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36106 Breaking Butterflies & Poisoning Wells -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The RCP has been a butterfly What? Lacan is evil, but the RCP is a butterfly? It's a weird Maoist cult. I'd love to hear their reaction if they knew you were quoting Pope in their defense. If I weren't afraid of libel suits, the stories I could tell you about its guru Bob Avakian! Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 7 08:37:03 PST 2000

36107 The Psychoses (was Re: ...muck...) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Ken is engaged in precisely the kind of shit that first provoked my >politicization several years before I dreamt of becoming a marxist. >Apparently Ken's whole world revolves around put-downs of the >bulk of the human species. He uses Lacanianism as a club. That >is contemptible. It also brings out clearly that Lacan's theories are >not only silly but aggessively corrupt and corrupting. Oh come on. Jesus. You don't like Lacan. You don't like psychoanalysis. ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 7 08:32:40 PST 2000

36108 psyhoses -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of a taboo word] Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 09:53:31 -0500 From: kelley <oudies at flash.net> kelley <oudies at flash.net> wrote: > >> from this perspective the entire edifice of the dominant arm of the glbt >movement with it's claims to biological necessity are "psychotic" -- ("It >wasn't me! It was my biological destiny. I was born that way!!")." ken >You don't think the abrogation of responsibility through reliance on a final ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 7 08:23:23 PST 2000

36109 news from Austria -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - February 7, 2000 First victim of Austria's new era is journalist By Frederick Baker and Imre Karacs in Vienna A prominent Austrian journalist who is fiercely critical of the country's far-right leader Jörg Haider has has become one of the first victims of the new political realities sweeping across the country. Gerhard Marschall 47, a journalist at the leading índependent regional paper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, was given his notice on Friday, the day that the new A ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 7 05:39:04 PST 2000

36110 FW: If you can't beat'em, slur'em: ABC attacks organic food -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: > The Hudson Institute must be desperate for polemical >writers. Did they house & feed Herman Kahn? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 21:20:27 PST 2000

36111 Ramsey Clark article -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I basically agree with Jim. Besides the point Jim made, I'd also point out >the sexist suggestion of the article: > >***** WWP cadre Gavriella Gemma became a secretary in Clark's New York >law office in 1977. In his New Republic piece, Judis suggests that Clark >fell under her spell and was won over to the WWP. When David McReynolds of >the War Resisters League met with Clark in 1990 to warn him that WWP was >"using him," Clark refuse ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 21:28:46 PST 2000

36112 FW: If you can't beat'em, slur'em: ABC attacks organic food -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Michael Fumento Fresh from a previous career, in which he claimed AIDS was no danger to straight middle-class people like himself. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 16:24:42 PST 2000

36113 The Psychoses (was Re: ...muck...) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: > > > > > Exactly which part of this is the criminal problem? > >All of it. There is no way to carry on a civil conversation with >anyone who believes this nonsense. And do you hold yourself up as a model of civil conversation? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 13:38:02 PST 2000

36114 the other Kissinger on public executions -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >This other Kissinger would be of the "Clark" variety? I've been doing >some asking around of activists I know. Apparently he has quite a closet >full of skeletons from the early 90s. Yup, sorry. C Clark. The whole article is at <http://www.mcs.net/~rwor/a/china/opium.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 12:48:28 PST 2000

36115 Murray raves again: capitalist patriarchy hardwired! -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >leftists are eugenicists Not today, perhaps, but Murray has a point about eugenics in the past, no? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 5 18:59:26 PST 2000

36116 Murray raves again: capitalist patriarchy hardwired! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Murray sounds a lot like Saint-Simon two centuries ago: physics is >advancing so quickly -- soon there will be a science of social laws that >is just as predictive! Yeah, it's just around the corner. He's just looking for an excuse to put the lower orders into...hmm, what did he call them in The Bell Curve, slightly more humane versions of Indian reservations, or something like that. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 5 18:58:38 PST 2000

36117 the other Kissinger on public executions -- rank: 1000

One of the prominent left leaders of the Free Mumia coalition apparently is no principled opponent of capital punishment. Someone just sent me this morsel - what he had to say a few years ago about the Chinese approach to the drug war (emphasis in original): >This revolutionary policy treated all poor people as brothers and >sisters. Poor addicts and dealers got ``A WAY OUT'' of the drug >trade. They were given jobs and were encouraged to join the struggle >for a new society. A diffe ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 5 18:56:19 PST 2000

36118 Murray raves again: capitalist patriarchy hardwired! -- rank: 1000

National Review - January 24, 2000 DEEPER INTO THE BRAIN by Charles Murray Mr. Murray is the Bradley Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. We, Homo sapiens, are about to learn how to alter human nature at roughly the same time that we finally learn for sure what that nature is. Our ignorance about the underlying truth of human nature has not been for want of trying. Philosophers took up the question as one of the very first that human beings systematically asked about themselves. But phil ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 5 08:12:42 PST 2000

36119 Judis on Bush/McCain -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >John Judis, the presidential election and Salon -- what could be more >boring? But forced to read this by a friend, I found there were some >interesting snippets. The election & Salon are true snooze material, but I always thought Judis, despite his often objectionable politics, is a smart guy who often writes about interesting stuff. Even when he's wrong. ITT would be a lot better if he still were there. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 17:16:25 PST 2000

36120 phallopolitics, Russian style/ Judy Chicago in Russia -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I saw a news report that there is a news show in Russia now where >the newscasters, who are women, strip while they report the news and >weather. >It did not seem to be any kind of joke. It'd be hilarious to watch Dan Rather or Al Roker do this. Once, though. Repeated watching could be seriously damaging. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 14:46:03 PST 2000