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19726 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Social Explorer -- rank: 1000

Below is a description of Social Explorer, and here is a link to a get started guide: <http://www.socialexplorer.com/support/WhatIsSocialExplorer.pdf> The service is free, and we hope it will be used by researchers, teachers and others. We have updated the software and hardware, and it now run from a server cluster. It does not require registration. Go to the website, go to the maps page and check it out!! Andrew A. Beveridge Professor of Sociology Queens College and Graduate Center CUNY ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 28 14:31:25 PDT 2005

19727 [lbo-talk] Christian Coup -- rank: 1000

[bounced because HTML coding pushed it over the length limit - remember, plain text saves lots of space] To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> Subject: Red State Christian Coup d'Etat Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:55:47 -0700 <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-exodus28aug28,1,6194044.story?coll=la-headlines-nation> THE NATION Strategizing a Christian Coup d'Etat A group of believers wants to establish Scriptures-based gov ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 13:24:35 PDT 2005

19728 [lbo-talk] something to worry about (from Stratfor) - worry about Stratfor -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >Stratfor is something to worry about. I think they're a little paranoid and feverish. Back in 1992, Stratfor boss George Friedman and Stratfor publicist Meredith Friedman (then Lebard) published a book on The Coming War With Japan, which turned out to be pretty badly wrong. Wierdly, eleven years earlier, Friedman published a book on the Frankfurt School. <http://www.jahrbuch2003.studien-von-zeitfragen.net/Mnemeion/Friedman_Frankfurt_School/friedman_frankfurt_school.HT ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 28 13:21:44 PDT 2005

19729 [lbo-talk] Vegetarianism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And why is it okay for cats or other animals to eat meat? > >Because they don't understand the moral choice not to eat meat. Cats don't kill other cats or exploit them either. At that rate, who needs moral choice? Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 13:14:19 PDT 2005

19730 [lbo-talk] Assassins Plague Basra -- rank: 1000

Newsday - August 27, 2005 Assassinations, Iranian Connection Spread Fear by Timothy M. Phelps BASRA, Iraq - The professor sat at his computer, insistently pulling up pictures of Basra as the gem it was 30 years and four wars ago. He seemed fixated on the past, deflecting questions about the present and the future. After much time, he reluctantly turned from the screen to face a visitor and the reality of "the awfulness" of what is happening now. The day before, the body of Jumhour el-Z ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 13:11:28 PDT 2005

19731 [lbo-talk] Fascist Trotskyites -- rank: 1000

www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: >sung to the tune of Clementine Which would work for almost the entire oeuvre of Emily Dickinson.

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 13:00:54 PDT 2005

19732 [lbo-talk] Fred Phelps goes completely nuts -- rank: 1000

Westboro Baptist Church brings God's message to GI funerals By BETH RUCKER Associated Press Writer SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) - Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq. The church members were met with scorn from local residents. They chased the church members cars' down a highway, waving flags and screaming "God bless America." ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 28 12:31:08 PDT 2005

19733 [lbo-talk] something to worry about (from Stratfor) -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:12:00 -0500 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: "Strategic Forecasting, Inc." <noreply at stratfor.com> The Geopolitics of Katrina A Category 5 hurricane, the most severe type measured, Katrina has been reported heading directly toward the city of New Orleans. This would be a human catastrophe, since New Orleans sits in a bowl below sea level. However, Katrina is not only moving on New Orleans. It also is moving on the Port of Southern Louisiana. Were it to ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 12:30:03 PDT 2005

19734 [lbo-talk] Vegetarianism -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >This moral stand is interesting to me because I don't really get it. >If inflicting harm on living things is wrong (e.g., beheading a chicken >and eating it is cruel), where do you draw the line? Why is eating >broccoli okay? Why are the white blood cells in your body engulfing >foreign viruses okay? I'm not being facetious, I just don't get the >argument: all life involves stuff eating stuff; it's even less avoidable >than participating in a capital ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 28 12:20:23 PDT 2005

19735 [lbo-talk] Edmind Wilson: Fascist Trotskyite -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Note the context, Doug: it's a piece from the Daily Worker >(which also provided the title), 58 years ago. --CGE Yup, I did, after the fact I'm embarrassed to say. But really, what is the point? I almost feel compelled to defend Trotskyism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 28 11:45:26 PDT 2005

19736 [lbo-talk] Fascist Trotskyites -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Heh, Doug you need to more examples of CPUSA and CPSU dialectics;-) I realized after sending my astonished query that this is part of Cockburn's anti-hitchens campaign. How nice to see someone still fighting the old battles. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 11:42:51 PDT 2005

19737 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >as friend of mine who traces his family's time >in florida back a couple of centuries notes, his >ancestors were rednecks, working people whose >necks burned in the sun from stooping farm work >that they did (another version of story has it >that folks wore red bandanas around their necks >to protect themselves from sun burn)... >michael hoover This is from an interesting history of "redneck" in music <http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/14 ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 11:36:11 PDT 2005

19738 [lbo-talk] Canada's NAFTA debate revived in wake of US softwood decision -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall quoted Linda McQuaig: >We'd continue to trade with the Americans but we'd revert to our old way of >trading with them - under the rules of the World Trade Organization, a >global trade treaty formerly known as the General Agreement on Tariffs and >Trade. Ha! See? Better the WTO than dealing with the US one-on-one! Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 09:40:50 PDT 2005

19739 [lbo-talk] Edmind Wilson: Fascist Trotskyite -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted CP: >the Trotskyite tourist for The New Yorker Again, I gotta say, "Huh?" How is an anti-socialist, anti-Semitic eugenicist a "Trotskyite"? What's in the Counterpunch water cooler these days? Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 09:36:00 PDT 2005

19740 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Carl Remick wrote: >> [clip] >> >Yup. And that's one of the sadder symptoms of the erosion of Marxism: >> >nostalgia and despair. >> > >> >Doug > >There he goes again. Empty generalizations without any indication of any >appliation to actuality. Step right up. See Henwood's private fantasy of >marxism. Huh? I wasn't saying anything about Marxism; I was lamenting one of the worst effects of its declining influence. D ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 28 09:32:42 PDT 2005