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26761 [lbo-talk] NYC threat -- rank: 1000

[If I go silent, you'll know why. Really, what are we supposed to do with this kind of info, except bend our knees in deferential gratitude to our masters?] U.S. Studying Possible NYC Terror Threat WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are studying a terror threat to New York City and are "very concerned" by the volume of threats to U.S. interests at home and overseas, a U.S. intelligence official said on Friday. But there was some confusion over the level of the threat, with New Yor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 10:44:26 PST 2003

26762 [lbo-talk] Senators lied to, too dumb to notice -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://www.prorev.com>] SENATORS WERE TOLD IRAQI WEAPONS COULD HIT U.S. http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/localstoryN1216NELSON.htm [it not only looks like the Bush crowd were bigger liars than we thought but that the Senate is a good deal dumber than we thought] JOHN MCCARTHY FLORIDA TODAY - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday the Bush administration last year told him and other senators that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but they ha ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 10:34:26 PST 2003

26763 [lbo-talk] more cheap anti-Bush humor -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 10:06:03 PST 2003

26764 [lbo-talk] gender gap widens -- rank: 1000

USA Today - December 17, 2003 'Til politics do us part: Gender gap widens Thu Dec 18, 6:41 AM ET By Susan Page, USA TODAY <http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-12-17-gendergap-cover_x.htm> Lynne and Scott Albert readily agree on family finances, summer vacations and the perfect holiday gifts for their 5-year-old twins - Care Bears for Cammie, a toy monster truck for Josh. But when it comes to politics, Lynne, an attorney, and Scott, a venture capitalist with an MBA, often disagree abou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 09:37:05 PST 2003

26765 [lbo-talk] MIDI or virtuosi? -- rank: 1000

Michael Simkin wrote: >Can you distinguish MIDI, i.e. music scores played by a computer, >from performance of world-renowned virtuosi? > >Take this quiz to find out: > ><http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/midi_or_virtuosi.html>http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/midi_or_virtuosi.html What are you trying to prove with these juvenile exercises? Doug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20031219/ee7c82ed/attachment.htm>

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 09:33:08 PST 2003

26766 [lbo-talk] RE: lynching -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I should mention that when my kids were smaller we >used a babysitting service run by Poles that provided >Polish girls. One was a Warsaw MD studying for her US >certification. Another, Magda, very sweet; we asked >her where she was from, she pales and said, Auschwitz. >Not, interesting, Oszweicim (sp?). How terrible to be >from there, and to have that pall hang over your >inevitable answer to that inevitable question. She was >great and th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 19 09:03:45 PST 2003

26767 [lbo-talk] 9/11 prisoners abused -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 19, 2003 Tapes Show Abuse of 9/11 Detainees Justice Department Examines Videos Prison Officials Said Were Destroyed By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Hundreds of videotapes that federal prison officials had claimed were destroyed show that foreign nationals held at a New York detention facility after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were victims of physical and verbal abuse by guards, the Justice Department's inspector general said yesterday. An investigation by Ins ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 09:00:38 PST 2003

26768 [lbo-talk] Re: Lbo-talk digest, Vol 1 #2006 - 10 msgs -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Fucking brilliant timing too to start having a go at the Jews on the day after >that Frontpage story; that'll help convince any rightwing trolls present that >there's no such thing as left-wing antiSemitism, won't it? For an excellent take on that topic, listen to my interview with Joel Schalit on my Nov 27 show, at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 18 11:02:05 PST 2003

26769 [lbo-talk] Kean: 9/11 was preventable -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/eveningnews/main589137.shtml> Panel: 9/11 Preventable (CBS) For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston. "This is a very, very important part of history and we've got to tell it right," said Thomas Kean. "As you read the report, you're going to have a pretty cle ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 18 07:11:16 PST 2003

26770 [lbo-talk] Re: this months monster-demon-satan -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"Obviously, no one could possibly exact >perfect justice for Saddam. His crimes are just too great." > >sounds like a synopsis for a tv series...ooops, it is! > >but seriously, this kind of breathless belief in whatever we are told is >what makes us such losers...so he is, or was, a tyrant and >dictator...duh? what fucking planet do we live on? have people been >watching too much lord-of-the-rings-matrix stuff? So your point is that SH was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 17 14:00:36 PST 2003

26771 [lbo-talk] LBO Trashed at FrontPage! -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I'm sure that's why K-Lo is here as well. The least she could do is quote us. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 13:31:43 PST 2003

26772 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali's piece at Counterpunch -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >So tell me, Doug: _Why_ do you publish a newsletter when challenging >capitalism may be equally futile? Sometimes I wonder, but mainly because I hope to inform and energize the choir, and maybe win a few converts. It's a long, and largely thankless, process. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 12:51:16 PST 2003

26773 [lbo-talk] re more should be would be -- rank: 1000

Stephen Philion wrote: >Taymour was the first-- and until recent Middle East Watch interviews the >only--known survivor of a mass execution during Anfal. He remains the only >eyewitness to the mass killing of women and children. His story has been >well documented >elsewhere, but it bears repeating here in its proper context.11 > >--oh my...sounds kind of amaterish compared to the Kurdish massacres by our >friends the Turks...in which case, this man Sodom deserves more mi ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 12:48:45 PST 2003

26774 [lbo-talk] FrontPage -- rank: 1000

Yay! A post to this list made it onto Front Page <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11361>. Here's the context: >Saddam in Jail; Leftists Wail >By Greg Yardley >FrontPageMagazine.com | December 17, 2003 >The morning I heard Saddam Hussein was captured, I was awakened by a >low murmur I couldn't quite place. When I read the good news for >the first time, I immediately realized what it must be - the >collective of far-left anti-war protestors waili ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 17 11:12:55 PST 2003

26775 [lbo-talk] McGruder at the Nation bash -- rank: 1000

[tix were too expensive for mere writers to afford...] Washington Post - December 17, 2003 NAMES & FACES Sketch Comedy Left-wingers tend to like cartoonist Aaron McGruder for his comic-strip assaults on the Bush administration in "The Boondocks." But at a dinner Sunday night marking the 138th anniversary of the Nation magazine, McGruder earned boos for saying liberals need to be meaner if they want to win back the White House. The cartoonist revealed that he voted in 2000 for spoil ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 09:37:43 PST 2003