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436 Historical Perspective -- rank: 586

... another case whereby the ostensible > >"executive" or popular leader of a coutnry has been forced out of > >office over the details of a sexual relationship between consenting > >adults. > > David and Bathsheba. 2 Samuel ... with her, has her husband placed in the front of a battle where he is > killed, and marries her. God is ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Sep 16 23:52:56 PDT 1998

437 [lbo-talk] Muslims in America -- rank: 583

USA Today - August 10, 2006 USA's Muslims under a cloud By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY Motaz Elshafi, 28, a software engineer, casually opened an internal e- mail at work ... last month. The message began, "Dear Terrorist." The note from a co-worker was sent to Muslims working at Cisco Systems in Research Triangle Park, N.C., a few days after train bombings in India that killed 207 ... harassment and discrimination against Muslims are rising, advocacy groups say. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 1,007 Americans shows strong ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 11 12:04:31 PDT 2006

438 [lbo-talk] Uri Avnery on Amir Peretz -- rank: 583

... gush-shalom.org/home/en/index.html Nov. 11, 2005 A Great Miracle NORTH AFRICAN immigrants on the periphery of French ... immigrants on the periphery of Israel this week carried out a democratic revolution in our country. In the Labor Party primaries ... their descendents, named for the Medieval Hebrew appellation for Germany.) A week ago, this column called upon the Labor Party voters ...

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Author:	Ira Glazer
Date:	Mon Nov 28 06:32:47 PST 2005

439 Fwd: Lieberman and the Rise of Centrist Theocrats -- rank: 583

... on divine guidance. Cementing his alliance with fundamentalist >Christian groups, President Reagan loved to perform at high-profile prayer >breakfasts and ... state. > >Now, the Gore-Lieberman campaign has launched itself with a very public >display of devout post

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Author:	radman
Date:	Sat Aug 12 15:06:52 PDT 2000

440 Zizek on WTC, expanded -- rank: 583

... American paranoiac fantasy is that of an individual living in a small idyllic Californian city, a consumerist paradise, who suddenly starts to suspect that the world he lives in is a fake, a spectacle staged to convince him that he lives in a real world, while all people around him are effectively actors and extras in a gigantic show. The most recent example of this is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 20 06:34:55 PDT 2001

441 Reed on Nader -- rank: 583

... candidate of the Citizens' Party and John Anderson ran as a mass media-generated hologram spouting empty slogans and projecting gravitas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 31 10:05:17 PDT 2000

442 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [anti-allawi-group] The Chomsky vs. Dershowitz debate: both sides were awful! -- rank: 583

... as it stands now, is that it is in part a means of undermining a Palestinian state. The KKK commentary is really just over the ... me. Must be another one of those rusty axes and a new grind-stone. Travis Michael Hirsch wrote: > Joanna: > > What exactly do you support? The ideal of a unitary secular state or > the reality of a Middle Eastern peace? If I thought for a moment that > a secular bi-or multi-national state ...

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Author:	Travis Fast
Date:	Sun Dec 4 21:56:35 PST 2005

443 [lbo-talk] As`ad Abukhalil's Petition for Joseph Massad and Academic Freedom -- rank: 583

... academic freedoms. I urge you not because it deals with a close friend of mine (Joseph Massad) but because he is being subjected to a very nasty and sinister campaign by Zionist hoodlums. A sleazy member of Congress from New York has even called on the president of Columbia University to "fire" him. Joseph has written against ... Arabic and English, and those hoodlums are trying to creat a caricature of Joseph that has no relation to reality. . . . <http ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Oct 25 19:30:00 PDT 2004

444 [lbo-talk] FW: 'Hate-Motivated Terrorism Is a Serious Problem in This Country' -- rank: 583

White workers who do not recognize the priority of African-American needs in the struggle for worker-interests will prove incapable of defending their own special interests. (One of the saddest sentences I have ever read is Adolph Reed's posing of an unemployed steel worker's response to the demand ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Mar 8 16:13:57 PST 2016

445 [lbo-talk] Cheney like a young Jewish girl trying to hide from the Nazis -- rank: 583

... expressed anger after TIME magazine detailed the location of Vice President Dick Cheney's secret bunker, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned ... underground bunker on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border where the Vice President spent much of his time in 2001. TIME wrote: "Deep under Raven Rock Mountain, Site R is a secret world of five buildings, each three stories tall, computer filled caverns and a subterranean water reservoir. It is just 7 miles from Camp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 15 14:37:52 PDT 2004

446 [lbo-talk] Iranian Jewish deputy condemns National Post report -- rank: 583

... May 21 2006 Iranian officials and politicians have strongly condemned a Canadian newspaper report alleging that Iran had passed a law requiring Jews to wear yellow badges on their clothes ... themselves. "When I heard this, I immediately felt it was a mischievous act, a fresh means of pressure against the Iranian government," Maurice Motammed ... parliament, and there has never been any mention of such a thing." The story, published in Canada's National Post on ... agency and widely posted on websites. It led Chuck Schumer, a US senator to issue a news release calling the ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Sun May 21 15:41:16 PDT 2006

447 I want my OsamaTV -- rank: 583

... s recruitment video in full. So what did Julia Magnet, a young Jewish New Yorker, make of it? THE Third Reich may have honed a formidable propaganda machine, but even Hitler might have drawn the ... has topped the Fuhrer. Until I sat down to watch a two-hour Al Qa'eda recruitment video, made just six ... tricks. Far more likely, I thought, that he'd produce a dreary display of militant fundamentalism: lots of ranting against America ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Mon Nov 26 07:55:00 PST 2001

448 Jude on Farrakhan -- rank: 583

... anti-Semitic bigot. I recently persuaded the NYTimes to run a correction when it repeated the assertion that he had called ... is no evidence that Minister Farrakhan ever said "Judaism is a gutter religion," which the NYT still insists he said, there ... my shock, then, when on Wednesday I was told by a friend who heard on the radio that Farrakhan had "confessed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 12 10:17:46 PDT 2000

449 empty gravesite [Fwd: MR. KENIGS HAS 2ND THOUGHTS] -- rank: 583

[bounced because it had an attachment - who is this Jared Israel guy anyway? I keep seeing his name around] Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:15:58 -0500 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> David Horne maintains we have enough hard evidence of Serbian atrocities. That is in fact ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 13 13:23:17 PDT 1999

450 al-Qaeda and Taliban -- rank: 583

|| And if you could do me a favor and repost the ones that you || consider most || convincing ... caught? These guys were decoys. The involvement of Amdocs is a clincher. See below, for example: http://www.antiwar.com/justin ... had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by vetoing a UN resolution condemning violence on all sides in the Israeli ... no matter what the source, called for the creation of a "monito

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Thu Mar 21 11:58:41 PST 2002