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331 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

> So you don't think that the fall of Saddam opens up positive > possibilities for the Iraqi people? Any major event, negative or positive, opens up both negative and positive possibilities, both predictable and unpredictable. For example, the 9/11 attacks and the war on Afghanistan brought the current anti ...

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Author:	loupaulsen at attbi.com
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:07:14 PDT 2003

332 [lbo-talk] WBAI's quackery is annoying as all gittout -- rank: 508

Doug Henwood wrote: > And these are all third- and fourth-string quacks compared to the > Quackmeister himself, Gary Null: > > <http://www.garynull.com>. > > Null brought in so much of the station's money that he became a rival > power center to management. So they fired him. That's a good bit ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Wed Mar 12 13:39:40 PDT 2008

333 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Once again, The Onion put it best: ...and don't forget: >Dow Up 300 After Deaths Of 400 >NEW YORK-Buoyed by positive news from the war front, the Dow Jones >Industrial Average soared more than 300 points Monday after the >killing of more than 400 Republican Guard ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:02:34 PDT 2003

334 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

>From: Willy Greenfields <filthydirtyunwashed at yahoo.com> > >... And it seems as some may simply >frenzied by the mass looting ... Saw an amazing sight just now on the TV news: a gleeful Iraqi looter dashing out of a building with a flower arrangement. Carl _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:58:43 PDT 2003

335 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

> > Don't be stupid. > >I thought you were joking with your designation of the >Baghdad events as a "pro-war mobilization" and replied >in kind. If you were serious, then I've gotta tell you >to follow your own above advice. > >I don't think anybody should say what those ...

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Author:	Bradford DeLong
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:54:30 PDT 2003

336 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

> > Bradford DeLong wrote: >> >> >Alongside what looks like a vigorous popular spontaneous prowar >> >mobilization today in Baghdad... >> >> ...by people who are, we've been told, well trained to flatter >> whoever's in power. >> > > >The Anschluss of Austria was also greeted with jubilation by certain >segments of society. The French right was ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:50:55 PDT 2003

337 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

>>From: Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> >> >>Alongside what looks like a vigorous popular spontaneous prowar >>mobilization today in Baghdad... > >[Absent, of course, Brad m'lad, were the party-pooping Iraqi >civilians who didn't survive their liberation. Yep. Once again, The Onion put it best: DEAD IRAQI WOULD ...

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Author:	Bradford DeLong
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:38:18 PDT 2003

338 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

> Don't be stupid. I thought you were joking with your designation of the Baghdad events as a "pro-war mobilization" and replied in kind. If you were serious, then I've gotta tell you to follow your own above advice. I don't think anybody should say what those ...

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Author:	Willy Greenfields
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:43:16 PDT 2003

339 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Perhaps, but probably not. The line that signs of enthusiasm for >Saddam's fall are simply sucking up to the new imperial power is >going to be hard to maintain. Let's revisit the issue in six months. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:38:51 PDT 2003

340 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

> Bradford DeLong wrote: > > >Alongside what looks like a vigorous popular spontaneous prowar > >mobilization today in Baghdad... > > ...by people who are, we've been told, well trained to flatter > whoever's in power. > The Anschluss of Austria was also greeted with jubilation by certain segments of society. The French right was ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:32:15 PDT 2003

341 [lbo-talk] apply for WBAI program director! -- rank: 508

On Aug 15, 2011, at 4:49 PM, martin schiller wrote: > On Aug 14, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > >> and if you didn't toe a line that was becoming increasingly ludicrous you were drummed out. > > Try 'tow a line . Er, why? The expression/idiom is toe the ...

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342 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

>Bradford DeLong wrote: > >>Alongside what looks like a vigorous popular spontaneous prowar >>mobilization today in Baghdad... > >...by people who are, we've been told, well trained to flatter >whoever's in power. > >Doug Perhaps, but probably not. The line that signs of enthusiasm for Saddam's fall are simply sucking ...

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Author:	Bradford DeLong
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:29:48 PDT 2003

343 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

> > Alongside what looks like a vigorous popular >> spontaneous prowar >> mobilization today in Baghdad... > >Ah, so they were celebrating receipt of American >ordnance. It was only an allegation when Hitchens said >so, but with your corroboration, I'll buy it. Don't be stupid. Brad DeLong

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Author:	Bradford DeLong
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:28:04 PDT 2003

344 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

Like I said to a guy in the elevator today, "Hell, if there was a big statue of George Bush in Chicago, I bet we could get ten thousand people to pull it down." (I didn't continue: but in that case the armed men wouldn't protect us and help ...

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Author:	loupaulsen at attbi.com
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:31:34 PDT 2003

345 [lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions -- rank: 508

>From: Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> > >Alongside what looks like a vigorous popular spontaneous prowar >mobilization today in Baghdad... [Absent, of course, Brad m'lad, were the party-pooping Iraqi civilians who didn't survive their liberation. Through the magic of data massage, though, I'm confident that ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed Apr 9 15:30:20 PDT 2003