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31426 Leftists (white) and Black Liberation, was Re: Civil Rights -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >I buy Art's story that blacks feel like the rest of the worlds' dispossessed >about S11, which can't be said about any other group. As blacks seem to be >the only radical force left at a time when the US is in danger of turning >fascist - for real, this time - is anyone in the left doing anything to >awaken the political consciousness that is buried under their nihilistic >hatred? Of the black Americans who vote, about 90% vote for Democrats. That's ni ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 6 08:18:10 PST 2001

31427 Conspiracy R Us -- rank: 1000

Voodoo Ergonomics wrote: >one other sticking point, though. it's fairly evident that the bush >administration would have no problem working with bin laden. but i >wonder about the opposite. isn't bin laden supposed to be a man of >principle? aren't the attacks on america designed to remove the >infidels from the holy land? why would he stoop to deal-making? So his cave doesn't get bombed? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 6 07:50:41 PST 2001

31428 Worms making the rounds. -- rank: 1000

Macdonald Stainsby wrote: >I want to warn radical email receivers. > >Several times recently I have recieved an email from addresses with seemingly >normal names- Mary Smith, Jim Robertson Jim Robertson? Hardly a normal name - he's the capo of the Spartacist League! Rumored by his rivals to have quite the hot tub in his Manhattan loft. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 6 07:43:37 PST 2001

31429 Washington comes to the aid of CCA -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 6, 2001 Federal Government Saves Private Prisons As State Convict Population Levels Off By JOSEPH T. HALLINAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. -- Like pioneers from an earlier time, Corrections Corp. of America nearly met its demise here in the Mojave Desert. The private-prison operator spent $106 million in 1998 to build a giant prison in the sand, confident it would land a contract to house California prisoners. What CCA officials ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 6 07:34:45 PST 2001

31430 jailhouse romance -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 6, 2001 In a Paris Prison, the Courtship of a Lawyer And Her Terrorist Client Confounds Officials By JOHN CARREYROU Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL PARIS -- Between drags from a cigarillo and spoonfuls of sorbet, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre says her fiancé is "an exceptionally warm man." Never mind that he has claimed responsibility for 83 killings and been linked to scores of bombings, kidnappings and other violent crimes. Mrs. Coutant-Peyre is in l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 6 07:35:46 PST 2001

31431 oil rent -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 10:02:44 -0500 From: "Patrick L. Mason" <pmason at garnet.acns.fsu.edu> Rakesh: I follow the application of the theory of differential rent to the international price of oil. There are however three caveats. First, I think the theory has to be applied to "oil sites" (possibly, firms) and not to regions. For example, when the price of oil tumbled severely in the late 1980s after the Saudis flooded the international market with oil (because they wer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 6 07:31:53 PST 2001

31432 crisis? what crisis? -- rank: 1000

That election thing last year? Forget about it! <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr011106.asp>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 6 07:29:57 PST 2001

31433 Green Party official busted at gunpoint -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Is this repostable to other lists?-- a bit of a debate on the NLG site about >the credibility of this incident. Thought this made some good tough points >on the incident. The list is archived, and therefore a public record. The particular tough-minded post in question is at <http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/current/0327.html>. It has an epithet-rich relative at <http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/current/0468.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 6 07:20:05 PST 2001

31434 Max's wager -- rank: 1000

Will Thurber wrote: >So Doug... Can we assume you've appointed a list serve manager, >preferabbly somebody in Greenland to take over in the event of... >I mean we'd all miss you, but the list should go on, right?? ;-) For the moment, the server is also below Gramercy Park - just barely, on West 18th St. That should change shortly, but in case Armageddon arrives sooner than expected, it will all go "poof." I have, however, secretly deputized a listmember to keep an eye on thin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 5 15:44:08 PST 2001

31435 Max's wager -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >But I do believe that increased security measures, as a rule, tend >to make people more, not less frightened, by elevating the fear of >attack in their minds. And, whilst being some way away, it's >difficult not to think that Americans have scared themselves a great >deal since September 11. Come over for a visit, James; I'll happily put you up at no cost. Anthrax in the mail, tales of suitcase nuclear bombs that would cause "all of Manhattan below Gr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 5 15:13:46 PST 2001

31436 Fwd: Re: more Bina -- rank: 1000

[I forwarded Christian's questions to Cyrus Bina, who responds...] From: "Cyrus Bina" <binac at mrs.umn.edu> To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:32:27 -0600 Doug, The notion of globalization of the oil industry rests on the following mechanisms: 1. The mechanism or the formation of DIFFERENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY (reflecting differential profitability) of oil production globally. This reflects the competition of all oil regions (low cost ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 5 13:32:30 PST 2001

31437 more on Oden -- rank: 1000

[from PEN-L - the original article is still on the Counterpunch site] Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:07:49 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Bousquet <chicoexaminer at yahoo.com> UGGGH!!! This is article is irresponsible-- I too received it about twenty times now through various email lists and individual emails, and was outraged by it, so did some elementary research. The article first appeared on Indy Media, here is my post to that web site: I contacted Jeff Russel, who is with airport security at Bangor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 5 10:27:44 PST 2001

31438 Counterpunch responds -- rank: 1000

> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 10:12:44 -0800 > From: "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitka at home.com> > To: Tim Bousquet <chicoexaminer at yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [ChicoLeft] Green party leader barred > from flight by federal troops > > tim-- > > i find your letter self righteous and appalling. > > please desist from publishing any more counterpunch > pieces in your pathetic paper. > > jsc > counterpunch

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 5 10:29:28 PST 2001

31439 Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"? Re: Green Party official busted at gunpoint -- rank: 1000

Art McGee wrote: >The only >difference is we would have hit someplace that would have >been sure to toast a lot more of you cracker bastards, >instead of working-class people of color. > >Yes! The U.S. deserved to be hit! [Fidel Castro, who knows something about being persecuted by the U.S. government, from a recent speech:] I noted earlier that before concluding, I would return to the issue of terrorism, the war and the international economic crisis. Although we have made our ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 5 07:07:33 PST 2001

31440 Oden a Victim of Dirty Politics -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: > Yet Rankin made the astounding claim: "The Green Party of the United >States is the only Green political organization organized nationally as a >party". One can imagine why she would like people to believe that. > The confusion over party names is not the fault of the Green Party USA. >The Green Party USA has been the Green Party for years, and held national >conventions since 1984. SEE http://www.greenparty.org/intro.html > But it wasn't until July ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 5 06:39:43 PST 2001