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33856 Middle East update -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review - anyone know anything about MiddleEast.org? the advisory board looks respectable] BBC: Israeli TV has reported what it describes as a "secret security agreement" at the Sharm el-Sheikh accords which promised "immediate war" in response to the threat of terrorist attacks. The five-point agreement is also said to have called for the re-arrest of the Hamas leaders released by the Palestinians. The TV quoted the clauses of the agreement as fo ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 12:20:26 PDT 2000

33857 Genovese -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >Russell Kirk How seriously is he taken outside the hardcore conservative camp? Do mainstream political science types read him? Back in my Party of the Right days he was revered almost as a prophet. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 11:42:40 PDT 2000

33858 Fwd: Memo on the Margin: Nation-Building With Bombers -- rank: 1000

[I've been trying to tame my Jude obsession, but this is too rich to overlook.] Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from http://www.polyconomics.com) October 18, 2000 Nation-Building With Bombers Memo To: George W. Bush From: Jude Wanniski Re: A Commitment to Haiti You're getting tons of advice, I know, but I can't resist making a suggestion that I believe would help your presidential campaign in these last few weeks: I think you should tell the nation that once elected, you ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 11:35:35 PDT 2000

33859 Patrick Bond in NYC -- rank: 1000

Listmember and all around excellent guy Patrick Bond will be in NYC tomorrow (Thursday) talking about African social movements - noon, Columbia U's School of International Public Affairs (the school of empire), 11th fl. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 11:18:08 PDT 2000

33860 Clinton, peacemaker -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - October 18, 2000 Clinton: A marriage counsellor reading from a cereal packet By Robert Fisk Language is meant to liberate human beings. But President Bill Clinton's brief statement at Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday was loaded with cliches -- the "cycle of violence", the idea of "moving forward" -- and there were times when he sounded like a marriage guidance counsellor reading his script from the back of a cornflakes packet. He used the word "violence&q ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 10:51:52 PDT 2000

33861 Gore, budget-cutter... -- rank: 1000

[...even in a recession!] Financial Times - October 18, 2000 Gore 'to cut government more than Bush' By Peronet Despeignes in Washington A top economic adviser to Al Gore's presidential campaign claimed on Tuesday that the vice-president would reduce the size of government by more than his rival, George W. Bush. Laura D'Andrea Tyson, who previously served as chief economic adviser to the Clinton administration and is now dean of the business school at the University of California at Berkeley, sa ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 10:33:39 PDT 2000

33862 Hillary: dyke? -- rank: 1000

GFN.COM, October 16, 2000 http://www.gfn.com/news/news.cfm?story_id=7687&topic_name=gfn_com_exclusives [*** Note: You can view the infamous commercial on this site. ***] Commercial Closet: Hillary, Legislator or Lesbian? By Mike Wilke As a groundbreaking, independent woman, perhaps it was likely that someone would say Hillary Clinton is a lesbian. But in a political commercial? This year's New York state senate race is history-making, where the nation's First Lady is seeking elected office ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 10:25:23 PDT 2000

33863 Fwd: Vanishing Voter Weekly Update -- October 18, 2000 (fwd) -- rank: 1000

From: Vanishing Voter <vanishingvoter at ksg.harvard.edu> To: vanishingvoter at ksg.harvard.edu Subject: Vanishing Voter Weekly Update -- October 18, 2000 ONE IN SEVEN LIKELY VOTERS STILL UNDECIDED ON A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE October 18, 2000 from the Vanishing Voter Project http://www.vanishingvoter.org =============================== About one in seven Americans likely to vote on Election Day say they have not yet picked a presidential candidate. With the polls showing a close race betwe ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 18 10:07:04 PDT 2000

33864 Fwd: Research Shows Israeli Pattern of Excessive Force -- rank: 1000

[torturously worded but...using concrete-piercing bullets on civilians?] From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:21:08 -0700 Research Shows Israeli Pattern of Excessive Force Palestinian Authority Also Fails in Duty to Protect Civilians (New York, October 17, 2000) - Human Rights Watch today released results of a week-long investigation that condemns Israeli police and security forces for a pattern of using excessive, lethal force in clashes with demonstr ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 15:28:26 PDT 2000

33865 Fwd: Economy - Fox's vision of an open border -- rank: 1000

[The creepy Negative Population Growth folks distributed this through their email list. Interesting despite that.] Washington Post - October 17, 2000 Mexico to Expand Texas Incubator Effort By Mary Jordan DALLAS - Inside a brick warehouse in Dallas, Mexican president-elect Vicente Fox stores many hopes. Three years ago Fox, then a state governor, flew here and personally selected the building in the city's busy Regal Row district, where Mexican entrepreneurs could sell their vases, boots and fur ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 15:15:05 PDT 2000

33866 debates was guilty / innocent was debates -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > >>> dhenwood at panix.com 10/17/00 01:02PM > > and what's stable or >unitary about self-identifying as a Marxist? > >(((((((((((( > >CB: Unity and struggle of opposites is orthodox Marxism. Sure you >want to identify with us ? Well, yeah. But my point was that for everyone who self-identifies as a Marxist, there's another self-identified Marxist who's eager to say, "No you aren't!" Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 13:29:26 PDT 2000

33867 Said on American Zionism -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >And it doesn't work if other people on your "side" are shooting >Olympic athletes at the same time. That news tends to crowd your >demonstrations out of the news cycle... That was 25, 30 years ago. Your average newscaster doesn't remember the day before yesterday. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 12:49:33 PDT 2000

33868 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And I don't know any serious person (not counting some National >Rifle Association leaders and members in the category of serious person) who >advocates making bazookas or atomic artillery generally available in the >corner market. Some nut who won a House seat in the Republican sweep of '94 was asked what his criteria were for private ownership of weapons. He said anything the government own, citizens should be free to own. Asked if that included nuclear weapons, ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 10:04:31 PDT 2000

33869 debates was guilty / innocent was debates -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Then why does everyone I know >identify themselves as a unified, stable type--race, gender, >religious affiliation, political affiliations, and so on? This is >like that infuriating psychodynamic idea of repression--If the >client says no, it must mean yes. Not always. Depends on the question, the context, and the vehemence of the denial. > The social fact is this: we >are socially constrained to be unitary subjects. That's what The Man wants us to b ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 10:02:16 PDT 2000

33870 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Really! A couple of carrel commandoes like you two talking about >gunslinging as the road to a better society -- it's pathetic. I'm just looking for an excuse to carry a purse. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 09:54:59 PDT 2000