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24421 [lbo-talk] Scientology -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - September 4, 2003 SCIENTOLOGY: NO RIGHTS, PLEASE TOM Cruise, John Travolta, Lisa Marie Presley, Kirstie Alley, Juliette Lewis and other Scientologists may have signed away many of the rights that most Americans take for granted. As they move up into the higher levels of the Church of Scientology, members sign documents giving up their right to psychiatric care and to see their families. These contracts have been unearthed by David Touretzky, a research professor at Car ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 16:16:22 PDT 2003

24422 [lbo-talk] victims & markets -- rank: 1000

The epigraph to chapter seven of Sharon Beder's Power Play (just out from The New Press): If you believe in markets, you can't blanch at the sight of victims. - Bill Eastlake, economist with the Idaho Public Utilites Commission

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 13:14:35 PDT 2003

24423 [lbo-talk] Re: Hitchens -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, both of >which he was guilty of. It didn't matter. He lied about a blowjob, which was no one's business (outside of gossip mongers) anyway. The impeachment crowd hated Clinton for all the wrong reasons - they thought he was a sex-crazed Bolshevik. They were half right, but that was his good side. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 12:22:40 PDT 2003

24424 [lbo-talk] Re: Hitchens -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >I think Hitchens' position on the Bush wars is contemptible, but he was >right about the impeachment. Clinton was guilty as charged and should >have been removed. That's nuts. Clinton lied about a blowjob. Who cares? I'm sure every president would be theoretically impeachable, but why single him out? Bush's crimes are far worse than lying about a blowjob. And if he'd been impeached, it would have been a great victory for the Christian right, which deserves nothi ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 11:32:41 PDT 2003

24425 [lbo-talk] Arguments for a Secular America -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:30:00 -0400, Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >>They permitted this in Communist Poland? > > Sarcasm intended, I assume. Nothing like a canonical anti-Communism to refute the experience of someone who actually grew up in Communist Poland. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 09:29:53 PDT 2003

24426 [lbo-talk] Re: Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >I think his account of _l'affair Blumenthal_ has been believable, >and I'd be pretty resentful if the editorial staff hauled _me_ in >for some kind of demented tribunal over the matter. It was hardly a hauling-over. I was there. A lot of the staff was upset that one of their colleagues had been in touch with the House Republican impeachment staff - whatever the sins of the Clintons, the House Republicans are ghoulish monsters - and had been running around praising Ke ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 09:19:29 PDT 2003

24427 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On my radio show this evening, 5-6 PM eastern US time, WBAI 99.5 FM NYC and <http://www.wbai.org>: * A striking Yale worker from a picket line in front of University president Richard Levin's mansion, explaining how this very rich institution is a very lousy employer - and history prof Michael Denning on the faculty's position * Heather Boushey of the Center for Economic & Policy Research on the disappearance of the low-wage jobs that were supposed to be the way up for the women reform ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 09:10:19 PDT 2003

24428 [lbo-talk] Greater Worker Efficiency Equals Less Job Security -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >[At least, that's the claim made within the body of a >WSJ piece on increased factory orders and service >sector activity show "strength". Looks fishy to me. >Anyone care to dissect? - DRM] I think the productivity numbers are underestimating labor inputs, but that's a complicated story. As for the other indics, they're almost all coming in above expectations, and look like the U.S. economy is accelerating. The job market isn't - yet - but it does see ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 07:45:01 PDT 2003

24429 [lbo-talk] MER on USD -- rank: 1000

Merrill Lynch writes in a research note this morning: >We believe the next domino to fall in a multi-year process of >adjustment in US capital inflows is fixed income assets. Foreigners, >particularly out of Asia, are increasingly holding the key to both >the USD and bond yields, ultimately leading to stronger Asian >currencies. We estimate that part of the recent backup in bond >yields is due to funding pressures, creating a natural "break" to US >growth. A legacy ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 07:34:40 PDT 2003

24430 [lbo-talk] Re: Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Simon Huxtable wrote: >Any idea when the new VT >is out? Imminently. There's a story in today's NYT citing an article in the new VF ("out on Thursday") on how the Bush admin let the Saudis out of the country just after 9/11 without so much as an exit interview. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 4 07:24:51 PDT 2003

24431 [lbo-talk] Hitchens responds -- rank: 1000

Christopher Hitchens just responded to my "whaddya make of Iraq" query: >Dear Doug, >You could check out the upcoming VF, which has a longish report from me. > as ever >C

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Date:	Wed Sep 3 21:53:29 PDT 2003

24432 [lbo-talk] Herman on humanitarian intervention -- rank: 1000

Mark Pavlick wrote: >Book Review by >Louis Proyect My god.

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Date:	Wed Sep 3 19:13:12 PDT 2003

24433 [lbo-talk] Arguments for a Secular America -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Also, religion _is_ an ideology: and ideologies are only broken _within >the framework_ of a struggle against the conditions which generate the >ideology, NOT by a direct struggle against the ideology itself. The old >image of pushing on a string comes to mind. A lovely piece of base-superstructure vulgarity. How do you "struggle against the conditions" if people, in the grip of ideology, don't see the condition as either a problem, or transformable by co ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 3 16:59:36 PDT 2003

24434 [lbo-talk] Paris & Ingrid! -- rank: 1000

[meanwhile in the really important news] New York Post [Page Six] - September 3, 2003 PARIS IS BURNING - FOR INGRID PARIS Hilton is adding some sapphic sizzle to her love life. The hot-to-trot hotel heiress has apparently flipped for former Madonna galpal Ingrid Casares. Hilton and Casares scandalized South Beach last weekend by smooching, holding hands and dirty-dancing in nightclubs all over town. The uncanny coupling erupted Friday night on the dance floor at Prive, the site of an Ocean Drive ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 3 16:08:04 PDT 2003

24435 [lbo-talk] 77% of Americans support the cretinous judge -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >What are the percentages adhering to the different churches, in >particular, the established churches as compared to the various >evangelical organisations? The best source of info on religious affiliation in the U.S. comes out of two surveys by CUNY researchers. Results are reported in a rather rough graphic at <http://www.gc.cuny.edu/studies/key_findings.htm>. Other reports of religious affiliation are unreliable, coming as they do mostly from the ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 3 16:01:06 PDT 2003