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29911 separation of church and state? never heard of it -- rank: 1000

From: AFA Action Alert <afalert at afa.net> Subject: National motto to be displayed in 38,000 U.S. post offices Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 04:00:00 -0600 AFA Action Alert! National motto to be displayed in 38,000 U.S. post offices "This goes to prove that one person can make a difference." - Don Wildmon, AFA Chairman The United States Postal Service has agreed to place a framed copy of our national motto "<http://www.ingodwetrustposter.com>In God We Trust" in each of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 6 06:27:18 PST 2002

29912 Carlos Ortega, CTV/AD Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The government's desire to control the trade union movement has led to >continuous intervention by the public authorities in the unions' internal >affairs and generated disturbing social and political tensions within the >country. In your focus on this violation, you're completely overlooking the class dimension of what the unions are doing, which is siding with domestic employers and coup plotters while taking NED money. You have no problem with the USG going a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 16:08:28 PST 2002

29913 Fwd: <nettime> Dow and Verio shut down thing.net, rtmark.com, theyesmen.org, dow-chemical.com, etc. etc. etc. -- rank: 1000

[DMCA is, of course, the evil Digital Millennium Copyright Act.] Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:41:09 -0500 From: fluxdepot at yahoo.com To: nettime-l at bbs.thing.net Subject: <nettime> Dow and Verio shut down thing.net, rtmark.com, theyesmen.org, dow-chemical.com, etc. etc. etc. Howdy there, This is Andy from The Yes Men (and Dow-Chemical.com, in case you didn't know....). Some interesting follow-up on that release from the day before yesterday (pasted below)..... It turns out that Dow sent Ve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 15:30:19 PST 2002

29914 Carlos Ortega, CTV/AD Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >-Wait a minute. A legally elected government doesn't have the right to >-jail people conspiring to overthrow it? > >Not really, especially when their actions are such things as general strikes >and calling for a legal referendum. And meeting with Admirals who were involved in an actual coup? Are you serious? > The Workers World Party openly calls >for overthrowing the US system and the left here has lots of slogans like >"regime change begins ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 12:54:31 PST 2002

29915 Carlos Ortega, CTV/AD Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >-You can't see evidence because you have an ability to block out any >-reports that contradict the opinion that you already hold, for >-instance Ron Smith's report that "CTV said, when asked if there will >-be a new work stoppage, that it depends on the will of FEDECAMARAS. > >Yeah? You don't make decisions without hearing from your coalition partners? >Shocking. >And yeah, the CTV is hanging around with the coup folks from April. Again >sur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 12:35:08 PST 2002

29916 Carlos Ortega, CTV/AD Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >To repeat, and repeat-- I don't like the CTV pushing for the ouster of >Chavez, but you seem to think that this means the government has the right >to jail CTV's leaders and oust them. Wait a minute. A legally elected government doesn't have the right to jail people conspiring to overthrow it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 12:33:37 PST 2002

29917 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On my radio show today - 5-6 PM eastern US time on WBAI, 99.5 FM, New York and <http://www.wbai.org>: * Jonathan Nitzan, co-author (with Shimshon Bichler) of The Global Political Economy of Israel (Pluto), on the political economy of Israel * Ghada Karmi, author of In Search of Fatima (Verso), a memoir of growing up Palestinian, first in Palestine and then in exile in London Soon to be archived, perhaps as early as tomorrow afternoon, at <http:/www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 12:32:24 PST 2002

29918 life under capitalism -- rank: 1000

New York Post - December 5, 2002 KANN GIVES ANGRY WSJ-ERS A NEW LESSON IN CAPITALISM By PAUL THARP Peter Kann is getting a drubbing from his angry employees at Dow Jones in a revolt over his cost-cutting. At company-wide "town hall" meetings in the last two days, about 500 angry employees bombarded the Dow Jones chairman and his senior management with questions that, in the past, would never have been uttered, say insiders. The employees, including scribes at the Wall Street Journal, B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 09:23:24 PST 2002

29919 waaaahhh! they don't like us!!! -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - December 5, 2002 U.S. Losing Popularity in World While a strong reserve of goodwill remains, a poll of 38,000 finds a growing number don't like America's policies or its people. By Sonni Efron, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- America's global image has deteriorated sharply in the last two years, and U.S. citizens' views on key world issues differ markedly from public attitudes in much of the rest of the world, a landmark study of public opinion in 44 nations concludes. While ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 08:17:18 PST 2002

29920 Anti-Americanism/Marx -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean quoted: >The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing > >By Lee Harris > >http://www.policyreview.org/dec02/harris.html >A specter haunts the world, and that specter is America. >This is not the America discoverable in the pages of a >world atlas, but a mythical America that is the target of >the new form of anti-Americanism that Salman Rushdie, >writing in the Guardian (February 6, 2002), says “is >presently taking the world by storm” and that f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 08:12:16 PST 2002

29921 power -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Joanna: > >> What's a B/D relationship? > >Bondage and domination. ...or, more commonly I think, discipline. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 07:56:59 PST 2002

29922 Power -- rank: 1000

topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: >I could go on and on about this, but I think I will just leave it >there as it is >fairly trivial and is just soaking up Doug's bandwith. Not a problem from my POV - I've been enjoying the exchange. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 5 07:40:46 PST 2002

29923 Fwd: Foreign Exchange of Hate: American Funding of Hindutva -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:10:26 +0100 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: Harsh Kapoor <aiindex at mnet.fr> Dear Editor of LBO This is to draw your urgent attention to our below report and campaign and a request for coverage and / or link to our report and campaign URLs on your web site. Harsh Kapoor (South Asia Citizens Web) --------------- 'THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE OF HATE: IDRF AND THE AMERICAN FUNDING OF HINDUTVA'. by Sabrang Communications (India) and South Asia Citizens Web (France) 20 Novem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 4 18:47:49 PST 2002

29924 Fwd: Free Radicals at KPFA Thanks You -- rank: 1000

[Leo Panitch & I were the guests on the first of these programs. The producers were really smart & thoughtful and Leo was very good too.] Dear guests, friends, and contributors to Free Radicals: We're happy to announce our new companion website to the four-part Free Radicals series we aired on KPFA last month. It's got details about each of the one-hour programs (on globalization, Walter Benjamin, peasant myths and realities, and Hardt & Negri's "Empire"), and you can liste ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 4 18:22:45 PST 2002

29925 gender & competition -- rank: 1000

Business Week - December 9, 2002 Economic Trends By Gene Koretz Are Women Less Competitive? Although women have made huge strides in catching up with men in the workplace, a gender gap persists both in wages and levels of advancement. Commonly cited explanations for this gap range from charges of sex discrimination to claims that women are more sensitive than men to work-family conflicts and thus less inclined to make sacrifices for their careers. Now, however, two new studies by economists Uri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 4 14:17:53 PST 2002