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21961 [lbo-talk] Working Families Party -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >I do not claim great knowledge about third parties, but here in New >York City there is the Working Families Party. > >>From their website I got the following: > >Unlike most other third parties, we think that constantly "spoiling" >elections -- i.e. voting for third party candidates with no chance >of winning -- is not a smart strategy. Too often, it pulls votes >from a somewhat desirable candidate, causing the least desirable >candi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 17 15:44:44 PST 2004

21962 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO helping overthrow Chavez? -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>.] <http://www.laboreducator.org/aflven.htm> LaborTalk for March 17, 2004 Is AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center Serving as a Channel For Bush's Plan for Regime Change in Venezuela? By Harry Kelber Hardly any union member knows anything about the AFL-CIO's American Center for International Labor Solidarity, because it operates largely as a clandestine organization. It was established in 1997 to replace the four regional organizatio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 17 14:55:59 PST 2004

21963 [lbo-talk] media fell for Iraqi exiles' crap -- rank: 1000

[The full list of articles is at <http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/8173201.htm>. Two are by Hitchens.] San Jose Mercury News - March 16, 2004 GLOBAL MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN WAS USED TO BUILD CASE FOR WAR By Jonathan S. Landay and Tish Wells Knight Ridder WASHINGTON - The former Iraqi exile group that gave the Bush administration exaggerated and fabricated intelligence on Iraq also fed much of the same information to newspapers, news agencies and magazines in the United State ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 17 14:53:03 PST 2004

21964 [lbo-talk] Null, clarified -- rank: 1000

Writing from memory, I mischaracterized Null's PhD. Here's the relevant passage from Quackwatch <http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/null.html>: >Dubious Credentials > >Null says he holds an associate degree in business administration >from Mountain State College in West Virginia, a bachelor's degree >from Thomas A. Edison State College in New Jersey, and a PhD in >human nutrition and public health sciences from The Union Institute >in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ediso ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 12:40:25 PST 2004

21965 [lbo-talk] the virtues of peedrinking -- rank: 1000

[More on health guru Gary Null <http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/19/urine.html>. Prosit!] Here in New York City, alternative health guru Gary Null has devoted several segments of his popular radio program on WBAI (99.5 FM, 12 noon, Monday through Friday) to extolling the benefits of the urine cure. One's urine, Null explained during a program broadcast in October, 1992, should be stored in a jug in the refrigerator and then consumed while mixed with orange juice to mask the taste. He went on to say ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 17 12:37:05 PST 2004

21966 [lbo-talk] Re: Booing Manning Marable -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >Funny how this is playing out, as I was extremely critical of Ralph >Nader's decisions the last go-round (even though I campaigned for >him). Yet I see his running this time as far more important to >fighting fascism. > >Sure, present whatever case you want about why people should not >vote for Nader, or Cobb, or Salzman, or the other 4 candidates >running for the Green Party nomination, and convince the voters not >to vote for th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 17 12:03:11 PST 2004

21967 [lbo-talk] tone etc. -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I think to the contrary - the amount of invective in the US political >discourse, especially on the net is intolerably high. I was thinking of "respectable" venues like PBS, The New York Times, and The Nation - not talk radio or the columns of Ann Coulter. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 11:54:57 PST 2004

21968 [lbo-talk] Lehrer freaks out on Parenti -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Highlights include way too much time with Gary Null >and his intense, health unto sickness, stalker-like >stare They still using that quack? The egomaniac who threatened to sue Pacifica because he was cut back from five days a week to four - even though WBAI made him rich & famous? Who got his PhD from a mail-order institution with a diss supervised by a geologist on the specific gravity of urine? Who claims he makes no money on books he earned over $1 million ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 17 11:52:37 PST 2004

21969 [lbo-talk] me on LI -- rank: 1000

[I'm giving a talk (my basic New Economy rap) in Huntington, Long Island, on Sunday evening. Here's the announcement. For more on the LI Freespace - "by the kids, for the kids" - see <http://www.lifreespace.org>.] Sunday, March 21st, 7pm- After the New Economy with Doug Henwood 16 E. 8th St. Huntington Station, NY 11746 516.616.315 "In the late 1990's, we were constantly told the economy had entered a miraculous era of universal prosperity with no end in sight- well, the bub ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 17 11:06:36 PST 2004

21970 [lbo-talk] Forcing Political Change (Booing Manning Marable) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >If history is any guide, the Greens (and others) will not be able to >change the American electoral system So then a vote for the Greens boils down to a form of self-expression, which is what a lot of American politics, esp left politics, is fundamentally about. That's what Mitch Cohen and his gang of booers were doing at the SSC, too. No organization, no strategy - just a gesture of purity that could help re-elect one of the worst presidents we've ever had. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 17 10:39:19 PST 2004

21971 [lbo-talk] Prince gives up on sex -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 17, 2004 IS PRINCE LOSING FAITH IN SEX? PRINCE refused to sing some of his sexy classics at Monday night's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gala at the Waldorf Astoria because of his deepening religious faith. "The producers of the event wanted Prince to sing 'Cream' and 'Sexy Motherf- - - -r.' But because he is now such a devout Jehovah's Witness, he refused," said one music industry insider. A rep for Prince, who converted to the religion several years ago, ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 10:29:56 PST 2004

21972 RES: [lbo-talk] Re: Question on poverty and world bank's PPP -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: > >I know the estimates have been criticized (e.g. by Reddy and Pogge) as too >>low, but the official stats are pretty damning as it is. >> >>Doug > > >And, Reddy and Pogge point out, that poverty measurement is inherently >likely show progress over time even if, in fact, there hasn't been any. > >Paul > > >-Any online references? <http://www.columbia.edu/~sr793/>

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 10:27:14 PST 2004

21973 [lbo-talk] question on poverty and world bank's PPP -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >i actually have hard copy of the UN's 2001 global report on human >settlements, which i've been flipping through to see how they flesh >out the concept of absolute poverty, and how they might bring >together data on access to resources (water, education, etc.) and >income. To be fair to the World Bank, which is an impulse I don't feel every day, they do try to measure these things. The $1/day measure is a measure of extreme poverty, and hardly the last word ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 17 10:17:22 PST 2004

21974 [lbo-talk] tone etc. -- rank: 1000

A listmember writes: >A couple of points (I wasnt sure if I should take up >list bandwidth so I took the liberty of a direct >email). I have been on the list for many years now >though I only post occasionally for various reasons. > >One of those reasons has to do with the >confrontational and aggressive tone of some of the >posters (fuck the greens etc). I have encouraged >several of my friends to sub to the list and this is >one of the main things that they find a ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 10:11:24 PST 2004

21975 [lbo-talk] coalition shrinks a bit more -- rank: 1000

Honduran Troops to Leave Iraq This Summer Tue Mar 16, 6:10 PM ET By FREDDY CUEVAS, Associated Press Writer TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras will withdraw its 370 troops from a Spanish-led humanitarian and peacekeeping brigade in Iraq (news - web sites) this summer - a previously scheduled move that coincides with Spain's planned pullout, top Honduran officials said Tuesday. El Salvadoran leaders, meanwhile, said they would consider keeping their 380 troops in place beyond a summer deadline for w ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 17 06:47:47 PST 2004