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26236 Jared Israel's website, "Documenting the Nazi Past of the Palestinian Leadership/" -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >And the title of Velikovsky's epochal book, which, >despite all slanders and sniping, did succeed in >restoring our recognition of the reality of celestially- >caused catastrophic events in world history, is >"Worlds In Collision," not "when worlds collide." "Our" recognition? I don't recognize that and don't know anyone else who does - who actually does? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 12 10:11:00 PST 2003

26237 Deleuze & Guattari, Zizek on Arendt (More from Brennan) -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 11:08 PM 1/11/03 +0800, Grant Lee wrote: >>Kelley >> >>At the moment I can't explain it better than this: > >well, I've got all day, next week, and next year, at least. I'm >pretty patient. > >>"Relations of Production: The objective material relations that exist in any >>society independently of human consciousness, formed between all people in >>the process of social production, exchange, and distribution of material > ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 12 09:49:25 PST 2003

26238 The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >[A conservative explains] Ooops, sorry, hadn't noticed you'd done that already. Brooks may be a conservative, but I'm afraid he's mostly right about this argument. That Time poll, which has 39% of Americans either thinking they're in the top 1% or will be someday, is just as revealing as Brooks claims. It uncovers a fundamental fantasy about American life. Even though we've got the most unequal distribution of income in the rich world, the highest poverty levels, the gr ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 12 09:39:25 PST 2003

26239 fat -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >The general misery over obesity is characteristic of an epidemic of >morosity that is gripping Western societies: real social advance >seems to present greater problems than it fixes. But this is a >misjudgement. Tragic as obesity is, it is a symptom of the first >steps to the eradication of hunger. Wow, James, I'm impressed. As I just read in today's NYTBR, the U.S. produces 3,800 calories a day of food per capita, 1,000 more than people need. This either ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 12 09:34:21 PST 2003

26240 life among the pre-rich -- rank: 1000

New York Times - January 12, 2003 The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest By DAVID BROOKS NASHVILLE - Why don't people vote their own self-interest? Every few years the Republicans propose a tax cut, and every few years the Democrats pull out their income distribution charts to show that much of the benefits of the Republican plan go to the richest 1 percent of Americans or thereabouts. And yet every few years a Republican plan wends its way through the legislative process and, with some trims an ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 12 09:26:21 PST 2003

26241 Fwd: Bush defense -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] >X-From_: petico at io.com Sat Jan 11 15:46:25 2003 >X-Original-To: dhenwood at panix.com >X-Authentication-Warning: hagbard.io.com: petico owned process doing -bs >Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:48:29 -0600 (CST) >From: "A.J. Peticolas" <petico at io.com> >To: lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> >Subject: Bush defense >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >As to the $40,000 couple with 2 children, most of that t ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 11 15:10:24 PST 2003

26242 Popular culture -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard wrote: >On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >> It is ironic that most creative branches of jazz are not "popular >> music" today. Creative branches of jazz (more so than classical >> music) are _the_ music for intellectuals (like Justin!). > >So we should avoid it, then, yes? I'd hate to think I was listening to the >sort of music George Kennan or Dean Acheson grooved to. Can't stand the stuff. It all sounds like aimless ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 11 09:17:12 PST 2003

26243 Popular culture -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Doug told me that Ralph Reed has read Gramsci. Yup. Got that from Joel Schalit. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 11 09:14:18 PST 2003

26244 picket Lieberman! -- rank: 1000

Connecticut Green Party Says "Say no to Joe!" contact: New Haven Alderman John Halle, 203-785-9258. The Green Party of Connecticut is calling on all those opposed to the war in Iraq, to corporate scandal as a way of life, to third world levels of income and wealth inequality, to the insane drug war, to the death penalty and to the three decade long capitulation of the Democratic party to its right wing to picket Joseph Lieberman's announcement of his candidacy for president at 10 AM o ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 11 09:05:17 PST 2003

26245 The Texas populist take on the tax cut -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I continue to believe this. But what I was talking about earlier, in >response to Doug's vague "buy and hold is better" statement (which is >only supported to the extent that most people who buy-then-sell ought to >have just bought; it doesn't say anything about which ones to buy and >why), was particular decisions about particular stocks. Why you buy index funds of course. If you're lucky, you'll almost match the averages. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 11 08:55:39 PST 2003

26246 obituary -- rank: 1000

[Adolph Reed sent me this obit he wrote for his father, who died last week.] Adolph Reed, Sr. (1921-2003) died on January 3 after a brief illness. Reed was a resident of Fayetteville since 1971, when he joined the political science faculty at the University of Arkansas. He retired with the title professor emeritus in 1994. A native Arkansan, like so many others of his generation in the late 1930s Reed migrated to Chicago, where he worked as a railroad dining car waiter and sat in on classes at t ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 10 16:40:34 PST 2003

26247 The Texas populist take on the tax cut -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > Does that mean trading stocks actively? > >When appropriate :-) > >> you're almost certainly worse off trading >> than just buying & holding > >You're speaking on a "risk-adjusted" basis of course? > >My personal trading style can be summed up like this: > > - Get an idea; no ideas? Do something else. > - See if it's actionable; it's not? Do something else. > - Determine tax advantage; choose account ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 10 16:04:22 PST 2003

26248 Left-Wing Melancholy Re: Marx After Marxism -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >Brennan's point is not to say who can or can't use the term >communist--that's totally a figment of H&N's sensitive imagination, >in which all critics become potential censors with despotic agency. In my experience, Hardt often agrees with his critics. >H&N use "communist" because they get all the symbolic credit for >doing so but bear no significant risk for doing it. I don't know. A guy who's done jail time has some standing as a risk- ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 10 15:58:50 PST 2003

26249 Left-Wing Melancholy Re: Marx After Marxism -- rank: 1000

Speaking of states and power and melancholy and such... This is from LBO #103. A certain net personality posted excerpts from it accompanied by a devious headnote to his burbling list, so I signed on and posted this for clarification. Might as well post it here too. Doug ---- The mess we're in [by Doug Henwood, from LBO #103] After the Newtmaniac Republican sweep of 1994, LBO quoted Murray Kempton's observation that it probably meant the demise of the Democrats, since they had nothing to their n ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 10 15:44:09 PST 2003

26250 vows -- rank: 1000

[been meaning to scan & post this for ages...] Harper's - August 2002 [Vows] TILL DERRIDA DO US PART The following transcript is from the June 1 wedding of Cary Wolfe and Allison Hunter. Woke teaches critical theory at SUNY Albany; Hunter is an artist. JUDGE SILVERMAN: Friends and relatives, we are gathered here today to witness the marriage of Allison and Cary. To do so, we must perform these vows in an act of ceremony. But what are these things - to wed, to marry, to take a wedding vow? Th ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 10 14:59:18 PST 2003