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22996 [lbo-talk] only in america: smokers liberation front -- rank: 1000

Richard Klein wrote in Cigarettes are Sublime (and I don't smoke): >The most recent evidence of the link between smoking and liberation is >visible in the struggle women have waged in this century for their freedom. >It is probably no accident that in April 1945 women received the right to >vote in France, two weeks after they had received cigarette rations for the >first time since the war. They were allotted, however, only one-third of the >rations men received - "a long ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 7 12:06:08 PST 2004

22997 [lbo-talk] Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement Of The Twenty-First Century -- rank: 1000

Alex Gould wrote: >You seem to know a lot about a lot of people. Next why don't you learn >about real people and not figments of your cramped reflexively >twitched-out auto-psycho-descriptive word-habits. And you seem to be full of criticism of "liberals," anarchists, and the "twitched-out." Why don't you make a positive contribution? Where are you coming from? What is to be done? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 7 12:02:56 PST 2004

22998 [lbo-talk] State-run oil company is being weighed for Iraq, By Chip Cummins, Wall Street Journal -- rank: 1000

Devine, James wrote: >But the broader goal of US strategic control over the world supply >of oil seems to be achieved at this point. We've been here before, but just what does that get the U.S.? Are the Bushies operating on some antique model of empire, in which control over land and resources confers some economic advantage? Just what would that advantage be? They're not going to cut off Japan or France, are they? If they wanted to, they could just blockade them anyway. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 7 10:24:21 PST 2004

22999 [lbo-talk] State-run oil company is being weighed for Iraq, By Chip Cummins, Wall Street Journal -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.supportingfacts.com/ > >No oil yet for blood. A remarkable story. I was going to post it, but the text is on this site. Stunning, really, and a reversal of all the early signals. I wonder if the intention will survive. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 7 10:02:10 PST 2004

23000 [lbo-talk] free speech in Bush's America -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - January 4, 2004 Quarantining dissent JAMES BOVARD When President Bush travels around the United States, the Secret Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up "free speech zones" or "protest zones," where people opposed to Bush policies (and sometimes sign-carrying supporters) are quarantined. These zones routinely succeed in keeping protesters out of presidential sight and outside the view of media covering the event. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 7 09:38:47 PST 2004

23001 [lbo-talk] Hitch's crime spree -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >This is just an easy gimmick for filling a column. And >not an original or timely one. And not one likely to alienate the editor of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter, who's the highest profile opponent of the smoking ban in the city. Carter is also intensely anti-Bush (and getting more so) - I'm waiting for Hitch to get as rude about that as he sometimes was to his Nation colleagues and editors. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 16:33:29 PST 2004

23002 [lbo-talk] Re: epithets anonymous -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >now please don't someone point out, again, how murderous someone else >is, with graphic descriptions of bloody horrors, true or fictional, so >that others will have to do the same about our own pornographers of >mass murder, who are second to none and in most cases either wrote the >book, or financed it... And who exactly disagrees with this position? Why is it straw men are such popular interlocutors? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 16:22:47 PST 2004

23003 [lbo-talk] Conrad Herold! -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >--- Conrad Herold <nuccmh at Mail1.Hofstra.edu> wrote: >> Conrad M. Herold >> New College, Hofstra University > >I did not know that Conrad Herold was on this list. >This is GREAT news. Someone out of the autonomist >tradition and an economist! Just sub'd. Welcome - I didn't recognize the name. What's an autnomist economist like, Conrad Herold? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 16:20:13 PST 2004

23004 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Could we have market for posts? You could sell posting permits for ??? No this is strictly command & control. No markets. They're immoral.

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 16:19:15 PST 2004

23005 [lbo-talk] Dollar Slide Accelerates; Risks of Rout Increase -- rank: 1000

Conrad Herold wrote: >But why? I'm getting worried now. Is is because the expectation now is >that the monster will raise taxes after the election? Bush? Wall Streeters think he'll cut spending after the election. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 15:19:06 PST 2004

23006 [lbo-talk] Doug's interview with Joel Schalit -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick wrote: >I listened to this interview a few weeks ago and I have to say I was >a bit disappointed. There were references to the "authors in this book", >and so on, but almost no differentiation between what the different writers >said, and I don't think even one actual quote from the book. Hard to do in a spontaneous radio interview. I can't speak for Joel, but here are some of the specific problems I had with the book: * Michael Neumann (a relative of Franz Neu ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 15:16:17 PST 2004

23007 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: 13 posts so far today. Stephen Philion wrote: 12 so far today. Dennis Perrin wrote: 6 so far today. Several others wrote: 4 so far today. The limit, in case anyone's forgotten, is 3. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 14:20:37 PST 2004

23008 [lbo-talk] Re: Eyewitness in Tikrit -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Hey, Gallup also says the US is "A Nation of Happy People -- Most >are happy and satisfied with their lives." I don't believe that >either :) People *say* that. Whether they mean it or it's true - another matter. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 14:17:29 PST 2004

23009 [lbo-talk] Dollar Slide Accelerates; Risks of Rout Increase -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >This sounds rather serious. But there are always other >factors to consider it seems. > >How seriously should this be taken? The stock market held up and bond prices rose (yields fell) on the day. So not too seriously, yet, as long as the principal financial markets don't implode. Presumably the dollar sellers are selling Treasury securities, but the bond chart <http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^TNX&t=6m> doesn't look that way. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 13:49:53 PST 2004

23010 [lbo-talk] Diana & Charles -- rank: 1000

Turning to less weighty matters, how is the Mirror's "revelation" that Charles was planning an accident for her <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13785435&method=full> playing in Britain? Are any other outlets using his name, or are they, like Reuters, too afraid of a lawsuit? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 13:41:13 PST 2004