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4081 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 149

>And what about all those Americans who like to be told what to do, >and who admire authoritarian institutions like the military, the >church, and the cops? > >Doug With the exception of those who become military officers, pastors, and ministers, what US workers like the most about the military and ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 16:19:14 PST 2005

4082 [lbo-talk] Environment: The Right's Achilles Heel? -- rank: 149

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org, Wed Feb 23 14:13:35 PST 2005: >AntiChrist candidates list: http://www.raptureready.us/antichrist.htm > >Even includes the Pope! With the exception of Fidel Castro, don't they all deserve to be on the list? The list's sin is mainly that of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Feb 23 15:31:56 PST 2005

4083 [lbo-talk] Colleges and Universities as Working-class Institutions -- rank: 149

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org, Wed Feb 23 13:23:23 PST 2005, [lbo-talk] Academics: >Travis writes: > >>What this article points to is the fact that organization and >>education of the working class is a long term project where any >>intellectual who wants to be involved must throw their ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Feb 23 14:22:44 PST 2005

4084 [lbo-talk] poor, white and pisssed -- rank: 149

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu, Wed Feb 23 12:14:50 PST 2005: >Yoshie: >>The irony is that, when corrupt gangsters who employed hooligans to >>maim and even kill dissidents were in charge of US unions, US >>workers had it better than today, as the gangsters stole less from >>US ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 13:32:59 PST 2005

4085 [lbo-talk] poor, white and pisssed -- rank: 149

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu, Wed Feb 23 10:26:46 PST 2005: >Turbulo: >>I'm basically sympathetic to much of this article. It suffers, >>however, from a basic defect of current political discourse: the >>obliteration of any distinction between liberal and radical or >>revolutionary (the latter two seeming to ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 11:24:45 PST 2005

4086 [lbo-talk] Not scientifically proven - Lawyers pose health risk -- rank: 149

>--- Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at dodo.com.au> wrote: > > This is what happens when you refuse to consider people's motives. > > Bill Bartlett > > Bracknell Tas > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1309456.htm > > Lawyers pose health risk: study > > By Nick Grimm for The World Today <snip> >>The study demonstrated ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 08:53:17 PST 2005

4087 [lbo-talk] The Simpsons & the Royal Navy: "Gay-o, it's O.K.-o" (Re: Pope: Gay Marriage is Evil) -- rank: 149

>[lbo-talk] Pope: Gay Marriage is Evil >BklynMagus magcomm at ix.netcom.com >Wed Feb 23 06:53:09 PST 2005 > >ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- Homosexual marriages are part of "a new >ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John >Paul says in his newly published book [Memory and ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 07:43:45 PST 2005

4088 [lbo-talk] Here's a real example of Bush authoritarianism -- rank: 149

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org, Tue Feb 22 21:34:33 PST 2005: >What I have said is that her case and the issues are more >complicated than your simplistic characterization and there are much >better symbols of authoritarian actions by our government. Such as >the following case where an ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 06:54:52 PST 2005

4089 [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart speaks -- rank: 149

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org, Tue Feb 22 13:00:28 PST 2005: >It is precisely because Stewart aligned her politics with her client >that the issue of "material support" could arise. Political views of defense counsels ought to be irrelevant to trials. Making much of attorneys' own political views ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 17:57:45 PST 2005

4090 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 149

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Tue Feb 22 13:32:29 PST 2005: >>Sure, people can do both; it's just depends on which question you >>want to answer. "Why does that doofus make that bogus claim time >>and again?" --Analysis of motives is helpful. "Is that claim >>bogus?" --Analysis ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 16:24:31 PST 2005

4091 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 149

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Tue Feb 22 07:13:51 PST 2005: >>Here's the problem: people impute a motive, and then they turn off >>any other critical thinking or assessment of the assertion > >They don't have to. Why is it so hard to do two things at ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 11:10:46 PST 2005

4092 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 149

>>Miles Jackson : >>Call me a well indoctrinated child of the Enlightenment, but the >>motives of someone who is providing information or a specific >>argument are completely irrelevant to a critical and rational >>assessment of the person's assertions. > >Who was arguing that motives trump all data? No one here that ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 07:00:45 PST 2005

4093 [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart speaks -- rank: 149

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org, Mon Feb 21 18:24:16 PST 2005: >Michael Dawson wrote: >>4. Like Churchill, she has nothing to apologize to the left for. > >-Not right now, no. Why is this so hard to understand? They're the >-leading edge of an intensified crackdown, and respectability ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 21 19:51:50 PST 2005

4094 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 149

... Fourth -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 21 19:01:40 PST 2005

4095 [lbo-talk] Nothing but the facts... (was Churchill something...) -- rank: 149

Chuck Grimes wrote: >"If the two sources cited by Pearson are sound, even the older >technique of live virus inoculation was effective. Is there any >evidence to the contrary?'' Yoshie > >Only the potential hazards that I cited from the NYC quote I >included about 1801. That, and the near certainty that ...

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