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12751 [lbo-talk] Radicalizing the carbon cycle -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Let's take an easy example of greenwashing, let's take ethanol. Do we > know using ethanol as a fuel helps to reduce carbon additions? We just > assume it does. I am sure there are mountains of data on the > combustion properties and products that show that ethanol burns > cleaner than gasoline. But that isn't the whole ethanol story. Ethanol > is produced from growing corn, probably GM corn at that, on vast > agricultural-in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 8 19:58:29 PDT 2007

12752 [lbo-talk] Radicalizing the carbon cycle -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > ``...is it an entirely bad thing to have big capital showing signs of > taking climate change seriously, and trying to push the > U.S. government into action?'' Doug > > ------------ > > First to the last point. Yes it is a very bad thing. And big capital > is buried deep in all the regulatory agencies, conferences, papers, > and a whole industry of energy R&D. Chuck, none of the stuff you talk about is going to hap ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 19:53:59 PDT 2007

12753 [lbo-talk] The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2007, at 6:56 PM, Carrol Cox quoted Noah Feldman, CFR's expert on the compatibility of Islam and democracy <http:// www.cfr.org/publication/9523/>: > To do so, we need to > avoid the kind of withdrawal that would allow Al Qaeda to claim > victory > while simultaneously precipitating a humanitarian crisis that would > destabilize the region. We have no business starting wars we cannot > bring ourselves to complete, but maybe we can bring ourselves to win a > ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 16:32:10 PDT 2007

12754 [lbo-talk] he doesn't like musicals -- rank: 1000

[Emma Brockes is the hack who wrote that devious profile of Noam Chomsky, no?] New York Post [Page Six] - April 8, 2007 Cross To Bear HEAVY metal legend Lemmy of Motorhead has no use for people who like Broadway musicals. British journalist Emma Brockes - in her memoir, "What Would Barbra Do? How Musicals Changed My Life," out next month from HarperCollins - recalls her ill-fated meeting with the mutton- chopped rocker during which she confessed her love of show tunes. "What ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 10:02:08 PDT 2007

12755 [lbo-talk] more trouble over Wolfie & his gal -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 7, 2007 Row over Wolfowitz s partner intensifies By Krishna Guha in Washington and Mark Turner in New York The dispute over the pay increase and promotion awarded to the partner of the World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz, when she was seconded from the bank to the US State department intensified on Friday when both the then head of the board s ethics committee and its then general counsel challenged the version of events put forward by bank officials. Ad Melkert, wh ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 08:19:45 PDT 2007

12756 [lbo-talk] You Can't Make Me Talk -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Ted Winslow wrote: > None of these deal with the problem of organizing instrumental > activity in an ideal community as conceived by Marx. That's all very nice, Ted, but how do you propose to make sure people get food on the table and a roof over their heads? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 07:31:15 PDT 2007

12757 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Zapping a greenwashing event is just that -- zapping. How is that > supposed to undo the coalition of capitalists, trade unions, and major > environmental organizations for "market-based solutions," which are > non-solutions? So, as the shrinks say, what's your idea about this? As for your "zapping" remark, ACT-UP was a very effective and impressive organization. They learned the science, figured out all th ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 07:30:27 PDT 2007

12758 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 4/8/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> On Apr 7, 2007, at 10:29 PM, tfast wrote: >> >>> I absolutely think it is going to happen and that is why the right >>> is so >>> frightened by the environment: It puts the social regulation of >>> capitalism >>> back on the political agenda with an inevitability. >> >> Excellent point. Time for som ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 07:28:55 PDT 2007

12759 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Sigh. Go out and organize them. I'm busy. You're retired. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 07:24:52 PDT 2007

12760 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2007, at 10:29 PM, tfast wrote: > I absolutely think it is going to happen and that is why the right > is so > frightened by the environment: It puts the social regulation of > capitalism > back on the political agenda with an inevitability. Excellent point. Time for some ACT-UPish actions at Ceres <http:// www.ceres.org/Call_to_Action/index.php>? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 8 06:46:53 PDT 2007

12761 [lbo-talk] how to win a strike -- rank: 1000

<http://ianbone.wordpress.com/i-fucked-thatcher/> INTRODUCTION by Ian Bone RUCK, RIOT N ROLL Wapping February 1987 The Wapping News International printers strike was, like the miners strike before it, lost when it could have been won. To be blunt, more violence could have won it. More violence was the only way it could have been won. [...]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 8 06:22:49 PDT 2007

12762 [lbo-talk] Ian Bone writes... -- rank: 1000

Begin forwarded message: > Greetings from Bristol Doug. A new book I'm doing the > intro for entitled 'I Fucked Thatcher' is being > serialised on my blog site along with other > interesting stuff on contemporary British politics: > www.ianbone.wordpress.com > Cheers > Ian

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Date:	Sun Apr 8 06:20:07 PDT 2007

12763 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:00 PM, tfast wrote: > Yah and if you think that solving the problem will not entail a > massive > collective (legislative) repression of capitalist forms of > inefficiency and > waste you are also living in dream world. If you're saying that capital won't do it through the wondrous mechanism of the self-regulating market but needs the state to force the issue, I'd say yes, absolutely. If you're saying that won't happen, I think you're probably wrong. I didn ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 7 18:57:21 PDT 2007

12764 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > secular bubbles trying to make themselves smaller all the time This is self-defeating and self-marginalizing. The secular presence in the U.S. is getting larger, not smaller. Young people are more secular than old, and the number of self-professed seculars is growing. Thank god. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 7 18:24:18 PDT 2007

12765 [lbo-talk] evangelicals: how many walk the walk? -- rank: 1000

[Note this guys affiliation: Gallup has a division that consults with "faith communities." It's not an organization that's hostile to religion.] <http://www.galluppoll.com:/content/Default.aspx?ci=16519> May 31, 2005 U.S. Evangelicals: How Many Walk the Walk? Fewer fit description than claim to be evangelicals by Albert L. Winseman, D. Min. Religion and Social Trends Editor As Global Practice Leader for Faith Communities, Dr. Winseman leads Gallup's research and consulting ser ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 7 07:13:39 PDT 2007