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15376 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >This is yet another example of how reactionary the Left has become - >defending private property against public use. Uh, no. The controversy is about taking people's houses and neighborhoods and handing them over to private developers. That's not public use. It's using public power for private gain. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 12:01:01 PST 2006

15377 [lbo-talk] job @ Bitch -- rank: 1000

>Please forward widely: >*********** >Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture seeks a development assistant > >Bitch is a 10-year-old Oakland-based, nonprofit, quarterly magazine >devoted to media criticism, feminist politics, and witty pop-culture >analysis. Our current circulation is 48,000 (including 11,000 >subscribers) and we're distributed across North America. > >We're looking for a smart, resourceful, committed person to join our >development department ( ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 11:50:01 PST 2006

15378 [lbo-talk] AP: Destruction of mosque pushes Iraq towards all-out civil war -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >>Why would they want to do this? How are US and/or Israeli interests >>served by civil war in Iraq? It makes no sense. >> >>But I don't really get why AQ or The Resistance or whatever wants >>Iraq in civil war either. What's the point? >> >Multi billion dollar weapons systems for a start. Oh please. That's the crudest sort of vulgar Marxism, and you're not even a Marxist. Having Iraq go up in flames coul ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 11:45:03 PST 2006

15379 [lbo-talk] more on the port deal -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 23, 2006 White House Cites Extra Safeguards in Ports Deal Approval Process Increases Screening of Dubai Firm; Lawmakers Still Opposed By GREG HITT WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said it obtained extra security commitments from Dubai Ports World before clearing the firm to take control of some U.S. port operations, but the political brushfire over the deal showed no sign of abating. With congressional leaders of both parties complaining the White House hadn't ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 11:16:38 PST 2006

15380 [lbo-talk] Daily Show on Dubai -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >OK but its too bad he didn't follow the Dubai corporation money >angle instead. Who is profiting from the sale of what could be >analogous to our national parks? They're not selling anything except the management of the ports. The ports remain the property of their respective owners. DPW is pretty connected though. Here's an excerpt from a WashTimes story <http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060223-123443-6892r_page2.htm>: DPW Chief Operating Officer Ted Bil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 23 11:11:20 PST 2006

15381 [lbo-talk] AP: Destruction of mosque pushes Iraq towards all-out civil war -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >On 2/23/06, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > B. wrote: >> > SAMARRA, Iraq - Insurgents posing as police > >> Right... insurgents posing as police... hang on while I finish laughing. >> >> Try SAS or some other task force that finally managed to get a mission >> accomplished without get killed and buried in unmarked shallow graves. >> >> I call it destabilization by external forces ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 11:04:24 PST 2006

15382 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis on Tom Frank -- rank: 1000

Ellen Willis has a critique of Tom Frank at <http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/situations/article/view/30/26>. Her line: the culture wars aren't a distraction, they're serious stuff. An excerpt: Frank's cavalier pronouncement that "Abortion is never halted" is literally correct-abortion was never halted even when it was illegal all over the country-but entirely misses the point: the goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 23 10:35:34 PST 2006

15383 [lbo-talk] more on Summers: the Shleifer angle -- rank: 1000

[The Shleifer angle has gotten almost no coverage, but it's really smelly - an example of personal corruption at the highest levels of academic economics combined with the fucking over of post-Soviet Russia.] Time - February 21, 2006 Why Harvard's Summers Flunked the Presidency Was it the mutinous faculty, or a new report of his ties to an old fraud case, that led to Harvard University President Lawrence Summers' resignation? By NATHAN THORNBURGH Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who announced ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 23 10:12:31 PST 2006

15384 [lbo-talk] A Case for Working-Class Tax Cuts -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >It then becomes very hard to estimate the benefits that workers get >from the capitalist state. If it were all a wash, then why does the bourgeoisie fight against progressive taxes and the welfare state? Are they under an illusion? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 10:04:40 PST 2006

15385 [lbo-talk] Socialim [was: Cheery thought for the next 300 years -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >On 2/22/06, Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote: > >> An interesting thing is happening to the library world and that involves >> new classification schemes based on user-tagging. This system is used by >> sites such as Flickr. The democracy of this system worries some >> librarians and excites others. I like the new technology, because I >> think that librarians should be facilitators, not gatekeepers. And if >> you'v ee ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 23 10:03:19 PST 2006

15386 [lbo-talk] working more, accomplishing less -- rank: 1000

Americans work more, seem to accomplish less-study Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:41 PM ET By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Most U.S. workers say they feel rushed on the job, but they are getting less accomplished than a decade ago, according to newly released research. Workers completed two-thirds of their work in an average day last year, down from about three-quarters in a 1994 study, according to research conducted for Day-Timers Inc., an East Texas, Pennsylvania-based maker of organizati ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 14:53:27 PST 2006

15387 [lbo-talk] cunningham query -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >http://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&task=view&id=12598&Itemid=47#Continuation [from which we learn...] [...] Ludlow is also the subject of an ongoing federal probe into his role in a development project involving the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Ludlow, who was a member of the MTA board when he served on the City Council, asked his transit-board colleagues to hire a consultant to rally public support for a project that he couldn ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 14:51:21 PST 2006

15388 [lbo-talk] preparing for mass roundups -- rank: 1000

<http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b62C8724D-AE8A-4B5C-94C7-70171315C0A0%7d&dist=SignInArchive&param=archive&siteid=mktw&dateid=38741.5136277662-858254656> KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M By Katherine Hunt Last Update: 12:19 PM ET Jan 24, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (HAL : Halliburton Company, said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 14:04:05 PST 2006

15389 [lbo-talk] Badiou speaks! -- rank: 1000

LABYRINTH BOOKS presents ALAIN BADIOU and SIMON CRITCHLEY in conversation MONDAY, MARCH 6 AT 6PM Please join us as we celebrate the recent publication in English of Badiou's Being and Event (Continuum, HC, $29.95). A book signing reception will follow the discussion. "A significant book, one which one cannot fail to find staggering." *Jean Francois-Lyotard "A book of exceptional scope and rare courage of thought that tackles the whole of philosophy, from Parmenides to Heidegge ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 13:25:24 PST 2006

15390 [lbo-talk] cunningham query -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >The Washington POST reports that >prosecutors are pushing for a >10-year sentence for convicted former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham >because of his "unparalleled corruption."< > >has anyone looked into the connection between his corruption and that >of the rest of the San Diego GOP political establishment? Speaking of which, what's happening with labor in LA? Fitch says it's imploding - indictments & plea bargains all the way to ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 13:14:07 PST 2006