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22276 [lbo-talk] Re: Is Berlet Combat Ready? -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Why is Chip Berlet not wondering... > >Why is Chip Berlet attacking... those who raise the question of government > >Whose side is Chip Berlet on? Why has Chip Berlet not contributed >anthing to interrogating the Bush administrations lies about 9-11? By the way, this rhetorical style sounds a lot like the paranoid loyalty-questioning right. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 18 14:04:58 PDT 2004

22277 [lbo-talk] Re: Is Berlet Combat Ready? -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >9-11 dissident researchers have been more right than they have been >wrong in their deconstruction of government lies about the event. Huh? From the first it seemed like they fucked up, and nothing released since has changed that impression. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 18 14:03:04 PDT 2004

22278 [lbo-talk] Kerry proposes boost in min wage, heads off to Nantucket -- rank: 1000

Kerry Says 'Can-Do' U.S. Needs to Raise Minimum Wage By Patricia Wilson ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites) proposed on Friday raising the minimum wage to $7 by 2007, a hike he said would allow struggling families to pay for 10 months of groceries or eight months of rent. His plan to phase in an increase of $1.85 an hour would most benefit women, an important constituency in the Nov. 2 presidential election, his campaign said. "You put in ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 18 12:37:03 PDT 2004

22279 [lbo-talk] Winning Hearts and Minds: Nader Has 73% Unfavorability Rating in WV -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: ><http://dailykos.com/story/2004/6/18/122920/532>http://dailykos.com/story/2004/6/18/122920/532 And 6% favorable! 6/76 may be the worst poll numbers I've ever seen. I suppose Saddam would score worse, but these make Hillary look like Ms Popularity. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 18 11:41:08 PDT 2004

22280 [lbo-talk] Moonies pressuring Wash Times to go soft? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - June 18, 2004 Tension of the Times By David Ignatius It's a sign of the times when even the people who bankroll Washington's leading conservative newspaper are said to be uneasy with Bush administration foreign policy. But in that heretical spirit, a revolt is reportedly brewing at the Unification Church, which owns the Washington Times and is pushing for changes at the paper. Insiders say the church's new line is that with the end of the Cold War, it's important to support in ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 18 09:15:28 PDT 2004

22281 [lbo-talk] Pew: Bush's bounce -- rank: 1000

Public Support for War Resilient Bush's Standing Improves Our new poll finds that with the public less focused on the news from Iraq, opinions have become more positive than they were a month ago when pictures from the prison abuse scandal were first coming to light. The number of Americans who think the military effort is going well jumped from 46% in May to 57%, despite ongoing violence in Iraq and the widening prison scandal. And the numbers who believe it was right to go to war against Iraq ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 18 08:22:47 PDT 2004

22282 [lbo-talk] summer reading -- rank: 1000

I just learned on another list that the FBI has posted reams of docs from Freedom of Information Act requests. Read up on Bud Abbott, Howard Cosell, and the Council on Foreign Relations ("communist inspired," complained some citizens, and the FBI looked into it). <http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 18 07:57:09 PDT 2004

22283 [lbo-talk] progress in garbology -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 17, 2004 CELEB PICTURES TO DEPEND ON AN embarrassing photograph of Larry King's garbage has been pulled from an art exhibit because it shows a box of Depends adult diapers among the detritus. The diapers in the 70-year-old CNN talkmeister's trash set tongues wagging Tuesday night at four-star eatery Le Bernardin, where French photographers Pascal Rostain and Bruno Mouron previewed their exhibit "Star Trash" for which they shot the rubbish collected from ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 17 08:45:01 PDT 2004

22284 [lbo-talk] Cheney back down? "hell no!" -- rank: 1000

Cheney Won't Back Down on Saddam-Qaeda Links -Aides By Adam Entous Wed Jun 16, 9:14 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), who took the lead in pushing the idea of long-standing links between Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and al Qaeda, has no intention of backing down despite a finding to the contrary by the Sept. 11 commission, aides said on Wednesday. Administration officials stood by Cheney, who critics accuse of using faulty intelligence about alleged ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 17 05:41:21 PDT 2004

22285 [lbo-talk] Re: Berkeley Intifada -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000419.html > >Many accts. of demos over the last decade w/ more than a whiff of >anti- semitism. Sure, fine, deserve criticism too. But why do you seek this stuff out so assiduously? You've got the instincts of a neocon without (most of) the politics. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 17 05:34:33 PDT 2004

22286 [lbo-talk] V Crisis Attacks Greg Wilpert, Etc. -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Or like the recent position of some soi-disant leftists who, because of >Aristide's errors or crimes, took an even-handed approach between the >elected president of Haiti and US-backed thugs, and supported a "third >force"... Who were those soi-disant leftists? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 16:38:08 PDT 2004

22287 [lbo-talk] 230,000 jobs a month needed -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >President Bush and the Gilded Age >By Yoshi Tsurumi > >March 1, 2004 >http://www.inequality.org/poorlazy.html > [...] >Just to keep up with population growth, the >U.S. >needs to create about 230,000 jobs a month. If the U.S. wants to employ the >3 million unemployed workers thrown out of work under the Bush >Administration, the U.S. would have to create a lot more jobs monthly. Last >month, however, the U.S. only created 21,000 jobs. Doing a little ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 16:37:32 PDT 2004

22288 [lbo-talk] V Crisis Attacks Greg Wilpert, Etc. -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >My sneaking suspicion, though, is that Michael is looking for >someone to validate his latter-day instinct -- acquired after the >FSLN defeat in 1990, perhaps? -- not to take sides even in a >struggle where good and evil are as clearly-defined as this one. How >sad. Yup. Chavez isn't perfect, but really - the reasons the Venezuelan elite and the U.S. government want him out are entirely hideous. And if the recall movement is being allowed to operate in the open, ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 16:29:35 PDT 2004

22289 [lbo-talk] global justice movement - alive or dead (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[cont. from previous post] Chuck Morse: Revolutionary movements come and go. The classical anarchist movement, the black liberation movement, the ecology movement, and others pushed against the boundaries of the social order and then-when faced with challenges they could not confront-collapsed into history. The anti-globalization movement has also come and gone. It leapt to world attention during the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization and died with the February 2002 mobilizati ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 14:34:59 PDT 2004

22290 [lbo-talk] global justice movement - alive or dead? -- rank: 1000

(From Perspectives on Anarchist Theory <http://www.anarchist-studies.org/publications/perspectives> , the biannual newsletter of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, Spring 2004 - Volume 8, Number 1) The Life--or Death--of the Anti-Globalization Movement The anti-globalization movement that erupted onto the scene in Seattle 1999 frightened elites and inspired activists around the world to fight the system in a utopian, anti-authoritarian way. However, this movement has occupied a much less ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 14:34:34 PDT 2004