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16201 [lbo-talk] 1 in 3 Americans untethered from reality -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newspolls.org/story.php?story_id=55> HEADLINE: "Anti-government anger spawns 9/11 conspiracy belief" WRITER/REPORTER(s): Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel III SOURCE: Scripps Howard News Service DATE: August 2, 2006 BODY: More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio Unive ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 3 11:20:23 PDT 2006

16202 [lbo-talk] Hitchens dies in bombing of Tehran -- rank: 1000

<http://tstiami.blogspot.com/2006/08/future-perfect_02.html> Future Perfect Sep 5, 2009 5:46 EDT TEHRAN, IRAN (AP) - Christopher E. Hitchens, the celebrated journalist, essayist and literary critic whose over 30-year career spanned styles, continents and political ideologies, died today during a combined Allied air strike on a reported insurgent stronghold on the outskirts of the city. He was 60. Hitchens, whose well-read works ranged from tabloid-like coverage of American culture to ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 3 08:47:17 PDT 2006

16203 [lbo-talk] Israel demographics? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:46 AM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > These figures are quite startling. They are indeed voting with > their feet, > in a way that has to have an impact in Israel and even possibly on > their > politics (though I can't be optimistic about this). The Jewish pop is growing - about 1.6% a year over the last decade. But the Arab pop is growing twice as fast. Plenty here: <http:// www1.cbs.gov.il/reader/?MIval=cw_usr_view_Folder&ID=141>. By the way, the sum of ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 2 21:59:53 PDT 2006

16204 [lbo-talk] Israel demographics? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > I appreciate the responses but wish for some generalization. Are > people > saying that there is significant migration from Israel to the US? > If so, > why: why are they leaving? Is it easy for them to get into the US? Are > people leaving Israel for other destinations? And please recall my > original > posting, concerning emigration as possibly some pre-political > expression, > people who perhaps approve of Isra ...

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16205 [lbo-talk] Dissentoids dissent -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:01 AM, mike larkin wrote: > Hilarious. One of the funniest things Cockburn has > ever written. > > --- Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Once again, in the archives here. >> > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2001/2001-September/017976.html >> Dennis dperrin13 at mediaone.net >>> From the January 21, 1980 Press Clips column in the >> Village Voice. >> For Michael P. What a masterpi ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 2 21:18:35 PDT 2006

16206 [lbo-talk] Iris Young obituary -- rank: 1000

[via JKS, source unspecified] Iris Marion Young, 1949-2006 Iris Marion Young, a leading philosopher called by a colleague "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter- century," died in her home Tuesday, Aug. 1 after a year-and-a-half long fight with cancer. She was 57. Young, Professor in Political Science at the University of Chicago since 2000, was known for her work on theories of justice, democratic theory and feminist theory. "When Iris came to t ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 2 20:53:05 PDT 2006

16207 [lbo-talk] ask the expert -- rank: 1000

I'm going to interview Judith Kipper, a Middle East specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations, on the radio tomorrow. If there's any question you'd like to ask an establishment expert about US policy, please let me know. Doug

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16208 [lbo-talk] on death -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2006, at 8:41 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > The reason I am writing about this is that this rather > depressing event made it clear to me that this is > exactly the way I want to live and die without pain > and fear. Man, there's nothing like watching your mother fade away from Alzheimer's to make you think the prolongation of life can be a horrible thing. Doug

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16209 [lbo-talk] Israel demographics? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Andy F wrote: >> Sometimes it seems like half of Israel has emigrated to the Upper >> West Side. > > And judging by the accents of West Bank settlers, they're doing some > kind of residency swap. I thought they were mostly from Brooklyn.

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16210 [lbo-talk] Dissentoids dissent -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: 9 posts. And 6 the day before. The limit is 3.

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16211 [lbo-talk] more tribunals -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 2, 2006 White House Proposal Would Expand Authority of Military Courts By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international terrorism, according to officials familiar with the proposal. The p ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 2 16:48:50 PDT 2006

16212 [lbo-talk] Israel demographics? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > At some point, regardless of apparent high polls in favor of > aggressive > policies, people privately decide to go elsewhere: they think they > support > the cause, but it's not for them. Do we have information about Israeli > demographics and migration? If people wanted to leave, could they go > elsewhere? Is population growing? Are people emigrating/immigrating? Sometimes it seems like half of Israel has emigrated to the ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 2 16:40:16 PDT 2006

16213 [lbo-talk] Dissentoids dissent -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > On the Cockburn, I find google hits that place it from The Nation > in Dec. 1979. It was probably the Village Voice.

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16214 [lbo-talk] Dissentoids dissent -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > But, 90% of those here posting on Israel and Palestine are > adherents of the line that Israel is, "a shitty little country, " > 'nuff said. That's crap, Michael. I'd boot anyone who said that.

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Date:	Wed Aug 2 10:30:46 PDT 2006

16215 [lbo-talk] Salti's latest siege note -- rank: 1000

(This siege note I wish to dedicate to Maher) The history of earlier drives into Lebanon shows that even as the Israeli war machine gains momentum, so do the chances of terrible accidents and atrocities. In 1982, under the protection of Israeli forces, Christian Lebanese militias carried out the now infamous massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Ten years ago, during a campaign against Hizbullah similar to the one now underway, Israeli gunners bl ...

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