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17776 [lbo-talk] Uninsured only 12 million 'sez NR...oh really?! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >First, it is becoming increasingly clear that the uninsured are over >counted. For years, single-payer advocates have relied on the >statistic produced by the Census Bureau, which now stands at 45 >million uninsured. Yet a recent study by the Urban Institute - not >exactly the free market's best friend - claimed that the Census Bureau >number was overstated by 4 million. Another study by the Department of >Health and Human Services found it was too h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 12 12:23:53 PDT 2005

17777 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >At 01:50 PM 5/12/2005, Carrol Cox wrote: > >>Demos are in any case primarily a way to count noses (whether the count >>be small or large is irrelevant). > >I think Doug, Liza, and Christian complained >about this in their article about activistism. Not exactly. Here's a relevant passage <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Action.html> - and given the decline of the antiwar and global justice movements, I think we were pretty prescient: >So wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 12 12:13:40 PDT 2005

17778 [lbo-talk] Cointelpro -- rank: 1000

There's someone on the WBAI producers list denouncing me as a racist and a cop for suggesting that we need to broaden our audience a bit. He's invoked Cointelpro. As I recall, provocateurs were often the most hypermilitant, and often the ones who invoked race to set groups against each other. Do other people know more about this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 12 09:26:28 PDT 2005

17779 [lbo-talk] Why Not Unsubbed? -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >I tried to quit the list yesterday, but I keep getting mail. Dunno how he tried to unsub. He did post a message saying "peace out," which I just deleted for its contentlessness. > My theory is that you took my saying nurses are the pinnacle of >proledom as some kind of sneer, when, in fact, I was trying to say >what I believe my words mean: Nurses are now the top working-class >job, which means poseurs like Grace shouldn't be running around > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 11 21:12:28 PDT 2005

17780 [lbo-talk] Spanish PM blasts Catholic church -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?navpath=/channels/families&date=200> PlanetOut Network, May 11, 2005 SPAIN LEADER SLAMS CHURCH ON MARRIAGE BIAS Spain's prime minister fought back on Wednesday against the Catholic Church's condemnation of legislation that seeks to extend full marriage rights to same-sex couples. The measure was approved in the Spanish parliament last month, and Spain's bishops subsequently ordered the country's faithful to resist the legislation "in a clear a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 11 19:44:53 PDT 2005

17781 [lbo-talk] queers @ NYU -- rank: 1000

For Immediate Release April 26, 2005 "PANSY, DYKE, HOMO, FAG: 150 YEARS OF QUEER CULTURE" ON DISPLAY AT NYU'S FALES COLLECTION THRU SEPT. 15 The exhibition entitled "Pansy, Dyke, Homo, Fag: 150 Years of Queer Culture" focuses on primary research materials available in New York University's Bobst Library for the study of gender and sexuality in English and American culture. Free and open to the public, it is on display through September 15, 2005 in the Fales Collection, third ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 11 16:14:34 PDT 2005

17782 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementfor UnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >I disagree about messing up the supply chain... It's perhaps the >most effective >method of direct action, and worked like a charm for the Australian >dockworkers >to help crowbar Australia out of the Vietnam incursion. > >The SF Maritime Union was no slacker either, among others, like protesters >invading Dow Chemical... or freaks levitating the Pentagon (while the MOBE >marshaled)... those things also affected the military's ability to function. ...

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Date:	Wed May 11 16:12:04 PDT 2005

17783 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementfor UnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >>it's bold, it's radical, it's >> not for pussies. >> But give some examples of some actions that could >> accomplish >> something other than making the actors feel tough & >> revolutionary. > >One word: Seattle Yeah. I was there. It was really exciting. And did it cause capitalism to wobble for more than an instant? It was a beautiful overture, but then the movement ...

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Date:	Wed May 11 15:53:00 PDT 2005

17784 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementfor UnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000

Nice to see a testosterone-fueled exchange over the best strategy for stopping a war! Thomas Seay wrote: >--- John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote: >and if slapping such >> fools upside the head >> would get them to stop being so dumb, I would >> definitely do it. So in that >> sense, yes, I AM in favor of violence. > >I wish that you would try to slap me up side the head. >Hate to use this quote but "make my day". > >-Thomas

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 11 15:43:16 PDT 2005

17785 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementforUnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Of >course Stalin's proposition does provide the rationale for shooting >everyone involved in a losing battle. I think Uncle Joe said something like, "It takes a brave man to be a coward in my army." Doug

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Date:	Wed May 11 15:27:37 PDT 2005

17786 [lbo-talk] more on Graeber -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >and that's what differentiates us (the left) from the right... ;-) Yup. The right insults its enemies - we insult our friends! Doug

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Date:	Wed May 11 15:02:40 PDT 2005

17787 [lbo-talk] Jon Stewart's dog house -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In terms of pornographic value, pretty naked girls happily smoking >marijuana (a recent object of LBO-talk controversy) pale in >comparison to this. How about the fact that the loft was previously the home to a thousand turtles? That's about $6,000 of prime urban real estate per turtle. Wow. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 11 14:53:44 PDT 2005

17788 [lbo-talk] more on Graeber -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chuck0 wrote: > >>I do, but nobody wants to listen to me. If I speak up on this list, >>people insult me personally. > >Chuck, don't feel bad: I think everybody who posts to this list has >been personally insulted at one point or another. (It's not because >you're an anarchist.) I don't agree with Chuck on a lot of things, but I take his point of view seriously and am glad he's here. I don't approve of personal insults, ei ...

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Date:	Wed May 11 14:44:00 PDT 2005

17789 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementfor UnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >As far as I'm concerned, the answers to the anti-war movement's >failure are right in front of our noses. I'm really struck by how similar this is to what Michael Pug just posted: >Choice quote from Stalin, taken from an early chapter on , "cadres >and heretics, " from Lewin, which highlights Uncle Joe's early >Orthodox seminary training. Pg. 33, "For us objective difficulties do >not exist. The only problem is cadres. If things are not progressing ...

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Date:	Wed May 11 14:41:21 PDT 2005

17790 [lbo-talk] Ridge: terror alerts raised on flimsy evidence -- rank: 1000

[they're too discreet to suggest it was all a political sham] USA Today - May 11, 2005 Ridge reveals clashes on alerts By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says. Ridge, who resigned Feb. 1, said Tuesday that he often disagreed with administration officials who wanted to elevate ...

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Date:	Wed May 11 12:55:07 PDT 2005