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38416 Fwd: Press Release - No More Amnesties -- rank: 1000

[An eruption from the creeps at NPG.] >X-Authentication-Warning: mclean1.his.com: majordom set sender to >owner-population-news using -f >Date: 4 March 99 >From: npg at npg.org >To: population-news at npg.org >Subject: Press Release - No More Amnesties >Sender: owner-population-news at mclean1.his.com >Reply-To: population-news at npg.org > > >No More Amnesties. Encourage Repatriation, says NPG >NPG Applauds Lamar Smith's Principled Stand on Central Americans ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 4 11:15:06 PST 1999

38417 Minge-Herger Bill -- rank: 1000

[sent from the non-sub addresss] From: "Max B. Sawicky" <maxsaw at cpcug.org> To: "Lbo-Talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: FW: Minge-Herger Bill Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:57:55 -0500 Message-ID: <001801be6660$260e0860$3bf246d1 at epi59.epinet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 4 11:14:27 PST 1999

38418 Michael Moore's Awful Truth -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Max Sawicky wrote: > >> It's almost time to lay odds that Hitchens does a Horowitz. >> >> mbs > >There's a bet I'd take in a minute. > >Horowitz abandoned his politics because some of the people he thought were >friends were thugs. Hitchens holds onto his politics, and he's told he >should be quiet about political thugs who happen to be friends. Yeah, I gotta say that while I don't approve of Hitchens' going t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 4 11:09:36 PST 1999

38419 Milton -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Um, who makes this interpretation, Barkley? I'm curious how they can make >out Milton's Hell to be anything but hierarchical with Satan at the top. Isn't Satan one of those romantic individualists who can't see the hierarchy for all his declarations of independence?

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Date:	Thu Mar 4 10:27:15 PST 1999

38420 Michael Moore's Awful Truth -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >.>The Halloween after the Zapatista rebellion I went party hopping >dressed as >>subcommandante Marcos and no one knew who the fuck I was . > >seriously, you think yanks find the subcommandante scary? Folks on Wall Street do, yes. A couple of years ago, there was a big selloff in the "emerging" markets after a picture of some ski-masked Zaps riding horses appeared on p. 3 of the New York Times. There was no news associated with the picture - just the ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 4 06:50:53 PST 1999

38421 culture/econ -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >ok Doug -- you will be not at all surprised by my saying i find this >compelling >but why are you posting it exactly? >don't do a chavez on me now >what do you mean by this? Ok, I thought that after having annoyed and alienated some of my friends in the political economy world by harping on the field's deadness to culture and the psychosocial, a compensatory analysis of the cultural field's deadness to matters of political economy would be only fair. I d ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 4 06:45:21 PST 1999

38422 Death Penalty -- rank: 1000

Rkmickey at aol.com wrote: >Are you sure this is true? The latest Gallup poll on the death penalty isn't >broken down by either occupation or income level but if you use race as a >proxy for class the more affluent are more into capital punishment than poor >folks. I'll bet this is one case where you can't use race as a proxy for class, given the racial makeup of death row - 42% black <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t677.pdf>.

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 21:10:31 PST 1999

38423 Pray tell, how do you do it? -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >One thing I do not understand, and greatly admire lbo'ers for, >is your ability to read obnoxious characters seriously. If I >am punished for my sins in the hereafter, my idea of a lower >circle in hell is being forced to read Horowitz or Tanner. > >I get impatient and quit reading. How do you guys do it? There's more pleasure in reading stuff that pisses you off than in tepid stuff you agree with. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 19:16:49 PST 1999

38424 Death Penalty -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I agree with you on everything you guys wrote. I just wonder why death >penalty seems to attract even some leftists in America. It's not the same >elsewhere, is it? The popularity of death penalty must be related to the >popularity of anti-abortion sentiments via >moralism/individualism/anti-hedonism routes. Don't forget the (unacknowledged) pleasures of vengeance and (socially sanctioned) cruelty. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 18:29:23 PST 1999

38425 Buchanan and the Balkans -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Not that I know of. If Buchanan wanted to support Nazis in the Balkans, he >had better push for an US/NATO intervention there. > >Unfortunately, the Balkans (along with Heiti, Somalia, & Rewanda) confused >_lots_ of leftists. Those who voiced oppositions to the propaganda that >promoted the break-up of Yugoslavia and the expansion of NATO from the >beginning were a rather odd assortment of people: Living Marxism, die-hard >pacifist religious l ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 14:30:25 PST 1999

38426 Buchanan, sole voice against free trade? -- rank: 1000

J Cullen wrote: > >Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc. conducted a poll for the AFL-CIO, >July 18-22, 1997, that found, among other things: > * 66% of Americans believe that free trade agreements between the >U.S. and other countries cost the U.S. jobs > * 66% of Americans believe that NAFTA has helped large corporations > * 73% of Americans believe that NAFTA has not helped small business >in the U.S. > * 58% of Americans agree that foreign trade has ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 11:21:57 PST 1999

38427 culture/econ -- rank: 1000

from Meaghan Morris, "At Henry Parkes Motel," in Too Soon, Too Late (Indiana University Press, 1998): <quote> However, in a move that is foundational for some versions of cultural studies, Chambers immediately retreats from extending the complexity principle to analysis of relations between the (global) "machinery of capital" and (local) cultural machinations. Instead of entering the "field" constructed "mutually" by industry and culture, the former ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 10:38:41 PST 1999

38428 booze next! -- rank: 1000

Those of us convinced that the next health fascists' target after tobacco would be booze have some evidence in the December issue of Multinational Monitor, "Big Alcohol Puts on a Front," an article by one Hilary Abramson unveiling the International Center for Alcohol Policies as an industry-funded front. Less interesting than that piece of info is the article's general tone - the deliberate rhetorical parallel between Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco established in the first paragraph, the ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 10:13:05 PST 1999

38429 Baffler -- rank: 1000

Someone asked me off-list about The Baffler, which is, of course, a totally excellent publication on culture and politics. They have an extremely rudimentary website at <http://128.135.145.58/> - and not at <http://www.baffler.com>, which was set up by those jokesters at Suck. To subscribe, send $20.00 (for four issues) to The Baffler, P.O. Box 378293 Chicago, IL 60637. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 09:55:04 PST 1999

38430 Horowitz's center -- rank: 1000

Paul Henry Rosenberg wrote: >It's a neo-McCarthyiste organization Horowitz established, funded by the >usual suspects. His signature efforts all much like this one -- >attempts to shut people up. > >The one that really put him on the map was his attack on Globalvision's >"South Africa Now", which he attacked as -- you guessed it! -- Marxist >propoaganda. The Marxists in question being the ANC. I have a problem with this sort of liberal anti-McCarthyism: it's an i ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 09:35:02 PST 1999