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22321 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore poll - cast your vote for or against -- rank: 1000

jimi ayler wrote: >am i the only one who got a "Support Free Trade" >pop-up ad after voting? oh, the irony. i'm guessing >this is courtesy of pollresults.com, doug..."hoping," maybe... Ha, I haven't gotten one of those. The ads on the voting page are inserted by Google, based on words on the page (I just got two Michael Moore ads). The ads on the results page come from pollresults.com. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 14 10:31:54 PDT 2004

22322 [lbo-talk] W = the antichrist? -- rank: 1000

[Another from the Counterpunch stable, though not in CP itself. Dunno, I just don't believe this.] Pope fears Bush is antichrist, journalist contends New Catholic Times, May 18, 2003 WASHINGTON DC -- According to freelance journalist Wayne Madsden, "George W Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant references to 'evil doers,' in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations--the ant ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 14 09:26:37 PDT 2004

22323 [lbo-talk] re: Bilderberg -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >You refer to 'this stuff' as a distraction - why is it any more of a >distraction than the fact that Ralph Nader spoke at the Council on >Foreign Relations, something you reported about here. He gave an on-the-record talk with media present. i recorded the damn thing and broadcast 20 minutes of it on the radio (and you can listen yourself at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. There was no arcane knowledge involved. He criticized U.S. foreign p ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 14 07:28:11 PDT 2004

22324 [lbo-talk] a Korean reporter in Fallujah -- rank: 1000

<http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=165367&rel_no=1> [...] Deserted streets, scattered animal corpses, a ghost town The Julan district was like a ghost town. Deserted streets, collapsed buildings, heaps of rubble and spent rifle and artillery casings were everywhere. Animal corpses made of just skin and bones littered the streets. On the first day of the U.S. military assault on Julan, electricity and water were cut. These places were where the Mujahadeen were ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 14 06:42:41 PDT 2004

22325 [lbo-talk] establishment turning on W? -- rank: 1000

Former Officials to Criticize Bush Foreign Policy Sun Jun 13, 5:11 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of former U.S. officials is urging voters to defeat President Bush (news - web sites) in the November election, saying his po licies have isolated the United States, a spokesman for the group said on Sunday. The group of 26 former diplomats and military officials, including appointees of former Republican presidents Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) and George Bush, plan to issue an open statem ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 13 21:22:55 PDT 2004

22326 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore poll - cast your vote for or against -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >As oppossed to much of the "Left" here who calls him a liar and a hypocrite? I think you're exaggerating the hostility towards Moore. But to take a more accurate measure, I've set up an lbo-talk poll on Moore - approve or disapprove? Please vote only if you're a listmember. Voting will close at noon on Tuesday NYC time. Poll at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/MoorePoll.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 13 09:02:10 PDT 2004

22327 [lbo-talk] Greeley: US = Germany 1933? -- rank: 1000

Chicago Sun Times - June 11, 2004 Is US like Germany of the '30s? by Andrew Greeley BERLIN -- I can understand, my German friend said, why Germans voted for Hitler in 1933 -- though he did not receive a majority of the vote. The Weimar Republic was weak and incompetent. The Great Depression had ruined the nation's war-devastated economy. People were bitter because they thought their leaders had betrayed them in the war. They wanted revenge for the humiliation of Versailles. Hitler promised stron ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 20:57:43 PDT 2004

22328 [lbo-talk] the terrorist mind -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 12/13, 2004 Holy avengers By Jessica Stern From American anti-abortion activists to Islamic suicide bombers, certain traits are common among those who dedicate their lives to religious terrorism. While researching her book, a Harvard academic tries to find out why they believe they have a moral mandate to murder. Events in Iraq have shown that a war cannot be proscecuted against terrorists without giving some thought to what motivates new recruits to the terror cause. In i ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 14:40:03 PDT 2004

22329 [lbo-talk] Bush & his God -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 12/13, 2004 One man and his god By Jonathan Steinberg George W. Bush is a deeply religious man and the US remains a very religious country. In February 2004, Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Trust's Religion Programme, wrote that in a recent poll, "Eighty- five per cent of respondents stated that religion was either 'very' or 'fairly' important in their lives, and nearly 60 per cent reported that they attend religious services at least once or twice a month." If re ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 14:36:55 PDT 2004

22330 [lbo-talk] Re: Ray Charles RIP -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >But only 521,000 for "Ray Charles." Beethoven: 2.9 million. > >Doug >------- > >Must be you're browser. > >I get: > >ray charles: 5,230,000 For no quotes. You're getting hits on docs with the words "ray" and "charles" in them, but not necessarily "Ray Charles" next to each other. With quotes, you get a lot fewer. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 14:26:23 PDT 2004

22331 [lbo-talk] re: Bilderberg -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Joe W wrote: Doug, it is a no-brainer assumption that if a coterie >of powerful elites (supposedly accountable elected leaders and >corporate bosses) meet exclusively and regularly, going to great >lengths to bar public scrutiny, that they are likely up to no good, >at least from a proletarian perspective. This is why thousands of >leftist activists have protested the G-8 Summits, the World >Economic Forum Meetings and so forth. Again, we know pretty m ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 13:53:15 PDT 2004

22332 [lbo-talk] Re: Ray Charles RIP -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Looking at a google search on Ray Charles I see French, Spanish, >German tributes. I am sure there are plenty of Japanese and Russian >ones too. At the top it says 5,230,000 for Ray Charles. > >Doing the same for the name, Ronald Reagan gets 2,020,000. I see no >foreign language sites. > >That kind of says it all. Better than 2:1, for Ray. So Roll over >Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news... But only 521,000 for "Ray Charles." Beethoven: ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 13:41:02 PDT 2004

22333 [lbo-talk] Reagan, and a Sermon -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Jacob Conrad wrote: > >>The different versions of the "Americans are stupid and/or vicious" >>thesis (to the extent they're seriously meant) can be dismissed as >>lacking surface plausibility. There's no reason to think that such >>a large sample of the earth's population, 290 million or so, is any >>more or less stupid and/or vicious than any other sizeable >>group--Norwegians, Tibetans, Trobriand Islanders, take your pic ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 12:13:30 PDT 2004

22334 [lbo-talk] Reagan, and a Sermon -- rank: 1000

Jacob Conrad wrote: >The different versions of the "Americans are stupid and/or vicious" >thesis (to the extent they're seriously meant) can be dismissed as >lacking surface plausibility. There's no reason to think that such >a large sample of the earth's population, 290 million or so, is any >more or less stupid and/or vicious than any other sizeable >group--Norwegians, Tibetans, Trobriand Islanders, take your pick. Not in any biological sense, but we're rare, thoug ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 12:11:00 PDT 2004

22335 [lbo-talk] Moore Hires Clinton Spin Doctors to Defend Fahrenheit 9/11 -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=530688 > This guy Gumbel has it out for Moore, doesn't he? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 12:04:41 PDT 2004