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27226 [lbo-talk] Re: Zizek's view -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 03:49 AM 04/25/2003 -0700, you wrote: >>If we were to take his advice, would we be saying >>things like, "Hell yes, we want social ownership of >>the wealth! After all, we created it."? > >Halleluiah brother! Or, as Patti Smith once put it, "We created it. Let's take it over." Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 13:48:47 PDT 2003

27227 [lbo-talk] Luntz on Israel -- rank: 1000

Introduction by Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada 25 April 2003 The Electronic Intifada has obtained, and today publishes in full, a document prepared for pro-Israel activists by the public relations firm The Luntz Research Companies and The Israel Project. The document spells out the tactics that Israel and its US advocates should use to maintain support for Israel and its hardline policies. The document, entitled "Wexner Analysis: Israeli Communication Priorities 2003," counsels p ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 13:33:13 PDT 2003

27228 [lbo-talk] Defending the Revolution in the 18th C. (was Cuban HDI) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Just how does Brad imagine patriots defended the revolution and >basic political rights in the eighteenth century? But you don't understand. That was the last necessary revolution. After that, the path to human perfection was opened. Everything else is reactionary. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 13:06:46 PDT 2003

27229 [lbo-talk] Hey Brad -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >But those of us who believe and defend civil and political rights >don't need any "help" from those who think that the absence of such >rights in Castro's dictatorship is, on balance, a good thing. To >lament "creeping fascism" in America while applauding the real thing >in Cuba is disgusting. To imply that the absence of civil and >political rights in Cuba is a decision that "Cubans" have >collectively made is obscene. S ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 10:36:45 PDT 2003

27230 [lbo-talk] BBC boss shocked by American media -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - April 25, 2003 Dyke attacks American media networks for 'gung-ho' coverage of Gulf conflict By Ian Burrell Media and Culture Correspondent Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, attacked American television and radio networks for their "shocking" and "gung-ho" coverage of the Iraq conflict yesterday. He also issued a warning against US companies being allowed greater ownership of British media. Mr Dyke said that changes to legislation proposed by the G ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 25 08:38:38 PDT 2003

27231 [lbo-talk] American TV -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - April 25, 2003 Time to turn TV on again By Doug Henwood Who needs a state broadcaster when networks provide the propaganda? ASIDE FROM a few aftershocks, like the episodes of religious self-flagellation, the war in Iraq is mostly over, and the American media are returning to their normal preoccupations. So I am finally working up the nerve to turn on the TV news again. It was an extraordinary few weeks on American TV that people living outside its signal area might not fully app ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 08:37:04 PDT 2003

27232 [lbo-talk] CNN cleared its generals with Pentagon -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - April 25, 2003 TELEVISION The independence of CNN By Howard Rosenberg, Times Staff Writer Much has been made of CNN news head Eason Jordan's recent disclosure in a New York Times op-ed piece that he had made 13 trips to Baghdad in the last dozen years and that: "Each time I visited, I became more and more distressed by what I saw and heard. Awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghd ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 08:35:30 PDT 2003

27233 [lbo-talk] another petition -- rank: 1000

[this one worth signing - curious to see if this attracts as many names as the Cuba ones] PLEASE READ and POST WIDELY: This is Quick to do and such petitions have been influential in the past. AMINA LAWAL SET TO BE STONED ON 3RD JUNE 2003 The Nigerian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Amina Lawal, condemned for the crime of adultery on August 19th 2002, The Nigerian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Amina Lawal, condemned for the crime of adultery on August 19th 2002, ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 16:21:23 PDT 2003

27234 [lbo-talk] pride -- rank: 1000

[1983, really? Has she been around that long?] "Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave- owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pr ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 15:36:11 PDT 2003

27235 [lbo-talk] Cuban HDI -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>...Still, Brad de Long's proposals are pie-in-sky stuff that >>invites Gandhi's retort about western civilisation... > >The basic political rights of the eighteenth century? Pie-in-the-sky stuff? Yeah. If they did that, they'd be effectively a U.S. colony in less than two years. Maybe less than a year. What's pie-in-the-sky about this is that you just can't accept the fact that the U.S. just won't tolerate a socialist regime anywhere in the western hemisphe ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 12:05:52 PDT 2003

27236 [lbo-talk] Meanwhile in Argentina............. -- rank: 1000

<npchilds at connect.ab.ca> wrote: >Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa......... > >Bad combination of dial up at home (every web cast I listen to sounds like >a scratch record produced by someone with an arhythmic palsy) The low fi versions are at 16 kbps, which even a poky dialup should be able to handle. The hi-fi, at 64 kbps, needs some kind of broadband connection though. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 11:58:06 PDT 2003

27237 [lbo-talk] Cuban HDI -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >That's not what Leo and Nathan are doing. And I think you're smart >enough to know that that's not what Leo and Nathan are doing... Unfortunately, what Leo and Nathan are doing isn't entirely up to them. I can see O'Reilly and Tom Friedman saying "Even the left admits...." as they urge us to support the troops heading toward Havana. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 11:38:59 PDT 2003

27238 [lbo-talk] Emigration from the USA (was Woj & America) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >This report will appear as a chapter in the forthcoming _2000 >Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service_. >All references to Appendixes, Charts, Tables, and other sections of >the _Statistical Yearbook_ appear as they will in the final Yearbook >edition. Interesting. When I was doing my State of the USA Atlas in 1993, my researcher tried to track down info on emigration from the U.S. She was told that such stats didn't exist, but ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 11:32:14 PDT 2003

27239 [lbo-talk] anti-Semitism on campus -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >[Isn't Rense.com a nutso conspiracist site? Does anyone know >anything about this?] > >Rense.com >Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel Views To Lose Funding Congress To >Pass 'Ideological Diversity' Legislation >By Michael Collins Piper >American Free Press >americanfreepress.net >4-21-3 Egads. I should have looked before hitting <send>. AFP is the successor to The Spotlight, a paper that, um, had an uncomfortably warm feeling for the Third Rei ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 11:24:55 PDT 2003

27240 [lbo-talk] anti-Semitism on campus -- rank: 1000

[Isn't Rense.com a nutso conspiracist site? Does anyone know anything about this?] Rense.com Schools Not Teaching Pro-Israel Views To Lose Funding Congress To Pass 'Ideological Diversity' Legislation By Michael Collins Piper American Free Press americanfreepress.net 4-21-3 Republican members of the Senate are planning to introduce police-state- style "thought control" legislation designed to prohibit criticism of Israel on American college campuses. The third-ranking Republican member ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 11:08:09 PDT 2003