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10966 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Ansar al-Zindiqi wrote: > A. al-Z: Why thank you! Years of hard work and perseverance is > starting to pay off. Schoolchildren in the most far flung places > know about Islam's evil now and knowledge about the awful truth of > Islam is spreading. I'm glad to be a part of that. Wow, this really seems over the top. I'm no fan of religion, but millions of people practice an entirely non-evil form of Islam. As long as they live in peace with their neighbors ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 14 16:30:48 PDT 2007

10967 [lbo-talk] ESSAYS ON MENSTRUATION -- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS REMINDER -- rank: 1000

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Breakthrough Bleeding: Essays on The Thing Women Spend A Quarter Of Their Time Doing, But No One's Supposed To Talk About Edited by Hanne Blank and Moira Russell Forthcoming from She Devil Press, an imprint of Suspect Thoughts Press (www.suspectthoughts.com); scheduled publication date Fall 2008. FINALLY, a book that isn't afraid of a little blood! Between puberty and menopause, most women spend close to a quarter of their lives dealing with menstruation. But except for co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 14 16:04:40 PDT 2007

10968 [lbo-talk] "Ansar al-Zindiqi" (was Iranian underground....) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > You keep posting things like that, and soon Doug will be looking into > Islamica searching for steamy parts. :-> The best thing about religion is that it creates taboos, which can then be transgressed in a thrilling fashion. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 15:14:33 PDT 2007

10969 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > This is the second challenge today. Is there a limit on those? After a while, there just has to be duel, no? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 15:09:13 PDT 2007

10970 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Ansar al-Zindiqi wrote: > I'm no outsider to this and I've tracked Furuhashi's lies for quite > some time.His knowledge of Islam Yoshie's a she. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 14:47:28 PDT 2007

10971 [lbo-talk] The Economist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > As an inexhaustible source of pretentious twaddle, the Economist is > rivaled > only by the Financial Times Hey I like the FT. I read it every day. The columnists are often annoying in that Economist-y way, but the news stories are informative and tightly written.

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 12:04:14 PDT 2007

10972 [lbo-talk] Fwd: corporate researcher needed in Washington, DC -- rank: 1000

RESEARCH ANALYST JOB OPENING Good Jobs First <http://www.goodjobsfirst.org> and its affiliate the Corporate Research Project <http://www.corp-research.org> seek an experienced corporate researcher for their Washington, DC office. We are looking for someone with at least two years of experience doing corporate research for a labor union or environmental organization -or else someone with comparable experience in investigative reporting. We want someone with strong skills both in compu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 14 11:14:20 PDT 2007

10973 [lbo-talk] men even stare at men's crotches -- rank: 1000

Story with pix: <http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/14/ men_stare_at_crotche.html>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 14 10:39:52 PDT 2007

10974 [lbo-talk] strange bedfellows dept. -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=20601070&sid=a4Gvp1ATkE9M&refer=home> Giuliani Law Firm Lobbies in Texas for Chavez-Controlled Citgo By Henry Goldman and Jonathan D. Salant March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Rudolph Giuliani's law firm lobbies for Citgo Petroleum Corp., a unit of the state-owned oil company controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the U.S.'s chief antagonist in the Western Hemisphere. Bracewell & Giuliani LLP registered to lobby for Citgo in Texas on A ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 08:28:21 PDT 2007

10975 [lbo-talk] The Economist -- rank: 1000

[Tom Scocca has a hit on the hugely overrated Economist magazine - sorry, newpaper. He refers to James Fallows' splendid 1991 hit on the magazine, sorry newspaper, appended below.] New York Observer - March 19, 2007 <http://www.observer.com/ 20070319/20070319_Tom_Scocca_media_offtherecord.asp> The Economist: Everyone Copies It, But Does Anyone Translate It? By Tom Scocca Can The Economist be stopped? Or then again, can The Economist be started? That's not a good lead. It's hard to remem ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 08:19:12 PDT 2007

10976 [lbo-talk] Iranian underground.... -- rank: 1000

I wouldn't argue that you have to be inside something to comment on it but I can't help but notice this exchange features two outsiders telling an insider that he's way wrong about something he knows well. Doug On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 3/14/07, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 3/14/07, Ansar al-Zindiqi <infidelinfinity at yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> This is far from being a dead end no matter which wa ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 06:57:51 PDT 2007

10977 [lbo-talk] Michael Yates in Daily News -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nydailynews.com/travel/ 2007/03/11/2007-03-11_know_it_all.html> Seeing the real U.S. If you're the kind of traveler who likes to know more about a place than just restaurants and landmarks, pick up Michael D. Yates' "Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue" (Monthly Review Press, $15.95). The book, part travel guide and part cultural- economic commentary, chronicles Yates' post-retirement cross-country journey with his wife through 30 states, 25 na ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 13 19:33:47 PDT 2007

10978 [lbo-talk] Europe Agrees to Embrace Nuclear Option in Battle to Save the Planet -- rank: 1000

On Mar 13, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > IMHO, the end of the oil economy is not yet "well underway," but the > Europeans, having failed to meet the modest Kyoto targets due to > rising oil-fuelled transportation*, are now embracing -- you guessed > it -- nuclear power. > > O, the people of Europe, if you must choose this path, at least please > don't help Washington and Tel Aviv attack the people of Iran for going > down the same path. You don't r ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 13 12:53:09 PDT 2007

10979 [lbo-talk] cheap motels and a hot plate in NY Daily News -- rank: 1000

On Mar 13, 2007, at 3:15 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > My new book, Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: an Economist's Travelogue > (Monthly Review Press, March 2007) is mentioned, with cover photo, > in the > Travel Section of the NY Daily News for March 11, 2007. Go to > <http://www.nydailynews.com/travel/ > 2007/03/11/2007-03-11_know_it_all.html>. > > We're looking for reviewers. Call Martin Paddio at 1-800-670-9499. > > I think this is the best book I've written. ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 13 12:28:15 PDT 2007

10980 [lbo-talk] Donald Trump, press critic -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 13, 2007 Fire The Times DONALD Trump is no fan of The New York Times. Tonight on CNBC's "The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch," the billionaire singles out Judith Miller, the Times reporter who wrote a lot about Iraq's yet-to-be- found weapons of mass destruction. "The people don't have great respect for the press. Look, Judith Miller, we're at war because of Judith . . . What she did was a disaster. You look at some of these reporters that came ou ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 13 09:11:27 PDT 2007