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1246 [lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:33 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Pretty much. What is also irritating is that this piece is constantly > trotted out because, somwhow, I'm supposed to be persuaded by it > because a black man wrote it. Man, you sure can be obnoxious. Maybe you could offer an argument or an example instead of this. Doug

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1247 [lbo-talk] Steve Early on a rank and file takeover of a CWA local in NYC -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2011, at 8:57 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > The culture of Big Apple unionism has become slightly more dissident-friendly in recent years. > > But institutional loyalty, where it still exists, tends to run deep. The head of the building trades - can't remember the cretin's name - testified against a living wage bill in the NYC council the other day because it might destroy jobs. Doug

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1248 [lbo-talk] looks like end of Occupy Los Angeles -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote: >> "I said that here in L.A. we'd chart a different path, and we did," >> Villaraigosa said. > > Hasn't nearly every mayor and police chief in Occupy cities said > basically the same thing, right before they (basically) followed the > same old path? On the first day of Occupy Austin, the police chief > made a point of sa ...

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1249 [lbo-talk] How the Black Bloc Occupied Oakland -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > like an infant with a skinned knee, they have reduced the world to irrelevant pimples. Poetry, man. And this is truth: > victory being the revival of left hopes and the transformation of national discourse which they had brought about.

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1250 [lbo-talk] How the Black Bloc Occupied Oakland -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Nicholas Roberts wrote: > We have to hope their New York comrades are more advanced. A friend who went to last night's GA says the process is basically dead. A small gang of lunatics, almost all men, shouted and fought and nothing got done. They're still making policy in some sense, but the real action has shifted to the working groups. Losing Zuccotti means there's no more coherent social formation behind the GA, aside from a small band of crazy people who hang ...

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1251 [lbo-talk] Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I wish Joanna could see how "Capitalists are bad" sneaks into so many o f > her posts, and how that moral rage, even when only a flavor, distorts > perception. The point is to build a movement against capitalism, not to win > rhetorical victories over capitalists. She was trying to explain Germany's motivations, which is an interesting question. If your only interest is in smashing capitalism, I suppose you wouldn't care abou ...

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1252 [lbo-talk] Why not Paul -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > As you said in your first post, this game of comparing criminals as to which > was worse is a bit odd. The only value is in trying to show that Dems are just as bad as Reps, maybe worse. Not that the targets of these comparisons are likely to be convinced, though. Doug

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1253 [lbo-talk] looks like end of Occupy Los Angeles -- rank: 1000

So that great "progressive" Villaraigosa is little different from our whiny little billionaire, eh?

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1254 [lbo-talk] Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Alan asked: "why are you here? " > > [WS:] For the same reason people go to a zoo, I suppose. You should at least credit Mencken. Doug

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1255 [lbo-talk] Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2011, at 11:27 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > 1. Because you can shift your export maket elsewhere? Capitalists don't think that way. They don't want substitutes - they want more more more. > 2. Because so long as they keep paying interest, why would you care? Because they can't keep paying interest in a deflationary depression. > 3. Because at the end of it all you can buy the country for cheap? What's to buy? That's part of Greece's problem. There's a phone company and ...

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1256 [lbo-talk] Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:19 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Economically the goal is export led growth Then why squeeze your export markets into a deflationary depression? Doug

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1257 [lbo-talk] Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2011, at 8:31 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Really? It s that easy to launch a currency? No one's done something like this before, because no one's tried something like the euro before. But it could be done. Of course, there'd be a run on Greek banks if it seemed inevitable - there'd have to be limits on withdrawals. (Some of that is already underway.) But it's not like things are wonderful now. A devalued currency, which is no panacea, is probably better than devalued incomes. > ...

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1258 [lbo-talk] Why not Paul -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: > For the final flowering of the fantasy, see the (very) recent book by theologian James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters (Orbis, 2008). What's the soundbite? He didn't die for our sins, did he? Doug

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1259 [lbo-talk] Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:30 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > But there is also a lot of meaningless speculation about the disintegration of the Euro as a currency, which is simply unjustified. The Euro will no more fail that the dollar will fail . There is no way that the Eurozone participants could return to their national currencies, which just don t exist anymore. The idea that the Greeks would return to the Drachma was bizarre. How would it make sense to try to found a new currency precisely ...

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1260 [lbo-talk] Why not Paul -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Shane Mage wrote: >> 2) He had lost his anti-communist spine and was about to withdraw from Vietnam. > > American University Speech. Nuclear test-ban Treaty. Liquidation of Diem and decision to withdraw troops. Opening of reconciliation process with Fidel via Jean Daniel. Firing of CIA stalwarts. > > enough? Yeah, but I'm guessing we're operating with different scales. Doug

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