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28741 ice shelf collapses -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:ckromm at mindspring.com>Chris Kromm >To: <mailto:lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:08 PM >Subject: re: ice shelf collapses > > > [Just had James Heartfield on the radio, and he told us global >> warming was no big deal. James?] > > >>Yes, global warming is a conspiracy propagated by the capitalists >to keep down the wo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 20 16:00:00 PST 2002

28742 ice shelf collapses -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Why you had James "pollution is good because it's oh so proletarian, >or at least in my flimsy analysis" Heartfield on your show is the >real mystery... For one, Dan Lazare was also on, to disagree wtih him. But for two, I like James, and I think he's a smart and interesting guy - even when he's peversely wrong, as he is on cars and global warming. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 20 15:58:02 PST 2002

28743 the elusive ObL -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Sam Smith for dredging this up] Christian Science Monitor - March 18, 2002 Al Qaeda plotted new US attacks Villagers say they heard Osama bin Laden's voice last month, and saw his No. 2, Ayman al Zawahiri, in caves. By Ilene R. Prusher | Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor SHAH-I-KOT, AFGHANISTAN - Key Al Qaeda officials, possibly including Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No. 2 to Osama bin Laden, were present in the fortified Shah-i-Kot caves of this region just before the recent US ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 20 15:52:12 PST 2002

28744 ObL in the Balkans -- rank: 1000

[don't think this made it here, but I've been behind] National Post - March 15, 2002 U.S. supported al-Qaeda cells during Balkan Wars Fought serbian troops Isabel Vincent Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network has been active in the Balkans for years, most recently helping Kosovo rebels battle for independence from Serbia with the financial and military backing of the United States and NATO. The claim that al-Qaeda played a role in the Balkan wars of the 1990s came from an alleged FBI docu ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 20 15:49:17 PST 2002

28745 angry bird dicks (was Re: Dicks n' Dough) -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >doug can do whatever he wants with the list and the rest of us have >to live with it, imo, but (speaking as a veteran community manager) >if i were doug i would think hard before disallowing aliases. I won't. Besides, how can I tell someone's "real" identity anyway. Gussie Fink-Nottle could subscribe as Stilton Cheeswright, and I'd never know. What I don't want is another Jan Carowan episode (though Rakesh Bhandari is always welcome back). I've been away ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 20 14:25:17 PST 2002

28746 ice shelf collapses -- rank: 1000

[Just had James Heartfield on the radio, and he told us global warming was no big deal. James?] Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses Tue Mar 19, 6:31 PM ET By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer An enormous floating ice shelf in Antarctica that has existed since the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago collapsed this month with staggering speed during one of the warmest summers on record there, scientists say. Scientists stopped short of blaming the collapse on global warming (news - web sites) caused by h ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 19 15:50:44 PST 2002

28747 useful idiots of the empire -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote, quoting Nathan: >>I'm not in favor of invading Iraq, but it's not because of some idea that >>would violate the democratic rights of Iraqis to self-determination. When >>South Africa bowed to the end of Apartheid, partly because of outside trade >>sanctions, I think that was a wonderful and justified violation of >>self-determination. > >No, it was a way of promoting the self-determination of the black majority. And a vigorous and admir ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 18 21:53:41 PST 2002

28748 poll results -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >not only would I vote to provide addresses, >I would ban aliases except by express >permission of the moderator. A very tempting position. Archangels, for example, are very suspicious. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 18 21:52:13 PST 2002

28749 poll results -- rank: 1000

Polls closed 5 minutes, 13 seconds ago. 60 people voted, a turnout of 18%. 32 voted not to obscure email addresses, 28 for. (As I said when the polls opened, I voted "yes" to test the thing, and I've deducted that from the yes vote and the total vote.) The nays have it. The yes (pro-effacement) vote was 8.4% of the list, so I'm gathering that there's neither passion nor numbers behind the sentiment. The addresses stay, at least for now. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 18 15:10:15 PST 2002

28750 firms crackdown on websurfing -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,51009,00.html?tw=wn_ascii> Filters Block 'Sinful Six' By Joanna Glasner 2:00 a.m. March 18, 2002 PST Wasting time on the Internet -- perhaps the favorite pastime of corporate America -- is increasingly coming under assault. In the interests of creating a more efficient workplace (or simply preventing employees from spending the day looking online for better jobs), Internet filtering firms say that a growing number of companies have begun restricti ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 18 14:08:07 PST 2002

28751 Brock -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >there was a good review in the Post this >week-end of Brock's latest crappola. By Bruce Bawer, gay conservative. Were there a comparable book by a left-winger going right - oh, like Christopher Hitchens - would the Post give it to an unreconstructed left-winger to review? Or wouldn't that be "interesting" and "unpredictable"? Speaking of Hitchens, love this little gem from Bawer's review - "For good measure, he also disses one left-winger, Chris ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 18 10:50:03 PST 2002

28752 game theory fails a test -- rank: 1000

[game theory always struck me as a bit of a crock, but I never knew quite why - here's one reason - the original paper is at <http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jg2n/ten&ten.pdf>.] Business Week - March 18, 2002 Economic Trends Edited by Peter Coy Game Theory's Hidden Holes To economists, Russell Crowe is the sentimental choice for Best Actor at this year's Academy Awards. In A Beautiful Mind, Crowe plays John F. Nash Jr., the brilliant mathematician who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in eco ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 18 09:51:22 PST 2002

28753 unions & Global Crossing -- rank: 1000

BusinessWeek online - March 14, 2002 Global Crossing: Labor's Questionable Windfall Thanks to a union-owned insurer's early stake in the former highflier, more than a dozen labor leaders profited handsomely The unfolding scandal involving Global Crossing may be about to engulf an unlikely group: the U.S. labor movement. The labor connection involves a union-owned life insurance company that was one of the original investors in the fiber-optic outfit, providing some initial seed money to Global f ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 18 09:18:32 PST 2002

28754 Brock -- rank: 1000

The annoying BuzzFlash.com interviews David Brock: <http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/03/David_Brock_031802.html>. So Matt Drudge "had a crush" on Brock? Is Drudge, you know...? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 18 08:40:12 PST 2002

28755 500,000 in Barcelona -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 18, 2002 EUROPE: Huge protest march passes off peacefully By LESLIE CRAWFORD Hundreds of thousands of people staged a peaceful demonstration against global capitalism in Barcelona on Saturday, underlining that their movement did not die with the September 11 attacks against the US and that their protests need not be marred by violence. Organisers said the turnout, which they put at more than 500,000, surpassed their expectations. The march was the largest staged in " ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 18 06:43:53 PST 2002