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30916 Fwd: October 19, 2001 MMWR Table of Contents -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:29:29 -0400 From: MMWR Questions <mmwrq at CDC.GOV> Subject: October 19, 2001 MMWR Table of Contents The October 19, 2001 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is enclosed in Adobe Acrobat format. View this week's MMWR as a web page at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr and http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5041.pdf Spain Mirror Site* http://cisat.isciii.es/mmwr October 19, 2001/Vol. 50/No. 41 (file size 168,725 bytes) * Update: Investigation of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 09:28:36 PDT 2001

30917 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > > "Tightly focused"? Weasel words, Doug. Just how much collateral damage >are >> you willing to put up with? >> >> Carl > >Sometimes withholding forceful intervention results (albeit indirectly) in >collateral damage as well, although incidences of guilty feelings and >wailings about bloody hands after the fact are rare. A friend of mine - who is no fan of the bombing - had a long chat with an Afghan living in NYC the oth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 09:27:28 PDT 2001

30918 Churchill -- rank: 1000

Not Winston, Ward. I'm wondering how much sympathy there is here for this position. Doug ---- > The Politics of a Perpetrator Population > > As a whole, the American public greeted these revelations with yawns.. > There were, after all, far more pressing things than the unrelenting > misery/death of a few hundred thousand Iraqi tikes to be concerned with. > Getting "Jeremy" and "Ellington" to their weekly soccer game, for > instance, or seeing to it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 09:20:02 PDT 2001

30919 Doug: "Whuppass those mofos!" -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >right, but maybe you should have jumped on _everyone's_ case who >promoted the bring ObL Inc to justice argument. or, at least >acknowledged that others here have said the same thing on this list. >no one said a word because it all sounded so, civil....and no one >apparently wanted to think things through... doug did. so you've >decided to jump on his case because...why exactly? i don't know. >but it's pretty fucking funny that all of the people here who now ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 08:59:53 PDT 2001

30920 LF -- rank: 1000

Forstater, Mathew wrote: >What about University Business? I thought that LF was part of one >parent company that put out both as well as the webzine Arts & Letters >Daily? Today's NY Times story says UB will continue "in some form." Ever looked at it? It's just awful - the trade journal of the corporate university. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 09:00:46 PDT 2001

30921 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Zak McGregor wrote: >Jesus Christ. Is there a _left wing_ mailing list somewhere? This one >appears to be mis-labeled. You're here, and have said your piece, and there are others who agree with you who also have. There's no party line. Unless that's what you want from a left-wing mailing list - a bunch of robots singing in unison. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 08:46:58 PDT 2001

30922 Doug: "Whuppass those mofos!" -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >... It is devilishly hard to combine an acknowledgment >> >of the role of U.S. policy in creating the conditions in which >> >terrorists can arise with a sense that justice requires the >> >perpetrators be punished and future acts of mass murder prevented. > >Exactly right. But surely the US is bound by treaty to do that through >the Security Council, perhaps by means of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 07:02:57 PDT 2001

30923 anthrax in Kenya -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.com/news/644441.asp> Anthrax sample confirmed in Kenya Letter sent from United States tests positive for bacteria MSNBC NEWS SERVICES NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 18 - Kenyan Health minister Sam Ongeri said on Thursday that a letter sent to an unidentified Kenyan businessman in the capital, Nairobi, had tested positive for the anthrax bacteria. It represents the first case of its kind outside the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks. ONGERI TOLD a news conference that the un ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 07:06:11 PDT 2001

30924 Fisk from Peshawar -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - October 18, 2001 WATCHING THE WAR FROM KABUL'S ROOFTOPS Robert Fisk in Peshawar Mohamed saw the "Arabs" of Kabul leaving at dawn the day after the suicide attacks in New York and Washington, with their families and their guns. "They were taking their possessions out of their homes with their wives and children and they were in a hurry," the 63-year-old driver says. "I had just heard about the attacks on Iranian radio and I was driving around Kabul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 06:23:18 PDT 2001

30925 Doug: "Whuppass those mofos!" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[Hair continues to sprout, unbecomingly, on leftist chests. From NY >Observer, "Left Falls Apart as Center Holds":] > >For Doug Henwood, a WBAI radio host who wrote the scathingly >anti-capitalist Wall Street, one of the best-selling leftist books >of the decade, and who called the Gulf War and the bombing in Kosovo >"American imperial manipulations," the question [about how to >respond to the Sept.11 attack] is a no-brainer. " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 06:17:58 PDT 2001

30926 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Exactly what is being done -- nothing. Except stop killing people while >doing nothing. Ok, this adds to the range of options. It's either nothing, or put Henry Kissinger in the dock. Gosh, this has been so enlightening. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 18:25:15 PDT 2001

30927 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Ok, let me see if I have this right - I'm feeling a bit dim today. Parties not entirely unknown attack the U.S., and parties quite known have sworn to kill us in large numbers. Our response should be to put Sharon, Kissinger, Clinton, and Bush Sr. on trial. Do you crave political irrelevance, or is it just an irresistible habit of thought? Maybe I'm just taking this personally because the WTC was 5 miles south of where I live, and 1 mile south of where I work. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 18:22:31 PDT 2001

30928 life in the playground -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >So it's o.k. for Chip to use worlds like jerk everytime his >tummy is upset. No it's not. Chip, please don't call Charles a jerk either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 18:23:55 PDT 2001

30929 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Zak McGregor wrote: >Sorry Doug, but I really thought we could have had much better from you >than your unconscienable stance of supporting this barbarism I do not fucking support this barbarism. Do you think adjectives like "brutal," "stupid," and "indiscriminate" indicate support? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 16:57:49 PDT 2001

30930 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >"Tightly focused"? Weasel words, Doug. Just how much collateral >damage are you willing to put up with? You first - what the hell do you think should be done? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 16:17:55 PDT 2001