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27601 Lefty despair -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Sometimes one loses because the enemy is stronger. Strength is always relative to something. You can say X is strong next to Y, but you can also say Y is weak next to X. Since "we are many and they are few" it's not a given that they have to be strong and we have to be weak. So why the extreme imbalance of forces? Yeah, they've got money, bullets, and TV stations. But you always invoke this strength to dismiss self-criticism. Is this some variant of the Party is a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 22 16:33:02 PDT 2002

27602 babes hawking coffins -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Sun Sep 22 16:20:45 PDT 2002

27603 Lefty despair -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >If any piece written by a leftist is unreadable, it can be >corrected, through editing, proofreading, etc. What left publications do you read? Most of them emerge barely readable or worse *after* editing. Someone once sent me two versions of a piece written for The Progressive - one before and one after editing. The effect of the editing was to make the piece stylistically and politically duller (in both senses - boring and lack of sharpness). Why is it important t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 22 16:17:07 PDT 2002

27604 radio updates -- rank: 1000

jean-christophe helary wrote: >i have no idea how all this work but is it possible to get a >streamed lowfi version of the things and eventually save them on the >machine at the end ? or does a download mean you have to get the big >hifi file ? You can download either version, low- or hi-fi. The low-fi files are around 6-7 mb, and the hi-fi, around 20. I think it's possible to record a streaming program, but you have to have the right software to do it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 22 16:15:11 PDT 2002

27605 Reeve blames Church, Bush -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Here is one response on Reeves show (I did not watch it, he is too >annoying) which was posted to a media discussion group that focuses >on disability and is composed of the crip pride types: > >"i cringed through the whole show...one of his statements was interesting and >telling he said basically that some folks are ok about living with severe >disability, i am not...aint that the truth with him. I also thought it was >sad when he said he had ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 22 16:00:30 PDT 2002

27606 new strategy -- rank: 1000

The NYT has put up the Bush admin's new strike first policy: <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/politics/20STEXT_FULL.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 20 14:39:25 PDT 2002

27607 radio updates -- rank: 1000

I've just posted yesterday's show to my radio archive - <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. September 19, 2002 Campus Watch, the right-wing Zionist "rat on your professor" scheme * Eyal Weizman, one of the organizers of a banned exibit, The Politics of Israeli Architecture, and Dan Monk, author, The Architecture of Occupation, on how Israeli domination of Palestinians is manifested in the built environment and the fight over built space and place have fueled the con ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 20 13:10:41 PDT 2002

27608 Lefty despair -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Meanwhile, the Christian fundies motivate people by >telling them they will go to Hell if they don't >fight the Left. Bot don't forget they promise heaven to those who do. And polls show most Americans who beleive in heaven think they're going there (numbers are around 75% for each question, I think). Next to heaven, what's single-payer? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 20 12:47:26 PDT 2002

27609 capitalism censored -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >In addition to sounding like a socialist, this Liu guy runs a >private investment fund in New York. Doug, have you heard of him? >Anybody? Henry C.K. Liu was on this list in its early days. We didn't like each other much and parted ways. He's extremely elitist - he bragged about his wealth and IQ. He's also quite supportive of the Chinese government, on Leninist and/or Maoist grounds I assume. Lou Proyect used to adore him - I haven't kept up on Proyect-Liu relation ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 20 12:40:49 PDT 2002

27610 Lefty despair -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >But I suspect many of you think I'm _not_serious_. Sigh.... In the words of jill johnston from way back, "serious but not solemn." Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 20 11:42:56 PDT 2002

27611 Anniversary/ Hey Brad? -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >How come you always read about the oil-rich ME's people being upset about >the drop in their per capita in recent years? Because their leaders steal all the money. Because being an oil exporter can be a curse - there's little incentive for local capitalists to invest in industry, when they can pocket oil revenue. That's not good for the local working class. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 20 09:46:28 PDT 2002

27612 New unemployment stats -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 wrote: >On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Christian Gregory wrote: > >> > Question: "Seasonally adjusted" means ... ? >> >> Taking into account the fluctuations of both the labor force and employment >> rate due to the time of year. >> >> Christian > >I'd gathered it meant something along these lines. But I guess my question >is really how these things are determined, what they consist of, etc. I >understand it c ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 20 09:31:32 PDT 2002

27613 Lefty despair -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 (is that a telephone extension or part of a name?) quoted: >"In order to provide those benefits, any successful movement will need to >provide its members considerably more pleasure than pain. One of the main >reasons that the left is so dull is its emphasis on self-sacrifice to the >exclusion of pleasure, and its use of guilt as a means of manipulation; >many leftist groups are outright puritanical, and even the most >enlightened usually treat pl ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 20 09:16:54 PDT 2002

27614 Lefty despair -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >You can say, obviously, that such and such leftists are humorless, >self-righteous prigs, naming names, without the statement turning >back upon you; but you can't be a leftist and say that "the left in >general are a bunch of humorless and self-righteous losers," without >a reflexivity problem. When you make jokes that editors of leftish publications delete, or make observations at a meeting that fellow attendees find sacrilegous, you don't feel ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 20 09:12:10 PDT 2002

27615 Deutsche spam! -- rank: 1000

Ah the beauties of technology - you can get spam urging you to vote in a country you're not a citizen of! And in English, no less. Didn't realize the crypto-Nazis were so behind the CDU. At 12:00 AM +0200 9/20/02, PIONER & VOYAGER INTERNATIONAL wrote: >X-From_: csucdu at punkass.com Fri Sep 20 03:34:49 2002 >From: "PIONER & VOYAGER INTERNATIONAL" <csucdu at punkass.com> >To: <dhenwood at panix.com> >Subject: SAVE GERMANY VOTE STOIBER! CDU CSU CAN SAVE ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 20 09:03:33 PDT 2002