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24496 [lbo-talk] Kucinich? Come on! -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Sorry, you make a good case, but no can do. > >Dean: "Set the nation on the path to a balanced budget, recognizing that we >cannot have social or economic justice without a sound fiscal foundation." Classical Swedish social dem believed that - I don't know what it believes now. Jim O'Connor said somewhere - maybe in Fiscal Crisis of the State? - that debt increases capital's power over the state. And there's nothing like a deficit to fuel the "w ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 30 08:27:26 PST 2003

24497 [lbo-talk] U.S. Economy Grew 7.2% in 3Q, Fastest Pace in 20 Years -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >[How should this news be interpreted? Does it >indicate a sustainable trend or is it an interesting >effect of non-sustainable activity (such as purchases >spurred by tax refunds and home re-financing)? DRM] Those are the key questions, and no one knows the answer. The labor market is, as the Fed said the other day, stabilizing, but hasn't yet caught fire. If it doesn't, the recovery is doomed. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 30 08:23:23 PST 2003

24498 [lbo-talk] Koch: Krugman is "lame-brained" -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 30, 2003 CRITICAL KOCH ED Koch says New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman is "lamebrained." The former mayor is irked by Krugman's Oct. 21 column explaining why Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad attacked Jews before a Muslim leadership conference, when he said, "The Jews rule the world by proxy: They get others to fight and die for them." Krugman wrote, "So what's with the anti-Semitism? Almost surely it's part of Mr. Maha ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 30 08:05:08 PST 2003

24499 [lbo-talk] HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >In any case, the Left needs to put forward a positive >program No kidding, and it's not just about the war. I'm as guilty as anyone here, but I think this is a serious problem. The global justice movement says "No" to the WTO, but has no idea of what should take its place. People like Patrick Bond (who should be back on this list in a few days) argue that this is a strength - "one no, many yesses." That just won't do, when the ruling class has a pret ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 30 07:49:03 PST 2003

24500 [lbo-talk] Creation Science -- rank: 1000

I think this is a joke: <http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html>. But you never know.

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 18:06:52 PST 2003

24501 [lbo-talk] Lott: mow the place down -- rank: 1000

GOP unity is strained by attacks By Geoff Earle 10/29/03: (The Hill) Senior Republicans have begun raising concerns about the administration's strategy in Iraq amid daily attacks on U.S. forces there. But congressional Republicans still echo President Bush's overall positive assessment of reconstruction, even as some warn of political trouble unless signs of improvement become clearer fast. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who recently compared aspects of the conflict to Vietnam, yesterday said U.S. ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 16:26:15 PST 2003

24502 [lbo-talk] Socialist Party nominates Walt Brown -- rank: 1000

[here's someone guaranteed to score even lower than Kucinich!] I meant to get back to you the other day. In fact, I had a long email (which was way too long) that I have in my "Mail Waiting to Be Sent" file. Let me explain what happened briefly before the convention, what happened during the convention, which led to its present outcome. Prior to the convention, I was one of the SP members advocating not to run our own campaign. David McReynolds from the Socialist Party of New York S ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 16:01:39 PST 2003

24503 [lbo-talk] factory jobs disappearing almost everywhere -- rank: 1000

[hmm, this would suggest that the demon is not "globalization" and "offshoring"] Wall Street Journal - October 20, 2003 Factory Employment Is Falling World-Wide Study of 20 Big Economies Finds 22 Million Jobs Lost; Even China Shows Decline By JON E. HILSENRATH and REBECCA BUCKMAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The U.S. manufacturing sector has gone through 38 grueling months of declining employment, but a new report shows that factory-job woes aren't just an Ameri ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 15:57:54 PST 2003

24504 [lbo-talk] re What does Amy Goodman see in Thomas Moorer? -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >I meant to suggest that Rense is an anti-semite. Is that parapolitical? That's putting it mildly. <http://www.rense.com/general43/britss.htm> [...] Few people today remember the seminal causes of World War II, either. After a demonstrably unfair settlement to conclude World War I (some say engineered by Wilson's Jewish adviser, Colonel House) depriving Germany of all its gold, Hitler came to power and resuscitated the German economy at the very moment the entire re ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 15:40:17 PST 2003

24505 [lbo-talk] up to 15k killed in Iraq invasion -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - October 29, 2003 Up to 15,000 people killed in invasion, claims thinktank Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington As many as 15,000 Iraqis were killed in the first days of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq, a study produced by an independent US thinktank said yesterday. Up to 4,300 of the dead were civilian noncombatants. The report, by Project on Defence Alternatives, a research institute from Cambridge, Massachussets, offers the most comprehensive account so far of how man ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 13:09:14 PST 2003

24506 [lbo-talk] women happier than men, mostly -- rank: 1000

Global Gender Gaps Women Like Their Lives Better Read the full commentary at people-press.org <http://people-press.org/commentary/display.php3?AnalysisID=71> All around the world, from rich countries in North America to the poorest nations in Africa and Asia, men and women tend to differ from one another when it comes to their outlook on life, their family, their future and the world at large. Women are somewhat happier than men with their lives overall, according to 38,000 interviews in 4 ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 13:04:08 PST 2003

24507 [lbo-talk] Diesel clothing store vandalized -- rank: 1000

Press Release For immediate release: 10/29/03 Contact: Albo Jeavons, 215-546-8556 (Philadelphia, USA) albo at critpath.org Philadelphia "Diesel" storefront vandalized. Clothing company's use of sweatshop labor at issue. Passersby in Philadelphia's trendy Old City gallery district who are surprised to see a brand new Diesel Clothing store this month are even more surprised to see the flyers wheat-pasted onto the storefront. The signs; "Today underpaid laborers WORK HARD in unsafe c ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 12:59:31 PST 2003

24508 [lbo-talk] Kucinich: endorsements "flooding in" -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I saw a bit, might have been here, that the Green Party >thing is not true. Yup. The national Green Party says the NH endorsement was made by "six individuals" convening in a coffee shop. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 12:19:04 PST 2003

24509 [lbo-talk] Kucinich: endorsements "flooding in" -- rank: 1000

[I think this is for real. If they think this is going to get DK beyond 1% in the polls, they're even more out of touch than I'd guessed. Click on the link and see some other endorsers, e.g., Patch Adams, Pete Seeger, and Marianne Williamson.] ENDORSEMENTS FLOODING IN Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign has just received endorsements from a number of prominent Americans, including actor and activist Danny Glover, author Howard Zinn, Democratic leader and former Wisconsin gubernatorial candid ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 11:28:29 PST 2003

24510 [lbo-talk] Re: Fed leaves rates unchanged -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Bottom line is: look for stagflation (of magnitude still unknown, but with >definite potential to exceed the 1970's) rather than real deflation, in the >dollar-denominated world. Why's that? The politics of inflation and deflation are completely different. The inflation of the 1970s was a symptom of an unresolved class conflict, with workers acting insolent and the Third World in rebellion. That led to the right-wing turn, meaning the breaking of the working class an ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 29 11:22:50 PST 2003