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20536 [lbo-talk] happy happy happy all the time! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I doubt that many people really love their jobs, if they had full >consciousness of the choices, like what other people's jobs are >like, long vacations, and the joy of not working at all. American >workers also don't understand that they work themselves to death in >order to buy worthlesss trinkets and indications of "wealth." I find >it hard to believe that *anybody* would find *any* work at Wal-Mart >pleasing if they knew about the alternatives. & ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 07:37:06 PDT 2004

20537 [lbo-talk] practice that love! -- rank: 1000

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) offered an unexpected reason on Monday for cracking down on frivolous medical lawsuits: "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 07:22:43 PDT 2004

20538 [lbo-talk] leave a few teachers behind -- rank: 1000

U.S. School Budget Woes Trim Teacher Ranks By Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many U.S. public school districts are starting a new school year with fewer teachers as less state funding and other factors leave them with gaping budget holes and nothing else left to cut but instructors, school and teachers union officials say. Some states, still struggling to leave the economic slowdown behind them, have reduced funding to schools or shaved promised funding increases because of their own budget tr ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 07:20:24 PDT 2004

20539 [lbo-talk] happy happy happy all the time! -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That is why polls asking people what they feel about their jobs are >pretty much worthless. All they do is to repeat conventional >expectations and small-talk postures. I think you're partly right about this, but there's also an angle suggested by Michael Zweig: people like much of the work itself, but hate the pay, the boss, the working conditions. So, a nurse likes taking care of patients, but hates the way the docs treat her; a Wal-Mart worker likes helping ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 07:14:51 PDT 2004

20540 [lbo-talk] Testy -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: Ten posts Sunday. Ten posts Monday. Six posts so far today. I understand the urgency of the Beslan news, but the limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 07:06:55 PDT 2004

20541 [lbo-talk] Hamas vs. Al-Qaida... Hamas against Al-Qaida involvement in local Palestinian struggle -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >As an irrelevant matter, where I sit, standard lefty positions died >quite a while ago. Equally, in the wake of 9-11, I see any number of >lefties, once heroes of the Euro-American left, who have adopted >some pretty far-out positions. Who, and such as? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 06:58:03 PDT 2004

20542 [lbo-talk] Alternet carries water for funder -- rank: 1000

[imagine if a mainstream outlet were doing PR for a funder or advertiser] At 3:00 AM -0700 9/7/04, AlterNet Headlines wrote: >SOROS BLASTS HASTERT OVER 'DRUG MONEY' ALLEGATION >Jonathan E. Kaplan, The Hill >Philanthropist George Soros demands a public apology after >being the subject of a bizarre smear by Speaker of the >House Dennis Hastert. >http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/19796/ --- <http://www.alternet.org/about/imi.html> The Independent Media Institute AlterNet ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 06:53:16 PDT 2004

20543 [lbo-talk] more on Kitty on Bush -- rank: 1000

Mirror (London) - September 6, 2004 BUSH 'TOOK COCAINE AT CAMP DAVID' And wife Laura liked dope, says book By Emma Pryer GEORGE W Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David, a new book claims. His wife Laura also allegedly tried cannabis in her youth. Author Kitty Kelley says in her biography The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that the US President first used coke at university in the mid-1960s. She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: "Bush did coke at Camp David wh ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 17:15:27 PDT 2004

20544 [lbo-talk] An Anti-Labor Day -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >as nathan newman tells us, 40 percent of the democrats voted in >Favor of NAFTA. let's see how this party of the people did when it >was far less "conservative" than it is today; and labor had far more >political power. I hate to say it, but this actually can be read as supporting Nathan's argument. Most of the Dems listed are from the South (including Pat Robertson's father) - they'd be Republicans today. >Democrats voting to over-ride Truman's veto of Taft- ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 14:57:42 PDT 2004

20545 [lbo-talk] Bush: America a 10-yr old child in need of a parent -- rank: 1000

[a few days late, via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com> - who's the one reading My Pet Goat, the pres or the citizens?] Boston Globe - September 2, 2004 PRESIDENT AS PROTECTOR Card says president sees America as a child needing a parent By Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff NEW YORK -- White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said yesterday that President Bush views America as a ''10-year-old child" in need of the sort of protection provided by a parent. Card's remark, criti ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 14:35:47 PDT 2004

20546 [lbo-talk] postcolonial complexities -- rank: 1000

New York Times - September 6, 2004 Dancehall's Vicious Side: Antigay Attitudes By KELEFA SANNEH hen the reggae star Beenie Man came to the Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday, he received his usual welcome. There was a frenetic introduction. There was an exuberant crowd of thousands, waving whatever he told them to wave: hands, flags, cellphones. And out front there were about a dozen pickets, hoisting signs and chanting: "No more murder music! No more murder music!" Over the past month, Be ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 12:06:54 PDT 2004

20547 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk] Putin: "We showed weakness, and weak people are beaten..." -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: > Western media just canít go beyond seeing criminal elements who >claim to speak for the Chechen people as something akin to the >Palestinian example. "Western media" here must exclude the U.S. Palestinians are demonized here, and the Chechens easily assimilated into the reigning Terrorism narrative. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 09:44:36 PDT 2004

20548 [lbo-talk] Life After Capitalism Conference organizers in *serious* debt- please support if you can! -- rank: 1000

ooops, sorry about the dupe Marc, what about the charges that you all stopped the sects from selling their papers? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 09:00:04 PDT 2004

20549 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Life After Capitalism Conference organizers in *serious* debt- please support if you can! -- rank: 1000

Several more in depth report backs from the Life After Capitalism Conference 2004 are being written up as we speak, needless to say the Republican National Convention protests in the days following the conference have taken up much of our energy since and so it has been a little slow in getting some of this stuff out to folks. LAC 2004 was a huge success by all accounts. Our opening night 'Beyond Bush' event brought in close to 1300 people and helped set the political tone and high level of ener ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 08:59:03 PDT 2004

20550 [lbo-talk] Testy -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Following Stalin's view of the National Question, they >gave the nationalities a lot of authority in their own >republics. In the Muslim republics they liberated >women But that contradicts national autonomy. And the Soviets mixed up nationalities via migration, no? Sounds like a mix of autonomy and internationalism. > and gave them real authority by treating them >equally or better, winning the support of half the >population. The other half (th ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 08:57:30 PDT 2004