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11401 [lbo-talk] Komanoff on Bloomberg's congestion pricing -- rank: 1000

On Jul 16, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Oh right, because the subway only serves > the 'meaty' parts of the island and people who would love to sit in > judgement of the personal behavior of millions of people who don't > have > much of a choice in the matter Millions? "In New York City, fewer than one in 20 working residents drives into the intended congestion charging zone, but they know who they are and are not shy about protecting their self-awarded entitle ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 16 08:30:20 PDT 2007

11402 [lbo-talk] Komanoff on Bloomberg's congestion pricing -- rank: 1000

"In New York City, fewer than one in 20 working residents drives into the intended congestion charging zone, but they know who they are and are not shy about protecting their self-awarded entitlement to a toll- free commute." <http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/14/2057/10377> Valuing the commons: Congestion pricing's hidden payoff Posted by Charles Komanoff at 8:09 PM on 15 Jul 2007 [I wrote this piece linking NYC Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing proposal with a carbo ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 16 07:31:45 PDT 2007

11403 [lbo-talk] Universal Asceticism and Social Levelling -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 7/15/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> On Jul 14, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>> The multinational empire is appealing, and social liberals of all >>> nations find it irresistible -- hence its hegemony. If it weren't >>> appealing, it wouldn't be so powerful, would it? >>> >>> Marx's diagnosis was correct, but Marx's prescriptio ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 16 06:15:29 PDT 2007

11404 [lbo-talk] Universal Asceticism and Social Levelling -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Russell Grinker wrote: > Surely this is just a teensy weensie distortion Doug? I can't > absolutely > vouch for James, but we always pointed to the social limitations of > innovations that are profit-driven. It's all in the archives, > honest guv! Just teasin', sorta, but you guys love your cars and are climate change skeptics, no? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 15 12:42:14 PDT 2007

11405 [lbo-talk] Nietzsche again -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2007, at 3:20 PM, james daly wrote: > Doug wrote: > > Marx has an attack on "crude communism in the Paris Manuscripts, "the > consummation of this envy [shades of Nietzsche] and of this > leveling down > proceeding from the preconceived minimum." EPR, ME Reader at 83 > (Tucker, 2d > ed.) > > A very important passage, but not a shade of Nietzsche. Just a clarification: I didn't write that. Doug

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11406 [lbo-talk] Universal Asceticism and Social Levelling -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > To say that ongoing technological innovation is essential is > truistic; the question as always is, what *kind* of innovation? > Clearly, > for instance, it is folly to continue to make heavy continuing > investment in > internal-combustion-vehicles that contribute to global warming and > other > pollution. There is an overriding global social need for > alternative power > sources to be the principal focus of R&am ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 15 10:34:30 PDT 2007

11407 [lbo-talk] Universal Asceticism and Social Levelling -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2007, at 12:00 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Incidentally Marx would be contemptuous about the > views expressed sometimes on this list that human > progress or survival or socialism/communism require a > halt to economic development or innovation. Not expressed by the listmom, lemme assure you! Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 15 09:21:10 PDT 2007

11408 [lbo-talk] Rep or Dem? -- rank: 1000

You decide from the pic: <http://www.namemyvote.com/>.

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Date:	Sun Jul 15 08:46:28 PDT 2007

11409 [lbo-talk] Iraqi ambassador: $22,000/month -- rank: 1000

[It's odd to see this on Page Six - is Bush losing Rupert Murdoch now too?] New York Post [Page Six] - July 15, 2007 Trump Lux For Iraq Envoy IRAQ'S ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid al Bayati, likes the high life. Bayati, who's been on the job for just over a year, is said to be living in a $22,000-a-month apartment at Trump World Tower on First Avenue. He's renting while the Iraqi U.N. Mission and official ambassador's residence on East 79th Street undergo a $40 million renovation. ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 15 08:35:01 PDT 2007

11410 [lbo-talk] Are We Going to Attack Iran? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > Can anyone suggest a plausible > strategic vision that would be served by this plan? Plausible? No. But it's the same strategic vision that brought us the war in Iraq and Israel's invasion of Lebanon. There's not much evidence that the proponents of this vision have learned much from the disasters they unleashed. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 15 08:31:17 PDT 2007

11411 [lbo-talk] Universal Asceticism and Social Levelling -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The multinational empire is appealing, and social liberals of all > nations find it irresistible -- hence its hegemony. If it weren't > appealing, it wouldn't be so powerful, would it? > > Marx's diagnosis was correct, but Marx's prescription ("face with > sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his > kind") was based on wishful thinking. What's wrong with wishful thinking? Bourgeois ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 15 08:28:51 PDT 2007

11412 [lbo-talk] Universal Asceticism and Social Levelling -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Where is practical opposition to the multinational empire? Only > Islamists, whose revolutionary doctrine and practice, like "[t]he > revolutionary literature that accompanied . . . first movements of the > proletariat," have "necessarily a reactionary character" and often > inculcate "universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest > form" (<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/w ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 14 09:28:54 PDT 2007

11413 [lbo-talk] Moyers: Surprisingly Interesting Impeachment discussion -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > They've got a lot of different points. But just in passing, their > main > response to the argument that "they'll be out 18 months, and > replaced by a > bourgeois tool" is: you don't want the next bourgeois tool, and > every one > thereafter, to have these new powers. And that they will unless > impeachment hearings are begun. And that the hearings will have > the power > (by themselves, *even withou ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 14 07:04:28 PDT 2007

11414 [lbo-talk] cruising the right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Well, it would be hard to beat the National Review's cruise for > hilarity, > what with Norman Podhoretz serving as shipboard tummler. For sure, but what's going on with WFB? [...] The panel nods, but it doesn't want to stray from Iraq. Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan's one-time nominee to the Supreme Court, mumbles from beneath low-hanging jowls: "The coverage of this war is unbelievable. Even Fox News is unbelievable. You'd think ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 13 20:29:16 PDT 2007

11415 [lbo-talk] cruising the right -- rank: 1000

[Looks like I'll be part of a group liveblogging The Nation cruise! I doubt it'll be much like this.] Indepedent (London) - July 13, 2007 <http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2766040.ece> Ship of fools: Johann Hari sets sail with America's swashbuckling neocons The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth and as for Guantanamo Bay, it's practically a holiday camp... The annual cruise organised by the 'National Review', mouthpiece of right-w ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 13 13:11:12 PDT 2007