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14926 [lbo-talk] working for gas, mark 2 -- rank: 1000

Some people commented that my work minutes for gas graph would be better if it were adjusted for changes in fuel efficiency (which, it should be said, has been more or less flat since 1995). Sooo...number of minutes for the average worker to earn enough to pay for enough gas to drive 100 miles: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ GasMinutes100Mi.jpg>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 16 09:13:25 PDT 2006

14927 [lbo-talk] US Could Be Going Bankrupt -- rank: 1000

On Jul 16, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb > could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to > research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve > Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve. The St Louis Fed has been a hotbed of monetarism since the early 1970s, and Kotlikoff has been saying crap like this forever. He's a leading proponent of generationa ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 16 07:16:52 PDT 2006

14928 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [What Does Israel Want? Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, ] -- rank: 1000

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/printer5003.shtml Opinion/Editorial What Does Israel Want? Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 14 July 2006 Imagine a group of high ranking generals who simulated for years Third World War scenarios in which they can move huge armies around, employ the most sophisticated weapons in their disposal and enjoy the immunity of a computerized headquarters from which they can direct their war games. Now imagine that they are informed that in fact there is no Third ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 15 18:39:04 PDT 2006

14929 [lbo-talk] Uri Avnery: The Real Aim In Lebanon -- rank: 1000

Uri Avnery 15.7.06 The Real Aim THE REAL aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government. That was the aim of Ariel Sharon's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the military and political leadership have never really given up on it. As in 1982, the present operation, too, was planned and is being carried out in full coordination with the US. As then, there is no doubt that it is coordinated with a part of the Lebanese elite. That's ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 15 18:27:58 PDT 2006

14930 [lbo-talk] WPost: conflict w Iran adding $10-$15 to price of oil -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Is the price of oil actually high? Gasoline prices certainly are not > high. When I was 7 gasoline was 6 gals. a dollar. But my mother's > annual > pay as a rural elementary school teacher was $600. I think for many in > 1937 gas at 16 cents a gal. was more expensive than gas at $3 a > gal. is > now. I can't speak to 1937, but gas prices are very high if your history starts in 1950. I've got a chart of the number of minutes i ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 15 13:18:30 PDT 2006

14931 [lbo-talk] Mumbai bombings -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2006, at 11:39 AM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > Why Peking was changed to Beijing and Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City? The first was a new system of transliteration. The second, well, that's pretty obvious, no? The followers of Ho won the war, at least for a little while. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 15 08:46:28 PDT 2006

14932 [lbo-talk] Raimondo Gets It Right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Moishe Postone's Anti-Semitism and National Socialism > should be an obligatory reading for all leftists to > avoid foreshortened anti-capitalist arguments that > overlap with anti-semitism. Which is related to critiques of capitalism that focus on finance as bad and production as virtuous. It's uncanny how often those slip into anti-Semitic arguments. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 15 08:45:12 PDT 2006

14933 [lbo-talk] Hillary on recent events -- rank: 1000

Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Condemning the Attacks on Israel The unprovoked attacks on innocent Israelis and the killing and abduction of Israeli soldiers by the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah are dramatic escalations of violence against Israel. The United States must stand by Israel as she defends herself. No government can stand idly by when its citizens and soldiers are attacked and abducted and when terrorist groups make incursions into its territory. These even ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 15 08:32:45 PDT 2006

14934 [lbo-talk] Mumbai bombings -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:30 PM, Aditya Mopur wrote: > bombay Ok, so what are the politics of the renaming? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 15 07:52:58 PDT 2006

14935 [lbo-talk] FCC intensifies its crackdown -- rank: 1000

FCC Combing TV Tapes in Profanity Crackdown By Brooks Boliek Reuters Wednesday, July 12, 2006; 1:34 AM WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - In its continuing crackdown on on- air profanity, the FCC has requested numerous tapes from broadcasters that might include vulgar remarks from unruly spectators, coaches and athletes at live sporting events, industry sources said. Tapes requested by the commission include live broadcasts of football games and NASCAR races where the participants or the crowd ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 15 07:47:36 PDT 2006

14936 [lbo-talk] re: unbeleivably dishonest attack on adolph reed -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2006, at 6:20 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > I guess you can say anything on the internet. But the heading of > A. Blanqui's message to the list is remarkable. No chapter, no > verse. Just a smear headline and a web link. Is Blanqui really M. > Pugliese? Can't you tell from the formatting that he isn't? I've got to say that's a deeply unfair characterization of Reed's work. Perhaps it's a response to Reed's critique of Roediger (see the paper at <http://soc.qc.cuny.ed ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 14 15:31:32 PDT 2006

14937 [lbo-talk] US embassy alert -- rank: 1000

[note that the word "Israel" does not appear in this document] <http://lebanon.usembassy.gov/lebanon/TravelWarning071406.html> public annoucements and warden messages Travel Warning - Lebanon July 14, 2006 July 14, 2006 Travel Warning United States Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs Washington, DC 20520 This information is current as of today, Fri Jul 14 08:35:00 2006. LEBANON July 13, 2006 This Travel Warning is being updated to alert American citizens that, due to ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 14 15:26:37 PDT 2006

14938 [lbo-talk] our legislators at work -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:50 PM, ravi wrote: > I have seen a few people forward this around, and I agree its good for > laughs, but I am curious: what do you think is essentially wrong about > his description? > > He is wrong about why his email message (which he mistakenly > referred to > as his Internet) may have got delayed. And he is a bit wrong about > some > of the other stuff, but I don't get what is being ridiculed. Is it his > metaphors? Or delivery? The genera ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 14 14:15:14 PDT 2006

14939 [lbo-talk] Kemp & Edwards agree - time to get tuff with Russia -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> I always assume the guy is talking his book. > > I think it's the other way around: he puts his money where his > mouth is. When you're Soros, you can have it both ways. Take a position on what you believe, then talk publicly about that, and watch the markets move your way. He did that with the pound, didn't he? Wasn't it his letter to the Times that broke it? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 14 12:40:06 PDT 2006

14940 [lbo-talk] Guardian profile on Maria Bartiromo -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Daniel Davies wrote: > with a surprising amount of material about Joey Ramone in it > > http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1820038,00.html That's a lot more appealing than her tedious admiration of Welch, Weill, & Immelt. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 14 12:38:53 PDT 2006