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23326 [lbo-talk] Re: Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Not necessarily. But it is a possibility: I would cite as evidence for >that possibility the fuss a number of people made about the Greens >running a candidate against Wellstone in Minnesota. Anyone who thinks >the Greens should only run against "bad" DPs is, at least potentially, >tied to the DP for ever. That makes no sense. "We" - whoever that is really - have limited resources, and should pick our fights wisely. What point is there in dir ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 6 08:32:20 PST 2004

23327 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

Another disappointing U.S. employment report this morning. With a headline gain of 112,000 in the establishment survey, it was better than last month's dismal 1,000 gain (which was, by the way, revised up to 16,000), but it's still about half long-term average gains, and a third the gain we'd be seeing in a normal recovery spurt. About three-quarters of the gains were in retail; few other sectors showed significant gains (and a small majority of sectors actually shrank). Manufacting contracted f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 08:22:12 PST 2004

23328 [lbo-talk] Back to the USSR -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: His third post of the day, which is, of course, the limit. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 06:42:07 PST 2004

23329 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Peace activists subpoenaed in Des Moines -- rank: 1000

Subject: Peace activists subpoenaed in Des Moines Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:46:20 -0500 From: "Chip Berlet" <cberlet at igc.org> Hi, I am at home, and can't post to LBO without weird format shit. =================== This is really bad news: Peace activists subpoenaed in Des Moines http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/23452856.html = = = 'Three Des Moines peace activists have been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury next week as part of an investigation t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 5 21:30:34 PST 2004

23330 [lbo-talk] RE: Sex and the City -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Well, I'm a Miranda gal all the way. I must say, though, I found the >poll results very worrysome. I'm assuming a vote for fucking >Charlotte, is a vote for the attractions of prim virginity. Never >could understand that. But I'll defer to the male experts on this >list if I'm misinterpreting the Charlotte vote. They can only weigh in if they cite sufficient solid bourgeois scholarship. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 5 20:36:46 PST 2004

23331 [lbo-talk] Poor, impoverished Soviet workers, o how they suffered -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Seven posts today. Five on Saturday and Tuesday. The limit is three. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 5 20:35:41 PST 2004

23332 [lbo-talk] new LBO web and radio product -- rank: 1000

Newly added to the LBO website <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com>: "An interview with Slavoj Zizek" - the Sage of Ljubljana on Iraq, Bush, Chomsky, fantasy "'Action Will Be Taken': Left Anti-intellectualism and Its Discontents," by Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian Parenti (comments highly welcome!) **** Newly added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: January 22, 2004 MARATHON SPECIAL Noam Chomsky on Bush, empire, ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 16:21:20 PST 2004

23333 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >The real point of that line was that he thought such issues as >gay marriage and pro-choice were _duh_ issues, of _course_ women >should have the right to choose, of _course_ gay couples should be >able to marry, lets move on to the real meaty issues of corporate >control of politics. When the media only gives him 30 seconds of air >time he's gotta focus on what he thinks is most important and he feels >these simple issues are a smoke screen used to di ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 14:46:41 PST 2004

23334 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:45:30 -0800 >From: Rick Wilhelm >Subject: [C-JwJ] Six issues and how the candidates stand >To: columbuslabor at topica.com . . . > >I have compiled a chart on the Democratic candidates on 6 major >issues, combining NAFTA and Fast Track into one for scoring. The >chart and explanations can be accessed here: ><http://dsco1.tripod.com/issues.htm>http://dsco1.tripod.com/issues.htm > >It was surprising ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 13:48:49 PST 2004

23335 [lbo-talk] Source? -- rank: 1000

I asked Jamie Galbraith for the source and he said he lent out his copy of the book. I suspect it comes from the IRS Statistics of Income <http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/>. Doug Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >In NYT, James Galbraith reviewed David Cay Johnston's _Perfectly Legal_, >which apparently reports that "from 1970 to 2000 the income share of just >13,400 households -- the richest hundredth of 1 percent -- rose from 1 >percent to 5 percent of all income, and from 100 to 5 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 5 12:58:50 PST 2004

23336 [lbo-talk] House votes to extend unemployment benefits -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco quoted: >"Sometimes people vote for political reasons," DeLay said about the >GOP defections. "It's more important to provide jobs than >unemployment." That's worthy of Quayle. Wonder what substances DeLay breathed in while working in the extermination biz. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:40:55 PST 2004

23337 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Given your enthusiasm for pre-Iowa Dean, I'm surprised you see no Nader >effect on the DP. Wasn't Dean's early success pretty much a result of Nader >folks swallowing the poison pill and trying again to work with the DP? It >sure has been here in Oregon. There weren't enough Nader folks to make that much of a difference. Dems and people like them are energized by the desire to remove Bush. They seem quite singleminded, and I don't remember anything like it du ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:08:40 PST 2004

23338 [lbo-talk] Poor, wretched Soviets -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: Five posts yesterday. Seven so far today. The limit is three. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 5 09:49:34 PST 2004

23339 [lbo-talk] Randians: love is selfish -- rank: 1000

Dear Editor, Please consider this Op-Ed submission from the Ayn Rand Institute. LOVE AND SELFISHNESS The False View of Love as Selfless and Unconditional Destroys its Sublime Value. By Gary Hull Every Valentine's Day a certain philosophic crime is perpetrated. Actually, it is committed year-round, but its destructiveness is magnified on this holiday. The crime is the propagation of a widely accepted falsehood: the idea that love is selfless. Love, we are repeatedly taught, consists of self-sacri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 5 08:01:05 PST 2004

23340 [lbo-talk] NYC supports bill of rights -- rank: 1000

Today, New Yorkers made history. Heeding our sustained grassroots outcry, an overwhelming majority of NYC Council Members voted today in favor of Resolution 60, which calls upon government officials to uphold civil rights and civil liberties when prosecuting the war on terrorism. And thus, NYC became the 250th legislative body in the country to pass a Bill of Rights resolution. More than 43 million people are now represented by these "civil liberties safe zones." Given that the Counc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 19:03:45 PST 2004