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20371 [lbo-talk] Re: Learn Why We Need a Million Worker March -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >My impressions about North American "Leninists" are based on mailing >lists. But I have never been able to understand why such a >significant number of them are politically and ideologically so >primitive and parochial. Who else would be a Leninist in a First World country in 2004? Doug

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20372 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Help Build the Million Worker March - Oct 17 -- rank: 1000

michael098762001 wrote: > Hmm. Maybe more than 10K will show up??? I talked to an NYC organizer for the march, who told me that they'd view 75,000 as a great success. Big deal. Why advertise something as producing a million bodies and be satisfied with 7.5% of the target? And if he says 75k, that really means 10-20k, no? I see that NYC's DC 37, the big municipal workers union, endorsed the march. When I mentioned that to this organizer, he said, "Yes! and they're sending two busses!&q ...

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20373 [lbo-talk] Re: Irony of the Anybody But Nader Campaign -- rank: 1000

Joe Smith wrote: >Nader does talk about the same set of concerns on non-election years as he >did when he visited Cuba in 2002 (see for example: >http://www.counterpunch.org/cuba0715.html). The trouble is he doesn't get >press coverage on off-years so we don't hear about it. 1) In *Cuba*? How is that relevant to U.S. politics? And how many Americans - even on the left - would be warmly disposed towards anything emanating from Cuba? Don't get me wrong - I'm not anti-Castro, far from ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 12:40:10 PDT 2004

20374 [lbo-talk] The "Anybody But Bush" Plague -- rank: 1000

This isn't new. We've been over this ground a million times. Unless there's some actual new information or a seriously fresh perspective, let's put a cork in this one. Doug

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20375 [lbo-talk] Re: light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Michael Dawson wrote: > >>it has nothing to do with individual psychology > >Social life never enters into personal relations or individual >psyches? Are we all just molecules to you? Sorry for the misattribution - Cde Cox wrote that, not Michael Dawson. Doug

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20376 [lbo-talk] Re: light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >it has nothing to do with individual psychology Social life never enters into personal relations or individual psyches? Are we all just molecules to you? Doug

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20377 [lbo-talk] Re: light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >No it isn't. Being a sadist means being turned on by >causing pain, i.e., sick in the head. You get annoyed when people bloviate about Russia when they don't know what they're talking about - that standard should apply in other fields as well, don't you think? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 12:07:46 PDT 2004

20378 [lbo-talk] polling history -- rank: 1000

For a history of final presidential polls vs actual election outcome, see <http://www.ncpp.org/1936-2000.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 18 06:46:50 PDT 2004

20379 [lbo-talk] Poll: 67% Favor Single Payer -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/CA/polls/CA94OH.html >1994 CALIFORNIA EXIT POLL RESULTS > OTHER STATEWIDE RACES > HORIZONTAL RESULTS ONLY > NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS = 1749 > TOTAL YES NO >PROPOSITION 186: SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH SYSTEM > FINAL STATEWIDE RESULTS -- 27 73 > VOTE BY SEX ALL MEN 50 26 74 > ALL WOMEN ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 18 06:25:46 PDT 2004

20380 [lbo-talk] Million Worker March? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As for the message of the Million Worker March, it's certainly not a >one-issue mobilization, nor is it slickly packaged, unlike >demonstrations organized by those who may be called "professional >protest organizers," who tend to prefer a sharp focus on one simple >message (e.g., against the Iraq war, against Bush, etc.). But >that's because the Million Worker March is truly an expression of >working-class radicals, who know that they aren ...

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20381 [lbo-talk] light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Pretty soon, Quentin Tarantino or someone like him would buy rights >to "Kamikaze Girls" (the novel and the film based on it ><http://www.shimotsuma-movie.jp/>) and turn it into a blockbuster >film. My Japanese is a little rusty - could you give us some idea what's going on at that website? Doug

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20382 [lbo-talk] Learn Why We Need a Million Worker March -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >When was the last time you saw rank-and-file labor activists attempt >a national mobilization like the Million Worker March under the >left-wing Black leadership no less? 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? Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 18 06:11:27 PDT 2004

20383 [lbo-talk] Times/CBS poll: Bush ahead by 9 -- rank: 1000

THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN September 12-16, 2004 The contest between President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry looks much as it did in a CBS News Poll conducted last week, after the Republican convention. Bush's post-convention bounce remains intact, if even slightly larger in this poll; Bush now leads Kerry 50% to 41% among registered voters, giving the President a 9-point margin. PRESIDENTIAL HORSERACE (Registered Voters) Now Last week Bush-Cheney 50% ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 20:33:35 PDT 2004

20384 [lbo-talk] Nader on ballot if Florida -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Florida supreme court just put Nader on the ballot. 6/1 > >Why am I not surprised? Becuase the Florida SC thinks it's really important for Ralph to get his issues out there? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 20:32:46 PDT 2004

20385 [lbo-talk] Lieven on U.S. nationalism -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 15, 2004 US capitalism recreates Europe's mistakes By Anatol Lieven Some of the greatest long-term damage done by the Bush administration to the unity of the west has come from US domestic policies. By so flagrantly favouring the American economic elites at the expense of fiscal integrity, social welfare and environmental security, President George W. Bush and his colleagues have strengthened the belief of many Europeans that the American form of capitalism, and the p ...

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