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13951 [lbo-talk] Diaspora Identity Politics and MulticulturalImperialism -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >There is no question monotheism is usually presented in the West as >an advance in human thinking tantamount to the introduction of the >scientific method. This does not make any sense, since the >monotheistic POV invariably results in envisioning a unitary >manic-depressive God given to psychotic swings of creation and >destruction. The Book of Job, e.g., offers an especially monstrous >picture of the monotheistic God as an insane, unreasoning, insecur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 15 14:31:50 PDT 2006

13952 [lbo-talk] Feds to ABC: we know who you're calling -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_source_.html> Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling May 15, 2006 10:33 AM Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources. "It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation. ABC ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 15 14:29:21 PDT 2006

13953 [lbo-talk] hereditary? -- rank: 1000

Heck, let's just turn the presidency into a hereditary office! <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Burnishing E.J. Dionne's credentials as a prognosticator, Peter Wallsten had Bush-turned-McCain strategist Mark McKinnon saying in Sunday's Los Angeles Times: "Jeb Bush will be on anyone's short list. He's got incredible experience, unqualified conservative credentials, and he brings Florida. It's the trifecta."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 15 14:02:17 PDT 2006

13954 [lbo-talk] wireless-only households in the US -- rank: 1000

[big news in public opinion world, since this really complicates polling] <http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/wireless/wireless2005.htm> Wireless Substitution: Preliminary Data from the 2005 National Health Interview Survey by Stephen J. Blumberg, Ph.D. and Julian V. Luke, Division of Health Interview Statistics Preliminary results from the 2005 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that the number of adults living in households with only wireless telephones cont ...

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Date:	Mon May 15 13:53:02 PDT 2006

13955 [lbo-talk] Israeli SC upholds spouse ban -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4769661.stm> Court upholds Israeli spouse ban Israel's Supreme Court has upheld a controversial law barring West Bank Palestinians from living with their spouses and children in Israel itself. By a six-to-five majority, the court rejected petitions brought by civil rights groups, members of the Israeli parliament and Arab Israeli families. The government says the law, passed at a time of rising violence in 2002, is based on security concerns. But cri ...

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Date:	Sun May 14 10:33:59 PDT 2006

13956 [lbo-talk] Carol Brightman on U.S. bases in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >Doug, you argued vehemently against this idea some weeks ago. Still >think it is unthinkable? I suppose anything's possible but it just doesn't make sense to me. How can you control a country in a civil war? How can you produce and export oil when all around things are blowing up? How can you gain propaganda victories when it looks like you've unleashed a shitstorm? It doesn't seem like a rational imperial policy - but it must be conceded that the imperium isn't being r ...

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Date:	Sun May 14 08:31:13 PDT 2006

13957 [lbo-talk] Carol Brightman on U.S. bases in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > The final two paragraphs of the following letter (and particularly the >final sentence) are an anti-climax, and I fear indicate more wishful >thinking than analysis (though I join in the wishing). But in them she >does raise the correct question: Can the insurgency find a way to attack >those permanent u.s. bases. There's an amazing scene in the excellent movie (sorry, saying "film" always sounds kinda pretentious) Occupation: Dreamland <http://ww ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 14 08:26:53 PDT 2006

13958 [lbo-talk] Axis of Feeble -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >http://www.economist.com/images/20060513/20060513issuecovUS400.jpg Ha. Pretty fucking classical, eh? Undone by their hubris. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 13 16:55:50 PDT 2006

13959 [lbo-talk] Clinton favored over Bush -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Americans Prefer Clinton Over Bush Well there's always Hillary. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 13 15:24:43 PDT 2006

13960 [lbo-talk] Big Vic: shakedown Paul Newman, overpay your writers -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >interestingly, last time I looked TNR had all sorts of slick corporate >ads, while the NATION does not. Is this the corpos voting for their >politics? Probably, but it's probably demographics too - TNR reaches a more corpo-relevant demographic than The Nation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 13 09:52:59 PDT 2006

13961 [lbo-talk] Anti-Americanism today -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >At least, we'll be in trouble if much of the problem is indeed, as >Sweig argues, the longstanding "near inability of the United States >to see its power from the perspective of the powerless." But isn't that almost part of the definition of power? What's she expect, the whole nation to go on the couch to develop self-insight? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 13 09:19:08 PDT 2006

13962 [lbo-talk] Big Vic: shakedown Paul Newman, overpay your writers -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Pollitt and Hitchens were the columnists I missed the most after >giving up on the Nation. Of course, this was before Hitch's turn to >the dark side. I also really liked the review section. The reviews have gotten a lot better since Adam Shatz took over as literary editor. >What are the circ figures of the Nation these days? 180,000? Yup. The largest of any journal of opinion in the US now - something like three times The New Republic. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 13 09:10:29 PDT 2006

13963 [lbo-talk] the new Gore -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But say Feingold should be elected. Now we know already that useful >political activity will cease from around December 2007 til February or >March 2009. The chief result of electing a "left" Democrat would be that >this period of inactivity would be extended until late in 2009, while >potential activists held their breath waiting (vainly) for the new >president to do something useful. This is a genuine question: does your view of political activity ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 13 09:08:19 PDT 2006

13964 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad Gossip: The Kiss -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Here's a lovely photo of Ahmadinejad and a pretty young man: ><http://montages.blogspot.com/2006/05/ahmadinejad-kiss.html>. I found it here ><http://mag.gooya.com/nabavi/archives/029982.php> and saved it. >Really, this is irresistible. I intend to use this image on MRZine >for his birthday: 28 October 1956. Hmm, if you were a man I'd say your little head is leading the big one around. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 13 09:07:01 PDT 2006

13965 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Fri May 12 15:01:45 PDT 2006