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11851 [lbo-talk] NYCLU releases NYPD RNC docs -- rank: 1000

New York Civil Liberties Union 125 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 www.nyclu.org NYCLU Releases RNC Documents City Tried to Conceal FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 21, 2007 -- After a federal judge last month ruled that New York City could stop the New York Civil Liberties Union from sharing with the public reams of documents and dozens of hours of video about the NYPD's policing of the 2004 Republican National Convention, the NYCLU today made those documents available to the public by posti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 10:12:06 PST 2007

11852 [lbo-talk] Why no world currency? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > Anyway, I was hoping someone on the list could shed some light on this > question: why can we not have a world currency? Money, as every Marxist schoolchild knows, is the reflection of a dense network of social relations - trade, capital-labor, state, etc. "Man carries his bond with society in his pocket," as the Old Man once said. So give that the world lives under an enormous variety of social networks - which intersect of ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 21 10:07:45 PST 2007

11853 [lbo-talk] that Brit pullout? good news! -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] British Prime Minister Tony Blair will cut U.K. forces in Iraq from 7,100 to 5,500 by the summer, the AP reports. LINK Blair's announcement would appear to be bad news for the Bush Administration, writes ABC News' Jonathan Karl from Tokyo, Japan. But in an exclusive interview with ABC News, Vice President Cheney said the move was actually good news and a sign of progress in Iraq. LINK "'Well, I look at it and see it is actually an affirmation that there are parts of Ira ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 21 07:24:21 PST 2007

11854 [lbo-talk] David Geffen flames the Clinton's -- rank: 1000

New York Times - February 21, 2007 Obama's Big Screen Test By MAUREEN DOWD BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Hillary is not David Geffen's dreamgirl. "Whoever is the nominee is going to win, so the stakes are very high," says Mr. Geffen, the Hollywood mogul and sultan of "Dreamgirls," as he sits by a crackling fire beneath a Jasper Johns flag and a matched pair of de Koonings in the house that Jack Warner built (which old-time Hollywood stars joked was the house that God would have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 07:22:36 PST 2007

11855 [lbo-talk] Barack - triangulating away from labor? -- rank: 1000

AFSCME is hosting a Q&A for the Dem presidential candidates today in Carson City, Nevada. The only one not showing up is Obama, citing scheduling conflicts. Wonder if he's going to triangulate away from labor as part of his effort to be post-political? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 21 07:14:31 PST 2007

11856 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 21 06:31:42 PST 2007

11857 [lbo-talk] Ana Marie Cox & Bad Subjects, a Marxist journal -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Joel Schalit wrote: > Oh, this is hilarious. Yes, the "Marxist journal" O'Reilly refers to > here is Bad Subjects. I think they got it out of her Wikipedia entry <http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Marie_Cox>. Rigorous research they do down there at the Factor! Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 20:13:16 PST 2007

11858 [lbo-talk] Ana Marie Cox & Bad Subjects, a Marxist journal -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Wow, so Wonkette is descended from Bad Subjects? Via Suck.com. BS was never ironic enough for Ana, who once said that "irony makes everything ok." Speaking of irony, there's one lurking in her present employment by Time. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 16:29:13 PST 2007

11859 [lbo-talk] NYU Republicans at play -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/nyu/nyu-college-republicans-to-play-find-the- illegal-immigrant-238256.php> NYU College Republicans To Play "Find The Illegal Immigrant" Long despairing in the shadow of their Morningside Heights brethren, New York University students have, in recent years, made quite a name for themselves--both academically and extracurricularly! Today's announcement of an event sponsored by the College Republicans shows that the Washington Squareans have their uptown ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 16:01:25 PST 2007

11860 [lbo-talk] Asshole Amis -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > On 2/20/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Tina Brown cured Amis of the curse of unfuckability. > > How, by getting him to fix his teeth? Way before that. "She got the scent off me and gave me confidence. That spell, she banished that." <http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/02/martin_amis_1.php>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 13:10:44 PST 2007

11861 [lbo-talk] a bright future! -- rank: 1000

I know nothing about this, but the author just emailed me & said I might enjoy it. And so may listmembers. Doug ---- <http://brightfuture21c.wordpress.com/> Bright Future: Abundance and Progress in the 21st Century A book by David McMullen FREE DOWNLOAD of pdf version (1 mb) 244 pages Bright Future offers three reasons for being generally positive about our prospects in the 21st century: 1. Most of the poor world will be rich by the end of the century. This will not require spectacu ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 12:29:24 PST 2007

11862 [lbo-talk] TXPD (was NYPD) act like pigs -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2007, at 12:55 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > it is > marginally possible that the officer may have put down > a volume of Foucault before switching on his lights > and siren. An old pal of mine who worked at the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board, which reviews civilian complaints against cops, had to do some preparatory work at the police academy. In the diversity training unit, they read bell hooks. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 12:09:21 PST 2007

11863 [lbo-talk] Asshole Amis -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Yes, he's a lovely man, full of insights that bring to > mind images of vomit and decay. Fuck, this is obscene: > Q: I think it's a largely European thing, that open, unapologetic > anti-Semitism. > > A: Yes, exactly. Do you know the French thinker Bernard-Henri Lévy? > He had a piece in the New York Times magazine about Israel during > the Lebanon war. He said, when these spastic rockets are being shot > out of Gaza ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 11:59:51 PST 2007

11864 [lbo-talk] Asshole Amis -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > "And now the drive is to delegitimize Israel. An English lefty is > never more > comfortable, never more deliciously smug than when attacking > Israel. It's > anti-Semitism with a clear conscience." > > Martin Amis in Radar, who, along with discredited chum Hitchens, > believes > that the Arab hordes are upon us, and that this may be "the > beginning of the > end." > > <http://www.ra ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 11:57:15 PST 2007

11865 [lbo-talk] Poddy Jr on Scaife & Ruddy's conversion -- rank: 1000

New York Post - February 20, 2007 <http://www.nypost.com/seven/02202007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/ now_they_tell_us_opedcolumnists_john_podhoretz.htm?page=0> NOW THEY TELL US CLINTON-BASHERS' WEIRDEST TWIST John Podhoretz THE four "Ghostbusters" in the classic 1984 movie warn New York's mayor of some "real wrath-of-God-type stuff" - that we're all "headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boil ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 07:28:06 PST 2007