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30841 Cocks -- rank: 1000

obash at hushmail.com wrote (courtesy of an anonymizer): >Newt Gingrich's Mom wrote: >>It could be interpreted that way <grin> but I grew up in the >>South where cock fights were mentioned often in the culture. >>Besides there are some cocky females on LBO too. >>marta > >Clearly you mispoke and meant to call them "bitch". And the point of this remark was...? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 11:53:25 PDT 2001

30842 Africa could be worst economic casualty -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] AFRICA 'COULD BE WORST ECONOMIC CASUALTY': WORLD BANK. The World Bank has warned that Africa may become one of the worst economic casualties of the war against terrorism and the global economic slowdown, reports the Financial Times (p.8). Lack of investment, worsening trade terms and dwindling aid threaten hard-won political reforms on the continent, said Mamphela Ramphele, the World Bank's managing director for human development, this week. " ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 11:52:04 PDT 2001

30843 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >No one's recommending bombing our inner cities to get those >criminals either, though the NYPD certainly did endeavor to create >free-fire zones of its own. Just ask Amadou Diallo's mother. Which totally sucks, in case anyone thinks I've also embraced the NYPD. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 11:50:07 PDT 2001

30844 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I think a real serious case can be made (I believe Angela Davis has >written on this) that the criminal justice system creates more crime >than it prevents -- especially more street crime. And certainly, the >most vicious and destructive street gang in Chicago is the Chicago >Police Department. Nathan Newman, who's unfortunately taking a vacation from this list, pointed out to me yesterday that lefties who take these sorts of attitudes towards the criminal justi ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 11:46:27 PDT 2001

30845 questions -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >"He was a real journalist. He asked people questions, wrote down >their answers." > - Alexander Cockburn, at a memorial service for Andrew Kopkind, 1995 By coincidence, today is the 7th anniversary of Andy's death. A serious loss that too few people acknowledge these days. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 10:11:42 PDT 2001

30846 questions -- rank: 1000

"He was a real journalist. He asked people questions, wrote down their answers." - Alexander Cockburn, at a memorial service for Andrew Kopkind, 1995

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 10:09:48 PDT 2001

30847 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Besides, no one is opposed to pursuing and arresting street criminals, are >they? I'm waiting for someone to object. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 10:07:38 PDT 2001

30848 Enzensberger on S11 -- rank: 1000

[via <nettime>] Human Sacrifice Is a Thoroughly Modern Phenomenon By Hans Magnus Enzensberger Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 17 Born in 1929, the poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger was a member of the influential postwar literary Group 47; in 1965 he founded the journal Kursbuch, which he led until 1975. Since 1979 he has lived in Munich. Numerous books of his poetry and essays are available in English, including "Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia" (1995). The sw ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 10:06:53 PDT 2001

30849 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Mina Kumar wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >>Subject: Re: Note to the "ladder of force left" >>Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:16:58 -0400 >> >>>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>>> >>>>I've been mugged by a black man, but I'm against the "war on >>>>crimes," racial profiling, etc. >> >>That's not a ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 09:32:15 PDT 2001

30850 Felix, Gilles, Luce, and the gang go boozing in Melbourne -- rank: 1000

[via <nettime>] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:45:20 +1000 From: n ik <fragments at va.com.au> fwd: from Tall Paul (a cleaner who writes for The Paper - http://www.thepaper.org.au amongst other things..) A True Story I was having a few quiet beers after work in the public bar of The Rising Sun hotel in West Footscray the other night, when lo and behold, Jean Baudrillard, Luce Irigaray, Paul Virilio and the ghosts of Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze stunbled in off the street. You could h ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 09:27:12 PDT 2001

30851 different wars -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I noticed that Doug has responded with a post labelling it a "Have you >stopped beating your wife" sort of question. He's correct. I've had that >cliche in mind for 3 or 4 years in respect to his rhetorical technique. Aside from being the holder of the steel-toed boots, I'm also the moderator of this list, and try to foster discussion. That's the major reason I ask questions, just like on the radio. When I write something, I rarely shy away from an opinion. ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 09:16:19 PDT 2001

30852 Harvard pig economist resigns from wage panel -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 23, 2001 Harvard Economist Quits University Panel on Wages, Saying It Heard Only One Side By AUDREY Y. WILLIAMS One of the better-known members of a Harvard University committee studying wage and employment policies at the college has resigned, saying that the group does not welcome the views of people who oppose mandating a minimum "living wage" for Harvard's lower-paid workers. Caroline M. Hoxby, a prominent Harvard economics profes ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 08:58:44 PDT 2001

30853 pig bosses block webmail -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >almost every webmail >service is blocked by work these days Why? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 08:33:51 PDT 2001

30854 US bombed home for elderly? -- rank: 1000

[probably just retired terrorists anyway] Tuesday October 23 10:04 AM ET Official: U.S. May Have Hit Afghan Home for Elderly WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) has received information indicating that U.S. warplanes might have accidentally bombed a home for senior citizens near the Afghan city of Herat on Monday, a senior defense official said on Tuesday. The U.S. official, who asked not to be identified, spoke with Reuters a day after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denied ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 07:45:42 PDT 2001

30855 why is there no social democracy in America? -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >>Mina Kumar wrote: >> >>>Didn't everyone already know this! >> >>It was never proved by economists before. >> >>Doug > >Not so. John Roemer has a paper on Divide and Conquer, Bell J. Econ 1979. He's a Marxist of sorts - doesn't count. It was a joke, anyway. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 23 06:50:13 PDT 2001