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25966 [lbo-talk] Salon's 10-K.... -- rank: 1000

...filed yesterday, reads like a prewritten obit. A sample: >SALON WILL VERY LIKELY CEASE OPERATIONS IN ITS CURRENT FORM IF IT IS UNABLE TO >RAISE ADDITIONAL CASH RESOURCES > >Salon has received $0.9 million from the issuance of notes payable >subsequent to March 31, 2003. These funds, in conjunction with >collections of accounts receivable and Salon Premium subscriptions, >have been used to fund operations as of this filing. Salon needs to >secure additional cash resourc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 1 12:48:31 PDT 2003

25967 [lbo-talk] Gallup on homosex -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >I may be missing something, but that 37% of surveyed people think >homosex should be outlawed seems appalling to me. What on earth >justifies this idea? I get fundamentalism, but that can't be more >than 15% of this number. What about the rest? Why just 15%? Around 40-45% of the U.S. pop calls itself evangelical or born-again. About 24% calls itself Catholic, and while their opinions run the full gamut, no doubt there are some hardcore moralists in their mid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 1 12:00:20 PDT 2003

25968 [lbo-talk] Iraq war losing luster -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030701.asp> POLL ANALYSES July 1, 2003 Fewer Say Iraq Worth Going to War Over Failure to find weapons of mass destruction, continuing conflict appear to have major impact by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are more divided over the merits of the Iraq war than they have been since January of this year, long before President Bush aggressively pushed the case for invading Iraq. Currently, 56% of Americans say the situation i ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 1 11:52:01 PDT 2003

25969 [lbo-talk] IT, Other White Collar Jobs Floating To Cheaper Locales -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >[If even the most privileged members of the working >population - college educated white collar and >technical workers - find themselves marginalized, >de-skilled and, perhaps, impoverished by offshore >outsourcing, among other factors, what will it mean >for the peaceful maintainence of the capitalist >order?] I'd be careful about extrapolating too much from this - what we're hearing now sounds a lot like what we were hearing 10 years ago, just as the ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 1 10:54:28 PDT 2003

25970 [lbo-talk] Neocons Inspired By Italian Fascists? -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Obviously both should be opposed, but the clear preference shown here for >Ledeen & Co. over against the Buchananite conservatives probably has to do >with the former's support for Israel as a militarized client of the US, as >opposed to the latter's critique of that. If you want to take the ideology seriously, there's also this contrast: Buchanan is really a reactionary - he wants to go back to the America of the 1950s, or 1840s. He's not fond of the soci ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 1 10:28:51 PDT 2003

25971 [lbo-talk] Ralph to run? -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Why does the right, which is so good at hate, not hate Perot for Nadering >Bush, Sr.? For one, the right never loved Bush Sr they way they do Jr. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 1 10:25:31 PDT 2003

25972 [lbo-talk] Ralph to run? -- rank: 1000

USA Today - June 30, 2003 Nader considering another try at White House in 2004 By Tom Squitieri USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- Ralph Nader, still blamed by many Democrats for draining critical votes from Al Gore in the 2000 race for the presidency, says he is seriously considering running in 2004. His decision has the potential to vex Democrats who worry that he would divert some of their supporters and delight Republicans who think the same thing. Nader says he has moved closer to a repeat run as the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 1 09:37:48 PDT 2003

25973 new radio product -- rank: 1000

Now up in my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: January 30, 2003 Joel Schalit, editor of The Anti-Capitalism Reader, on the theory and practice of radical agitation today * Christian Weller of the Economic Policy Institute, on the state of the U.S. economy and the historical pattern of postwar recessions It joins a panoply of informative delights: January 23, 2003 William Pepper, author of An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, on the assasinatio ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 31 16:30:20 PST 2003

25974 Sam Donaldson explains it all -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >I'm usually allergic to 'Texas' coloquiallisms (one reason I >find Jim Hightower painful to listen to) How's that stuff play in Texas? I've always suspected that Hightower's act was mainly designed to impress Yankees (Ivins too). Is it? Or does he have fans in Texas? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 31 15:20:00 PST 2003

25975 Sam Donaldson explains it all -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >except Georgie didn't own a ranch and never lived >on a ranch until he made his boodle selling the >Texas Rangers. > >HE'S NOT A COWBOY!! And, as my friend from Wichita Falls (now on the Upper West Side of Manhattan) says - "he's not a Texan!" Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 31 14:56:29 PST 2003

25976 Howard Gardner Re: SOTU... -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Your 8th post of the day, 51k total, and there are 6.5 hrs left in the day. Why do you think you can do this? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 31 14:26:00 PST 2003

25977 Sam Donaldson explains it all -- rank: 1000

[from today's Page Six - someone tell Hitchens!] [President Bush] is from West Texas. When you see a rattlesnake on a trail, you pull out that gun, and you go boom, bam. You do not assemble a coalition to discuss the rattlesnake" - Sam Donaldson on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" explaining the president's willingness to go it alone in Iraq.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 31 12:03:55 PST 2003

25978 beware one-legged Jordanians! -- rank: 1000

New York Post - January 30, 2003 DELIVERER OF DOOM By NILES LATHEM WASHINGTON - A one-legged Jordanian terrorist is the man the Bush administration believes could be plotting a biological attack on the United States for Saddam Hussein if war with Iraq erupts. He is Abu Mussab al Zarqawi, one of al Qaeda's top operational leaders and the mastermind of the London ricin plot, as well as the assassination of American diplomat Laurence Foley in Jordan last October. Intelligence officials said Zarqawi ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 31 12:00:33 PST 2003

25979 Mandatory fatherhood -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >How progressive. Here's what a "hangnail" (Carrol's word) looks like and >acts like at 16 weeks: > ><http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_calendar/week16.html> > >Best to have an extra large set of clippers handy. These hangnails can be >tricky. This is getting very tedious. Now you're adding tendentious fetus pictures to your already long and growing list of rightwing cliches - oh, but you're still prochoice! Did Saddam gas his own pe ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 31 11:50:24 PST 2003

25980 daily life behing the Iron Curtain -- rank: 1000

It's amazing for someone who grew up hearing the most hysterical cold war propaganda to read these tales from Woj of daily life in Poland and from ChrisD of the kids in Komsomol drinking, flirting, and listening to Pink Floyd. Has anyone done anything on daily life under formerly existing socialism? A college friend of mine who spoke fluent Russian and spent a year in the USSR in the late 1970s told me that she missed the intensity of friendship and conversation, the likes of which she'd never s ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 16:32:48 PST 2003