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22036 [lbo-talk] Red, Purple and Blue -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Today's Daily Kos > >http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/3/9/221629/5292 > >highlights a chart in the middle of the latest gallup poll: > >http://www.gallup.com/content/Default.asp?ci=10942&pg=1 > ><quote> > >In other words, Kerry has a lock on the Gore states, has an even bigger >lead in the swing states (55-39!), and is within striking distance of the >Red states. > >At this point, all Bush can do is drive up Kerry's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 10 10:30:39 PST 2004

22037 [lbo-talk] Robert Fisk -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 02:19 AM, J Cullen wrote: > >>McKinney is said to be mounting a comeback campaign for her >>congressional seat. > >I live in her district. If I see any sign of this campaign, I'll mention it. After she lost, I read or heard somewhere that her problem really was much more local than the national left made it out to be. Is this true? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 10 06:40:45 PST 2004

22038 [lbo-talk] KPFK Event -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Another point. Pacifica desperately needs to widen its audience >>beyond its hardcore base. > >Been there, done that. KPFT got very, very trashed for succeeding at it. By dropping a lot of the politics, no? That's no what I mean. This is from a NYT story yesterday on Al Sharpton's future: >Mr. Sharpton acknowledged that his attempts to become a media star >could draw criticism that hi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 15:35:55 PST 2004

22039 [lbo-talk] Re :a love that never spoke its name? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"Does anybody know the origin of the claim that "America is engaged in a >love affair with the car"? > >more like a shotgun wedding...little if any choice of lovers , except >for color-style variations, which are based on bankroll...most of us >are in cars for the same reason we used to be on horses, or walk, or >take public transit...that's what's available, no more no less...though >some certainly like to clean the car, paint it, or s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 15:26:43 PST 2004

22040 [lbo-talk] Iraqi CP on new constitution -- rank: 1000

From: Iraqi Communist Party, Tuesday, March 09, 2004 <http://www.iraqcp.org/> Iraqi Communist Party: Initial View of the Transitional State Administration Law The following are excerpts from the editorial of Tareeq Al-Shaab, the central organ of the Iraqi Communist Party, giving an initial response to the Transitional State Administration Law approved today, Monday 8 March 2004, by the interim Iraqi Governing Council: This important law will organise and direct political life in the countr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 15:08:43 PST 2004

22041 [lbo-talk] Prechter in London -- rank: 1000

Robert Prechter, the fascinating oddball financial analyst who does the weird Elliott Wave Theorist <http://www.elliottwave.com>, is speaking in London. Here's the announcement from his website: >On Thursday, March 18, Bob Prechter will lecture on Socionomics from >1:15 - 4:00 p.m. at the London School of Economics and Political >Science. The address is the New Theater (E171) Houghton Street, >London, WC2A 2AE. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Please >come by if yo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 13:30:17 PST 2004

22042 [lbo-talk] Fw: Fidel watches The Sopranos -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >[From the New York Post's "Page Six" gossip column...hmmm, how reliable is >this, you NYers? *lol*] They had a correction to a story the other day because the "interview" from which the original item came was done very late in a loud club and the reporter apparently misheard the response. But, hey, at least they corrected it! I once reported a celebrity sighting to them - Bruce Springsteen at the the Johnny Rocket's in Bev Hills - and they ran it witho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 13:06:35 PST 2004

22043 [lbo-talk] outsourcing -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >If the Chinese private export >sector grew by 20 million jobs, and the Chinese state sector fell by 25 >million jobs, China could still be said to be importing those 20 million >jobs from overseas if they aren't performing the functions the state >sector did. True enough, but the larger point is that manufacturing employment worldwide is a less than zero-sum game. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 12:39:46 PST 2004

22044 [lbo-talk] Argentina -- rank: 1000

I can't claim the Argentine authorities have read the piece, but they seem to be following Norman Strong's script in their masterful default: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/HowToDefault.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 11:44:55 PST 2004

22045 [lbo-talk] PR History Question -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Does anybody know the origin of the claim that "America is engaged >in a love affair with the car"? > >Was this originally an industry campaign, or did it just spring from >journalism somewhere? I can't seem to find the root. Regardless of the origin, it's true, isn't it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 11:38:32 PST 2004

22046 [lbo-talk] nice formulation -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >er previous opaque style was grounded neither through inability to >write clearly nor the demands of the subject (which might be the >explanation in, say, the works of Hegel or Whitehead) but deliberately >chosen to conceal the lack of content. No, there's plenty of content in her classics - sexuality as performance, the bogosity of many biological notions of sex, the importance of subjection in the creation of the subject, etc. You may not like it, but there's lot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 10:05:47 PST 2004

22047 [lbo-talk] nice formulation -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > >> Something's happened to Judith Butler's prose style - it's gotten >> clear, even elegant. Here's a nice formulation from her excellent >> piece "Jews and the Bi-National Vision" (which includes a tough >> critique of Zionism) in the new Logos >> <http://www.logosjournal.com/butler.htm>: > >Butler is a smart woman and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 10:03:57 PST 2004

22048 [lbo-talk] Re: Robert Fisk -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >I'll take Patrick Cockburn any day. Have you ever considered having >PC on your show, or have you? I've thought about it, but never done it. Good idea though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 10:02:34 PST 2004

22049 [lbo-talk] nice formulation -- rank: 1000

Something's happened to Judith Butler's prose style - it's gotten clear, even elegant. Here's a nice formulation from her excellent piece "Jews and the Bi-National Vision" (which includes a tough critique of Zionism) in the new Logos <http://www.logosjournal.com/butler.htm>: >This would mean living to the side of one's nationalism, of one's >identification, allowing for a decentering of a nationalist ethos. >The question of establishing and tending to relations will be m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 08:47:12 PST 2004

22050 [lbo-talk] Robert Fisk -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Oceania Has Always Been at War with Eurasia >http://cointelprotool.blogspot.com/ >Robert Fisk, March 2, 2004: > >Odd, isn't it? There never has been a civil war in Iraq. I have >never heard a single word of animosity between Sunnis and Shias in >Iraq. Is Fisk losing it? I haven't followed his every word, but as I recall his stuff from ten years ago, it was rigorous and sensible. Now it's seeming histrionic, and as this series of quotes shows, self-co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 08:36:13 PST 2004