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29446 Fwd: Todays Globe and Mail -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "paul childs" <npchilds at connect.ab.ca> Sender: npchilds at connect.ab.ca Reply-To: npchilds at connect.ab.ca To: owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com (lbo-talk-digest) X-CC-Sender: npchilds at connect.ab.ca Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:09:32 +0700 Subject: Todays Globe and Mail X-User-Info: 192.197.232.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Just so you know, America doesn't have a monopoly on foaming at the mouth pro-war columnists. Margaret "bigger-bal ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 22 09:28:07 PST 2002

29447 Success of religious communes -- rank: 1000

P.J.Wells at open.ac.uk wrote: >Doug wrote, responding to Chris > >>Engels' reasoning seems less than sound here - why isn't it likely >>that the irrational religious beliefs are what keep the community >>together, and make their collectivism possible? Similarly, it's >>likely that the hunter-gatherers, so revered by many, were able to >>live their peaceful collective lives precisely because they didn't >>engage in production on anything but the smallest ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 22 09:27:26 PST 2002

29448 Dems: include same-sexers in SS benefits -- rank: 1000

Democratic National Committee <http://www.democrats.org/news/releases/rel011902c.html> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2002 CONTACT: Campbell Spencer (202) 863-8068 Bridget Leininger (202) 863-8039 DNC Urges the Protection and Strengthening of Social Security Historic Resolution Calls for Inclusion of Same Sex Couples Washington, DC -- The Democratic National Committee (DNC) today approved a resolution urging the protection and strengthening of the Social Security system - and making his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 09:07:09 PST 2002

29449 Starship Troopers & left infantilism (Re: Carmen Electra with the troops -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >There is a strain of intellectual contempt on the Left that acts as if >intellectual engagement with rightwing ideas is beneath them-- only parody, >cartoon, ridicule are acceptable modes of engagement. Now while I am all for >the latter in specific propaganda and public relation actions, it seems a bit >too pervasive. And when original rightwing source material is so completely >distorted by a movie maker, as Verhoven did in Starship Troopers, it does & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 09:00:16 PST 2002

29450 Rappers show the flag -- rank: 1000

Wow. Maybe Christopher Hitchens should follow in Cornel West's footsteps and record a rap album too! Doug Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >Rapper posturing turned out to be as fake as it looked: Rappers are "bad" >only as long as it sells. > >Hakki >-------------------------------------------- >'Draft me!' > >Once they wanted to 'fight the power'. Now they want to fight for their >country. Whatever happened to US rappers, asks Dorian Lynskey > >Tuesday January ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 22 08:45:19 PST 2002

29451 Mormons as Marxists (Re: Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat -- rank: 1000

Chris Brooke wrote: >>We had a Mormon faculty member who used to describe the original Mormon >>economy as something that sounded like a crude socialist economy. > >Engels, in the Deutsches Bürgerbucj für 1845 (MECW, 4.214-228), >presented a survey of actually-existing communist colonies and >rather optimistically wrote this: > >"The reader will discover that most of the colonies that will be >described in this article had their origins in all kinds of >r ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 22 08:30:45 PST 2002

29452 Roe v Wade anniversary poll -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020122.asp> POLL ANALYSES January 22, 2002 Americans Still Not Content With Abortion Laws But majority would keep abortion legal by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE Send to a Friend Message to the Author PRINCETON, NJ -- January 22 marks the 29th anniversary of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, and all these years later, a Gallup poll finds that the controversy is not resolved for many Americans. Although a majority of U.S. a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 22 08:26:56 PST 2002

29453 the antithesis of a children's hospital -- rank: 1000

A pull quote from Michael Cieply's Letter from Los Angeles in the final issue of Talk magazine, about Hollywood's fears that the Oscars would be in the terrorists' crosshairs: "'What better target,' asks a studio exec, 'than an auditorium full of rich, annoying, arrogant Americans? It's the very antithesis of bombing children in a hospital.'" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 21 21:06:01 PST 2002

29454 photo -- rank: 1000

Jordan asked about the infamous photos of the prisoners in Guantanamo, hooded, shackled, kneeling. Here's one: <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20020121/ts/mdf116096.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 21 13:58:24 PST 2002

29455 recycling the WTC -- rank: 1000

Monday January 21 8:55 AM ET World Trade Centre Scrap Sails for India, China By Pete Harrison and Manuela Badawy LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center is destined for a new life in India and China, where it has been sent for recycling and is set to end up in new construction projects. One firm taking steel from the huge project to clear Ground Zero is New York's Metals Management. Company president Alan Ratner said it had bought 70,000 tons of scrap from t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 21 06:17:20 PST 2002

29456 Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >Your'e falsley equating food production with work. You can produce things >without doing work. I do it all the time. Eh? Planting, harvesting, processing, cooking - these aren't work? Are we speaking the same language? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 20 14:25:15 PST 2002

29457 Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >probably yes, at least for us (and since we probably will not leave >the tribals alone, probably for them too). so is your point a >pragmatic one? Yes, and "us" in this case includes almost everyone on earth. How many "tribals" haven't been touched by modernity in some way? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 20 14:03:38 PST 2002

29458 "Central "Planning is really Holistic Planning. -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >The Spanish & Ukrainian >revolutions also show that it can work. For how long? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 20 13:54:05 PST 2002

29459 Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >CEOs and lawyers? No need for them after the revolution, nor cops, >judges, television celebrities, security guards, and so on. No celebrities? Fughgedaboutit, you can keep your revolution! Life without Demi would be unimaginable! Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 20 13:21:21 PST 2002

29460 Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Let me add that one of the most important medical advances in the 20th >century was simply better sanitation. Made possible by public health specialists, civil engineers, and trash collectors. If they'd refused to work, would we be surrounded by garbage? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 20 13:17:29 PST 2002