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25861 [lbo-talk] I don't get it... -- rank: 1000

<jbujes at covad.net> wrote: >There seems to be a lot of flap in the papers lately about the Bush >lies/incompetence. "Tenet falls on sword..." etc. What's going on? >Didn't the media >know that it was all made up to begin with? Why do they care about >it now? What has >changed? I don't get it. Smells like intra-ruling-class conflict, which can be a very pleasing scent! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 16 11:51:42 PDT 2003

25862 [lbo-talk] Re: queen for a day -- rank: 1000

Corin Wenger wrote: >It's really irritating to hear people who are privileged to sit >around at email all day, subtly devaluing those who dress "worse" >than them. Since you write from a Hunter address, I'm guessing you're in NYC. I see plenty of poor people in New York who dress stylishly. The fashion industry even studies and imitates them. I see far more appalling aesthetic crimes when I cross the Hudson into suburban New Jersey than I ever have on the city streets. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 16 05:53:24 PDT 2003

25863 [lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Why are people so concerned with having toes that look good >in sandals? Because they want to please and attract other humans? Because it's nice to cultivate beauty in everyday life? Here's an excerpt from a piece my friend Steve Duncombe wrote for a rant-a-thon fundraiser last year. Steve is a self-identified socialist dandy. Doug ---- [...] I know what you are thinking: But Steve, leisure clothes are so comfortable. Maybe for you, but how about for the rest of us wh ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 15:02:43 PDT 2003

25864 [lbo-talk] Bush lies about his AIDS program too -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 7, 2003 Poor start for Bush's Aids programme By Linda Bilmes President George W. Bush visits Africa this week having seized the moral high ground in the fight against HIV/Aids. His January State of the Union pledge to spend an unprecedented $15bn to combat the disease represents a tenfold increase in previous US spending. Congress swiftly authorised the programme. At the Group of Eight summit in Evian, the president touted his success with Congress and used the commitment ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 13:30:29 PDT 2003

25865 [lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Why are do so many people in our society consider >male pattern baldness an aberration that requires medical intervention? C'mon, men have been unhappy about going bald since long before Minoxidil. Hair can be beautiful, and losing it is an aesthetic loss in itself. But it also signifies advancing age, something humans have been worrying about for about as long as we've walked the earth. Not everything can be explained by the beauty industry's lust for profits. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 11:39:36 PDT 2003

25866 [lbo-talk] Beyond the Bipartisan Hegemony -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Grant Lee wrote: >> >>>One of my politics professors, a Marxist, used to tell his students that he >>>always voted for centre-RIGHT parties, because things had to get worse >>>before they would get better. >> >>Yeah, but is that really true? In the U.S., the left got hammered >>during the Reagan years. The Clinton years saw the rise of the >>anti-sweatshop movement (which was stimulated by the admin's absurd ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 15:02:00 PDT 2003

25867 [lbo-talk] Beyond the Bipartisan Hegemony [Fwd: Re: fighting ideology] -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >One of my politics professors, a Marxist, used to tell his students that he >always voted for centre-RIGHT parties, because things had to get worse >before they would get better. Yeah, but is that really true? In the U.S., the left got hammered during the Reagan years. The Clinton years saw the rise of the anti-sweatshop movement (which was stimulated by the admin's absurd corporate whitewash front), the "Seattle" coalition, etc. Going further back, the Eisen ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 14:24:44 PDT 2003

25868 [lbo-talk] TIA ruse? -- rank: 1000

[a reader of the archives writes, in response to my wondering if there was something fishy about the TIA defunding] I have moved recently to DC in order, in part, to start work at a computer science research lab at University of Maryland. This lab is funded in large part by DARPA, but also by NSF, NSA, and other relatively creepy gov't agencies. Some of the work I will be doing (or, more accurately, some of the work that people in this lab are doing which I am familiar with) amounts to political ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 14 13:37:12 PDT 2003

25869 [lbo-talk] U.S. having funding problems? -- rank: 1000

Weak capital influx seen choking dollar rally Monday July 14, 3:44 pm ET By Gertrude Chavez NEW YORK, July 14 (Reuters) - More foreign capital needs to flow into the United States to finance the ballooning current account deficit if the dollar is to sustain its recent equity-fueled rally against the euro, currency analysts say. The dollar has soared around 5 percent against the euro (EUR=) since hitting 4-year lows in June, and several analysts attribute most of those gains to a surging U.S. sto ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 13:04:48 PDT 2003

25870 [lbo-talk] TIA defunded? -- rank: 1000

[is this a ruse?] Wired News - 02:00 AM Jul. 14, 2003 PT <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59606,00.html> The controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program, which would troll Americans' personal records to find terrorists before they strike, may soon face the same fate Congress meted out to John Ashcroft in his attempt to create a corps of volunteer domestic spies: death by legislation. The Senate's $368 billion version of the 2004 defense appropriations bill, released fro ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 12:59:01 PDT 2003

25871 [lbo-talk] Brenner quoted by JEC -- rank: 1000

A footnote in a new report by the U.S. Congress' Joint Economic Committee: >"Between 1996 and 2000, [telecommunications firms] took on $800 >billion in bank debt and issued $450 billion in bonds.... In 2000, >no fewer than six U.S. companies were building new, mutually >competitive, nationwide fiber-optic networks. Hundreds more were >laying down local lines and several were also competing on >sub-oceanic links. All told, 39 million miles of fiber-optic line >now crissc ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 11:07:11 PDT 2003

25872 [lbo-talk] Re: queened for a day -- rank: 1000

<jbujes at covad.net> wrote: >...and yet queerdom (as a form of male bonding) does not undermine patriarchy. So why are Eco's Ur-Fascists and the Christian Coalition so against it then? And they don't like this show. The Traditional Values coalition <http://www.traditionalvalues.org/article.php?sid=1042> comments: >Perhaps Bravo should consider airing a series called "AIDS Hospice," >featuring homosexual men who are in various stages of dying from >this wasting ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 10:57:01 PDT 2003

25873 [lbo-talk] Gore Vidal's fave paleo-con -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.counterpunch.org/kauffman06252003.html > >Ours is a land of volunteer fire departments, of baseball, of >wizened spinsters who instead of sitting around whining about their >goddamned osteoporosis write and self-publish books on the histories >of their little towns, of the farmwives and grain merchants and >parsons and drunkards who made their places live. I can see the deep affinity with expatriate Anglo-Irish aristocrats immedia ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 09:00:42 PDT 2003

25874 [lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: > > Wow. Sometimes I think there is hope for America. >> >> Doug > >I know Doug's joking here, but let's face it: gayification of men >in the U. S. is not going to do anything to challenge the >existing patterns of domination and exploitation. Well at least some of them - gender cliches help enforce patriarchy, and their erosion means the weakening of patriarchy, which means a challenge to existing patterns of domiantion and exploitation. That ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 13 17:21:51 PDT 2003

25875 [lbo-talk] frightful sight... -- rank: 1000

Somebody call in the Bravo Fab Five to remake this ugly man in an ugly suit! <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030713/161/4o2a7.html>

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Date:	Sun Jul 13 15:31:19 PDT 2003