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27991 Fwd: KPFT Controversy (from Counterpunch) -- rank: 1000

[Anyone in Texas who knows more about this?] Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 13:28:41 -0500 From: Robert Buzzanco <buzzanco at mail.uh.edu> Subject: KPFT Controversy (from Counterpunch) Feel free to forward, post, distribute, etc. BB <http://counterpunch.org/buzzanco1003.html> October 4, 2002 Was This Network Worth Saving? Pacifica Caves in to Smear Campaign by ROBERT BUZZANCO On April 17, a program titled "Jewish Voices" [JV] aired on KPFT, a Pacifica radio station in Houston, T ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 5 14:09:56 PDT 2002

27992 working on the Cheney gang -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It might take a total war to get out of an inexorable deflation that >neither monetary nor fiscal stimulation can reverse (if such a >deflation gets underway here). Total war with whom? The old Axis? Doug

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27993 Post Formatting Re: Chickenhawks - Hall of Shame (flash video) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Couldn't more people _please_ not use MIME and HTML. I don't know what >mailing format DoreneC uses, but when I try to reply to one of her posts >& click the quote button, nothing happens on the screen. Apparently all >I do is create an attachment or something. The only way to respond to >posts so formatted is to cut and paste, and that is usually just not >worth the candle. > >On Netscape if you click Preferences under Edit, you will find a menu &g ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 4 15:40:04 PDT 2002

27994 Fwd: Hillary Clinton on single-payer -- rank: 1000

[Someone in the NYC chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program wrote a letter to Hill pleading for her to take up the cause of single payer. I said that was a hopeless task. Here's a response.] >Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:19:13 -0400 >To: dhenwood at panix.com >From: Norman Bauman <nbauman at escape.com> >Subject: Hillary Clinton on single-payer >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-Rcpt-To: <dhenwood at panix.com> >Status: O >X-Status: > >Doug, > >I did b ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 4 15:35:46 PDT 2002

27995 working on the Cheney gang -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Bingo, the upcoming conflagration in Iraq and surrounding countries >is more about renewed inter-imperialist rivalry -- not just >unalloyed U.S. imperialism -- than anything else. Or perhaps I >should say (attempted) unalloyed U.S. imperialism in response to >renewed inter-imperialist rivalry. (The U.S. left would be well >advised to keep in mind the dialectial interplay between the two, >rather than just the sheer menace of U.S. hegemonism, sheer menace ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 4 14:58:06 PDT 2002

27996 Israel in Iraq? -- rank: 1000

Jerusalem Post - September 29, 2002 Israeli special forces are operating inside western Iraq to locate missile launchers that could be used against Israel, according to a report in the recent issue of Jane's Foreign Report. Israeli officials refused to comment on the report. According to the report, the elite General Staff Reconnaissance Unit was ordered to scout out and "find and identify places used by or likely to be used by Iraqi Scud missiles." The newsletter stated that "nei ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 4 14:32:43 PDT 2002

27997 Stiglitz: Alternatives to the Washington Consensus -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>... the IMF ... It is also >>rethinking the use of bail-outs, which have proved largely unsuccessful, > >What is he thinking of? "Bailouts" worked relatively well in Mexico, >Brazil, Korea, Thailand, and--I would argue--made things less bad in >Indonesia. Malaysia did fine without one, and Korea recovered largely because it ignored the IMF's conditions. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 4 13:16:03 PDT 2002

27998 package insert -- rank: 1000

Orders from the Chicks on Speed website <http://www.chicksonspeed.com> come packed with this note: your product is a part of a long process of events which began as a barter booth don't work, trade! after awhile one runs out of things to trade. producction & expansion take over. this product is what you get for your contribution in the sell-out phase of chisk on speed.

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Date:	Fri Oct 4 10:49:27 PDT 2002

27999 WP video of WB/IMF protests -- rank: 1000

[from Romenesko's Media News] <http://nationaljournal.com/powers.htm>Powers: WashPost.com's WB/IMF protest video is "downright artful" William Powers decided to give online video another try after hoping to see last month's World Bank/IMF protests, but missing the evening news. He was surprised by the <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/metro/092702-10v.htm> unnarrated video at washingtonpost.com. "The images and sounds [videographer John] Poole caught -- prot ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 4 10:32:54 PDT 2002

28000 Chickenhawks - Hall of Shame (flash video) -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 at 2:22pm Dennis Perrin wrote: >> >> It doesn't inhibit anyone from anything -- it certainly >> hasn't hurt those it's been aimed at. And for a >> supposedly "anti-war" critic to use it is really quite >> baffling, as it suggests an affinity for and support of >> military action in other situations. And if that's not >> the case, then why use it? > >It's not supposed to valorize military service, ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 3 12:31:39 PDT 2002

28001 what was Danny Pearl after? -- rank: 1000

UPI Exclusive: Pearl tracked al Qaida By By Richard Sale and Anwar Iqbal From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk Published 9/30/2002 6:15 PM View printer-friendly version WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was investigating the man who allegedly planned the Sept. 11 airplane hijackings and attacks on New York and Washington when he was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan, according to two former Central Intelligence Agency officials. Bob Baer, a former ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 3 10:10:43 PDT 2002

28002 war could be good for you -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Lindsay already said that. Yup, he did. But this seems to be a developing theme within the Bush gang. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 2 19:35:56 PDT 2002

28003 war could be good for you -- rank: 1000

[I thought they were supposed to keep this stuff safely hidden and talk instead about democracy and justice and security.] War on Iraq Could Boost World Economy-U.S. Official Wed Oct 2,12:39 PM ET By Pawel Kozlowski WARSAW (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Commerce Department ( news - web sites) official said on Wednesday that a possible war on Iraq could boost the global economy by eliminating a terrorist threat and releasing fresh oil supplies onto world markets. The comments in Poland by Under Secret ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 2 19:20:34 PDT 2002

28004 why we must invade Iraq -- rank: 1000

right now - <http://www.markfiore.com/animation/corrections.swf>

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Date:	Wed Oct 2 17:54:41 PDT 2002

28005 Forward Command Post -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Forward Command Post, <http://www.antiwar.com/comment/jcpenney.html>. God bless America, man. A related item, from the New York Post's Page Six: >Designer dolls > >IS your little boy not manly enough? No worries - just make him an >action figure! Neiman Marcus, for its 2002 Christmas Book, is >offering to make each family member an action figure in his or her >likeness for only $7,500 each. The "lifelike posable action figures" >in ...

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