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Monday, Oct 29, 2001

getting testy

weblogs suck

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df plain dealer


Just What is This 'Civilization'?
terror czar wars
nation building op-ed
sen lott wants to scrap seniority within GOP for congressional posts
jack welching out
oily business
harsh words for israel
The Drug War - Back To The Stone Age
Musharraf, Schroeder agree on Afghanistan road-map

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Sunday, Oct 28, 2001

df intelligencer


fleecing of america ...and again
assassination station
dep. of propaganda ...c/point ...c/point 2
what goes on in your mind?
easing e
a pox on both our houses
Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds
America's incoherent, insulting and dangerous foreign policy

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watch the sunrise

All Suicide Bombers Are Not Alike

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Saturday, Oct 27, 2001

promis keepers

conspiratorial airing
The Right and US Trade Law
Never Shut Up, New York
losing ground zero
EPA finds toxic chemicals around WTC ruins
Bush Asks Congress Not to Federalize Air Screeners

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fire and rain

"Top FBI and CIA officials believe that the anthrax attacks on Washington, New York and Florida are likely the work of one or more extremists in the United States who are probably not connected to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist organization, government officials said yesterday."

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Friday, Oct 26, 2001

df dispatcher


new republic
tom friedman
john mccain
law of unintended consequences
the economist
green party speaks on speech
wood s lot
rise/fall of the american spectator
Kubrick's Lost Doomsday Scenario
rob neyer exchange on the upcoming series
vlad putin: our new best friend
corporations: which side are you on?
sam lipsyte novel review

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croc pot

Gargantuan Ancient Crocodile Snacked on Dinosaurs

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Thursday, Oct 25, 2001

the federalist

History vs. Alexander Hamilton

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uk smokes back

Cannabis laws set to be eased

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df today


joan didion - political fictions
media notes
progressive review
ethel
commondreams
blowback
cnn strikes back

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Wednesday, Oct 24, 2001

df daily


Afghanistan may not be resolved unless Palestine also gets justice
U.S. Seems To Ease Rhetoric On Iraq
PaulL Krugman
free speech radio

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Tuesday, Oct 23, 2001

a df reader


autonomedia
debka
john shirleys grim future
counterpunch
omniglot
guerrillanews
hotline extra
Arundhati Roy

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west is the best

The Unsettled Question of Europe's Ascendancy

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foghat

Classified U.S. Tests 30 Years Ago Exposed Thousands Of Sailors To Chemical And Biological Weapons

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bait and switch

Beyond Jihad

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terrordome

On Many Fronts, Experts Plan for the Unthinkable: Biowarfare

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in us we trust


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Monday, Oct 22, 2001

oil patch

A pro-western regime in Kabul should give the US an Afghan route for Caspian oil

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brother love

Taliban may have origin in ancient tribe of Israel
Anthropologist finds many similarities

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Friday, Oct 19, 2001

stars and barbs


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Wednesday, Oct 17, 2001

hothead


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king me


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Tuesday, Oct 16, 2001

lively hood

"Our enemies understand this: their greatest strength is their clear conviction that this war is political and psychological. For this their weapon — terror — is precisely chosen and, in its impact, enormously powerful. Faced with the spectacular use of terrorism intended to weaken American resolve, American leaders have emitted a barrage of rhetoric about "attacks on freedom" and the fight between good and evil, demonstrating once again what has been a longstanding preference, in times of crisis abroad, for stock ideology over a clear and honest defense of our interests and our commitments. Deeply apprehensive about America's commitment to a vigorous and permanent role in the world, our presidents have habitually turned to ideology to rally the citizenry."

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realistic appraiser

"So if you want to do something useful with your $10 million, then endow an anti-corruption campaign in Saudi Arabia, or endow American Studies departments in all Saudi universities, or endow a center of Islamic learning in Saudi Arabia that would focus on the teachings of reformist Islamic scholars. Or give the money to Seeds of Peace, which brings Arab and Israeli youth together, or invest in development inside Saudi Arabia or Palestine, so young Saudis and Palestinians can find fulfilling jobs. Or persuade King Fahd to say publicly that if Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, Saudi Arabia would lead the Muslim world into diplomatic relations with Israel."

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fish head

"Postmodernism maintains only that there can be no independent standard for determining which of many rival interpretations of an event is the true one. The only thing postmodern thought argues against is the hope of justifying our response to the attacks in universal terms that would be persuasive to everyone, including our enemies. Invoking the abstract notions of justice and truth to support our cause wouldn't be effective anyway because our adversaries lay claim to the same language. (No one declares himself to be an apostle of injustice.)"

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Friday, Oct 05, 2001

give us this day


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ignore rants


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Thursday, Oct 04, 2001

edited out of good sense


the pen is a crook
a steel-eyed rook

a shark with a bark
to be written, not bitten

biding the time
fouling each line

youve got to pick
a pocket or two

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whats eating you


the noisome boys
with gurls unfurled

in swirling links
with fetid drinks

arm in arm

feigned in interest
the lore of the albacore

have you no appetite
for contrite?



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Tuesday, Oct 02, 2001

patina


thats a familiar slight
build

left flanked
for me?

there was a near collision
doubled backwards

if i had only remembered the violet
but everything was yellow

right malcolm?


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Monday, Oct 01, 2001

iron lion zion


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all aboard


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aftershucks


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robot wars


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Sunday, Sep 30, 2001

wait until dark


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