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15421 [lbo-talk] covering Iraq -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 18, 2006 Under the Gun For three years, a Journal reporter in Baghdad tried to work and live normally -- as the war closed in. By FARNAZ FASSIHI Two days before leaving Baghdad, I canceled my last interviews, abandoned the carefully planned trips around town to say good-bye to Iraqi friends and ditched the farewell party with fellow journalists. It wasn't how I imagined my departure from Iraq would be, after three years of living and working there as a corresponden ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 18 08:59:53 PST 2006

15422 [lbo-talk] bye-bye Larry? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 18, 2006 Harvard Board Weighs Summers's Presidency By DANIEL GOLDEN Members of Harvard University's governing board are mulling whether President Lawrence Summers should step down before a scheduled Feb. 28 faculty vote on a motion of no-confidence in his leadership, say people familiar with the matter. These people say members of the board, known as the Harvard Corporation, have become increasingly concerned that continued faculty discontent with Mr. Summers, a fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 18 08:58:19 PST 2006

15423 [lbo-talk] Lee's Garage -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >In fact the unemployed are counted a part of the labour force. Only if they're looking for work, which you're not, right? >>Sure, you can keep addressing your remarks to the horny-handed sons >>of toil. But they won't listen to anything you say. > >Not on this list, you're correct. I doubt there is anyone here who >fits that description? I suppose what you are getting at is that I >have to learn to speak the convoluted language of "contradict ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 18 08:45:31 PST 2006

15424 [lbo-talk] Lee's Garage -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >> I thought that Wright's formulation that the "new middle >>layers" were in a contradictory class location made a lot of sense and >>got us away from arguing over meanings. > >"Wright's formulation", as you express it, doesn't make any sense to me. That's not a critique, that's a confession of incapacity. Maybe you've been out of the labor force for too long. Sure, you can keep addressing your remarks to the horny-handed sons of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 16:08:43 PST 2006

15425 [lbo-talk] Lee's Garage -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Just for fun, I thought you'd like this bit where Marx admonishes >people for leaving the people out of it and for leaving out of it >the _conditions of production and producers of these ideas_. > >Let me repeat that: "conditions of production and producers of these ideas." > >Shall I type it out one more time? :) I think certain heads resist penetration by this set of ideas! Maybe they imagine themselves to be the avatars of the new ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 16:02:23 PST 2006

15426 [lbo-talk] 'F' Watch: Florida Authorities Release 'Boot Camp' Taped Beating Of (soon-to-be dead) Teenager -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Leigh wrote: >> >WHo believes that it doesn't BOOST the GNP, as part >> >of a corporate/industrial/prison/military complex to the >> >benefit of millions of the average middle class folks >> >employed within? (Little Eichmans) > >Leigh, are you saying that the middle-class folks in the c/i/p/m >complex should be tried, as Eichmann was, for war crimes? at >Nuremburg? > >or should they simply be killed, as with 911? &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 15:35:25 PST 2006

15427 [lbo-talk] Lee's Garage -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >At 11:32 AM -0500 17/2/06, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>And don't forget that this manager probably treats his (and it's >>probably a man) subordinates like Scott treats him. That's one >>difference between the pure working class and the mid-level manager >>- a contradictory class position. > >Its is a difference, but not a class difference. Why not? If class is about power, it sure seems like one to me. A Wal-Mart store manager can determine ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 14:33:27 PST 2006

15428 [lbo-talk] Fw: L.A. County Labor Chief May Quit in Funds Probe -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Come on; if you are going to throw in every union political campaign >violation into the same pile of "corruption", then you can keep the >defamation going to the end of time. So you really think Ron Carey was >"corrupt" in the exact same way you've been going off on for the last few >days? So Nathan, once you've read Fitch's book, would you do a radio debate with him? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 14:22:56 PST 2006

15429 [lbo-talk] ugly kids grow up to be criminals -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 17, 2006 The Ugly Face of Crime By Richard Morin "I'm too ugly to get a job." -- Daniel Gallagher, a Miami bank robber, after police captured him in 2003 The hapless Mr. Gallagher may have been ugly, but he was also wise. Not only are physically unattractive teenagers likely to be stay-at-homes on prom night, they're also more likely to grow up to be criminals, say two economists who tracked the life course of young people from high school through early adult ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 13:57:38 PST 2006

15430 [lbo-talk] Texans vs. Soros -- rank: 1000

[they do everything but call him a New York Jew! kinda funny to frame Soros, one of the most successful speculators of all time, as somehow anti-capitalist] New York Post [Page Six] - February 17, 2006 TEXANS STRIKE BACK AT SOROS CONSERVATIVES in Texas are using liberal activist George Soros as a "boogeyman" to galvanize their base, with the Free Enterprise Committee featuring the Hungarian-born billionaire in television ads. Soros, who spent over $25 million trying to beat President B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 13:40:00 PST 2006

15431 [lbo-talk] Fw: L.A. County Labor Chief May Quit in Funds Probe -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > So you really think Ron Carey was >"corrupt" in the exact same way you've been going off on for the last few >days? Read Fitch's chapter on the Teamsters (and TDU) when you get the book. How did Carey become a millionaire, anyway? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 13:34:22 PST 2006

15432 [lbo-talk] Rumsfeld whines about media -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cfr.org/publication/9902/> News Brief: Rumsfeld, at CFR, Outlines Challenge of Hostile Global Media Environment Author: Michael Moran February 17, 2006 [NOTE: This is a news brief of a February 17, 2006, meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations. Full transcript click here <http://www.cfr.org/publication/9900/>.] NEW YORK - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday said the U.S. government, its military, and its news media must face the fact that today's media environ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 13:32:19 PST 2006

15433 [lbo-talk] Fw: L.A. County Labor Chief May Quit in Funds Probe -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >Sources said authorities have found evidence that Ludlow's council >campaign benefited from a secret effort by leaders of Service >Employees International Union, Local 99, which represents school >employees. The two sources spoke on the condition they not be >identified because, although they have direct knowledge of the plea >proposal, they are not authorized to speak publicly. > >Investigators suspect that Local 99 leaders illegally spent at least ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 13:03:33 PST 2006

15434 [lbo-talk] Re: Fw: After Neoconservatism by FRANCIS FUKUYAMA -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Boo Hiss, $49.95 a yr.Times Select... Free if you get home delivery!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 12:49:23 PST 2006

15435 [lbo-talk] LaRouche channels Dr Seuss: feces are his species! -- rank: 1000

[I somehow got on the LaRouchies' press list. Here's a gem.] EIR NEWS SERVICE Feb. 17, 2006 THEY DIDN'T SMELL CHENEY'S BREATH! Did it occur to you, that almost everything which Vice-President Cheney said about the events of the past weekend, was almost a complete lie? What is Cheney really trying to hide with that utterly unbelievable {mea culpa} told to Britt Hume? To begin with, VP Dick Cheney is, clinically, as his "virtu," a pathological liar. "Media Matters for America" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 10:44:57 PST 2006