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15181 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >-And then there were the Populists, who, whatever their faults, >-consisted of ordinary folks who got deeply involved in the arcanae of >-monetary theory and such. > >But the Populists were more based on rural ideology than a worker >mobilization-- and Populism foundered on the stronger racial identity of >many Americans over their identity as workers. The exact period of Populist >strength coincided with the tightening of Jim Crow and the completio ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 15 21:35:06 PST 2006

15182 [lbo-talk] Bush could seize absolute control of U.S. government -- rank: 1000

peacenow at theofficenet.com wrote: >Subject: Bush could seize absolute control of U.S > >http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_7986.shtml >Bush could seize absolute control of U.S. government >By DOUG THOMPSON >Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue >Jan 13, 2006, 07:42 First of all, I would imagine that any president would attempt such a thing in the case of massive disaster or civil disorder. And second, the US can't even occupy Iraq. How could they occupy the US? D ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 15 14:49:36 PST 2006

15183 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Nathan Newman wrote: > >>It depends on your definition of engagement. Workers and unions >>that existed in the 19th century were in many ways less engaged in >>politics in the late 19th century than today. > >Could you expand on that? Unions were regulaly opposed by armed >force in the 19th century, so belonging to one seems like it had to >be pretty engaging. And workers in general -- i.e., people in >general ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 15 14:42:28 PST 2006

15184 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >In the general population there is also the fact that people are >required to work so hard -- long long hours --- that they don't have >time to be "civic". People worked harder in the 19th century, and were more engaged. And the average American spends almost 3 hours a day watching TV <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t01.htm>. So it's not a matter of "having time" in the literal sense. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 15 12:33:10 PST 2006

15185 [lbo-talk] Can the Bill of Rights Be Legislated Today? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >There is one piece of law that grassroots organizing and electoral >politics as usual could never have gotten us: the Bill of Rights. But, as Dan Lazare likes to argue, we rely on the BoR and the rest of the Constitution to protect us, serving as a replacement for politics. Thus the incredible melodramas over court nominations, since the SC is the official arbiter of the constitution. Dan argues that this is central to the depoliticization of American life <http ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 15 10:29:26 PST 2006

15186 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

Bitch | Lab wrote: >After I sent that .... I guess I was interpreting NN's as a claim >that all anyone involved in social change cares about is the >judicial arena. As I said to someone offlist, that's not how it >works -- it's always a well-rounded strategy. Offlist, someone else >told me that we need to work on the legislative arena. Yeahbutt. We >already _are_. Any social movement tends to engage in multiple >strategies: agitation, education, protests, legislative campaig ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 15 10:13:16 PST 2006

15187 [lbo-talk] Larry Wachowski's new life -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 14, 2006 'MATRIX' MAKER CRAVES WHIP LARRY Wachowski, the gender-bending co-creator of the blockbuster "Matrix" movies, has gone into seclusion and immersed himself in the weird world of BDSM - bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism. While it's been rumored for some time that Wachowski has been taking female hormones in preparation for a sex change, much of his private life has been shrouded in secrecy. The visionary writer/director - who now sports ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 14 14:48:49 PST 2006

15188 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell quoted: >People with disabilities remain concerned about whether the >Supreme Court will uphold critical rights under the ADA. The SC is gone, man. Once Alito joins, it's wholly in control of the forces of evil. The only hopeful bit about this is that it might cure the left, broadly defined, of its infatuation with litigation and fetishizing the constitution, and turn instead to agitating, educating, and organizing. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 14 14:40:58 PST 2006

15189 [lbo-talk] against the war on terror -- rank: 1000

An interesting new group blog (which includes at least one friend of James Heartfield, Alex Gourevich), takes on the war on terror as well as the antiwar movement: <http://www.againstwot.blogspot.com/>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 14 14:35:00 PST 2006

15190 [lbo-talk] I Love Renminbi! -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 13, 2005 Observer Currency junkie Anyone still in denial that the world's biggest communist state is turning firmly capitalist need only listen to China's new favourite online song "I Love Renminbi". It is a paean to unabashed consumerism with the immortal lyrics: "I work hard, embracing the market economy/I reckon making money is a kind of pleasure... I really love tourism, travelling around the world/I feel spending cash is exciting." Released for ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 13 11:34:54 PST 2006

15191 [lbo-talk] Birgit Nilsson, RIP -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Interesting that you're a Wagner fan, Doug, I would >not have predicted that. I love opera, but I like bel >canto -- Verdi, Puccini -- and Mozart, maybe some >French stuff. Can't stand that Italian stuff - too melodic. I love Wagner for the odd harmonies and proto-atonal melodies. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 13 09:54:57 PST 2006

15192 [lbo-talk] Brit biz writing parliamentary reports -- rank: 1000

Business funding British parliamentary reports: Times 2 hours, 43 minutes ago LONDON (AFP) - Powerful industry organisations are funding supposedly independent British parliamentary groups investigating policies in which they have a commercial interest, The Times newspaper claims. According to their investigation, organisations within the nuclear, drinks and pharmaceutical industries are funding and even writing policy reports in the name of all-party groups of lawmakers. Two thirds of the nearl ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 12 22:04:59 PST 2006

15193 [lbo-talk] shadowy torture unit with fake names -- rank: 1000

Documents tie shadowy US unit to inmate abuse case By Will Dunham Thu Jan 12, 9:36 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly released military documents show U.S. Army investigators closed a probe into allegations an Iraqi detainee had been abused by a shadowy military task force after its members used fake names and asserted that key computer files had been lost. The documents shed light on Task Force 6-26, a special operations unit, and confirmed the existence of a secret military "Special Acces ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 12 22:03:03 PST 2006

15194 [lbo-talk] Birgit Nilsson, RIP -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >I don't think there's ever been anything quite like Nilsson singing >Bruennhilde's Immolation. The Solti recording is the most famous >example of this; I highly recommend it. By the way, wonderful to see a Wagner fan here. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 12 21:47:12 PST 2006

15195 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Rachel Scott in Muscle And Blood tells of a town (I think in Idaho) >which depended for its livelihood on a silver mine. The silver was >heavily intermixed with lead, and there was so much lead in the air that >some townspeople (even many who did not work in the mine) had blue lines >in their teeth. Everyone was more or less ignoring the danger. If what >allows you to live is killing you, and there does not seem to be an >alternative, it makes sense to ign ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 12 13:40:11 PST 2006