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571 [lbo-talk] Marc Cooper: Calif turnout will be higher than normal election -- rank: 1000

>[ >URL: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/39/dissonance-cooper.php > >For most of this article, I honestly thought he sounded a little bit >besotted. For better or worse, it didn't sound like his normal written >voice. And then at the end it turns out it's Arianna he's besotted with. >Are they a couple, or is this just a case of a nerd mooning from the >sidelines? > >Michael >___________________________________ I don't know about the relationship aspect but when ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 19 09:45:43 PDT 2003

572 [lbo-talk] GIs kill another journalist -- rank: 1000

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/international/worldspecial/18CND-REUT.html?ex=1061265600&en=c14874da24a1d116&ei=5059&partner=AOL August 18, 2003 Death of Journalist Killed by G.I.'s Prompts Calls for Inquiry By SARAH LYALL LONDON, Aug. 18 - International journalists' groups and Reuters demanded today that the American military hold a full public inquiry into the death of a Reuters cameraman fatally shot by American soldiers in Iraq on Sunday as he filmed outside a prison. The camer ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 18 21:51:12 PDT 2003

573 [lbo-talk] More contracts for Cheney's gang -- rank: 1000

Saboteurs Blow Up Major Iraqi Pipeline By D'arcy Doran Associated Press Saturday 16 August 2003 TIKRIT, Iraq -- Saboteurs blew up a major pipeline and stopped all oil flow from Iraq to Turkey, just three days after the pipeline between the two countries was reopened, officials said Saturday. Meanwhile, a police officer once imprisoned for his opposition to Saddam Hussein was appointed the top Iraqi law enforcer, while attacks continued against U.S. forces. Thamer al-Ghadaban, Iraq's acting oil m ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 16 20:59:42 PDT 2003

574 [lbo-talk] BG on Arnold -- rank: 1000

Some facts about Arnold I was not aware of. marta August 12, 2003 LA Times Patt Morrison: New to Politics, Schwarzenegger Is Sticking With Script What a busy, busy week we've had, cramming for Oct. 7, so let's review and reflect on what we've learned so far, and what we haven't, shall we? Time for what typographers call bullet points, although I hesitate to use the word 'bullet' when one of the men I'm writing about has racked up an on-screen bullet-riddled dead-body count higher than the number ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 12 14:37:47 PDT 2003

575 [lbo-talk] Re: Fwd: UN disability rights -- rank: 1000

>I would strengthen the right to `assistive technology' and broaden it >on a conceptual basis in the following way. > >The right to physical means of self-determination, including the right >to physical mobility for those people with physical disabilities. The >right to full communication with and access to the educational, social, >cultural, political and economic institutions of the society through >whatever means chosen by people so excluded, including sign, braille, & ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 10 18:09:04 PDT 2003

576 [lbo-talk] DOD considers poor a security risk -- rank: 1000

Just about every person I know who has an impairment or an illness would be a security risk based on this criteria. marta >and of course paying him and other like him a bit more doesn't enter their >consideration... > >-----Original Message----- >From: lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org]On >Behalf Of Lance Murdoch >Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:58 PM >To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org >Subject: [lbo-talk] DOD considers poor a security ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 9 15:57:46 PDT 2003

577 [lbo-talk] AARP on security after 50 -- rank: 1000

AARP also brought out some disability related issues. I am so glad to see that seniors are starting to call for in home support workers. marta Report Shows Situation of Disabled Tue Apr 29, 5:41 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON - Disabled Americans age 50 and over want independence in and control over their daily lives but often can't afford to pay for it, an AARP study says. The national survey being released Tuesday said 51 percent of people 50 and over with disabilities ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 10:32:28 PDT 2003

578 [lbo-talk] U.S. Troops Fire on Iraqi Protesters -- rank: 1000

U.S. Troops Fire on Iraqi Protesters By ELLEN KNICKMEYER .c The Associated Press FALLUJA, Iraq (AP) - Ratcheting up tensions, U.S. forces opened fire on protesters in a city outside Baghdad, saying they shot at armed men in self-defense after taking bullets from nearby rooftops. The local hospital said Tuesday that 13 Iraqis, including three preteen boys, died in the fusillade. Marchers insisted their demonstration was unarmed and peaceful. The bloodshed Monday night in Falluja, a conservative S ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 17:08:29 PDT 2003

579 [lbo-talk] Duck, Duck, Goose: Financing the War, Financing the World -- rank: 1000

>More important, prof. >Hudson explains how the US managed to use its debtor status to >exploit the world. > >By going off the gold standard at (the) precise moment that it did, >the United States obliged the world's central banks to finance the >U.S. balance-of-payments deficit by using their surplus dollars to >buy U.S. Treasury bonds, whose volume quickly exceeded America's >ability or intention to pay. All the dollars that end up in European, >Asian, and Eastern ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 15:43:43 PDT 2003

580 [lbo-talk] Argentine disabled activist missing -- rank: 1000

I am trying to find out if Amnesty International has been contacted about this, marta Argentine disabled activist, missing Susana Abalo, Argentine social activist who has multiple sclerosis, has been missing since yesterday, April 24th, 2003. She disappeared from the Law School at the University of Rosario. She had been victimized three times before by unknown people during the past year, having received threats for her social work in Villa Banana (a shanty town). Susana was raped, tortured, cu ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 18:59:16 PDT 2003

581 [lbo-talk] Neocon cards? -- rank: 1000

>Kelley wrote: > >>ooh ooh! I'll make 'em! Are the 52? And how shall we order >>them--who's Ace of spades? > >Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle. > Has Perle been given this characterization in the press? curious here in case I have a use for it in the future. marta --

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 18:27:57 PDT 2003

582 Off List Re: [lbo-talk] Hey Brad -- rank: 1000

> >I blew up off the top of my head when I first saw the Z petition, but >when I saw the debate spiral on several lists, what began to sink in was >how god damn divisive such a petition was. > snip Carrol, these are the points you need to press on M. Albert. Target the anger, don't internalize it and get depressed. Marta --

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 13:42:27 PDT 2003

583 [lbo-talk] Hey Brad -- rank: 1000

> >You gonna speak up about this? Cause if you don't, you have no right >to tut tut the Cubans, and if we don't, none of us will have any >rights at all. If you don't, you're a traitor to the human race. I >don't want to hear another fucking word from you about Cuba until I >see the petition yoi've organized on behalf of "the Democratic Left" >to get Jose Padilla in front of a judge with a lawyer representing >him and some showing on probable cause. Just for sta ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 13:23:45 PDT 2003

584 [lbo-talk] re: neocon economists -- rank: 1000

> >Well the connection is that sooner or later after the imperial war >fires dim these same elitist policy jerks are going to turn their >attention back to the economic domestic front and start bombing the >social welfare rubble. > There is already a cluster of bombs in the budget. Mostly the target is poor people's programs, not Medicare. Its cuts to Medicaid, SSI, food stamps, Veterans services, to name the ones that come to mind. That is how it always starts -- don't hit th ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 20 23:04:28 PDT 2003

585 [lbo-talk] Huffington at AEI -- rank: 1000

She has certainly catapulted herself into left happenings here in LA. The media queen has ingrained herself, it seems, with no questions asked --- so if you find out more I'm interested. Marta >Hi, > >I am so happy to see someone else is suspicious of Huffington's >ideology. I find little that is leftwing, and much that fits the >category of right-wing populism. This needs more atention. > >-Chip Berlet -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrub ...

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