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28726 Bobby Fischer on 9/11 -- rank: 1000

[just catching up with the Harper's pile...] Harper's - March 2002 [Diatribe] THE BIN LADEN DEFENSE The following conversation between Bobby Fischer and radio host Pablo Mercado was broadcast September I I on the Philippine radio station Bombo Radyo. In 1972, Fischer became the first American to win the World Chess Championship; he fled the United States in 1992 after the federal government indicted him for breaking economic sanctions by playing a chess tournament inYugoslavia. PABLO MERCADO: We ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 10:01:34 PST 2002

28727 Green insincerity -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Doug > >>A simple first step would be a sharp increase in the gasoline tax in >the U.S. I'm afraid the Hudson will be lapping my ankles before that >happens. > >Suprisingly this probably is NOT the best way to reduce energy consumption. Hmm, why not? Greenhouse gas emissions are lots lower in Europe and Japan than they are in the U.S. Per US$ [PPP basis] of GDP, the U.S. emits 0.67 kg of CO2; the Netherlands, 0.47; and Japan, 0.38. Annual energy use per ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 22 09:14:23 PST 2002

28728 Green insincerity -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't see how Jim's challenge can be in good faith. And I don't see >how the responses to it make any sense at all. Steps will be taken when >there is loud public clamor, threatening disruption of business as >usual, for those "steps." For persons who are out of power to say, we >should do this or that, is academic in the bad sense (looking for >neither truth nor change) unless they have a scenario of how they would >achieve power to implement ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 21 11:23:59 PST 2002

28729 It's official: No military action against Iraq (beyond the usual perpetual bombing) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Sandbagging alert!! I for one recall all the awed descriptions >of the Iraqi military by the Pentagon, before they went in and >cleaned their clock. Yup, and the left bought the sandbags in quantity. This time we're hearing "Iraq is not Afghanistan," which is unarguably true, but that doesn't mean that the Pentagon couldn't make hamburger of them. I wish the U.S. military were as ineffective as some antiwarriors like to claim. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 21 11:20:43 PST 2002

28730 al-Qaeda and Taliban -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Hakki, every single Israeli kid goes in the army, and every good student >goes into one of these units. It's probably what you or I would sign up >for in their place if we were forced to take a job in the army right after >high school and we lived in a milieu in which patriotism was still rife. Things seem to be changing, sorta. Apologies for any unfixed scanner glitches. Doug ---- Harper's - April 2002 [Conversation] NO EXIT From an interview with Israeli sol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 21 11:11:08 PST 2002

28731 Green insincerity -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >A ban on tollbooths? Gee, I know stopping global warming is going >to call for heroic self-sacrifice, but do you think the American >public is ready for such a noble, visionary move? Dunno, but the ban on curbside check-in didn't last very long, did it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 21 10:47:24 PST 2002

28732 location, location, location -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: > Please, I'm asking you, knock it off. Lists have charters >and appropriate topics - thats why seperate lists exist. If I piss you >off elsewhere, flame me elsewhere. If I piss you off here, flame me for >what I type here. I think this is a reasonable request. Yup. I have a very limited appetite for metalist or interlist commentary. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 21 07:28:35 PST 2002

28733 Green insincerity -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Nathan, Miles and Doug all protest that I must be wrong about global >warming, but in all seriousness, if they believed one per cent of >the predictions of impending environmental disaster WOULDN'T THEY >FEEL OBLIGED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. > >I really do not see the point of explaining why a point of view is >wrong when plainly those who are expressing it do not even >themselves take it seriously enough to act upon it. > >Nathan in partic ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 21 07:12:46 PST 2002

28734 the elusive ObL -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: > >Wow. More mountain-moving miracles and OBL sightings. This is mostly >fiction >>written at a desk in Boston and put out by the Christian Science Taliban. > >>How do you know? Can you just tell from >Japan? > >CSM has been a totally crap newspaper since at least the Reagan era. >Obviously I was stating an opinion, so that's how I know. Do you want me to >cite my sources like Chip? I saw an interview with a half brother of OBL on &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 21 06:45:14 PST 2002

28735 ice shelf collapses -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >How "perversely wrong" does someone have to be before they are no longer >"smart and interesting"? Sometimes perverse can be interesting, in many fields of endeavor. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 21 06:44:01 PST 2002

28736 the elusive ObL -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >Wow. More mountain-moving miracles and OBL sightings. This is mostly fiction >written at a desk in Boston and put out by the Christian Science Taliban. How do you know? Can you just tell from Japan? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 20 19:24:35 PST 2002

28737 Fwd: Pew Research Center for The People & The Press -- New Poll -- rank: 1000

X-From_: www at webfarm1.netcampaign.com Wed Mar 20 15:48:01 2002 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:45:59 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Pew Research Center for The People & The Press -- New Poll From: mailprc at people-press.org Our annual survey about religion and public life finds Americans, despite their religiousness, struggling with the role of religion in the world. It also shows signs of a closet concern about the linkage between violence and Islam. The poll of 2000 adults that we conducted with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 20 16:40:14 PST 2002

28738 angry bird dicks (was Re: Dicks n' Dough) -- rank: 1000

sui.generis at myrealbox.com wrote: >the faggot in texas This is getting fucking annoying. What's the point of this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 20 16:25:13 PST 2002

28739 Scoop: Ice melts! -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >More likely is that this environmental shock-horror story will drift out >of people's minds within a few days, along with all the other panics >that come along from time to time. The reason for that indifference is >not apathy, but an intuitive sense that the sky is probably not falling >down. No, the polar ice caps are. It's no scoop that ice melts; it's something of a scoop that the poles are thawing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 20 16:13:50 PST 2002

28740 poll results -- rank: 1000

star.matrix at verizon.net wrote: ...and wrote and wrote. I'm bored with this thread and you're flagrantly overposting. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 20 16:06:51 PST 2002