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11566 [lbo-talk] Saudis cutting output to keep oil price north of $50 -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > $50 is good enough for Saudi Arabia, but not good enough for > Venezuela, let alone Iran, to say nothing of environmentalism. On the latter, we need carbon taxes; who wants ExxonMobil to get the windfall? $50 is still quite a high price by recent historical standards. Unlike Venezuela, Iran isn't using its oil windfall for much of anything decent. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 30 09:05:21 PST 2007

11567 [lbo-talk] Air America finds buyer; Franken out -- rank: 1000

New York Times - January 29, 2007 New York Investor Plans to Buy Air America By LOUISE STORY Air America Radio, the liberal network that filed for bankruptcy in October, said today that it had reached a tentative agreement to sell itself to Stephen L. Green, the chairman of a New York office real estate investment trust. Mr. Green, chairman and founder of the SL Green Realty Corporation, is no stranger to Air America. His brother is Mark Green, a New York politician who ran in the Democrati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 05:57:39 PST 2007

11568 [lbo-talk] Saudis cutting output to keep oil price north of $50 -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 30, 2007 Saudis to Pare Oil Output Again Amid Market Uncertainty, OPEC Leader to Remove 158,000 Barrels a Day By BHUSHAN BAHREE Saudi Arabia, which already has aggressively shaved its oil output in a battle to shore up prices, is tightening its spigots further this week. A senior Saudi oil official said yesterday the kingdom had advised its customers of the impending 158,000 barrel-a-day cut, which takes effect Feb. 1. The reductions, part of a broader campaign ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 30 05:49:56 PST 2007

11569 [lbo-talk] notes on imminent doom (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[cue to James Heartfield to tell us not to worry...] <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6310869.stm> Melting of glaciers 'speeds up' By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website Mountain glaciers are shrinking three times faster than they were in the 1980s, scientists have announced. The World Glacier Monitoring Service, which continuously studies a sample of 30 glaciers around the world, says the acceleration is down to climate change. Its announcement came as c ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 29 14:00:48 PST 2007

11570 [lbo-talk] "Was 9/11 Really That Bad?" -- rank: 1000

On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It also raises several questions. Has the American reaction to the > attacks in fact been a massive overreaction? Is the widespread > belief that 9/11 plunged us into one of the deadliest struggles of > our time simply wrong? If we did overreact, why did we do so? Because nobody fucks with the USA. The USA can fuck with anyone, but don't try it with us. Is that so hard to understand? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 29 13:52:47 PST 2007

11571 [lbo-talk] Re: SEIU praises Romney's lame-ass health scheme -- rank: 1000

On Jan 29, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Another example of us foolishly supporting the expansion of > healthcare coverage under the existing system while it still > exists, as opposed to rallying the masses behind far better health > care plans proposed by the spartacist league, kropotkin, left > business observer and jim straub.... ie international workers > revolution for socialism! > Tee-hee, Jim, but really - what are the politics of grafting yet another stupid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 29 13:30:15 PST 2007

11572 [lbo-talk] Hillary: too "easy" to talk about cutting funding for war -- rank: 1000

On Jan 29, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Why aren't NY activists occupying HRC's offices like Sacramento > activists have been occupying Doris Matsui's office? You used to be on the board of UFPJ, no? Ask 'em. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 29 13:05:12 PST 2007

11573 [lbo-talk] Hillary: too "easy" to talk about cutting funding for war -- rank: 1000

On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > [WS:] Why are you so preoccupied with Hillary, Doug? Other > politicos speak > on the both sides of their mouth as well cf. McCain > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI > yet do not earn such an honorable mention (or any mention, for that > matter) > on this list. > If I did not know any better, I would compare this to a certain > form of > populist discourse that thinly veils ethnic or sexist prejudic ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 29 11:23:38 PST 2007

11574 [lbo-talk] SEIU praises Romney's lame-ass health scheme -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] With regards to Romney's health-care plan, the Hotline's Riki Parikh picks up on SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger telling ABC News on Friday: "You have to give him credit for it. He was willing to step up and do something." Burger added that SEIU would "love to here [sic- DH] Mitt Romney talk about how he wants to expand" health care when SEIU teams up with the Center for American Progress to host a health- care forum in Las Vegas.

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Date:	Mon Jan 29 07:55:54 PST 2007

11575 [lbo-talk] Hillary: too "easy" to talk about cutting funding for war -- rank: 1000

Quad City (Iowa) Times - January 29, 2007 <http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/01/29/news/local/ doc45bd3697368fe921814912.txt> Clinton campaigns against troop surge By Ed Tibbetts | Monday, January 29, 2007 U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., argued Sunday for a pragmatic approach to stop the troop escalation in Iraq, saying it's easy to appeal to people with "soundbites" and calls to cut off funding. Clinton wrapped up a two-day swing through Iowa by spending much of ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 29 07:40:50 PST 2007

11576 [lbo-talk] Patrick Cockburn on Baghdad -- rank: 1000

<http://counterpunch.org/patrick01252007.html> January 25, 2007 Why Bush and Gen. Petraeus are Living in a Dream World What's Really Going on in Baghdad By PATRICK COCKBURN Baghdad is paralysed by fear. Iraqi drivers are terrified of running into impromptu checkpoints where heavily armed men in civilian clothes may drag them out of their cars and kill them for being the wrong religion. Some districts exchange mortar fire every night. This is mayhem beyond the comprehension of George Bu ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 28 16:30:07 PST 2007

11577 [lbo-talk] "Protest Focuses on Troop Increase for Iraq" -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2007, at 9:57 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > I have seen this up close and personal for decades. I used > to be a tenant advocate, back when there were still tenants > in Manhattan, and every year our assemblyman -- Jerrold > Nadler, as a matter of fact, now the fattest, greasiest member > of Congress -- would come back from Albany, mopping his sweaty > brow, and tell us, whew! We fought of the repeal of rent > stabilization! You may have noticed that rent stabilizati ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 27 19:06:58 PST 2007

11578 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Identity vs. class politics -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2007, at 9:39 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > At 09:07 PM 1/27/2007, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Jan 27, 2007, at 7:42 PM, Jim Straub wrote: >> >>> anti-racist mass movements >> >> But, as Carrol Cox has told us, those are still white supremacist. >> Perhaps he can explain how. >> >> Doug > > It depends on what people mean, but if they're just "including" > people of color then, yeah, it's white supremac ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 27 18:54:32 PST 2007

11579 [lbo-talk] WaPo on demo -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 28, 2007 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/ AR2007012700629_pf.html> Thousands Protest Bush Policy Actors, Activists, Politicians and a Presidential Candidate Among Demonstrators By Michael Ruane and Fredrick Kunkle Washington Post Staff Writers A raucous and colorful multitude of protesters, led by some of the aging activists of the past, staged a series of rallies and a march on the Capitol yesterday to demand that the United St ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 27 18:16:35 PST 2007

11580 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Identity vs. class politics -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2007, at 7:42 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > anti-racist mass movements But, as Carrol Cox has told us, those are still white supremacist. Perhaps he can explain how. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 27 18:07:20 PST 2007