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19756 [lbo-talk] Free Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >There's a balance to be struck, but ultimately I don't think that >it's such a big deal to strike that balance. I agree - I'm just afraid that a professional publicist would push things too far in the wrong direction.

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19757 [lbo-talk] Free Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As you mentioned in another message, Tom, I also believe that "Cindy >Sheehan is a catalyst, not The Cause." In this case, though, I >think that what's interesting about Doug's gossip is not so much >Sheehan per se as the nature of modern political communication >(especially political communication in the United States), which >political consultants and public relations experts dominate, unless >activists resist it. How we can resist it, ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 26 15:46:50 PDT 2005

19758 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: On 8/26/05, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote: The point is: telemarketing not only contributes > nothing to that total but is really an annoying *disservice* and > would be counted as negative in any objective system of > economic measurement were such a system to exist. > > Shane Mage "Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross n ...

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19759 [lbo-talk] Chomsky and History -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >For there to have been a happier ending, these societies would have had to >attain a higher level of productivity than the advanced capitalist >countries. The Soviet and Chinese revolutions elevated the living standards >of the masses, but younger post-revolutionary generations took these for >granted and measured the success of their own system, not in relation to the >absolute deprivation of the past, but against the more productive, >wealthier, and ...

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19760 [lbo-talk] free Cindy Sheehan! -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >spare us the innuendo I prefer idle gossip, thanks. Doug

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19761 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Bush Approval at 40% -- rank: 1000

[here's Gallup's own report <http://gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=18148> - Gallup's approval numbers have generally been a few points higher than other houses'] August 26, 2005 Bush Approval Rating Continues to Drop Current 40% approval is lowest of administration to date by Frank Newport and Jeff Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll reflects further erosion in President George W. Bush's job approval rating, continuing the slow but steady decline evident throughout th ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 26 12:21:37 PDT 2005

19762 [lbo-talk] lbo, a den of right-wingers? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >OK, that leaves me with Plan B: Trying to convince the Business >Roundtable* that socialism is a good idea. You think I'm misreading the working class, and there's a great longing for a transition to socialism? Am I massively misunderstanding Long Island? Doug

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19763 [lbo-talk] AQKhan gave North Korea centrifuges, confirms Musharraf -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Mr. Khan deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, considering how conducive to >peace is the possession of nuclear weapons by potential targets of u.s. >aggression. Best would be that no one had nuclear weapons. But that's impossible, so we've got to go with the second best, which is that everyone should have them. Now we learn that Kennedy thought of nuking China - but he quickly changed his mind when China developed its own bomb. It should be some kind of right of Westphalian ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 26 09:59:06 PDT 2005

19764 [lbo-talk] lbo, a den of right-wingers? -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >recent material on this list has been interesting: the wonders of >*western* liberal democracy. the shooting of an innocent person by >the british police is an "accident". male feelings of impotence as a >primary cause of the london bombing. alex cockburn's highlighting of >the other side of the "indian [capitalist] miracle" is wrong. a >while ago we had someone express his opinion [of distaste] on a man >having sex with another man. someone ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 26 09:55:06 PDT 2005

19765 [lbo-talk] lbo, a den of right-wingers? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I must say that the other day, here on the putatively Left BO list, >I experienced a degree of cognitive dissonance nigh on to >electroshock treatment when I was advised to recognize that >advocating socialism is an insult to the intelligence of the working >class. It's not, though the working class might not be a receptive audience. Doug

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19766 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >M Pugliese says: "hat Hugo Chavez is offering Cuba abundant oil >supplies it is possible that >> they switch strategies again. > > Much of which is then sold by Cuba for foreign exchange." >Comment: >Nope, you got it wrong, most is exchanged for Colombian dope. Moron. Can the insults. I don't agree with Pug on Cuba, but he's not a moron. Doug

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19767 [lbo-talk] free Cindy Sheehan! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Why progressive in scare quotes? > Fenton started in the Liberation News Service in the 60's (read the >Ray Mungo autobios. on LNS, howlingly funny), did PR for the Angolans >of the MPLA vs. Savimbi, worked for Maurice Bishop (I assume w/ Don >Rojas), the FSLN and the FMLN. And Christopher Hitchens was once a flamboyant gay Trot, too. Fenton's come a long way from that. And I wish I could tell you an anecdote illustrating how, but I can't. Doug

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19768 [lbo-talk] Greenspan changes his tune -- rank: 1000

[This is a remarkable change of tone for the Old Geezer, who's just five months away from leaving office.] ( DJ ) 08/26 10:00AM DJ Greenspan: Ample Market Liquidity `Can Readily Disappear' By Joseph Rebello Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (Dow Jones)--Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, saying the recent rise of stock and house prices reflects an increased willingness by investors to accept risk, warned Friday that this inclination could end badly for financial markets. "What ...

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19769 [lbo-talk] Von Mises Institute complains about handicapped parking spots! -- rank: 1000

[truly the libertarian mind is a strange thing] The State Conquers the Parking Lot by Laurence M. Vance [Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005] <http://www.mises.org/story/1898> The fifteenth anniversary of theAmericans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (PL 101-336) <http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/pubs/ada.txt>, signed into law by President Bush I on July 26, 1990, has come and gone. This law, in the words ofLew Rockwell <http://www.mises.org/story/1772>, "has somehow managed to bra ...

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19770 [lbo-talk] Rap on the Knuckles -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover quoted: >Ms Dynamite's new album underlines a truth about pop music - it is >usually women, not men, who inject the politics of protest and >anger, says Lynsey Hanley I've been dipping into some British rap/hip-hop lately and it sounds great - and now Ms Dynamite's on my list. Any advice from connoisseurs on what else is worth investigating? Doug

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