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24226 [lbo-talk] more polls on Bush -- rank: 1000

[from Ruy Teixeira's latest] 1. Remember How Foreign Policy Was Supposed To Be Bush's Strong Suit? * Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll of 1,001 likely voters for Democracy Corps, released September 16, 2003 (conducted September 9-14, 2003) * CBS News poll of 675 adults, released September 18, 2003 (conducted September 15-16, 2003) * Princeton Survey Research poll of 1,001 adults for Newsweek, released September 20, 2003 (conducted September 18-19, 2003) Remember how foreign policy was supposed to be ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 16:06:09 PDT 2003

24227 [lbo-talk] Parecon Discussion... -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >On a more immediate level, it would be interesting to see how the >ideas of Parecon could be applied by radical organizations in a >capitalist society. Are any co-ops using the Parecon model? That's an interesting question. Michael hasn't had much to say about the how to get there question, but one way might be to think of new institutions that could be devised within actually existing k'ism, or the demands that could be made on existing institutions. A problem is that it ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 16:01:30 PDT 2003

24228 [lbo-talk] anarchist/commie soccer results -- rank: 1000

Devine, James wrote: >and it's not true that there will always be bad guys. There are none >on lbo-talk, after all. >;-) That's because I'm a brutal enforcer! Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 15:55:37 PDT 2003

24229 [lbo-talk] teen bible -- rank: 1000

[best press release of the day] MEDIA ADVISORY CONTACT: Marika Flatt, Phenix & Phenix Publicists, 512-478-2028, ext. 201 A Phenomenon: Revolve, the teen Bible that looks like a fashion mag WHO: For YOUR AUDIENCE WHAT: "Revolve", a Bible for teen girls formatted like a teen magazine WHEN: Interviews with Laurie Whaley, spokesperson, OCT. 6-7 WHERE: NYC and tri-state area OTHER MEDIA That Has Talked about Revolve: The Today Show, Newsweek, New York Times magazine, Fox ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 15:54:42 PDT 2003

24230 [lbo-talk] Headline - Ousted dictator 'in secret talks with US forces' -- rank: 1000

marc wrote: >huh?? how credible is this? > >Ousted dictator 'in secret talks with US forces' It's an AFP story - Agence *France* Presse. And we know that France is now our enemy, as Thomas Friedman declared the other day. So it has to be a lie! Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 15:51:56 PDT 2003

24231 [lbo-talk] Re: Religion & Body Counts -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This paragraph is pretty accurate -- there is an old wisecrack that >wherever two marxists meet three tendencies form. But it is _not_ >correct to use Marx's observation here, since he used it in specific >reference to a really oddball group in France who called themselves >"Marxists." It was a chance observation in a particular context, and it >is distorting to call it a "pronouncment" as though he were laying down >some abstract unive ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 15:49:19 PDT 2003

24232 [lbo-talk] W: I rarely read the papers -- rank: 1000

J Cullen wrote: >What was he talking about when he said, "In all due respect, you've >got a beautiful face and everything"? Brit Hume? That's a bit of a stretch, unless W has a homoerotic thing for scowlers. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 14:47:46 PDT 2003

24233 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Justin and Dennis -- rank: 1000

[a listmember writes...] Doug, Would you be so kind as to tell them to take their adolescent, testosterone driven drivel offline? :-)

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 14:44:32 PDT 2003

24234 [lbo-talk] Dems: Iraq could cost $400b -- rank: 1000

Democrats Say Iraq Costs Could Top $400 Billion By Andrew Clark WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Occupying and rebuilding Iraq (news - web sites) could cost American taxpayers $179 billion under even a best-case scenario and that could rise to more than $400 billion if U.S. troops have to stay in the country for years to come, Democratic budget analysts forecast on Tuesday. The report, by the Democratic staff of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, comes as Congress debates President Bush (news ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 13:57:43 PDT 2003

24235 [lbo-talk] What Salam Palax thinks of the war/occupation -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Isn't that a little like polling NYC to find out what people in >the U. S. think about the war in Iraq? I know the Gallup people >will stress the sample is not representative of all Iraqis, but >I suspect this will be reported by lazy journalists as "Iraqi >public opinion". Yes, yes, yes. But you've gotta work with what you've got. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 13:33:35 PDT 2003

24236 [lbo-talk] dalai lama in nyc -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Perhaps what we need is another way to call national and >international days of anti-war protest, perhaps along the lines of >People's Global Action or how the February 15th protests were >organized. Why should we have to wait until ANSWER calls for a >protest? Why should we settle for just going to ANSWER protests? Maybe anarchists, who hate laws, hierarchies, discipline, and all those other icky things, have a problem organizing demonstrations, unlike the "St ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 13:22:50 PDT 2003

24237 [lbo-talk] former WSJ reporter living out of truck -- rank: 1000

USA Today - September 22, 2003 How a regular guy gets homeless Former 'Wall Street Journal' reporter shares his story By Les Gapay Special for USA TODAY I pull into a campground, pay my fee and pitch my green, two-person tent beneath the trees in the hills above California's southern coast. Someone has left some firewood, and I split it with my ax and chop some kindling. Within minutes a nice fire is going. I heat up some chunky canned soup on my propane stove and eat it out of a coffee mug alon ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 13:17:20 PDT 2003

24238 [lbo-talk] anarchist/commie soccer results -- rank: 1000

Devine, James wrote: >if "coercive rules" are imposed from above (by some authority), >maybe non-coercive rules would be imposed by mutual consent >(democracy). But that's democracy, not anarchy. But even democracy needs coercion - if someone breaks a law (a democratically promulgated law), he or she would have to be punished somehow, no? Call me a pessimist incorrigibly corrupted by life under capitalism, but there will always be bad guys. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 13:13:06 PDT 2003

24239 [lbo-talk] Pew's latest on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Americans are increasingly open to the U.N. playing a major role in postwar Iraq, with about half (51%) saying the U.S. should give up some military control to the U.N. to get other countries to send more troops there. Growing support for an expanded U.N. role in Iraq comes amid growing public concern over mounting U.S. casualties and the rising cost of the operation. Nearly six-in-ten Americans (59%) oppose President Bush's new request for $87 billion to underwrite military and reconstruction ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 11:09:07 PDT 2003

24240 [lbo-talk] W: I rarely read the papers -- rank: 1000

[from Brit Hume's interview with W <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98006,00.html>]: HUME: How do you get your news? BUSH: I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. In all due respect, you've got a beautiful face and everything. I glance at the headlines just to kind of a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. But like Condoleezza, in her case, the national security a ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 11:04:20 PDT 2003