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19501 [lbo-talk] Kolko: The Decline of the American Empire -- rank: 1000

Didn't Kolko write something like this in the late 1970s? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 17 17:35:31 PST 2005

19502 [lbo-talk] Chip on Hustler -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Re: Hustling the Left (Response to Chip Berlet) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:43:58 -0500 From: "Chip Berlet" <c.berlet at publiceye.org> Setting aside the weird website, this comment by Stan Goff makes sense to me. = = = Sonali Kolhatkar's KPFK interview of Ann Simonton & Stan Goff about Hustler Magazine and some in the Left who support it. [If you have a dialup please double click here, go have a cup of tea and the radio in ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 17 20:56:33 PST 2005

19503 [lbo-talk] Hustling the Left -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Writing for Hustler is to women, what writing for a Ku Klux Klan >magazine is to Black people. > >Reach one potential audience at the expense of an exisitng ally. > >Bad politics bad strategy, bad tactics. Do you have any evidence for this claim, or do you just know it to be true? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 17 21:08:16 PST 2005

19504 [lbo-talk] Time-Delayed Journalism -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson quoted Cockburn & St Clair: >And when it comes to zeal in protecting the Bill of Rights, between December >22, 1974 and December 16, 2005 it's been a steady run down hill for the New >York Times. True enough, but look on the bright side: 1974 was a year of serious legitimation crisis in the US. That the Times published this now suggests that maybe we're in the early phases of another one. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 17 22:00:28 PST 2005

19505 [lbo-talk] NYC Transit strike -- rank: 1000

The 30 Pound Snail Who Lives on Gar Lipow's Monitor wrote: >For those of us seeing the NY city transit stike from a distance, >what is the trick behind the management offer of binding arbitration? > Is it simply that the union is certain to win a strike?Why go out of >your way to provoke one in that case? I don't know the answer about binding arbitration, though I'd guess that the union doesn't want to sacrifice any of its potential power and autonomy, esp in striking just before ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 06:44:40 PST 2005

19506 [lbo-talk] Pelosi endorses Dem cacophony on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 16, 2005 Pelosi Hails Democrats' Diverse War Stances By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party. Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 16 09:32:12 PST 2005

19507 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart, the war on Xmas, and stuff -- rank: 1000

Wal-Mart a Good Place to Shop But Some Critics Too Holiday Greeting Flap: Ho, Ho, Hum As shoppers flock to the stores for holiday gifts, some express mixed feelings about the nation's largest retailer. Nearly every American lives near enough a Wal-Mart to shop there, and 84% say they have done so in the past year. Praise for the retailer's low prices, wide selection and convenience flow freely, and 81% of those with a Wal-Mart nearby say it is a good place to shop. Somewhat less glowing, however ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 16 20:49:48 PST 2005

19508 [lbo-talk] Re: Racist, Reactionary, Evil, Hateful,and Loathsome -- rank: 1000

Bitch | Lab wrote: >At 06:40 PM 12/16/2005, Dennis Claxton wrote: > >>>It started when one Dennis Claxton (I am not even sure if that is >>>a real person or an alias of some >>>prankster, it's hard to tell on this list anymore, >> >> >>I'm a real person. Don't you ever get tired of being so fucking smug? > > >Yup. Known him for years, ever since the Bad Subjects days. Dennis >asked me to contribute a piece to an anthology. Doug and ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 16 20:46:28 PST 2005

19509 [lbo-talk] freedom of the press -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 16, 2005 RADAR TARGETS HIT ON BACKERS DID Radar magazine's financial backers Mort Zuckerman and Jeffrey Epstein pull the plug on the scrappy mag because of pressure from their ultra-wealthy friends? Media insiders claim the glossy was canned after Radar ignored repeated warnings not to write about their patrons' powerful pals. Over the last year, our sources claim, both Zuckerman and Epstein were besieged by calls from power players distressed over Radar's sna ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 16 10:33:42 PST 2005

19510 [lbo-talk] Hustling The Left -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >GIs who read Hustler and come across Christian Parenti's article are >often going to be the kind who do not actively seek out the left >media. Some of them -- no, many of them -- will be people who have >uneasy but incoherent feelings about the war, but don't know exactly >what to think of them, and they will read this article from a >leftist that says a lot more about the insanity of what they've >experienced than anything else they've read or seen in the ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 16 10:19:43 PST 2005

19511 [lbo-talk] all aboard for heaven -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS POLL: HEAVEN - 10/9/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 6 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005 Nine in 10 Believe in Heaven; A Quarter Say for Christians Only Vast majorities of Americans believe in heaven and think they're headed there. But elbow room won't be a problem: About eight in 10 believers envision heaven as a place where people exist only spiritually, not physically. Eighty-nine percent in this ABC News poll believe in heaven, which is consistent with data going back 30 years. Among believ ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 20 07:06:43 PST 2005

19512 [lbo-talk] poverty draft -- rank: 1000

J. Tyler wrote: >I have no qualms about saying I stand up for victims as against our >victimizers. What is gained by denying that people are injured by >the actions of others in real and measurable ways? Whose agenda >does that advance? For one, when put this way it sounds like the rheetoric of losers. What ever happened to the spirit of "we are many, they are few," or "we created it, let's take it over"? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 19 21:45:01 PST 2005

19513 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >The dying and resurrected god is the staple myth of a >zillion religions, Isis and Osiris come immediately to >mind. Yeah, I'm sure that's on the mind of every theater-goer. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 19 21:31:15 PST 2005

19514 [lbo-talk] poverty draft -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >My father "freely" made his "choice" to work for a steel mill (which >was one of the best blue-collar jobs in his time), and my mother for >supermarkets, nursing home cafeterias, and the like. All >working-class choices are such "free choices," of which the "choice" >of joining the military is but one. RIght. THe American working class is never gung-ho patriotic, and never identifies with the empire. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 19 21:29:26 PST 2005

19515 [lbo-talk] poverty draft -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Other approaches to left organizing are the daydreams of intellectuals >wouldn't know how to organize a family picnic. What the fuck have you organized, big guy? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 19 21:28:00 PST 2005