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27481 [lbo-talk] Re: jerry brown -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"...Brown's Laffer-devised flat tax + VAT scheme..." > >I remember his proposal for a flat tax, but not any VAT (value added >tax)...was that something added later? at the time, his notion, which >also proposed ending the social security tax deduction( the biggest >chunk out of many paychecks), didn't sound bad to me - a wage earner >among a majority who would have done better under such a system, at >least as it sounded ... > >and s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 3 16:44:06 PST 2003

27482 [lbo-talk] privacy? forget about it! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,58332,00.html> 08:30 AM Apr. 03, 2003 PT NEW YORK -- Privacy advocates: Quit picking on the U.S. government. If you don't want the government to do what it must to protect you from terrorists, you should butt out, said Heather MacDonald, a lawyer at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. She made her remarks Wednesday at the 13th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference. And, she urged, stop all the panic-stricken screaming, be ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 12:45:40 PST 2003

27483 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Today on my radio show, WBAI 99.5 FM in New York and <http://www.wbai.org> on the web, 5-6 PM NYC time: * Bill Fletcher of TransAfrica and one of the lead organizers of United For Peace & Justice (whom John Mage referred to the other day as "our leader"), on the antiwar movement * Raad AlKadiri of PFC Energy <http://www.pfcenergy.com/about/team/ralkadiri.asp> on Iraq & oil * Bathsheba Crocker of CSIS and the Council on Foreign Relations on reconstructing Iraq (her c ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 10:32:32 PST 2003

27484 [lbo-talk] cluster bombs -- rank: 1000

["I am impressed by the precision-bombing...." - C. Hitchens] Financial Times - April 03, 2003 WAR IN IRAQ MILITARY: Civilians tell of cluster bomb attack By Paul Eedle in Hillah, Iraq For hundreds of Iraqi civilians in the path of American forces driving towards Baghdad, war has been devastating. The hospitals of Hillah, 60 miles (100km) south of Baghdad, are overflowing with men, women and children maimed by US cluster bombs that smashed into their homes and streets. Saad al-Falluji, ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 10:39:04 PST 2003

27485 [lbo-talk] apologies... -- rank: 1000

...for the spam just sent to the list. Still some bugs to be worked out of the system. It shouldn't happen again. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 10:26:45 PST 2003

27486 [lbo-talk] American j'ism, part 2 -- rank: 1000

[The lead correction in today's NYT] A front-page article on Tuesday about criticism voiced by American military officers in Iraq over war plans omitted two words from an earlier comment by Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace, commander of V Corps. General Wallace had said (with the omission indicated by uppercasing), "The enemy we're fighting is A BIT different from the one we war-gamed against."

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 10:19:33 PST 2003

27487 [lbo-talk] truth in j'ism -- rank: 1000

[This captures the idiocy of American journalism nicely - they publish and broadcast endless reams and streams of bullshit every day, but publish a doctored photo that tells no real lie - scandal! The photos and editor's note are at <http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-ednote_blurb.blurb>.] Wall Street Journal - April 2, 2003 War Photo Doctored in Field Shows New Ease of Technology By MICHAEL J. MCCARTHY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL A front-page Iraqi war photo in t ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 10:18:04 PST 2003

27488 [lbo-talk] Sonic Youth Against the War -- rank: 1000

[from Patrick Bond's debate list] At 8:08 AM -0800 4/3/03, Hein Marais wrote: >Of interest to some, maybe, new MP3 site from Thurston Moore (Sonic >Youth) with anti-war and other protest songs from primo artists ... >http://www.protest-records.com/mp3/index.html ... including Cat >Power, Eugene Chadbourne, Jim O'Rourke, Sonic Youth. Need a fast >connexion, though.

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 08:33:03 PST 2003

27489 [lbo-talk] Say it ain't so, Max -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What post of Max's is being referred to in this post by Patrick Bond? >Say _what_ isn't so? It was in the article that Patrick quoted in that post. <Search> can be a very useful function in situations like this. I have no idea why Max thought it worth conceding an inch on this issue, and even after his response, I still have no idea. Doug ---- >Privatizing city services can be a good deal in certain cases, says Max >Sawicky of the Washington, D.C.-based Econo ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 3 08:22:59 PST 2003

27490 [lbo-talk] what, me worry? -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >that's one way to look at it, doug. and probably right. yet, the >war news programs really are worse than American Idol, sitcoms and >Law and Order. You're certainly right about that. The "news" is just awful. And if the pollsters are right that people are feeling sad and anxious, escapism may have its charms. At least the American masses aren't vicariously cheering via FNC. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 2 18:01:55 PST 2003

27491 [lbo-talk] why resist? -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2003/reporters_log/> >Baghdad :: Rageh Omaar :: 1335GMT > >Just occasionally you get to lift the lid on this restricted society >- and talk to real people about why the uprisings against Saddam >Hussein that coalition forces expected didn't happen. > >I had an opportunity to talk to some ordinary Iraqis who were out >shopping. I asked one man if the Iraqi people thought of this as a >war of liberation. > >He told m ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 2 16:38:31 PST 2003

27492 [lbo-talk] Flogging a Dead Horse (was Hitch: Stay Strong) -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> >Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:41 PM >Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Flogging a Dead Horse (was Hitch: Stay Strong) > > >> I think I've mentioned this before, but after a Jerry Brown rally in >> NYC in 1992 (at which the Ramones performed, and during which Joey >> said "I never fucking voted in my fucking ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 2 14:59:03 PST 2003

27493 [lbo-talk] Flogging a Dead Horse (was Hitch: Stay Strong) -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >CH's political >compass has spun all over the map, and even back when he was "good," he'd >say things (usually off the cuff remarks) that I thought were in >contradiction to what he stood for. I think I've mentioned this before, but after a Jerry Brown rally in NYC in 1992 (at which the Ramones performed, and during which Joey said "I never fucking voted in my fucking life but I'm fucking voting for fucking Jerry Brown, man!"), I stepped into ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 2 13:41:05 PST 2003

27494 [lbo-talk] privatizing repression -- rank: 1000

[Two items from today's NY Post - the first from Page Six, the second a news story.] >Dixie Chicks under siege > >THE Dixie Chicks say they're in danger of bodily harm from folks who >are taking their anti-Bush statements a little too personally. The >country trio - who got in hot water three weeks ago for telling a >London concert audience they were "embarrassed" that George W. Bush >is a fellow Texan - told Australian radio they've been receiving >threats and ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 2 12:47:08 PST 2003

27495 [lbo-talk] weight loss -- rank: 1000

Some time ago, I was arguing that there are almost no fat execs at the upper reaches of corporate America. Carl Remick pointed to Sandy Weill as a counter-example - "muy gordo," I think he said. Today's NY Post Page Six reports in its "Sightings" feature: >Sandy Weill looking svelte in the Grill Room (someone said he lost >100 pounds) while sipping ice tea.

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Date:	Wed Apr 2 12:43:42 PST 2003