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16561 [lbo-talk] San Francisco March -- rank: 1000

Adam Souzis wrote: >techno-optimism is definitely still alive and well in SF. Really? It survived the bust, or it's come back to life? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 16:24:55 PDT 2005

16562 [lbo-talk] Liberal imperialism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The members of the local anti-war group (except for Jan & me) are all >liberals, not marxists or even socialists particularly; they all support >DP candidates. I have from the beginning periodically made sure they all >know about how the WWP/ANSWER is regarded by people like Nathan. They >all don't give a fuck. They find the topic not only irrelvant but >aggressively boring and a waste of time. Couldn't agree more. Why does it bother the Nathan Newmans an ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 16:18:58 PDT 2005

16563 [lbo-talk] comments on our government -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >BTW, what do you think of the Administration's "Louisiana Sucks" >counteroffensive? Well it's not completely untrue, is it? It's a corrupt, good-ol'-boy state, and so's NO. It's just that the Bush admin is the last one that can point fingers. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 16:13:43 PDT 2005

16564 [lbo-talk] religion bad for society -- rank: 1000

[original paper at <http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html>] Times (London) - eptember 27, 2005 Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contri ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 16:07:39 PDT 2005

16565 [lbo-talk] comments on our government -- rank: 1000

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050927/wl_afp/usweatherstorm_050927165428> Rita failed to deliver a second catastrophe but it has fed the storm of criticism against the US authorities' response to natural disasters. Hundreds of thousands of evacuees were stranded on clogged highways when the hurricane hit, while others have found themselves stranded in the disaster zone without assistance days after the storm. "Our government sucks. They're horrible. You want to know why? Because they ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 13:15:54 PDT 2005

16566 [lbo-talk] Liberal imperialism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But I'm very happy that there has been an explosion of attacks on ANSWER's >role in the antiwar movement in the wake of Saturday's rallies. Well, coming from Marc Cooper & Co., yes. But why? The demo was pretty successful. It attracted a more diverse crowd than usual and got pretty friendly coverage. It's not world-transformative, for sure, but it's certainly better than nothing. Why this obsessing about ANSWER? They got a permit and hired some busses. They didn't ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 11:33:15 PDT 2005

16567 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Change to win founding convention - live coverage -- rank: 1000

Date: 27 Sep 2005 16:52:49 +0100 To: labourstart at unionlists.org.uk From: ericlee at labourstart.org Subject: Change to win founding convention - live coverage I am writing this to all of you from the floor of the founding convention of the Change to Win coalition in St. Louis. I will be covering the convention throughout the day with live reports which you can read here: http://www.ericlee.me.uk/archive/cat_ctw.html Please feel free to add your comments. In addition, there is extensive covera ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 10:55:56 PDT 2005

16568 [lbo-talk] Liberal imperialism -- rank: 1000

[by the world's tallest building indicator, China's due for a big crash] Jonathan Lassen wrote: >Actually if you visit a glitzy city like Shanghai and then visit a >rural inland area (or suburb!) you very well may come away with the >impression of 'neo-colony.' Financial Times - September 27, 2005 Wheel of fortune for wealthy Chinese By Jim Pickard in London Affluent business people will each be invited to pay $100,000 (¤83,000, £56,000) a year to belong to a Shanghai private members' c ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 10:40:29 PDT 2005

16569 [lbo-talk] leadership -- rank: 1000

An interesting datapoint for those who say that white leftists in the US should take leadership from blacks. From Gallup: >The Racial Divide >Opinion of the Democratic Party >Blacks are much more likely than whites to view the Democratic Party >positively. Seventy-two percent of blacks have a favorable opinion >of the Democratic Party, while 18% view it unfavorably. Among >non-Hispanic whites, 44% rate the party favorably and 43% rate it >unfavorably. [Sep 8-11, 2005]

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 10:20:28 PDT 2005

16570 [lbo-talk] media exaggerated Katrina crime wave -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - September 27, 2005 Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy Rumors supplanted accurate information and media magnified the problem. Rapes, violence and estimates of the dead were wrong. By Susannah Rosenblatt and James Rainey, Times Staff Writers BATON ROUGE, La. - Maj. Ed Bush recalled how he stood in the bed of a pickup truck in the days after Hurricane Katrina, struggling to help the crowd outside the Louisiana Superdome separate fact from fiction. Armed only with a me ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 10:05:16 PDT 2005

16571 [lbo-talk] Liberal imperialism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Video shows harsh life in N. Korean camp So, got any other dog bites man stories for us? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 08:51:26 PDT 2005

16572 [lbo-talk] Liberal imperialism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >There is probable cause to believe that American "left" liberals >organizing against Chinese labor abuses are aiding U.S. imperialism. U.S. imperialism is ambivalent on China, isn't it? Where would we be without cheap Chinese manufactured goods and the People's Bank of China's purchase of Treasury paper? I'm not going to defend Chinese labor practices, but a lot of the critics act as if they're unaware of a long history in this country of Yellow Perilism. It ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 07:21:59 PDT 2005

16573 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: 3,000 march/rally in Salt Lak City on Sept. 24] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >In addition to the growing opposition to the war, the mayor's support >for the protest had a lot to do with it's relative success. I met Rocky >Anderson when he became an activist in the Central America solidarity >movement some twenty years ago; he is an unusually independent-minded >and radical Democrat. This is kind of amazing. He's the mayor of SLC, for heaven's sake. What's up with this? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 17:50:18 PDT 2005

16574 [lbo-talk] Alan G writes a paper -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Parse this for me, Doug: so Greenspan is concluding that reining in >American consumers would be a good thing, in macroeconomic terms? >Won't that make Wal-mart shareholders (among others) a little >twitchy? I'm not sure of how to read it. My suspicion is that AG wants to burst the housing bubble, which would bring consumption down, the savings rate up, and the US international accounts closer to balance. At first I thought his claim that the adjustment would be ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 17:21:02 PDT 2005

16575 [lbo-talk] DC: Costs of big marches -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >So you have activists sitting down on a sidewalk and get arrested? As I remember my undergrad constitutional law course, taught by the reactionary Alexander Bickel, civil disobedience makes the most sense when you're violating a bad law itself. Getting arrested to protest something else is much less effective. I gotta say, I don't see how effective it would be to get arrested sitting in front of the White House. All you do is spend a few hours in jail and the war m ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 15:13:46 PDT 2005