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20731 [lbo-talk] Way 3.5 -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Alas, Woj, your writing here has a lot in common with the >"professionalism" you decry. > >To believe that nothing will change because of human >nature....except temporarily due to catastrophes, is a comfortable >enough creed given your situation in life. It's always instructive to recall the opening pages of Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace, evoking the world of 1913 in the immediate aftermath of WW I: "The inhabitant of London co ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 11:33:10 PDT 2004

20732 [lbo-talk] registering in Florida -- rank: 1000

An acquaintance just moved to Florida and had some fun registering to vote. He and his wife filled out the forms, and declared themselves as Dems. No ID cards came in the mail. So they called the clerk's office to see what was up. At first, the clerk said there was no record of the registration. When pressed, the clerk said the registration was on hold for a wrong address. "Impossible," the new registrant replied. Ok, said the clerk, then it's no signatures. They went over to the regis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 09:52:51 PDT 2004

20733 [lbo-talk] Israelis & Palestinians on the U.S. elections -- rank: 1000

Israelis, Palestinians at Odds Over U.S. Election Thu Oct 21, 8:30 AM ET By Matt Spetalnick JERUSALEM (Reuters) - If Israeli settler Rachel Saperstein could decide the outcome of the U.S. election, President Bush (news - web sites) would beat Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) by a landslide. But Gaza shopkeeper Abu Gomaa hopes instead to see Bush's re-election bid go down in flames on Nov. 2. "I want to laugh ... at his humiliation," he says. Locked in a bloody confli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 09:41:31 PDT 2004

20734 [lbo-talk] "antidemocratic" -- rank: 1000

And, by the way, the number of people voting in these Pacifica elections, with winners getting as little as 200 or 400 votes, makes a NYC board of education election look like a monster turnout. Most listeners have neither the time nor the inclination to familiarize themselves with the candidates. WBAI is wasting airtime right now spending hours on local board elections, at the expense of coverage of the U.S. elections, the Afghan elections, the war in Iraq, etc. Most listeners don't care, and a ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 09:38:39 PDT 2004

20735 [lbo-talk] "antidemocratic" -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Sasha Lilley as well as yourself are on record saying that you do >not support democractic governance in Pacifica. "Democratic" is kind of meaningless here. One of the problems at WBAI is that we've lost people who should be listeners - but they don't count in the listener-governance model. A lot of supporters of "democratic" governance have the idea that programming should be by The People, and not programmers with any expertise in either a speci ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 09:33:48 PDT 2004

20736 [lbo-talk] Re: Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On Oct 21, 2004, at 10:08 AM, snit snat wrote: > >> I never get this one. If you're middle class (bourg), then you're >>incapable of being radical -- a sentiment almost always uttered by >>a middle class bourg -- which is to say, someone from the >>professional/managerial strata. > >In this sort of context, "middle class" is simply a derogatory >epithet. No denotative meaning whatsoever. Middle class is denotation-challenged ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 09:30:28 PDT 2004

20737 [lbo-talk] Canadian dollar trades above 80 cents US, highest point in more than a decade -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: In fact the US$ seems to be dropping more rapidly against the yen, euro, sterling, etc. What's going on? A bad bond auction, a sense that the U.S. economy may be weakening, persistent current account balances, maybe dislike of Bush. Here's a Reuters piece. If the dollar were to rally, you'd see a Reuters story with almost exactly the opposite rationales, but this encapsulates the CW of the moment. Doug ---- Dollar Weakens on Sense of Economic Gloom By Jamie McGeever NEW YO ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 09:27:55 PDT 2004

20738 [lbo-talk] geheimstadt politza -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted someone from his circle of heavy breathers: >Homeland Security in German is “geheimstadt politza,” which during >World War II was abbreviated to Gestapo. Do Americans really believe >a “Gestapo” will make us safer? I know some German, though I'm far from fluent. Homeland is "Heimat" or "Heimatland." Security is "Sicherheit." Security police is "Sicherheitspolizei." My dictionary doesn't include the word "Geheimstadt" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 09:19:58 PDT 2004

20739 [lbo-talk] Canadian dollar trades above 80 cents US, highest point in more than a decade -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >And I, Sandwichman, aka Tom Walker, am offering five thousand of >those high flying loonies (at 80 cents per, that's $4,000 U.S. >bucks) to the lucky ducky who can authenticate the claim that >advocates of reduced working time or work sharing necessarily >"believe there is only a fixed amount of work to be done" as claimed >in the October 18 report prepared by former IMF head Michel >Camdessus for the French Ministry of Finance. Or as the report ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 07:30:25 PDT 2004

20740 [lbo-talk] Re: antidemocratic -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Doug's 'example' of Bernstein saying D'Amato 'runs the world' is >patently false and ridiculous and it is amazing that anyone would >repeat it and accept it at face value without checking the fact. It was a colorful way of making the point that Bernstein had a preposterously inflated idea of D'Amato's influence. Of course, D'Amato didn't run the world. The BIlderbergers do! Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 07:28:54 PDT 2004

20741 [lbo-talk] "The Only Game in Town" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Now that he graduated from college and has a job in a trade union, I >gather that he believes that he has "no other choice" but to support >the Democratic Party, because that's "the only game in town." Why do you find it so hard to understand why someone might decide to vote for a Democrat and to work with Democrats without becoming one? Your world is so black and white. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 07:18:53 PDT 2004

20742 [lbo-talk] Re: Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >TheBC: Middle Class! > >End of discussion on The BC. What the fuck does that mean? The Black Commentator is middle class? Lots of Americans - almost all in some surveys - consider themselves middle class. Most people would probably consider you middle class. You're going to do radical politics without a substantial chunk of the self-identified middle class? No wonder your MWMs fall 99% short. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 06:49:06 PDT 2004

20743 [lbo-talk] RE: Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17 -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Nothing you say can cover up for your betrayal of this rally. Betrayal? Jesus H Christ, that's hilarious. So I'm responsible for the fact that the crowd was about as large as that filling a rush hour NYC subway train showed up for the MWM? How many of the other 995,000 who didn't show up qualify as betrayers? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 06:43:50 PDT 2004

20744 [lbo-talk] Re: Polls -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >But what about the betting exchanges? What are they calling? Well, the Iowa Electronic Market is calling for Bush. Winner take all market <http://128.255.244.60/graphs/graph_Pres04_WTA.cfm> looks like 59-41. Vote share <http://128.255.244.60/graphs/graph_Pres04_VS.cfm> is a lot closer - looks like 51-49. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 06:38:40 PDT 2004

20745 [lbo-talk] all but 6 million of us have to go -- rank: 1000

<http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031124/humans_print.html> 1,000 Times Too Many Humans? Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Nov. 25, 2003 - A study that compared humans with other species concluded there are 1,000 times too many humans to be sustainable. The study, published in the current Proceedings B (Biological Sciences) by the Royal Society, used a statistical device known as "confidence limits" to measure what the sustainable norm should be for species populations. Other ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 20 20:41:43 PDT 2004