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1426 [lbo-talk] BHL defends DSK -- rank: 1000

http://powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/politics/bernard-henri-leacutevy-defends-accused-imf-director-1688448.story Bernard-Henri Levy I do not know what actually happened Saturday, the day before yesterday, in the room of the now famous Hotel Sofitel in New York. I do not know-no one knows, because there have been no leaks regarding the declarations of the man in question-if Dominique Strauss-Kahn was guilty of the acts he is accused of committing there, or if, at the time, as was stated, he was having ...

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Date:	Tue May 17 20:42:42 PDT 2011

1427 [lbo-talk] the money shot -- rank: 1000

On May 16, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Wendy Lyon wrote: > Is there any reason to believe that his proposals for a kindler, > gentler IMF would really serve as an incentive to purge him? No. Even if he was proposing anything more than cosmetic changes - and maybe he was - the U.S. still has veto power. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 16 13:23:03 PDT 2011

1428 [lbo-talk] the money shot -- rank: 1000

On May 16, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Barry Brooks wrote: > Maybe he is being purged like Eliot Spitzer. Except that if the woman's charges are true, he's a rapist. Spitzer just fucked a prostitute. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 16 12:28:18 PDT 2011

1429 [lbo-talk] the money shot -- rank: 1000

On May 16, 2011, at 1:09 PM, ken hanly wrote: > The first obscenity was the price of the hotel room, three thousand a night I > understand. Meanwhile the IMF imposes austerity on all its clients. Years ago I wrote up a little item in LBO about lunch at the IMF. They subsidized it deeply - you could get a plate of grilled salmon for $3 or $4 - less than a Big Mac meal cost at the time. This, of course, as they were insisting that poor countries cut food subsidies. They also required IMF ID' ...

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Date:	Mon May 16 10:54:33 PDT 2011

1430 [lbo-talk] the money shot -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 16, 2011 The walk of shame It was the most publicly shaming moment of what has been a spectacularly humiliating weekend for Dominique Strauss-Kahn: the walk from the back door of the Special Victims Unit in Harlem, New York, to the waiting unmarked police car, writes Ed Crooks In New York. The so-called perp walk , done to give the news photographers and TV crews a good look at the central figure in a case, is a well-established part of the US judicial system for celebrity ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 16 06:34:24 PDT 2011

1431 [lbo-talk] Jefferson Cowie's book on the 1970s and labor has its critics -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2011, at 9:25 AM, John Gulick wrote: > > YATES posts: > > Jefferson Cowie's Stayin Alive: The 1970 s and the Last Days of the Working Class has received glowing reviews. > But there are > dissenting voices. Here is one of them. I know others as well, both in the US and in Canada. > > > GULICK responds: > > That's an excellent review, Michael. Sounds like this guy could have written a better book than Cowie -- > precisely part of the post-1970's pr ...

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Date:	Sat May 14 15:39:18 PDT 2011

1432 [lbo-talk] Would Randomly-Selected Politicians Improve Democracy? -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Mark Bennett wrote: > It would be interesting to find out. Brian Martin, an Australian physicist > and social scientist, has written quite a bit on "demarchy": > > http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/demarchy.html > > Juries are selected somewhat randomly, and, in my experience, they perform > no worse than elective assemblies, and they are considerably less corrupt "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 p ...

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Date:	Fri May 13 11:43:45 PDT 2011

1433 [lbo-talk] Sharpton and Jackson endorse war on terror... -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The CPUSA's basic policies have been unchanged for decades, but in the 1950s and 1960s their members and many of their "fellow travellers" and "fronts" were essential in the rise of left movements and many of the events of the '60s. They deserve our honor and respect, whatever our disagrements. Couldn't agree more with that. They did heroic work in NYC and the South in the 1930s too. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 12 19:05:56 PDT 2011

1434 [lbo-talk] Steve Albini, food blogger -- rank: 1000

Via The Awl: Steve Albini is doing a food blog. http://mariobatalivoice.blogspot.com/

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Date:	Thu May 12 18:11:42 PDT 2011

1435 [lbo-talk] Sharpton and Jackson endorse war on terror... -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2011, at 3:31 PM, martin schiller wrote: > On May 12, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> What flavor was the Kool-Aid, Charles? CPUSA cherry-red? > > Is this what's referred to as red-baiting? Wow, check out this crap from head Commie Sam Webb. It's from Feb 2009, but really... http://www.peoplesworld.org/honoring-ohio-s-unsung-heroes-of-2008-elections-2/ > In his speeches, Webb said Obama is more than a friend to working people. He is a people s advocat ...

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Date:	Thu May 12 12:40:00 PDT 2011

1436 [lbo-talk] Sharpton and Jackson endorse war on terror... -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2011, at 3:31 PM, martin schiller wrote: > On May 12, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> What flavor was the Kool-Aid, Charles? CPUSA cherry-red? > > Is this what's referred to as red-baiting? Not insofar as the CPUSA acts as a propaganda arm for the Dems. They probably don't persuade many people other than themselves though. We're not overwhelmed by people wondering what Sam Webb or Jarvis Tyner thinks.

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Date:	Thu May 12 12:37:19 PDT 2011

1437 [lbo-talk] Sharpton and Jackson endorse war on terror... -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2011, at 3:08 PM, c b wrote: > CB: Not in this article, really dull thinking. Slandering Sharpton and Jackson. > > I suspect in trying to impress his white friends that skin color > doesn't delude him he gets deluded...by skin color. What flavor was the Kool-Aid, Charles? CPUSA cherry-red?

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Date:	Thu May 12 12:14:22 PDT 2011

1438 [lbo-talk] Original sources -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2011, at 2:49 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I was referring more to the difference between reading the Federalist Papers and reading a standard textbook about the constitutional convention....if your aim is to understand the forces at play in creating the constitution rather than the forces at play in creating textbooks to kill the desire to learn. No kidding, and an excellent point it is.

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Date:	Thu May 12 11:53:26 PDT 2011

1439 [lbo-talk] Sharpton and Jackson endorse war on terror... -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2011, at 2:46 PM, c b wrote: > It's a bunch of semi-personal attacks on Sharpton and Jackson, which > make Ford out as an I don't know what. A sharp thinker who is not deluded by skin color or party affiliation? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 12 11:52:45 PDT 2011

1440 [lbo-talk] Obscenity and assassination -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > As usual on web sites, by the time I had the font large enough to read, the screen jumped about too much for me to read it. I've asked you this a bunch of times and you've never answered - what's wrong with software that will read you the text? The function built into the Mac OS works pretty well - certainly better than nothing at all. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 12 07:47:46 PDT 2011