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29956 Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour -- rank: 1000

Economist - August 22, 2002 Lexington Behold the Rapture Millenarianism is becoming a force on the right in American politics THERE used to be bumper stickers in north Florida warning, "In case of Rapture, this car will be driverless." The Rapture is an apocalyptic event: at some point, Christ will swoop to earth and beam all true believers up to heaven. People will vanish, as the first book of Corinthians has it, in the twinkling of an eye, leaving everything else behind-the clothes t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 21:34:52 PDT 2002

29957 NYC meetings to shut down IMF/WB (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Four meetings: 5:00 PM Sundays at St. Mark's Church (Tenth Street and Second Avenue) to shut down the International Monetary Fund & World Bank meetings in DC: You and your NYC group are invited to fight for global justice again. For the next four Sundays (September 1, 8, 15 and 22, unless things change), there will be meetings of the Another World Is Possible Coalition (the 7,000 or 20,000 folks who protested the World Economic Forum alongside you in February), so that we can plan for New Yo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 17:53:20 PDT 2002

29958 Fw: The Nation: "dreary" (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> >the tool kit as it were, or the ammunition in my original >> >post >> >> How instrumental and warlike. I thought the point was to transcend >> capitalist thinking. >> > >The point of what? Revolution, man. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 17:18:17 PDT 2002

29959 Fwd: DEBATE: My riff on A31 for ZNet -- rank: 1000

[here's something good ZNet ran...] From: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at sn.apc.org> To: <debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za> Subject: DEBATE: My riff on A31 for ZNet Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 01:05:42 +0200 Geopolitics of Jo'burg Protests: Independent Left beats Ruling Party For ninety years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra Township. Today was breakou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 16:41:07 PDT 2002

29960 Fw: The Nation: "dreary" (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >the tool kit as it were, or the ammunition in my original >post How instrumental and warlike. I thought the point was to transcend capitalist thinking. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 16:08:12 PDT 2002

29961 Fw: The Nation: "dreary" (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > > In one of the first issues of Z, Michael Albert and George Scialabba >> (and whatever happened to him? he was good) > >Now a frequent contributer to _Dissent_. And The American Prospect, I discovered via Google. (How did we live before Google?) Great to see him again - I thought he'd disappeared into academia or something. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 15:16:13 PDT 2002

29962 Fw: The Nation: "dreary" (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Hear, hear. I'm glad to read Doug's opinion's on this dreary and >ugly magazine. Of course, Z features some good writers, but I've >never understood why the design of the magazine has been kept so >unappealing. In one of the first issues of Z, Michael Albert and George Scialabba (and whatever happened to him? he was good) had an exchange over the issue of "style." S was for it, A was against it. A's argument was that aspiring to stylishness was really a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 14:51:43 PDT 2002

29963 Fw: The Nation: "dreary" (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Naomi Klein writes for Znet. >Does that put her in the trash can too as some on this list have suggested? Uh, Marta, just because one thinks Z magazine sucks - a position I concur with, since it's ugly, mind-numbing, and dull, the printed equivalent of donning a hair shirt - doesn't mean that people who write for ZNet (which isn't the same as the magazine) are bad. Naomi's not, and you're not. Quite the contrary - Naomi's a very good writer, and I think enough of your ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 14:07:24 PDT 2002

29964 Target , number 88, and liberalism -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"Nobody knew what it meant," said Carolyn Brookter, director of >corporate >communications for Target. "We certainly apologize that this was out >there. We would not have any white supremacist symbols out selling as >merchandise." > >wonderful...now a meaningless symbol, to a relative handful of people, >becomes big-time hate speak...can I sue my neighbor for wearing a "69" >jersey, in plain view of my children? how abo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 13:50:23 PDT 2002

29965 WILL BUSH ATTACK IRAQ? -- rank: 1000

jacdon at earthlink.net wrote: >Until now, the White House has avoided any mention of the United >Nations in relation to its attack plans because it fears the Security >Council will insist that efforts first be made to secure the return of >weapons inspectors. Financial Times - August 31, 2002 Blair may urge US to seek new mandate on Iraq By James Blitz and Cathy Newman in London Tony Blair is studying ways to secure a fresh United Nations resolution to cover a military strike agains ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 12:27:26 PDT 2002

29966 Rushdie on anti-Americanism -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 28, 2002 By Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is the author of "Fury" and other novels. On Sept. 5 and 6 the State Department will host a high-powered conference on anti-Americanism, an unusual step indicating the depth of American concern about this increasingly globalized phenomenon. Anti-Americanism can be mere shallow name-calling. A recent article in Britain's Guardian newspaper described Americans as having "a bug up their collective arse the size of Man ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 11:16:24 PDT 2002

29967 ciao Phil? -- rank: 1000

New York Post - August 28, 2002 'DONAHUE' DEBUT DRAWS FEW VIEWERS By DON KAPLAN The ratings for TV vet Phil Donahue's new talk show are almost too low to track. The ratings for "Donahue" scored a .1 rating last Friday - that means fewer than 136,000 viewers nationwide were tuned in during MSNBC's hour-long 8 p.m. talk show. How bad is that? "Donahue's show drew a total U.S. audience a little more than twice the size of [a capacity crowd at] Yankee Stadium," cracked one indust ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 10:37:00 PDT 2002

29968 good news! -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Mystical in what way? Elliott Wave theory is a structural analysis of market prices. At its simplest, trend-following moves are divided into five waves, and countertrend moves into three. So in a bull market, you get an up movement followed by a down movement followed by an up (usually the longest and most powerful) followed by a down and then a final up. Then you get the correction, which is a three-wave move - down/up/down. Reverse all those terms for a bear market. This structu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 10:34:05 PDT 2002

29969 Michael Gorbachev at Earth Summit -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >While wer'e dreaming, the world would have been a better place if >the US had never existed and columbus had never set sail. How do you know? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 10:28:30 PDT 2002

29970 An urgent message from Z magazine -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Have you ever read _Prison Legal News_? I read it, and want to like it, but it seems mainly about legal matters of interest to inmates - which is important for sure, but doesn't make the most compelling reading. And, sensitive point: the reason the two editors are in prison is never mentioned. But one blew away a drug dealer he was stealing money from and the other was a serial rapist who'd assaulted at least nine women. The American carceral state is really ugly, but it mu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 31 10:08:25 PDT 2002