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24616 [lbo-talk] Moore/Clark: The Bigger ? -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Meanwhile, the bigger question is: Do we buy Moore's/the Democrats' >anybody-but-Bush line? Personally, as a member of the Pacific Green >Party here in Oregon, I'm heavily inclined to disagree and continue >to vote Green. Can anybody here change my mind on this? Do you >really think Howard Dean -- he of the Dean-Witter empire -- will >change anything? I don't. I do. Marginally better in policy terms, but a much better environment for radical org ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 12:53:23 PDT 2003

24617 [lbo-talk] Arnie "ran on values" -- rank: 1000

[love the lineup for this speakers' series] Ocala (Florida) Star-Banner - October 15, 2003 Fox anchor is big on Bush SHAYNA GRUNEWALD Special to The Star-Banner THE VILLAGES - "Values play a critical role in the United States,'' said Fox News anchor Tony Snow in a speech Tuesday night at the Villages retirement community. And values are what makes President George W. Bush stand out, Snow said. "In an instant, on 9-11, he transformed ... the president began to pull it all together.'' In ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 12:28:32 PDT 2003

24618 [lbo-talk] What Is The Consensus On Krugman's Analyses? -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >But I'm wondering, amongst economists who simply try >to understand the facts before them - political >leanings notwithstanding - what is the general opinion >of Krugman's very dire assessment of the US' economic >situation? Overstated, but he has a point. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 09:17:01 PDT 2003

24619 [lbo-talk] blind item -- rank: 1000

[an item under Page Six's "Just Asking" head - anyone familiar with Spy magazine's column on the New York Times in the late 1980s might guess an answer to this...] >WHICH journalist in Iraq got special treatment from the military in >exchange for providing certain favors to the head of the unit?

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 08:07:06 PDT 2003

24620 [lbo-talk] tax cuts -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I'd like to see that. Of course, the rebates >are only one piece of the tax cut. >DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 10/16/03 Goldman Sachs Economics > >*The latest retail sales report confirms outsized strength in >third-quarter growth in real GDP. In fact, it opens up some >upside risk to our 6.5% (annualized) estimate. > >*We continue to estimate a 4.0% growth rate for the fourth >quarter on the view that tax cuts drove last quarter's surge & ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 07:55:31 PDT 2003

24621 [lbo-talk] tax cuts -- rank: 1000

Someone asked here the other day about how much of the last round of tax rebate checks in the U.S. was spent. Goldman Sachs is estimating three-quarters, and almost immediately - a very large share, compared with earlier precedents, and done very quickly as well. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 07:36:58 PDT 2003

24622 [lbo-talk] Re: recall, camejo vote -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: 7 posts on Thursday, more than twice the daily quota. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 07:30:08 PDT 2003

24623 Robinson (was Re: [lbo-talk] Chip Slimed) -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >And sadly, most of her work is out of print. That's probably not news to >many of you, but only recently have I plunged into her stuff (Economic >Heresies and What Are The Questions?). Any chance of the New Press or >Verso or anyone resurrecting her stuff? I doubt it. The audience would barely break into four figures, I'm afraid. Too economic for a popular audience, and too literary for economists - which is really sad. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 07:22:22 PDT 2003

24624 [lbo-talk] Moore on Mumia -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >let's put it this way, doug: the guy was never proven guilty in a fair >trial. if the court system would reopen his trial, we might know if he >were guilty or not guilty. until then, he's entitled to the presumption of >innocence. I completely agree with that, which is why I said he'd gotten an "awful" trial. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 21:16:05 PDT 2003

24625 [lbo-talk] Moore on Mumia -- rank: 1000

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: >I am convinced Mumia is innocent as charged. How could you know that? I have no idea what happened. He got an awful trial, and capital punishment is evil, but how could you be so convinced of his innocence? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 20:16:50 PDT 2003

24626 [lbo-talk] Chip Slimed -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >So I embrace this red-baiting as "true flattery." And being attacked by Horowitz & Co. is a badge of honor. Congrats (mixed with envy)! Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 16:04:56 PDT 2003

24627 [lbo-talk] Moore on Mumia -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >We all know what good that did, and these fools still think voting is >gonna change something. If it did, it would be illegal. The struggle >for freedom in this country and worldwide has no time for these people >who are so scared of the system they won't take a real, strong stand >against it. Michael Moore, Amy Goodman and all the other phony >limousine liberals ain't no help to anyone but themselves. Amy Goodman? Limousine liberal? Anyone who could ma ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 15:46:52 PDT 2003

24628 [lbo-talk] discontent in the ranks -- rank: 1000

Associated Press - October 16, 2003, 11:35 AM EDT WASHINGTON -- A third of U.S. troops surveyed in Iraq said their morale was low and half said they are unlikely to stay in the armed forces, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported. Though the newspaper said its poll of some 2,000 troops was not a scientific sampling, the results raise anew worries that long deployments and the complex and dangerous mission in Iraq will prompt some to leave the military at re-enlistment time. The findin ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 09:21:21 PDT 2003

24629 [lbo-talk] Re: recall, camejo vote -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> The Hitler stuff comes from Arnie himself - how he admires the guy, etc. > >To be fair to Arnie, that Hitler quote thing seems to have been a smear >job. The original quote from the shelved book proposal seems to have run: First of all, Arnie bought up the outtakes from the movie, so we'll never see what other delights fell to the cutting room floor. But the point isn't that he's a "Nazi" in any ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 06:44:47 PDT 2003

24630 [lbo-talk] facts? what facts? -- rank: 1000

New York Times - October 16, 2003 ECONOMIC SCENE Cloudy Thinking on Tax Cuts By ALAN B. KRUEGER CONSERVATIVE and liberal political commentators alike have wondered why most Americans have enthusiastically supported two of the largest tax cuts in history even though most benefits will flow to upper-income families. Adding to the conundrum, in public opinion surveys Americans routinely express support for spending more on government programs like education, opposition to government budget deficits ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 06:40:36 PDT 2003