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30931 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The current attack on Afghanistan is not unilateral but >multilateral: the USA, the UK, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Japan, etc. >What, then, is your reason not to support it? Because it's indiscriminate and brutal. Massive bombing isn't what I had in mind. And the weaponry is almost all American. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 16:12:45 PDT 2001

30932 LF -- rank: 1000

Bad news - just heard that Lingua Franca is folding, "having lost the support of its major investor," which I suppose means BVD heir Jeffrey Kittay. As Alexander Cockburn said when the Soho News closed, pretty soon the only place left to write will be bathroom walls. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 15:42:59 PDT 2001

30933 Sontag v Chomsky -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Did >she visit Hanoi and duel with Diane Trilling about it??? She wrote a famous essay about her trip to Hanoi (and one of her traveling companions was the late and much-missed Andy Kopkind). Much of it was about her feelings. I think a lot of her political history over the last 20 years is trying to compensate for her youthful indiscretions - that essay, and the famous remark about the white race being the cancer of history (a figure of speech she later did penance for ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 13:47:16 PDT 2001

30934 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Well, at least you capped the sneer with an exclamation point this time. I always envied Billy Idol's sneer. Maybe there's hope for me yet. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 11:43:30 PDT 2001

30935 IMF/WB to meet in Ottawa -- rank: 1000

News Brief No. 01/103 October 17, 2001 International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20431 USA IMFC and Development Committee Meetings To Be Held November 17-18, 2001 in Ottawa The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Köhler, and the President of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn, after consultation with the institutions' Boards of Executive Directors, and with the chairmen of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) and the Developmen ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 11:42:52 PDT 2001

30936 future, progress, etc. -- rank: 1000

[This is co-sponsored by the former LM folks, in partnership with Reason and Novartis, among others. Looks like it might be interesting.] <http://www.instituteofideas.com/newyork.htm> Science, Knowledge and Humanity is a major series of public debates about the future prospects for human innovation and progress, organized by the London-based Institute of Ideas and the New School University's Wolfson Center for National Affairs. Debates run from the evening of Friday, October 26th, 2001 thr ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 11:22:09 PDT 2001

30937 terror plastic still in use -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 17, 2001 HIJACKERS' CREDIT CARDS STILL IN USE By BRIAN BLOMQUISTand WILLIAM NEUMAN October 17, 2001 -- Credit cards belonging to the suicide hijackers continued to be used after the Sept. 11 attacks - indicating associates of the terrorists remained in the United States weeks after the kamikaze strikes, authorities said yesterday. The most recent charge on one of the cards came two weeks ago - a full three weeks after the terror strike - a law-enforcement official told Th ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 10:06:55 PDT 2001

30938 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >see, if the US government had done everything right, and it still >turned out that the Taliban wouldn't cooperate to let an >International Police force get ObL Inc, then no one could whine -- >except people who follow Carrol in arguing that the entire justice >system is fucked. Would you really find it repulsive if, in the end, >those police forces had to use guns and various weapons to get these >guys? Not sure to whom this was addressed, but if it was to me, ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 09:50:20 PDT 2001

30939 HRW Q&A on International Law -- rank: 1000

From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:18:00 +0000 Human Rights Watch Q&A on International Law (New York, October 16, 2001) -- Human Rights Watch today issued a background paper on legal issues arising from the September 11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan and related anti-terrorism efforts. The paper discusses in everyday language some of the complex legal questions that states involved in the campaign against terrorism must address. As this paper ex ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 09:26:05 PDT 2001

30940 IMF/WB to reschedule meetings -- rank: 1000

From: soren at igc.org Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:59:51 -0400 50 Years Is Enough Network staff received a phone call this morning from Alan Beattie of the Financial Times, probably the journalist with the deepest "inside" contacts at the IMF and WB these days. He said that it looks like the meetings that had been scheduled for Sept. 29-30 but which were postponed are now being rescheduled -- "probably in November" and "probably in North America." These meetings woul ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 09:18:38 PDT 2001

30941 Hersh on SA -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?011022fa_FACT1> KING'S RANSOM by SEYMOUR M. HERSH How vulnerable are the Saudi royals? Issue of 2001-10-22 Posted 2001-10-16 Since 1994 or earlier, the National Security Agency has been collecting electronic intercepts of conversations between members of the Saudi Arabian royal family, which is headed by King Fahd. The intercepts depict a regime increasingly corrupt, alienated from the country's religious rank and file, and so weakened and frightened that it ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 08:55:36 PDT 2001

30942 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >You didn't ask a question. You merely wrapped a sneer in a question >mark. Right. I don't know what I'd do without a daily dose of your clarifications. > Who do you think attacked WTC and what do you think the U.S. >purpose is? I think the official story - al Qaeda, an organization intimately wrapped up with the Taliban - is more or less right. (Even Robert Fisk believes that, no?) The U.S. response is a brutal and stupid retaliation for that act. It's certainly b ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 06:39:12 PDT 2001

30943 Colombia a target? -- rank: 1000

U.S. Official Reveals Colombia as Target State Dept.'s Taylor at OAS: The Andes is in Military's Sites By Agence France Press Translated from original Spanish by The Narco News Bulletin Washington, October 15, 2001: The terrorist organizations that operate in Colombia are also targets of the global anti-terrorist campaign launched by the United States after September 11th, said Francis Taylor, anti-terrorism coordinator of the State Department. "All the resources" available to the Unit ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 06:08:24 PDT 2001

30944 Anti-War Movements -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug said: > >>Well who attacked the WTC then? > >If a crime's been committed, it would look suspicious to me were someone >to send the cops on a rampage in the "criminal" part of town, busting >doors and heads, while the police chief and mayor chant a mantra about >"seeking justice". That's an answer to another question, not the one I asked. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 06:04:56 PDT 2001

30945 no religion jokes, please, we're a free people! -- rank: 1000

[letter to the Times (London)] <http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,59-2001361433,00.html> Religion as a fit subject for comedy FROM MR ROWAN ATKINSON Sir, I hope that I am not the only person in the creative arts who feels great disquiet about the proposals outlined by the Home Secretary in the Commons today, to introduce legislation to outlaw what has been described as "incitement to religious hatred" (reports, October 16). Having spent a substantial part of my career parodyin ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 17 05:52:45 PDT 2001