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14971 [lbo-talk] Yoshie: "dialogue" takes listening on your part, too -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Michael Hoover wrote: > what's really creepy is the speculation and nay-saying about someone > no longer subbed to the list... mh Hmm, how broadly does that rule apply? I'm sure it doesn't apply to George Bush, but at what social level does it begin to matter? Yoshie is someone who left a strong impression, and who is the editor if a significant publication. That makes her fair game for political commentary, I'd say. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 13:56:39 PDT 2006

14972 [lbo-talk] Al Gore & the greening of WMT -- rank: 1000

Wal-Mart discusses global warming steps By MARCUS KABEL, Associated Press Writer BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the biggest private user of electricity in the world and has huge potential to cut back on greenhouse gases in-house and among its 60,000 suppliers, company officials said ahead of a global warming information stop Wednesday by former vice president Al Gore. Wal-Mart working groups on environmental change were meeting ahead of Gore's visit to discuss steps already tak ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 12:55:52 PDT 2006

14973 [lbo-talk] more Z -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/5169342.stm> Zidane makes apology for headbutt Zinedine Zidane has apologised for the headbutt on Italy's Marco Materazzi which earned him a red card in Sunday's World Cup final penalty shoot-out loss. The France legend did not reveal what Materazzi said, but claimed it was "very personal" and concerned his mother and his sister. "I want to ask for forgiveness from all the children who watched," Zidane said. M ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 12:50:35 PDT 2006

14974 [lbo-talk] At least 23 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza today... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > "seven dead were all members of the same family - two parents, > including > senior Gaza Hamas figure Dr. Nabil al-Salmiah, and their five > children" > > Ummm...can any of you maybe coordinate some sort of string of mass > demos > in cities all around the world with a couple hundred thousand of your > close friends (A.N.S.W.E.R. not included) to put pressure on your > governments to force Israel out of ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 12:38:49 PDT 2006

14975 [lbo-talk] MySpace becomes US's most popular website; political version in the works -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2006, at 3:06 PM, B. wrote: > Political networkers to get new Web site, HotSoup The Note was beside itself with excitement over this development this morning. The founder, Ron Fournier, is a former political correspondent for the AP whom they regarded as a cross between Tacitus and Gibbon or something. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 12:15:29 PDT 2006

14976 [lbo-talk] Z's mother -- rank: 1000

More from my college class listserv: > Zidane's mother waded into the fray earlier today saying that > Materazzi should be castrated, that she "wanted his testicles on a > plate." Gotta admire a woman like that!

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 12:07:57 PDT 2006

14977 [lbo-talk] it was his mama -- rank: 1000

[from ABC News] FRENCH SOCCER STAR ZIDANE SAID HE HEAD BUTTED AN ITALIAN PLAYER IN THE WORLD CUP FINAL AFTER THE PLAYER INSULTED HIS MOTHER

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 11:21:16 PDT 2006

14978 [lbo-talk] Men are slackers -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I love that word (phatic) and almost never see it used. Me too, and I don't get why it's not more popular. When I was young & grouchy I used to think all the phatic rituals were a waste of time and breath; now I think they're really important. But why is the concept so obscure? Doug

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14979 [lbo-talk] soccer -- rank: 1000

Someone on my college class listserv reports that Materazzi's father (M is the fellow who insulted Zidane, prompting the world-historical headbutt) was coach of a team that used to do Nazi salutes before games. Yikes. Meanwhile, today's Chicago Tribune reports: > "I did insult him, it's true," Materazzi said in Tuesday's Gazzetta > dello Sport. "But I categorically did not call him a terrorist. I'm > not cultured and I don't even know what an Islamic terrorist is." ...

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14980 [lbo-talk] Yoshie: "dialogue" takes listening on your part, too -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Eric Beck wrote: >> [I can't read everything that goes by, but I've read enough of >> Yoshie's writings on Iran to know that I disagree with them. And I >> find it distressing to see a branch of MR, a publication with a >> long history of secularism and Marxism, be used as a transmission >> belt for apologetics for a reactionary theocratic regime. Yeah, so >> it's sweetened with a bit of populist economics, but populist >> ec ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 09:53:55 PDT 2006

14981 [lbo-talk] civil war at the WSJ -- rank: 1000

<http://observer.com/ 20060717/20060717_Gabriel_Sherman_pageone_offtherec.asp> New York Observer - July 17, 2006 Wall Street Rift: Journal Reporters Reject Gigot Line Newsroom Is Incensed After Editorial Editor Cheers Paper s Restraint; Captain Bullshit! ; Rabid Reporters Rage at Breach of Editorial Wall Gabriel Sherman The Wall Street Journal news staff can live with occasional opposition from the paper's editorial page. What it can't live with is the editorial page's support. "P ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 09:25:23 PDT 2006

14982 [lbo-talk] CFP: Digital Feminisms: Gender and New Technologies -- rank: 1000

[via CULTSTUD-L] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Volume 32.2 Digital Feminisms: Gender and New Technologies The complexity of new technologies has altered the way we think about time, space and ourselves in the digital age. Whether it is business, media, entertainment, advocacy, art, education, social action, politics, paid and unpaid work, or a myriad of other sites of contention, the ability of new technology to converge with and transform past, present and future ways of interacting with the wor ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 08:50:12 PDT 2006

14983 [lbo-talk] Men are slackers -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:14 AM, info at pulpculture.org wrote: > And, I think it also comes down to style with, for example, the > tendency to interrupt speakers being far more common among men and > far more common by men on women (than women interrupting men). Not to blame the victim, but don't women leave more interruption- friendly gaps in their speech, either with the interrogative inflection to a declarative sentence, or with invitations to phatic reassurance? Which men, of course ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 08:48:43 PDT 2006

14984 [lbo-talk] Men are slackers -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > And listen my friends, I know you're out there in Lurk > Town; agreeing with this, disagreeing with that and > crafting cogent arguments but running silent - like a > sub avoiding depth charges. All right, boys, as the NY Dolls once said - zip it for a while and let the women speak. Doug

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14985 [lbo-talk] Israel goes even more bonkers -- rank: 1000

Israel invades south Lebanon after Hezbollah seizes two soldiers by Jihad Siqlawi 48 minutes ago AITA SHAAB, Lebanon (AFP) - Israel has invaded southern Lebanon in a ground and air assault to retrieve two soldiers snatched by Hezbollah, the first such assault into the country since a 2000 pullout. The capture, in an attack on an army outpost on the volatile Lebanese border, opened a new front in the Middle East after the capture of another Israeli soldier by Palestinians two weeks ago plunge ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 12 07:04:42 PDT 2006