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30826 Hitch on Henry -- rank: 1000

[good to see Hitchens take some time out from beating the war drums for beating on Kissinger - this isn't on The Nation's website, so I scanned it - apologies for any remaining scanner oddities] The Nation - November 5, 2001 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Court Time for Henry AIthough it may appear that the aftershocks of September 11 have somewhat deposed the discourse of human rights and international law and replaced it with that of law and order, there is still a great deal to fight for. If anything, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 11:08:32 PDT 2001

30827 cluster bombs -- rank: 1000

BBC; Reuters. 24 October 2001. Cluster bombs trap villagers; Afghan Opposition Warns U.S. Over Civilian Deaths. UNITED NATIONS and KHOJA BAHAWUDDIN -- The United Nations has said that unexploded bomblets from cluster bombs have trapped villagers after a raid near the western Afghan city of Herat. The cluster bombs were dropped around Herat on Monday during a raid in which UN officials say a military hospital and a mosque were hit. Cluster bombs are controversial weapons consisting of a canister ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 24 10:55:04 PDT 2001

30828 Harvard pig economist resigns from wage panel -- rank: 1000

Someone just pointed out to me that Caroline Hoxby, the porcine Harvard economist who resigned from the university's living wage panel, has received over $80,000 in grants from the right-wing Olin Foundation: <<http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/comment_string_search_results.asp?Message=Hoxby>http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/comment_string_search_results.asp?Message=Hoxby<http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/comment_string_search_results.asp?Mes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 10:47:11 PDT 2001

30829 Jamie Love on Cipro patent -- rank: 1000

From: James Love <love at cptech.org> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:42:52 -0400 Talking point on Cipro patent dispute October 24, 2001 , version 1.0 James Love <love at cptech.org> cell 1.202.361.3040 http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/cl/cipro/ 1. The need for generic ciprofloxacin depends upon three factors. a. Can terrorists deliver anthrax to large numbers of people? b. Do the terrorists have access to strains of anthrax that are resistance to other (cheaper and widely available) ant ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 10:31:12 PDT 2001

30830 Fwd: AOL's "youth filters" protect kids from Democrats & from Coalition to Stop Gun Violence -- rank: 1000

[I agree that Dems are a dangerous influence, but this is going too far!] AOL's "youth filters" protect kids from Democrats By Brian Livingston April 24, 2000 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1278-210-3287273-1.html America Online provides "youth filters" that are supposed to keep kids out of dangerous Web sites--but they seem designed to eliminate creeping liberalism. For example, if you've set up AOL to restrict your children to "Kids Only" Web sites: • Your children c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 09:42:05 PDT 2001

30831 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> What are the relative death tolls for Israelis and Palestinians? >> Anyone have this info? >. >576 Palestinians and 164 Israelis. That's since the new Intifada, right? What about in quieter years? Israeli losses to terror attacks were actually fairly small, no? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 24 09:30:41 PDT 2001

30832 partisanship & happiness -- rank: 1000

"Partisan Social Happiness" BY: ROBERT MACCULLOCH London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) Department of Economics RAFAEL DI TELLA Harvard Business School Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=267362 Paper ID: Harvard Business School Working Paper Series 2000 Date: April 7, 2000 Contact: ROBERT MACCULLOCH Email: Mailto:robertmacculloch at compuserve.com Postal: London School of Economics & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 09:29:10 PDT 2001

30833 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>Like I've said many times, I oppose the current strategy. It kills >>and threatens lots of civilians, probably spares the actual perps, >>does little if anything to prevent future disasters, and makes us >>many enemies. I'd just like to make people realize that the no >>civilian death standard is impossible to meet anywhere but in >>fantasy. I'm not endorsing civilian death by saying that, either. >> >>Doug > >Yesterday u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 09:19:26 PDT 2001

30834 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >No, I don't think mere candy-ass "brutality" solves a thing, Max; it >just feeds resentments and causes countermeasures. The only >violence that *really* solves problems is wholesale slaughter, >ideally genocide. U.S. Civil War - ended slavery, laid basis for modern U.S. industrial state. WW II - ended fascism, laid basis for world order under U.S. dominance. Neither was genocidal, but both were very effective, and changed the course of history. You cou ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 24 09:13:57 PDT 2001

30835 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Israel, for instance, may not enjoy peace, but from >a military standpoint its position is pretty secure. What are the relative death tolls for Israelis and Palestinians? Anyone have this info? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 09:07:18 PDT 2001

30836 Discrimination in Underpolicing -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >Nathan Newman: >> ... >> The bemoaning of state violence as THE problem is an odd libertarian tic >> that ignores a whole history of struggle demanding stronger police >> protection for oppressed communities. Chaos has rarely been the choice of >> such communities, however romantic some left intellectuals have found it. > >I'll defend the libertarians (and some commies, too) by >noting that an increased police presence in Black ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 09:00:27 PDT 2001

30837 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >And up the ladder we go. With unknown consequences for Afghans in terms of >killed in bombing and starvation due to bombing, and god knows what else. >Obviously some civilians will be killed in any action. The question is >whether any military action, whether US or UN can be conducted without >large-scale loss of life. Perhaps Max is correct that action is necessary >given the deadly nature of the al-quida network and the unknown dimensions >of their w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 15:33:09 PDT 2001

30838 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >What I haven't seen is Doug or you explain just how this >theoretical military action could occur without the killing of innocents. Killing of innocents can't be avoided under any scenario. The Taliban kill innocents now, an unbroken al Qaeda will kill innocents in the future, a UN force would kill innocents. Our resident revolutionaries would have to concede that a revolution would kill innocents. This is an impossible standard to uphold. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 14:10:04 PDT 2001

30839 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >So, I take it you're not sporting those NYPD/FDNY caps that are all the >rage? No. It's gotten very confusing, especially down in the office neighborhood, which is across from the INS detention center at 201 Varick St, which is supposedly where lots of terrorist suspects are taken for questioning. Streets on both sides of the federal building are shut, guarded by cops, and there are cops in the subway station below. Cops everywhere, including some borrowed from Nassau County ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 12:19:46 PDT 2001

30840 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >That's OK. The NYPD are all heroes now anyway. Funny, all it took >was to film them in slo-mo with the flag rippling in the background >(emoticon of some sort here). Some of them did run into a burning building to try to save people and died for it, you know. Not as many cops as firefighters did, and cops do a lot of nasty stuff and firefighters do almost none, but it wasn't just the slo-mo that made them "heroes." Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 12:12:19 PDT 2001