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33991 the tears of Sawicky -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Bush is such an ignorant fake If you wanted to be utterly cynical, a la Mencken, you'd have to root for Bush - for the rich comic possibilities. He's such a breathtaking moron. American politics is full of doozies, but W is really one of the dooziest. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 4 11:20:54 PDT 2000

33992 Prez Debates - Round 1 -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Ok, that part was obscene - but other parts were not - like for example >extending the prosperity to those who are now excluded - which btw is the >main casus belli against capitalism our fearless moderator Doug H. espouses. Eh? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 4 11:21:22 PDT 2000

33993 Paglia Dishes on Marty & Al's Endless Love -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >It's well established that Gore has a problem relating to average, >heterosexual guys, who are leaning toward Bush. Is this good, bad, or neither? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 4 10:41:18 PDT 2000

33994 the tears of Sawicky -- rank: 1000

Max, what was it about the debate that evoked all those tears? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 4 10:36:43 PDT 2000

33995 elitism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >As I said, the criticism of the limits of democracy under capitalism has >jumped off the rails into this postmodernist language swamp of >"appropriation" and other language games, where every mass organization can >be dismissed as illegitimate in favor of the literary rhetorical views of >the writers and intellectuals lining up behind Nader. Once again, I'm confused. You say you're voting for McReynolds, yet you've spent the last few posts making su ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 4 10:33:15 PDT 2000

33996 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

[Seth was asking about the immigrant population...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2000 Public Information Office CB00-164 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) email: pio at census.gov Dianne Schmidley/Joseph Costanzo 301-457-2403 Census Bureau Releases Profile of the Nation's Foreign-Born Population The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released a four-page Census Brief profiling the nation's foreign-born population. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 4 10:24:15 PDT 2000

33997 Zizek and Polls -- rank: 1000

<kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> wrote: >Doug, I recall that you once said that "the media can't tell you >want to think, >but can tell you what to think about." It's not my nostrum, it's a chestnut of the public opinion industry.l Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 3 19:08:23 PDT 2000

33998 if we ran the debates... -- rank: 1000

[non-sub'd address] >Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:47:29 -0500 >Message-Id: <200010032347.SAA10814 at chomsky.casbah.org> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Subject: If We Ran the Presidential Debates... >From: Kendall Clark <kclark at ntlug.org> > >If the Monkeyfist Collective ran the presidential debates, they'd be >different in three ways: first, no corporate sponsors; second, >Nader, Buchanan, David McReynolds, and Harry Browne would be >included; third, n ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 3 19:07:06 PDT 2000

33999 Federal Reserve - private or government owned? -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Most of the rhetoric about the Federal Reserve being private originally comes >from the John Birch Society and other right-wing populist groups. Well, yeah, but 1) it is half, or 40% private, and 2) it's big capital's personal branch of government. Conspiracism is the class politics of fools, but there's a truth there that shouldn't be dismissed. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 3 18:50:01 PDT 2000

34000 elitism -- rank: 1000

Nathan wrote: >The point is that the Naderite groups have almost no real grassroots and a >complete homogeneity of purpose due to complete top-down fundraising >control. Unlike, say, the Democratic Party. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 3 15:04:27 PDT 2000

34001 Carnivore -- rank: 1000

InfoWorld.com - October 3, 2000 FBI forks over first Carnivore documents By Jennifer Jones A PRIVACY GROUP anxious to sink its teeth into the FBI's Carnivore program was disappointed Monday after the agency withheld large portions of the documents describing the FBI Internet monitoring program. Large chunks of material had been blacked out and Carnivore's source code was missing, said officials at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington. EPIC this summer filed a lawsuit ag ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 3 13:15:53 PDT 2000

34002 Federal Reserve - private or government owned? -- rank: 1000

B. Deutsch wrote: >I overheard an argument at a meeting yesterday and, not knowing the >answer, didn't say a thing. But >I was thinking that maybe someone on this list knows for sure and >can clarify things. Is the US >Federal Reserve Bank a private entity or a government agency? It's a public-private partnership, you might say. The 12 regional banks are technically owned by member banks in their districts, and they choose 2/3 of the board of directors. The Board in Washington, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 3 13:14:03 PDT 2000

34003 immigration poll -- rank: 1000

New Gallup figures on immigration show a fairly big shift since 1995: <http://www.gallup.com/poll/indicators/indimmigration.asp>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 3 12:51:49 PDT 2000

34004 Fed: no change -- rank: 1000

[still a mildly hawkish bias - if they'd dropped it, the stock market would have gone nuts] <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Press/General/2000/20001003/default.htm> October 3, 2000 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting today decided to maintain the existing stance of monetary policy, keeping its target for the federal funds rate at 6-1/2 percent. Recent data have indicated that the expansion of aggregate demand has moderated to a pace closer to the enh ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 3 12:11:21 PDT 2000

34005 pollit and Nader -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >NOW and the NAACP on the other hand are democratic organizations with often >cantankerous grassroots that can and do matter for elections of leadership. Really? The leaders of both are elected by the membership? Wasn't the NAACP supported by the Ford Foundation for years? Or am I misremembering? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 3 11:18:56 PDT 2000