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29266 religious attitudes -- rank: 1000

From: owner-aapornet at usc.edu [mailto:owner-aapornet at usc.edu]On Behalf Of dick halpern Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:11 PM To: aapornet at usc.edu Subject: American Religious Attitudes Interesting study on how American religious attitudes..... Truth Is Relative, Say Americans In two national surveys conducted by Barna Research, one among adults and one among teenagers, people were asked if they believe that there are moral absolutes that are unchanging or that moral truth is relative to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 12 15:08:09 PDT 2002

29267 don't boycott israeli academics -- rank: 1000

This boycott gives me the creeps. I'd boot a Sharon enthusiast off an editorial board, but not Israelis in general. Should I boycott my Israeli shrink, or does she get an exemption because she works on the Upper West Side? Was there anything comparable in the South African sanctions (or sanctions movement)? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 13:10:38 PDT 2002

29268 Cuba -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >I want them to legalize anarchism and trotskyism. I don't see how >that will lead to US domination. Dudes from Langley would be boning up on their Kropotkin. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 12:41:22 PDT 2002

29269 Cuba -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Cuba >$1,669 >$18,600 >11,141,997 >96% >.046% >GDP >Population >Literacy >% of World GDP >Haiti >$1,340 >$9,200 >6,867,995 >45% >.023% >http://www.bartleby.com/151/a64.html >http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/gdp_- >_per_capita.html (Heh, Yoshie has cited the CIA World Fact Book >before!) >Haiti: purchasing power parity - $1,800 (2000 est.) >Cuba: purchasing power parity - $1,700 (2000 est ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 12:36:33 PDT 2002

29270 quotas -- rank: 1000

The automatic posting-counter got trashed during a Panix disk upgrade, so there's been no easy way to track, much less enforce, the 3-a-day posting limit. But things have crept a bit out of control. Here's the average number of posts per day for July 1-11, for all posters with an average of 1 or higher: ChrisD(RJ)/Chris Doss 7.5 Michael Pugliese 5.8 pms 4.7 Justin Schwartz 4.5 Joe R. Golowka 3.3 ----------- quota ------- ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 11:22:07 PDT 2002

29271 Cuba -- rank: 1000

Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote: >Why should we think that its authoritarian character is >necessarily a consequence of US opposition? We don't. There are plenty of states that are authoritarian without inspiration from the U.S. That Cuba is "mildly authoritarian," as you put it, is a point greatly in its favor. But my argument is that any country taking a path that doesn't please the U.S. is shoved in an authoritarian direction because of the U.S.'s propensity to subvert and overthro ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 11:24:32 PDT 2002

29272 Bush strikes back with Golden Rule -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick quoted: >"I believe people have taken a step back and asked, 'What's >important in life?' " Mr. Bush said. "You know, the bottom line and >this corporate America stuff, is that important? Or is serving your >neighbor, loving your neighbor like you'd like to be loved yourself?" Meanwhile, Page Six reports: >New Laura? > >GET ready for a new, more chic Laura Bush. The First Lady popped >into Carolina Herrera's Seventh Avenue showroom yesterda ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 08:39:09 PDT 2002

29273 Cuba -- rank: 1000

Tahir Wood wrote: >Joanna, there's so much that could be said in response to these >sorts of arguments. Firstly, I think you confuse consumer goods with >luxury goods. People do actually need to consume things you know, >and the fact is that there are many things that are in short supply >(to put it mildly) in Cuba that hardly fall into the category of >luxury goods. Yes, I know that's partly due to the embargo, but one >could with equal justification say that it goes back t ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 08:21:35 PDT 2002

29274 the threats: big gov, big biz, then big labor -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020712.asp> POLL ANALYSES July 12, 2002 More Americans Now View Big Business as Threat But a plurality still sees big government as the biggest threat by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- The recent wave of corporate scandals has taken a toll on how Americans perceive big business. Results of the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll show that substantial numbers of Americans believe that unethical practices are fairly widespread in the ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 08:09:31 PDT 2002

29275 Congress RAVEs -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE - The Senate is poised to pass legislation that would give federal prosecutors new powers to shut down hemp festivals, marijuana rallies and other events and punish business owners and activists for hosting or promoting them. The proposed law would also potentially subject people to enormous federal sentences if some of their guests smoked marijuana at their party or barbecue. It would also effectively make it a federal crime to rent prop ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 11 15:47:40 PDT 2002

29276 Tim Wohlforth, Bogdan Denitch, David McReynolds -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > My suggestions, Doug and y'all about how to consolidate and >deepen the social gains of the Cuban Revolution? The question was how do you sustain the revolution in the face of attacks, overt and covert, from the U.S. I don't think you answered that until: > The above, well, it's naive and utopian. I think once Fidel >is gone there will be a bloody capitalist restoration. Otto Reich >will choose the next Maximum Leader, betcha it's the son of Jorge & ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 11 15:45:45 PDT 2002

29277 success -- rank: 1000

[In January, 66% thought the U.S. was "winning the war on terrorism; now, 39% do.] <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020711.asp> POLL ANALYSES July 11, 2002 Public Uncertain About Success of War in Afghanistan Half of all Americans say success depends on capturing Osama bin Laden by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- According to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, half of all Americans continue to believe that unless Osama bin Laden is captured, U.S. accomplis ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 11 15:38:39 PDT 2002

29278 Tim Wohlforth, Bogdan Denitch, David McReynolds -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: > > Joe R. Golowka wrote: > > >> >For one, instead of repressing fellow socialists try forming a >> >coalition with them against the >> >Imperialists. That way you don't have to fight them and the imperialists. > > >> Other Cuban socialists you mean? You can't be serious - this alliance >> could resist the U.S.? > >It wouldn't do any worse then the present regime. And how long would it be before CIA age ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 11 15:36:27 PDT 2002

29279 Tim Wohlforth, Bogdan Denitch, David McReynolds -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >For one, instead of repressing fellow socialists try forming a >coalition with them against the >Imperialists. That way you don't have to fight them and the imperialists. Other Cuban socialists you mean? You can't be serious - this alliance could resist the U.S.? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 11 12:41:49 PDT 2002

29280 PIMCO quotes Minsky -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >Keynes's psychological premises explain his response to Hayek (according to >Keynes, a personality of the kind at issue) on planning. The form taken by >planning depends, Keynes implicitly claims, on the extent to which it takes >place in a "community which thinks and feels rightly" as opposed to one >which thinks and feels "wrongly" (Keynes, Collected Writings, vol. XXVII, p. >388). Is that where JMK analyzes Hayek's personality? Doug

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