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25786 [lbo-talk] Pew religion poll -- rank: 1000

[speaking of religion in America...] Religion is a critical factor these days in the public's thinking about contentious policy issues and political matters. An increasing number of Americans have come to view Islam as a religion that encourages violence. At home, the public remains divided over whether churches should speak out on politics, and sizable minorities say they would oppose a presidential candidate solely because of the candidate's religious affiliation. There also is evidence of a w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 10:49:46 PDT 2003

25787 [lbo-talk] 'Empire' after Iraq -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >The contributors to a new collection '"Empire" and US Imperialism' >take issue with Hardt and Negri (in Interventions: International >Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Volume 5, no 2, 2003). New Left >Review contributor Peter Gowan situates 'Empire' in a genre that >generalises the experience of the Clinton presidency's foreign >policy, with its emphasis on international cooperation. 'Yet with >the arrival of the Bush administration and espe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 10:40:43 PDT 2003

25788 [lbo-talk] NORAD Shrugged!?!? -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >If this were true, the F-15s would have reached the WTC >two minutes before the second 747 did--and intercepted earlier than >that if vectored onto the attacking plane. So why isn't >the South Tower still standing? Do you have an answer in mind, or is this a real question? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 10:30:32 PDT 2003

25789 [lbo-talk] Any Christians left in the U. S.? -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >At the next class session, I put the entire Matthew >6:24 quote on the board ("you cannot serve both >God and mammon") and asked the class if they had >ever read or heard that before. Two students had. >"How many of you consider yourselves Christians?" >Every hand goes up. > >I was astounded. I had a similar experience in 1979, when I was teaching 20th century American lit to undergrads. None of them recognized the original bibli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 10:17:40 PDT 2003

25790 [lbo-talk] Satan sez... -- rank: 1000

[from Tom Heald's Pridelets Files] A Newsweek poll conducted on this day in 1995, by Princeton Research Associates finds that 43% of evangelical Protestants say the "the homosexual rights movement" is caused by the devil, with 26% saying the same of famine in Africa, and 20% attributing feminism to the Dark One.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 27 20:28:38 PDT 2003

25791 [lbo-talk] book -- rank: 1000

[just got an email from the translator promoting this novel, which sounds pretty interesting] <http://tinyurl.com/i5ih> Soldiers Alive by Ishikawa Tatsuzo trans. by Zeljko Cipris "The twentieth century, and now the twenty-first, has seen brutal wars in every part of the globe. Many firsthand accounts of these conflicts have been written, but none more compelling than Soldiers Alive.... A landmark in war reportage." --J. Thomas Rimer, University of Pittsburgh When the editors of C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 14:36:49 PDT 2003

25792 [lbo-talk] Find Out If You're Being Sued By the RIAA for File Sharing -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/riaasubpoenas/ Whew.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 14:31:26 PDT 2003

25793 [lbo-talk] Jagger & Geraldo? -- rank: 1000

[from the same source - anyone know anything abt this?] >BIRTHGAYS > Mick Jagger, whose brief encounter with Geraldo Rivera, just makes >me want to gouge my eyes out thinking about it while writing this, is >59.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 13:33:20 PDT 2003

25794 [lbo-talk] quote -- rank: 1000

[via Tom Heald's Pridelets Files] On this day in 1993, Newsweek Senior Writer David Gelman explores "Homoeroticism in the Ranks" and finds, "Many GIs recognized homosexual leanings for the first time in the all-male surroundings. ... There is, in fact, an undercurrent of homoerotic tension in the shared latrines, shower rooms, and sleeping quarters of barracks life. ... The military exalts masculinity in ways that are frankly or implicitly sexual. A form-fitting dress uniform can ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 13:32:28 PDT 2003

25795 [lbo-talk] Iraq: the stock market view -- rank: 1000

StocksView: Investors' Focus Back on Iraq Sat Jul 26,10:20 AM ET By Kenneth Barry NEW YORK (Reuters) - Killing Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons this week gave a temporary lift to stock prices, but investors will need more evidence that Iraq (news - web sites) is stabilizing before the market can expect more sustainable gains. Capturing or killing Saddam himself could give stocks a big boost, but even that wouldn't guarantee peace in Iraq, analysts said, and put investors at ease. "I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 12:12:49 PDT 2003

25796 [lbo-talk] My Very, Very Allergic Reaction To Brad Delong -- rank: 1000

Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote: >Jannuzi reads the LBO archives and occasionally writes nice, sweet offlist >replies to LBO subscribers. Must be a busy guy, having been thrown off at least three lists now for being an asshole. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 11:05:35 PDT 2003

25797 [lbo-talk] Occupation Watch is born -- rank: 1000

<http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=4> About Us Cognizant of the current lack of information about Iraq and knowing that Iraq will receive increasingly less attention as media sources abandon the country for the newest hot spot, an international coalition of peace and justice groups is organizing the Baghdad-based International Occupation Watch Center. The Center will function under the auspices of United for Peace and Justice (<http://www.unitedforpeace.org&g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 09:53:49 PDT 2003

25798 [lbo-talk] The mixed-up debate over the new European patriotism -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >D Redmond wrote: > >>What does it tell us when Le Pen gets resoundingly thrashed in the >>Presidential >>elections by a four-to-one ratio? > >But aren't the Italian "Le Pen"s all in the government? And Buchanan's gotten trounced even worse. Does that mean the U.S. is groovier than France? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 09:51:01 PDT 2003

25799 [lbo-talk] King George can jail any of us -- rank: 1000

Village Voice - July 25, 2003 <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0331/hentoff.php> Who Made George W. Bush Our King? He Can Designate Any of Us an Enemy Combatant Nat Hentoff Courts have no higher duty than protection of the individual freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. This is especially true in time of war, when our carefully crafted system of checks and balances must accommodate the vital needs of national security while guarding the liberties the Constitution promises all citize ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 09:46:34 PDT 2003

25800 [lbo-talk] My Very, Very Allergic Reaction To Brad Delong -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>How can we get you scumbug clintonclaquers to go where you belong? Or better >>yet, just fuck off and die? >>CJ >> >> >>--- >>Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >>Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 2003/07/18 > > > >Well, I suppose you do know how to conduct at least one mode of >political discussion... Where's CJ's outburs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 26 09:40:52 PDT 2003