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10936 [lbo-talk] Edwards, carbon-neutral -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0307/ Totally_Carbon_Neutral_Also_WellInsulated.html> Totally Carbon Neutral. Also, Well-Insulated. Your questions answered. Edwards spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield emails: "Yes, the house will be carbon-neutral, too. He made that decision when he decided to make the campaign carbon-neutral. He s made a commitment to keeping both his home and his campaign carbon-neutral. "Also, important to note -- the Edwards home exceeds energy efficie ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 20:55:43 PDT 2007

10937 [lbo-talk] McCain mumbles -- rank: 1000

<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/mccain-stumbles-on-hiv- prevention/> March 16, 2007, 4:14 pm McCain Stumbles on H.I.V. Prevention By Adam Nagourney SOMEWHERE in NORTHERN IOWA The unthinkable has happened. Senator John McCain met a question, while sitting with reporters on his bus as it rumbled through Iowa today, that he couldn t or perhaps wouldn t answer. Did he support the distribution of taxpayer-subsidized condoms in Africa to fight the transmission of H.I.V. ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 20:52:02 PDT 2007

10938 [lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2007, at 11:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Who should be editing a Marxist webzine? Someone who is at least sympathetic with the thought that the transformation of a system centered on the accumulation of capital would have to have at its center the people who produce that capital. You express a lot of hostility toward that section of the working class that's above miserable subsistence, and seem now to favor people whose marginalization from the system is expressed by their ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 20:39:44 PDT 2007

10939 [lbo-talk] name is Bond, Islamic bond -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 17, 2007 Islamic bonds recruited for purchase of 007's favourite car By Gillian Tett, Capital Markets Editor The name is Bond. Islamic bond. Or rather it should be, considering that the consortium which this week bought Aston Martin - makers of James Bond's favourite sports car - is going to finance the purchase according to strict Islamic principles. Ford Motor agreed to sell the company for £479m to a leveraged buy- out consortium organised out of London by Dave Rich ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 20:32:46 PDT 2007

10940 [lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If you join any revolution of the Left at all, > you are more likely to be in the rearguard than the vanguard. You > leave work to join the masses outside from behind. Remind me why you're editing a Marxist webzine? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 20:09:05 PDT 2007

10941 [lbo-talk] Plame -- rank: 1000

John Nichols has a post on the Nation blog <http://www.thenation.com/ blogs/notion/?pid=176131> - which, coming later than Liza's piece about repression in the Philippines now blocks hers on the front page - moaning about the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson. As I just commented: "She was a *covert CIA agent*. WHy should we care? Out 'em all!" It'd be great if a few listmembers added their comments to the mix. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 19:53:11 PDT 2007

10942 [lbo-talk] terror in the Philippines: "worse than Marcos" -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/?pid=176290> Terror in the Phillipines Liza Featherstone In October, I wrote about workers at the Chong Won garment factory in the Phillipines, who produce clothing for a number of retailers and brands, including Wal-Mart. Back then, workers were on strike defending their legal right to organize. Yesterday I caught up with Father Jose Dixon -- "Father Joe" -- a priest at the Workers' Assistance Centre in Cavite, who has played a major r ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 19:45:52 PDT 2007

10943 [lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Ted Winslow wrote: > There's also the little problem that slum conditions are inconsistent > with those required for the development of the "universal > individual." Well, so's working in a capitalist factory or office, no? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 11:44:40 PDT 2007

10944 [lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:15 PM, B. wrote: > It is effectively surprising how > many features of slum dwellers fit the good old Marxist determination > of the proletarian revolutionary subject: they are free in the > double > meaning of the word even more than the classic proletariat ( freed > from all substantial ties, dwelling in a free space, outside the > police > regulations of the state); and they are a large collective, forcibly > thrown together, thrown into a ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 10:27:57 PDT 2007

10945 [lbo-talk] Islam and Muslims (was Doug and Islam) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > leaving religion to attend to earthly > needs and desires of the global slum dwellers But it's not doing much to get people out of the slums; it just, if they're lucky, makes their existence there slightly more bearable. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 10:22:59 PDT 2007

10946 [lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2007, at 12:53 AM, joanna wrote: >> Where is a revolutionary potential in the North, however? >> >> > In the prisons? Man, is that ever hopeless Maoism. Someone once told me the story of walking around NYC with a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. They passed a drunk comatose in the gutter, and the RCPers said, "There's your revolutionary vanugard!" If 2 million people behind bars and several hundred thousand homeless urban alcoholics are ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 08:29:43 PDT 2007

10947 [lbo-talk] Islam and Muslims (was Doug and Islam) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > As > Marxism in practice has ceased to be an ideology of liberation and has > instead become an ideology of progressive capitalist development minus > transition to socialism in many countries (with some exceptions such > as Cuba, Nepal, and Venezuela), the poorer half of the world are > likely to turn to religion more than ever. So you're saying that Marx got religion exactly right in the classic heart of a heartless worl ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 17 08:27:41 PDT 2007

10948 [lbo-talk] Hill refines her posish on war -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > This whole Iraq debate is really a diversion You've got to be kidding. Thousands of Americans have died and many more been blown apart, and many times more Iraqis have suffered that fate. The war threatens to spread and throw the whole region into violent chaos. It's costing us a trillion dollars or more, and god only knows how much it's costing Iraqis. That's a bloody, expensive "diversion." Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 14:19:22 PDT 2007

10949 [lbo-talk] Political Taxonomy (Islam and Muslims (was Doug and Islam)) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Dmytri Kleiner wrote: > There is an egalitarian "right," i.e. anarcho-capitalism, and as well > anti-egalitarian "left," i.e. the "vangardism" of Stalinism (so-called > "marxism-leninism"), Trotskyism, Maoism, etc. Anarcho-capitalism is prepared to accept vast differences in income and wealth, as long as they're the outcome of truly free competition. Vanguardists accept secretive and inegalitarian methods in the shor ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 12:20:55 PDT 2007

10950 [lbo-talk] Islam and Muslims (was Doug and Islam) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Yes, just as Marxism has been a religion of left, right, center, and > the apolitical. Hmmm, pretty odd coming from the editor of MRZine, but that aside... I suppose you could embrace some sort of liberal critique of "totalitarianism" and the left-meets-right-at-the-extremes version of the political spectrum, but in any sensible political taxonomy, Marxism is a doctrine of the left. It's egalitarian and radically democrat ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 11:36:40 PDT 2007