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21316 [lbo-talk] Silly Elections, cont'd -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >The Left and only the Left has the power in its hands to 'smash' the >hold of the DP over itself. In the end the DP is but a chimera, and >the Left is only holding itself down by its own hand. By the way - what have you been doing to build this new movement, aside from sending pissy emails? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 06:20:35 PST 2004

21317 [lbo-talk] Silly Elections, cont'd -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >The real problem is - surprise - subjective. Ah, there's your problem in a sentence. Thanks for clarifying. No structural problem at all. Just pure subjectivity. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 06:19:15 PST 2004

21318 [lbo-talk] Stupid Elections, Leftist Cowards -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Sorry Travis, but you're ignorant. You keep forgetting to disclose how you got to be so gimlet-eyed and wise. Oh, and you also keep forgetting to acknowledge that it's not just a matter of stupidity and cowardice. Take a look at the left's election victory in Uruguay. The new government's choices boil down to trying some kind of left program and facing a capital strike and economic crisis or trying the Lula approach of moderation and facing failure and defeat. You act as if ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 06:18:14 PST 2004

21319 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali Endorses Kerry . . . for theBattlegroundStates -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The DP's hold on the left has to be smashed. How large is this left that the DP is holding back? As large as the 5000 worker march? Larger? Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 20:42:06 PST 2004

21320 [lbo-talk] the right-wing take on OBL's video: red states in crosshairs -- rank: 1000

[living in one of the bluest states, what can I say?] <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41211> GLOBAL JIHAD Bin Laden to states: Don't vote for Bush Speech mistranslated by most media as threat against foreign countries Posted: October 31, 2004 9:06 p.m. Eastern The tape of Osama bin Laden that was aired Friday on Al-Jazeera included a specific threat to "each U.S. state," designed to influence the outcome of Tuesday's election, according to the Arabic tra ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 12:45:31 PST 2004

21321 [lbo-talk] text of OBL's speech: Bush like the naughty she-goat... -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Full transcript of his speech: > ><http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F. >htm> > The website is overloaded - I got several "too busy" messages. So here's the transcript, as a public service. Doug ---- Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech Monday 01 November 2004, 16:01 Makka Time, 13:01 GMT Bin Ladin directed his message at the American people Following is the full English transcript of Usama bin Ladi ...

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21322 [lbo-talk] Victory/Defeat Defeat/Victory Re: Military above criticism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Of course a really united and growing anti-war movement that might have >emerged had not most of the cadre for such a movement deserted to the >ABB position -- such a movement might have saved a hundred thousand >lives or so, bringing about a year or two sooner u.s. recognition of >defeat. You're as low as Bush, equating any criticism of the U.S. in Iraq with "denigrating our troops." Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 11:28:10 PST 2004

21323 [lbo-talk] a British poll on the U.S. election -- rank: 1000

[You poll haters will really hate this one!] In a poll of 962 British adults interviewed 29-31 October 2004, asked "If you had a vote in the American Presidential election to be held on Tuesday, would you vote for the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, the Democratic candidate John Kerry, a third candidate, Ralph Nader, or some other candidate?" Bush 21% Kerry 45% Nader 2% Other ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 11:26:00 PST 2004

21324 [lbo-talk] Gore Vidal on election -- rank: 1000

Hartford Courant - October 31, 2004 Political Trick Or Treat In Hartford, Author Gore Vidal Skewers Bush, The Press By FRANK RIZZO, Courant Staff Writer It was a bit of a Gorefest Saturday afternoon at Hartford Stage when the noted author, playwright and wit Gore Vidal talked politics following a reading of his new play, "On the March to the Sea." The onetime political candidate - he ran for Congress in New York in the 1960s and the Senate in California in the '80s - was serious, playf ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 10:40:04 PST 2004

21325 [lbo-talk] McLemee on Hardt & Negri -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - November 5, 2004 After the Empire Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, creators of an influential theory of globalization, are back with the next phase By SCOTT MCLEMEE In 2000, Michael Hardt, an associate professor of literature at Duke University, and Antonio Negri, a legendary figure on the Italian left, published a volume bearing the grand, stark title Empire. Even before it was listed in the Harvard University Press catalog, the appearance of the book was keenly ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 10:16:41 PST 2004

21326 [lbo-talk] the rebranded OBL -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - October 31, 2004 THE WORLD Bin Laden, in Tape, May Have Sights on New Role U.S. experts say the Al Qaeda leader is trying to trade in his global terrorist image for that of elder statesman among Muslims. By Josh Meyer Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden's surprise appearance in the last days of the presidential campaign is unwelcome news for whoever wins the election and for the U.S. counter-terrorism effort - but not for the reasons one might expect, experts said ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 10:35:46 PST 2004

21327 [lbo-talk] Military above criticism -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >John Pilger finds a "surreal quality" in a campaign about a war where "the >degree of censorship by omission is staggering," of which "the coming >atrocity in the city of Fallujah ... is a case in point." According to one reliable source, the insurgents will just melt away from Fallujah and disperse elsewhere in the country, so there may be no bloodbath - but lots more car bombings and such when they're reposted. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 09:59:32 PST 2004

21328 [lbo-talk] kids like Kerry, Ralph a yawn -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: ><http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=919> > >Released: October 31, 2004 > >Young Mobile Voters Pick Kerry Over Bush, 55% to 40%, Rock the >Vote/Zogby Poll Reveals: National Text-Message Poll Breaks New Ground a footnote to this: in 2000, Gore beat Bush by 2 points in the 18-29 age group

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21329 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali Endorses Kerry . . . for the Battleground States -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >M. Pugliese gives us a list of right-wing scoundrels who (if the >list is accurate, something not to be accepted on faith) have >proven themselves far better guardians of the people's >democratic rights than the Official Leftists, Liberals, and >other Kerrycrats. Huh? Perhaps you missed the Daily Show's interview with the guy from the Competitive Enterprise Institute who was directing a petition drive for Ralph in Oregon. He was 100% clear on using Ralph to prom ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 06:56:30 PST 2004

21330 [lbo-talk] kids like Kerry, Ralph a yawn -- rank: 1000

<http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=919> Released: October 31, 2004 Young Mobile Voters Pick Kerry Over Bush, 55% to 40%, Rock the Vote/Zogby Poll Reveals: National Text-Message Poll Breaks New Ground Polling firm Zogby International and partner Rock the Vote found Massachusetts Senator John Kerry leading President Bush 55% to 40% among 18-29 year-old likely voters in their first joint Rock the Vote Mobile political poll, conducted exclusively on mobile phones October 27 through 30, ...

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