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17131 [lbo-talk] Al Gore vents -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> [what's gotten into this guy?] >> > >At the beginning of reading this, I thought it was >good but I did not understand why Doug would ask the >above question. Then, I got to the part where he >quoted Habermas and I thought "what's gotten into this >guy?". > >Ok. What's gotten into him? Can somebody spike the >water supply in Washington DC with it? I think he's ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 12:16:11 PDT 2005

17132 [lbo-talk] Middle Class -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Charles Brown wrote: >> >> >CB; I hear people say fairly commonly that "they are wiping out the middle >> >class; there will just be rich and poor." >> >> True enough, but it's another matter to talk about this in the first person. >> > >Isn't this sort of shuffling aside of theory what you objected to in >your activistism article. Who's talking about agitational slogans? ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 11:40:44 PDT 2005

17133 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter loses it over Miers too -- rank: 1000

[I'm not sure I follow this argument - the SC is a job for wonks, so it's one of the few appropriate places to stash Ivy grads - but these rumbles on the right are fun <http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/welcome.cgi>] THIS IS WHAT 'ADVICE AND CONSENT' MEANS October 5, 2005 I eagerly await the announcement of President Bush's real nominee to the Supreme Court. If the president meant Harriet Miers seriously, I have to assume Bush wants to go back to Crawford and let Dick Cheney run the coun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 6 11:35:54 PDT 2005

17134 [lbo-talk] Mills's Power Elite -- rank: 1000

Has anyone written illuminatingly on C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite? Anyone here have any thoughts? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 6 11:19:52 PDT 2005

17135 [lbo-talk] WBAI hawks another 9/11 video -- rank: 1000

The first few days of WBAI's fundraiser are being orchestrated by program director Bernard White. Here's what's being offered as featured premium in the 3-6 slot (I would have been on from 5-6, but I'm pre-empted - no doubt in part because I'd never pitch this shit, and the program director has declared that fundraising is all about the premiums): <http://www.globaloutlook.ca/videos.htm> >The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw" >"This new video is a brill ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 11:19:22 PDT 2005

17136 [lbo-talk] Al Gore vents -- rank: 1000

[what's gotten into this guy?] <http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051006/our_democracy_has_been_hollowed_out.php> Our Democracy Has Been Hollowed Out Al Gore October 06, 2005 Al Gore was vice president of the United States. The following is the prepared text of the speech he delivered to the The Media Center's We Media conference on October 5, 2005 in New York City. =================== I came here today because I believe that American democracy is in grave danger. It is no longer possible ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 11:14:38 PDT 2005

17137 [lbo-talk] spat -- rank: 1000

[hey you techies, is this as odd as it seems?] At 1:53 PM -0400 10/6/05, MOTD [Panix] wrote: >(The following article has been automatically mirrored from MOTD) > >(Posted by Ed Ravin [staff]) Thu, Oct 06 2005 -- 1:44 PM >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Some sites on the Internet hosted by Cogent Networks have been unreachable >from Panix since Wednesday morning, due to a spat between Cogent and our >provider, Level3 Networks, who ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 11:07:20 PDT 2005

17138 [lbo-talk] Middle Class -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB; I hear people say fairly commonly that "they are wiping out the middle >class; there will just be rich and poor." True enough, but it's another matter to talk about this in the first person. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 10:55:54 PDT 2005

17139 [lbo-talk] W & the right: it's all over -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Conservatives rethinking President Bush: From one clear-eyed and whip smart conservative to The Note, regarding our work from yesterday: "Bingo as usual for The Note: The [George] Will column is big. We are in uncharted territory on this. Bush has never had to go into battle with most of the base actively opposed to him. Even BCRA and all the spending bills were largely inside-the-beltway subjects. This isn't. The White House di ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 10:50:36 PDT 2005

17140 [lbo-talk] Middle Class (was Harriet Miers) -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: > amadeus amadeus wrote: >> >> >The >> >real indicators of class are whether or not the >> >collective entity owns the means of production, >> >distribution, and exchange. >> >> "Real" to whom? To the Marxist catechist? Or to >> actual people living >> in the world? What's the relation between those two >> things? > >"Real," as in objective, as in affecting one's d ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 10:46:45 PDT 2005

17141 [lbo-talk] The Right's Left Turn -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I wouldn't trust FrontPage on anything. They are congenital liars and have >an interest in highlighting the nutty aspects of some libertarians. Who brought them up? Did I miss something? >The common ground between libts and the left is significant, as long as the >US Gov pursues Empire and resorts to repression at home in support of its >imperial machinations. There is also the traditional agreement on civil >liberties and personal freedom, including - ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 10:40:04 PDT 2005

17142 [lbo-talk] The Right's Left Turn -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Incredible. Ron Paul, the Gold Bug nut. His theocratic Christian >Reconstructionist y2k sky will fall loon relative Gary North. > Carol Moore who believes sunspots determine the rhythm of activisms >ups and downs. Ron Paul may be a nut, but he's useful on this stuff. As are Lew Rockwell & antiwar.com. Rockewell is a civil libertarian and anti-imperialist - we need all of those we can get. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 5 20:09:00 PDT 2005

17143 [lbo-talk] Andy Rooney sounds off -- rank: 1000

[I usually think Rooney is a bit of a horse's ass, but it's pretty amazing he's ranting like thos.] Ike Was Right About War Machine Oct. 2, 2005 (CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13495.shtml>CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. I'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States - our United States - is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 5 19:10:24 PDT 2005

17144 [lbo-talk] KPFA (was MALIK RAHIM: Yesterday's Radicals Devolve....) -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >For me, as long the process is democratic, it provides a potentially >level playing feild for the many competing visions, rather than >letting whoever happens to be on staff pretty much decide everything. One of the problems I have with this is the definition of "democratic." The constituency for a radio station is highly plastic, and the number of votes required to win seats on the board is quite small (as low as 200 in some cases). So a gang of loons c ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 5 12:15:11 PDT 2005

17145 [lbo-talk] KPFA (was MALIK RAHIM: Yesterday's Radicals Devolve....) -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >programing that in the main did not adequately serve the diverse Bay >Area progressive community. What does that mean? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 5 12:01:25 PDT 2005