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22696 [lbo-talk] poll: it's Bush-Powell! -- rank: 1000

Picking Edwards Gives Kerry a Boost-Poll Sat Jul 10, 6:33 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) got a boost in the polls after picking Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) as his running mate and would beat President Bush (news - web sites) if the election was held now, according to a new Newsweek poll. The Kerry-Edwards ticket is leading Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) by a margin of six percentage points, 5 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 11 10:45:56 PDT 2004

22697 [lbo-talk] money, sex, happiness -- rank: 1000

[this is a little old, but it was written up in today's NYT] <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/finaljpubecwellbeingjune2002.pdf> Money, Sex, and Happiness: An Empirical Study David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald NBER Working Paper No. 10499 May 2004 JEL No. I1, J3 ABSTRACT This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual act ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 11 10:20:29 PDT 2004

22698 [lbo-talk] Ha'aretz on apartheid state -- rank: 1000

[hard to imagine an American newspaper running an edit like this] Ha'aretz - July 11, 2004 The state and the vision Even after 100 years, the vision of Theodor (Benjamin Ze'ev) Herzl seems to suit the taste of Israelis better than any political or diplomatic platform written since. Herzl wanted a country that would be like all the other countries, even dreamt of a Switzerland of the Middle East. He admired Europeanism, although he didn't succeed in being assimilated into it far enough to feel at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 11 10:04:55 PDT 2004

22699 [lbo-talk] planning to "delay" the election -- rank: 1000

U.S. Mulling How to Delay Nov. Vote in Case of Attack WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the November presidential election in case of an attack by al Qaeda, Newsweek reported on Sunday. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned last week that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network may attack within the United States to try to disrupt the election. The magazine cited unnamed sources w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 11 09:59:24 PDT 2004

22700 [lbo-talk] outing scare in DC -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - July 9, 2004 Gay Rights Site Runs 'Outing' Ad Aimed at the Hill By Jose Antonio Vargas Washington Post Staff Writer It reads like an ominous threat: "For Years Our Silence Has Protected You. Today That Protection Ends." The Washington Blade, the area's gay weekly newspaper, today is running a full-page ad, titled "Final Call to Conscience," that helps fuel anxiety on Capitol Hill involving what local gay rights activists call an "outing craze" over ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 11 09:51:37 PDT 2004

22701 [lbo-talk] Fox doc -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - July 10, 2004 'NY Times' Previews Controversial Film on the Fox News Channel By Greg Mitchell NEW YORK With controversy already brewing over the soon-to-be-released documentary "Outfoxed," The New York Times Magazine, in this Sunday's issue, offers an exclusive preview. Writer Robert S. Boynton calls the film's "most stinging blow" to the Fox News "fair and balanced" claim a series of daily memos apparently sent to the entire Fox news ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 11 09:12:37 PDT 2004

22702 [lbo-talk] Bush defends heteronormativity -- rank: 1000

[man this is going to be a dismal, stupid campaign] Bush Speaks Out Against Gay Marriage WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) said on Saturday that allowing gay marriage would undermine families, as he played to his conservative base by pushing a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex unions. Bush made the highly charged issue of gay marriage the focus of his weekly radio address the day after the U.S. Senate opened debate on the proposed gay-marriage ban, which seemed cert ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 10 13:55:05 PDT 2004

22703 [lbo-talk] fthevote.com -- rank: 1000

CHECK OUT Fuck The Vote (www.fthevote.com) Fuck The Vote (www.fthevote.com) Because Liberals are Hotter FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pittsburgh, PA - FtheVote.com encourages liberals to use their sex appeal to seduce and bed George W. Bush supporters in exchange for a vote against the incumbent in the November Presidential election. Fuck The Vote (FTV) launched its website www.FtheVote.com on July 4, 2004 which invites its' visitors to trade sex with conservatives in swing states for votes against Geor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 10 13:34:48 PDT 2004

22704 [lbo-talk] Re: capital -- rank: 1000

paul wrote: >I would like to plead with everyone that they *not* consider Chuck's >comments and opinions as being part or representative of any position >adopted broadly by the North American anarchist movement. You may be confusing Chucks - the unclassifiable, compelling Chuck Grimes, with the anarchist celebrity Chuck Munson. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 10 13:31:35 PDT 2004

22705 [lbo-talk] Editor of Russian Forbes murdered -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >For my tastes, Dano, Klebnikov wrote about other people's money - a >dangerous profession still in Russia. What he thought was open and >honest journalism about "who owns Russia" bothed a lot of people. >There is already a lot of fear here! Putin (he controls everything, >right!!!???) has no reason to be happy with this murder. Klebnikov >wrote on Russia in much the same way Putin wants to change it. I am >personally very hurt with the loss o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 10 13:29:26 PDT 2004

22706 [lbo-talk] democracy in America -- rank: 1000

** Emergency Release From Boston ** Please Forward Everywhere. Harassment of DNC Protesters Escalates Written by Boston ABC Despite the Boston Police Department's stated commitment to protect people's First Amendment rights during the DNC, the BPD has, in conjunction with other law enforcement officers in New York City, started a campaign of preemptive action that could chill protest participants' lawful speech activities during the Democratic National Convention (DNC). The NYPD/FBI Joint Terror ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 10 13:27:44 PDT 2004

22707 [lbo-talk] Beyond Cosby: finding high quality analyses of contemporary racism and underclass sociology -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >The "testing regime" has many virtues: let me enumerate It also reinforces the factory model of the school - you've got your inputs (curriculum, teachers, texts, equipment), your raw materials (raw students), and your outputs (processed students). The test standardizes the process and allows for quality control - and allows the inputs, esp the teachers, to be graded and ranked and appropriately compensated. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 10 08:14:56 PDT 2004

22708 [lbo-talk] McReynolds to run for Senate -- rank: 1000

GREEN PARTY MEDIA ADVISORY For immediate release July 9, 2004 Press Conference for David McReynolds, Green Party Candidate for U.S. Senate Date: Sunday, July 11, 2004 Time: 11:00 A.M. Location: Sen. Charles Schumerís office Address: 757 Third Ave near 47 St in Manhattan David McReynolds, long time peace activist, will announce his campaign for U.S. Senator for New York as the Green Party candidate at incumbent Sen. Charles Schumerís office, 757 Third Ave near 47 St in Manhattan, on Sunday, July ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 10 08:12:11 PDT 2004

22709 [lbo-talk] Double Standard: Israel and Saudi Arabia -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Some left-wing viewers of Fahrenheit 9/11 -- perhaps out of wishful >thinking? -- believe that the film makes an argument that Riyadh and >Washington "have collaborated for decades in a violent project of >repression" (Doug Henwood, LBO-talk, July 9, 2004) You're reaching the point where I'm wondering about you the same thing I wonder about the Sparts - do you have a reading comprehension problem, or do you consciously twist things for your own purp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 10 08:06:34 PDT 2004

22710 [lbo-talk] an interview -- rank: 1000

[When I was preparing to interview Phyllis Bennis on my radio show, I thought I'd check and see if Amy Goodman had done her. Sure enough, she had. I don't listen to DN!, so could someone who does tell me: Is this typical of Amy's interviewing style? Ask one broad question that shows no knowledge of the interviewee's product and let the interviewee just go on for a few minutes? For this she needs a staff of 10-15 and a budget approaching the seven figures?] <http://www.democracynow.org/article ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 9 15:06:21 PDT 2004