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27721 On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows.... -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >The left will be politically meaningless in this country as long as >it does not have a mainstream institutional representation. I don't get it. You say the U.S. working class is greedy, bigoted, pampered, and stupid. So what will the social base of this institutional representation be? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 14:33:59 PDT 2002

27722 On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows.... -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Bill Mar used his "humor" to put down disabled people every >opportunity he got. He created a legitimate anger in our community. >He was NOT liked by any of us. No body felt any loss when he was >dumped. So he did far more to damage whatever left leanings his >show purported to have. I don't know that it ever purported to have left leanings. List alum Dennis Perrin once worked as a writer for Maher and reports that he was a reactionary and an assh ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 14:29:06 PDT 2002

27723 book event in DC -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone and members of United Students Against Sweatshops discuss their new book Students Against Sweatshops which documents a wave of anti-sweatshop organizing that has reached over two hundred American campuses in the past four years. Students Against Sweatshops explains how the organization supports the struggles of working class people everywhere by challenging corporate power. Friday Sept. 27 - 7PM at Olsson's - Dupont Circle 1307 19th St., NW 202-785-1133

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 13:00:08 PDT 2002

27724 threat level rises, but there's nothing you can do about it -- rank: 1000

[The risk is high, but dunno how or when or where, so go about your business normally.] U.S. Raises Threat Level, Sees High Risk of Attack Tue Sep 10, 2:25 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior U.S. officials, saying information from an al Qaeda source indicates that American targets are at high risk of terrorist attack around the anniversary of Sept. 11, announced on Tuesday the first ever increase of its nationwide threat level. The information pointed to possible suicide attacks on U.S. interes ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 11:50:05 PDT 2002

27725 How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >At 11:02 AM 9/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>Gar Lipow wrote: >> >>> OK not a main argument against invastion - but a good reply to >>>one argument. >>> >>>The claim is that Iraq was uniquely evil because of >>> >>>1) Actually having used WMD >>> >>>2) Because he used them against his own people. >>> >>> >>>That we sold them to him at the time he was doing this is a good > ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 11:36:09 PDT 2002

27726 On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows.... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> Yes, up to a point you're right. But it's also a problem with left >> culture that people are often afraid to be nasty or funny > >Prove it. I don't have to. You do it every day. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 11:25:34 PDT 2002

27727 On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows.... -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 11:33 AM 9/10/2002 -0400, doug wrote: >>Michael Perelman wrote: >> >>Yes, up to a point you're right. But it's also a problem with left >>culture that people are often afraid to be nasty or funny - and >>they have no sense of the emotional potency of hate. You see >>proclamations that such-and-such is a "hate-free zone." Yeah, >>right, that's the way to deal with hate - just declare it off >>limits. Hate is ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 11:24:55 PDT 2002

27728 Fwd: Zionism's Bad Conscience -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:33:37 -0400 Subject: Zionism's Bad Conscience From: joel kovel <jkovel at prodigy.net> Dear friends, I have recently puublished in Tikkun Magazine an article, "Zionism's Bad Conscience," which has aroused some interesting reaction. In the belief that open debate on the great issues of our time is essential, I offer below its URL. Any comments are welcome. <http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0209/article/020911b.html> Jo ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 11:10:26 PDT 2002

27729 Fwd: Re: The Crimes of Empire? -- rank: 1000

X-From_: sackerman at FAIR.ORG Tue Sep 10 13:19:19 2002 From: Seth Ackerman <sackerman at FAIR.ORG> To: "'dhenwood at panix.com'" <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Re: The Crimes of Empire? Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:21:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Status: O X-Status: [Doug - my ISP shut down my account while I was out of town last month. Could you post this to the list for me? Thanks.] >[just because you post it, doesn't mean you totally agree. Chomsky >by the way has s ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 11:03:13 PDT 2002

27730 On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows.... -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Would a leftist have the opportunity to behave that way. Moyers/Donahue >only get a hearing because they behave respectably. TV, unfortunately, >is a corporate medium. Yes, up to a point you're right. But it's also a problem with left culture that people are often afraid to be nasty or funny - and they have no sense of the emotional potency of hate. You see proclamations that such-and-such is a "hate-free zone." Yeah, right, that's the way to deal wi ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 08:33:28 PDT 2002

27731 university in Bangladesh shut -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - September 10, 2002 Officials Close University in Bangladesh Following Violent Student Protests By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND New Delhi Officials closed the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology indefinitely on Sunday, after student protests at the country's premier engineering institute turned violent. The university, in Dhaka, the capital city, is the second in two months to be shut because of student clashes with police. "We have decided ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 08:07:03 PDT 2002

27732 How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: > OK not a main argument against invastion - but a good reply to one argument. > >The claim is that Iraq was uniquely evil because of > >1) Actually having used WMD > >2) Because he used them against his own people. > > >That we sold them to him at the time he was doing this is a good >reply to these - since apparently we did not think these particular >things made him uniquely evil at the time. And it is a special point >that Cheney was o ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 08:02:30 PDT 2002

27733 On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows.... -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Donahue and Moyers--not the greatest leftists in the >world, but on the left at least: Why the hell aren't >left wing TV shows popular? Scary! Because they're pious and boring? One of the reason right-wing talk is popular is because it's aggressive and often funny. Moyers sounds like a preacher on sedatives. O'Reilly is in many ways an abomination, but he's entertaining. Michael Moore might be able to put it off, but not the eat-your-peas crowd. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 10 07:35:39 PDT 2002

27734 New York fire-fighters sickened by Sept 11 fumes -- rank: 1000

Cian wrote: >http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020909/80/d98ih.html > >Not surprising in itself, though it will be interesting to see what the >official reaction to this will be. The original of that was the CDC link for MMWR, one of the world's great publications, I posted a little while ago. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 9 18:22:41 PDT 2002

27735 Fwd: September 11, 2002 Special Issue MMWR Table of Contents -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 18:54:35 -0400 From: MMWR Questions <mmwrq at CDC.GOV> Subject: September 11, 2002 Special Issue MMWR Table of Contents To: MMWR-TOC at LISTSERV.CDC.GOV The September 11, 2002 Special Issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is available in Adobe Acrobat format. View this week's MMWR as a web page at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr and http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm51sp.pdf Spain Mirror Site* http://cisat.isciii.es/mmwr September 11, 2002/Vol. 51/Sp ...

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