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29611 Zizek -- rank: 1000

pradeep wrote: >He he he . . . sad that it takes a sectarian lennist to point out the >obvious about this ridiculous idol of N. American english grad students So that a sectarian Leninist made this drivelish point doesn't make you pause at all? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 27 19:26:34 PST 2002

29612 HRW on race & prison in the US -- rank: 1000

From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Subject: U.S.: Incarceration Rates Reveal Striking Racial Disparities Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:03:00 +0000 List-Subscribe: <mailto:hrw-news-subscribe at igc.topica.com> U.S.: Incarceration Rates Reveal Striking Racial Disparities (New York, February 27, 2002) Human Rights Watch today released the first state-by-state incarceration rates for whites, blacks and Latinos based on actual correctional facility counts. The figures, compiled ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 27 12:10:52 PST 2002

29613 NYT hacked -- rank: 1000

AtNewYork - February 27, 2002 NY Times Internal Network Hacked By Ryan Naraine The New York Times on Wednesday confirmed a computer hacker broke into its internal network, accessing files and folders containing personal information of some of its biggest op-ed contributors. Acting on a whim, 21-year-old California hacker Adrian Lamo found seven misconfigured proxy servers that served as doorways between the Internet and the company's private intranet. Once he got in, Lamo breached weaknesses in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 27 11:48:15 PST 2002

29614 !!! -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >weakness for H Preparation? Heroin? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 27 09:16:32 PST 2002

29615 Marxist sociology -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >A great way to be an intellectual and still get cash is to become >pro-Western -- a tried and true moneymaker that goes back to the USSR, when >any halfwit could defect, portray himself as a "dissident" and start getting >feted as a great fighter for freedom (I could name names, but I don't want >to get in trouble). Come now! Names, please!! Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 27 09:03:38 PST 2002

29616 WSWS on Pearl -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >But the evidence is not that Danny Pearl was killed because people >thought he was a CIA agent. The evidence is that he was killed >because he was a Jew... Supporting this point of view: <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0209/kamber.php> >"My father is a Jew, my mother is a Jew, and I am a Jew" are the >last words Daniel Pearl uttered, an instant before his throat was >slashed, according to government officials who have viewed the >v ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 27 09:00:06 PST 2002

29617 Frum departs -- rank: 1000

New York Post - February 27, 2002 'AXIS' EXIT AT WHITE HOUSE By DEBORAH ORIN February 27, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Bush speechwriter David Frum, credited with coining the dramatic phrase "axis of evil," has exited the White House, sparking a weird little flap about why. CNN commentator Bob Novak touched it off by suggesting the White House, which hates credit-grabbing and leaks, ousted Frum over the revelation his wife e-mailed friends letting them know of her husband's authorship of the p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 27 08:53:40 PST 2002

29618 time to emigrate? -- rank: 1000

Ashcroft, singer/songwriter: <http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 27 08:44:29 PST 2002

29619 Zizek interview -- rank: 1000

My interview with Slavoj Zizek, which was excised from Punk Planet at the last minute by the editor, Dan Sinker, who thought there was too much political stuff in the issue, is now up on the Bad Subjects website at <http://eserver.org/bs/59/zizek.html>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 27 06:34:33 PST 2002

29620 Fwd: Pentagon Will Close Embattled Office -- rank: 1000

Micheal Ellis wrote: > >Rumsfeld said last week that the Pentagon might engage in what he >called strategic or tactical deception, as it has in the past. For >example, if U.S. troops were about to launch an attack from the >west, they might "do things" that would make the enemy believe an >attack was instead coming from the north, Rumsfeld said. > >or just maybe we'll "do things" to make it appear like our forces >are attacking from the north .... ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 26 19:54:14 PST 2002

29621 Capitalism Forever? -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Yes--unless one thinks that money flowing to the elderly isn't >social democracy. Though in the US the Soc Sec as a % of GDP has been remarkably flat for decades. Health spending has soared, but exactly how much good has been gotten from that (as opposed to pure inflation and profiteering) is debatable. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 26 16:34:05 PST 2002

29622 anniversary -- rank: 1000

Today's the 154th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto.

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Date:	Tue Feb 26 13:44:51 PST 2002

29623 Amsterdam -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug also told me that he was going to work on having archives so that >people can tune in at their leisure. Any progress? No, alas. Too many things to do. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 26 12:28:16 PST 2002

29624 Alexander Cockburn on Daniel Pearl -- rank: 1000

Alexander Cockburn wrote: >Pearl and Block stigmatized the Serb armed forces as having done >"heinous things", while also writing that "other >allegations-indiscriminate mass murder, rape camps, crematoriums, >mutilation of the dead-haven't been borne out in the six months >since NATO troops entered Kosovo. Ethnic-Albanian militants, >humanitarian organizations, NATO and the news media fed off each >other to give genocide rumors credibility. Now, a different p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 26 11:06:55 PST 2002

29625 Amsterdam -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Are these radio broadcasts accessible to folks in the bay area? How? When all goes well, WBAI is on the web at <http://www.wbai.org> or <http://www.2600.com>. Also on the show this Thursday, 5-6 PM NYC time, is listmember Patrick Bond. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 26 10:57:43 PST 2002