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27286 [lbo-talk] latest Tatu outrage -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >So where did tne NY post get "naked?" Apparently from another Murdoch product, The Sun, which the item quotes. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 06:46:18 PDT 2003

27287 [lbo-talk] progress! -- rank: 1000

A very pleasant surprise to report: At the Brecht Forum event in NYC the other night on civil liberties after 9/11, Ira Glasser, former director of the ACLU (and a very fine speaker) and current NYCLU director Donna Lieberman both agreed that liberals had too long relied on courts to protect freedom of speech and assembly, and not enough on popular action. Glasser pointed out that historically the courts have rarely been friends of free expression; there was that great exception during the era o ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 05:26:14 PDT 2003

27288 [lbo-talk] latest Tatu outrage -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 18, 2003 Tasteless lure EVEN by European standards, Russian pop duo Tatu's latest p.r. stunt is disturbing. The 18 year olds - who've gotten lots of attention for portraying themselves as lesbians - are calling for girls as young as 14 to join them in a massive nude photo shoot for a new album cover. "We are looking for the most beautiful, coolest, cleverest and youngest girls," a Tatu rep told the London Sun. The National Society for the Prevention of ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 04:49:34 PDT 2003

27289 [lbo-talk] a cartoon for Nathan -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 20:23:18 PDT 2003

27290 [lbo-talk] manipulation? -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 17, 2003 Moore boo-hoos over tape PORCINE provocateur Michael Moore is using sophisticated wave-form analysis technology to argue that CNN amplified the booing in its re-broadcast of his George Bush-bashing Oscar speech. According to a posting on Moore's Web site, "CNN and CNN Headline News aired a significantly different audio response to Moore's speech than was originally broadcast on ABC. It seems that someone has manipulated the audio to give the impress ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 16:01:56 PDT 2003

27291 [lbo-talk] surprise! Bechtel wins contract! -- rank: 1000

Bechtel Awarded Iraq Infrastructure Contract WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A contract to reconstruct Iraq (news - web sites)'s war-torn power generation facilities, water and sewage systems has been awarded to Bechtel Group Inc., the U.S. Agency for International Development said on Thursday. The initial $34.6 million contract, which may be extended to the repair of hospitals, schools and other government buildings, could rise to as much as $680 million over 18 months, USAID said. Bechtel, a privately ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 15:36:41 PDT 2003

27292 [lbo-talk] Rummy: "I don't think we'll discover anything, myself" -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >We are just going through the motions looking for WMDs. We won't find any. Why won't they just plant 'em? Cops plant drugs on ordinary suspects; why wouldn't they do the same, given the high stakes of this game? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 15:26:16 PDT 2003

27293 [lbo-talk] Re: how's it feel? -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >I am exasperated with the self righteousness of the American people >who sit in the safety seat watching the war show as if it is a >football game. That's not entirely true. Polls, for what they're worth, show high levels of anxiety and sadness. Fewer people watched TV coverage of this war than GW I, and more shielded their children from it. Sure, the bellowing yahoos were out in force, but they're not the whole story, and are probably not even the majority. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 15:08:07 PDT 2003

27294 [lbo-talk] in defense of Augusta -- rank: 1000

[Hitch defends all-male golf clubs, in this article from Golf Digest] By Christopher Hitchens During my very first visit to New York City, in the summer of 1970, there was a big flap about McSorley's Old Ale House, one of downtown's most venerable bars, and its "men only" policy. Feminism viewed the matter in the light of the Civil Rights movement, the flame of which was still glowing brightly. The McSorley boys defended themselves on the rather unheroic basis that they didn't have a l ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 11:10:36 PDT 2003

27295 [lbo-talk] How's It Feel -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >> >> Well, New York's murder rate is double Moscow's. >>> >>> Hey, but it's less than half what it was a decade ago! >> >>Must be because of all those new strict gun laws. >> >>Oh, wait. > >Seriously, what's the likely cause? Standard diagnosis: changing demographics (fewer teens), decline of crack, better policing, heavy incarceration. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 11:04:55 PDT 2003

27296 [lbo-talk] Tim Robbins speech at National Press Club--quite good -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >Help me out here....given that most americans support(ed) the war, >supported much of the Cold War....supported and maintained an >apartheid South...tell me why I should long for democracy? that is >not to say that I am anti-democratic, but why should I worship at >the alter of public opinion? So which altar do you want to worship at instead? Rule by liberal judges? The constitutional structure did a lot to create the body politic you're kvetching about. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 11:03:14 PDT 2003

27297 [lbo-talk] Polls about "Iraq" and "Terrorism" Re: how's it feel? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Figuring out most Americans' reasoning is like analyzing a Monty >Python sketch. I believe the thinking goes like this: Saddam >wasn't responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but the attacks were just >the type of thing he would have done if he'd had the opportunity. Slavoj argues, in the interview I'll be broadcasting later today, that the "reasoning" is this: AQ hates America, SH hates America, so they're all the same and must be destroyed. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 09:52:58 PDT 2003

27298 [lbo-talk] NYSE Specialist Scandal? -- rank: 1000

H. Curtiss Leung wrote: >(Doug, didn't you write that being a Specialist on the NYSE was practically >a license to print money?) Yup. Aside from the guaranteed commission, a specialist watches order flows, and knows the balance of supply and demand, and trades accordingly. It's a legal form of insider trading. So it's pretty funny to accuse specialists of front running - it's almost part of the job description. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 09:02:29 PDT 2003

27299 [lbo-talk] Tim Robbins speech at National Press Club--quite good -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >I think Robbins is on to something here, and I believe he's sincere. The >Constitution and Bill of Rights are two radical documents that personified >the 18th century Enlightenment But the Consitution is also deeply conservative in many ways - the whole structure of the three branches is designed to dilute direct popular influence, and even within the legislative branch, the Senate serves that role. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 08:43:33 PDT 2003

27300 [lbo-talk] deal? -- rank: 1000

Your New Next Door Neighbor May Be A Republican Guard! How Bush And Rumsfeld Traded American $, Citizenship And Residency In The US For The Capitulation Of Baghdad. The Deal The deal includes, granting American citizenship and residency in the United States to some of the first echelon commanders (Republican Guards) and their families. By Walid Rabah Arab Voice: 04/16/03 LEBANON -- One day after the start of the war against Iraq American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appeared on America ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 08:35:24 PDT 2003