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33841 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >>Nonsense. "Advancements" like terminator gene technology would >>greatly intensify capitalists' control of the food chain. >> >>Carl >> > >Yes. And terminator gene aside, the continual contamination of >non-GM fields with GM crops:brings up the question of control. >Check out this lawsuit in Saskatchewan, Canada: So what are we opposed to? GM itself, or capitalist pig control of the food supply? Why not call for libera ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 19 14:05:20 PDT 2000

33842 Fwd: Working Families Party -- rank: 1000

[Ah yes, those great "progressives" - Peter Vallone and Hillary Clinton! What a bag of crap. This whole enterprise seems designed to keep "progressives" voting for Democrats, while providing the illusion they're building something for the long term.] Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:28:01 -0400 To: ddkallick at tuna.net From: David Dyssegaard Kallick <ddkallick at tuna.net> Subject: Working Families Party Dear Friends and Colleagues: This is a long note to convince you that yo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 19 14:01:53 PDT 2000

33843 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >Caution lefty friends: don't visit self-gov.org without first being >prepared for dangerous libertarian ideas. Dangerous? You can hardly walk out the door without tripping over one. Is that the sense in which they're dangerous? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 12:40:36 PDT 2000

33844 Colombian emergency -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 19, 2000 NOTICE - - - - - - - CONTINUATION OF EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA On October 21, 1995, by Executive Order 12978, I declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 19 11:36:24 PDT 2000

33845 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

martin schiller wrote: >My impression was that there was a limit on the number of posts that were >permitted on LBO within one day. There is. And lots of people have been rather egregiously violating them. You know who you are. Please stop. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:57:14 PDT 2000

33846 AOL chief donates $8 million to church that funds ex-gay ministry -- rank: 1000

AOL chief donates $8 million to church that funds ex-gay ministry by Barbara Dozetos Gay.com Network The church that received a large donation from the Case Foundation announced who the donor was Monday. America Online chairman Steve Case and his wife, Jean, donated over $8 million last month to a school run by the Rev. James Kennedy, whose church also sponsors anti-gay programs including the "ex-gay ministry" Worthy Creations. Jean Case graduated from the Westminster Academy in 1978. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:39:54 PDT 2000

33847 Israel may lock Palestinians into own state -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 19, 2000 Israel may isolate Palestinians in own state By Judy Dempsey in Jerusalem Top Israeli military and political officials are drawing up plans that threaten to lock the Palestinians into a small, disconnected state separate from Israel as a last resort if peace negotiations are not resumed. Under the unilateral scheme, movement in the territory would be restricted and the economy suffocated, raising the possibility of a sustained violent confrontation with Israel. ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:23:43 PDT 2000

33848 Goodman gagged -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:44:53 -0700 From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> Subject: AMY GOODMAN UPDATE Free-Speech Comrades: I spoke to Amy Goodman tonight. She was in fact given a letter by Pacifica threatening her with termination if she does not abide by a strict set of work rules. Amy is concerned that all of us not get bogged down in the details of this letter. It's not a privacy issue, she says, but about focus. These work rules will effectively crush her ability to pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:25:02 PDT 2000

33849 Fwd: BIG Ithaca HOUR News! -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >Off to buy the weekly groceries in a town three times the size of >Ithaca from little shops where you actually get recognised and >greeted with a genuine warm look-in-the-eye after you've shopped >there twice... but this is Australia Hey, that happens even in NYC. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:16:25 PDT 2000

33850 Fwd: BIG Ithaca HOUR News! -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >Ithaca money was never meant to have anything *but* a local effect. >The local is the whole point, fer cryin' out loud. As Glover says >in his introduction: > >"We printed our own money because we watched Federal dollars come to >town, shake a few hands, then leave to buy rainforest lumber and >fight wars. Ithaca's HOURS, by contrast, stay in our region to help >us hire each other. While dollars make us increasingly dependent on >transnatio ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 16:51:56 PDT 2000

33851 Fwd: BIG Ithaca HOUR News! -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >Doug, I'm wondering why Paul Virilio occurred to you in this context? Only because I used the word "silly" to describe him a few hours earlier, and I was self-conscious about using the same word twice in so short a time. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 16:52:39 PDT 2000

33852 Fwd: BIG Ithaca HOUR News! -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >For those of you interested in local money... > >I believe my home town of Ithaca, NY was the first to develop the >idea, encapsulated in Ithaca Hours (each one of which is, by common >agreement, worth ten dollars). And Paul Glover's the madman behind >the "local tender" scheme. He's also the one who started the health >fund, mentioned below. This scheme strikes me as largely silly, though in a different way from Paul Virilio. The economic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 18 16:05:22 PDT 2000

33853 Virilio on Kosovo -- rank: 1000

[Not yet up at the ctheory site <http://www.ctheory.com>, but sent to email subscribers. Here's an extract; I'll forward the whole thing to anyone who wants it. Am I wrong in finding this silly?] *John Armitage*: Let's talk about your theoretical efforts to understand and interpret the Kosovo war in _Strategie de la deception_. Is the campaign in the air the only important element that other theorists should pay attention to? *Paul Virilio*: Let me emphasise the following points about the ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 14:01:35 PDT 2000

33854 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >There is a story about Scalia and some law >prof. She was criticizing some opinion he wrote as wrong. He concluded by >saying, there is one difference between us. Yes, she said? He said, I am on >the Supreme Court, and you are not. Reminds me of a story Donald Barthelme told somewhere about a conversation with the IRS agent who was auditing him. He mouthed some blather about how literature was discourse, the tax code was discourse, everything was just discou ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 12:54:45 PDT 2000

33855 Report Offers Insight into Rural, Suburban, and Urban Crime -- rank: 1000

For Immediate Release October 18, 2000 PUBLICATION ADVISORY WASHINGTON, D.C. A new report from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) examines the extent of criminal victimizations in urban, suburban, and rural areas between 1993 and 1998, the latest year for which these data are available. According to Urban, Suburban, and Rural Victimization, 1993-98, the trends in violent and property crime for urban and suburban areas from 1993-1998 were similar. For both urban and sub ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 12:49:17 PDT 2000