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29866 Stan Goff, "Victories Overruled" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>>The U.S. military depends upon poverty draft to fulfill much of >>>its manpower needs, counting on poor young men and women who don't >>>look to the military as a lifelong career. >> >>Everyone says that, but is it really true? Aren't their test scores >>and such better than that? >> >>Doug > >***** _Population Representation in the Military Services -- >Fiscal ...

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29867 Stan Goff, "Victories Overruled" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The U.S. military depends upon poverty draft to fulfill much of its >manpower needs, counting on poor young men and women who don't look >to the military as a lifelong career. Everyone says that, but is it really true? Aren't their test scores and such better than that? Doug

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29868 Stan Goff, "Victories Overruled" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Rank-and-file soldiers don't own the Fortune 500. Those who command >them have to give them a good reason to fight, like fighting against >fascism, and then they must embrace it as their own cause. Didn't you post something a while back - maybe even by Goff - saying that modern training techniques have gotten firing rates way up - that even in WW2, soldiers were reluctant to fire, but thanks to operant conditioning, now they've got itchy fingers. The U.S. milit ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 14 14:46:13 PST 2002

29869 Stan Goff, "Victories Overruled" -- rank: 1000

Goff makes the US military sound grossly overrated here. How credible is this? Aren't the Russians & Chinese pretty impressed with it? The war game may have been fixed, but Goff conceded the US will walk all over iraq anyway. So what gives? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 14 13:28:58 PST 2002

29870 Lula -- rank: 1000

So the guest I interviewed on the radio Thursday - Geisa Maria Rocha, who wrote a piece on the recent political economy of Brazil for NLR's July/August issue <http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25001.shtml> - says that Brazilians are "mild" and "not radical" and therefore not likely to rebel against Lula's betrayal. What do you think? Doug Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >-----Mensagem original----- >De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >[mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists. ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 14 10:36:41 PST 2002

29871 more Xmas ideas -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >http://www.catholicshopper.com/products/madonna3.html > >How appalling is it that they don't ship outside the states? Damn, I retract my previous wonder at the web. How provincial. Isn't Catholicism more universal than new age skincare products? Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 13 15:54:32 PST 2002

29872 more Xmas ideas -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >we never get such great catholic crap in australia But thanks to the web, now you can! I get my shaving cream from Australia <http://www.natio.com.au>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 13 15:35:28 PST 2002

29873 Kissinger resigns -- rank: 1000

Kissinger Resigns as Head of Sept. 11 Commission 34 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stepped down on Friday as chairman of a commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House announced. "It is with regret that I accept Dr. Kissinger's decision to step down as chairman of the National Commission to investigate the events of Sept. 11 2001 and the years that led up to that event," President Bush (news - web sites) said in a statemen ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 13 15:04:53 PST 2002

29874 more Xmas ideas -- rank: 1000

Wonder if Nader would approve? <http://www.catholicshopper.com/products/inspirational_sport_statues.html>.

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Date:	Fri Dec 13 11:51:53 PST 2002

29875 Ralph Nader on the burning issues of our day -- rank: 1000

Clevelan Plain Dealer - December 13, 2002 Nader asks papers to help inspire couch spuds 12/13/02 Stephen Koff Plain Dealer Bureau Chief Washington - More Browns? More Yankees? Fugeddaboudit. When it comes to his newspaper, Ralph Nader wants more stories about intramural volleyball, pickup basketball and touch football. Try Our Classifieds The consumer advocate, former presidential candidate and Lou Gehrig idolater is asking America's newspapers for more coverage of recreational and participatory ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 13 11:42:44 PST 2002

29876 socialism & sex in Amsterdam -- rank: 1000

Socialism and Sexuality. Conference University of Amsterdam, October 3, 2003 Past and present of radical sexual politics. Content of the Conference: In the past, radical sexual politics have most often been closely connected to leftist movements: from utopian socialism and anarchism to marxist feminism. And most movements for sex reform, homosexual rights or birth control were closely linked to progressive ideologies. Notwithstanding major changes in the field of sexuality, many of them engineer ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 13 08:53:43 PST 2002

29877 Bill Buckley bloviates -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 12, 2002 To Preserve What We Have American Conservatism By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. When in 1955 I set out to publish a journal devoted to the interests of U.S. conservatism, I stressed in a preliminary circular pretty much what one would have expected on the subject. It was necessary then, and would be necessary for most of the balance of the millennium, to confront directly the challenge of Soviet-based communism; to explain, and to plead, that whatever the pains a ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 12 06:55:42 PST 2002

29878 Signorile on WashTimes -- rank: 1000

New York Press - December 11-17, 2002 The Gist Michelangelo Signorile That Other Times It's been almost comical watching the wolf pack of predominantly male commentators and media critics of every political persuasion ripping into The New York Times, which in their estimation is on a devious and dangerous crusade to compel a golf club to-heavens to Betsy!-actually admit womenfolk. The way Times editor Howell Raines is pushing this issue, they seem to be saying, you'd think it was the year 2002 o ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 11 13:54:10 PST 2002

29879 a rancid Lott -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:47:32 -0500 From: "Chris Kromm" <chris at southernstudies.org> I N S T I T U T E F O R S O U T H E R N S T U D I E S FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 LOTT'S STATEMENT ONLY LATEST INSTANCE OF SENATOR'S SUPPORT FOR RACIST CAUSES *** Southern Institute says Lott's recent praise for Strom Thurmond's segregationist platform echoes previous statements and support for racist organizations *** DURHAM, N.C. - -Senate Majority Leader Trent ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 11 13:51:06 PST 2002

29880 Weak Links? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That was then. Where are weak links today, and where is the weakest >link -- within each nation and among nations? How much of a surprise was the Russian revo to the outside world? Was Russia perceived as a weak link, or did it only become so in retrospect? Doug

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