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33571 Gore Vidal on the US election -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>[From today's Salon. Full text at >>http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/09/20/vidal/print.html] >> >>"The great scandal today is we're still a militarized economy, 51 >>percent of the budget goes for the Pentagon for procurement..." > >Does Gore Vidal know anything at all? I'm guessing the ultimate source of this is the War Resisters League, which despite my admiration for David McReynolds, persists in bending the numbers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 20 11:58:50 PDT 2000

33572 Exorcist -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Bizarre as it may be, Doug, there are some of us who hold in the year 2000 >CE that the answer to the question, Why is there anything instead of >nothing? -- an answer of course we don't know but call God -- is involved >with our lives through the announcement of the presence of the reign of >God by Jesus, who was "was crucified, died, and was buried, and rose again >on the third day " (as you accurately recall the creed -- you could >probab ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 13:03:48 PDT 2000

33573 Vatican porn -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] Salon.com - Sept. 20, 2000 Mixing sound A Vatican festival is mistakenly broadcast over Italian TV with porn-movie soundtracks. By Jack Boulware Sept. 20, 2000 | Each year in mid-September the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Exaltation of the Venerable Cross, which honors the fourth century finding of the Lord's Cross and its recovery from Persian captivity in the seventh century. Thanks to modern technology, this year's Vatican festival was televised live to mill ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 20 13:20:29 PDT 2000

33574 geeks -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: > > From: Matt Cramer <cramer at unix01.voicenet.com> > >> In Matt's Libertarian Utopia there is a Fed .gov doing only its authorised >> duties according to the COTUS, and everything else is handled by state and >> local .gov's. Then States can organise themselves according to their >> desired economic and political conditions. > >Didn't we try that already? Seems to me that you're describing the >conditions in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 20 12:39:34 PDT 2000

33575 Russian election fraud -- rank: 1000

So it seems that the only major U.S. newspaper or magazine to report the Moscow Times findings on massive Russian election fraud is the L.A. Times. Not a peep from any other, um, organ. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 12:24:37 PDT 2000

33576 qualifications -- rank: 1000

[non-sub'd address] From: Kendall Clark <kendall at monkeyfist.com> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:27:04 -0500 (CDT) >>>>> "Peter" == Peter van Heusden <pvh at egenetics.com> writes: Peter> And then, of course, you have the little groups of lefties, Peter> like the IWW section for IT and telecoms workers, and sites Peter> like Monkeyfist.com - but their 'lack of professionalism' Peter> probably will be an employment barrier to them in the Peter> fu ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 12:18:32 PDT 2000

33577 lbo-talk-digest V1 #3370 -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >One minor quibble - if they were further up the economic ladder, >they would have the government working for them a lot, but that >wouldn't prevent them from spouting libertarian rhetoric between >phone calls to their lobbyists. > >But it is a minor quibble. Personally, I'd put most of the weight >on the simple fact that so many of them are in high demand, and are >mobile. As far as I can tell, a 20-something programmer can move >around in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 20 11:24:55 PDT 2000

33578 life among the TLDs -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >a .gov Am I the only one who thinks that your repeated use of a top-level domain as shorthand for an important social institution marks you as severely provincial? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 20 11:14:47 PDT 2000

33579 geeks -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Sure enough. But the first thing you learn in public relations >writing is to junk acceptable English and turn it into the >incantatory nonsense of bizspeak. Why don't you give us a helpful little PR glossary, Carl? I love turns of phrase like "educate" (= fill people's heads with lies) and "work with" (= seduce journalists into being frictionless conduits for lies). Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 11:19:07 PDT 2000

33580 anthro fight -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - September 20, 2000 Scholars Fear That Alleged Misdeeds by Amazon Anthropologists Will Taint Entire Discipline By D.W. MILLER Some anthropologists fear that their discipline faces a scandal because of the imminent publication of a book charging several prominent researchers with egregious misbehavior in their work with Amazon tribes. Some scholars are calling on the American Anthropological Association to investigate the charges, while one of those accu ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 11:08:56 PDT 2000

33581 guilds? -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/news/releases/2000/guilds.html> Rebirth of guilds-MIT Sloan researchers see a shift in workers' organizations CAMBRIDGE, Mass., September 1, 2000 -- Two researchers from the MIT Sloan School of Management predict that over the next decade or so, there will be a rise in guild-type organizations to serve the needs of workers who no longer have traditional jobs. "For workers to enjoy fully the opportunities this new economy presents, they will requi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 20 10:03:36 PDT 2000

33582 Tuli -- rank: 1000

New York Press - September 20, 2000 The Old Fug John Strausbaugh Tuli Kupferberg and I go to the same doctor. I ran into him there this summer. I was complaining about heartburn. Tuli's advice: "Drink a lot of water." I've been hydrating like crazy since. Tuli Kupferberg was a middle-aged man when the world was young. I figure he knows a thing or two about survival. As he approaches 77, he may look like hell-spotted and baggy-eyed as an old hound, with a limp mop of gray hair and snagg ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 20 09:32:44 PDT 2000

33583 NY Post does Finkelstein -- rank: 1000

New York Post - September 19,2000 JEWISH WRITER CONDEMNED AS A 'TRAITOR' By TODD VENEZIA THE son of concentration-camp survivors has enraged America's Jewish establishment by accusing its top leaders of exploiting the Holocaust to pocket millions. In an explosive new book, "The Holocaust Industry," Hunter College Professor Norman Finkelstein lambastes Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the World Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League. Finkelstein, a Brooklyn native, claims these insti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 19 13:14:49 PDT 2000

33584 Pseudo, RIP -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - September 18, 2000 The Lights Go Down on Pseudo The content-programming site calls it quits because of heavy debts, laying off all 170 workers. By Kenneth Li Pseudo Programs, one of New York's first generation of Internet companies, shuts its doors today, a victim of heavy debts and a lack of investor confidence. The closing brings an unceremonious end to the content programming studio that launched in 1994 and was one of the first to fire a salvo at the mainstream media indust ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 19 08:21:07 PDT 2000

33585 Gore rising, Ralph sinking, Pat sunk? -- rank: 1000

************************************************ The Gallup Poll: Presidential Election NewsAlert ************************************************ The latest presidential poll results are now on www.gallup.com Results for Sep 16-18, 2000 ** Bush: 44% Gore: 48% Buchanan: 0% Nader: 2% Don't Know: 6% ** among Likely Voters For a complete analysis of current presidential poll standings, go to: http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=gallup&Cr ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 19 15:46:30 PDT 2000