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34111 Fwd: Stay Free! | November 14 -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:57:56 -0400 From: Carrie McLaren <carrie at stayfreemagazine.org> Subject: Stay Free! | November 14 After months of slacking off, I've redesigned the website: http://www.stayfreemagazine.org Thanks to Mr. Charles Branstool for helping make it happen. Still nothing up from the new issue, but I added a couple items from issue #16 that had fallen through the cracks: "Saving Community Gardens" Quality advice from NYC's garden militia http://www.stayfreemagaz ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 17:58:06 PST 2000

34112 White males -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Is it true that white males voted the large margin of 60% to 36% for Bush? Yes. >What does this say about their concept of themselves. Is it >something about their idea of Americanness? They think Bush is more likely to preserve their race and gender privileges than Gore would be. Why else? >And if so why would Bush be considering bringing a black into his >cabinet at the highest level? Because white men are less than 40% of the electorate. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 16:10:49 PST 2000

34113 Courts (was Re: Nathan is right) -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >It's virtually certain that affirmative action in public higher >education is doomed. I cannot imagine the 6th Circuit coming out in >favor of it. Even the normally liberal 1st Circuit rejected it. How many of those judges were Clinton appointees? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 14:53:37 PST 2000

34114 Hail the Hitler-Stalin pact! -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > Soviet-German non-Agression Pact is and was eminently supportable. >It helped saved the world from Nazism. Wow. You don't see this argument made every day. Reading it is a bit like walking out the door and seeing a mastodon dining on a dodo. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 13:07:49 PST 2000

34115 America's Criminal Injustice System -- rank: 1000

jacdon at earthlink.net wrote: >Monica Moorehead, leader of the Millions for Mumia campaign ...and presidential candidate of the Workers World cult, no? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 12:06:49 PST 2000

34116 Nathan is right -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Nathan is probably right about the scenario I suggested -- that Gore's >stock will increase among the Demos. Sadly, Sort of makes him the Lynyrd Skynyrd of politics - death can be a great career booster! Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 11:58:40 PST 2000

34117 Advantage Bush? -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Nathan, as a loyal Democrat the last thing you would want would be for >Gore to win. Whoever wins will be discredited from the beginning. The >best thing for your party would be to have Gore fall on his sword for "the >good of the country," then sit back and chuckle while Bush has to dig >himself out of a recession. What if there's no recession? Or if it's so mild it hardly matters? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 10:04:49 PST 2000

34118 Chucking the electoral college -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >I generally don't mind being lbo potted plant but I've posted variation >of below about three times to list in response to above... I know you have; you're no potted plant. But the language seems very clear and unambiguous to me - I don't see how you get around it. Who's argued to the contrary? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 09:20:38 PST 2000

34119 Chucking the electoral college -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >work with and radicalize "the struggles and wishes of the age..." I'm all for that, but to do that you've got to confront the deliberately antidemocratic structure of U.S. government, something most liberals and leftists refuse to do. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 08:34:16 PST 2000

34120 Yugo debt -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] YUGOSLAVIA'S DEBT 'BARRIER TO AID'. Yugoslavia's massive debt stands in the way of desperately needed aid, new President Vojislav Kostunica has been warned, CNN Online and Reuters reports. Officials from the Group of Seven richest nations and organizations including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Union Commission were meeting on Tuesday for talks following the end ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 08:04:32 PST 2000

34121 Alterman: Left in Shambles -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Gar Lipow wrote: > >> Art McGee, my friend, you give this Jan guy way too much credit. >> First as to to your idiot alert: Jan is no ordinary idiot. He is an >> insane idiot -[clip] >> >> As you can see, he has managed to mildly irritate me... > >I filter out his posts, so he doesn't bother me. S/he's gone. I'm guessing it's a he, but you never know. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 08:05:21 PST 2000

34122 Chucking the electoral college -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >next: get rid of the Senate! (where, by the way, all e.c. reform >usually dies) How? Got a plan to get every state to consent to it? From the sacred text itself: >Article V > >The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it >necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the >application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, >shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either >case, sh ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 07:53:36 PST 2000

34123 Fwd: Memorial for longtime Communist leader, Gus Hall -- rank: 1000

[I doubt Al Gore will be there.] November 3, 2000 For Immediate Release Public Service Announcement Contact: Terrie Albano (212) 924-2523 (646) 425-5969 Memorial for longtime Communist leader, Gus Hall A memorial meeting will be held Sunday, Nov. 19 from 2-4pm to celebrate the life of famous American communist, Gus Hall. The meeting will be held at Cooper Union, the Great Hall, 7 East 7th St, Manhattan, NY from 2 PM-4 PM with a reception to follow. Messages of condolences may be faxed to (212) ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 07:57:44 PST 2000

34124 McUnionbusting -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] The Independent (UK) 14 November 2000 Big Mac, Big Trouble It was supposed to be the start of a beautiful McFriendship. When the world's hungriest hamburger chain opened its first branch in Moscow, a new golden age of east-west relations was predicted. But 10 years on, the dream has gone stale By Patrick Cockburn Natalya Gracheva thinks that she is being watched. She works in the security section of the McDonald's food-processing plant known as "McComplex" ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 07:49:12 PST 2000

34125 Forbes is scared -- rank: 1000

'THE NEW ENEMY OF THE FREE MARKET HAS A FACE' Forbes magazine - "Corporate Saboteurs" (11.27.00 - great cover) 'They wrecked Monsanto. Now they're after the U.S. drug industry. IS YOUR COMPANY NEXT?' <http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/1127/6614156a.html>

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 07:30:17 PST 2000