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24016 [lbo-talk] Kerry: It's the Foreign Policy, Stupid -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >It's the foreign policy, stupid. So what's your strategy, big guy? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 18 19:01:24 PDT 2004

24017 [lbo-talk] frequency -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: Thirty posts since Tuesday, an average of five a day, including nine today. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 18 08:39:17 PDT 2004

24018 [lbo-talk] A Vote for Kerry is a Vote for War -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >How any leftist can vote for this warmonger and his bloody promises, >with a clear conscience, is beyond me. So, for the hundredth time, what's your strategy, big guy? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 18 00:04:53 PDT 2004

24019 [lbo-talk] Internationale -- rank: 1000

Googling on "The Interionale" (I've got a playlist with 14 versions, so I was curious to find out its history) brought me to a website that claimed that Stalin dropped it as the anthem of the USSR during WW2 because the troops wanted to die for Mother Russia, not the international working class. Is that true? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 17 13:03:14 PDT 2004

24020 [lbo-talk] Bin Laden's message to the left? -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >On FreeRepublic >http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118482/posts they have >accused Bin Laden of beginning to sound like Moveon.org (or vice >versa) in his truce statement. Well of course they're crazy but it >is interesting how Bin Laden seems to be sending a message to the >anti-war forces in Europe, i.e. the left. His rhetoric has shifted >from talking about how Allah holds the sky up with invisible pillars >and gives Muslims power, to ho ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 17 11:23:27 PDT 2004

24021 [lbo-talk] Heard the One About the Funny Leftist? (As'ad AbuKhalil) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2004-03-31/cityofwarts.html/1/index.html >...He found the American left similarly clueless. When he and his >grad student friends read leftist journals from around the world, >they found that leftists had a distinctly funny, irreverent quality >-- except in America. "In European, Scandinavian, and Australian >countries, the left was humorous and fun," he says. "When I came to >the US, I found that t ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 17 09:13:45 PDT 2004

24022 [lbo-talk] A Calculated Provocation -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >So you don't like it. I agree with Zerzan and Churchill's take on >these subjects. What kind of politics is it that targets individuals rather than the systems they inhabit? Attacking the "little Eichmanns" in the WTC didn't hurt the system at all - if anything, it strengthened it, by shutting off dissent in the U.S. for about two years and increasing the repressive power of the state. The individuals themselves are mostly ordinary people like you & me. Is your ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 17 08:55:53 PDT 2004

24023 [lbo-talk] Columbia graduate student strike -- rank: 1000

[a friend writes... - a strike by adjuncts at NYU is also very likely next week] On Monday, April 19, Columbia University's teaching and research assistants are going out on strike for recognition of our union, GSEU/Local 2110 UAW. The demand of the strike, which was called by an 80% majority vote, is that Columbia agree to recognize the union based on a card count (a majority of TAs and RAs working this semester have signed union cards). The strike follows two years of legal delays at the Natio ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 17 08:43:01 PDT 2004

24024 [lbo-talk] Fwd: please support workers on our campus -- rank: 1000

Apologies for the duplication! Dear Colleagues and List Members, I am writing to you as a spokesperson of the Simon's Rock College of Bard-Student Labor Alliance. As you will see in the following flyer and on our web site [www.simons-rock.edu/~eatonak/labor] that we are in the midst of resolving a very disconcerting unfair labor practice. As of today, no one (i.e. the general contractor Mullaney, the sub-contractor MetroNational, and Simon's Rock College of Bard administration) is taking any r ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 14:54:25 PDT 2004

24025 [lbo-talk] Bush's approval rating falls among college students -- rank: 1000

[If Ralph can only get 5% of college students...] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 16, 2004 More Students Plan to Vote in Presidential Election and Fewer Approve of Bush, Poll Finds By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL President Bush's approval rating among college students has dropped considerably over the past six months, and many more students plan to vote in this year's presidential election even though they feel increasingly alienated by both political parties, according to the results ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 13:35:18 PDT 2004

24026 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Offshoring Tracker Launched -- rank: 1000

[their count is 160,785 over the last three years - about three weeks of normal job growth in the U.S.] Offshoring Tracker Launched U.S. Companies Have Already Exported More than 165,000 Jobs Seattle, Wash The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers launched a Web-based tracker Thursday that displays the mounting number of jobs U.S. companies send overseas. The tracker will include a total of jobs sent offshore by date, and the specific offshoring events related to the company that exported th ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 13:16:09 PDT 2004

24027 [lbo-talk] Bush's 'Mur'ca -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >Meanwhile, has anyone heard John Kerry speak recenlty? I tuned into >something he was doing last week in -- Wisconsin, was it? -- and was >flabbergasted. Mountains of subordinate clauses. Periodic sentences. >Does he have a point? I couldn't tell, and knew no Bubba would wait >to find out. Someone needs to get to his handlers, pronto. Plus, as someone said on Colin Quinn's Tough Crowd, he's got a face like a tree in the Wizard of Oz. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 13:07:27 PDT 2004

24028 [lbo-talk] A Calculated Provocation -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Bush Endorses as 'Historic' Sharon's Gaza Pullout Plan Now endorsed by Tony "Toy Poodle" Blair. From Reuters: >Blair disagreed with those who feel the plan is a departure from the >U.S.-backed "road map" envisioning a Palestinian state by 2005. > >He called on the international quartet sponsoring the "road map" -- >the United States, the European Union (news - web sites), Russia and >the United Nations (news - web sites) -- t ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 13:06:28 PDT 2004

24029 [lbo-talk] Bush's 'Mur'ca -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Amen! I have been trying to get that message across on this forum with >not much success. Bush incarnates the qualities, arrogance, >self-righteousness, ignorance, low intelligence, and extreme >ethnocentric that define at least a half if not more of this country >population. That is what makes his so popular. In fact, the more he >stumbles the more the Bubbas like him. <http://www.democratsforum.com/Gen_Poll.html>

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 12:45:41 PDT 2004

24030 [lbo-talk] frequency -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Five posts on Wednesday. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 15 05:35:09 PDT 2004