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11326 [lbo-talk] cruise report -- rank: 1000

On Jul 29, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > Who's your favorite Democrat? I've got to come up > with a better comeback than "they all suck." Advice > welcome. > > Try Wayne Morse or George McGovern. I'm afraid they mean of the current crop of presidential candidates. To be fair, a lot of these folks seem to come from areas in which there aren't many people to the left of George W. So the gut reaction of my inner Trotskyist, who's been very voluble lately, do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 29 11:47:37 PDT 2007

11327 [lbo-talk] Ra?l on the 26th + Fidel on Cuba's Self Criticism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Such mental blocks, imho, > really dumb down discussion. A fair moderator might try to elevate > the level of discussion rather than lower it himself. I especially love the "imho." In fact I'm trying to encourage discussion. Your habit of broadcasting long articles to multiple lists - and mostly on a narrow range of topics with no regard to context - is the very opposite of discussion. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 29 11:31:39 PDT 2007

11328 [lbo-talk] cruise report -- rank: 1000

Greetings from the ms Oosterdam, approaching the Hecate Strait. Yeah, there's something hilarious about the whole idea of The Nation cruise, but it's pretty damn nice. The ship is pretty comfy, like an upper middlebrow hotel that floats. The crew - the visible staff, that is, upstairs, as opposed to the invisible folks downstairs - seem heavily drawn from Dutch colonial history, esp Indonesia. Apparently many stay on board for months or years, sending money home. Ralph Nader is here. Saw h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 29 11:06:54 PDT 2007

11329 [lbo-talk] Ra?l on the 26th + Fidel on Cuba's Self Criticism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Eubulides wrote: > What's private about the list? > > Serious question. What's private is that I moderate it and Jordan hosts it. I try to run it so that it's comradely and collegial, and the archives are open to the public. But a pure free-for-all would degenerate rapidly into deep suckiness. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 29 10:40:16 PDT 2007

11330 [lbo-talk] Ra?l on the 26th + Fidel on Cuba's Self Criticism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:33 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Yoshie: > > "But this mailing list is your private property, so it's up to you how > you make up and selectively enforce your arbitrary rules." > > Doug does share his private property with the rest of us, and his > rules are > not arbitrary, but enjoy our assent because they are generally > fair. I enjoy > Yoshie's posts, but Doug has a point about lengthy quotation. I don't mind "lengthy quotat ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 29 10:38:17 PDT 2007

11331 [lbo-talk] WSJ: "Why I Fired Ward Churchill" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2007, at 9:59 AM, B. wrote: > It's been mentioned Yale anarchist & anthropologist, > IWW member David Graeber deserved as much support as > Churchill when he was dismissed Just got an email from Graeber the other day announcing that he got a job at Goldsmith in London. He's not very bummed about leaving Yale, he says. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 28 10:35:46 PDT 2007

11332 [lbo-talk] The Death of Capitalism: Should it be Welcomed? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Financial sector CEOs don't use the "D" word casually. Except when they want the Fed to bail them out. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 28 07:56:45 PDT 2007

11333 [lbo-talk] Greer blasts Diana -- rank: 1000

Daily Mail (London) - July 27, 2007 <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html? in_article_id=471204&in_page_id=1770&ct=5> Diana was 'devious, slow and disturbingly neurotic,' mocks Germaine Greer Feminist Germaine Greer has caused outrage in Australia for calling the late Princess of Wales, "slow", "devious" and "disturbingly neurotic". The controversial academic claims Diana is partly responsible for the car accident that kill ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 27 21:36:41 PDT 2007

11334 [lbo-talk] The Death of Capitalism: Should it be Welcomed? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 24, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Peter Hart Ward wrote: > the economy is increasingly unable, for nothing that has to > do with lack of materiel or human resources, to take care of the > population. The U.S. economy? Compared to what? The U.S. economy of 1968, maybe (though it wasn't great for people other than white men), but not that of 1933 or 1877. Things aren't great for the middle ranks of the U.S. labor market, but they're not desperate either, and certainly not desperate enough ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 27 17:26:08 PDT 2007

11335 [lbo-talk] Raśl on the 26th + Fidel on Cuba's Self Criticism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2007, at 8:08 PM, Chuck wrote: > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> Achievements of the Cuban Revolution are well known. > > What were those again? > > Something to do with one guy running the country for 55+ years? Ok, since you asked a standard question, I'm going to ask one too - one that I've asked many times before, but have never gotten a good answer for. Say, by some wild accident of history, your Cuban anarchist comrades succeeded in bringing revolution to Cuba ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 27 17:18:24 PDT 2007

11336 [lbo-talk] Raśl on the 26th + Fidel on Cuba's Self Criticism -- rank: 1000

On Jul 27, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Read it with "Cuba's > Self Criticism" by Fidel (also reproduced below). Only if you supplement it with a little Yoshie self-criticism! These broadcasts remain rather annoying. This is supposed to be a discussion forum, not one of the many nodes of the Yoshie Broadcasting Network. I've been approving your first three posts of the day without reading them, but I'm not going to do that any more. No more broadcasts until you ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 27 16:56:48 PDT 2007

11337 [lbo-talk] the two-tier global economy -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch chief economist David Rosenberg's top 10 list for the week] 10) We seem to have a two-track world economy Indeed, the quote of the week may have to go to Mike DeWalt, who is director of investor relations at CAT We seem to have a two-track world economy ... weakness in the USA and continued strength abroad. Just look at the geographic revenue split in the latest quarter: +61% y/y in Lat Am, +24% in the Pac Rim, +32% in EAFE and down 10% in the USA. For the year as a ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 27 16:03:18 PDT 2007

11338 [lbo-talk] crooze -- rank: 1000

Ok gang, we're about to set off on The Nation cruise, departing Seattle and heading up to Alaska. I'll have net access, but at 40 cents a minute it will be limited, so moderation tasks and such may not get done. We'll be liveblogging the cruise, ha ha. Links will of course be posted here. As is traditional (as we used to say in the Party of the Right), I'll make my vacation wish: don't solve the transformation problem without me! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 26 19:18:52 PDT 2007

11339 [lbo-talk] further evidence that the U.S. is prosecution-mad -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Dennis: > > > http://www.readingcomprehensionconnection.com/lesson.php > > > [WS:] Why should I take any refs on reading comprehension from > you? They > did not seem to help much, judging from your replies. Look, boys, take it outside. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 26 14:58:06 PDT 2007

11340 [lbo-talk] The Long March From Yenan to Barclays -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:35 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > According to Eurostat, the EU-27 racked up 11.558 trillion EUR in > 2006, US > was about 10.550 trillion EUR, roughly a 10% difference. The EU-27 is an even less coherent entity than the EU-15, which is less coherent than the euro zone. The U.S. is a single nation-state with a single currency and legal system. There's an almost 10/1 ratio between the PPP per capita GDP of the richest and poorest countries. There's nothing lik ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 26 14:48:47 PDT 2007