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11116 [lbo-talk] needed: Sicko volunteers in the NYC area -- rank: 1000

From: Joanne Landy <jlandy at igc.org> Date: June 27, 2007 1:20:34 PM EDT To: jlandy at igc.org Subject: RSVP: SICKO VOLUNTEERS Hi all! (please reply with any questions, and with the theater/time you have chosen. If you like, you can use the little form at the end of this message. Otherwise just send a fresh email with the info), PLEASE JOIN US IN HELPING BUILD A national movement to take advantage of movie goer's frustration after seeing Sicko and channel their energies towards helpin ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 11:16:24 PDT 2007

11117 [lbo-talk] Sanctions on Iran: What UN Envoys Say + a British Proposal Targeting Iran's Shipping Lines -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Some leftists in the West, including some Iranian leftists in the > diaspora, appear to believe that to portray Iran in the worst possible > light is in the best interests of Iran's workers, women, GLBTQ > individuals, and so on and that correcting misinformation in the > corporate and other media and presenting information about the > services that the Iranian government does provide its citizens is to > engage in so-c ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 09:09:24 PDT 2007

11118 [lbo-talk] Paris liberated! -- rank: 1000

And the NY Post rises to the occasion: <http://www.nypost.com/seven/ 06272007/frontback.htm>

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Date:	Wed Jun 27 08:47:29 PDT 2007

11119 [lbo-talk] name that baby! -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/the-parent-crap/americans-now-too-stupid-to- name-own-children-272031.php> Americans Now Too Stupid To Name Own Children Self-obsessed parents-to-be have one more thing to worry about: What to name the little testament to themselves once Mommy poops it out. You don't want your little angel to be like every other Madison in her class. The solution? Baby-naming consultants. <quote> Last fall, John Bentham, 36, a Las Vegas theater producer, and his wife, Shan ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 19:21:24 PDT 2007

11120 [lbo-talk] the Bloomberg effect -- rank: 1000

[Ravi sent me this offlist because he'd reached quota. Thanks for being a good list citizen, Ravi!] <http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/25/poll.bloomberg.schneider/> > Pit the two front-runner's against each other and what do you get? > A very close match -- Clinton 49 percent, Giuliani 48 percent. > > With all the new attention since his party switch, Bloomberg's > support seems to be on the rise -- 17 percent in a three-way > contest against Clinton and Giuliani. > ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 14:48:07 PDT 2007

11121 [lbo-talk] Sicko -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > I just thought you could do a satirical faux-right wing critique of > him..... In other words false criticism and accusation of conspiracy > theories this is really defending him against the deluge of such > accusations that the insurance companies are going to pay for. But > obviously as a 250 pound middle aged man nobody is going to mistake me > for a muse. The loons at PrisonPlanet <http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/ june ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 12:47:05 PDT 2007

11122 [lbo-talk] Trotsky speaks! -- rank: 1000

In English! Thanks to Susie Bright for the pointer. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7r4zpUEpog>

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 12:36:33 PDT 2007

11123 [lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:51 PM, tfast wrote: > Ah, the who are Americans anyway defence. Hard for you to tell but > fairly > easy for the rest of us. Everyone knows my father was American > even though > he has been a Canadian for thirty odd years --more time than he was an > American. Nativist or not that shit is potent:), I'm talking about the people who come here, not the people who leave. Americanization is a powerful force.

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 12:14:11 PDT 2007

11124 [lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Yoshie is no more Westernor a > US-er than you are. Hey, the USA is full of people from everywhere. It's one of the better things about us. Woj says he's naturalized, which means he's even a citizen. You going nativist on us? Doug

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11125 [lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > But other than that - I find the stuff that she posts quite > informative, > albeit a bit too long. My only suggestion would be to summarize > the main > points and their relevance to the argument at hand and only making > references to originals - instead of re-posting originals > verbatim. This, > imho, would not only make her arguments far more effective, but > also be more > tolerable to those with low t ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 08:52:54 PDT 2007

11126 [lbo-talk] Don Rickles? -- rank: 1000

<http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2007/06/sometimes_i_wonder.html> Sometimes I wonder Die Tradition aller toten Geschlechter lastet wie ein Alp auf dem Gehirne der Lebenden.* -- Karl Marx Owen alluded recently to my fondness for Doug Henwood's Left Business Observer and the mailing list associated with it, lbo-talk. I cheerfully admit the charge, even though lbo-talk is certainly by far the most irascible, uncivil, squabblesome e-mail list I have ever seen -- and that's saying a lot. ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 08:25:40 PDT 2007

11127 [lbo-talk] headline of the week -- rank: 1000

Republican Thompson endorsed by ex-girlfriends By Steve Holland Mon Jun 25, 6:34 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Things must be going well for prospective presidential candidate Fred Thompson because even his ex-wife and former girlfriends are endorsing him.[...]

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 08:22:39 PDT 2007

11128 [lbo-talk] Photo of Nazi medal commemorating Zionist collaboration with Hitler -- rank: 1000

[Lenni Brenner writes...] "A NAZI TRAVELS T0 PALESTINE AND TELLS ABOUT IT IN THE ASSAULT" Photo of Nazi medal commemorating Zionist collaboration with Hitler By Lenni Brenner It is only natural that contemporaries should be skeptical when they first hear accusations that Zionists collaborated with Hitler. Israel is constantly at war. The public projects Zionist pugnacity back onto the holocaust era and assumes that the World Zionist Organization opposed Nazism after Hitler came to ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 06:57:33 PDT 2007

11129 [lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements -- rank: 1000

On Jun 26, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > But as Bricmont points out in his latest, 'Humanitarian Imperialism', > support is usually a sentimental category, an alignment as passive as > 'support' for one's football team. I have no problem with this, though much of what the far left says is barely more relevant than that even when it comes to domestic politics. I don't the point of actively demonizing the government of Iran, or endlessly circulating reports of how terrible it ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 06:27:34 PDT 2007

11130 [lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements -- rank: 1000

On Jun 25, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Possibly, but how can you be so sure that it was? It reminds me of > a remark > that Alexander Cockburn once made: the corrections column in the > New York > Times is there to give the impression that everything else in the > paper was > true. I really don't understand why we have to confuse opposition to an attack on Iran, which would be barbaric and disastrous, with a defense of the regime, which deserves none. Can't we ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 25 15:05:23 PDT 2007