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11341 [lbo-talk] further evidence that the U.S. is prosecution-mad -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > In the > same way, lefties tend to hype the hardships suffered by criminals to > exonerate them or even justify them brutalizing people. You've said this a million times, but have you ever backed it up with a quote? Who does this? You're sounding like Yoshie with her reckless generalizations about "liberals and leftists." Doug

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11342 [lbo-talk] hipster update: now, a musical! -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Matt wrote: > When thought about in the big picture though, it isn't that surprising > that these types of companies have figured out how to turn an > underground art into something they can package, market and sell. > That's what they do. Isn't this classic Baffler territory? Haven't they been doing this for ages? Doug

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11343 [lbo-talk] The Long March From Yenan to Barclays -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 3:09 PM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > Moreover, > with profits repatriated to the US and the US awash with cheap > exports, > why exactly are US pundits crying about the coming war with China? Do > people on this list really think China's purchase of US financial > assets > is the first step in the colonization of America? Hardly, but it's a sign of China's growing power and the U.S. waning power. In the 1990s, the "imperial overstretch" ...

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11344 [lbo-talk] further evidence that the U.S. is prosecution-mad -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> [WS:] That hardly surprises me. It is indicative of your argument >> style - >> anything goes as long as it serves your pet cause. >> >> Wojtek > > > Bite me. To quote the Rev Farrakhan, break the cycle of beef!

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11345 [lbo-talk] Marx and justice -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > Yet the Golden Rule seems realized in the free market, not > contravened. In a really really perverse way: the "value" of a human is what it takes to get him or her through the factory gate tomorrow morning. Wouldn't anyone with heart read that and admire the cleverness of the "proof" that labor trades at its value, and be horrified by a system that defines things that way? I can understand the impulse to avoid ...

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11346 [lbo-talk] unfare transportation -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Chuck wrote: > The last bit about how expensive it is to catch fare dodgers is > hilarious. It was an important part of Rudy's crackdown in NYC. Every turnstile jumper they saw was asked for ID. They checked for any outstanding warrants, etc. If you didn't have ID you were automatically shipped off to Rikers for the night. If there was anything out against you, you were busted. And if they didn't like your looks - i.e., you were a young black male - you w ...

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11347 [lbo-talk] Azmi Bishara: "Questions for the Arab 'Secularists' after the Islamic Victory in Turkey" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Do you know who Azmi Bishara is? Now I do. I fucked up. Sorry. Doug

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11348 [lbo-talk] further evidence that the U.S. is prosecution-mad -- rank: 1000

Miami Herald - July 25, 2007 <http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/181902.html> Inmate found guilty in masturbation trial By ROBERTO SANTIAGO AND JENNIFER LEBOVICH A Broward prisoner accused of committing a sex act while he was alone in his jail cell was found guilty Tuesday of indecent exposure. Terry Lee Alexander, 20, unsuccessfully fought the charge, which had been brought by a female Broward Sheriff's Office detention deputy who saw him perform the sex act in his cell in November. ...

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11349 [lbo-talk] Azmi Bishara: "Questions for the Arab 'Secularists' after the Islamic Victory in Turkey" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > "Questions for the Arab "secularists" after the Islamic victory in > Turkey" > > Azmi Bishara, an ex MP in the Israeli Knesset, wrote in the > independent Saudi owned newspaper Al Hayat on July 26: I suppose it's not a stretch for a parliamentarian in a religion- based state to defend the principle of religion-based states. Especially one with an economic policy that would do Netanahyu and Bruno proud! Do ...

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11350 [lbo-talk] your friends can make you fat -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/the-fats/your-friends-really-are-making-you- fat-282455.php> Your Friends Really Are Making You Fat It's the most shocking, society-rending news we'll hear all week: "Obesity can spread from person to person, much like a virus, researchers are reporting today. When one person gained weight, their close friends tended to gain weight, too." This is going to destroy the last niceties of Manhattan. A million fag hags will be thrown by the wayside. And boy i ...

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11351 [lbo-talk] The Long March From Yenan to Barclays -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 7:15 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > The 27-member European Union is far and away the world's largest > producer, > in terms of output, raw GDP, employment or any other economic > metric. But > the composition of US-China trade is even more eloquent about the > decay of > the Empire. Trade group AEA estimates that US high-tech exports to > China > jumped from $4.6 billion in 2000 to $14.1 billion in 2006. But high- > tech > imports from China ...

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11352 [lbo-talk] The Long March From Yenan to Barclays -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 6:51 PM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > Well yes but then the accumulation of US financial assets does not > seem > well characterized as the imperialist state monopoly export of > capital. It > seems that a mercantile state is worshipping trade surpluses at the > expense of unequal exchange, self imposed through a political > devaluation > of the currency. China is afraid of being priced out of world export markets and has to keep the currency's v ...

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11353 [lbo-talk] The Long March From Yenan to Barclays -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > According to US International Trade Commission statistics, China is > the US's > fastest growing export market and is expected to overtake Japan as > it's > third largest this year. Despite its yawning and widely-publicized > trade > deficit with China, merchandise exports to China still rose by 187% > between > 2001-06, from $19b to $55b, a pace far outstripping exports to the > US's > other major trading part ...

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11354 [lbo-talk] The Long March From Yenan to Barclays -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 4:21 PM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > If reserve accumulation is an insurance fund, at some point it > should be > large enough for that purpose; then why not command real US output > rather > than US financial assets Like I said, with a 10% growth rate and investment at 40% of GDP, China has all the real output it needs, and it ain't buying much from the USA. They also accumulate dollars to keep their currency from appreciating.

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11355 [lbo-talk] work stoppage -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I'd never noticed this term used before Quoth the BLS: <http://www.bls.gov/cba/> The Work Stoppages Program provides information on major work stoppages. These are stoppages that involve 1,000 workers or more and last a full shift or longer. Because of the complexity of disputes, BLS does not attempt to distinguish between strikes and lockouts in its data; both are included in the term "work stoppages."

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