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23431 [lbo-talk] red states, blue movies -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15644-2004Dec21?language=printer> Washington Post - December 21, 2004 GOP Corporate Donors Cash In on Smut By Terry M. Neal Since the election, the e-mails from readers have poured into my mailbox. The common theme from conservatives has been that Nov. 2 was a triumph of values -- embodied by the GOP heartland over the heathens of the coastal elite. Typical of the comments was this one from Arizona: "I do think the Democrat Party is identifie ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 21 07:53:18 PST 2004

23432 [lbo-talk] Gawker: capitalism still in crisis -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/media/the-new-yorker/index.php#malcolm-gladwell-mcluhans-hair-apparent-028147> Malcolm Gladwell: McLuhan's Hair Apparent # Malcolm Gladwell is on fire! Woops. We mean, Malcolm Gladwell is quite successful, thank you very much. Gladwell, The New Yorker's resident big thinker on smallish subjects, finds himself in the odd position of being on the other end of the microscope in the new issue of Fast Company. "The Accidental Guru" reports that in addition ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 21 07:43:58 PST 2004

23433 [lbo-talk] Join NYers Against Genetic Engineering (Statewide) -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >Dear anti-genetic-engineering activists, > >A number of groups are banding together to organize a statewide >coalition against genetic engineering. The goal is to phase out >genetically engineered foods and crops. (I'd argue to ban them >outright, immediately.) I'm tempted to counter-demonstrate. I don't want Monsanto running it, but what, in principle, is wrong with biotech? You guys probably would have opposed traditional animal and plan ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 21 06:05:23 PST 2004

23434 [lbo-talk] Insularity ( Was pale male : question to newyorkers...) -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Many New Yorkers refer to fly-over states, no? Insular and provinicial, >don't you think? No, snobbish and arrogant. I won't deny that. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 15:39:38 PST 2004

23435 [lbo-talk] Insularity ( Was pale male : question to new yorkers...) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >New Yorkers are infamously insular and provincal and >pround of it If you want to consider a port city featuring over 100 nationalities & languages insular & provincial, be my guest. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 14:58:10 PST 2004

23436 [lbo-talk] The Occupation, was [Fwd: Fw: Why the torture at Abu Ghraib... -- rank: 1000

mr amadeus wrote: >Advocating an >international force now would be no different from >Bush imploring people not to "forget Poland." Do you know what Iraqis want? Do you care? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 14:14:20 PST 2004

23437 [lbo-talk] Bush's approval on Iraq sinking -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: BUSH/IRAQ- 12/19/04 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 20, 2004 Views on Iraq Grow More Glum; Bush Ratings, and Rumsfeld's, Follow Americans have grown more sour on the situation in Iraq, driving down the president's ratings on the war and on terrorism more broadly, and fostering majority support for the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Fifty-six percent, a new high, now say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, and fewer than half think ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 14:13:41 PST 2004

23438 [lbo-talk] Jude W: Saddam off the hook on genocide charge -- rank: 1000

[passed along without factchecking, though with reformatting] FYI: News From Saddam's Lawyers Dec 20 2004 It seldom happens that I can report "news" to you, as opposed to "news analysis," but in the last few hours I've received messages from my Iraqi contact in London with important news that has not yet made the world press. As most of you know, I have for the last two years argued that whatever else Saddam Hussein did for good or ill as Iraq's president since 1978, there is ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 12:17:47 PST 2004

23439 [lbo-talk] Re: The Occupation -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Fugazy has noted that the media has so far ignored the evident >US motive for yesterday's Najaf/Karbala bombings, while >repeating a BBC story that incredibly attributes the bombings to the >Iraqi resistance. One pretty authoritative voice just spoke up. This >will be known (i should think) in hours by everyone in Iraq, will it >make it into the US media? I guess it will have to- but doesn't it seem >that they are shutting down Iraq news? > >john mage ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 12:04:49 PST 2004

23440 [lbo-talk] Re: The Occupation -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Fugazy has noted that the media has so far ignored the evident >US motive for yesterday's Najaf/Karbala bombings, while >repeating a BBC story that incredibly attributes the bombings to the >Iraqi resistance. One pretty authoritative voice just spoke up. This >will be known (i should think) in hours by everyone in Iraq, will it >make it into the US media? I guess it will have to- but doesn't it seem >that they are shutting down Iraq news? > >john mage ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 12:01:18 PST 2004

23441 [lbo-talk] The Occupation, was [Fwd: Fw: Why the torture atAbu Ghraib... -- rank: 1000

Robert D. Day wrote: >Henwood needs to find some way It's on my list of things to do to improve myself. In this season of good cheer, I'm deeply grateful. Love, Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 07:09:58 PST 2004

23442 [lbo-talk] The Occupation, was [Fwd: Fw: Why the torture atAbu Ghraib... -- rank: 1000

Louis Kontos wrote: >Carrol's position seems logical and moral to me. I could be missing >something, but don't see what could justify the vitriolic response >to his remarks. I don't know who wrote 'go fuck yourself, Carrol', >at the bottom, but I would call on the moderator to keep the forum >civil. It was me, the moderator. And I'm not about to discipline myself. I'm really fucking sick of Carrol Cox's nastiness, and his know-it-all habit of attributing positions and intentions t ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 07:08:30 PST 2004

23443 [lbo-talk] House Repubs to cause trouble? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 20, 2004 More Aggressive Congress Could Hinder Bush's Plans By Jim VandeHei and Charles Babington Washington Post Staff Writers President Bush's second-term plans to reshape Social Security, immigration laws and other domestic programs are facing a stiff challenge from a group that was reliably accommodating in the president's first four years: congressional Republicans. After essentially rubber-stamping much of Bush's first-term agenda, many House and Senate Republica ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 07:01:40 PST 2004

23444 [lbo-talk] end of retirement? -- rank: 1000

[the author is a friend who wishes to remain anonymous but asked me to circulate this - it's a few months old, thus refs to the "upcoming" election] Happy Sixty-Fifth Birthday; Now Get Back to Work by Stanley Morgan The Brooklyn Rail One of the most important far-left ideas floating around in the 1980s was the critique of modern wage-slavery, as articulated by the Zerowork group and a host of anarchist essayists, most notably Bob Black, author of "The Abolition of Work." The ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 20 06:44:51 PST 2004

23445 [lbo-talk] The Occupation, was [Fwd: Fw: Why the torture at Abu Ghraib... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But that is daydreaming. A movement demand for such an international >force is _exactly_ the same as a movement demand that the U.S. stay >there but be nicer and repair the damage it has done. > >Hence I repeat my original point. I wish some of those who argue that >"Out Now!" is "too simplistic" could give some reason to believe that >there is any possibility whatever of the U.S. occupation remedying _any_ >of the evil it has creat ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 15:42:44 PST 2004