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28006 more Iraq polls -- rank: 1000

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- New PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll: Americans on the Conflict with Iraq --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/ConflictIraq/ConflictIraq.pdf> October 2, 2002 New PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll: Americans on the Conflict with Iraq A new poll on public attitudes toward the conflict with Iraq has just been released by the Program on International Poli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 2 11:29:18 PDT 2002

28007 Jude W on Saddam H -- rank: 1000

The fully formatted report may be found at http://polyconomics.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=2233 -------------------------------------------------------- Saddam Hussein is an Ugly, Evil Monster!!! Memo To: Everyone, Everywhere, Anytime From: Jude Wanniski Re: The Price of Admission The fact that I have been taking issue with assertions about Saddam Hussein that I believe to be false has made me something of a pariah in political circles. After several years of having a link on Matt Drud ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 2 11:08:22 PDT 2002

28008 Women's Studies. New Paltz, and academic freedom -- rank: 1000

[A few years ago, a right-wing SUNY trustee declared war on the New Paltz campus for a women's studies conference that dared discuss lesbianism and display some sex toys. Now this...] ATTACK ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM AT SUNY-NEW PALTZ The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (founded 1930) has been informed that the academic Administration of SUNY-New Paltz, under Acting President Steven G. Poskanzer, has refused funding to a proposed conference on Women and War, Peace and Revolution organized by ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 2 11:02:50 PDT 2002

28009 never mind... -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 2, 2002 NO URANIUM IN TURKISH TAXI ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish scientists said yesterday the substance at the center of a nuclear weapons scare was not uranium and that the material seized posed no threat. Turkish police said over the weekend they had seized 33 pounds of weapons-grade uranium in a taxi near the border with Iraq. Officials said later the amount had in fact been about five ounces. The difference was explained by the weight of the metal container holding the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 2 09:38:52 PDT 2002

28010 Tabloids and Taliqueers -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >That wasn't my question -- since I've never seen it _or_ CNN or any >other TV newscast since about 1964. (Incidentally, I believe someone did >some research -- perhaps mentioned on this list -- that suggested those >who watched TV news were less informed on events than those who did >not.???) My question dealt with why the existence of something funny and >entertaining should be such a big deal. There is lots of it around. The >comments on this show make i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 2 07:20:05 PDT 2002

28011 LBO #102 -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >I'm guessing that the illus. came from a publicity photo and it isn't quite >as extreme in civilian life. But hell, it's shaken me to the marrow. I >can still see it as a floating retinal image when I close my eyes. >Permanent revolution? Permanent wave, more like. Ha, no it's not that dramatic in person. Michael has a full head of hair, but well short of hairhopper dimensions. And, the "bouncing head" style of photo cropping may accentuate it, by r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 2 07:08:12 PDT 2002

28012 McDonough: US must import less capital -- rank: 1000

[McDonough doesn't mention that the difference in long-term growth rate limits between the US and EU can be explained by population growth - the EU is close to flat, and the US around 1% a year.] Reuters Market News Fed's McDonough urges less foreign capital for US Tuesday October 1, 7:04 pm ET NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) - New York Federal Reserve President William McDonough said on Tuesday the United States would benefit from cutting its dependence on foreign capital, and it would help global gr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 1 16:40:16 PDT 2002

28013 Tabloids and Taliqueers -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The world is full of lively and funny types. So why go out of one's way >to watch one particular instnce of the type? I don't have to go out of my way to watch O'Reilly. We're sitting on the couch and notice it's around 11 PM and tune to channel 46 (local listings may vary). Laughs and outrages follow. Funnier than grumpy Marxists even! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 1 16:27:00 PDT 2002

28014 Osama who? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - October 1, 2002 White House Notebook Naming Names, or Not Osama's been languishing seven months without a mention in a presidential speech. When al Qaeda's leader eluded capture in Afghanistan, President Bush gradually reduced his prominence in speeches to de-emphasize his individual importance. Now, with Saddam Hussein the villain of the hour and the Sept. 11 mastermind's coordinates still unknown, Osama bin Laden has fallen entirely from Bush's lexicon. A search of the White ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 1 15:29:14 PDT 2002

28015 Fwd: Sept. 11 Victims’ Families Applaud Representatives Returning From Iraq -- rank: 1000

Peaceful Tomorrows September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows http://peacefultomorrows.org October 1, 2002 News Release Sept. 11 Victims' Families Applaud Representatives Returning From Iraq Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., and Mike Thompson, D-Calif, are arriving back from Baghdad tonight. Kelly Campbell is West Coast co-director of Peaceful Tomorrows, a group of family members of victims of Sept. 11. Her brother-in-law, Craig Amundson, was killed at the Pentagon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 1 14:29:25 PDT 2002

28016 Oct. 6 & 26 Anti-War Actions -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: > > Joint message from the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & >> End Racism) and Not In Our Name Project on support for October 6 mass >> events and October 26 National March to Stop the War on Iraq. >> >> In the spirit of building the unity of anti-war forces, the >> A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and Not In Our Name Project have issued the >> following joint statement-- > >> Yoshie > >Fronting for ANSWE ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 1 13:57:16 PDT 2002

28017 Heroes of Corporations -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Odd character, Ayn Rand -- sort of a combination of Milton Friedman >and Barbara Cartland. Who joined to produce...Alan Greenspan? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 1 13:04:03 PDT 2002

28018 Fwd: Hersh Brief -- rank: 1000

From: "Polyconomics, Inc." <vlad at polyconomics.com> To: <politics at polyconomics.com> Subject: Hersh Brief Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:29:24 -0400 Dear editors, reporters and columnists: For everyone who is in support of war with Iraq there are a variety of reasons why war outweighs diplomacy in their minds. For some, it is to once-and-for all establish a friendly state with 110 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, for others it is the desire to establish a Middle East o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 1 11:42:50 PDT 2002

28019 sodomy interest group -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 09:34 PM 09/30/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>joanna bujes wrote: >> >>>Say what? Have we got a sodomy interest group here? :) >> >>I'd be very disappointed if we didn't. >> >>Doug > >This from a homeless man yesterday: "You know that energizer bunny? >Well, take out those batteries and shove them in the other way and >watch how that bunny keeps coming...and coming....and coming...." To politicize this a bit, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 1 11:30:06 PDT 2002

28020 Tabloids and Taliqueers -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'd rather not watch either, but what's so entertaining about FNC? O'Reilly often has awful politics, but the guy knows how to do a TV show - it's lively and funny. And even though he has leftish types on mainly to make fun of them, at least they're on. Sometimes movement conservatives take the left more seriously than does the center (no one seems to read the Nation more closely than Russ "Mugger" Smith at NY Press). And Brit Hume is often annoying too - he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 1 08:57:04 PDT 2002