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27631 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote: >You would have been able to infer that I don't hold non-citizens of >the US responsible for US foreign policy. But of course the citizens >of NYC aren't responsible for US foreign policy, it is American >citizens collectively. Working class citizens are entitled a vote >too I gather. Hey, you're a citizen of a secondary imperialist power that usually sides with the US. You responsible for that, too, or is it all our fault? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 17:32:01 PDT 2002

27632 list alums in the news -- rank: 1000

New Haven Register - September 18, 2002 Green alderman's musical style is his message Angela Carter, Register Staff NEW HAVEN - Green Party Alderman John Halle has a knack for melding what he dubs "outrageous statements" into classical music or even - opera. Take for instance "Mortgaging the Earth," an operatic track on a CD he's compiled featuring his compositions. New York-based sopranos Kristin Nordevaal and Heather Buck of The Sequitur Ensemble cantillate, or chant, excer ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 17:10:46 PDT 2002

27633 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >And when I finally crack and become a neoconservative I've been a conservative. The company is even stranger than being a leftist, and I don't mean that in a good way. For every Chris Caldwell there are ten people who will tell you about the Queen of England's alliance with Henry Kissinger, or espouse caveman sexual ethics, or will insist that minimum wage laws are immoral and corrupting, or take policy guidance from Leviticus, or even, as in the case of a former Party ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 16:25:49 PDT 2002

27634 Bush speaks -- rank: 1000

The press has largely sanitized these, but here's a fresh eruption from W, as reported by Sam Smith in his Progressive Review: >There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in >Tennessee -- that says: Fool me once, shame on . . . shame on you. . . . >Fool me . . . you can't get fooled again." - Bush at East Literature Magnet >School in Nashville.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 18 16:07:23 PDT 2002

27635 go long coffee, short SBUX -- rank: 1000

From those socio-economists at the Elliott Wave Theorist: >Forbes magazine will in all likelihood soon be publishing our >analysis on Starbucks Corp. (SBUX). I want you to read it first so I >will discuss the highlights here. For Forbes we have basically, >updated our analysis presented in the December 2001 issue of The >Elliott Wave Financial Forecast. You will recall that in that issue >we forecast a significant bottom for coffee and a top for the stock >of Starbucks. Our ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 13:58:30 PDT 2002

27636 the wage treadmill -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 wrote: >This data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was released today: > >"Real average weekly earnings increased by 0.3 percent from July to August >after seasonal adjustment, according to preliminary data released today by >the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. A 0.3 percent >increase in average hourly earnings and a 0.3 percent rise in average >weekly hours were partly offset by a 0.3 percent increase in the > ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 13:56:00 PDT 2002

27637 Russian oil shipments to US to continue -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Yukos to continue shipments of crude to US So what's the state of oil politics in Russia these days? Are Russians angling to replace Saudi Arabia as the swing producer? Do they want to use production to get political leverage, or do they just want to make lots of money? If the U.S. gets its hands on Iraq's spigots, and Russia is more or less friendly, the Saudis will find themselves rather less important. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 13:32:40 PDT 2002

27638 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote: >Yes, they deserved it. More generally, Germans collectively deserved it. If I was correctly informed, the extermination of the aboriginal population of Tasmania is the only case of successful total genocide in history. Do you deserve some retribution for this too? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 11:29:49 PDT 2002

27639 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > > I think smashing the Nazis was worth a lot, but that seems a bit extreme. >> >> Doug > >Do you think destroying Dresden actually helped to smash the Nazis? I doubt >it. That was my point. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 06:39:04 PDT 2002

27640 JPM Chase - hey don't blame us, we were victims too! -- rank: 1000

[from the funnies page] Wall Street Journal - September 18, 2002 Banks Were Victims in Fraud Cases, Not Accomplices By WILLIAM B. HARRISON, JR. In the aftermath of Enron, we are now hearing a drumbeat of "return to the good old days," when banks were banks and investment banks were separate. Many are asking whether bankers of either stripe played a role in helping Enron and other companies defraud their investors. The reasoning behind this inquiry ignores what actually happened to the ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 18 06:28:46 PDT 2002

27641 Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Did the Nazis deserve Dresden? Remember, the U.S. had a theory behind that - terror bombing, to demoralize the civilian population (that which wasn't killed, that is) and foment hatred of the government, a strategy first theorized by a pal of Mussolini. It was behind the firebombing of Tokyo too. They practiced Dresden for years, mastering the target pattern to produce the maximum fire. I think smashing the Nazis was worth a lot, but that seems a bit extreme. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 17 20:53:07 PDT 2002

27642 Bush exaggerating own data -- rank: 1000

USA Today - September 17, 2002 [via Yahoo via BuzzFlash] U.S. Assertions Go Beyond Its Intelligence John Diamond USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is expanding on and in some cases contradicting U.S. intelligence reports in making the case for an invasion of Iraq, interviews with administration and intelligence officials indicate. Administration officials accuse Iraq of having ties to al-Qaeda terrorists and of amassing weapons of mass destruction despite uncertain and sometimes co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 17 14:52:47 PDT 2002

27643 U.S. undergrads -- rank: 1000

Someone pointed this out to me offlist. Interesting data on U.S. undergrad attitudes is at <http://www.avot.org/stories/storyReader$72>. They're gung-ho to invade Iraq, as long as someone else is holding the rifle. But otherwise, this is far from hopeless. Doug >37% of Students Say They Would Evade the Draft > >37% of all college students said they would be "likely to try to >evade the draft," while another 21% would be willing to serve "but >only if stationed ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 17 12:40:23 PDT 2002

27644 why we are so weak -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It seems to me that you and Tahir think of my post on RAWA as an >example of thinking that goes like "RAWA criminal, Taliban >anti-imperialist," or what DP calls "soft-on-the Qaeda" left (how's >that for "black and white terms"?). > Seriously, how else to interpret Tahir's post or your response to it? Here's what you said (though he quoted several other people as well, so my gratitude for his research was about several poster ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 17 12:32:00 PDT 2002

27645 why we are so weak -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >Today, everywhere is Austria. You mean former rising neofascist stars are fading and their governing parties are collapsing? This is very reassuring! Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 17 12:33:20 PDT 2002