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25171 [lbo-talk] THE RED AND THE HACK -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Chickering headed a >Reagan Administration-connected San Francisco-based think tank called >the Institute for Contemporary Studies, and the encounter between >Schwartz and Chickering was a true meeting of minds. Interesting. I've just been browsing George Gilder's very weird 1978 book on race, Visible Man (yeah, it's a negation of Wright's title, because there's no more racism in America!), which was reissued in 1995 by the ICS. I was wondering who they were. Now I kno ...

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Date:	Wed May 7 09:10:36 PDT 2003

25172 [lbo-talk] DU dangerous? fuck you! -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] DEPLETED URANIUM: DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL JAY SHAFT, COALITION FOR FREE THOUGHT IN MEDIA - In three separate interviews a U.S. Special Operations Command Colonel admitted that the U.S. and Great Britain fired 500 tons of DU munitions into Iraq. He has also informed me that the GBU-28 BLU 113 Penetrator Bunker Buster 5000 pound bomb contains DU in the warhead. Until now, as far as I know, the materials used to make the warhead of the GBU-28 have remained shroude ...

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Date:	Tue May 6 16:43:26 PDT 2003

25173 [lbo-talk] Out of the USA? (was Re: Wojtek and America) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Since 9.11, there has been no terrorist attack of the same magnitude >inside the USA. I wonder how Americans will react if two, three, or >more terrorist attacks on the scale of 9.11 happen here. Horribly, as Lieven is the latest to point out. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 6 15:28:06 PDT 2003

25174 [lbo-talk] New Anatol Lieven -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Dude rocks................................ > >http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n09/liev01_.html Rather chilling conclusion: >Even if despair and apathy turn out to be the responses of the Arab >majority, there will also be a minority which is too proud, too >radical, too fanatical or too embittered - take your pick - for such >a course. They are the natural recruits for terrorism, and it seems >likely that their numbers will only have been increased by the > ...

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Date:	Tue May 6 14:54:36 PDT 2003

25175 [lbo-talk] Re: ______ and America -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Isn't it stereotypically American not to want to learn from >experiences of the past and/or other nations? It's stereotypically Leftist - with a capital L - to keep drawing examples from the same two or three revolutions rather than think about the here and now.

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Date:	Tue May 6 14:37:50 PDT 2003

25176 [lbo-talk] Fed worried about deflation? -- rank: 1000

[No policy surprise here - but "the probability of an unwelcome substantial fall in inflation, though minor" means they're a bit worried about deflation. I don't think they've ever said anything like that before.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2003/20030506/> Release Date: May 6, 2003 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided to keep its target for the federal funds rate unchanged at 1-1/4 percent. Recent readings on production and ...

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Date:	Tue May 6 14:13:06 PDT 2003

25177 [lbo-talk] Re: ______ and America -- rank: 1000

Yeah, I know about the injuries of class. But the U.S. in 2003 is not a peasant society, has no active Communist Party sponsoring meetings, and is characterized by the willingness of people to go on TV and talk about how their grandmother likes having sex with horses, but not about their class position. It's a bad and lazy habit to cite moments from the revolutionary past like this. Doug andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Ummm, then read Sennett's The Hidden Injuries of Class, now 30 years >old, ...

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Date:	Tue May 6 13:46:35 PDT 2003

25178 [lbo-talk] Re: ______ and America -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I would suggest as a tonic here the chapters in _Fanshen_ in which >Hinton details the frustration felt by the CPC group in Longbow at their >inability to get any of the peasants to stand up in an open meeting and >give evidence of the injuries they had suffered. And how is that relevant to life in the United States in 2003? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 6 12:36:34 PDT 2003

25179 [lbo-talk] Dems Grovel Before Reagan II -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >The neocons behind Bush think they're pulling a 'preventive' Reagan >II. Imagine >that Reagan became president, not in 1980, but in 1970, at the >beginning of the >last decade-long political-economic crisis of US hegemony (actually, Reagan >became Governor of California in 1968). Recall that neoconservativism first >developed in reaction to the radicalism of "the Sixties". What the >neocons wat >to prevent is a _renewed_ growth of radic ...

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Date:	Tue May 6 10:36:30 PDT 2003

25180 [lbo-talk] 70% of Americans support sodomy! -- rank: 1000

Seven In Ten Adult Americans Support U.S. Supreme Court Overturning Same-Sex Sodomy Laws New Witeck-Combs/Harris Interactive Research Shows Broad Public Support on Right to Privacy Rochester, NY - May 6, 2003 - Seventy-four percent of American adults surveyed last month favor the U.S. Supreme Court overturning state laws that criminalize private, consenting sexual relations between same-sex couples, yet allows that same private conduct to occur between opposite-sex couples. This was the latest f ...

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Date:	Tue May 6 08:20:41 PDT 2003

25181 [lbo-talk] Re: A lot to A.N.S.W.E.R. for, By Edward Grossman in the Jerusalem Post -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I find it very amusing and empowering that the American right wing >is so obsessed with the left wing right now. The other week I got a copy of a booklet from FrontPageMagazine.com called "Who Is The Peace Movement?", made up of articles from their website by Horowitz and the gang. It's pretty hysterical stuff, full of redbaiting and the like. The cover photo is a beaut: demonstrators from an unidentified time and place carrying a banner reading "We support ou ...

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Date:	Mon May 5 16:01:10 PDT 2003

25182 [lbo-talk] Race -- rank: 1000

stmcgraw at vt.edu wrote: > >What is shape shifting? >> >>Wojtek >> > >You need to listen to more Art Bell...err...George Norry. > >http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guests/558.html And David Icke: <http://davidicke.com/>.

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Date:	Mon May 5 14:22:51 PDT 2003

25183 [lbo-talk] Race -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >What is shape shifting? <http://home.earthlink.net/~mottimorph/SSMM.html>

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Date:	Mon May 5 14:21:16 PDT 2003

25184 [lbo-talk] Race -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >In a society that >values science as we do, Some of us do - but 70%+ of Americans believe in heaven, hell, angels, and daily prayer. Significant minorities believe in astrology, health quackery, reincarnation, and shape shifting. So which "we" are you talking about? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 5 12:58:39 PDT 2003

25185 [lbo-talk] Awww...soo sad.... -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Carrol's CW on Viciousness, Ay Carumba, 328 TIMES!!! >Searched the web for Carrol Cox Vicious. Results 1 - 25 of about >328. Search took 0.35 seconds. Do we really need this? Doug

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