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15346 [lbo-talk] What's Left? The Hitch on Perry Anderson -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >got it now. thanks. well could you share?

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 09:03:36 PST 2006

15347 [lbo-talk] Gangbangers vs. Lynching Mobs -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >People mostly don't give a shit about gang violence Except when they want to moralize, or point to the deep pathologies of black Americans. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 09:02:33 PST 2006

15348 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >nyc was first city in u.s. to enact zoning law in 1916, virtual >unanimity existed among real estate interests that zoning >would be useful tool for protecting valuable land, principal >theme was that zoning kept land values high by segregating >'better' and 'lesser' land uses... Exactly. And, aside from pure economic interests, there were social ones as well - the better sorts wanted to keep the smelly workers out of view. In NYC, that meant not only gettin ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 09:01:51 PST 2006

15349 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Andy F wrote: >>Robert Moses's deliberately making arteries in NYC impassible to >>busses > >-One of Bob Fitch's great contributions was his essay on the 1929 New >-York plan from the Regional Plan Association. He showed that all the >-expressways attributed to Moses were actually laid out in the RPA >-scheme - auto-centered suburbanizati ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 25 08:59:24 PST 2006

15350 [lbo-talk] life nowhere near the top -- rank: 1000

[I got edited by Michael Caruso years ago, when he was at the Village Voice. I thought he was likeable and talented. Nice ex-contract here.] <http://www.gawker.com/news/michael-caruso/how-the-other-half-lives-michael-caruso-edition-156880.php> How the Other Half Lives: Michael Caruso Edition READ MORE: JOBS, MEN'S JOURNAL, MICHAEL CARUSO, MONEY, TOP, WENNER MEDIA We, too, got our grubby hands on ousted Men's Journal EIC Michael Caruso's wrongful-termination lawsuit against Wenner Media, an ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 13:28:00 PST 2006

15351 [lbo-talk] Winona: shoplifter...and hoaxster! -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - February 24, 2006 STARS BACKED JT BOOK FRAUD WINONA Ryder and other celebrity "intimates" of fictitious writer JT Leroy were part of the conspiracy that pulled off the biggest literary hoax this side of James Frey. Courtney Love, Rosario Dawson, Tatum O'Neal and Susan Dey all claimed they were friends of the made-up teen hooker-turned-bard. And Italian actress Asia Argento even once told PAGE SIX that she was having Leroy's baby. It seems clear now that at le ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 13:04:52 PST 2006

15352 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >What I wanted to say >was that WSJ, the paper of the property-owning class, obviously came >strongly against any encroachment of the property right, and they did that >by selecting examples that evoke US popular icons, familiy owned business, >churches, etc. vs. megacorps and city hall - bascially the small guy vs. big >organization imagery that evokes strong emotions here. Doug is generally >quite keen to catch this kind of bullshit when it comes ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 12:29:15 PST 2006

15353 [lbo-talk] Angela who? -- rank: 1000

February 20, 2006 Gallup Quizzes Americans on Knowledge of World Leaders Americans most commonly identify Castro by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- In its annual World Affairs survey, Gallup recently asked Americans to name the person holding each of six world leadership titles, including five heads of state and the U.S. secretary of state. With some of the names more prominent than others, half of Americans correctly identified three or more of the six leaders, including 2 ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 12:18:19 PST 2006

15354 [lbo-talk] enemy of the week: Iran -- rank: 1000

[love the way the US is tied with Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, & France - must be a bunch of Pogo fans] February 23, 2006 Americans Say Iran Is Their Greatest Enemy Iran surpasses Iraq as greatest enemy to U.S. by Joseph Carroll GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- More Americans consider Iran the United States' greatest enemy today than any other country, according to Gallup's annual World Affairs survey. Iraq, North Korea, and China are also mentioned frequently by Americans as the United ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 12:14:12 PST 2006

15355 [lbo-talk] Teamsters guarding the borders, again -- rank: 1000

[from the people who brought you the campaign against Mexican truckers - from The Note] Hundreds of Teamsters will rally in 20 cities across the U.S. today against the agreement to allow Dubai Ports World to take over operations at American ports. A statement from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters says the union strongly opposes the $6.8 billion deal, and that it is "perplexed" by the Administration's "willingness to ignore the obvious increased security threats of openin ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 11:52:53 PST 2006

15356 [lbo-talk] A Case for Working-Class Tax Cuts -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >But weren't there several other notables who prominently came out >against the Bush tax cuts and for progressive taxation, including >Buffett, Gates & Rockefeller? > >http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2001/02/15_mpp.html That was about the estate tax, no? The Gates was Billy Microsoft's father, the IP lawyer, and not the ubernerd himself. He's probably got a few dimes to rub together, but next to his son, he's a pauper. The Rockefeller fortune has ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 11:50:17 PST 2006

15357 [lbo-talk] A Case for Working-Class Tax Cuts -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>>Note that some cappos (e.g., Soros) don't fight progressive taxes and >>>the welfare state. >> >>You'd have a hard time coming up with a second name after Soros. > >But weren't there several other notables who prominently came out >against the Bush tax cuts and for progressive taxation, including >Buffett, Gates & It's still a handful. This is not how the bulk of the American ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 11:41:22 PST 2006

15358 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >Robert Moses's deliberately making arteries in NYC impassible to >busses One of Bob Fitch's great contributions was his essay on the 1929 New York plan from the Regional Plan Association. He showed that all the expressways attributed to Moses were actually laid out in the RPA scheme - auto-centered suburbanization, planned by real-estate intellectuals. All these paeans to urban planning in the abstract seem indifferent to its actual history in the US. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 11:40:03 PST 2006

15359 [lbo-talk] A Case for Working-Class Tax Cuts -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >On 2/23/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> If it were all a wash, then why does the bourgeoisie fight against >>progressive taxes and the welfare state? Are they under an >>illusion?< > >Note that some cappos (e.g., Soros) don't fight progressive taxes and >the welfare state. You'd have a hard time coming up with a second name after Soros. He's really an outlier on this. There's almost no capitalist support in the U.S. fo ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 09:36:11 PST 2006

15360 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Down on Dixwell Avenue. Named after one of the judges who sentenced Charles I to death, much to the dismay of the Party of the Right. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 24 09:29:43 PST 2006