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13036 [lbo-talk] Bush sees Third Awkening via war on Terror -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/ AR2006091201594.html> Washington Post - September 13, 2006 Bush Tells Group He Sees a 'Third Awakening' By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer President Bush said yesterday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil." Bush ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 13 09:01:31 PDT 2006

13037 [lbo-talk] political bottom-feeding -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3> The Washington Times says that Vernon Robinson, a long-shot candidate for a U.S. House seat from North Carolina who describes himself as a black Jesse Helms, invested $30,000 in the cable television spot that shows a pair of black hands crumpling a letter. "You needed that job," the ad says. "And you were the best qualified. But they gave it to an illegal alien so they could pay him under the table.&quo ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 13 08:56:51 PDT 2006

13038 [lbo-talk] Niall Ferguson bewails US imperial decline -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > IMO NF exaggerates the US budget problem. > > ^^^^ > CB: You're a deficit spending, Keynesian type-a-guy anyway, no ? Doesn't matter - Max is right. The US budget deficit isn't that big a deal now. The foreign balance is much more of a problem, reflecting private, mainly household, overborrowing. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 13 06:40:15 PDT 2006

13039 [lbo-talk] the view from capital -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > But the focus here is how > the requirement of calculus (or any other particular subject) > functions > in a capitalist economy. Is it? is that what you decided? Why not have it be about how best to get along in a capitalist society, and what might help get us beyond capitalism. You could argue that the bourgeoisie doesn't want too large an educated population because they're more likely to cause trouble. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 13 06:36:41 PDT 2006

13040 [lbo-talk] the view from capital -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Andre Gorz back in the '60s (when he was still a marxist) passes on a > delightful anecdote. He was visiting one of the elite technological > schools in France. At one point he raised the question, "What do the > students learn her that they couldn't learn on the job?" Answer, after > some thought, calculus. Next questio, "Would they use calculua in the > jobs they were training for?" No. > > Learning cl ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 12 15:36:15 PDT 2006

13041 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: [A-List] Cui bono? It could be you!] -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Chuck wrote: > double bluff wrote: > >> To all "debunkers", binladenists, pancake theorists, and everyone >> who thinks can disprove that explosives were used in WTC: >> $1 Million Challenge >> http://reopen911.org/Contest.htm >> The first person to prove explosives were NOT used in all of the >> above with a full, detailed mathematical analysis covering all of >> the points above will receive $1,000,000. The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 12 10:11:00 PDT 2006

13042 [lbo-talk] Niall Ferguson bewails US imperial decline -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Carl Remick quoted: > We now know, the Weekly Standard notwithstanding, that Mohamed Atta > did not meet in Prague with someone from Iraqi intelligence. What? Cohen isn't persuaded by Hitchens' proof of this meeting? DOug

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Date:	Tue Sep 12 10:00:05 PDT 2006

13043 [lbo-talk] Azadegan -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi <blockquoted>: > Total wants 10-15 pct of Iran's Azadegan Financial Times - September 12, 2006 Reformist Tehran newspaper banned for braying donkey cartoon By Gareth Smyth in Tehran State authorities in Iran yesterday banned Shargh, a leading reformist newspaper and one of the country's most eloquent voices of dissent. Mohammad Atrianfar, the editor, said Shargh had "paid the price for criticising the government of Mr Ahmadi-Nejad&q ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 12 09:15:21 PDT 2006

13044 [lbo-talk] Jones on Christ's itinerary -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Is Jones a Mormon? <http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i42/42a01001.htm> "...Steven E. Jones, a devout Mormon and, until recently, a faithful supporter of George W. Bush."

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Date:	Tue Sep 12 08:48:54 PDT 2006

13045 [lbo-talk] burying the lede -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > If this explanation of the Post action is correct (with its > implication > that the running of the news stories today was a conscious political > decision), then we have one more illustration of the unity at the very > top levels of ruling class circles on the necessity of maintaining > u.s. > military presence in Iraq. While I'm waiting for an answer to the question of why the Post ran the story at all (or why someone leak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 12 08:33:31 PDT 2006

13046 [lbo-talk] Jones on Christ's itinerary -- rank: 1000

[Wonder if the 9/11 Truth gang will take up this cause - espoused by their favorite physicist - too!] <http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/jones/rel491/handstext%20and% 20figures.htm Behold My Hands: Evidence for Christ's Visit in Ancient America By Steven E. Jones The Book of Mormon makes the bold statement that Jesus Christ, shortly following His resurrection, visited people in the New World and invited them to "feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may kn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 11 18:54:12 PDT 2006

13047 [lbo-talk] more fan mail -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > Welcome to MY world, Doug Henwood. Pays better, and fewer morons.

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Date:	Mon Sep 11 15:45:14 PDT 2006

13048 [lbo-talk] more fan mail -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Chuck wrote: > Is the 9/11 crap popular on other Pacifica affiliates as well? Doug > has talked about stations using 9/11 conspiracy videos to raise > money during pledge drives. Yup, bigtime. WPFW (the DC affiliate) turned down an interview with Moazzam Begg - the guy with a new New Press book who spent three years in US custody for nothing, 2 of them in virtual solitary in Gitmo - because they're just interested in 9/11 "Truth." I just did an ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 11 15:44:52 PDT 2006

13049 [lbo-talk] more fan mail -- rank: 1000

[another listener reaction to my interview with the Pop Mechanics guy] Behind the News! With Doug Henwood Behind the News? I could hardly believe my ears! The mass media has finally infiltrated WBAI or should I say Doug Henwood. Mr. Henwood's interview with the editor of POPULAR MECHANICS was a new low. What happened on 9/11 was the beginning of Bush's blood war on so called terrorism! The Achilles heel of the Bush Administration is 9/11. To open the airways of WBAI to a corporate shill a ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 11 14:57:32 PDT 2006

13050 [lbo-talk] taking a break from feminism -- rank: 1000

[Our Bitchy friend has been kvelling about this book, and I think I may see if I can get the author on the radio. Any thoughts from the masses?] <http://education.guardian.co.uk/academicexperts/story/ 0,,1839632,00.html> The ideas interview: Janet Halley She argues that feminism is stuck in old certainties and should 'take a break'. John Sutherland asks why Tuesday August 8, 2006 The Guardian Looking back over the past 20 years, Janet Halley, a professor of law at Harvard University, p ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 11 12:11:30 PDT 2006