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21826 [lbo-talk] GOP donors funding Nader -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Sun Mar 28 10:23:50 PST 2004: > >>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>>The more Nader/Green bashing, the more power to the the DLC wing >>>of the Democratic Party. >> >>I thought part of the rationale of the Nader/Green (whatever the >>weird relations across the virgule) strategy was to push the Dems >>to the left. Is it working? >> >>Doug > >The rationale is not th ...

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21827 [lbo-talk] GOP donors funding Nader -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The more Nader/Green bashing, the more power to the the DLC wing of >the Democratic Party. I thought part of the rationale of the Nader/Green (whatever the weird relations across the virgule) strategy was to push the Dems to the left. Is it working? Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 28 10:23:50 PST 2004

21828 [lbo-talk] GOP donors funding Nader -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Should sophisticated liberal or left-wing ideologues have spent >$92,948 or more on the Buchanan campaign in order to create the >"Buchanan Factor" to offset or outweigh the "Nader Factor"? Dunno about that but Nader's people were coaching him on trade policy. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 28 08:15:54 PST 2004

21829 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: March 25, 2004 DH on outsourcing - as big a deal as they say? * Leo Panitch, co-editor of The Socialist Register 2004, on the American empire it joins: -------- March 18, 2004 Luciana Castellina on Italian politics - government, parties, popular movements * Ruth O'Brien, editor of Voices from the Edge: Narratives About the Americans With Disabilities Act, on the ADA, the workplace, and the courts, and Leonard ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 14:34:28 PST 2004

21830 [lbo-talk] psychic senses bomb, flight cxl'd -- rank: 1000

'Psychic' Bomb Tip Forces Flight Cancellation FORT MYERS, Fla. (March 27) - A self-described psychic's tip that a bomb might be on a plane prompted a search with bomb-sniffing dogs that turned up nothing suspicious, but forced the cancelation of the flight. American Airlines Flight 1304 at Southwest Florida International Airport was canceled Friday because some crew members had exceeded their work hours by the time the search was finished, officials said. The purported psychic's call was "u ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 14:12:22 PST 2004

21831 [lbo-talk] GOP donors funding Nader -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >You know, we can spend the next 6 months talking about Nader, Bush >and Kerry, or we can organize people to go on the offensive against >the United States. We could, and we're relying on you to lead the way, Chuck. But how many Americans do you think you could sign up for the cause? More than a couple of thousand at the outside? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 13:45:39 PST 2004

21832 [lbo-talk] GOP donors funding Nader -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Exactly. These people are sophisticated right-wing ideologues. They believe >supporting Nader will help push the country to the right. Do you think >they're just misinformed? Crazy? And apparently when Nader tries to sweet-talk David Brooks, Paul Weyrich, Pat Buchanan, and Grover Norquist he's being a sophisticated progressive strategist. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 13:38:42 PST 2004

21833 [lbo-talk] Nader the Condorcet Winner in 2000 -- rank: 1000

That's all very nice, but we don't have a voting system like that in the U.S. So, we've either got to change the system, cope with its constraints, or follow Chuck0 and ignore the whole damn thing. This exercise doesn't really tell us much about the world we unfortunately live in. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 11:55:48 PST 2004

21834 [lbo-talk] anthropologists on marriage -- rank: 1000

[I'm a bit behind on this...] <http://www.aaanet.org/press/ma_stmt_marriage.htm> 2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22201 February 25, 2004, Contact: Ghita Levine 703 528-1902, ext. 3039 Statement on Marriage and the Family from the American Anthropological Association Arlington, Virginia; The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, the world's largest organization of anthropologists, the people who study culture, releases the following statement in response to ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 11:42:13 PST 2004

21835 [lbo-talk] Bush touts tax cuts as fuel for house sales -- rank: 1000

[lovely strategy - throw the government deep into debt to feed a housing bubble!] Bush Cites Tax Cuts as Engine for Home Sales WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) said on Saturday his tax cuts helped fuel the recent surge in home sales that has helped push homeownership to record levels in the United States. The Republican president, whose re-election campaign this year has been hit by Democratic criticism over slow job growth, pointed in his weekly radio address to a gain i ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 09:50:22 PST 2004

21836 [lbo-talk] French lawyer to defend Saddam -- rank: 1000

French Lawyer Says He Will Defend Saddam By Noah Barkin PARIS (Reuters) - The French lawyer known for defending Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and guerrilla Carlos the Jackal said Saturday that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s nephew had chosen him to represent the deposed Iraqi president. Jacques Verges told Reuters in a telephone interview he had received a letter from Ali Barzan al-Tikriti, whose father Barzan al-Tikriti is Saddam's half-brother, asking him to defend the former Iraqi dicta ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 09:28:57 PST 2004

21837 [lbo-talk] Marxian accounting -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Ian for pointing this out] Asset Pricing Models, the Labour Theory of Value and their Implications for Accounting, by Steven Toms <http://www.york.ac.uk/management/research/working_paper_series/working%20paper%202.pdf>

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Date:	Sat Mar 27 09:24:50 PST 2004

21838 [lbo-talk] Where the WMD are -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: > Is there a dime's worth of difference between the USA and Israel? Actually, as Noam Chomsky said in rejecting the academic boycott of Israel, we'd be boycotting a political culture far more sophisticated than our own. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 18:28:22 PST 2004

21839 [lbo-talk] 'shillin' with Al Franken -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Which goes to show that when Kerry gets elected, he will create more >wars than G.W. just to show how tough the Democrats are on >terrorism. The Left will abidicate their dissent because "at least >he ain't Bush." Not me. Like I've said, should he win, Kerry becomes the enemy on 11/3. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 15:14:15 PST 2004

21840 [lbo-talk] 'shillin' with Al Franken -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >good point, he also believed there was a conspiracy to assasinate >Kennedy - he was such a hopeless romantic ;-) > >(This interview was conducted at the Hungry i in San Francisco on >Monday, March 18th, 1968.) > >ARGO: Why is the truth behind the assassination of President Kennedy >the last chance of America for its survival? > >SAHL: Because the evidence developed by District Attorney Garrison >indicates that certain people had to take Pre ...

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