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17431 [lbo-talk] Abortion, not a women's issue. How about femicide? -- rank: 1000

peacenow at theofficenet.com wrote: >Doug said that abortion wasn't a women's issue, meaning that it is everyone's >issue? So this must be true of rape, sex slavery, battering, etc. >Unfortuantely, addressing these latter issues do not seem to be on the radar >screen of most men, activist or not. I knew someone was going to take it that way. I meant it purely in polling/electoral terms. I think the right to free abortion with no questions asked is fundamental to the liberation and e ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 13 19:10:24 PST 2005

17432 [lbo-talk] Re: Christopher Hitchens -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >There is something hilarious about that picture of >Hitchens with the Family Research Council. Can't quite >place it. I asked Hitch if he's going soft on god. He writes: >Good grief, man, it's you not me that hangs around their website. I >thought it was rather nice of them to expose their sweet interns to >a lecture on Jefferson and atheism. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 13 19:05:05 PST 2005

17433 [lbo-talk] White House declines to totally rule out torture -- rank: 1000

[gotta love this headline, despite the split infinitive] White House declines to totally rule out torture Sun Nov 13, 6:23 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - In an important clarification of President George W. Bush's earlier statement, a top White House official refused to unequivocally rule out the use of torture, arguing the US administration was duty-bound to protect Americans from terrorist attack. The comment, by US national security adviser Stephen Hadley, came amid heated national debate about whe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 13 18:59:44 PST 2005

17434 [lbo-talk] WaPo: Milbank & Pincus Unleashed -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers quoted: >Asterisks Dot White House's Iraq Argument > >By Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus >Washington Post Staff Writers >Saturday, November 12, 2005; A01 > > >President Bush and his national security adviser have answered >critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: >that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did >before the war, and that independent commissions have determined >that the administration did no ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 12 11:45:27 PST 2005

17435 [lbo-talk] Re: Rhizomatic (now Frontiers and Empire?) -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Zachary wrote: > >> I entertain the notion that the collapse of the >Frontier, and its >> consequent internalization into people's inner >lives, is the >recurring >> theme in David Lynch's work. > >Hmmm, yes, I can see that. In his work, the promise >that capitalism, especially US capitalism, has always >held up clashes (more and more) with reality. This is >especially apparent in Mulholland Drive, where the >dream world ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 12 10:08:44 PST 2005

17436 [lbo-talk] What's the Matter With Kansas This Week -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >As I told Michael offlist, the Republicans understand that >overturning Roe v. Wade would be political suicide. More than a few >analysts have pointed out that the Republicans can't risk alienating >women voters who they've been courting for many years. I'll point out again that men are actually somewhat more supportive of abortion rights than women. It's not a "women's" issue. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 12 09:07:51 PST 2005

17437 [lbo-talk] What's the Matter With Kansas This Week -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >would it be too stodgy, or too naive, or too deterministic >to attribute problem with kansas (for that matter, problem >with u.s., uk edition of frank's is, in fact, titled _what's the >matter with america_) to small organized labor movement... > >euphemistically name 'right to work' movement succeeded >in 20 southern and western states with relatively little union >density between end of ww2 and mid-50s (florida was first >to do so, in 1944), bu ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 12 09:02:42 PST 2005

17438 [lbo-talk] What's the Matter With Kansas This Week -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I'm a product of Blue Valley schools and look how I turned out. ;-) I think the new masters of Kansas are on top of that. Bartels points out that Kansas has been among the most reliably Republican of states for 100 years. FDR barely carried it in '36, as I recall. So isn't what's the matter with Kansas an old story? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 11 22:26:08 PST 2005

17439 [lbo-talk] theorizing in ASCII -- rank: 1000

[nettime has been quiet lately, but this is pretty funny] Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:41:01 +0100 From: Matze Schmidt <matze.schmidt at n0name.de> To: nettime-l at bbs.thing.net |<--------- Width: 74 Characters - fixed font: Courier New, 10 --------->| ASCII Map "theoretical Mediapractice now" 0.3 -------------------------- | Interlinking of media | | practice with explicit | | political practice | -------------------------- / WC 2006[1] / / / Riots { Paris ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 11 17:46:08 PST 2005

17440 [lbo-talk] history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies -- rank: 1000

<http://prorev.com/revision.htm> T H E P R O G R E S S I V E R E V I E W THE REVISION THING A history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies By Sam Smith Originally published in Harper's Magazine All text is verbatim from senior Bush Administration officials and advisers. In places, tenses have been changed for clarity. Originally from Harper's Magazine, September 2003. Once again, we were defending both ourselves and the safety and survival of civilization itself. September 11 signaled ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 11 15:09:31 PST 2005

17441 [lbo-talk] Silly liberals! This isn't France! -- rank: 1000

[from the reactionary hack PR firm - note Pat Buchanan cri de coeur at end] CONTACT: To schedule an interview on this topic, call: Special Guests/Christine Dahlson or Jerry McGlothlin, 630-848-0750. "This isn't France!" GOP IS NOT IN CRISIS-- LIBERALS ARE IN DENIAL Author of best-selling kid's book HELP! MOM! THERE ARE LIBERALS UNDER MY BED scoffs at liberals licking their chops over election results and Bush's recent woes. Says concerns by Pat Buchanan are overblown and Americans want ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 11 13:16:54 PST 2005

17442 [lbo-talk] further evidence of general decline -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - November 11, 2005 NOSE FOR QUALITY ROD Stewart says he doesn't do cocaine anymore because it's just not as pure as it used to be. The rooster-coiffed crooner, 60, longs for the days when dealers didn't mix the drug to maximize profits. "I don't know why anyone would want to take coke now," Stewart tells contactmusic.com. "It was different in my day, because it was all so much purer. Now these dealers mix it with salt, washing powders, anything they can g ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 11 13:10:53 PST 2005

17443 [lbo-talk] Last self-promo, I swear ;( -- rank: 1000

Dick Lodge wrote: >listened. more chicks! i thought you'd like this: Judith Butler's nose ring >http://blog.pulpculture.org/2005/11/11/judith-butlers-nose-ring/ > >didn't think you'd get messed up with judyjudyjudy didja. > >good show! Damn, I missed it. Archived anywhere? I see you've got the quirky Piet posting recondite comments. Yikes. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 11 11:56:01 PST 2005

17444 [lbo-talk] GOP civil war -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111001333.html> House Budget Measure Is Pulled Moderates Buck GOP Leadership In Both Chambers By Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writers [...] House Republican leaders were forced to abruptly pull their $54 billion budget-cutting bill off the House floor yesterday, amid growing dissension in Republican ranks over spending priorities, taxes, oil exploration and the reach of government. A battle ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 11 11:30:44 PST 2005

17445 [lbo-talk] good news! big layofs in Germany -- rank: 1000

Ed Hyman, Wall Street's favorite economist, observes in today's emission: "Things appear to be changing in Germany, which helps explain why the DAX [stock market index] is up 19% ytd. These three layoff announcements [from Allianz, Deutsche Telekom, and Volkswagen, reproduced nearby in the original] in just three months total over 70,000 which would be the equivalent of almost 250,000 in the U.S."

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Date:	Fri Nov 11 11:25:02 PST 2005