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556 French Resistance UN -- rank: 1000

I only have time/energy for work and anti war stuff right now. Forwarding ----- From: Eatly at aol.com[SMTP:Eatly at aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:30 PM To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: FWD: Support the French Resistance I just spoke with France's UN office. They are BEGGING us to flood their offices and the other UN offices with emails to STOP the WAR. France needs to know that Americans are with them on this. PLEASE forward this to everyone you can. The ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Feb 13 16:31:23 PST 2003

557 USA nterview with Vidal -- rank: 1000

http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20030204001/tscript.htm ERIE, PA: Are your views biased by your political pary? You must be a Democrat? Gore Vidal: We only have one political party in the U.S., and that is the property party, which essentially is corporate America, which has two right wings, one called Republican and one called Democrat. I can't say I like either of them. -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 11 14:38:58 PST 2003

558 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

>At 12:58 PM 2/10/03 -0800, Marta Russell wrote: > >>Kelley I will give you the exsact post when Marco updates the LBO >>archives. The archives only go through Jan. and our exchange was >>in February. I don't save all my emails. >> >>Marta > >thanks! here's the link to the thread in the archives. it's all done >automagically: http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0301/index.html#2356 > > > >Kelley If you had bothered to check you see that the date f ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 10 14:36:17 PST 2003

559 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

> > >Could you or anyone else be so kind as to point out where I >attempted to read Marta's mind? I'm very serious and want to >understand how to amend my statements in the future to avoid such >misunderstandings! Thank you in advance! > > >Kelley Kelley I will give you the exsact post when Marco updates the LBO archives. The archives only go through Jan. and our exchange was in February. I don't save all my emails. Marta --

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Date:	Mon Feb 10 12:58:28 PST 2003

560 Rumsfield relatives appalled -- rank: 1000

Rumsfeld Family Tie is First Victim of War The American defense chief Donald Rumsfeld has been disowned by his anti-war relatives in north Germany By Tony Paterson February 9, 2003, the Telegraph/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0209-02.htm The Rumsfelds of Weyhe-Sudweyhe, an unremarkable red-brick suburb of Bremen, were once proud of their long-lost cousin, America's secretary of state for defense - but no longer. Like many Germans, they are appalled by Donald Rumsfeld's hawkish attit ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Feb 9 22:50:16 PST 2003

561 Don't Let CBS Fire David Clennon for Criticizing Bush's War -- rank: 1000

> >Please distribute widely: >TO VOTE GO TO: http://www.vote.com/ > >Free speech is under attack everywhere, but you can make a difference. >Actor and peace activist Dave Clennon stuck his neck out the other night >on Hannity's talk show, and now some apparently want him fired from his >CBS series. He likened the US to Nazi Germany on television, so those >who support the war against Iraq want him purged from acting. > >Wherever people are protesting for labor ri ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 8 20:58:06 PST 2003

562 Corn's Pandora's Box / Weyrich -- rank: 1000

Red Alert! Red Alert! Right-Wing Kingpin Hunts Commies <http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7189/view/print>http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7189/view/print Bill Berkowitz is a long time political observer and columnist. Raw McCarthyism is so yesterday. The twenty-first-century version of political witch-hunts will, like most things right-wing these days, come down the pike with a more measured approach and will be cloaked in the robes of defending our freedoms and fighting the wa ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Feb 8 14:35:21 PST 2003

563 ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

>Carrol Cox wrote: > >>Stannard's answer pretty >>much convinces me that he is lying. > >How do you fucking know? You're such a prick. > >Doug Double standard note. When Kelley decided that she "knew" what my intentions were re the Frida commentary you did not call her a prick. She was drawing conclusions that she could not possibly "know." Carrol doesn't deserve this constant hit on him when no one else gets it for doing a similar thing. Marta - ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Feb 6 10:51:17 PST 2003

564 facts , opinions and the "gentile" question -- rank: 1000

>" Does that excuse them from saying stupid >shit?" You mean like this metaphor: > ......and there is a definite blind spot - often deaf and dumb as >well - on the left ... Marta --

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Date:	Wed Feb 5 20:57:00 PST 2003

565 ex-radicals? -- rank: 1000

>At 04:54 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: >rhisiart at mail.earthlink.net wrote: > > >what one can question is the nation's judgement in knowingly >employing and covering for writers who are such liars and >propagandists. their extra curricular efforts aren't about issues >which the nation never treats. so can one conclude the nation has >sacred cows, and writers whose biases the nation shares but lacks >the courage to publish? yes. > >to use a cliche, i ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Feb 5 20:52:30 PST 2003

566 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>marta, if you read my statement again, you'll see that my statement >does not in any way suggest that what you think it does. I am taking >issue with you individualist analysis of the film, and I see your >individualist analysis of the film as _why_ you think it appropriate >to call women bimbos. and that's regardless as to whether they wear >see through clothes or don't strike you as particularly intelligent. > >Which is what the crits of you were about: calling women b ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Feb 1 15:00:38 PST 2003

567 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>At 11:28 AM 2/1/03 -0800, Marta Russell wrote: > >You wrote: >"Did Hayek, whose voluptuous eat-me-up body is displayed nude on the >big screen at every possible opportunity, object to having one of >her legs be "withered" by reality? For truly Frida's right leg was >smaller than her left." > >That you called her a bimbo was not surprising at all, given this >claim. The reason I started this with you is because Thomas Seay >couldn't see why we ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 1 14:52:44 PST 2003

568 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>At 12:21 PM 2/1/03 -0500, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>Marta rightly criticized the portrayal of disability in _Frida_ a > >Do you think she rightly criticized Hayek, though, because that was >the heart of her review and that was why the comment about Hayek's >bimboness was made? For some reason I did not get Yoshie's post. Probably my IP. Wrong Kelley. Actually, I did not find out about Salma going to the academy revealing her pubes until after I had written the commen ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 1 11:28:39 PST 2003

569 [lbo-talk] The Most Hellish Hell Of All? (was, school uniforms) -- rank: 1000

People aren't so "rosy" here anymore. They are more like hellcats trying to beat everyone else to the prize and part of that is to own an ass stomping SUV. Marta > >Since no one else has quoted this: > >Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it, >My brother Shelley found it to be a place >Much like the city of London. I, >Who do not live in London, but in Los Angeles, >Find, contemplating Hell, that is >Must be even more like Los Angeles. > >Also in Hell, ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Aug 26 13:30:13 PDT 2003

570 [lbo-talk] Sad Story -- rank: 1000

>Justin: >> So that is how things look to a smart 13 year old. Old >> style liberalism is communism. Clintonism is the far >> limit of the possible. Are we fucked, or what? And not > > in the nice way. > Don't forget Justin that children at her age have a deep need to not stand out -- they want to conform. they are just not ready to stand alone and take on the big guns. Marta > --

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 10:09:13 PDT 2003