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18916 [lbo-talk] Black Commentator: Rice presiding over decline -- rank: 1000

<http://www.blackcommentator.com/123/123_cover_rice.html> Rice Arrives Just In Time to Oversee U.S. Decline The first Black female U.S. Secretary of State will inevitably preside over a general and dramatic decline in American influence in the world, a process that accelerates with each passing week. So bizarre is American behavior - so disconnected from objective facts and from international conversation and evolving human standards of conduct - that Condoleezza Rice cannot escape b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 07:24:04 PST 2005

18917 [lbo-talk] FT: Family Values are Destroying Marriage -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Nuts. It just occurred to me that this is probably almost entirely >accounted for by a statistical artifact: if you don't get married, >you don't divorce. So what happens in Blue States is that by the >time you marry, you've had two long term cohabitations that led to >break ups, whereas in Red States, those have been two marriages. Not exactly. Here are the stats for five interesting states: MARRIAGES & DIVORCES PER 1,000 PEOPLE, 2001 marriages divor ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 27 07:06:28 PST 2005

18918 [lbo-talk] de Borchgrave: another right-winger turning on W -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - January 24, 2005 Revolutionary idea . . . or bridge too far? By Arnaud de Borchgrave For three years, we have been reminded we are a country at war -- first against al Qaeda and its global affiliates, then against Iraq's bloody tyranny that was an integral part of transnational terrorism. Almost 1,400 American servicemen and women have given their lives in a war President Bush deliberately avoided mentioning in his Inaugural address. It was a classic case of censorship by omis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 06:44:43 PST 2005

18919 [lbo-talk] cushy life/strict equality -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I think everyone would do their best because it's human nature. Yeah, it's "human nature," but so is doing your worst, and doing your half-best, and doing as little as you can get away with, etc. It all depends on the circs. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 27 06:38:16 PST 2005

18920 [lbo-talk] photo -- rank: 1000

For a taste of Davos, see the photo of Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Thabo Mbeki, Bill Gates, Olusegun Obasanjo (pres of Nigeria), and Bono! at the WEF: <http://www.swiss-image.ch/goworldeconomicforum>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 06:30:48 PST 2005

18921 [lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Who's gonna invade America if American workers are to establish >socialism or anarchism or whatever? Canada? That's easy - America! Could you imagine the most powerful ruling class maybe ever making a graceful exit? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 13:56:14 PST 2005

18922 [lbo-talk] Gary Webb's last days -- rank: 1000

Editor and Publisher - January 25, 2005 Gary Webb's Final Days NEW YORK As with nearly every suicide, there is far more to the death of Gary Webb than meets the eye. Although his downward spiral following his departure from the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News provides a pat story line, the devil is really in the details -- and extends to a wide range of family and health issues, as well as a stolen motorcycle. In fact, after spending several years away from full-time journalism, Webb was beginnin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 12:23:35 PST 2005

18923 [lbo-talk] Paul Craig Roberts in Z! -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Michael Pug. If I'm remembering right, PCR was parodied as supply-side nutter Joe Paul Ed Bob in Stamaty's Washingtoon.] <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=76&ItemID=7056> End-Timers & Neo-Cons The End of Conservatives by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts January 19, 2005 Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during 1981-82. He was also Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 12:16:18 PST 2005

18924 [lbo-talk] Gallup: "slight majority" of Americans now say Iraq a mistake -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/default.aspx?ci024&pw=1/25/2005> Americans' Opinions About the Situation in Iraq Tuesday, January 25, 2005 by Joseph Carroll Mistake to Send Troops? A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Jan. 14-16, finds a slight majority of Americans, 52%, saying it was a mistake to send troops to Iraq. Forty-seven percent say it was not a mistake. Earlier in the month, Americans were more divided about the war in Iraq, with 50% saying it was a mistake and ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 12:03:11 PST 2005

18925 [lbo-talk] Ted Turner: Fox News = Hitler -- rank: 1000

<http://www.broadcastingcable.com/CA499014.html> Turner Compares Fox's Popularity to Hitler By Jim Finkle -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/25/2005 2:14:00 PM Ted Turner called Fox a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared Fox News Channel's popularity to Adolf Hitler's popular election to run Germany before World War II. Turner made those fiery comments in his first address at the National Association for Television Programming Executives' conference since he was o ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 11:55:08 PST 2005

18926 [lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Chris Doss wrote: > >>Or >>are all states in the world going to collapse into >>anarchism simultaneously, so there's no one to defend >>against? > >Bingo. You can't create anarchism in one country. You can move in >that direction, but as Spain showed, it's easy to get overwhelmed by >opposition from existing states. Is there any real world society that you think leads the way to the anarchist future, the way social democrats can point to S ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 10:40:46 PST 2005

18927 [lbo-talk] Re: boycotting the unorganized (miidle class) -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >amadeus amadeus wrote: >> It's also important to mention that a section of the >> interests of special oppressions, as Turbulo called >> them, will run antithetical to the class struggle. >> Some of the intelligentsia will be able to (or at >> least think they're able to) secure a cozy position >> within bourgeois society, and thus will shout down >> those seeking to overturn capitalism as "racist," >> "homoph ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 10:37:59 PST 2005

18928 [lbo-talk] nonbelief in god -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Jim Farmelant] <http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/zuckerman/atheism.html>

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 10:23:51 PST 2005

18929 [lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >I think the last 40 or so years of US military history >have shown us that you don't need these kind of things >to fend off and defeat the largest, most powerful, >armed-to-the-hilt military force in the world. Yeah, but that military can leave your country a wreck. Vietnam has suffered from its victory for 30 years - unexploded bombs, herbicides, sanctions - and Iraq is looking like hell's waiting room. One would hope for a better outcome for a political expe ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 10:21:57 PST 2005

18930 [lbo-talk] Weapons of Mass Deception -- rank: 1000

[There should be a moratorium on "hard-hitting" and "devastating."] Dear friends, I am writing to friends, colleagues, and anyone I can think might be interested in knowing that our film WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception) indicting media coverage of the Iraq war will be opening in New York at the Village East Theater (12th and Second Avenue) on Friday evening February 4th for a week or more depending on the turnout. Winning a theatrical run for a hard-hitting low budget film on ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 26 10:19:48 PST 2005