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23746 [lbo-talk] Nothing to Discuss? was Re: (no subject) -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >What if the Left had a clear agenda, reducing interest rates and >crippling bank charges for the poor. An attack on interest is an attack on profit itself. Which is fine with me, but just be sure you realize how radical the agenda is. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 18 07:01:33 PDT 2004

23747 [lbo-talk] usage question -- rank: 1000

How many people have 1) heard 2) used the term "funbags" to signify female breasts? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 19:00:17 PDT 2004

23748 [lbo-talk] Exit Polls: Chavez Defeated -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Compelling film yes. But, not w/o critics, >http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200405200431 >The Revolution will not be televised >By Phil Gunson, Columbia Journalism Review Vcrisis is a reactionary site, no? And the CJR embodies all the idiocy of conventional American journalism. Lovely passage, this: >In Bartley and O'Briain's film, the chavistas (as the president's >supporters are known) are invariably poor, brown-skinned, and > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 18:10:06 PDT 2004

23749 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali on Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> > >> We can only hope that Chavez's sticking to the constitution will not >> eventually provide yet another exemplification of Juan Bosch's law. >> (Leaders who trust the U.S. end up dead or in exile.) >> >> Carrol > >Leaders who don't stick to their nation's constitutions often enough >exemplify another law: governments that don't respect (to cut short idiotic >debates ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 22:40:00 PDT 2004

23750 [lbo-talk] A dimes bit of difference and then some... -- rank: 1000

This is getting boring. Let's find something else to talk about.

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Date:	Mon Aug 16 18:48:35 PDT 2004

23751 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali on Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >The Bolivarians wanted power so that real reforms could be implemented. All >the oligarchs have to offer is more of the past and the removal of Chavez. >It is ridiculous to suggest that Venezuela is on the brink of a totalitarian >tragedy. It is the opposition that has attempted to take the country in that >direction. The Bolivarians have been incredibly restrained. When I asked >Chavez to explain his own philosophy, he replied: > >'I don't believe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 16:49:45 PDT 2004

23752 [lbo-talk] Gawker makes you Marxist -- rank: 1000

[the parting words of Choire Sicha, who's moved from doing Gawker to being the editorial director of the Gawker empire] <http://www.gawker.com/index.php?page=2> The Week In Buzz: Naomi Campbell Beats Again My tenure here at Gawker draws to a close. We'll have a special double-editor feature sometime before Monday, but for now, I guess I'll say this: I arrived a year ago on this website rather vaguely socialist. After a year contemplating the vagaries of Manhattan's class system, I leave re ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 16 16:16:21 PDT 2004

23753 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly in NYC -- rank: 1000

[pix at original: <http://www.lowculture.com/archives/002222.html>] August 16, 2004 Bill O'Reilly, the most-reviled media figure on the New York Subway System A Fox News ad at Rockefeller Center, located roughly one block from the network's studio and headquarters. Hume, Hannity, Van Susteren, and the other guys? Their visages were left unmarked. Maybe these acts of defacement just mean that O'Reilly is a bad boss? No, scratch that. Witness poor Bill, seen here in detail from a number of a ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 16 16:11:33 PDT 2004

23754 [lbo-talk] A dimes bit of difference and then some... -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >John Lacny wrote: > >>This is another way of saying that those of us who support sanity >>(i.e., defeating Bush) will marshal mountains of facts, while the >>left-sectarian fantasists will rehash a lot of hackneyed cliches >>that mean nothing, most of them metaphors involving coins -- dimes, >>nickels, plug nickels, and the two sides thereof. All with >>admixture of verses from Milton, critical montages, and sophomoric >>grunts from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 15:56:04 PDT 2004

23755 [lbo-talk] Palast on Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton's Band Why Venezuela has Voted Again for Their 'Negro e Indio' President by Greg Palast Monday, August 16, 2004 -- There's so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. Let's begin with this: 77% of Venezuela's farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the 'hacendados.' I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I've ever ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 16 09:18:18 PDT 2004

23756 [lbo-talk] Alterman, thief -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >After rereading all these posts my response is still the same as Max's: >Huh? > >It may start out with just some bad writing by Alterman, which like an >inkblot spreads through the whole. But I hardly understand the reference >of a single pronoun in these posts. And one really can't give an e-mail >post or a letter to WSJ or Nation the same energy one would give to >Canto 37. "His argument" = "My argument"? Huh? 1. Alterman writes a ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 16 00:41:47 PDT 2004

23757 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: August 12, 2004 Deborah James, director of the Venezuela Information Office, on Chavez and the August 15 referendum * Robert McChesney, author of The Problem of the Media and one of the founders of freepress.net, on the corporate media and alternatives to it it joins -------- August 5, 2004 Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of Gallup and author of Polling Matters, on the public opinion trade and the 2004 election ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 17:16:59 PDT 2004

23758 [lbo-talk] KPFA Staff Open Letter to the Local Station Board -- rank: 1000

The atmosphere around WBAI is also turning poisonous. It would require immersing myself far more than I want to in station politics to sort it all out, but there's a highly racialized battle going on between members of the local station board, complaining about "black racism" on the airwaves, and the existing station leadership, which is allied with forces alleging a conspiracy to purge the "Africans" at WBAI. It's very sad and destructive, and as was the case during the Paci ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 12 16:47:17 PDT 2004

23759 [lbo-talk] more McGreevey -- rank: 1000

[this has been brewing a long time clearly...] NJ Gov. McGreevey's scandal coming out. <http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/781508/posts> Posted on 11/03/2002 2:25:47 PM PST by deepthroatnnj<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/781508//~deepthroatnnj/> NJ has within its borders a scandal which makes the Clinton/Lewinsky matter a walk in the park. The press has danced around the real issue. It will be revealed that what has occured in the Garden State is a scandal of the grea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 16:23:36 PDT 2004

23760 [lbo-talk] Re: Insured unemployment -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Here's my puzzle. Unemployment benefits last 26 weeks, right? So >at first glance, from these stats, only 20.4% of the unemployed >aren't getting them. Now obviously we deduct a few who slugged >their boss, but still -- how do we get a figure of 58% not eligible? >I would imagine most of those are people who didn't work long enough >in the preceding year -- which means to me that they're not only >unemployed now, they haven't really been employed in ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 12 16:02:37 PDT 2004