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27031 [lbo-talk] Israel to demolish Corrie peace center -- rank: 1000

----- Forwarded message from Elizabeth Corrie <<mailto:elizabethcorrie at hotmail.com>elizabethcorrie at hotmail.com> ----- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:41:32 -0400 From: Elizabeth Corrie <<mailto:elizabethcorrie at hotmail.com>elizabethcorrie at hotmail.com> distribute widely. please help if you can. beth Israeli army to demolish Rachel Corrie Peace Center by Jason <http://dc.indymedia.org/feature/display/80336/index.php>http://dc.indymedia.org/feature/display/80336/ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 21 06:59:06 PDT 2003

27032 [lbo-talk] Cell Phones during NYC blackout -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Jordan however had what struck me as a very good suggestion: that people >should get little UPS's for their phones. I have a very chic thing - curvy black with green highlights - I got at Radio Shack for less than $27 that takes no juice other than what's on the phone line. High sound quality too - I use it to record interviews for broadcast. Who needs a UPS? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 20 20:26:39 PDT 2003

27033 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On my radio show tomorrow (Thursday) evening, 5-6 PM NYC time, WBAI 99.5 FM New York and <http://www.wbai.org>: * Michael Albert, talking about his new Verso book Parecon (participatory economics) - <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=185984698X/leftbusinessobseA/>. * Christian Parenti, just back from Iraq, talking about the occupation and the Iraqi Communist Party Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 20 16:43:46 PDT 2003

27034 [lbo-talk] Hanson jailed -- rank: 1000

[wow, there hasn't been any coverage of this in the U.S. that I know of - so what's it mean, Australians?] The Age (Melbourne) - August 21, 2003 Hanson behind bars By Geoff Strong In the end it was over in the shutting of a door. Pauline Hanson the red-haired rocket who shot across Australia's political landscape in the 1990s was led away to jail late yesterday. Alternating between tears and anger, she finally adopted a defiant swagger as court officers took her and fellow One Nation founder Dav ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 20 15:41:54 PDT 2003

27035 [lbo-talk] Cell Phones during NYC blackout -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >Michael Pollak had written favorably about cell phone >performance in NYC during the recent blackout. He did? But he doesn't have a cell phone, does he? My cell phone - AT&T Wireless - was worthless, and most people I saw on the street had similar experiences. I saw a few Verizon customers happily chatting away, but that's about it. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 20 15:34:12 PDT 2003

27036 [lbo-talk] a win -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Kathy Boudin won her parole. Best news I heard in weeks! So what about the Tigar petition re: the corrupted FBI sound files in the Stewart case? Any thoughts on that? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 20 15:32:09 PDT 2003

27037 [lbo-talk] prefiguring utopia -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >Our experiences differ. The jibe about how boring this >is doesnt have a place here; reply civilly or dont >reply, please. One reason why it is always the same >people who post here has a lot to do with this kind of >attitude on display from you and a few others, even as >you blithely post 10 or 15 messages a day. Aside from 8/13's 9 messages, Justin's been keeping within the limits lately. But calling people "stupid" or their discourse "borin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 20 14:52:50 PDT 2003

27038 [lbo-talk] Franken & Ashcroft -- rank: 1000

FoxNews.com - August 19, 2003 WASHINGTON - Comedian and liberal activist Al Franken (search) has written an apology letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft after asking him for his personal story about remaining abstinent before marriage. Franken, a satirist and former writer for "Saturday Night Live," admitted in a letter last month that he deliberately tried to mislead Ashcroft when he sought personal information from him. "In the letter, I indicated that I wanted your story fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 20 08:55:08 PDT 2003

27039 [lbo-talk] parecon -- rank: 1000

Frederick Emrich, Editor, info-commons.org wrote: >Doug, is it possible for you to post links to some recommended material? I've asked Michael Albert to recommend such. Of course, everyone should buy and read his book <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=185984698X/leftbusinessobseA/>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 19 16:12:09 PDT 2003

27040 [lbo-talk] Ehrenreich responds to BDL -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > >Evidently, Ms. Ehrenreich has a very patrician, if not aristocratic, >> >notion of help as a charitable handout. How about a more >> >social-democratic concept of self- and mutual- help and >cooperativism? >> >> Do you know anything about Barbara Ehrenreich's politics? >> > >A little bit. That is why I found her comments about handing down money >like charitable donations surprising. Well, I think she me ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 19 14:44:27 PDT 2003

27041 [lbo-talk] Ehrenreich responds to BDL -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Evidently, Ms. Ehrenreich has a very patrician, if not aristocratic, >notion of help as a charitable handout. How about a more >social-democratic concept of self- and mutual- help and cooperativism? Do you know anything about Barbara Ehrenreich's politics? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 19 13:03:07 PDT 2003

27042 [lbo-talk] U.S. public opposed to gay marriage -- rank: 1000

AP - August 19, 2003 Poll: Half favor law against gay marriage By Will Lester WASHINGTON -- More than half of Americans favor a law barring gay marriage and specifying wedlock be between a man and a woman, an Associated Press poll has found. The survey also found presidential candidates could face a backlash if they support gay marriage or civil unions, which provide gay couples the legal rights and benefits of marriage. The poll, conducted for the Associated Press by ICR-International Communica ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 19 12:50:26 PDT 2003

27043 [lbo-talk] Randy Boy on the blackout -- rank: 1000

From: The Ayn Rand Institute <media at aynrand.org> Dear Editor: Blackouts are an early warning sign of the danger to human life caused by environmentalism. We are paying dearly for the environmentalists' determination to slow down the engines of the world and halt human progress. How much more of the Green agenda are Americans willing to put up with, and for how long? The choice we face is clear-cut: Greens, blackouts, and stagnation--or modern industry, new power plants, and progress. Ta ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 19 12:05:27 PDT 2003

27044 [lbo-talk] blackouts and deregulation -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >It's also consistently and significantly cheaper to >fly LHR-JFK than JFK-LHR. I've never seen a convincing >accounting for this. Because they can! They've got computers constantly changing the fares, seven or more times a day. Not that the big guys can make any money at it though. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 19 10:08:34 PDT 2003

27045 [lbo-talk] carless NYers -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 19, 2003 Licensed to Drive? Fuhgeddaboutit! Most New Yorkers Do Without Wheels By Michael Powell Washington Post Staff Writer NEW YORK -- As America has long suspected, no one here can drive. Lawyers, doctors, day laborers, actors, psychotherapists: New York City has more able-bodied, non-licensed, car-phobic adults than anywhere in the United States. Seventy-three percent of Virginians have a license to drive. Sixty-nine percent in Maryland can get behind the wheel of a ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 19 10:01:51 PDT 2003