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31201 Arguments for ground war - forget it -- rank: 1000

Can someone explain the UN situation to me. In the current In These Times, Ian Williams says the resolutions - supported by Russia & China, among others - give the U.S. full legal authorization for the war. At a Nation seminar last week, someone (don't know who) vociferously argued to the contrary. Anyone know the story? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 10:40:30 PST 2001

31202 Nude Finaces -- rank: 1000

rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au wrote: >And it's probably the closest thing to a curve it'll see today, as the public >bulls begin to evince the private bearishness public data have so long >recommended... Hey Rob, the Dow is up 20% from its Sep 21 low. Bear trap, or new bull? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 08:46:39 PST 2001

31203 ObL's summer house -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - November 19, 2001 Bin Laden's summer house stripped bare by looters Willis Witter JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Looters have carried off almost everything of value from the football field-sized fortress that was the summer residence of Osama bin Laden, the presumed mastermind of the September 11 atrocities. Five armed men yesterday were taking what little of value remained - two canvas tents, a toy truck and a bag of rice. "We're protecting this place," one of them claime ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 15:29:29 PST 2001

31204 military analysis -- rank: 1000

A military analysis of the Taliban & Northern Alliance from a U.S. military source: <http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01spring/jalali.htm>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 15:19:54 PST 2001

31205 Recipes and Prehistoric Schmeehistoric Whatevers :) -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: >If it makes you happy, I'll retract the "severely" adjective. Chalk it up >to having a bad day. In Doug's case, however, I seem to remember him >posting a link to the Primitivism web site saying something like "look how >crazy these folks are." In Doug's defence, some of it is nuts, but there >is some good stuff there, too. I especially enjoyed "Future Primitive" by >John Zerzan, and the "The Lessons of East ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 14:18:25 PST 2001

31206 Pre-historic human societies -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Yes.... But I'm an effete ivory tower intellectual unwilling to >discipline my curiosity and place it entirely at the service of the >Collective... Heavens, Brad. What came over you in your absence? Did the Berkeley city council reprogram you? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 13:39:25 PST 2001

31207 Off List Re: Marxism At Yale -- rank: 1000

Peter Kosenko wrote: >By the way, one of my econo-trained-monkey-MBA dear close friends >sent me a response that Rawls sounded to him like "Pareto >optimality" (whatever the hell that is -- I've heard it used). Pareto optimality is the condition in which no member of a society can be made better off without making someone else worse off. Pareto himself was quite an elitist and often is taken as something of a fascist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 13:32:16 PST 2001

31208 Conspiracy Theory as Clutter [Fwd: Re: Dumb gets dumber] -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >I agree with everything you say Carrol, except for the "machinations of a >bunch of spooks", which I see as reductionism. This is 10 for today, Hakki. Cut back to three, or I'm going to get the steel-toed boot out of the closet. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 12:57:12 PST 2001

31209 Pre-historic human societies -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >There are deep (and unresolved) questions about whether the >neolithic revolution was a disaster for human happiness Kind of late in the day for this to be politically relevant now, isn't it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 12:58:40 PST 2001

31210 Al-jazeera -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 11:02 PM 11/19/2001 -0500, you wrote: >><http://www.odaction.org/challenge/70/jazira.html> >>Challenge No. 70 - November 9, 2001 >> >>Al-Jazeera: The Thousand and One Bin Ladens >>Samya Nasser > >I don't know about that article Doug... Is Al-jazeera any more >"nationalistic" or propagandistic than CNN? > >And the final accusation that Al-jazeera is responsible for the intifada? > >Laughable!!! Forwardin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 10:12:13 PST 2001

31211 Hakki-work -- rank: 1000

Hakki, comrade, you're averaging about 6 posts a day, twice the recommended daily maximum. You're also saying the same thing over & over. Throttle back the volume, and in your greatly reduced daily quota, try to say something fresh (in the sense of new, not of rude, since you show no deficiency in the rudeness department). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 09:21:47 PST 2001

31212 political compass -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: > >my score: > >Economic Left/Right: -6.75 >Authoritarian/Libertarian: -8.41 This distresses me that people are outscoring me in the libertarian direction. I must have mischecked something. Either that, or I need an ideological audit and renovation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 08:52:11 PST 2001

31213 Off List Re: Marxism At Yale -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >For example, thw quick and effective refutation to the Golden Rule >as set out above is: suppose you are a masochist and what you want >done unto you is to have horrible pain inflicted upon you? No non-psychotic sadomasochist believes in pain without consent. So that refutation doesn't refute much. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 08:28:59 PST 2001

31214 A note to the exorcists -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >I suggest you contribute to the list by showing us your research. What have >you got to offer that disproves the Interfor report? How can you prove that >the holes in the case against the Libyans aren't there? Without evidence, >your opinions are uninteresting. Heavens. You may not like what Chip has to say, but he's presented the list with plenty of research. The Public Eye website <http://www.publiceye.org/> is full of research. Much of what you pres ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 07:52:33 PST 2001

31215 political compass -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >yet another web page that hopes to measure your political compass >(apologies if you have seen this before): > >http://www.politicalcompass.org/ > >my score: > >Economic Left/Right: -6.00 >Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.51 Mine: Economic Left/Right: -7.50 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.82

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 07:24:07 PST 2001