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15271 [lbo-talk] TNR lectures Jon Stewart -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060227&s=siegel022706> A LETTER TO JON STEWART. Dear Jon by Lee Siegel Dear Jon Stewart, As the entire world knows, you'll be hosting the Oscars this coming Sunday for the first time. On this august occasion, please allow me to appeal to you as someone who wants to be a fan but hasn't been able to enjoy you so far. Please allow me to appeal to you as a public service. You of all people know from public service, since you are the very man who has enliste ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 13:31:21 PST 2006

15272 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or WhyEminentDomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Alex Lantsberg wrote: >having gone through a formal urban planning education, i've been >enjoying this little debate. for whatever it's worth fall on the >side of nathan and woj simply because it sounds like they have an >appreciation for the actual muck and inevitable dealmaking and >tradeoffs involved in planning. Hmmm, I thought ED was a way around dealmaking and tradeoffs - a way to use executive power as a meat ax, to quote Moses. >as nathan said, there's virtual unanimit ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 13:25:55 PST 2006

15273 [lbo-talk] CFR on civil war in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >I'm overposting, so vats nu? But I need to rebut the assertion that: >"...this strategy was decided upon by the Council on Foreign Relations." > >I never said that, nor do I believe that they are the sole 'players' >in a race to the bottom of the 'cultural and ethical sink'. You quoted this approvingly: At 4:46 PM -0800 2/26/06, Leigh Meyers wrote: >Civil war is plan B (see below), and that plan is becoming >an actuality as US forces lose the g ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 13:02:30 PST 2006

15274 [lbo-talk] CFR on civil war in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >> >>so, is your contention that civil war is the neocon plan B? i admit >>that i am way behind in conversations on this list, so i don't have >>the history. >> >>but if i read you right, you are basically saying that the neocons >>are cynical power-grabbers dressed up as democracy-promoting >>ideologues. is that a fair read? >> >BINGO! But that's not terribly controversial. What is controversi ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 12:10:54 PST 2006

15275 [lbo-talk] CFR on civil war in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Speaking of which... At 1:34 PM -0500 2/28/06, Communications at cfr.org wrote: >IN THE MARCH/APRIL 2006 ISSUE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: > ><http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060301faessay85201/stephen-biddle/seeing-baghdad-thinking-saigon.html>Is >Iraq Heading For Civil War? > > >Last week, insurgents in Iraq redoubled their efforts to stoke a >civil war between the country's Shiite and Sunni populations. In >doing so, the insurgents have demonstrated that they understa ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 12:07:54 PST 2006

15276 [lbo-talk] press release of the day -- rank: 1000

Hope you'll consider reviewing or covering. Shout out if you'd like a copy. Thanks. Failing high schools. Over-sexed, disrespectful kids. Absent fathers. Declining moral standards. Godlessness. It really sounds as though America's inner cities are crumbling. EXCEPT THESE PROBLEMS AREN'T DESCRIBING AMERICA'S URBAN DECAY, THEY DESCRIBE MIDDLE-CLASS, MOSTLY WHITE SUBURBIA! In her new book, "White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay," (Nelson Current, March 14) Star ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 09:27:54 PST 2006

15277 [lbo-talk] Norwegian Bourse Director wants oil bourse - priced in euros -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >Norwegian Bourse Director wants oil bourse - priced in euros TIme for a little shock & awe over Oslo! Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 08:35:36 PST 2006

15278 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or WhyEminentDomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >You must have missed my last post, Woj. I've gone over to the other side, in >the absence of hard evidence showing how the right is actually exploiting >this issue. :) > >As to your legitimate concerns about development, why can't Walmart, for >example, directly negotiate price with the home- and business- owners whose >properties it seeks? It might be more cumbersome and costly and uncertain, >but why can't the big realtors and retailers, who can a ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 08:34:17 PST 2006

15279 [lbo-talk] the conservative mind -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >=== >Sometimes Bartlett is a tad too robust. His chapter "Why the Bush >Tax Cuts Didn't Deliver" might be more convincing were the economy >not in the fifth year of a humming expansion. >=== > >are we prepared here to agree with that claim of will's? It's not really humming. Despite massive fiscal and monetary stimulus, this is the second-slowest post-World War II expansion, based on GDP growth, and the slowest in employment growth. It's been ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 08:32:39 PST 2006

15280 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why EminentDomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >The critique of the eminent domain by the likes you just mention amounts to >the latter days Luddism - knee-jerk opposition to capitalist innovation on >the grounds that it hurts "the people." Tell me, how did building the Oak Street Connector and the Chapel Square Mall in New Haven contribute to the sum of human progress? Or making Times Square safe for its namesake newspaper? Or flattening a working class neighborhood and building a Costco? You're n ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 08:29:27 PST 2006

15281 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why EminentDomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Wojtek: > > >Like any capitalist project, the urban development >that the latter days Luddites criticize creates both, >private profits and public benefits: jobs, tax base, >better and safer environment, neighborhood effects - >to name a few. It creates better material conditions >than the slums and the junkyards it destroys. It also >comes at a cost, which is upsetting the people who >live in those slums and have stakes in those >junky ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 08:16:44 PST 2006

15282 [lbo-talk] CFR on civil war in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Don't be simplistic... The people who plan these wars, make and >promulgate these foreign policies, are VICIOUS CONNIVING >TWO-FACED CRETINS... and always have been. Nice, simple >people don't rise to the top of governmental power structures >(or for that matter, any social structure currently operational) Well, yeah, but the particular gang of vicious cretins that planned this war were a bunch of know-nothings who thought they were know-it-alls and they fucke ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 08:13:54 PST 2006

15283 [lbo-talk] Rumsfeld (at the CFR) Zeros in on the Internet -- rank: 1000

Gitchee Gumee wrote: >Rumsfeld Zeros in on the Internet > >By Mike Whitney >02/24/06 > >http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12060.htm > >Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was warmly greeted at the recent >meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR is the >hand-picked assemblage of western elites from big-energy, corporate >media, high-finance and the weapons industry. These are the 4,000 or >so members of the American ruling class who determi ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 06:06:32 PST 2006

15284 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent DomainisaDistraction -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Why is cutting local tax revenues to benefit property owners the progressive >position? Ask the NAACP, the SCLC, and Maxine Waters. I think this squabble has run its course, so that's my last word. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 05:44:55 PST 2006

15285 [lbo-talk] troops to Bush: get out! -- rank: 1000

New York Times - February 28, 2006 The Soldiers Speak. Will President Bush Listen? By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF When President Bush held a public meeting with troops by satellite last fall, they were miraculously upbeat. And all along, unrepentant hawks (most of whom have never been to Iraq) have insisted that journalists are misreporting Iraq and that most soldiers are gung-ho about their mission. Hogwash! A new poll to be released today shows that U.S. soldiers overwhelmingly want out of Iraq - and ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 28 05:21:03 PST 2006