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22801 [lbo-talk] Ralph's dark side -- rank: 1000

<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/07/01/nader_jacobs/print.html> The dark side of Ralph Nader He's made a career of railing against corporate misdeeds. Yet he himself has abused his underlings, betrayed close friends and ruled his public-interest empire like a dictator. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Lisa Chamberlain July 1, 2004 | Ralph Nader spent his 70th birthday with Bill Maher on his HBO show "Real Time," where Maher pressed him on exactly what his controversial fourth ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 1 12:04:39 PDT 2004

22802 [lbo-talk] end times are nigh -- rank: 1000

Proyect has opened a blog: <http://unrepentant.blogspot.com/>.

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Date:	Thu Jul 1 11:52:48 PDT 2004

22803 [lbo-talk] Re: Blind, or a coward -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >from xymphora: > >Thursday, July 01, 2004 > >Bob Dreyfuss wonders how Michael Moore could get the entire blame >for 9-11 so back-asswards, throwing it all on the obviously innocent >Saudis and ignoring completely the Israelis. Michael Moore is a >big-time Hollywood film director. You need money - lots of it - to >make big-time Hollywood films. The people who produce, finance, and >distribute big-time Hollywood films, and in particular this one ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 1 11:38:20 PDT 2004

22804 [lbo-talk] it's Bush! -- rank: 1000

Academics Use Formulas to Predict Bush Win By Rolando Garcia WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Polls may show the presidential race in a dead heat, but for a small band of academics who use scientific formulas to predict elections President Bush (news - web sites) is on his way to a sizable win. That's the conclusion of a handful of political scientists who, with mixed results, have honed the art of election forecasting by devising elaborate mathematical formulas based on key measures of the nation's econo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 1 10:51:57 PDT 2004

22805 [lbo-talk] Japan recovery threatened: S&P -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I don't get it, Japan's trade surplus is huge. It doesn't maintain a >big army, it has no public pension system. What is this huge debt >about? The economy sucked for over a decade and they spent a lot of money, often foolishly, trying to revive it. The debt is almost all domestically held, however - unlike ours. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 1 09:06:43 PDT 2004

22806 [lbo-talk] doug a hit on KPFK -- rank: 1000

dano wrote: >At 9:44 PM -0400 6/30/04, Doug Henwood wrote: >>>wish you were on KPFK all the time. >> >>Thanks again. Tell 'em to pick up my show! > >Which show (or time slot) were you on? Jon Weiner's, 4:45-5 LA time last night.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 1 08:47:01 PDT 2004

22807 [lbo-talk] Taxes and public services... -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >"As a result, I sincerely doubt that the notion of higher taxes for >better public services will sail very far in the United States." > >Wouldn't our current expenditure on war/military be enough to >provide a good education and free medical care for everyone in the >country? It's not so much a question of raising taxes, but of >spending public moneys on the actual public good. Add to that private health insurance premiums, school and college t ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 31 09:20:38 PST 2004

22808 [lbo-talk] Kerry, Mr Flexibility -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] JAMES TARANTO, OPINION JOURNAL - Former Democratic front-runner Howard Dean recently criticized current Democratic front-runner John Kerry for taking the wrong positions (by Dean's lights) on both the liberation of Kuwait, which Kerry opposed, and the liberation of Iraq, which he supported. As we all know, Kerry has tried to have it both ways on Iraq, voting "yes" on the October 2002 resolution authorizing war, then proclai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 30 16:16:08 PST 2004

22809 [lbo-talk] Re: Tuff Lib'rul (progressive taxes) -- rank: 1000

Michael Catolico wrote: >exercised options received as compensation ARE income not capital. But beyond a certain (modest) level, I'd say the cash represents a return on capital, not labor. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 30 16:05:05 PST 2004

22810 [lbo-talk] Re: Welcome to Weimar -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >Regarding calling the Straussians fascists (or proto-fascists): what >*can* we call an ideology whose exponents support a push to limit our >formal freedoms, an emphasis on some kind of shared and essential >national >identity, and an expansionist and militarist foreign policy? Of course >it >is not Nazism or Fascism yet: we do still have our freedoms, >and there is no positive American type to which we're all to aspire (or >else.) It may never ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 30 13:55:15 PST 2004

22811 [lbo-talk] Tuff Lib'rul -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >For one thing, lifting the $87k wage cap on social security tax and >treating stock options as taxable wages would go a really long way in >"saving" social security. Just think: a corporate CEO raking in $7m per >annum in stock options would result in the following: >- $525 k SS tax from the CEO >- $525 k SS tax from the company that endowed the louse with such lavish >perks >- $1+m SS tax total > >That is more in a year than an ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 30 13:50:29 PST 2004

22812 [lbo-talk] Re: Welcome to Weimar -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >Sure Bush claims the terrorists hate us because of our freedom. At >the same time, the admin (I recall Ashcroft saying this is so >many words) and its boosters make the claim that be >opposed to their program is to be with the terrorists. Sure, but wasn't Nazi rhetoric full of stuff about the sickness of democracy, and the beauty of the unified Volk und Reich? And as much as I hate Bush & Co, I wouldn't want us to forget Lincoln suspending habeas corpus, Ha ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 30 12:31:09 PST 2004

22813 [lbo-talk] Wallerstein & Nader etc. -- rank: 1000

[via Debate] Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:28:06 +0100 To: "debate: SA discussion list " <debate at lists.kabissa.org> From: Immanuel Wallerstein <immanuel.wallerstein at yale.edu> Subject: [DEBATE] : Re: Open Letter to Ralph Nader the surreal belief is that you get "real change" through elections. what you get through elections is minimizing damage, and that requires strategic voting. and if you don't promise that you're doing more than minimizing damage, you don't ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 30 10:12:58 PST 2004

22814 [lbo-talk] Re: Welcome to Weimar -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco wrote: >Weimar as a __transitional stage between a society with formal freedoms >and tolerance to an authoritarian one based on ideological homogeneity >and a constant state of war__, was how I was reading it as well. The >problem I guess I'm having with this understanding of Strauss and the >followers we're now dealing with: Wolfowitz, Perle, Cheney, Ashcroft, >Rumsfeld, Robertson, etc., is that Nazism, the consequence of the >liberal democracy of the Weimar R ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 30 10:03:40 PST 2004

22815 [lbo-talk] Your Ann Coulter Comedy Moment: Kerry's Just A Gigolo -- rank: 1000

That's almost as funny as that crack about Alexander Cockburn - who made it and what was the exact wording? - that his contempt for great capitalists is exceeded only by his taste for their daughters. Doug Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Lord knows I try to dislike Anne Coulter, but her material is so >through-the-looking glass odd and, simultaneously, coffee >spittingly funny in a 'what the hell am I saying?' way that I fall >for her cheshire cat-like charms everytime. Coulter's stream of ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 30 09:53:48 PST 2004