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37906 Apaches can't handle mountains -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - May 22, 1999 Mountains ground US Apaches By Tim Butcher, Defence Correspondent THE Apache attack helicopter, promoted as the most potent weapon in America's airborne arsenal, will never fly on combat missions in Kosovo because it cannot cope with the region's mountains, defence sources said yesterday. The aircraft, deployed to Albania by the Pentagon with great fanfare as the "silver bullet" to end to the Kosovo crisis, is militarily redundant because of the 10,000 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 22 10:33:39 PDT 1999

37907 suburbanites killing each other again -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Nietzsche seems to be a case study of how not >to do science critique after developing an inferiority complex over >specialisation in philology or some other humanistic discipline. There are >real lessons here for the anti Sokal crowd. ...which are...? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 22 10:18:54 PDT 1999

37908 gun control -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >Countries without a firm Constitution have absolutely >no defence against anything the lawmaking body likes to >do. In such countries, any law is ipso facto 'good', >no matter how biased or hopeless on its face. In the >US, grossly unfair laws generally get struck down by >the Supreme Court as violating one of the >Constitutional guarantees. We're on the grounds of a secular religion here. If the U.S. Constitution is such a groovy thing, why do we jail mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 22 10:05:48 PDT 1999

37909 The weakness of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In message <00d501bea2fd$b540c8e0$90f48482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman ><nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes > >>One more reason why all this "international law" distinction leaves me cold. >>This illegimiate NATO war looks a hell of a lot more moral than that >>"legitimate" war in the Gulf on behalf of oil interests. > >Or maybe it's you that has changed in the intervening years Not to mention the party of the Ova ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 22 09:55:28 PDT 1999

37910 On selling short: short poem for Paula -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > From hliu at mindspring.com Fri May 21 17:24:11 1999 > > Short sellers are pure gamblers. > >This is no more true than saying "long buyers are pure gamblers" ... Yes it is. By the old-fashioned definitions, someone who buys a stock for its dividend is investing, and someone who buys a stock for mere price appreciation is speculating. (Ok, I said this was old-fashioned.) Less mustily, owning a stock represents a claim on real profits and real assets. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 22 09:54:34 PDT 1999

37911 US Standard of Living -- rank: 1000

magellan at netrio.com.br forwarded : >Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 From: "elson" <elson at azu-boles.net> >To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn at csf.colorado.edu> >Subject: US Standard of Living > >Here are some fact on US inequality. I apologize for focusing on a core >state, when the more important issue is the core-periphery gap. But, this >is a response to claims to the contrary regarding the US. > >The facts for the US are, as of 1996: > >% ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 22 09:47:54 PDT 1999

37912 Mormons & the US Constitution -- rank: 1000

[This bounced for a nonsub'd address. Kirsten, didn't know you grew up a Mormon. Can you tell us about the secret underwear?] Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 08:12:18 -0700 From: kirsten neilsen <kirsten at infothecary.org> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: gun control References: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905212221420.2043-100000 at panix7.panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Enco ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 22 08:53:35 PDT 1999

37913 Conviction -- rank: 1000

[Following up on Chris Burford's IRA story, I came across this on the BBC website. Hey, it's not just embassies and hospitals, it's prisons too!] May 21, 1999 Published at 21:15 GMT 22:15 UK <http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_350000/350040.stm> World: Europe Prison was Nato target Nato insists that a prison which it bombed repeatedly in Kosovo was a legitimate military target. The Serbs say the raids in the town of Istok killed up to 19 people. Nato spokesman Jamie Shea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 21 16:02:18 PDT 1999

37914 Long bond at 5.77% -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >Yow! Just a few days ago we were at 5.9! > >This reminds me of last year when the Fed's interest >rate hike drove the long rate down. When was that? They raised the fed funds target in the spring of 1997, but 1998's moves were all towards ease. >Needless to say it all contradicts the typical >classroom interest rate model where you lower rates by >lowering the discount rate and raise 'em by raising it. One policy move may have odd effects, but whenever t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 21 15:42:21 PDT 1999

37915 Soros' plan -- rank: 1000

Oh right, I forgot to point out that that postwar planning study done by the Center for European Policy Studies was partly funded by George Soros. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 21 15:06:56 PDT 1999

37916 gun control -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Does being in the Consitution of the United >States (the wording is probably disordered) make it intrinsically good, >ethical, virtuous, valuable, right, fair, just, and so on. You've touched on one of the founding myths of the U.S. - the weird fetishized sacredness of the Constitution and the wisdom of its Framers. Arguments from the Supreme Court on down to barstools are typically made by appeal to its authority. Conservatives will say "federal aid to e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 21 14:59:45 PDT 1999

37917 [vuk at ljudmila.org: <nettime> green paper] -- rank: 1000

t byfield wrote: >vuk's a close friend, so i'll vouch for him on this. > >not that most of you know me from two bags of flour, of course. > >cheers, >t Just discovered the paper on the CEPS website, in Acrobat form, at <http://www.ceps.be/SEEKOS4B.PDF>. I love Sherlock! I know Ted Byfield, and he bears no resemblance to two bags of flour. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 21 08:59:51 PDT 1999

37918 postwar planning -- rank: 1000

I just put a postwar planning document from the Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels, up on the LBO website. I got the URL from nettime and reformatted the MS Word document for HTML. The summary is below. Note that the document cites David Chandler's Bosnia: Faking Democracy After Dayton, a book that's sharply critical of the imperial occupation of Bosnia. The planners, however, seem to find it a useful how-to summary for postwar Yugoslavia. There's a link to the article from the LBO fro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 21 08:47:41 PDT 1999

37919 suburbanites killing each other again -- rank: 1000

Fellows, Jeffrey wrote: >I think this statement is repulsive, callous, and symptomatic of the type of >social disintegration people on this list are trying to overcome. Jeff >> > Nothing personal, but I do not feel any remorse about suburbanites >> killing >> > each other. >> > >> > wojtek Yeah Wojtek, that's pretty awful. Much about American suburbia sucks, but the people who live there are human. Maybe if the fellows of the Council on Foreign Rel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 21 08:02:06 PDT 1999

37920 the upcoming referendum in East Timor - was The weakness of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Interesting, but not to the point. The question was about the >justification for Chomsky's comment that "Today there's strong opposition >to US support for Indonesian slaughter in East Timor [in spite of the fact >that] there are no American body bags" -- and that's clearly true. If their numbers are few and effects are immeasurable on the ground, how can this opposition movement be "strong"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 21 07:42:15 PDT 1999