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22426 [lbo-talk] Ralph Nader chats with Pat Buchanan -- rank: 1000

<http://www.amconmag.com/2004_06_21/cover.html> Concentrated corporate power violates many principles of capitalism. For example, under capitalism, owners control their property. Under multinational corporations, the shareholders don't control their corporation. Under capitalism, if you can't make the market respond, you sink. Under big business, you don't go bankrupt; you go to Washington for a bailout. Under capitalism, there is supposed to be freedom of contract. When was the last time ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 08:01:57 PDT 2004

22427 [lbo-talk] Re:reagan -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >More complex than that. R's fam life early on wasn't happy, and he sought to >fill whatever emptiness he felt by embracing and espousing the simplest >narratives. Or, as they NYT obit put it: >"For Ronald Reagan, the world of legend and myth is a real world," >said Patrick J. Buchanan, a longtime political ally who was Mr. >Reagan's director of White House communications. "He visits it >regularly, and he's a happy man there." And tha ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 07:49:33 PDT 2004

22428 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan -- Killer, Coward, Conman -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >This is pissing on an empty grave. The system remains -- R. was only in the >PR office. PR is fairly important, and RR was a pretty important historical figure. He transformed the image of American conservatism from someething marginal, cranky, and backward-looking into something revolutionary and optimistic. He managed to appropriate a lot of ideas long associated with the left and make the left in turn look cowardly and backward-looking. Of course he didn't do this ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 07:31:17 PDT 2004

22429 [lbo-talk] Good riddance Ronald Reagan -- rank: 1000

By the way, on my radio show this Thursday, the memorial to RR will be highlighted by the playing of an obscure song I've been saving for this occasion ever since I got a radio show - a thrashing rant by a Swedish hardcore band whose name I can't remember (I taped it from Pat Duncan's show on WFMU sometime in the mid-80s) with the stirring refrain: "Ronald Reagan is a canker/Ronald Reagan is a wanker..."

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 07:11:58 PDT 2004

22430 [lbo-talk] Good riddance Ronald Reagan -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >This means that I'm one step closer to one of my longtime fantasies: >pissing on Ronald Reagan's grave! Thank you. I needed this antidote after reading the first three sentences of Peggy Noonan's obit in today's WSJ. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 06:55:31 PDT 2004

22431 [lbo-talk] Gaddafi Regrets Reagan Died Without Facing Trial -- rank: 1000

Gaddafi Regrets Reagan Died Without Facing Trial Sun Jun 6, 5:03 PM ET TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi (news - web sites) said Sunday he regretted that former U.S. President Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) had died without ever being tried for 1986 air strikes that killed dozens of people, including the Libyan leader's adopted daughter. R"I express my profound regrets over Reagan's death before he appeared before justice to be held to account for his ugly crime in 1986 against L ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 6 20:14:13 PDT 2004

22432 [lbo-talk] spiked-risk | Inflaming the debate (Oil, Hubberts Peak) -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >In Spiked's case, the one-idea (or 'idee fixe' for the >fancy-pants in the house) is that the West is obsessed >with risk; quivering with fear in the face of things >it shouldnít be concerned with. They inherited this from their predecessor, LM (nee Living Marxism), the organ of the now-defundt Revolutionary Communist Party (British, not American one). If James Heartfield were still here, he could tell us more. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 4 10:08:50 PDT 2004

22433 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

Another strong U.S. employment report this morning. I haven't torn apart the numbers, but on first glance, all cylinders were firing. Upward revisions to the last two months' data too. No one can call this a jobless recovery anymore. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 4 05:49:28 PDT 2004

22434 [lbo-talk] MR goes after Negri and Hardt -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Michael Pug for the link.] <http://www.monthlyreview.org/0604abumanneh.htm> John Mage, you here? You've been quiet. This bit leapt out at me: >And American empire is the real goal of globalization. This has been >clearly demonstrated in Peter Gowan's The Global Gamble: >Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance. The new world order, >he argues, is in essence about the U.S. drive to dominate the world >economy unchallenged, to "go global" in order &qu ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 16:43:47 PDT 2004

22435 [lbo-talk] WSJ: "renaissance for the left" -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >I'm not sure how "The Right" (through the WSJ) is seeing all this ie >I don't understand the significance of the article. Is it that they >see the Dems as far left as communists, say, or is it just that >they're magnifying the potential threat of "the left" to them way >out of proportion (out of fear??)? Or even simply any "threat", no >matter how insignificant, from anything left of the Repugs is >automatically seen as som ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 13:03:35 PDT 2004

22436 [lbo-talk] Punk Pioneer PD Oedipus Leaves WBCN Boston -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >You may already know this, but there's a good >compilation from that era of Boston punk bands: "This >is Boston, Not L.A." Was that an Atlantics song? I saw some band perform that in Boston way back and it kind of gave me the creeps. What does it mean, really? Is it some sort of chip-on-the-shoulder pride in provincialism and New England austerity? Please enlighten. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 12:57:08 PDT 2004

22437 [lbo-talk] Punk Pioneer PD Oedipus Leaves WBCN Boston -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >In the early 80s, was the best rock station ever. Broke the Talking >Heads, the Cars; helped break U2 and the Clash. Two out of four ain't bad. But there's no excuse for the Cars or U2. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 12:00:52 PDT 2004

22438 [lbo-talk] Re: Daily Queer Thought From Emma Goldman -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >I think it is useful to consider that the right of sexual >expression is a matter of survival. Sometimes being a >member of the heterosexual elite can blind people to the >reality that queer desire needs satisfaction in the same >way as the desires for water or food (I read once that >all humans possess 4 basic desires: water, salt, food >and sex). It's sad that heteros - who do enjoy all kinds of privileges, no argument there - still can see the libido a ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 10:02:20 PDT 2004

22439 [lbo-talk] Axis of Eve -- rank: 1000

[a little late...] San Francisco Chronicle - May 23, 2004 Axis of Eve is just beating around the Bush Lizzy Ratner Elizabeth Eve never thought of herself as an exhibitionist. But these days, the 33-year-old history professor with the gold nose ring can barely contain the urge to lift her skirt and flash her skivvies. "There is something so liberating and exciting about it, you've got to try it out," she said recently as she fidgeted, fully clothed, on the couch in her friend Tasha's Ma ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 09:58:09 PDT 2004

22440 [lbo-talk] selling the army -- rank: 1000

[from a promotional circular...] www.brandtrainers.com PRESENTS A Marketing Seminar: Marketing the U.S. Army in a Time of War Speaker: Dawn Leijon, former Director of Marketing, U.S. Army LEARN: # How to position a product to a skeptical target audience. # How to market a high involvement product with significant downsides. # How to sell a product through a large salesforce (Army recruiters) without previous sales, marketing or branding experience. # How to react when the media is driving more c ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 09:54:51 PDT 2004