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27016 [lbo-talk] school uniforms (was: Ehrenreich responds to BDL) -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Go to a mall and look at the clusters of 13 year olds and >what they're wearing. Can you say with a straight face >they're expressing their unique individuality? Bullshit. Could be that the distinctions are invisible to us geezers. I'm sure they could offer rich annotated guides to the styles of their cool and uncool peers. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 22 12:36:41 PDT 2003

27017 [lbo-talk] write a story, go to jail -- rank: 1000

[from the evidence of the story <http://www.savebrian.org/pdf/story.pdf>, Brian was not a spelling major] Write a Story, Go to Jail By Kim Zetter Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,60144,00.html 02:00 AM Aug. 22, 2003 PT Brian Robertson was just months away from graduation at Moore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, last year when he found the beginnings of what he thought was a short story on a school computer. He copied the file to another computer, added some paragr ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 22 12:30:42 PDT 2003

27018 [lbo-talk] whom to spy on in Cancun -- rank: 1000

Global News Wire Copyright 2003 Inquires may be directed to NTIS, U.S. Dept of Commerce World News Connection August 18, 2003 LENGTH: 912 words HEADLINE: MEXICAN AUTHORITIES 'MONITORING' ACTIVISTS ON EVE OF WTO SUMMIT IN CANCUN BODY: Close to 60 activists, intellectuals, and leaders of civil organizations from a dozen countries are subject to monitoring by Mexican authorities on the eve of the WTO Summit that will be held in Cancun from 10 to 14 September. A national security document that Refo ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 22 11:38:52 PDT 2003

27019 [lbo-talk] S Korea in recession -- rank: 1000

>From: The Dismal Scientist <listserv at dismal.com> >Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:38:17 -0400 > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >The GDP - Constant Prices for Korea economic release has been updated. >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >GDP - Constant Prices for Korea (1.9%) > >Disappointing release. According to preliminary estimates, second >quarter GDP fell 0.7 from the previo ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 22 11:24:02 PDT 2003

27020 [lbo-talk] Bush machine -- rank: 1000

<http://www.poynter.org/forum/?id=letters> Posted By: Jim Romenesko From KIM BENABIB: Newspaper editors across the country should always beware of "astro-turf" letter writing campaigns, but a new level of sophistication has been reached by the Bush-Cheney 2004 operation which has just gone live with its new web site Georgewbush.com. There supporters are encouraged to write local and national newspapers using tools provided by the campaign, including the direct email addresses of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 22 10:35:38 PDT 2003

27021 [lbo-talk] torching hummers -- rank: 1000

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/2424844/detail.html Arson At Hummer Dealership May Be Ecoterrorism Showroom, Dozens Of Vehicles Destroyed WEST COVINA, Calif. -- Fire raged through a Hummer dealership in the Los Angeles area Friday morning, and graffiti spray-painted on many of the damaged vehicles indicate that the fire was set intentionally. The fire broke out at Clippenger Chevrolet at 1900 E. Garvey Ave., just south of the Interstate 10 freeway in West Covina. By the time firefighters arrived ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 22 10:25:31 PDT 2003

27022 scrapped? (was [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood) -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >So, does that mean Albert won't appear on the list until next week to >discuss parecon? Right. It might be best to wait until after Labor Day, actually. Watch this space for further announcements. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 22 08:23:51 PDT 2003

27023 [lbo-talk] Savage update -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - August 22, 2003 DON'T CALL US MICHAEL Savage is delusional. "Fox would hire me in a minute," the right-wing ranter tells Jake Tapper in the September issue of GQ. "And believe it or not, CNN would, too." Savage was fired from MSNBC for telling a gay caller to "get AIDS and die." A Fox News Channel spokesman told GQ, "Not a chance would we ever be interested in him." CNN won't touch him, either: "[We] had not pursued nor are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 22 07:56:07 PDT 2003

27024 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Civilian War Deaths in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Civilian War Deaths in Iraq Memo To: Website Fans, Browsers, Clients From: Jude Wanniski Re: A Freedom Party report You probably did not notice, but I doubt you have ever read an estimate, formal or informal, of the number of Iraqi civilians who were killed in the recent Gulf War. Collateral damage in the USAs liberationof the Iraqi people. Im not in any position to validate the report you will see here from Dr. Mohammed Al-Obaidi, the general coordinator of the Iraqi Freedom Party, but it does ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 22 07:43:20 PDT 2003

27025 scrapped? (was [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood) -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >Doug, did WBAI scrap your show for today? Uh, yeah. There was a fundraiser, which I'd forgotten about until about 2 PM. Sorry. Same show next week: Albert & Parenti. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 21 20:35:19 PDT 2003

27026 [lbo-talk] Ehrenreich responds to BDL -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >If you think the cash nexus is inherently corrosive, then sure, it's >impossible to conceive of mutual benefit and personal friendliness. If >not, not. How can you evade the cash nexus? Domestic help just eliminates all the middlepersons, the machinery that sustains the commodity fetish, and makes the relation direct and visible. Should we make our own shoes too? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 21 13:15:58 PDT 2003

27027 [lbo-talk] prefiguring utopia -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >My wishful thinking is that "prefiguring utopia" at LBO-talk means >that there will be no more long LBO-talk threads titled, for >instance, "Dull, dull, dull" (Cf. ><http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0308/index.html>). We don't have to suspend criticism - we should just be friendlier about it, and not assume the worst about the targets. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 21 10:54:16 PDT 2003

27028 [lbo-talk] rightwingers are wimps -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - August 21, 2003 Daily Dish 'Debate' vs. Coulter-geist Tough-talking Ann Coulter wouldn't say a word last night. At the last minute, the conservative pundit canceled her appearance opposite best-selling "Big Lies" author Joe Conason on CNBC's "Kudlow & Cramer" - this after having programmers change the debate to fit her schedule. One might think the roundtable, which featured Wall Streeter James Cramer and Reaganite Lawrence Kudlow, would be a breeze ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 21 10:40:18 PDT 2003

27029 [lbo-talk] assassinating the reasonable -- rank: 1000

A friend writes: >I found out this morning that the Israelis assasinated Ismail Abu >Shanab, who was a key official of Hamas in Gaza. I knew him well and >spent many hours interviewing him. And while I certainly did not >agree with many of his positions, if ever a person existed in Hamas >who was open to discussion and compromise, it was this man. To me, >he wasn't a faceless "terrorist" but an intelligent person, >dedicated to his people, a husband and father. He ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 21 09:11:02 PDT 2003

27030 [lbo-talk] Bush: weak, led by Rumsfeld -- rank: 1000

The Advertiser (Adelaide) - August 18, 2003 Rumsfeld 'led Bush to war' From correspondents in Athens A FORMER US diplomat who resigned over the Iraq war has described US President George W. Bush as a "very weak" man led by the hand into battle by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Brady Kiesling, who was political counsellor at the US embassy in Athens at the time of his resignation in February, said in an open letter published by Greek daily To Vima that Rumsfeld exploited the war to ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 21 07:04:18 PDT 2003