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20491 [lbo-talk] Re New Economist Poll: Bad News For Bush -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Nate: You suck. That's not an acceptable mode of address here. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 10 05:25:51 PDT 2004

20492 [lbo-talk] Re New Economist Poll: Bad News For Bush -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I know the talking points have registered with the public; I'm just noting >the idiocy of lefties repeating and reinforcing them. Why do you think they have registered with the public? Could it be that there's enough truth to them that they stick? You'd be a lot more effective if you conceded a point now and then instead of singing from the songbook without departure or improvisation. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 16:12:04 PDT 2004

20493 [lbo-talk] length -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >I believe I have a duty to resist copyright law by openly breaching it. you're not necessarily the one who's liable, man but you're also the guy who thinks people should work so your dole check doesn't bounce

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 15:59:11 PDT 2004

20494 [lbo-talk] Re New Economist Poll: Bad News For Bush -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >My lord, I'm amazed at how the left buys the GOP talking points. It's not just the left, Nathan. Wake up. Doug ---- ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: THE DECISIVE PHASE - 9/8/04 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004 Campaign Enters Decisive Phase With an Advantage to Bush The 2004 campaign enters its decisive phase with the advantage to George W. Bush, who's reasserted his personal and professional credentials, effectively driven up John Kerry's negativ ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 15:55:31 PDT 2004

20495 [lbo-talk] New CBS Poll: Bad News For Kerry -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Kerry is loosing because US is one of the most reactionary countries in >the developed world, and people tend to like conservative leaders with >evangelical style, like Bush. They are afraid of terrorism and think >that tough-talking Bush will protects them, just like tough looking SUV >will "protect" them from car crash injuries or death. They are >anti-intellectual and philistine - they like down to earth vernacular >talking guys - and ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 13:14:16 PDT 2004

20496 [lbo-talk] New CBS Poll: Bad News For Kerry -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Looking forward to November when we can get past this election >nonsense and focus on real social change. If Bush is re-elected, don't you think a lot of people will focus on hating him rather than "real social change"? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 11:43:21 PDT 2004

20497 [lbo-talk] length -- rank: 1000

I've approved several long posts over the last several days - some of them in the Heartfield/Bond/Henwood/Fast thread, others forwarded articles. Soemtimes length can't be avoided, but if an article is over, say, 8k, please just forward a tease and a URL instead of the whole thing if possible. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 11:19:57 PDT 2004

20498 [lbo-talk] the straightjacket Kerry wears -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: R <rhisiart at charter.net> >> >>Black Commentator Issue 104, Sept 9 >> >>Kerry: A Painful Vote >>http://www.blackcommentator.com/104/104_cover_kerry.html >> >>... The basic difference between the DLC and the Bush Pirates is, >>the New Democrats seek U.S. military and economic domination of the >>world through both weapons and the cooperation of international >>institutions such as the United Nati ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 09:41:33 PDT 2004

20499 [lbo-talk] study Marx with Loren Goldner in NYC -- rank: 1000

NEW YORK CITY CLASS/STUDY GROUP ON MARX "It is not enough for theory to seek its practice; practice must also seek its theory"/ (Karl Marx, 1844 Manuscripts). I am forming a class/study group in Karl Marx's critique of political economy for theoretically-inclined activists in the New York City area. The group will meet once every two weeks from October until May 2005, and can of course continue thereafter if enough people want it to. Its purpose will be to give conceptual tools from Ma ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 06:54:47 PDT 2004

20500 [lbo-talk] suicide bombers on ecstasy? -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 06:51:19 PDT 2004

20501 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [Infoshop News] I Am an Anarchiste by Michelle Tea -- rank: 1000

[via <infoshop-news.infoshop.org>, ultimately from radtimes <resist at best.com> - sure did love Tea's Valencia] I Am an Anarchiste by Michelle Tea 08.SEP.04 Beyond Chron "The media portrays us as violent law hating citizens," says Monique Everhart of her people, those hardy proponents of no government, anarchists. "In the W.T.O protests in Seattle it was the anarchists and the protestors who were being violently attacked, although they were enacting their constitution ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 19:49:04 PDT 2004

20502 [lbo-talk] Panel this Sunday Sept. 12 on GE Foods -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >Drum Circle starts 11:30AM What about the sweat lodge? If there's no sweat lodge, I don't want any part of this! Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 16:34:15 PDT 2004

20503 [lbo-talk] Samuelson: Outsourcing Pushers are dead wrong on the pluses of outsourcing -- rank: 1000

pleaes please please everyone, do everything you can to set your mailers to plain text - all the formatting adds bandwidth and can produce hard-to-read type as well

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 16:10:24 PDT 2004

20504 [lbo-talk] Zombie anti-imperialists against the Empire -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >What weirdness from the crisis mongerers! They think that you have >to assert that crisis will always be with us, when that's the whole >point about crisis, that it is a moment, that must pass (one way or >another). James O'Connor, whom I admire a lot despite his crisis-mongering tendencies, once told me that capitalism has been in crisis since the 13th century. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 14:19:35 PDT 2004

20505 [lbo-talk] Re: Zombie anti-imperialists vs the 'Empire' -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >PB: No, I think you're right, there, if you mean the transition to the epoch >of socialism. But I also think capitalist history moves forward via crises. >That's what's happening now in many places, and in SA in 1994, and in >E.Europe in 1990, and in many other parts of the world post-1975 - Southern >Europe, the Southern Cone, East Asia, even parts of Africa - where even >without an insurgent working-class democratic movement, really interesting >opport ...

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