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1366 [lbo-talk] OWS: crackdown imminent? -- rank: 1000

[Can't vouch for this, but could well be...] From: han shan Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM Friends, allies, and troublemakers, I heard through a back-channel (which I did not seek nor cultivate) from a very highly-placed person in the Mayor's office that they are losing patience with the status quo VERY quickly. This person was rather blunt and without giving me any sort of firm timeline nonetheless made it clear that the city has a plan, the resources, and will likely mobilize very soon (to ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 10:40:07 PDT 2011

1367 [lbo-talk] Free eBook: _Justin Fox: The Myth of the Rational Market_ -- rank: 1000

I had Justin Fox on the radio to discuss the book when it first come out. Much of his argument bears an uncanny resemblance to mine in Wall Street. He cites me once or twice, and was enthusiastic when I first contacted him about the interview. Still, it's annoying that he got a lot of attention, and probably a nice fat advance, for his book, and I didn't, 15 years earlier. Yeah, I know that's cheap and mean of me. Sorry. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 10:31:14 PDT 2011

1368 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 10:40 PM, SA wrote: > Wouldn't it be pretty far-fetched, then, to think that one loose faction would be able to slip a little thing like the Iraq invasion past all the other factions - unless the other factions liked the idea for their own separate reasons? But, you know, they're goyim.

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 20:07:28 PDT 2011

1369 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > They put their own case better than I can > sum it up: > > http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/john-mearsheimer/the-israel-lobby So "the Zionists made them do it" wasn't an inaccurate summary of their position. We've been over this before, and I don't want to go over it again. I'll just say that it's implausible that a small group of people, even, you know, those crafty Jews, could hijack U.S. policy to this extent. But I'll stop ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 18:44:02 PDT 2011

1370 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 17:22:30 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >>> It is curious to me that in all this >>> discussion of why the US invaded Iraq, nobody >>> has mentioned Israel. >> >> Well you just did, so could you complete the thought? > > The Mearsheimer/Walt thesis on the subject is surely > well known? It attracted some attention at the time. Yes, it is. So ...

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1371 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > It is curious to me that in all this > discussion of why the US invaded Iraq, nobody > has mentioned Israel. Well you just did, so could you complete the thought? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 14:22:30 PDT 2011

1372 [lbo-talk] Another Wall Street author talks about OWS -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 3:16 PM, ken hanly wrote: > Steve Fraser gives some historical background in relation to the OWS. Is Fraser a good guy Doug? > > http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/20111020114617327340.html Basically, yeah.

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1373 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > So what they won was assertion of their conservative foreign policy > and beating the "chatterbox on the Potomac" into submission, which > allow the to pass many reactionary "counter-terrorism" policies. Why > do you think they made such a big deal of military tribunals and > torture? Yeah they won that, and Obama has deepened it, but so what? We're $3-5 trillion more in debt and U.S. power looks less than almighty ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 12:35:29 PDT 2011

1374 [lbo-talk] report from Oakland -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 1:02 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Given the very little amount of time available for preparation, I too am surprised at the momentum, though it remains to be seen as to how many bodies show up on the streets. Thousands, say the Twitters. Conflicting reports on whether the port is closed.

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1375 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > But the Iraq adventure had minimal effect on oil flows and > prices. I do not buy Chomsky's argument you quoted, but I do not > think Iraq was "about oil" for the sake of global capitalism either. > Methinks it was about a political chess game that the Bush admin > played and won. You may be right about Iraq - I was talking about the last 50+ years. But won? What did the US win in Iraq exactly?

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1376 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > I think this oversimplifies things. It is not that economics > does not play a huge role in politics, but there is a lot in politics > that cannot be reduced to economics. A lot of it high brow pissing > contests, showing the other guy that ours is bigger or preventing him > from getting something that he may want. The US policy toward Japan > before WW2 may be an example of it - blocking Japan's access to oil > was pretty ta ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 09:28:55 PDT 2011

1377 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 11:43 AM, brandelune at gmail.com wrote: > Maybe not oil leasing but what about Halliburton and Black Waters ? Sure they did fine, but it would be a stretch to argue that the U.S. invaded Iraq to fatten the bottom lines of those two alone. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 08:52:52 PDT 2011

1378 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2011, at 11:27 AM, ken hanly wrote: > The U.S. intervenes to try to give U.S. companies an advantage Didn't work so well in Iraq, as I recall. Didn't U.S. companies do rather badly in the oil leasing? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 08:35:26 PDT 2011

1379 [lbo-talk] report from Oakland -- rank: 1000

[This was sent to me offlist by someone who wanted it posted anonymously.] This is probably the biggest preparation for an event like this I have seen in my lifetime. My co-workers, friends, and family are talking about it. Just the fact that the USA Today had an article indicates that it's a pretty big deal. The best news are available on twitter, unfortunately, #occupyoakland and #generalstrike. For online coverage you can check the SF Chronicle (sfgate.com) that wrote an editorial against the ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 08:34:05 PDT 2011

1380 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1736, Issue 3 -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > It was you baby boomers who gave us this preoccupation with > generations in the first place! 'Never trust anyone over thirty.' > What's wrong with a bit of advice based on experience? The worst that > will happen is that it will be ignored. And you and Michael Yates are > as much 'on the ground' as anyone. The generation thing is sooooooo tedious. Don't reproduce it in your critique!

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