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27211 [lbo-talk] Bush pollster: approval about to take a dive -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - April 28, 2003 Badmouthing Bush's Chances By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer George W. Bush is about to head south. Hit a rough streak. Take a beating. Tumble in the polls. How do we know? His own pollster says so. In writing. This, friends, is a classic moment in the game of managing expectations. The Republicans were so brazen that they didn't even get sneaky and leak the story. They just put out the memo from GOP pollster Matthew Dowd to Republican Chairman Marc Ra ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 28 08:26:42 PDT 2003

27212 [lbo-talk] Awww...soo sad.... -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I'm not anti gun, but that doesn't mean that Chuckie Heston >and the NRA aren't wacky...Remember Heston in Moore's movie >on his theory on how crime increased because of the mixing >of the races? EESH! > >NRA bids a loving farewell to Heston >Full: >http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/news_e3ba7533123fa08900c2.html An excerpt: >There was even an NRA-sanctioned comedian, Bill Engvall, who quickly >got the c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 28 07:37:46 PDT 2003

27213 [lbo-talk] LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

Freshly posted to the LBO website <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com>: * "The mess we're in" - the perils of independent/third-party politics (and where's Ralph?) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Mess.html> * "Not such a good year, 2001 - income and poverty updates - income down, poverty up, inequality at a 70-year high <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/IncPov01.html> ...and teasers from the current issue. <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/LBO_curr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 27 16:46:10 PDT 2003

27214 [lbo-talk] Fidel's defense -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond posted an unsurprisingly long (95k) defense of the Cuban "crackdown" to his Debate list. There was no URL given, so I put it up on the LBO website. It's at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/CastroApril25.html>. Nothing but text, lots of it. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 27 13:29:06 PDT 2003

27215 [lbo-talk] great corrections of our time -- rank: 1000

New York Times - April 20, 2003 WEEK IN REVIEW DESK An article last Sunday about the disappearance of Saddam Hussein and the fates met by other dictators misidentified a prominent and elusive supporter of the Baath Party. He is Tariq Aziz, Mr. Hussein's deputy prime minister. (Tariq Ali, an author, does not support the Baath Party.)

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 27 12:09:50 PDT 2003

27216 [lbo-talk] fun with google -- rank: 1000

<http://www.googlism.com/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 27 11:57:41 PDT 2003

27217 [lbo-talk] Wallerstein: reflections on the current disorder -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >your email address discredits >your message. > >mbs > > >[from the Progressive Sociologists list] > >Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 07:06:36 -0700 (PDT) >From: Paul p <abbarocks_2000 at yahoo.com> What's wrong with Abba? Or should I say "Abba"? They've become hip, haven't they? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 26 13:48:40 PDT 2003

27218 [lbo-talk] Re: Gulag -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.anneapplebaum.com/gulag/intro.html > > >And fate made everybody equal >Outside the limits of the law >Son of a kulak or Red commander >Son of a priest or commissar . . . >Here classes were all equalized, >All men were brothers, camp mates all, >Branded as traitors every one . . . > >-alexander tvardovsky, >"By Right of Memory" Why do we have to go over this ancient territory again? What's the point, rea ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 26 13:24:25 PDT 2003

27219 [lbo-talk] Wallerstein: reflections on the current disorder -- rank: 1000

[from the Progressive Sociologists list] Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 07:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul p <abbarocks_2000 at yahoo.com> Subject: Notable notes Friends and PSN listers, Greetings one and all. I was at the Political Economy of the World System conference yesterday. Wallerstein gave the keynote address. It was on the current state of US foreign policy in the context of the rise and fall of the US as a hegemonic power. Below are my notes, if anyone is interested. It should be noted tha ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 26 12:43:19 PDT 2003

27220 [lbo-talk] AIDS goes South -- rank: 1000

Atlanta Journal-Constitution - April 25, 2003 AIDS tightens grip on South By CHARLES SEABROOK The AIDS epidemic is "drastically and quickly" increasing in the South, which already faces a dire shortage of resources to combat the disease, health officials said in a new report Thursday. "In essence, we're declaring a state of emergency in the South," said Dr. Gene Copello, co-chairman of the Southern AIDS Coalition, made up of health officials in 14 states, including Georgia. & ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 26 12:36:57 PDT 2003

27221 [lbo-talk] Bush sez Santorum "inclusive man" -- rank: 1000

[I saw a teenager wearing a t-shirt yesterday that said "War Is Peace/Freedom Is Slavery/Bush Is President." Santorum is Inclusive might fit right in!] Bush Sees Embattled Santorum as 'Inclusive Man' WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House came to the defense of embattled Republican Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record) on Friday, praising his job performance and pronouncing him "an inclusive man" despite comments he made equating homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, inc ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 14:19:25 PDT 2003

27222 [lbo-talk] secret deal? -- rank: 1000

Asia Times - April 25, 2003 THE ROVING EYE The Baghdad deal By Pepe Escobar BAGHDAD - Much of the world was surprised. After the spirited resistance in the south of Iraq, how could Baghdad possibly have fallen in only two days? An Asia Times Online investigation in Baghdad, Tikrit and Najaf has yielded a clear certainty among Iraqis, both Sunni and Shi'ite, as to the answer: The Pentagon and the Ba'ath Party leadership made a safqua ("secret deal" in Arabic) for the (almost) bloodless ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 14:05:35 PDT 2003

27223 [lbo-talk] happy b'day RWE -- rank: 1000

[Sam Smith's quote of the day] I could readily see in Emerson . . . the insinuation that had he lived in those days when the world was made he might have offered some valuable suggestions. - Herman Melville, speaking of Ralph, whose birthday it is.

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 13:57:45 PDT 2003

27224 [lbo-talk] the Fellowship -- rank: 1000

[Harper's put this up on its website. I almost scanned bits of the article when it was only available in print, but was too lazy. Almost enough to make you a conspiracist. Here's the opening and the link.] <http://www.harpers.org/online/jesus_plus_nothing/jesus_plus_nothing.php3?pg=1> Jesus Plus Nothing Undercover Among America's secret theocrats Jeffrey Sharlet This is how they pray: a dozen clear-eyed, smooth-skinned "brothers" gathered together in a huddle, arms crossing arms ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 25 14:01:41 PDT 2003

27225 [lbo-talk] Neocon cards? -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >ooh ooh! I'll make 'em! Are the 52? And how shall we order >them--who's Ace of spades? Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle. > Who's the joker? Bill O'Reilly. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 13:47:49 PDT 2003