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12736 [lbo-talk] Imus -- rank: 1000

On Apr 10, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > My take -- > > <http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2007/04/bad-boy-inc.html> > Nice take. You say that Imus wouldn't refer to Jews that way. According to an email from FAIR, he once called Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz a "boner-nosed... beanie-wearing Jewboy." Surprised he got away with that one! Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 10:42:53 PDT 2007

12737 [lbo-talk] Maryland First State to Pass Living Wage -- rank: 1000

On Apr 10, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > That is the difference that voting Democrat makes. Of course, for > self-styled radicals that is a meaningless gesture of the lackeys > of the > bourgeoisie that dilutes the purity of the revolutionary project - > but hey, > everybody needs to eat before the revolution finally comes. That same party did nothing - not even holding a hearing - about raising the minimum wage in 1993 and 1994, when they controlled both hou ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 08:44:51 PDT 2007

12738 [lbo-talk] skip this if you're sick of Hitch -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/christopher-hitchens/christopher-hitchens-to- get-knee+walking-drunk-in-fancier-surroundings-251027.php> Christopher Hitchens To Get Knee-Walking Drunk In Fancier Surroundings Exciting times for women longing to have a comical British alcoholic puke down their cleavage while spilling Scotch on their shoes. Christopher Hitchens and his wife, Carol Blue, are bringing back what has historically been one of the most "exclusive" parties following the annual ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 10 08:30:48 PDT 2007

12739 [lbo-talk] The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Seth Ackerman wrote: > If leaving Iraq is good for the empire, why do you want us to leave? Because of high levels of misery and death. Doug

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12740 [lbo-talk] The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Not necessarily; the U. S. "lost" the Vietnam war, and now Vietnam > diligently provides cheap labor to enrich U. S. based multinationals. Well yeah, that supports my point more than it does the U.S.-will- never-leave gang. What's really damaging to the empire is the constant bleeding - the sight of the U.S. military getting slowly hammered, and the increasing domestic discontent the war is causing. Carrol et al seem to think ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 15:43:34 PDT 2007

12741 [lbo-talk] CIW Reaches Landmark Agreement with McDonald's! -- rank: 1000

Come to Chicago now more than ever! Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello to play together on April 14th! Campaign surges forward with Burger King in its sights! Today at The Carter Center in Atlanta, the CIW and McDonald's announced a landmark agreement to work together to improve the wages and working conditions of the farmworkers who pick Florida tomatoes. After two years of escalating pressure by the CIW and its allies, McDonald's has agreed to all of the CIW's demands and more. The incred ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 15:30:09 PDT 2007

12742 [lbo-talk] The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class -- rank: 1000

So the U.S. will just keep getting its ass kicked? That could happen, but it will be very bad for the empire. On Apr 9, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Whatever official rationalization may be used, if a Dem gets > elected President, the Dem leadership will tell themselves (and > their supportive base) that if they pull the US troops out of > Iraq, they will be vulnerable because they will be accused by > Repugs of "losing Iraq." LBJ, it must be remembere ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 14:50:00 PDT 2007

12743 [lbo-talk] looking on the bright side -- rank: 1000

[an upbeat comment on today's antiwar demo in Najaf] Col. Steven Boylan, an American military spokesman and aide to the commander of all American forces in Iraq, praised the peaceful nature of the demonstration, saying Iraqis could not have done this four years ago, the A.P. reported.

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 13:22:10 PDT 2007

12744 [lbo-talk] what makes Dissent so great -- rank: 1000

[from the announcement for the Spring 2007 ish of Dissent] ...Michael Walzer argues for tyrant executions...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 11:55:50 PDT 2007

12745 [lbo-talk] The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Presumably if there gets to be an elite consensus to bag it then the > Democrats will fall happily into line. But for whatever reason, the > factions or components of the American elite that wanted war with > Iraq are apparently still dominant, and so that's where the Dems, like > the Repubs, are getting their marching orders. Maybe I read too many newspapers and other current sources, at the expense of those dispatches filed fro ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 11:36:58 PDT 2007

12746 [lbo-talk] The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The fundamental grounds upon which all leftists "soft on the DP" base > their position is the charge that DP politicians are "cowards" -- > i.e., > the DP really has good principles but is simply afraid to back up > those > principles. Nonsense. They have firm principles: Imperialist > Principles > -- and they would rather lose elections than fail to support those > principles. This is true, but I thi ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 09:21:16 PDT 2007

12747 [lbo-talk] Radicalizing the carbon cycle -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Eubulides wrote: > Europe's Problems Color U.S. Plans to Curb Carbon Gases Yup - this is part of the reason I said that cap & trade is crap, and why a carbon tax is a lot better. It's nice to see some actual detail, rather than just blanket dismissals. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 06:20:58 PDT 2007

12748 [lbo-talk] Radicalizing the carbon cycle -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:38 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > The main force for a genuine alternative to capitalism's fake > market mitigation strategy will be public pressure. Do you & your co-authors take on the substance of any of the bourgeois proposals? E.g. <http://www.ceres.org/Call_to_Action/index.php>: > Leadership and action by the US government to achieve sizable, > sensible long-term reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in > accordance with the 60-90% reduction ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 9 05:48:17 PDT 2007

12749 [lbo-talk] Radicalizing the carbon cycle -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:38 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > The main force for a genuine alternative to capitalism's fake > market mitigation strategy will be public pressure. I think cap & trade is crap, but they are talking about caps along with the trading - not just offsets/mitigation. You always seem to forget this. Doug

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12750 [lbo-talk] Radicalizing the carbon cycle -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug, Four years ago you wanted a policy which would get the > electricity > turned on in Iraq _right now_, and on that grounds questioned the Out > Now slogan. No, as I recall, I said that a lot of Iraqis, perhaps a majority, did not support the Out Now agenda. Many, fearing the consequences of our having destroyed their state with nothing to take its place, wanted some sort of peacekeeping force without the U.S. Obviously that is ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 20:13:18 PDT 2007