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28201 OBL speaks? -- rank: 1000

[Reuters still refers to him as a "dissident"!] Bin Laden Warns Against Backing U.S. 'Butchers'-TV By Firouz Sedarat DUBAI (Reuters) - A man identified as Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) warned U.S. allies in an audio tape aired Tuesday that they would be targets of new attacks if they continued to back the "White House gang of butchers." In the tape broadcast by Arabic-language television station al-Jazeera, the speaker hailed anti-Western attacks in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 12 14:02:52 PST 2002

28202 secede! -- rank: 1000

[Is this satire?] <http://www.counterpunch.org/stanton1102.html> CounterPunch - November 1, 2002 US Central Government is Bankrupting America Should States Consider Secession? by JOHN STANTON Homelessness and unemployment have reached levels in the US unseen in a decade. Consumer confidence, having been shattered by corporate malfeasance and the hyper-greed of the Bush regime, recently hit rock bottom. According to the National Governor's Association, the 50 States that make up the collect ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 12 12:59:08 PST 2002

28203 A query about France -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 at 6:02pm Doug Henwood wrote: > >> andie nachgeborenen wrote: >> >> >Why is French union density so low, and why does it >> >have a social democratic welfare state despite that, >> >which, if we had it, would make us think thatthe >> >revolution was over and we'd won? jks >> >> I think French unions had/have low membership, but >> negotiate on behalf of a much larger share of the > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 12 12:38:47 PST 2002

28204 A query about France -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Why is French union density so low, and why does it >have a social democratic welfare state despite that, >which, if we had it, would make us think thatthe >revolution was over and we'd won? jks I think French unions had/have low membership, but negotiate on behalf of a much larger share of the workforce than accounted for by their membership. Or used to. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 15:02:33 PST 2002

28205 free ride -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What the Greens should think about is not what liberal Dems still >committed to DP feel about them, but how to mobilize the silent >majority -- especially blacks and Latinos You've got to get pwoggie whites and unaffiliated/alienated whites in this mobilization or the numbers just don't add up. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 14:46:57 PST 2002

28206 free ride -- rank: 1000

Ralph Nader also wrote: >Otherwise the Democrats will become even better at electing very bad >Republicans. So what's Ralph planning to do? Has he ever addressed how much liberals hate him now? Does it matter to him? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 13:57:51 PST 2002

28207 free ride -- rank: 1000

Ralph Nader wrote: >Most Democrats, with the prominent exception of the late Senator >Paul Wellstone The Peoples Weekly World that arrived a few days after the election had the headline, "Win the elections for Wellstone!" The most enthusiastic Dems around after Nathan are in the CPUSA! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 13:56:31 PST 2002

28208 More on the reverse Sokal -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >How come, when I attempted to forward that article (which Rakesh >sent to me as well) it couldn't go through to the list? Is there a >block on anything bearing his name? No, it was too long for posting. There's a 25k limit, and that piece was 26k. There's no block on anyone's name, and Rakesh is always welcome to rejoin the list. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 10:27:15 PST 2002

28209 Fw: Nosedive: The Democrats the Day After -- rank: 1000

Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote: >Who's not acknowledging the difference? By and large, the Democrats are on >the wing of capital represented mostly by domestic industry and labor union >bureaucrats; the Republicans represent the wing of capital dominated by >banking institutions and transnational investment. Huh? Does the name Robert Rubin mean anything to you? Who ran around the world prying open capital markets? Contrast that with the Bushies, who have no Wall Streeters of any consequ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 10:25:46 PST 2002

28210 Fw: Nosedive: The Democrats the Day After -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Perhaps the current set of ghouls just demonstrates that there are >occasions when there is a little difference between parties, but >most of the time these days there is little difference. I'm sure I >don't need to trot out all of the Republican stuff that Clinton did >over his 8 years, including wars, welfare reforms, and the Telecom >Act of 1996. Let me make one thing perfectly clear: the Dems suck. The Reps suck worse. I'm talking degrees of suckiness, which ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 09:55:06 PST 2002

28211 Pelosi Win Not A Progressive Victory (by Stephen Zunes) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Why folks are looking to tear apart the most leftwing person ever to lead >the House Democrats is beyond me. The rightwing is pulling out the knives >to do her in. They don't need more help. Which right? Reps say they're happy she's there - it makes it easier for them to campaign against Dems because they can paint her as a San Francisco Democrat, out of touch with the masses. I'm not sure I believe them when they say this - if they really thought that, would th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 09:48:18 PST 2002

28212 Fw: Nosedive: The Democrats the Day After -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Is it really true that the Dems in power = "a friendlier environment >for union organizing"? Ever since the peaks of 1945-1946 and 1954, >union density has gone downhill, regardless of which party dominates >any branch of the government, as shown by the chart of union density >between 1930 and 2001 provided by AFL-CIO at ><http://www.aflcio.org/uniondifference/uniondiff11.htm>. Well, look at the chart. Density went from around 25% to 15 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 09:45:23 PST 2002

28213 how many rodent hairs are acceptable? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Spy quoted from this in the 80s, and Harper's did in its October >> issue, but it always makes good reading: the FDA's Food Defects >> Action Levels - and the beauty of the web is you can get the whole >> thing yourself: <http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html>. less >> than 10mgs of mammalian excreta per pound of cocoa beans, fewer than >> 30 fly eggs per 100g of tomato paste, fewer then 13 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 09:36:23 PST 2002

28214 McGruder at yale.edu -- rank: 1000

Hartford Courant - November 10, 2002 Withering Wit Has Listeners Captivated `Boondocks' Creator Addresses Yale Event By SUSAN CAMPBELL, Courant Staff Writer NEW HAVEN -- Standing at the front of an auditorium that looked like a castle dining hall, cartoonist Aaron McGruder, of "The Boondocks," leaned into the microphone and said, "All right. Yale." And the packed house applauded, just like that. Through the rest of his nearly two-hour talk on Saturday, McGruder, a 28-year old ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 09:32:25 PST 2002

28215 Calif election demographics -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - November 11, 2002 Negative Campaign Repelled Some Voters A Times exit poll finds alienation of Latinos and African Americans also kept turnout low. By Mark Z. Barabak, Times Staff Writer A slashingly negative campaign and alienation among blacks and Latinos combined to produce the record low turnout last week that gave Gov. Gray Davis the political fright of his life. A lack of competitive legislative and congressional races, as well as the absence of substantive debate, also ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 11 09:28:41 PST 2002