Really, man, do you have to go nuclear like this all the time? And don't tell me it's because you're depressed. That's a slur on depressives. I know lots of people who are depressed, starting with myself on occasion, and they don't act like assholes as often as you do. Chill out. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 16:43:31 PST 2003

26632 ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: >It is certainly not a deliberate lie on my part. I am in Wyoming >and have no experience with ANSWER other than reading their >literature. The question was asked by one of my students. > >I resent the implications that I would somehow try to start a smear >campaign merely by asking a question. Don't you know that asking questions is a no-no in Coxland? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 16:40:12 PST 2003

26633 facts , opinions and the "gentile" question -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >the israeli lobby Oh yes. The Imperium is so susceptible to doing things against its interests. Those Jews are such clever manipulators - I know, I read all about it in the Protocols. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 16:39:31 PST 2003

26634 Leftist Flacks for Saddam and ObL> Was Re: ex-radical -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Really? Then how do you account for the fact that >even the Western Communist Parties which followed >Leninism (I am not talking about Eurocommunist >parties) >had similar internal problems of democracy? Because they were aping the masters? What about the Red Belt of Italy? Pretty good governance, I'd say. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 16:37:11 PST 2003

26635 France no longer a U.S. ally: Perle -- rank: 1000

By Martin Walker UPI Chief International Correspondent From the International Desk 2/4/2003 8:43 PM WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- France is no longer an ally of the United States and the NATO alliance "must develop a strategy to contain our erstwhile ally or we will not be talking about a NATO alliance" the head of the Pentagon's top advisory board said in Washington Tuesday. Richard Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration and now chairman of the Penta ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 14:26:23 PST 2003

26636 Stocks Fade as War Worries Weigh -- rank: 1000

<http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?storyID=2176961&type=businessNews&fromEmail=true>Stocks Fade as War Worries Weigh Wed February 05, 2003 04:49 PM ET By Chelsea Emery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks sagged on Wednesday as worries about possible war with Iraq unnerved investors, erasing a rally sparked by Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations Security Council. Powell's presentation, a bid to win over anti-war sentiment at home and abroad as well a ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 14:22:41 PST 2003

26637 Blix dismisses Powell's claims in advance -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - February 5, 2003 US claim dismissed by Blix Dan Plesch in New York The chief UN weapons inspector yesterday dismissed what has been billed as a central claim of the speech the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, will make today to the UN security council. Hans Blix said there was no evidence of mobile biological weapons laboratories or of Iraq trying to foil inspectors by moving equipment before his teams arrived. In a series of leaks or previews, the state department has sa ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 14:19:49 PST 2003

26638 Leftist Flacks for Saddam and ObL> Was Re: ex-radical -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >Re Doug's comments about the Commies and ObL, two questions: >--Which commies? Where? When? Which Decade? This is a thankless, dangerous task, but I'll take a brief stab. The original Russian revo was basically a good thing. Of course there were plenty of problems with Leninism itself - secrecy, hierarchy, a lack of internal democracy - but those can't be separated from the czarist state they were rebelling against. Stalin sucked - the revolution betrayed, to co ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 14:11:31 PST 2003

26639 ex-radicals? -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at mail.earthlink.net wrote: >is red baiting a practice The Nation should be associated with at >any level, in any way? No, and The Nation has never been an anti-Communist magazine. Blaming the magazine for what people write elsewhere is a pretty long stretch, I'd say. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 13:54:26 PST 2003

26640 Fwd: CFR MEDIA ADVISORY: "International Cooperation in the War on Terror" with U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in Washington, D.C., 2/10 -- rank: 1000

[hey Chuck0, polish up your press credentials and pay 'em a visit!] >From: Communications at cfr.org >Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:19:23 -0500 > >MEDIA ADVISORY >COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS > >***THIS MEETING IS ON THE RECORD*** > >John Ashcroft >United States Attorney General > >International Cooperation in the War on Terror > >Dick Thornburgh >Former United States Attorney General; former Governor of Pennsylvania >will preside > > >Monday, ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 13:49:37 PST 2003