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33211 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Art McGee wrote: >Help me out here, > >Even though I understand how wrong and evil it was for >Jewish people to occupy and get the land they did in the way >they did, I sometimes feel conflicted about the CONCEPT of >having a place where you can create your own society, based >on whatever the fuck you want, and keep everyone else the >fuck out. I call that SELF-DETERMINATION. Then, a few posts later, I read that you forwarded the National Review article on the anti-social ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 09:04:49 PDT 2001

33212 Cincinnati & the X Factor -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 10:51 AM 7/25/01 -0400, Yoshie quoted: >>CINCINNATI AND THE X-FACTOR >> >>BY DANIEL LAZARE >>All told, more than 1,500 people were banished at some point or other >>between September 1996, when the drug exclusion ordinance went into >>effect, and January 2000, when a federal judge finally struck it down >>on constitutional grounds following a suit by the ACLU of Ohio. No >>other news outlet followed up. The rioters & ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 09:55:13 PDT 2001

33213 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4685 -- rank: 1000

Erik Empson wrote: >I might be missing the point here, but I've just been reading in Empire >where Hardt and Negri talk about nomadism and miscegenation. They see >migration as a positive form and the kind of multiplicity that results as >the first basis of anti-empirial ethics. The destruction of the third world >state, ostensibly creates conditions for "subjective circulation"; > >"the mutlitude's resistance to bondage - the struggle against the slavery of & ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 09:44:21 PDT 2001

33214 Luddism -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >At 08:17 PM 7/17/01 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote: >>Kelley, these are the same authors that Doug has previously torn to shreds. >>Look at hours on the job. Yes, it fell from 1870 till 1973. What about the >>1990 data? Well, more and more jobs are part-time. Is that >>progress? So, if >>you have 2 part time jobs both jobs will contribute toward a lowered average >>time on the job. > > >Yeah, but this was on the bootstrap ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 06:59:51 PDT 2001

33215 Cincinnati -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cjr.org/year/01/4/cincinnati.asp> Columbia Journalism Review - May/June 2001 CINCINNATI AND THE X-FACTOR BY DANIEL LAZARE It is the theory which decides what we can observe. -- Albert Einstein What caused a major outbreak of racial rioting in the historic riverfront city of Cincinnati, the worst such eruption in the United States in nearly a decade? The trigger, of course, was the April 7 killing of an unarmed teenager named Timothy Thomas by a twenty-seven-year-old cop who sai ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 06:17:19 PDT 2001

33216 university saving -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - July 31, 2001 Researchers See a Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor Colleges By JOHN L. PULLEY If the savings rate of the wealthiest colleges and universities continues to outpace that of other institutions, the financial disparity between higher education's rich and poor will widen further, researchers at Williams College warn. That is one conclusion of "Saving, Wealth, Performance, and Revenues in U.S. Colleges and Universities," a paper th ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 06:00:32 PDT 2001

33217 Where is "Nation"? / "Anti-Globalization" movement -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I may have told this little anectode to LBO before, but I remember watching >an interview on the Canadian Broadcasting Channel with Canadian media mougel >Conrad Black. In addition to a home in Canada he has a home in the UK and a >few other places. The interviewer asked Mr. Black if he considers Canada >his home, and he replied "No" > >Now a rich man like Black has the luxury of choosing what he considers his >home or nation, but the ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 05:12:57 PDT 2001

33218 Mexican trucks -- rank: 1000

[So Max, what's the Teamster response to this? Sounds pretty convincing. And even if 36% of Mexican trucks failed inspection, isn't the 25% of U.S. truck that do something Teamsters should be making more noise about instead of accepting it as a norm against which Mexican failures are measured?] New York Times - August 2, 2001 In Rebuttal, Mexicans Dispute Claim Their Trucks Are Unsafe By TIM WEINER NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, Aug. 1 - About 1,500 miles from this border city, on Capitol Hill in Washing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 2 05:07:14 PDT 2001

33219 dual loyalty -- rank: 1000

This "dual loyalty" thing is a bit confusing. If we mean loyalty to the U.S. and Israeli states, I haven't noticed that their imperial agendas are in radical conflict. If we mean loyalty to ethnically/mystically defined population units called nations - well, why does either deserve any particular loyalty? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 05:01:45 PDT 2001

33220 US economy "out of the woods"? -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I still don't understand what inflation rates have to do with the economy >(why are they seen as a 'cure all'? Does decresing inflation rates mean my >cretic card interest rate will decrease?) No, but it means CEOs and creditors will be happier. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 1 21:47:09 PDT 2001

33221 The nation of jews... -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > So then does a U.S. jew belong to the nation of the United States or to >the >nation of Israel? Same question concerns every jew in the world that is not >an Israeli citizen. > >(We will assume, for the purpose of this discussion, that there's a >difference.) > >Joanna B. > > > > What is this Dual Loyalty Canard? >Michael Pugliese, an ex-Catholic who grew up listening to this crap from my >bigoted Italian racist relative ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 1 13:52:08 PDT 2001

33222 back... -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: > > Well, comrades, back from Australia, which is a very fine place. Did >> I miss anything while I was gone? >> >> Doug >======= >Ken started channeling Habermas, Justin retaliated by channeling >Moses' industrial relations lieutenant and the working class is still >being exploited. > >Any good pub crawl stories? Not really - did more polite wine drinking than pub crawling. Having the A$ at about US$0.51 makes for some great bargain ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 1 10:25:23 PDT 2001

33223 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4680 -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: > >>In a message dated 8/1/2001 11:56:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >>owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com writes: >> >>>Well, comrades, back from Australia, which is a very fine place. Did >>>I miss anything while I was gone? >>> >> >> >>Just the world's longest dissection of Habermas. Enough Habermas to satisfy >>the rest of us until the next millennium. > >I have ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 1 09:27:37 PDT 2001

33224 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4680 -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 8/1/2001 11:56:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com writes: > >>Well, comrades, back from Australia, which is a very fine place. Did >>I miss anything while I was gone? >> > > >Just the world's longest dissection of Habermas. Enough Habermas to satisfy >the rest of us until the next millennium. I haven't plowed through all those posts, but from a quick glance, and some of the r ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 1 09:24:38 PDT 2001

33225 back... -- rank: 1000

Well, comrades, back from Australia, which is a very fine place. Did I miss anything while I was gone? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 1 05:47:11 PDT 2001