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25486 W's transcript -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >That's always true, Luke. Since the future is unwritten, it always >remains to be seen. Therefore that statement is unhelpful and no >answer to anything. It was predictable -- I and others predicted >(not quite accurately in detail, but accurate enough) -- that the >collapse of central authority in the FSU would be disaster for the >people of the FSU and the world. Actually when I predicted it it the >SU wasn't F yet. It was obvious that the econo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 14:43:19 PST 2003

25487 Legacy admissions (Was: W's transcript) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'd think that the true measure of membership in the ruling class is >to be able to found a university That's a measure of being rich, but being rich isn't the same as being in the r.c. That awful reactionary Catholic who founded Domino's, Tom Monaghan, has started a uni or law school or something on reactionary Catholic principles, but that's not going to have much influence on mainstream education policy. >There are some powerful individuals and families who a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 14:02:04 PST 2003

25488 more more war demos -- rank: 1000

[oops Kohut tripped on his own tongue about seculars & war - whew] >In response to Tom's question about secular support for war, Andy misspoke. >What he meant was that seculars are LESS likely to APPROVE of the war. Here >is the breakdown from our latest poll. > >Total White Protestant 77% >White Evangelical Protestant 85 >White Non-Evangel Protestant 70 >Catholic Non-Hispanic 70 >Secular 62

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 13:48:42 PST 2003

25489 more war demos -- rank: 1000

>From: Richard Morin >Subject: Re: What the public thinks (about the war with Iraq) > >Here are the relevant gender by party identification breaks that I >made fleeting reference to on the NewsHour segment. These numbers were >displayed in a graphic that was shown as I prattled on. The figures are >the percent who support taking military action to disarm Iraq and remove >Saddam Hussein. > > Men 67% > Women 51 > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 13:46:17 PST 2003

25490 war demographics -- rank: 1000

[An excerpt from <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june03/polls_3-6.html>.] A demographic breakdown of support for the war TERENCE SMITH: Rich Morin, you broke down the support and lack of support in different categories, by gender and by race and age. Tell me what you found. RICHARD MORIN: We found some big difference in each one of those dimensions. There is a huge gender gap on the war. About two-thirds of all men support it, but only about half of all women currently back the w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 13:45:15 PST 2003

25491 Whoops -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >Chris, my mailbox tells me that there hasn't been a limit on this >list for quitre sometime. It's not automated, so it relies on my counting, and sometimes I've got too many other things to do. It would be very very nice if people kept themselves to the three-a-day limit. Next time I get a spare minute I'll do an audit. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 13:35:13 PST 2003

25492 Tom Lehrer on death of satire -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >P.S. Admiration for how humorous conservatives and reactionaries can be >is merely a confused recognition of their success in appealing to mass >prejudice. I've always wondered why you spent so much time on Pound, and seem to like his poetry a lot. He was a bigot and a fascist sympathizer. So surely you find some merit to him apart from this (which I do). In a lesser way, why can't one acknowledge the wit of pop rightwingers without being "confused"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 12:45:56 PST 2003

25493 W's transcript -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Are you really sure the U.S. political structure is (unlike the >political structure of the Shah's Iran or of the Soviet Union immune to >internal collapse under some external condtions? Give us a scenario for >indeinitely continued U.S. stability, internally and externally. Heavens no, anything can happen. In 1981, no one would have imagined the USSR would be gone a decade later. The roots of U.S. power are very deep, but nothing is forever. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 8 12:41:37 PST 2003

25494 W's transcript -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Doug wrote: > >> No doubt the Reagan buildup >> contributed to the end of the USSR, which was a bad thing on balance >> I think. > >Why do you think that? Mainly because the U.S. without a rival is a frightening thing, but also because many of the citizens of the FSU took a big material hit with its collapse. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 8 12:31:41 PST 2003

25495 W's transcript -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Which illustrates the point that what matters is not moral/intellectual >qualities of politicians, but the quality of political institutions. Kind of hard to separate the two, isn't it? A system in which a cretin like W can rise to the top is one permeated by bad institutions - prep schools and prestige universities that reproduce inherited privilege, secret societies that reinforce networks and cultivate ruthless entitlement, political parties that do little but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 10:35:33 PST 2003

25496 weird product placement -- rank: 1000

Wired News - 02:00 AM Mar. 08, 2003 PT Army's Apple Shines in the Desert By Leander Kahney The U.S. military is shipping a lot of hardware to the Middle East for the impending war on Iraq, but only one Mac. In the entire theater of operations, involving nearly 300,000 troops and hundreds of tanks and aircraft, one lonely Macintosh shipped out, according to the major who took it there. The Mac is a Titanium G4 PowerBook, and it belongs to Major Shawn Weed, an intelligence planner with the Third I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 10:19:54 PST 2003

25497 UN Waverers Now Leaning to US -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: ><http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-603357,00.html>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-603357,00.html > which contains the revealing passage: >Western diplomats are confident that all three African members of >the Council will now vote in favour of the resolution rather than >risk the loss of substantial trade, aid packages and security >guarantees. > >One lever being used against Guinea and Cameroon is the Africa >Growth and Oppo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 10:17:19 PST 2003

25498 Frist, weasel? -- rank: 1000

[Did anyone else hear that Frist took down the poll from his website because it was going antiwar? Forwarded from an anonymous source.] >As I mentioned to you, after I started to get complaints that "you've sent >us a dud link," one of the guys on my list was able to ascertain that Frist >took the poll down, apparently because the responses from those of us who >are not in lockstep with him and his Bushwhacking party pushed his poll >into results he didn't want and didn' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 10:15:39 PST 2003

25499 W's transcript -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Well, Bush the Elder did get good grades at Yale, and was >I believe, even a Phi Beta Kappa. Did that make him a superior >president to his son? Superior is a loaded word, but he was less bad than his son. He was less aggressively imperialist, less repressive, less given to promoting the upward redistribution of income, and generally less mean, violent and stupid. I don't know if it has something to do with grades, but insofar as 41 wasn't an ignorant fundamentali ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 08:24:38 PST 2003

25500 Hitch-Turk -- rank: 1000

Reed Tryte wrote: >So, why is Hitchens so incredibly vituperative (and I >would say, intellectually dishonest) about people with >whom he used to agree about most things? I don't know. It's part of what's depressing about his whole turn. He can be - or could, at least in my past experience - very warm and generous. The dishonesty and vituperativeness suggest that the explanation lies more in the realm of psychology than ideology (or that portion of ideology that can be separated from ps ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 8 08:02:11 PST 2003