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12706 [lbo-talk] CA drivers pumping less gas -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > State's drivers are pumping less gas > > Californians slowed their fuel guzzling last year > as prices hovered above $3 a gallon. > By Elizabeth Douglass If only that were true nationally. On a year-to-year basis, during the run-up in gas prices over the last few years, U.S. demand only went negative in the fall of 2005 (down 3.5% from Sep 04 to Sep 05, and slightly from Oct 04 to Oct 05). That's when gas hit nearly $3/ gal n ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 12:37:24 PDT 2007

12707 [lbo-talk] Imus -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Actually, it's simple. W is a hardcore racist who avoids self- > knowledge > by offering irrelevant definitions of what racism is. As I approach my > 77th birthday I have not enough hours left to waste a moment on the > vile > crap he puts out. Then why did you post this? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 11:55:13 PDT 2007

12708 [lbo-talk] Imus -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Just as a case in point, there is constant barrage of postings to > this list > on police brutality, and not a single posting on the brutalization > of crime > victims. It is as if the latter did not matter at all, and only > the raw One thing: cops are supposed to be not brutal. They're supposed to enforce the law. But they're often brutal in their disregard of the law. Why do you think the NYC cops fired 50 shots at S ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 11:51:06 PDT 2007

12709 [lbo-talk] IMF & Relative Autonomy -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Patrick Bond wrote: >> >> de Rato/Wolfowitz fuse neocon backgrounds/interests with BWI >> neoliberalism > > Fropm Wikibedia: > > * Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport > (IATA > Airport Code) > * BWI Airport Rail Station > * The British West Indies > * the former IOC three-letter country code for the British West > Indies Federation > * Building and W ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 11:45:15 PDT 2007

12710 [lbo-talk] gold & water -- rank: 1000

[this one's going out to Patrick Bond, since it's about two of his favorite commodities - from Merrill Lynch chief economist David Rosenberg's weekly top 10 list, this is #8] Two secular themes we have highlighted for the past two years has been gold and water. As far as gold is concerned, the annual GFMS report concluded that gold could well top the Jan/80 peak of $850/oz in the next twelve months. Investment demand rose 8% in the past year to a record 640 million tons (double the 2003 le ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 11:42:34 PDT 2007

12711 [lbo-talk] Samuel Beckett's 101st Birthday -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 10:05 AM, BklynMagus wrote: > Shall we celebrate? > > Let's celebrate. They do not celebrate.

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 08:20:52 PDT 2007

12712 [lbo-talk] South -> North Cash Flow? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I was raised to vaguely understand that wealth in the United States > flows from the South (with its cheaper labor and more abundant natural > resources) to the North. However, I have no empirical basis for > believing this, and honestly don't know where to start looking for > something to prove or disprove it; maybe I just can't summon the right > keywords. Can anyone point me in the right direction? New York City certainly p ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 06:50:47 PDT 2007

12713 [lbo-talk] IMF & Relative Autonomy -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > de Rato/Wolfowitz fuse neocon backgrounds/interests with BWI > neoliberalism How? They don't seem terribly active or coherent, compared to the Clinton years. Neocons have historically not shown much interest in economics - and I mean that going back to the 70s, when Irving Kristol et al were inventing neoliberalism, not just in the more recent, PNAC sense. I'm reading Sidney Blumenthal's excellent book, The Rise of the Counter-Establi ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 06:15:43 PDT 2007

12714 [lbo-talk] plain text please please please -- rank: 1000

I keep asking this but to no avail - please post only in plain text. HTML coding greatly increases the size of message, and not all mailers can format it properly. The list software is supposed to be able to strip the codes, but it can't. Please be considerate of your readers. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 06:02:25 PDT 2007

12715 [lbo-talk] Radicalizing the carbon cycle -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:06 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> In the absence of a major popular movement on this, > > Comrade, talk it up, not down... > > Date: Apr 13, 2007 2:02 PM > Subject: 1,000 Climate Rallies Planned This Weekend We're gonna be there. I hope it's big. But rather than talking up or down, I think we should talk just as it is, no? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 05:57:06 PDT 2007

12716 [lbo-talk] Imus -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Brian Charles Dauth wrote: > However, to call a group of smart, talented and hardworking young > women who > are making history a bunch of "nappy headed ho's" is very > distasteful and > can legitimately be seen as sexist and racist. That's so temperately phrased that I'm in awe. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 05:48:51 PDT 2007

12717 [lbo-talk] Radicalizing the carbon cycle -- rank: 1000

On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:57 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > I've now written a multi-part series on this, rather than posting > the whole thing I'll just send links: > > http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/4/10/121738/285 (Climate > solutions of the rich and powerful which directly takes on CERES) I wrote pretty similar stuff in my piece for The Nation's climate issue which will be out next week. In the absence of a major popular movement on this, which is where we are now, capital is goi ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 12 20:01:57 PDT 2007

12718 [lbo-talk] Imus gets the boot -- rank: 1000

4/12/2007 4:49:43 PM ET Breaking News Bulletin: CBS fires Don Imus from radio show http:// marketwatch.com/r.asp?g=8955DDF2FBB4471294F17FF337AA86E5&d=bnb

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Date:	Thu Apr 12 14:03:32 PDT 2007

12719 [lbo-talk] Anti-globalists Reach Out to Islamists -- rank: 1000

On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Maybe you are forgetting the true state of women in Japan and the USA, > both of which are in some ways more conservative than Iran when it > comes to women's rights and lives, even though both are _a lot_ richer > than it: more Iranian women study engineering and other traditionally > male-dominated disciplines than Japanese or American women do, e.g., > "In the applied physics department of Azad University 70% of the ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 12 12:02:39 PDT 2007

12720 [lbo-talk] China (was: The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class ) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Would it be invitation to oversimplification if I asked if people > on this list who hold a particular assessment or opinion of China, > to put theirs forth in brief if possible? The only large > developing nation to make a quantum leap into successful mass > industrialization, under the auspices of a nominally communist > government, but I don't really know what the scope of opinion is on > what their government is doing fro ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 12 09:41:52 PDT 2007