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32116 flapdoodle gains adherents -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010608.asp> POLL RELEASES June 8, 2001 Americans' Belief in Psychic and Paranormal Phenomena Is up Over Last Decade Belief in psychic healing and extrasensory perception top the list by Frank Newport and Maura Strausberg GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- What exactly do Americans believe in when it comes to the paranormal, the occult, and "out-of-this-world" experiences? The Gallup Poll recently updated its audit of Americans' beliefs in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 8 14:24:43 PDT 2001

32117 who needs health insurance? -- rank: 1000

<http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8316> The Self-Employed are Less Likely to Have Health Insurance Than Wage Earners. So What? Craig William Perry, Harvey S. Rosen NBER Working Paper No. W8316 Issued in June 2001 ---- Abstract ----- There is considerable public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self-employed in the United States. Presumably, the reason for the concern is that their low rates of insurance lead to worse health outcomes. We use ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 10:57:15 PDT 2001

32118 fantasy and political organization -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >A surprising answer from Zimbabwe. Obviously, >key to a new round of ISI would be basic-needs >production (not the standard luxury goods >protection). A couple of questions. Just what are basic needs? And, if racist Rhodesia was the model of internally oriented development, how well off was the black population, and what was the trend in their welfare? Were they healthy and literate, and getting moreso? Or did it just have enough juice to pamper the white minorit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 8 10:20:59 PDT 2001

32119 Rob Schaap on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 18:02:26 +0000 From: Rob Schaap <bantam at dingoblue.net.au> G'day Doug, I'm stuck at home, and wonder whether you wouldn't mind passing this on to LBO-Talk for me. Hope all's well, Rob. ___________________________________________________________ I see I've upset Kel, Miles and Doug a little. So I'll try to put that to rights here. Actually, my loathing is not so much of Foucault himself, who could be provocatively interesting at times, but of how he was conscripted ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 8 09:52:46 PDT 2001

32120 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >BTW Doug, are you back on this week? Yup. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 7 12:31:21 PDT 2001

32121 Nixon & Moynihan chatting about race -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - June 3, 2001 WASHINGTON If politics is the art of the possible, it was also for Richard Nixon the submersion of "the unspeakable." [by James Warren] Unfortunately, Nixon's secret White House taping system betrayed him often, including on the morning of Oct. 7, 1971, when he unspeakably broached the subject of race with a man he trusted on matters convulsing America, the ever-provocative Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In a previously undisclosed 26-minute phone conversation, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 7 12:00:31 PDT 2001

32122 sexual hypocrisy -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Well, whatever he did, it would have been before June 1984, as that's when >he died. Perhaps he thought the virus was just a discursive >transformation, an invention of the power-knowledge nexus? By his lights, >just about everything else was ... Hey, c'mon. Foucault was a serious guy, not some wanker like recent Baudrillard. Hospitals, prisons, panopticons, sexed bodies - it doesn't get much realer than that, does it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 7 11:52:16 PDT 2001

32123 Fwd: Andrew Sullivan, Overexposed -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i really don't think forwarding an article about issue makes doug >into some sort of gossipy asshole contravening his civil >libertarianism. I try not to be an asshole (not, of course, that there's anything wrong with ani). But I do like gossip, I'll admit to that. But, more weightily, I do get worked up when moralizers are exposed as hypocrites - though for me the point of the exposure should be that the morals themselves are humanly unsustainable. If the exposure has th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 7 11:48:47 PDT 2001

32124 populist.org column on Sullivan and Judicial Nominations -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >At 01:34 PM 6/7/01 -0400, Michael Pollak wrote: > >>On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, kelley wrote: >> >>> but the point is: no one would have subpoenaed lewinsky (or anyone >>> else for related reasons) in the first place and clinton wouldn't have >>> lied under oath. >> >>Caldwell's analogy between sexual harassment laws and draconian drug laws >>is still invalid. > > >that's not why doug forwarded the piece as a respo ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 7 11:04:06 PDT 2001

32125 populist.org column on Sullivan and Judicial Nominations -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I was against the trolling in Clinton's personal life for consensual sexual >relations and thought they should have been out of bounds for discovery even >in court proceedings, since private non-public consensual sex had nothing to >do with sexual harassment charges by Paula Jones. (Publicly flaunted sex on >the job is another matter that could have legal implications but Clinton, >however reckless, did not engage in that.) Chris Caldwell wrote in his curr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 7 09:15:07 PDT 2001

32126 Empire, nationalism, etc. -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > >"So we beat on, > >Surely you mean, beat off Nope. Not, of course, that there's anything wrong with beating off. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 6 16:26:38 PDT 2001

32127 Empire, nationalism, etc. -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Charles Brown wrote: >> >> >CB: What about the struggle continues, victory is certain ? The >> >revolution is not over yet. Amandla. >> >> "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly >> into the past." > >A beautiful cadence & image, but I can't remember the source. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 6 15:42:26 PDT 2001

32128 Greenpeace, shareholder activists -- rank: 1000

Environmental News Network - June 6, 2001 Shareholder activism By Claude Morgan Greenpeace, the environmental group best known for colorful demonstrations and the occasional ramming of seagoing polluters, is taking a slightly different tack these days. The international organization has been buying publicly traded stocks in companies it once boycotted, picketed or otherwise harassed at sea. But don't worry: Greenpeace isn't selling out. The environmental group, like hundreds of other groups that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 6 14:41:49 PDT 2001

32129 Fwd: Andrew Sullivan, Overexposed -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:15:02 -0500 From: The Nation Magazine <emailnation at thenation.com> Dear EmailNation Subscriber, As the self-appointed champion of gay marriage, fidelity and "normal" homosexuals, former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan has made a career out of railing against the "sexual pathologies that plague homosexuals," disparaging gay activists for their radical "liberationist" agenda and attacking gay male culture for its "libidinal pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 6 13:02:06 PDT 2001

32130 Russias New Labor Code -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Boris Kagarlitsky (Russian sociologist) came to Berkeley a few weeks >ago and talked about this and other issues at length to various >groups. He said he believed the proposed "19th century" labor laws >were put forward to be knocked down...to make other less draconian >measures look attractive by comparison. > >But, probably, the best thing to do is to get in touch with him. I >was very impressed with him -- with his activism and his >i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 6 12:16:01 PDT 2001