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13111 [lbo-talk] Oil Is A Renewable Resource! Take That, You Peaksters! -- rank: 1000

On Sep 6, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Andy F wrote: > On 9/6/06, Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote: > >> Did Cockburn really write this bullshit? Wow, I just lost a bunch of >> respect for him. This is like some intelligent lefty writer >> drinking the >> 9/11 Kool Aid. > > You must have missed his global warming skeptic column a few years > back. He basically pulled a Crichton, making a show of going around > interviewing climate scientists and then pos ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 6 06:01:35 PDT 2006

13112 [lbo-talk] Starbucks and the I.W.W.... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Mike Ballard wrote: > Starbucks workers add shot of unionizingHistoric local group works > with baristas > > By Ron Grossman > Chicago Tribune staff reporter > Published September 4, 2006 > > In the city of its birth, and 101 years later, the Industrial > Workers of the World is still trying to strike a blow for the > working class. > > Just ahead of Labor Day, baristas at the Starbucks in Logan Square > told management that they ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 6 05:41:33 PDT 2006

13113 [lbo-talk] Travolta - gay, or just friendly? -- rank: 1000

Complete with pix: <http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/artslife/ story.html?id=de581a85-faff-40d8-9950-fd9ff101bf99&k=32224>

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Date:	Tue Sep 5 16:01:33 PDT 2006

13114 [lbo-talk] Mo oil, mo oil, mo oil ... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > The bottom line is that nature isn't making any more of the stuff Actually there are some who argue to the contrary but aside from that, as I've said a million times, we'll kill ourselves before we burn it all, so the focus on how many decades' supply we've got is disastrously misleading. And screaming about scarcity does not necessarily make people rational, either. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 5 14:25:13 PDT 2006

13115 [lbo-talk] Zakaria on Iran -- rank: 1000

Newsweek - September 11, 2006 <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14640262/site/newsweek/> The Year of Living Fearfully Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has gone from being an obscure and not-so- powerful politician to a central player in the Mideast, simply by goading the United States. By Fareed Zakaria It's 1938, says the liberal columnist Richard Cohen, evoking images of Hitler's armies massing in the face of an appeasing West. No, no, says Newt Gingrich, the Third World War has already begun. ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 5 14:22:43 PDT 2006

13116 [lbo-talk] Mo oil, mo oil, mo oil ... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Successful Test Well in Gulf of Mexico Means U.S. Oil Reserves > Could Grow More Than 50 Percent Uh-oh, what will the Peaksters do? Doug

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13117 [lbo-talk] OFFLIST completely confused? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I'm trying not to overpost, so I'm writing you offlist. My Catholic roots are showing: good intentions absolve you of mortal sin. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 5 12:17:31 PDT 2006

13118 [lbo-talk] anti-imperialist statement for U.S. Labor Day march -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Aaron Shuman wrote: > Rape is repugnant and a war crime; nothing below > valorizes it. aaron > > > From: Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com > > > Rape as revolutionary praxis, hip, hip, hooray. Michael, why do you have to root about looking for damning material? Do you go through your neighbors' trash too? Doug

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13119 [lbo-talk] re: meet the Mortgage Moms -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Doug: > > > I know it's hard to keep track of this nonsense, but I think Nascar > Dads are always pretty Republican. > > > [WS:] But did not they used to be "bread and butter" Democrats > before bread > and butter took the back seat and ideology - or rather counter- > liberal, > counter-urban, and anti-intellectual reaction- became their driving > force? Yeah, but you're talking 25-35 years ag ...

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13120 [lbo-talk] cleansing Iran -- rank: 1000

[Elsewhere, Iran's leading defender on the Western left, Yoshie F, has claimed that Ahmadinejad does not plan to do what he says he'd like to do, unless AFP is just making this up.] <http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php? StoryID=20060905-073114-2591r> Ahmadinejad vows to rid schools of liberal influence Hiedeh Farmani AFP September 5, 2006 TEHRAN -- Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday vowed to cleanse schools and universities of liberal influences, continuing a ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 5 11:22:37 PDT 2006

13121 [lbo-talk] anti-imperialist statement for U.S. Labor Day march -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Michael Pugliese quoted: > Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, as Emerson wrote Actually, it's "a foolish consistency." Pedantically, Doug

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13122 [lbo-talk] re: meet the Mortgage Moms -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2006, at 11:34 AM, ulisse mangialaio wrote: > "Every election cycle has its own important set of undecided, or > swing, voters...In 2004, it was the security moms, normally > Democratic-trending women whose concerns about terrorism helped > give Bush his margin of victory." > > Wasn't it the Nascar Dads? I know it's hard to keep track of this nonsense, but I think Nascar Dads are always pretty Republican. Doug

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13123 [lbo-talk] Fwd: nytimes v d nathan? -- rank: 1000

Dear Friend, I urge you to write to the Times as well to get them to answer the questions below. Judith Levine New York Times To the Public Editor: Strange things are going on regarding Kurt Eichenwald's "With Child Sex Sites on the Run, Nearly Nude Photos Hit the Web," (Aug. 20, 2006), Salon magazine, and one has to suspect -- either the New York Times or Eichenwald or both. In spite of hundreds of posts from Salon's readers demanding explanation, Salon is offering none. It's t ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 5 07:47:40 PDT 2006

13124 [lbo-talk] meet the Mortgage Moms -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/ AR2006090401108.html> Every election cycle has its own important set of undecided, or swing, voters. In 2000, it was the "soccer moms," targeted by both parties with appeals based on education and quality-of-life concerns. In 2004, it was the security moms, normally Democratic-trending women whose concerns about terrorism helped give Bush his margin of victory. This year could mark the emergence of what might b ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 5 07:32:38 PDT 2006

13125 [lbo-talk] the indestructible Fidel -- rank: 1000

Castro says well enough to meet dignitaries By Anthony Boadle HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he has put the worst of his health crisis behind him and will be able to receive foreign dignitaries in private during a summit of developing nations next week. But the left-wing firebrand said in a statement published on Tuesday that a full recovery from the undisclosed illness that forced him to turn over power to his brother will take a long time. Castro, 80, said he lost 41 lb ...

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