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22741 [lbo-talk] Moore & j'ism -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - July 7, 2004 COMMENTARY Moore's Ax Falls on a Derelict Media Too 'Fahrenheit 9/11' exposes 'balance' as a cop-out. By Neal Gabler No one can accuse documentarian and bedraggled, beer-bellied gadfly Michael Moore of having a hidden agenda. He has raised a firestorm of controversy and generated a torrent of publicity not only by bludgeoning President Bush with his feature-length attack, "Fahrenheit 9/11," but also by declaring that he made the film in hopes of booting ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 7 09:09:55 PDT 2004

22742 [lbo-talk] F911 and the PMC -- rank: 1000

Comrade Cox likes to say F911 is like half an agitational leaflet, the other half being the action items. Well, judging from this post to my Yale class of '75 listserv, my window into the thinking of the upper end of the NPR liberal demographic, they're providing the second half - though not in the way Carrol would like: >The film was over the top, and yet I came away with a powerful and >hopefully clear picture thanks to Moore's view of the information. >Yes, his opinion is the shape. ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 7 08:59:54 PDT 2004

22743 [lbo-talk] Cuban oil: the celebrity connection -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - July 7, 2004 CASTRO'S CRUDE ECONOMIC sanctions aren't hurting Cuba's small oil industry, according to French actor Gerard Depardieu (above), who has been making a fortune off his oil wells in Cuba. "The claim that Cuba is not self-sufficient in oil is a fiction to hide that giant American companies are massively producing oil there through Canadian partnerships," Depardieu told Webster Hall curator Baird Jones. "My own company pumps 10,000 barrels of hig ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 7 06:36:38 PDT 2004

22744 [lbo-talk] Critiquing the critique -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >July 6, 2004 >Critiquing the critique > >Pandering to the lies the Left tells itself about the Democrats > >By Stephen Gowans > >http://www3.sympatico.ca/sr.gowans/critique.html > >Robert Jensen, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, >has written a penetrating and mostly cogent critique of Michael >Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, in which he argues the filmaker's >documentary panders to the lies Americans tell themselves abou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 6 16:27:44 PDT 2004

22745 [lbo-talk] False Flag Terror -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Rogue Bush backers prepare super 9/11 false flag terror attacks >by Webster Griffin Tarpley >Online Journal, 6 July 2004 >www.globalresearch.ca 8 July 2004 >The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/TAR407A.html How does the author of this overheated piece know what he purports to know, and why do you seem to believe it? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 16:24:49 PDT 2004

22746 [lbo-talk] Kromm on Edwards -- rank: 1000

[from the Institute for Public Accuracy] CHRIS KROMM, http://www.southernstudies.org Kromm is executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies and publisher of Southern Exposure magazine. He said today: "Edwards' populist side -- his famous campaign message of the 'two Americas' -- isn't just rhetoric: Edwards has pushed for a patient's bill of rights, closing corporate tax loopholes, overhauling NAFTA, and beefing up laws to protect union organizing. He has opposed school vouchers ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 14:34:45 PDT 2004

22747 [lbo-talk] Economy set for best growth in 20 years -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: ><http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/07/06/economy_set_for_best_growth_in_20_years?mode=PF>http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/07/06/economy_set_for_best_growth_in_20_years?mode=PF It may be - who knows? - but that article doesn't make the case.

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 13:46:13 PDT 2004

22748 [lbo-talk] DLC luvs Edwards -- rank: 1000

============================================= THE NEW DEM DAILY, July 06, 2004 Political commentary & analysis from the DLC ============================================= [ New Democrats Online: http://www.ndol.org ] Kerry's Choice The choice of a running mate is one of the most important signals a presidential nominee can give the country about the kind of campaign he intends to run, and the kind of administration he intends to create. John Kerry's choice today of John Edwards is a very goo ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 10:39:39 PDT 2004

22749 [lbo-talk] homoprevention now! -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >OK. I actually can't tell if this is a parody of for real? > >Apologize beforehand for being too dense for words. It's parody. Hard to tell sometimes. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 10:38:40 PDT 2004

22750 [lbo-talk] Distinguishing between Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >That's true, Carrol, but the suggestion was that the US labour movement has >organic ties to the Democratic Party extending deep into the rank and file >which many on the left have difficulty accepting, and taking into account in >distinguishing between the the two parties. The reported 50000 election >volunteers for Kerry within a single union is not insignificant, and this >degree of electoral mobilization is probably true of other unions and social > ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 10:27:09 PDT 2004

22751 [lbo-talk] Big Vic in the movies -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - July 5, 2004 COMMENTARY You Say Navorski, He Says Navasky By Victor Navasky "Dad, quick, turn on Channel 4," said my daughter Miri, who hung up before I could ask her why. Here was why. There on Channel 4 was a commercial for "The Terminal," the new Tom Hanks movie. A voice-over explained that "Viktor Navorski," played by Hanks, finds himself stranded at the airport when a coup in Krakozhia, his imaginary Eastern European homeland, leaves him wit ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 10:09:45 PDT 2004

22752 [lbo-talk] homoprevention now! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0704/homoprevention.html> Is My Little Baby Going to Go Gay? Handy Homo Prevention Tips For Concerned Parents With Suspect Toddlers A parent can never act too soon in taking precautionary measures to ensure that their child will never become intoxicated with mommy's perfume and choose to devote his life to being a prancing homo. By being both proactive and willing to inflict welts for Jesus, you can beat Satan at his own sick game and prevent him from tu ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 09:55:08 PDT 2004

22753 [lbo-talk] Re: The Black Commentator on Cosby -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >So again, Ockham's razor. The psychological explanation merely >duplicates the social explanation. No it doesn't. You have to have some way of demonstrating how the macro "social" structure manifests and reproduces itself on the individual or microsocial level, or you're lost in your agentless world of Big Forces with no persons or personalities attached to them. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 09:45:50 PDT 2004

22754 [lbo-talk] Counter Productive CounterPunch Bunch -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.mikehersh.com/Counter_Productive_CounterPunch_Bunch.shtml >> > >Too bad Bob Feldman is cited near the end. And did you read Feldman's piece? CP gets CIA funding! One piece of evidence: Cockburn writes for The Nation, and Nation ed Katrina vanden Heuvel is CIA, so Cockburn must be too. Jesus. AC and KvH are not the tightest of comrades, to put it mildly. And this Hersh character takes Feldman seriously! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 08:04:50 PDT 2004

22755 [lbo-talk] NYPost: it's Gephardt -- rank: 1000

Ooops. Screenshot at <http://www.wonkette.com/archives/veep-flakes-race-to-second-edition-017244.php>. Front page shot at <http://www.gawker.com/topic/ny-post-calls-kerry-vp-everyone-everywhere-fired-017255.php>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 6 07:59:22 PDT 2004