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12571 [lbo-talk] French election PS -- rank: 1000

By the way, I see that Jose Bove got 1.4% of the vote, considerably less than the Trots. Why so low? Does that McDonald's-smashing politics really have that little appeal, even in France? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 13:16:21 PDT 2007

12572 [lbo-talk] France -- rank: 1000

So what's to make of the French election results?

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 13:13:43 PDT 2007

12573 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 23, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Jim's attacks on lefists are merely run-of-the-mill banalities of the > red-baiting tradition, and as such merely a mildly annoying buzz. > > His contempt of people exhibited in that category of "ordinary people" > is more than annoying -- it's seriously offensive. He should sign his > posts Wojtek. Oh, please. I disagree with Jim, but he's not contemptuous of "ordinary people." Can't you disagree with people ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 12:35:19 PDT 2007

12574 [lbo-talk] [DEBATE] : (Fwd) Doug Henwood on elite climate change strategy -- rank: 1000

On Apr 23, 2007, at 2:39 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > I suggested you please > *not* think of carbon taxes as market mechanisms but, ideally, as > anti-market mechanisms: I've never claimed they were either market or non-market mechanisms. I'd like to do something that raises the cost of hydrocarbons significantly to discourage their use. > if done *properly* (with an intense focus on > disincentivizing luxury consumption and, in the process, on > cross-subsidisation of energy f ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 11:53:35 PDT 2007

12575 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:11 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > BTW I asserted before, but in the midst of a long rambling thing- > smalltown > country southern folk are, demographically, not the central > question for > future US. Suburban US people are. They happen to be the furthest > from our > lefts' horizon. This portends our transition from niche to > extinction. You make it sound like if I only moved back to the suburb I grew up in, I could be doing useful political work. Bu ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 11:46:52 PDT 2007

12576 [lbo-talk] The Last Mughal -- rank: 1000

On Apr 23, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Liberals in the Third World are like Zafar. Woe to the countries run > by them. -- Yoshie But countries run by mullahs? Boundless opportunity for prosperity and self-development! Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 07:36:37 PDT 2007

12577 [lbo-talk] Hitch parties down with Wolfie -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/christopher-hitchens/christopher-hitchens- denounces-beltway-party-invites-paul-wolfowitz-to-his-house-254462.php> Christopher Hitchens Denounces Beltway Party, Invites Paul Wolfowitz To His House Not everyone actually, it sounds more like not anyone enjoyed this weekend's White House Correspondent's Association dinner. But Christopher Hitchens was particularly displeased. As David Carr notes, Hitch cut out early, declaring that: "The event was disgraceful, ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 07:30:02 PDT 2007

12578 [lbo-talk] how quiche-eating leftists have it wrong -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 23, 2007 No To Hugo VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez has a big following among the quiche- eating leftists who wear Che T-shirts and vacation in Havana, but Maria Conchita Alonzo, a former Miss Venezuela, will lambast the strongman's "anti-democratic practices and terrorist-encouraging rhetoric" in her keynote speech at the Latino Coalition's 2007 Summit on May 1-2 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C. Alonzo, who escaped as a child with he ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 07:25:52 PDT 2007

12579 [lbo-talk] gender pay gap emerges early -- rank: 1000

On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > So, the gap is largely a > white, suburban, educated, middle-and-upper-class women problem. Did you make the usual adjustments for education, experience, etc., or did you just look at average wage levels? There are a lot of educated, suburban white women, so in absolute terms, this is not a small problem. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 07:20:29 PDT 2007

12580 [lbo-talk] gender pay gap emerges early -- rank: 1000

Gender pay gap emerges early, study finds By Ellen Wulfhorst Mon Apr 23, 12:21 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dramatic pay gap emerges between women and men in America the year after they graduate from college and widens over the ensuing decade, according to research released on Monday. One year out of college, women working full time earn 80 percent of what men earn, according to the study by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, based in Washington D.C. Ten yea ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 05:05:30 PDT 2007

12581 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Alexander Cockburn -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > How to Stop the Next Campus Shootings > Bring Back the Posse > By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Did he really write this? "There was plenty of evidence that Cho Seung-Hui was a time bomb waiting to explode." A time bomb waiting to explode? I never thought I'd see him write a phrase that ordinary. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 22 20:37:39 PDT 2007

12582 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Alexander Cockburn -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > How to Stop the Next Campus Shootings > Bring Back the Posse > By ALEXANDER COCKBURN My god, what a wacko piece. AC writes: > What should be banned from campuses are not weapons but > prescriptions for antidepressants. Because a few mass murderers were on SSRIs, that proves that SSRIs cause mass murder. Maybe they were on SSRIs because they were seriously fucked up. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 22 20:36:08 PDT 2007

12583 [lbo-talk] [DEBATE] : (Fwd) Doug Henwood on elite climate change strategy -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > What do you > say, Doug, isn't it time to lay off market 'solutions'? I said I think cap & trade is bogus. I think a carbon tax is a good idea. What do you think? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 22 19:06:43 PDT 2007

12584 [lbo-talk] more evidence that the Zionists are losing it -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 22, 2007 Novelist's Ugly View Of Jews MICHAEL Chabon's first full-length novel for adults in seven years, the delayed follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," is bound to set off a firestorm of controversy. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" depicts Jews as constantly in conflict with one another, and its villains are a ruthless, ultra- Orthodox sect that resembles the Lubavitchers, reports The Post's Kyl ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 22 06:58:41 PDT 2007

12585 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 10:02 PM, jrdavis wrote: > Chuck, there is an excellant text which makes the same points you > were making about the need for the left to give up boring and to > adopt a fun approach to politics. The text is Dream: Re-imagining > Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (Paperback) > by Stephen Duncombe Interviewed by yours truly <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#070215>. I have some probs with the book. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 21:29:41 PDT 2007