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40021 Falwell on Littleton -- rank: 1000

According to the Rev. Mel White's weekly newsletter... >JERRY FALWELL AND THE COLORADO MASSACRE >On his call-in television program yesterday, Jerry Falwell agreed with a gay >caller that "this hate business is not acceptable on either side." But then, >after making it clear that the killers in Colorado were gay, he said: "They >asked a whole room full of students lying on the floor '...if you're a >born-again Christian stand!' A little 18 year old girl - who h ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 09:17:14 PDT 1999

40022 New light on NATO motives? -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >What's the difference between "allowing NATO troops to rampage through >the country" and "taking it over"? Taking it over is a lot more troublesome - you have to run a colonial government. Rampages are simpler, and so much more fun! Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 09:10:44 PDT 1999

40023 cluster bombs in Montenegro -- rank: 1000

[NATO's sounding like Clinton with all these apologies!] Telegraph (London) - 30 April 1999 Civilian dies as strategic airport is 'destroyed' By Caroline Davies in Podgorica NATO SAYS SORRY AFTER MISSILE HITS SOFIA TWO powerful explosions rocked Podgorica yesterday as Nato appeared to continue the bombardment of Montenegro which began on Wednesday and is said to have claimed the first civilian life in the tiny Yugoslav republic. At least 30 strikes were launched on Yugoslav army installations in ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 08:11:03 PDT 1999

40024 Thatcher -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >But Thatcher had no special hold over the working classes. The fault was >in the opposition, and its exhausted political programme. Of course, it >was much easier to believe in the superhuman powers of Margaret Thatcher >than to address those failings... Well, as (Sir) Alan Walters said, Thatcher's most lasting achievement was the transformation of the Labour Party. What *does* have a special hold over the British working class in 1999? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 07:37:39 PDT 1999

40025 COVERING UP RACISM -- rank: 1000

EmaChissit at cs.com wrote: >MEMBER OF TC COVERS UP RACISM WITH BIZARRE TALE. INCREDIBLE DISPLAY OF >VIRULENT RACIST SENTIMENTS! You've made your point. Long ago. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 20:51:43 PDT 1999

40026 il manifesto on the war and labour -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > I guess I tend to side with Wojtek on this one. >There are people in Washington and New York who >sit up nights worrying about the euro. But that worry >has subsided somewhat given its general decline >since the beginning of the year. I just don't see the >US as having instigated this war to "show the Europeans >who's boss." > Clearly the US is the military instigator >and leader and everybody knew that and knows tha ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 20:50:36 PDT 1999

40027 Thatcher quote -- rank: 1000

S Pawlett wrote: >Conservatism as an ideology has nothing to say for itself. But as Stuart Hall argued, Thatcherism infected the masses' day-by-day understanding of life. There was a major shift in popular discourse away from class-conscious, solidaristic rhetoric & towards individualized, market talk. While the Tories may be on the ropes, has Blair's Labour party really done anything to reverse this, much less come up with so pervasive an ideology of their own? I'm not there, so maybe so ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 15:51:30 PDT 1999

40028 the Nielsens -- rank: 1000

I just heard a story about how they construct the Nielsen TV ratings. A guy I know with, oh, unusual viewing habits was selected as a Nielsen "family" (a family of 1, but that's what they call them). He got a box attached to his TV to record his viewing habits. After a few weeks, he got a call from Nielsen saying they wanted to drop him. Turns out they found their "ideal" family - one not like him. In talking with the Nielsen rep, he found out that 22 people had turned down N ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 15:45:39 PDT 1999

40029 debt relief -- rank: 1000

[An analysis of the various debt relief initiatives floating around by Soren Ambrose of the 50 Years is Enough Campaign. I'll be interviewing Soren on WBAI, 99.5 FM, NYC, at 5 PM this afternoon (i.e., in 2 hours). - Doug] From: <soren at igc.org> Sender: "Alliance for Global Justice" <agj at igc.org> To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: piece on debt initiatives Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:40:10 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Im ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 11:59:35 PDT 1999

40030 New light on NATO motives? -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Does anybody know where the full content of the R. "agreement" may be found? <http://www.balkanaction.org/> Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 11:56:17 PDT 1999

40031 il manifesto on the war and labour -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I am somewhat skeptical about claims that this is a US-led aggression. It >looks to me more like a genuine European social-dummiecratic concoction - >in which the Clinton administration was a co-conspirator but not >necessarily the leader. Europe can't even agree on building a damn naval frigate. How could they launch a common war? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 09:59:08 PDT 1999

40032 Littleton -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: ><Gutmacher says its 20% abstinence and 80% contraception. Any >other thoughts?> > >Where did they say that? Not personally. Someone from the Institute said it <http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/042999sci-teen-births.html>: < quote> "Many groups want to take credit for the drop in teen-age pregnancy, but the credit truly goes to the teen-agers," said Jacqueline E. Darroch, the [Alan Guttmacher] institute's vice president, ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 09:56:57 PDT 1999

40033 war comes home -- rank: 1000

["My belief is that if I say something, it goes. I am the law, and if you don't like it, you die. If I don't like you or I don't like what you want me to do, you die.... I'll just go to some downtown area in some big ass city and blow up and shoot everything I can. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame." With a little discipline, he could have ended up on the National Security Council!] Washington Post - April 29, 1999 PORTRAIT OF A TEEN AT WAR Colorado Killer Craved Violence; Medication ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 09:51:46 PDT 1999

40034 New light on NATO motives? -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Is the desire to show the >entire world what happens when you give Clinton the finger _that_ >strong? That's a rhetorical question, right? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 09:44:35 PDT 1999

40035 Race & Murder -- rank: 1000

I think we've reached the more heat than light stage of this exchange, with people repeating established positions with intensified fervor but no new info or analysis being offered. So unless you have something fresh and/or profound to say on this topic, please think twice about posting it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 09:32:45 PDT 1999