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21886 [lbo-talk] declining #'ers @ anti-war marches (unofficial UK SWP blog) -- rank: 1000

I was amazed that as many people showed up as did to protest a war that already happened. The demo lacked any coherent message, which is understandable; people seemed to bring their own. The anti-RNC demo is another matter - if that doesn't bring out the multitudes then I may give up on politics. Though I'm sure we'll have to cope with the "Bush = Kerry" crowd anyway. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 23 10:26:16 PST 2004

21887 [lbo-talk] From 2000 to 2004 (Re: Ralph the rightwinger) -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >He also predicted Gore would win. He did! My trusty election model, which historically has an 80% accuracy, predicted Gore to win by a wide margin. (Its inputs are the annual growth rate in after-tax personal income and the president's approval rating in the spring before the election.) So the election was his to lose, and he did. Sorta. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 23 09:50:38 PST 2004

21888 [lbo-talk] Israel goes totally bonkers -- rank: 1000

Israel Says All Militant Leaders Marked for Death By Megan Goldin JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said all Palestinian militant leaders were "in its sights" Tuesday and put its security forces on high alert to meet any retaliation for the killing of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) and top aides approved an order to target all senior militants after the wheelchair-bound cleric was assassinated in an Israeli missile strike outside a Gaza mosque Mond ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 09:42:53 PST 2004

21889 [lbo-talk] Corporate Porn to Kids -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Have you who are protesting ignorance and shock at Nader's phrase been >watching MTV? Try a little dose of that, especially during their Spring >Break beach parties, and put yourself in loco parentis to an 11-year-old. >"Corporate pornography directed at children" is a precise definition of this >exploitative atrocity. (And please don't spout back the MTV party line that >their target audience is 18-34. BS. It's 8-22.) Man, you sound li ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 09:38:48 PST 2004

21890 [lbo-talk] "Pulitzer-prize-winning" Onion? not quite... -- rank: 1000

[from Editor & Publisher <http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/rewrite_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000468280>] Pulitzer Prizes: Keeping the Little Guys Down? A look at the behind-the-scenes selection process, plus 'The Onion's submission. By Joe Strupp (March 22, 2004) -- Zack Stalberg still remembers the oddest experience he had during his two-year stint as a Pulitzer Prize jurist. The longtime editor of The Philadelphia Daily News was on the committee choosing finalists in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 09:26:27 PST 2004

21891 [lbo-talk] Emma v Ralph -- rank: 1000

How is morality - a set of behavioral prescriptions - the same as kindness, empathy, forgiveness, and love? The latter can be read as forms of erotic feeling, which are often lacking in moralists. Doug andie nachgeborenen wrote: >So, you think sex is brutal? ;- > Or you think Emma >thought it was? That is not my impression of her view >on the subject. But --watching your kids grow -- don't >you think that morality is a rather late developmental >stage? Of course so is an inter ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 23 09:17:44 PST 2004

21892 [lbo-talk] Gregory Wilpert on John Kerry's Attack on Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** A Rebuttal to Senator Kerry's Statement on Venezuela >Monday, Mar 22, 2004 >By: Gregory Wilpert - Venezuelanalysis.com Why do you keep posting this stuff? No one has ever claimed that Kerry is anything but a loyal servant of the empire. By the way, you posted five times on Saturday, five yesterday, and four so far today, and it's well before noon. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 23 07:22:15 PST 2004

21893 [lbo-talk] outsourcing and furriners -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >When did the term "outsourcing" come to refer exclusively to >outsourcing jobs out of the country? I thought it was a general term >for the corporate practice of moving functions from in-house to >outside firms. Basically, I thought it was a synonym for >subcontracting, a money-saving measure for a company that was >generally not good for workers, whether it was done outside the >country or in. Lately, given telecommunications outsourcing to > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 07:16:33 PST 2004

21894 [lbo-talk] From 2000 to 2004 (Re: Ralph the rightwinger) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In 2000, Doug posted the same Bruce Bartlett article with a >different subject line: "Nader, conservative?," ><http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2000/2000-September/016553.html>. It >didn't appear to occur to Doug or anyone else on LBO-talk to think >of the Bartlett article as a good reason to vote against Nader in >2000 I've said all along, even when I was writing editorials endorsing Nader in 1996 and 2000, that he has a deep conservative s ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 23 07:15:15 PST 2004

21895 [lbo-talk] re: Chomsky, Nader, and the Green Party -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Compare the US policies towards Iraq and Pakistan. Iraq was subjected to UN >weapons inspection and economic sanctions for years and then invaded for >concealing WMDs. > >On the other hand, Pakistan was allowed to acquire nukes in the 80s (when it >was a frontline state against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan) and >proliferate without any hindrance for 16 years ! And now it's been declared a virtual honorary member of NATO. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 23 07:08:50 PST 2004

21896 [lbo-talk] Emma v Ralph -- rank: 1000

Apropos Ralph Nader, this is the quote of the day from Thomas Heald's daily Pridelets <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pridelets/> email (which also notes that today would be Joan Crawford's 100th birthday): >"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much >more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, >the other is grafted on." -- Emma Goldman

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 07:07:53 PST 2004

21897 [lbo-talk] 2008, or After Bush -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Who will be the Republican presidential candidate in 2008? Who knows, and why do you ask? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 23 06:57:17 PST 2004

21898 [lbo-talk] the French candidate -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - March 23, 2004 GOP Exposé: Kerry, Closet Frenchman By Dana Milbank Mon dieu! The Republicans are trying to turn John Kerry into a frog. Bush pal and Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans recently said publicly what his colleagues have long been saying privately: He called President Bush's Democratic opponent a "fellow of a different political stripe who looks French." Those are fighting words these days, when anti-French feelings are running high because of the diplomati ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 23 06:56:11 PST 2004

21899 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Israel's fatal blow / McReynolds -- rank: 1000

From: "David Mcreynolds" <david.mcr at earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:18:32 -0500 (anyone who wants to reproduce or circulate this is free to do so . . . David McReynolds) Israel's action in assassinating Sheik Ahmed Yassin early Monday is one more nail in the coffin of any possible peace process, and, as time and events may show, a nail in the coffin of Israel itself.. Israeli spokespersons have pointed out the involvement of Sheik Yassin in a range of bloody suicide ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 16:29:16 PST 2004

21900 [lbo-talk] Ralph the rightwinger -- rank: 1000

[ancient history, from a piece by Bruce Bartlett - from the 2000 campaign - <http://www.ncpa.org/oped/bartlett/sep2000a.html>] I am not sure if it is his first published article, but the earliest piece I was able to find by Ralph Nader was published in the ultra-conservative American Mercury magazine in March 1960. (The American Mercury was a highly respected magazine in the 1920s and 1930s, but fell on hard times and was sold to some ultra-conservatives in the 1940s, who turned the magazi ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 15:57:20 PST 2004