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28621 Terror Inc. -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >For those that appreciate horrible irony--the following from a PBS site on >great art: > >"In 1935, German General Erich Ludendorff published Die Totale Krieg (The >Total War) in which he presented the view that in war, no one is innocent; >everyone is a combatant and everyone a target, soldier and civilian alike. >Italian General Giulio Douhet further suggested an enemy's morale could be >crushed by air-delivered terror. Such theories intrigued N ...

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Date:	Sat May 4 10:07:48 PDT 2002

28622 Terror Inc. -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >But what would be an "appropriate international police response"? I mean, if >it meant going in and ridding the Afghans of the Taliban, would that upset >you? I've seen plenty of people say they'd support a "police action" but >they never say how it would differ from what the US did. This is just the point that got me in trouble when Rick Perlstein quoted me in the NY Observer saying that it would take considerable force to capture these moth ...

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Date:	Sat May 4 09:54:38 PDT 2002

28623 HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION -- rank: 1000

jacdon at earthlink.net wrote: >Chuck0 wrote: > >>I'm not one of those who is interested in "building the left," mainly >>because this abstract phrase is a codeword for "building authoritarian >>sectarian parties." Don't like the fire, Jack? Things have changed. > > >Unfortunately, things have not changed enough. The same sectors of the >left which seemed to direct most of their fire at others on the left, to >the detriment of the strug ...

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Date:	Sat May 4 09:40:00 PDT 2002

28624 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

From: "zalmay farooq" <zalmay_f at hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 08:21:04 +0500 Dear Comrades hope all of you are fine,we are working since 1999,against Captalisam,fundamentalisam,and so on.We are working for Scialism and workers.We are struggle in Afghanistan and Pakistan,as all of you know the hard and bad situation of our poor country,where is war from 25 years,now once agian USA (captalist Terrorist)start their war in our country for their own self and to take control i ...

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Date:	Fri May 3 21:06:25 PDT 2002

28625 Fwd: Detailed review of Nike court decision -- rank: 1000

From: "J. Ballinger" <jeffreyd at mindspring.com> Subject: Detailed review of Nike court decision Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 18:11:59 -0400 Corporate PR Campaigns Lose Speech Protection In 4-3 vote, California Supreme Court says Nike can be sued over its corporate policy statements Mike McKee The Recorder May 3, 2002 In a ruling that's sure to send a chill wind down Madison Avenue, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that companies can be sued for false advertising over policy ...

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Date:	Fri May 3 20:45:34 PDT 2002

28626 Thomas Seay: Paranoid???? :) -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Now I don't know what >Carrol's definition of red-baiting is, but I know that Thomas is a red, of >the libertarian variety. Oh, but you see, that's not the right kind of red. The right kind of red believes in never enunciating an agenda, never taking any actions that might affect politics (short of total revolution, that is), and never trying to figure out how to talk to people outside the Church of True Redness. When the revo is damn well ready, then it will happen ...

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Date:	Fri May 3 20:40:08 PDT 2002

28627 Hersh on the current crisis -- rank: 1000

<http://www.chicagomag.com/pressbox/pressbox_story.htm> May 2, 2002 Seymour Says By Steve Rhodes No reporter in America has been more penetrating, illuminating, and controversial in reporting on the war in Afghanistan-and on the accompanying foreign policy implications-than Seymour Hersh in the pages of The New Yorker. (His work there made him a finalist in the reporting category of the National Magazine Awards, whose winners were announced Wednesday; he lost to The Atlantic Monthly's Will ...

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Date:	Fri May 3 14:13:40 PDT 2002

28628 6.0!!!!!!! -- rank: 1000

Some of this rise in unemployment (as well as weak job growth) may be a statistical quirk, the result of seasonal adjustment. Total employment before adjustment rose 785,000 - which translated into a gain of just 43,000 after adjustment. And the unemployment rate fell before adjustment as well - from 6.1% to 5.7% - but after adjustment it rose from 5.7% to 6.0%. Which isn't to call the adjustments into question. April is normally the strongest month of the year for hiring. So "ordinary&quo ...

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Date:	Fri May 3 13:36:31 PDT 2002

28629 the main course -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Could you say more? I went to the URL but could not see much as I am >not a subscriber. > >For example, are they just talking about the stock market...or about >the economy as a whole? The stock market first, then the real economy. They think this is the big one, with decades of depression and war ahead of us. Remember, though, this stuff is kind of like astrology, with waves taking the place of heavenly bodies. But there's another Elliott fan on lurking on th ...

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Date:	Fri May 3 13:38:19 PDT 2002

28630 Fwd: NEW DEM DAILY: Idea of the Week: Work First -- rank: 1000

[it's a goddam DLC campaign!] Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 13:52:20 -0500 From: New Democrats Online <ndol_admin at dlcppi.org> Subject: NEW DEM DAILY: Idea of the Week: Work First To: dhenwood at panix.com ================================== NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE -- NEW DEM DAILY -- Pithy news and commentary from the DLC. ================================== [ http://www.ndol.org ] 03-MAY-02 Idea of the Week: Work First The distinctive New Democrat contribution to the successful 1996 welfare refor ...

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Date:	Fri May 3 12:48:46 PDT 2002

28631 FT: Anti-globalisation alliance lies low -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >"Peter K." wrote: >> >> Chuck: >> > >2) The shutting down of meetings of international finance. > >Illusions as to the usefulness of this are one of the strongest negative >features of the anti-g movement. If that movement is to continue to be a >positive it must destroy this illusion. > >It is a small boy's dream rather than serious politics. Right. It makes no difference that finance ministers are afraid to come to DC ...

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Date:	Fri May 3 12:07:42 PDT 2002

28632 the main course -- rank: 1000

For the connoisseurs of disaster, here's the latest word from the Robert Prechter shop <http://www.elliottwave.com/>. Prechter is the guru of Elliott Wave analysis, a mystico-structural analysis of financial markets developed by a retired accountant in the 1930s. Prechter has largely withdrawn from public view, but his acolytes continue to pump 'em out. Here's the nut graf from the latest, out today: >As last month's EWFF plainly stated, "the near-term >wave pattern, along with ...

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Date:	Fri May 3 12:05:18 PDT 2002

28633 a kvetch -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese forwarded: >suggest his >past reveals a dangerous right-winger with supporters linked to a >number of >shadowy extremist groups - including Le Pen's National Front, pro- >apartheid >South Africans and the Ku Klux Klan. >In October 1995, Duncan Smith was one of several Tories who met >senior >figures in the French National Front and later drank with them in a >bar at >Westminster. Bruno Gollnisch MEP, Le Pen's deputy, was at the >meeting, >w ...

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Date:	Thu May 2 15:35:41 PDT 2002

28634 HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION -- rank: 1000

Hey, Koch wasn't a bore - he was pretty funny. And he mainly insulted his enemies, not his putative friends. Doug Max Sawicky wrote: >hey it worked for Ed Koch. --mbs > >> >> That's the way to build a movement - bore & insult people. The >> bourgeoisie couldn't ask for better enemies. >> >> Doug >>

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Date:	Thu May 2 10:50:45 PDT 2002

28635 HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There ought to be a way to organize rallies without many (if any) >speakers, but those (like you) who merely bellyache about how terrible >this&that is are wasting their time and making themselves look foolish. >If you want it different, go out and organize. If you don't want to do >that, focus on the people at the rally, not on what's going on up at the >platform. That's the way to build a movement - bore & insult people. The bourgeoisie couldn't ask ...

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Date:	Thu May 2 10:22:57 PDT 2002