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15361 [lbo-talk] AP: Destruction of mosque pushes U.S. troops towards "do nothing" mode of operation -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Because what 'needed to be done' just happened when 'whomever' blew >up that mosque. Whoever, actually. This is utterly stupid. Chaos in Iraq does not serve any US purpose right now - either the long-term needs of the empire or the short-term electoral needs of the GOP, which requires getting out ASAP (in a way consistent with the needs of the empire, of course). Yesterday you said they needed weapons contracts; today you say it's a pretext for getting out in 72 hours. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 24 08:36:41 PST 2006

15362 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >Could somebody warning against the absolute right of private property >vs. eminent domain kindly identify who on the list is advocating that, >even implicitly? Could you, say, make a habit of it? Practically >every post against the SC ruling has qualified its opposition to using >eminent domain to shift from private owners to private owners. It >gets kind of tiresome to read suggestions otherwise. Yeah, isn't that curious. It's like a mental block of sorts - y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 24 08:31:54 PST 2006

15363 [lbo-talk] Socialim [was: Cheery thought for the next 300 years -- rank: 1000

Wendy Lyon wrote: >Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" contains a character who claims to be >able to tell all sorts of things about an indexer, up to and including >whether or not s/he is gay. Hmm, wonder what this character could tell about me. I did the indexes for Wall Street and After the New Economy, but of course those are my own books, so the radar might not work right. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 24 08:26:49 PST 2006

15364 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood: > >> Fuck, I'm not against eminent domain for real public > > improvement purposes, >Further, I think it is important to maintain the principle that there is no >such thing as absolute property right, and that private property rights are >granted to fulfill public purposes. As I think you recognize in most other >cases, opposition to eminent domain as such is regressive NIMBYism of the >Louise Day Hicks school, and ought not be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 23 18:44:23 PST 2006

15365 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >-What I hate is flattening houses and >-neighborhoods to make way for big boxes. It's, you know, wrong, even >-if it's only Nathan's "rightwing" that agrees. > >It's funny-- a thread starts with the question of whether state or federal >law should be changed to gut local home rule powers, and Doug suddenly turns >it around so that anyone who defen ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 16:00:11 PST 2006

15366 Motive Mongering Re: [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

At 5:47 PM -0600 2/23/06, Carrol Cox wrote: >the nonsense that >almost always results when disputants take to describing motives At 7:27 PM -0600 2/21/06, Carrol Cox wrote: >It has been my experience, with few if any exceptions, going back to my >first involvement in group politics in 1965, that when someone says "But >this is how people perceive the world" what they really mean is "This is >how I perceive the world but I don't want to admit it out loud." A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 23 15:58:14 PST 2006

15367 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >As soon as it is set up as a mega-corp vs a local mom-and-pop shop, most >US-sers stop thinking rationally and emotions start flying high, as the >small business capitalism is the dearest thing to the US heart. Except that that doesn't apply to me at all. I don't really get misty-eyed about all the mom & pops that Wal-Mart destroys. I care what they do to workers and the environment, but I'm not sentimental about petty capitalists. What I hate is flattening ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 15:03:16 PST 2006

15368 [lbo-talk] AP: Destruction of mosque pushes Iraq towards all-out civil war -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >U.S. ambassador warns Iraq against creating a sectarian government Don't you understand - it's all a ruse, just like the 9/11 hijacking story. Dick Cheney is behind everything. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 13:54:11 PST 2006

15369 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: > >> So it's ok by you to flatten a neighborhood to make way for a >> Wal-Mart? > >Where did that happen? Wall Street Journal - December 8, 2004 Cities Use Eminent Domain To Clear Lots for Big-Box Stores By DEAN STARKMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 8, 2004; Page B1 Big-box retailers have a message for local landowners: Move. And the command has the force of law, much to the dismay of Darrell M. Trent, a part-time de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 23 13:47:58 PST 2006

15370 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So there are no such things as externalities where the public gains from >private development? And you really believe that the rightwing folks >behind this fight are interested in protecting people against corporate >interests? Some are, yeah. So it's ok by you to flatten a neighborhood to make way for a Wal-Mart? >But flat prohibitions on use of >eminent domain is being used by mostly conservative state legislatures to >restrict the urban planning po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 23 12:57:45 PST 2006

15371 [lbo-talk] Survey of Consumer Finances -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Basically, not much happened over the three years. That's in terms of percentile distributions. Age groups saw large gains and losses, and regional disparities were wide. So, lots of cross-currents that are very hard to generalize about, though I'm sure people will try. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 12:55:32 PST 2006

15372 [lbo-talk] Survey of Consumer Finances -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >[Unpack this, please. Over at The American Prospect Online >it's being suggested that it means that "the Bush economy is >curbing income inequality" [sic]. I don't believe it. --CGE] No it's not. The income numbers in the Federal Reserve Bulletin summary <http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2006/financesurvey.pdf> are all over the place. E.g., medians by quantile shown: real change in income, 2001-2004 by percentile of income Less than 20 ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 12:52:51 PST 2006

15373 [lbo-talk] AP: Destruction of mosque pushes Iraq towards all-out civil war -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Why would they want to do this? How are US and/or Israeli interests >>served by civil war in Iraq? > >I think the question is rather Why do Iraqis (and Iranians, and >other neighbors) leap to blame them? And the answer is because they >want to damp down civil war. Blaming an external enemy is the >perfect solution. > >And as for why they immediately jump to choose this one, it's >becau ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 12:24:17 PST 2006

15374 [lbo-talk] AP: Destruction of mosque pushes Iraq towards all-out civil war -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >1) The Sunnis used to rule the country and dominated the upper >echelons of the army. They feel that if the US leaves, and it's >them against the Shiites, they'll win. But they're outnumbered 2 to 1, no? And Iran might well back the Shiites. And some are attributing the bombing to AQ in Iraq - are they Sunni, or just freelance jihadists? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 12:05:12 PST 2006

15375 [lbo-talk] AP: Destruction of mosque pushes Iraq towards all-out civil war -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: > >> Why would they want to do this? How are US and/or Israeli >> interests served by civil war in Iraq? It makes no sense. > > >That is not what Iran's prez sez >http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CD1FC321-C15C-4F92-BA21-8D11A120E5BC.htm Well, damn, must be true then. Doug

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