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20356 [lbo-talk] Re:Re: Help Build the Million Worker March - Oct 17 -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Still, how we ever gonna make the revo or at least social democracy >when the Left here is so full of folks who are disorganized or loony >cranks? I can tell you that as a lifetime member of Yale's Party of the Right, the right is full of loony cranks too. They just have better funding and organization. I wonder what the effect of televising the POR's 50th anniversary banquet - complete with toasts to the British empire and its American successor, Nazi jokes, ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 09:29:52 PDT 2004

20357 [lbo-talk] the right-wing blogs -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - September 19, 2004 True or false: Blogs always tell it straight Sites reflect beliefs and biases of authors By Howard Witt Tribune senior correspondent AUSTIN, Texas -- Hundreds of thousands of readers know him simply as "Mike," the creator of rathergate.com, an Internet blog spearheading a petition drive demanding the resignation of CBS News anchor Dan Rather because of his alleged liberal biases. But what the visitors to his blog did not know when he launched it ear ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 09:24:27 PDT 2004

20358 [lbo-talk] Palast on Rather -- rank: 1000

THE LYNCHING OF DAN RATHER On British TV, Dan feared the price of "asking questions" Monday, September 20, 2004 By Greg Palast "It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions," the aging American journalist told the British television audience. In June 2002, Dan Rather looked old, defeated, making a confession he dare not speak on American TV about the deadly censorship -- and self-censorship -- which had seized US newsrooms. After Septe ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 09:19:10 PDT 2004

20359 [lbo-talk] Sex and the economy) Was (light of my life, . . . ) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >One is a question for economist types -- why is there >a secular increase in inflation over time? Depends on what you mean by over time. Here's the average U.S. consumer inflation rate for various periods: 1800-99 -0.6% 1900-40 1.5% 1945-73 3.3% 1973-82 8.8% 1982-2004 3.1% The 19th century includes a severe Civil War inflation, averaging 21% from 1862-4. But much of the century was characterized by flat or falling prices. After WW ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 08:09:20 PDT 2004

20360 [lbo-talk] Re: Learn Why We Need a Million Worker March -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Answer: Because this is North America (but to be fair, we must >exclude 'real countries' such as Canada). The political culture is >very primitive and parochial across the spectrum - it would be >unfair to single out Leninists, as is unfortunately too often done >on LBO. But being an Americentric site, LBO is also invariably >afflicted by the same backwardsness, a backwardness it hides from >itself by framing up cardboard cutout caricatures for ritual & ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 07:57:26 PDT 2004

20361 [lbo-talk] light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: >It's amazing what can bring out a debate on this board. Deficit? >{Snore} Corruption? {Zzzzz} Fetish? {Shit yea! It's like what we >talk about at the water cooler.} Hits on "deficit" so far this year: 258 posts. Hits on "fetish" excluding "commodity": 112 posts. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 07:46:42 PDT 2004

20362 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk] Re: light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >True enough. But I am curious as to why the concept of >mental disturbance seems to end when we get to sexual >relationships. We generally have no problem with >calling certain forms of thought/behavior "disturbed" >in other spheres of human activity. If someone, e.g, >decorated his or her apartment with photos of >dismboweled cats or Nazi concentration camp victims, >or sends passionate love letters to celebrities they >never met, or has a ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 07:42:07 PDT 2004

20363 [lbo-talk] new econ journal -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2004 Berkeley Electronic Press Teams with Nobel Prize Winner to Launch The Economists' Voice, A Major New Journal of Economic Analysis and Opinion The Berkeley Electronic Press today announced the launch of The Economists' Voice, a major new journal of economic analysis and opinion found exclusively at <http://www.bepress.com/ev>. The electronic journal is edited by Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Laureate professor at Columbia University who has been both Chai ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 07:39:30 PDT 2004

20364 [lbo-talk] Brezhnev, immortalized -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >This is at least the third statue of a Soviet figure >to go up in Russia in the last few months. Andropov >and Dzerzhinsky also got new monuments. So how do young people view the USSR these days? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 07:37:13 PDT 2004

20365 [lbo-talk] Learn Why We Need a Million Worker March -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Those who don't want to vote for Bush or Kerry will be represented by Nader Represented how? In what forum? As one of a couple of million symbolic votes? Not through some institutionalized intersection with state power that I can imagine. Seems like you're mixing up the symbolic and legislative meanings of representation. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 20:20:04 PDT 2004

20366 [lbo-talk] The Farce -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Oh, bullshit. Bush preaches to the already converted. Kerry exploits the >already-converted, who favor him, if at all, with huge amounts of nausea. >Spare us the Kiwi jive. None of this has a damned thing to do with "forget >democracy." Fourth-rate, inverted colonialist shit like this doesn't need >to be posted to lists. The U.S. is highly explicable. If you want to stick >your head up your bum because you're not living here, well, the I s ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 17:35:16 PDT 2004

20367 [lbo-talk] re-enlist, or it's Iraq for you! -- rank: 1000

Rocky Mountain News - September 16, 2004 GIs claim threat by Army Soldiers say they were told to re-enlist or face deployment to Iraq By Dick Foster COLORADO SPRINGS - Soldiers from a Fort Carson combat unit say they have been issued an ultimatum - re-enlist for three more years or be transferred to other units expected to deploy to Iraq. Hundreds of soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team were presented with that message and a re-enlistment form in a series of assemblies last Thursday, said t ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 17:21:38 PDT 2004

20368 [lbo-talk] Learn Why We Need a Million Worker March -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As Carrol suggested, the main organizers of the march are trying >consciously to fight against "electoralism" (i.e., looking to the >ballot box alone for social change, marginalizing actions on the >social movement front and excluding immigrant workers without voting >rights), especially of the AnybodyButBush variety, which explains >the timing of the march: So it was a conscious decision to marginalize themselves. Inspiring indeed. You & ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 14:39:51 PDT 2004

20369 [lbo-talk] Self-Hating Jews for Israel -- rank: 1000

Ferrall Doggs wrote: >Credo > >I refuse to cede Jewish self-hatred to the anti-Zionists. Etc. Creepy. Thanks for unsub'ing. Doug

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20370 [lbo-talk] Learn Why We Need a Million Worker March -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> It's a great idea, but the timing stinks - weeks before an election >> that most likely participants care about, some very intensely. What >> were they thinking? >> > >The timing is superb. Demonstrations give us a count of our potential >strength. This demo lets us know how many people still take politics >seriously even during the quadrennial celebration of passivity. Someone, >sneering at ...

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