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14416 [lbo-talk] George Will: poverty caused by lack of hygiene... -- rank: 1000

[...and it's shocking that John Edwards doesn't know this! or the name James Q WIlson!!] Hundreds of Newspapers - March 6, 2006 Edwards tackles poverty issue in quest for presidency GEORGE WILL Sometimes," says John Edwards, "people need a breather." He is not talking about himself, although surely he needed one after his brief rocket ride through the upper atmosphere of national politics. That ride ended - or perhaps paused - when the Kerry-Edwards ticket lost. The people who Edw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 12:56:12 PST 2006

14417 [lbo-talk] query: Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >For the record, I was against the whole thing at the >time. I think history has proved me wrong. Afg today is a total mess. I'll be interviewing Christian Parenti about his recent month-long visit to that poor country on my radio show this Thursday. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 12:43:11 PST 2006

14418 [lbo-talk] WWJD? or Walk the Line in Black? -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >T shirt slogan I once saw: When they make something >darker than black, I'll wear it. There's some Pavement song which announces that there are 40 different shades of black. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 12:24:35 PST 2006

14419 [lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Too >many posters on this list are much more interested in kvetching about >what they don't like How nice to see you engaging in a little self-criticism for a change! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 09:24:42 PST 2006

14420 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble and the union -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >at risk of pulling chains (assuming any listers glance at this), maybe it's an >lbo demographic thingy... Yup. I'm petit bourgeois. I'll have to organize against myself. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 17:47:03 PST 2006

14421 [lbo-talk] WBAI in action -- rank: 1000

knowknot at mindspring.com wrote: >On 3/5/06, Doug Henwood said: > >> [Use of a nutty 9/11 conspiracy video as a WBAI > > promotion seemed to have] made the phones ring! > > * * * > >During the program to which you refer, were the phones actually >ringing compared with use of a sound-effect loop to make it seem >that way? When I've been pitching, the phones were real, and there were repeated shots of the board showing 7-10 calls at a time. Unless th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 15:31:12 PST 2006

14422 [lbo-talk] WBAI in action -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >I was planning to add something about how the 9/11 movement draws on >the work of conspiracy nuts who are also active in the UFO movement. The video WBAI was hawking is Loose Change. I just watched the trailer, which has a soundtrack by RemoConscious ("Lies"). It contains the line, "just like FDR did Pearl Harbor." These conspiracies get more immense all the time! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 12:51:24 PST 2006

14423 [lbo-talk] WBAI in action -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >I have a more pressing question: does anybody know how to convert a >CD music file into an MP3 file? I want to use a song in my podcast, >but Audacity won't import CD files. I set up iTunes and it claims >that it converted the song to MP3, but it won't let me save the file >to disk. The Mac version of iTunes does it; I've done it hundreds of times. Are you sure it just doesn't save the file in the default iTunes directory? I also use a cheap shareware sound editor (S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 12:40:02 PST 2006

14424 [lbo-talk] WBAI in action -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >what is the attraction of conspiracy theory? I'll save Chip Berlet the trouble: <http://www.publiceye.org/top_conspire.html> <http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/conspiracism.html> Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 11:03:35 PST 2006

14425 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So I'm hardly alone in seeing it as one of the most significant victories >for progressives in 2005. That you think the story is "obscure" reflects >how detached LBO is from social movements with any base in real politics. >Go to any meeting of groups doing state politics and TABOR is one of the >number one topics of discussion. > >See other coverage as well: >http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1297115 >http:/ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 10:59:49 PST 2006

14426 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood: > >> Well I sure didn't know shit about what Nathan calls >> "arguably" the greatest progressive victory of 2005. >> And if it was "arguably" (a word I keep putting in >> quotes, because it's such a wussy cliche) such a >> great victory, how come almost no one seems to have >> noticed? > >Doug -- What the hell are you talking about? Norquist's gangsters attempted >to bring TABOR to sever ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 10:41:29 PST 2006

14427 [lbo-talk] WBAI in action -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >>Watch WBAI program director Bernard White and some colleagues flog >>a 9/11 conspiracy video in the final hours of the winter fund >>drive: <http://www.regionalroundup.org/video/BAI030406.rm>. > >After I record my new podcast this afternoon, I'm finally going to >start on the "Debunking the 9/11 Conspiracy Movement" page for >Infoshop. The people in that movement have pissed me off too many >times and I'm see ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 10:31:49 PST 2006

14428 [lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Well I sure didn't know shit about what Nathan calls "arguably" the >>greatest progressive victory of 2005. And if it was "arguably" (a >>word I keep putting in quotes, because it's such a wussy cliche) >>such a great victory, how come almost no one seems to have noticed? > >I read about it, and I'm neither a right-winger nor a policy wonk. >Perhaps if it'd happened ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 10:19:40 PST 2006

14429 [lbo-talk] a sampling of the WBAI "community" -- rank: 1000

There's a message board called Goodlight devoted to WBAI topics. It's mainly domianted by fevered speculations and toxic polemics. Here's one luscious sample <http://www.listenerforums.net/cgi-bin/issues_config.pl?read=48703>: Stop attacks on the PD! Responsibility lies with GM Hardat. Posted By: Brianna Johnson (4.236.219.97) Date: Saturday, 4 March 2006, at 3:58 p.m. Any shortcomings in this fundraising drive are solely the fault of the GM, Ms. Indra Hardat. JUC supporters have been wavi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 10:07:56 PST 2006

14430 [lbo-talk] WBAI in action -- rank: 1000

Watch WBAI program director Bernard White and some colleagues flog a 9/11 conspiracy video in the final hours of the winter fund drive: <http://www.regionalroundup.org/video/BAI030406.rm>. The drive, originally scheduled for 21 days, was extended by 4 days, because it was about 25% short of its $950,000 goal at the original concluding date. KPFA raised $975,000 in 18 days, and WFMU is in the midst of a 14-day fundraiser that will probably raise about $800,000. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 5 09:57:53 PST 2006