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20551 [lbo-talk] Testy -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I think people don't understand how complicated that >part of the world is. You have 40 or so ethnic groups >all living in close proximity to each other with a >long history of doing each other in. So how'd the USSR keep things peaceful? Doug

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20552 [lbo-talk] Testy -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I realize most people outside of Russia >don't know what an Ossete is, but there are 350 dead >Ossetian children in a morgue, hell, probably a half a >dozen morgues, in North Ossetia, killed by the >"separatists" that everybody seems to think are so >great. I don't know who thinks they're great, except maybe a few loons who claim to be Marxists who profess love for every violent separatist group around, because of their own political impotence. But ...

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20553 [lbo-talk] spiked-essays | Zombie anti-imperialists vs the'Empire'by James Heartfield -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >PB: No, it's a coalescence of the left's concern that state actions >generally follow national economic interests, and that oil will run out, >hence the US strategy for decades to come is to have Iraq play vassal. This is controversial, I know, but it's not been conclusively proved that the invasion of Iraq was a project of the entire U.S. ruling class, rather than a hyped-up portion of it. And since things haven't been going well in Iraq, there seem to be plenty of ...

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20554 [lbo-talk] spiked-essays | Zombie anti-imperialists vs the'Empire'by James Heartfield -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >Patrick Bond wrote: > >>The critique is of the system as a whole, which does indeed create vast >>excess 'savings' that take the form of financial market surpluses. Just >>consider how much of this is being invested in the real estate bubble - The >>Economist last year estimated that of a $70 trillion global property >>valuation, about 2/5ths is overvaluation - and you get a sense of the scale >>of the problem. Uneven development mean ...

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20555 [lbo-talk] Putin: "We showed weakness, and weak people are beaten..." -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Incidentally, the Financial Times managed to climb >atop a mound of bodies of dead children to trumpet its >deranged political line in one of the most ethically >revolting editorials that I have ever read. You're opposed to political dialogue, and think the Bush-like approach of killing 'em all is the right one? Doug

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20556 [lbo-talk] preparing for the October non-surprise? -- rank: 1000

U.S. Official Says Close to Catching Bin Laden Sun Sep 5, 8:38 AM ET ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States and its allies have put Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) on the defensive, increasing chances of his capture soon, a U.S. counter-terrorism official said in remarks published in Pakistani media on Sunday. Cofer Black, State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, said in Islamabad the entire "infrastructure" was in place to capture bin Laden and his close lieutenants, Pa ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 5 08:50:50 PDT 2004

20557 [lbo-talk] Time Poll: Huge Bounce For Bush -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >more agreeable than those nations that opposed the criminal war? or is >immigration into australia relatively easier? It's English-speaking, and Melbourne is a wonderful city, at least in my few days of observation of it. This is mostly a fantasy - I can't imagine how I'd make a living in Australia. My work life is path-dependent on writing about the U.S., I'm afraid. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 5 08:47:05 PDT 2004

20558 [lbo-talk] Time Poll: Huge Bounce For Bush -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >would that be the same australia that's a proud member of the "coalition >of the willing"? That would be, but it seemed like a very agreeable place nonetheless.

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Date:	Sat Sep 4 13:04:27 PDT 2004

20559 [lbo-talk] NYC faces megabucks lawsuits -- rank: 1000

New York Post - September 4, 2004 PROTEST-BUST LAWSUITS COULD $OCK US BIG By DAREH GREGORIAN and LAURA ITALIANO The city faces millions of dollars in lawsuits from hundreds of the 1,827 people arrested during convention protests, experts said yesterday. Those likely to sue include innocent people swept up in mass-protest arrests, and more than 500 who were held longer than the legally mandated 24 hours before being released or brought before a judge. "There were a lot of bad arrests that I ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 4 12:46:46 PDT 2004

20560 [lbo-talk] happy happy happy all the time! -- rank: 1000

AP Poll: Many Fairly Happy With Work By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Like a majority of Americans, nurse Peggy Branan feels her job is satisfying and that she is paid fairly. Many workers express concern about job stress, retirement benefits and health care, according to an Associated Press poll, but Branan is not one of them. "I feel blessed to be able to get paid for what I enjoy doing," said Branan, a nurse for 21 years. "I'm very active in my church. My ro ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 4 12:41:19 PDT 2004

20561 [lbo-talk] Time Poll: Huge Bounce For Bush -- rank: 1000

Guilherme wrote: >Was anybody not expecting a Bush lead after the conventions, after >a week of unchallenged Bush propaganda? Bush gets a big bounce, and Kerry got either a tiny one or a negative one, depending on which poll you read. And the Bush bounce comes against expectations that he wouldn't have much of one - out of a convention that was one of the most dishonest spectacles that American politics has ever produced. The omens aren't good, are they? If only I could persuade myself tha ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 4 11:00:14 PDT 2004

20562 [lbo-talk] Time Poll: Huge Bounce For Bush -- rank: 1000

Guilherme wrote: > Newsweek has one too: > > http://www.pollingreport.com/wh04gen.htm > > 52-41. registered voters. includes leaners. What's Australian emigration policy like? Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 4 10:39:12 PDT 2004

20563 [lbo-talk] Dubya Daughters' Club Crawl -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >o are you guys thinking of starting a left-wing >version of "National Enquirer" I'd love to. Got access to some funding? Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 4 09:59:48 PDT 2004

20564 [lbo-talk] Bush as sex fantasy -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >Bush fist fucks the workers. Hey, don't disparage a consensual sexual practice by using it as a metaphor for intensified exploitation!

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Date:	Sat Sep 4 09:52:33 PDT 2004

20565 [lbo-talk] Chuck D on voting -- rank: 1000

[an apparent disagreement with the our Chuck0] New York Post [Page Six] - September 4, 2004 JUST DO IT VOTING is as essential to Public Enemy's Chuck D. as taking a bath. "It's something you're supposed to do," he told Mother Jones magazine. "You can't go around bragging, expecting to get props [just] because you voted. That's stupid. You don't see people running around trying to get props because they washed up. 'I washed today! I took a shower today!' " He added, "But ...

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