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23641 [lbo-talk] Re: Klein vs. Gitlin vs. Cooper -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.marccooper.com/ >>...Sadness. More sadness than anger is what overcame me when I read >>the latest Nation magazine column by Naomi Klein. I'll grant it has >>a catchy title: From Najaf to New York. But this column by Klein, >>who has earned the admiration of a new generation of dissidents >>with a notable intellectual keen-ness, neatly encapzulizes the >>moral confusion that clouds the vision, even the rationality, of > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 28 09:14:52 PDT 2004

23642 [lbo-talk] ball lifts, the latest Hollywood fashion -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Sat Aug 28 09:05:44 PDT 2004

23643 [lbo-talk] canvassing memoir -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040830&s=gogola> A Canvasser's Journal by Tom Gogola he top-ten responses given by passersby to this New York City street canvasser working for the Democratic National Committee's "Beat Bush" fundraising campaign: "I love Bush!" "We love Bush!" "Why don't you people get a clue already?!" "Fuck off!" "Fuck you!" "I licked Bush this morning." "Beat Bush? Got a stick?" & ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 13:40:23 PDT 2004

23644 [lbo-talk] Jaggi Singh - Reply to New York City tabloid and police smears and lies -- rank: 1000

[via infoshop-news <http://www.infoshop.org/mailman/listinfo/infoshop-news>] Alternative Press Review August 27, 2004 Posted by: APR on Aug 27, 2004 - 08:24 AM Media Reply to New York City tabloid and police smears and lies By Jaggi Singh Dear friends and allies: As some of you might know, there has been a series of scare-mongering articles in New York City and beyond -- targeting mainly anarchists and other left-wing political organizers -- in anticipation of the mobilization ag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 27 13:18:29 PDT 2004

23645 [lbo-talk] Bush win - Major disaster for right? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But that such speculations are pretty airy is the best reason for >leftists not to attach themselves to the contest between RP & DP. We're >not in Germany 1932. We are in the U.S. 1976. Huh? 1976? I knew you had some fixations on the past, but I'd thought you knew this is 2004. How is it 1976? The 70s were the flameout of the Keynesian/welfare state/Bretton Woods system, which had made the working class too strong and confident. It was time to tear it all apart. N ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 12:58:42 PDT 2004

23646 [lbo-talk] gay Reps come to NYC -- rank: 1000

[The friend who forwarded this point out in a headnote: "A propos of this, before the RNC demanded that the off-Broadway show "Naked Boys Singing" be removed from the list of shows to which delegates could purchase tickets at a discount, a dozen tickets had been purchased by delegates."] Southern Voice (Atlanta, GA) - August 27, 2004 Gay delegates conflicted over marriage amendment By CYD ZEIGLER JR. NEW YORK - There will be approximately 50 openly gay delegates and alternate ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 12:45:57 PDT 2004

23647 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore & the RNC -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Jesus, the tone of these remarks is basically, "Bring >Michael moore on, we'll kick that fat bastard's ass if >we have to." I sorta asked this yesterday, but not directly - is there any mainstream right party in the First World as violent, weird, and cretinous as our GOP? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 10:47:17 PDT 2004

23648 [lbo-talk] Cheney rumor -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - August 27, 2004 DREAM TEAM IT'S surely a case of wishful thinking on their part, but some Republicans are spreading the rumor that the GOP's national convention will actually have some excitement when Dick Cheney (above) announces he's stepping down as vice president because of his health. This far-fetched scenario would supposedly lead to a dramatic floor fight orchestrated for the nation's prime-time TV audience and a "Draft McCain" movement to end with Joh ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 10:27:24 PDT 2004

23649 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore & the RNC -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - August 27, 2004 Lowdown Lloyd Grove GOP itchin' for a Mike fight 'Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore - a virulent enemy of President Bush - has been hired by USA Today to write four opinion columns during the Republican Convention. Word is that party officials aren't happy that the pugnacious Moore - wearing the credentials of a legitimate journalist - will be the skunk at their garden party next week, traipsing around Madison Square Garden and maybe even causing ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 10:17:47 PDT 2004

23650 [lbo-talk] WMT loses in KS -- rank: 1000

At 11:05 AM -0400 8/27/04, <news at retailforwardnews.com> wrote: >Mission kills Wal-Mart supercenter plan Mission residents and >business owners appear to have won their fight against the world's >largest retailer. > >Wal-Mart on Wednesday said new regulations in Mission would probably >kill its plans to turn Mission Center into a Supercenter. (Source: >Kansas City Star) 8/26/2004 >http://articles.retailforward.com/DisplayArticle.aspx?A=166710

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 10:08:06 PDT 2004

23651 [lbo-talk] Dukakis remembered -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for length] Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:43:54 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org From: R Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] More Depressing Polls At 07:23 AM 8/27/2004, you wrote: "WASHINGTON -- President Bush has moved past Sen. John F. Kerry in three of the most hotly contested Midwestern battleground states despite continued doubts about the country's direction and the president's policies, new Los Angeles Times polls have found." http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/la-082604poll_ ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 10:06:33 PDT 2004

23652 [lbo-talk] Barbaro -- rank: 1000

[bounced for length - I'm forwarding this version, stripped of html formatting, which brings it under limit - code doubled its heft, from 9 to 18k] From: "JW Mason" <j.w.mason at earthlink.net> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: There are Democrats, and Democrats Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:43:49 -0400 [As Nathan often, and rightly, says, there's huge variation in the Democratic party. Listmembers in Brooklyn or Staten Island might be interested in this left outlier. And ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 10:00:17 PDT 2004

23653 [lbo-talk] NYC protest guid -- rank: 1000

Newsday - August 27, 2004 TODAY'S SCHEDULE: Delegates play golf at Van Cortlandt Park ... Greene Dragons protest group arrives at 2 p.m. in Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry "to liberate New York from the Bush loyalists" ... Critical Mass Ride at 7 p.m. at Union Square hosted by Time's Up where bike riders come together to ride the streets of NYC ... Schedule of protests at RNC convention Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on New York City for the Republican National Co ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 07:50:59 PDT 2004

23654 [lbo-talk] Sadrist victory -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >If there is any humour which can >possibly be gleaned from the carnage, note that though the deal formally >requires the Mahdi Army to "disarm", this is being accomplished by the >Sadrist fighters "dropping off their weapons at Sadr's office near the >shrine"(!), and even, at that, It's not like arms are hard to come by in Iraq, either.

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 07:42:00 PDT 2004

23655 [lbo-talk] poll: 11% of NYers plan to protest Reps -- rank: 1000

Poll: Most NYers Support Protests Associated Press Thursday 26 August 2004 New York - Seventy-one percent of the city's registered voters think protesters should be allowed to demonstrate in Central Park during the Republican National Convention, and 11 percent plan to go to a demonstration themselves, according to a poll released Thursday. Most New Yorkers, 81 percent, approve of lawful demonstrations during the convention, and 68 percent approve of nonviolent civil disobedience, the Quinnipia ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 07:13:02 PDT 2004