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21466 [lbo-talk] re: Orientalist torture -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >Last year in Brooklyn , I think, orthodox jews had a wig burning >,because the hair in the wigs came from India possibly Hindu More like last week. There were spontaneous wig burnings all over the non-hipster sections of Williamsburg, because the hair was allegedly involved in pagan rituals. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 20 11:13:36 PDT 2004

21467 [lbo-talk] Nader Brings Clarity to An Issue That Troubles Many Democrats -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >So what are the odds that the Democrats simply ask Nader to be >Kerry's vice presidential candidate? 0. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 20 09:01:09 PDT 2004

21468 [lbo-talk] $50m gets you a 46% approval rating -- rank: 1000

ABC News's The Note <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html> reports: >ABC News' Karen Travers reports that according to the Bush-Cheney >'04's April FEC report, the campaign has officially hit the $200 >million mark for total fundraising. As of April 30, BC04 had $71.6 >million in cash on hand, putting the campaign's spending at about >$128.4 million. In March, BC04 spent nearly $50 million. > >In the 2000 election cycle, Bush raised $101 million ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 08:46:11 PDT 2004

21469 [lbo-talk] Boykin's gang: Faith Force Multiplier -- rank: 1000

<http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/05/20/boykin/print.html> Smiting the infidels Gen. Boykin, the Bible-thumping crank who said Bush "was appointed by God," is at the center of the Abu Ghraib scandal. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Sidney Blumenthal May 20, 2004 | Saving Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin seemed like a strange sideshow last October. After it was revealed th at the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence had been regularly appearing at evange ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 08:40:35 PDT 2004

21470 [lbo-talk] fundraiser -- rank: 1000

I'm doing my WBAI fundraiser this afternoon, 4-6 PM NYC time. If you've got any inclination to give the station money, please pledge during my slot so my numbers look good. I've edited all the interviews, and I must say, they're pretty damned fine. WBAI is at 99.5 FM and <http://wbai.org>. Details ------- "State of the Empire" - a look at Bush's America, at home and abroad. Guests (in order of broadcast): * Gary Younge, New York correspondent of The Guardian (and son of Barbadian ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 07:16:16 PDT 2004

21471 [lbo-talk] the disposal problem -- rank: 1000

U.S. Troops Raid Chalabi's Headquarters in Iraq By Luke Baker BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops raided a house used by Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi and searched his party offices in Baghdad on Thursday, piling pressure on the former Pentagon (news - web sites) favorite now increasingly shunned by Washington. Squads of soldiers, backed by Iraqi police, sealed off the neighborhood around the headquarters of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) and a nearby house used by Chalabi for meeting of ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 06:56:24 PDT 2004

21472 [lbo-talk] report from Rafah -- rank: 1000

Urgent Call More information on Rafah WaSH Crisis Rafah City, Rafah Camp, and Tal Al Sultan Camp Following to our urgent call for Rafah crisis today, accompanied are more details about destruction in this area which included: 1. Partial destruction of four domestic ground water wells, and therfore abstraction of water now is coming from only two wells in the west of Rafah City instead of six wells during the normal situation. Communications, electricity and water are completely cut off from Rafa ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 06:58:42 PDT 2004

21473 [lbo-talk] Benvenisti on Rafah -- rank: 1000

[would an article like this appear in a U.S. paper?] Ha'aretz - May 20, 2004 An old refrain that stabs at the heart By Meron Benvenisti The sights of Rafah are too difficult to bear - trails of refugees alongside carts laden with bedding and the meager contents of their homes; children dragging suitcases larger than themselves; women draped in black kneeling in mourning on piles of rubble. And in the memories of some of us, whose number if dwindling, arise similar scenes that have been a part of ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 06:33:06 PDT 2004

21474 [lbo-talk] Nader falls for Kerry charm -- rank: 1000

[For those of you who missed this in today's NYT. This supports the idea that Nader's bruised ego fuels his runs, and that a little flattery goes a long way.] New York Times - May 20, 2004 Kerry Woos Nader, Who Deems Him 'Very Presidential' By DAVID M. HALBFINGER WASHINGTON, May 19 - Faced with growing concerns about Ralph Nader's potential to siphon off Democratic votes, John Kerry began a forceful but delicate effort on Wednesday to win over the man whose candidacy caused so much trouble for t ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 06:30:57 PDT 2004

21475 [lbo-talk] Re: Particularly Humiliating in "Arab Culture"? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>Isn't this a story of how two cultures - both deeply religious and >>anxious about sexuality - are meeting in explosive ways? > >Presumably, you are amongst the least religious and sexually anxious >Americans. Imagine that you are subjected (by a foreign military >which have the power of life and death over you) to the same >treatment to which Iraqi detainees were subjected. Would you find >yourself less degraded and ...

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Date:	Wed May 19 14:57:48 PDT 2004

21476 [lbo-talk] Re: Particularly Humiliating in "Arab Culture"? -- rank: 1000

Bradley Mayer wrote: >Make the peculiarities of American sexual modernity, and not Islamic >sexual tradition, the focus and issue and you'll have a much more >interesting discussion. I'm struck by the way so many (American) critics of U.S. imperialism take an America-Firster's view of our importance on the world stage and just reverse all the valorization signs. Why is the U.S. angle so much more interesting? Isn't this a story of how two cultures - both deeply religious and anxious abo ...

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Date:	Wed May 19 14:05:21 PDT 2004

21477 [lbo-talk] a financier weighs in -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - May 19, 2004 To the president from a father: Shame on us By David F. D'Alessandro FOR TWO GUYS about the same age, George W. Bush and I do not have much in common. There are, however, two realities we do share: His daughter Barbara and my son Michael both attend Yale. And neither one is about to join the United States armed forces in Iraq. Why not? Because they don't have to, they don't want to, and George W. and I won't let them. One of those "flaming liberals" for whic ...

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Date:	Wed May 19 11:40:34 PDT 2004

21478 [lbo-talk] BJP essentially racist: Rushdie -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >BJP essentially racist: Rushdie Is this a controversial point of view? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 19 09:49:42 PDT 2004

21479 [lbo-talk] Judy Miller's source -- rank: 1000

<http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8690113.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp> May. 17, 2004 White House released claims of defector deemed unreliable by CIA By Jonathan S. Landay Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - The Bush administration helped rally public and congressional support for a preemptive invasion of Iraq by publicizing the claims of an Iraqi defector months after he showed deception in a lie detector test and had been rejected as unreliable by U.S. intellig ...

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Date:	Wed May 19 09:46:10 PDT 2004

21480 [lbo-talk] Murders investigated -- rank: 1000

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >not surprising.... although I'm sure in mushroomville these are justified. Isn't 'shroomville seeming kind of marginal these days? The Freepers and the Murdoch media may be waxing vengeful - the NY Post had a "WMD" headline on that stinking sarin shell - but it's not really taking off in the mainstream, where the sarin story was a dud and new abuse stories surface daily. As I recall, when the New Yorker turned against the Vietnam war it was a ...

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Date:	Wed May 19 09:33:50 PDT 2004