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20686 [lbo-talk] Prop. 62 Would Squelch Third Parties in California -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >The fundamental problem is this semi-feudal system of local control >of national elections, which is probably unique to the US. But that's part of the whole screwed-up picture of a system designed to limit popular power - the three branches of government, the Senate, the layers of state and local government (we have something like 80,000 governmental units in this country), etc. Dan Lazare told me that no one outside the U.S. ever reads the Federalist Papers <http: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 26 06:45:15 PDT 2004

20687 [lbo-talk] Butler on Derrida -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >What's up with all the Derrida-bashing? I thought his >stuff on Heidegger was annoying and the Post Card too, >but Of Grammatology and Speach and Phenomena were not >bad at all. His negative theology was pretty cool, if >you're into that kind of thing. You don't understand. If it hadn't been for Derrida and his posse, the masses would have come to consciousness, and the revolution would have happened. But instead they got confused by all this stuff about the sli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 26 06:28:52 PDT 2004

20688 [lbo-talk] Butler on Derrida -- rank: 1000

[ok all you anti-theoryheads, here's some rich material for you to mine] <http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/10/25/1241241&mode=nested&tid=9> "On Jacques Derrida" Judith Butler "How do you finally respond to your life and your name?" Derrida raised this question in his final interview with Le Monde, published in August 18th of this year. If he could apprehend his life, he remarks, he would also be obliged to apprehend his death as singular and absol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 14:05:34 PDT 2004

20689 [lbo-talk] exit polls -- rank: 1000

Philadelphia Inquirer - ? Results of exit polls lie in hands of 12 experts By Jonathan Storm INQUIRER TV CRITIC The accuracy of TV voting results on Election Night rests primarily in the brains and computers of two distinguished survey researchers and a panel of 10 number-crunchers. But don't discount the importance of cheesecake. Between them, Joe Lenski and Warren Mitofsky have more than 50 years of experience in analyzing data - predicting the outcome of elections, certainly, but also helping ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 13:54:53 PDT 2004

20690 [lbo-talk] cart before the horse -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted Ace Cockburn: >Every four years, liberals unhitch the cart and put it in front of >the horse, arguing that the only way to a better tomorrow is to vote >for the Democratic nominee. Every four years, certain radicals lecture the unhitched cart, arguing that the only way to a better tomorrow is to vote for a Third Party nominee (or this year, a non-party non-nominee). Hasn't worked yet, has it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 13:52:36 PDT 2004

20691 [lbo-talk] up, up and away -- rank: 1000

metaldark at insightbb.com wrote: >Could there be a price bubble effect sending the price higher than >estimates of >supply/demand predict? The long run trend is obvious but I read on here that >this quick climb to above $55 was not predicted. It's looking like it's in the bubble phase, which isn't to say it couldn't go to $75. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 10:51:27 PDT 2004

20692 [lbo-talk] up, up and away -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >More good news from BBC: $55.50/barrel. Why does this make you happy? What good do you see coming from this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 10:13:52 PDT 2004

20693 [lbo-talk] Virtually all Dems support Card Check Bill -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Nathan Newman wrote: >>Or do you really think big rallies in Washington, D.C. are intimidating to >>GOP Senators from Red states? > >-They might be, if there were actually big rallies (plural). > >I don't buy it. A small delegation from THEIR OWN STATE is far more >powerful, or better yet, a large vote on election day that scares the shi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 10:03:33 PDT 2004

20694 [lbo-talk] foreign workers? -- rank: 1000

A friend is researching an article and he wants to talk with foreign-born white-collar workers at U.S.-based global companies. Please contact me offlist if you'd like to speak with him. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 09:37:25 PDT 2004

20695 [lbo-talk] Re: Eminem vs. Bush -- rank: 1000

jimi ayler wrote: >gee, doug, don't like that wuss moby? Wusses are ok if they've got talent. Momus, Bryan Ferry, Morrissey...all wusses I love. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 09:30:42 PDT 2004

20696 [lbo-talk] Virtually all Dems support Card Check Bill -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Or do you really think big rallies in Washington, D.C. are intimidating to >GOP Senators from Red states? They might be, if there were actually big rallies (plural). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 07:30:38 PDT 2004

20697 [lbo-talk] Poor productivity slows French economy??? -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >I see nobody else noticed yet what has to be the stupidest headline >since W's mission was accomplished. > >The French have higher productivity than just about anybody but >Belgium and the Netherlands. Higher than the U.S. higher than >Germany, much higher than Great Britain, much higher than Japan, a >bit higher than Ireland. "Poor productivity"? Obviously headline >writers don't read OECD statistical tables or perhaps even the >article th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 06:44:35 PDT 2004

20698 [lbo-talk] the American electorate -- rank: 1000

[from a NYT article by Jim Dwyer on the undecideds <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/politics/campaign/25swing.html?oref=login>] "It seems like every day, I'm changing my mind," said Victoria Lichtman, 50, of Delray Beach, Fla. Ms. Lichtman said the president, whom she did not support in 2000, had done a poor job on the environment, as Mr. Kerry has charged. But, she wondered, was Mr. Kerry proposing a form of government-controlled medicine, as the president has claimed? The war ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 25 06:22:04 PDT 2004

20699 [lbo-talk] Khmer Rouge goes Xtian -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - September 24, 2004 Khmer Rouge embraces Jesus Jason Burke discovers how Pol Pot's ruthless killers are repenting their sins The Khmer Rouge followed a harsh brand of communism, killing nearly two million people in their bid to return Cambodia to Year Zero. Now they have a new faith: evangelical Christianity. Hundreds of former fighters have been baptised in the past year. The Khmer Rouge's mountain stronghold, the town of Pailin in south-west Cambodia, has four churches, all ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 24 21:35:27 PDT 2004

20700 [lbo-talk] Chatting with Gorby -- rank: 1000

What was Gorby trying to do intially? Create democratic socialism, social democracy, liberal democracy? Where did his support come from? What were the divisions/preferences within the CPSU? Was he surprised with the way things turned out? Would he do anything differently? How in control was he of events, or were larger social/historical forces in the driver's seat? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 24 14:55:32 PDT 2004