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13441 [lbo-talk] Woodward on Bush on Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/28/60minutes/main2047607.shtml> Bob Woodward: Bush Misleads On IraqTells 60 Minutes About His Book 'State Of Denial' NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2006 "It's getting to the point now where there are eight-, nine-hundred attacks a week. That's more than 100 a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces." - Bob Woodward (CBS) President Bush's former chief of staff, Andy Card, said the Bush presidency will be judged by three things: Iraq, Iraq, I ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 06:57:29 PDT 2006

13442 [lbo-talk] WMT jacks up rate of exploitation -- rank: 1000

[the WMT memo is at <http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/ business/20061002_WALMART/20061002_walmart_memo.pdf>] New York Times - October 2, 2006 Wal-Mart to Add Wage Caps and Part-Timers By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and MICHAEL BARBARO Wal-Mart, the nation s largest private employer, is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part- time workers and scheduling more workers on nights and weekends. Wal-Mart executives say they have embraced new policie ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 05:51:45 PDT 2006

13443 [lbo-talk] Let's build! -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2006, at 3:53 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Me in today's Sunday Times:"Experts from Kingston University's > Centre for Suburban Studies were dreaming of dotting the > countryside with houses, creating sprawling megacities and ushering > in an era of cheap homes for all. > > > > "We will have a city 100 miles in diameter taking in Cambridge and > Windsor and Brighton," declared James Heartfield, author of Let's > Build!, a book launched at t ...

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13444 [lbo-talk] art's objectivity (tangent on faulkner thread) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > "Once upon a time there came to be left altogether to himself > the one who came to see him too and very likely they did exchange > saying > who could have been made to look as well and as often as they had > occasionally wished it to be by themselves." (Chapter CLXXI, p. 147 > Dalkey edition) How could anyone not joy in that? Could we have more of this, and less sneering about people's "incoherence" and " ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 2 05:38:59 PDT 2006

13445 [lbo-talk] Wanted: A Major Division in the US Power Elite andRuling Class (was Curiosity) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Yoshie writes: > >> But they are all external constraints, which don't equal a major >> division in the US power elite and ruling class. > ======================== > And yet you say the Iranian and Nicaraguan Revolutions did provoke > such a split in the US ruling class. I don't it recall the elite > and the American people being as agonized or as divided then as > they are now over the war in Iraq. This is the ...

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13446 Curiosity Re: [lbo-talk] NYT editorial on terror bill -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> That's an editorial, not a news story. It's the news coverage that >> really influences other publications & broadcast outlets. As do the >> columnists & op-ed contributions. Get an op-ed in the Times, and >> you'll be booked on TV & radio programs by early afternoon. > > Again, where's your empirical evidence for the New York Times' > influence on the power elites or the general public or both, u ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 1 07:45:37 PDT 2006

13447 [lbo-talk] Chavez is no prince and neither is Ahmadinejad (was: Chavez, bush, the devil and jon stewart) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > So, the question is what relation Western leftists want to have with > peoples who are economically populist, internationally > anti-imperialist, and sexually conservative. That describes a lot of the US population too - are you not interested in having relations with them? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 1 06:42:26 PDT 2006

13448 Curiosity Re: [lbo-talk] NYT editorial on terror bill -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > But where's empirical evidence for the New York Times' influence? > > Just to take one major example, in 2004 > > The New York Times endorsed John F. Kerry for President, > > but That's an editorial, not a news story. It's the news coverage that really influences other publications & broadcast outlets. As do the columnists & op-ed contributions. Get an op-ed in the Times, and you'll be booked on TV & radio ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 1 06:28:02 PDT 2006

13449 [lbo-talk] The Red Critique, Issue 12 -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Those of you who remember the old Spoons Marxism >> list will remember >> these delightful folks! >> > > That's nothing! For true enlightenment, one goes to > the latest issue of Cockroach! An e-zine for poor and > working class people!: http://www.algonet.se/~malecki/Latest.htm Malecki was part of that scene too! It may be where I first met Cdes ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 30 18:35:26 PST 2006

13450 [lbo-talk] The Red Critique, Issue 12 -- rank: 1000

Those of you who remember the old Spoons Marxism list will remember these delightful folks! > The Red Critique, Issue 12 is now available at: http:// > www.redcritique.org > > Editorial: Daily Lessons on Class > Teresa L. Ebert > Mas'ud Zavarzadeh > > The "Crisis" in Feminism and Labor in Transition > Jennifer Cotter > > The "New" Shame-faced Partisans of Capital: A Critique of Elspeth > Probyn's > Blush > Julie Torrant > > Lea ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 30 12:50:35 PST 2006

13451 [lbo-talk] posting volume -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Her 8th post of the day. One more, and it's moderation.

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Date:	Thu Nov 30 12:47:00 PST 2006

13452 [lbo-talk] the week the wheels came off? -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - November 30, 2006 ANALYSIS Maliki dinner-date snub rubs salt in Prez wounds BY THOMAS DeFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON - There was a time when American clients wouldn't dare snub a President of the United States. But these are hardly normal times - not for Iraq, nor a seriously weakened President. White House spinners tried to confect a benign explanation for yesterday's cancellation of a dinner date between President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister N ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 30 12:09:10 PST 2006

13453 [lbo-talk] Iraq: even more over -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox, contact politicalUnit at abcnews.go.com and let them know this can't be true! The Note's lede today: > We think it was The Note that once wrote "politically, American > involvement in the Iraq war is over." That is more true today than > it was yesterday, and it will be even more true next week when the > Iraq Study Group dog-and-pony-with-a-purpose turns on the TV > lights, and even more so when the Democratic majority rules the > roost come January.

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Date:	Thu Nov 30 12:03:37 PST 2006

13454 [lbo-talk] From Islamophobia to Sexism and Heterosexism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: 7 posts so far today. 11 posts yesterday. 9 posts on Tuesday. 4 posts on Monday. 5 posts on Sunday. That's an average of 7.2/day. The daily limit is 3.

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Date:	Thu Nov 30 11:52:31 PST 2006

13455 [lbo-talk] LBO 2008 Dem POTUS poll -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I think the real revelation here is that Al Gore turns out to be > lbo-talk's IRV choice. If you overlook the fact that head-drilling has twice as many votes.

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