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40171 war powers act -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I'm no bomber, but I'll bite: how exactly is he violating the War >Powers Act? I thought that a) Congress passed a non-binding resolution >(unanimous - 1) in support of the action and b) it hasn't been 60 >days yet. > >This is the first I've heard that there's a violation. The War Powers Resolution, at <http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1541.html>, says: "The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United St ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 09:39:14 PDT 1999

40172 French highdomes' statement (in english) -- rank: 1000

Christopher Niles wrote: >Can somebody send me the subscription info for the Spoons Bourdieu list? Info on all the Spoons lists is at <http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 08:54:33 PDT 1999

40173 war powers act -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >It doesn't mean shit. We dwell not on liberal shibboleths on the >rule of law. Ha! Imperialist law is more like it. No, the >interests of the working class are paramount, and more >specifically the national rights of Kosovars against the >extremely brutal state-capitalist slugs ruling Serbia. > >You liberals. Um um um. Ok, let me see if I get this straight. The point of the bombing, Clinton tells us in war reason #47, is to establish multi-ethnic dem ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 08:52:57 PDT 1999

40174 Fwd: [PEN-L:5382] BLS Daily Report -- rank: 1000

BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1999 RELEASED TODAY: Median weekly earnings of the nation's 95.6 million full-time wage and salary workers were $538 in the first quarter of 1999. This was 3.3 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.7 percent in the CPI-U over the same period. ... BLS economist Marilyn Manser told an advisory group that expanding the current establishment survey to include all employee earnings is a feasible plan the agency might consider somewhere do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 08:39:51 PDT 1999

40175 Kinnock -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >Kinnock is currently the European commissioner for transport Ooops. I guess working for the EU is a kind of death, but not in the literal sense. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 08:34:35 PDT 1999

40176 war powers act -- rank: 1000

Hey, you bombers out there - how do you feel about the fact that Clinton is violating the War Powers Act? Is it bad when Republicans do it, but ok when Democrats do? Just wondering. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 08:21:16 PDT 1999

40177 renewable oil -- rank: 1000

[So much for petro-Malthusianism. Now if they could just make a renewable atmosphere.] Wall Street Journal - April 16, 1999 Odd Reservoir Off Louisiana Prods Oil Experts to Seek a Deeper Meaning By CHRISTOPHER COOPER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL HOUSTON -- Something mysterious is going on at Eugene Island 330. Production at the oil field, deep in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, was supposed to have declined years ago. And for a while, it behaved like any normal field: ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 07:45:59 PDT 1999

40178 Michael Moore on war -- rank: 1000

[Via Michael Eisenscher.] The Bombing of Kosovo 4/15/99 Dear friends, As we file our taxes today (procrastinators, all of us), and we sign our names on the bottom line of our 1040 tax forms, perhaps we should ask ourselves if what we are doing is signing a death warrant for people we don't even know. Because each night, for the past three weeks, millions of dollars of bombs and missiles -- that you and I paid for -- are being used to kill people in the former Yugoslavia. That makes you and I cul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 22:27:03 PDT 1999

40179 French highdomes' statement -- rank: 1000

[From the Spoons Bourdieu list. My French is a bit elementary...] Here is the text iniated by Vidal-Naquet and Bourdieu about KOSOVO and published in Le Monde 31/03/1999 HORIZONS DEBATS Arrêt des bombardements, autodétermination NOUS n'acceptons pas les faux dilemmes : - Soutenir l'intervention de l'OTAN ou soutenir la politique réactionnaire du pouvoir serbe au Kosovo ? Les frappes de l'OTAN imposant le retrait des forces de l'OSCE du Kosovo ont facilité et non pas empêché une offensive sur le ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 15 22:05:44 PDT 1999

40180 invasion plans -- rank: 1000

MARCH ON BELGRADE NEEDS 200,000 Knight Ridder WASHINGTON - NATO has detailed plans on how to invade all of Yugoslavia, not just Kosovo. Military and political leaders still hope round-the-clock air strikes will force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept peace. But if not, NATO may be forced to adopt another plan — as yet unapproved — for sending thousands of soldiers to fight their way into Yugoslavia. It would take a minimum of six to eight weeks to assemble enough tanks and troops t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 20:56:29 PDT 1999

40181 The enemy is at home -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > And the left supports the indictment of the >police in NYC who felled an innocent man with a hail of bullets, >notwithstanding the links between prosecutors and police in NYC. Max, do you see any difference between the people of the U.S. demanding that the police of the U.S. be prosecuted under the laws of the U.S. if they kill innocent civilians and U.S. appointing itself the lawgiver and executioner in a faraway land? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 15 20:42:21 PDT 1999

40182 convoy of death -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.com/news/259594.asp> The horrible convoy of death On the scene, NBC's Jim Maceda sees a horrible irony A body lies in a crater where, according to Yugoslav authorities, a convoy of refugees was struck near the town of Djakovica in southern Kosovo Wednesday. By Jim Maceda NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT PRIZREN, Yugoslavia, April 15 - The scene before us was one of utter destruction. It was nightmarish. Along with dozens of other foreign journalists, we arrived from Belgrade by Y ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 15 19:08:54 PDT 1999

40183 The Nation on Kosovo - Pro-intervention -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >I listened to this Ian Williams guy on the Nation's radio program. Is his >accent real or affected? Ian's a working-class guy from Liverpool. He was a Maoist in the 1960s, and wrote speeches for Neil Kinnock in the late 80s/early 90s (when did Kinnock die?). Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 15 18:34:34 PDT 1999

40184 The Nation on Kosovo - Pro-intervention -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman quoted: >an opinion by Bogdan Denitch and Ian Williams Point of clarification - this doesn't represent the Nation's official position, which was fairly antiwar. It was a dissenting response to the previous week's editorial line filed by Denitch & Williams (who's the Nation's UN correspondent). Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 15 16:05:45 PDT 1999

40185 radio -- rank: 1000

Hep Ingham wrote: >> I normally refrain from promoting my radio show here, but tomorrow's an >> exception, since the lead guest will be lbo-talker James Heartfield, who >> will talk about the war, Britain's contribution to the war, and >> Blairism/Third Wayism in general. After James will be Robert Hayden, > >Is your show available on the internet? No. The station's general manager (Valerie Van Isler, 212-209-2800) has, as far as I know, never even turned on her mod ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 15 09:18:26 PDT 1999