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12631 [lbo-talk] aging boomers' anthem -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Wed Apr 18 09:17:06 PDT 2007

12632 [lbo-talk] In NYC, Meet the Emission Trading Advocates on Earth Day -- rank: 1000

Patrick, this doesn't address my objection at all. I said there are lots of problems with cap & trade systems, but it's not correct to say that Stern & Co. are looking for a way to allow polluters to keep polluting at current levels forever. Dorsey is right about the problems with c&t, but the Stern Gang is not advocating evasion, litigation, and tendentious grandfathering. It's also not exactly true that investors don't care. There's a lot of venture capital money going into a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 09:02:22 PDT 2007

12633 [lbo-talk] virginia stuff... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > No. The real issue is that rare events represent no issue. Things > happen. It is intellectually disabling to attempt to analyze mere > contingencies. The seem to happen more often in the U.S. than anywhere else. If so, that's not a random event. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 08:42:02 PDT 2007

12634 [lbo-talk] IWW piece on Iranian labor situation -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I do not know to which current of communism in India, if any, Saadia > Toor belongs, She's Pakistani, not Indian, in origin. She now lives in NJ, and teaches at the College of Staten Island. > but it is most likely that Toor agrees with Carrol that > imperialism is not a policy but a deep structure of capitalism, which > is one of the common ideas among modern communists, especially > Marxists. So then why did you quote h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 08:32:02 PDT 2007

12635 [lbo-talk] IWW piece on Iranian labor situation -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 4/17/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> Saadia Toor (Cornell University) > > It's worth listening to what Saadia Toor says about Iran, > Islamophobia, and Western LGBTQ human rights activism. You can listen > to what Toor (as well as Kourosh Shemirani of Qiam) has to say about > them at > <http://outfm.org/images/stories/2007/03/070312_100001outfm-dst.mp3>. > Note her emphasis on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 06:38:38 PDT 2007

12636 [lbo-talk] Australian Gun Control ( Was Re: the virginina university massacre) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:11 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > But of course these are country people, who > don't really count much in an urban country like Australia. But the U.S. is an urban country too, if not quite as much as Australia, but in our national imagination, we're still country or small town. Is there nothing analogous in Australia? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 06:30:38 PDT 2007

12637 [lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:53 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Japan has a homicide rate 2.3 > times higher than that of Japanese-Americans, according to Gary Kleck > in _Point Blank_. Japanese-Americans are affluent and educated, a demographic that's not likely to murder anyone except the occasional spouse. Japanese come in all demographic groups. Still, the U.S. has a murder rate ten times Japan's. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 06:20:26 PDT 2007

12638 [lbo-talk] Australian Gun Control ( Was Re: the virgininauniversity massacre) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:22 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Do you mean the debate about what exactly is an 'assault rifle' ...? I know this is an obsession of yours, but I'm not sure why. I'm guessing that most people use it to describe a weapon that's more military than something that would normally be used for hunting - i.e., something designed to kill people in some quantity, though not as many as a machine gun. Wikipedia has no prob with what appears to be a rigorous definition - could you ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 06:17:17 PDT 2007

12639 [lbo-talk] Mexico: We can get, yes, satisfaction! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > According to a survey by condom manufacturer Durex, Mexico (as well as > India, Nigeria) is one of the countries with highest levels of sexual > satisfaction in the world. Very reliable stuff, I guess: Love the way each of these three reports spins it nationally. Original at <http://www.durex.com/cm/sexual_wellbeing_home.asp>. -------- <http://www.pr-inside.com/americans-seeking-greater-sexual- satisfaction-r95673.htm> Amer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 19:53:52 PDT 2007

12640 [lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 5:55 PM, tfast wrote: > I notice that there has been scant mention that very well armed and > trained > officers stayed outside while the shooting was happening. If the > cops were > not willing to rush this guy, why would some freshman with a pistol > be any > more capable? You have obviously allowed your self-defensive reflexes to deteriorate under the statist influence.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 15:01:50 PDT 2007

12641 [lbo-talk] In NYC, Meet the Emission Trading Advocates on Earth Day -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Big oil companies, in particular, can win property rights to > pollute at > the level they always have, instead of facing up to their historic > debt > to the Third World for using it as dumping ground. That's not entirely accurate - and I'm no fan of cap-and-trade, either. The are two parts to cap-and-trade systems, as the name suggests - the capping part and the trading part. The caps are supposed to decline over time. So oil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 14:47:04 PDT 2007

12642 [lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre -- rank: 1000

Late 70s/early 80s. Maybe I was infected with Charlottesville snobbery. Nothing like a few days in the southwest (former mother-in- law lived in Emory) to make C'ville look like Paris. On Apr 17, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I don't know how long ago that was, but imagine the shift may have had > something to do with the growth of the computing and engineering > industries. Virginia Tech easily leads the state in relevant > programs, which has brought it a lot of applic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 14:33:34 PDT 2007

12643 [lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > 'The South Korean student behind the bloodiest school > shooting in US history railed against "rich kids", > "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" in a note he > left behind, US media has reported.' At Virginia Tech? Must have changed since I was a Virginia resident and frequent visitor. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 14:06:36 PDT 2007

12644 [lbo-talk] rich abandoning Reps -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/451/money-walks> Money Walks Republicans Are Losing Ground among the Affluent, Too by Michael Dimock, Associate Director, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press April 12, 2007 The Republican Party has traditionally garnered it strongest backing among wealthier voters. But the recent overall decline in Republican Party affiliation nationwide has taken a toll even on GOP support among affluent voters. The latest Pew surveys find Democrats pulling ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 13:54:24 PDT 2007

12645 [lbo-talk] Limits of European Unification -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 4:30 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > My paper on The Limits of European Unification is published in Hillel > Ticktin's journal of Socialist Thought, Critique. > http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ > section~fulltext=713240928~dontcount=true~content=a777252188~db=all Subscription only, alas.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 13:46:26 PDT 2007