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28246 anniversary -- rank: 1000

Happy 85th to the Russian Revolution! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 7 09:13:44 PST 2002

28247 Salon premium subscribers? -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Anyone here sub to Salon premium? I wanted to get a copy of their story by >Greg Palast on Florida's voter lists, published 11/1/02. Anyone been following <http://www.votewatch.us>? It's run by listmember Steve Hertzberg, whom I met yesterday on his visit to NYC. He told me there are all kinds of smelly things going on - Dem votes registering as Rep on touch-screen voting machines, mass black disenfranchisement, etc. Interesting factoid: the exec in charge of one ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 7 07:34:12 PST 2002

28248 Sharpton weighs in -- rank: 1000

Al Sharpton on the Dems, in Joyce Purnick's column in today's NYT: >"They forgot: you don't imitate the opposition, you oppose it," he >said. "There was no voter registration drive, nothing. I think they >got what they asked for. Nothing."

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Date:	Thu Nov 7 07:12:22 PST 2002

28249 AngryDems.com -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >in a discursive venue I would prefer not to divulge, lest >I invite yet further derision oh you tease! do tell

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 6 20:40:31 PST 2002

28250 Italy: Anti-war, anti-globalization protests commence -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >Italian unions organized the anti-war demonstration Oh to be in Italy.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 6 12:06:49 PST 2002

28251 Fed cuts by 1/2 -- rank: 1000

[Fed funds haven't been this low since 1961, and the discount rate, since 1946. 50 bp is twice what was expected, but "balanced risks" suggests that's all folks. Mixed signals....] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Press/monetary/2002/20021106/default.htm> Release Date: November 6, 2002 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to lower its target for the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 1 1/4 percent. In a related action, the Board of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 6 11:46:52 PST 2002

28252 rightwing nuts -- rank: 1000

[from Michelangelo Signorile's column in NY Press <http://www.nypress.com/15/45/news&columns/signorile.cfm> - Goldberg is the son of my neighbor, literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, who persuaded Linda Tripp to rat on Monica] >Over at National Review Online, meanwhile, Jonah Goldberg is gleeful >that the sniper suspects are both Muslim and black, and is hoping >they turn out to be homosexual as well. > >"IS JOHN MUHAMMED A THREEFER?" he asked last week. "We ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 6 09:07:37 PST 2002

28253 FDI & social conflict -- rank: 1000

A friend writes... >From: "Tom Kruse" <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net> >To: "'Doug Henwood'" <dhenwood at panix.com> >Subject: Request for leads from Tom in Bolivia >Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:58:25 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >A quick question today: know of any good studies out there that link >FDI to social conflict in Lat Am? Any ideas? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 6 08:39:53 PST 2002

28254 AngryDems.com -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But for any serious gains, the Dems needed to make a case for a positive >alternative to mobilize its base AND win over frustrated undecideds looking >for concrete things. The Dems didn't deliver. Whew. Ok. Cancel previous message, except for Nader content. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 6 08:32:02 PST 2002

28255 AngryDems.com -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And the fact remains that many Greens said that >Nader's victory would move the Dem leadership into a more progressive public >stance. Instead, we saw politics move to the right. I was wondering how liberals would blame Nader for yesterday's results, and here it is. You just can't admit that the Dems have no message and no appeal, can you? The other day, the NYT reported the results of a poll asking whether people thought the Reps had a clear idea of what they'd d ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 6 08:30:35 PST 2002

28256 Confession -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Even Right to Lifer Gerard Cronin beat out Stanley... > >Is it time to move out of New York State? This place is >beginning to frighten me.... How many votes did those fraudsters at the Working Families Party get for McCall? More than ever I'm convinced the WFP is a scheme to get wavering "progressives" to vote for a Dem. Vallone, Hillary, and McCall - if they're not walking arguments for a third party, I don't know who would be. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 6 06:43:10 PST 2002

28257 Fwd: AngryDems.com -- rank: 1000

>Don't blame the media. >Don't blame the Republicans. >Don't blame Paul's plane. >Don't blame 9-11. >Don't blame the Greens. >And sure as hell don't blame the American people! > >BLAME THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERSHIP. > >Terry McAuliffe is an idiot. Daschle is a complete wuss. >Biden might as well not exist. It's time for us all to admit it. > >And you know what? >They're not even going to take the right lesson from this. >No, instead they're going to ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 6 06:41:18 PST 2002

28258 Al-Q Honcho Hit -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Anarchists of the Chuck0 persuasion think a lot like Nathan: they want >to affect the state apparatus directly. That part of WITBD reads as >fresh today as it did in 1902 -- the unity of opportunists and >terrorists. What? Nathan and Chuck0 have a secret (or not-so-secret if you've read Lenin) affinity with terrorists? That's one of the most preposterous things you've ever said. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 5 18:09:34 PST 2002

28259 confession -- rank: 1000

Egads, I just voted for Stanley Aronowitz for governor of New York. I think I have to go drink heavily now. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 5 18:05:10 PST 2002

28260 Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Where the left can't restrain itself from listing everything from Mumia to >farm aid at every rally, the rightwing is much better at picking a >particular issue, pointing all their guns at it, and blasting it onto the >front page. The respectable right, maybe, but really, the movement right can be as weird and nutty as the left, maybe more so. Besides, while I can see the point of a sharp focus at a rally, single-issue stuff is brain deadening. I don't see how a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 5 16:09:44 PST 2002