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15961 [lbo-talk] Sistani, Elections, and Sectarianism (was Poll: They really don't want us there) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:55 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Juan Cole goes on to write: "Although SCIRI and allies won the > provincial elections of January, 2005, since then the Sadr movement > has been gaining adherents and influence in this and other southern > Shiite provinces. New provincial elections were scheduled but have > never been held, in part for fear that the Sadrists would sweep to > power in provincial statehouses" (at > <http://www.juancole.com/200 ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 31 06:26:23 PDT 2006

15962 [lbo-talk] WMT comes out of the closet, and Donny Wildmon is pissed -- rank: 1000

From: "AFA ActionAlert" <afapetition at afa.net> Date: August 31, 2006 6:59:00 AM EDT Subject: Wal-Mart asks for, and receives, permission to join homosexual marriage group AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION action alert Donald E. Wildmon Founder and Chairman August 31, 2006 Wal-Mart asks for, and receives, permission to join homosexual marriage group Wal-Mart comes out of the closet Dear dhenwood at panix.com, Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world, has asked for and received p ...

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15963 [lbo-talk] The upcoming election for KPFA, the community radio in Berkeley--please get involved-- forward message -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2006, at 6:15 PM, sepideh koosha wrote: > The deadline for eligibility to vote in the KPFA election or to run as > a candidate is September 1st. In order to be eligible one must have > contributed at least the minimum of $25 to KPFA in the past year. The > most expedient way to do this is online at > http://www.kpfa.org/support/ . Please forward this reminder to your > friends and colleagues who may be KPFA listeners and who may want to > participate in the upcomi ...

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15964 [lbo-talk] hippies (Re: WMT goes orgo) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > By the end of the 1970s, Marxism and secular nationalism, as well as > communal counter-culture, had run out of steam, and those who still > pulled off revolutions at the tail end of the 70s, in Nicaragua and > Iran, did so on the basis of Marxism, nationalism, and religion (more > Marxism in ideology in Nicaragua than in Iran, more actual > socialization of means of production in Iran than in Nicaragua). "Run out of ...

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15965 [lbo-talk] Sistani, Elections, and Sectarianism (was Poll: They really don't want us there) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I've never said that people in the Middle East do not want democracy. > The common sense in America has us conflate democracy with liberalism, > but these are not the same thing, and the habit of conflation makes us > fail to accept other peoples' democracy when they don't adopt > liberalism as well as democracy. Therefore, it's crucial for us to > develop a clear conceptual distinction between liberalism and > democra ...

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15966 [lbo-talk] Dems & WMT -- rank: 1000

[graphic at original: <http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=56>] Democrats Face Ideological Split Over Wal-Mart Attacks on Company May Turn On Liberals, Turn Off Moderates Pew Research Center for the People & the Press August 30, 2006 Several leading Democrats have launched election-year attacks on Wal- Mart, criticizing the company for providing what they say are inadequate wages and employee health care benefits. Yet the party's rank-and-file is deeply divided in opinions about ...

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15967 [lbo-talk] hippies (Re: WMT goes orgo) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Hippies were just a > drop in a bucket, hardly noticeable outside the US-centered pop- > culture. Eh? They were all over Europe when I was there in the summer of '76. Doug

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15968 [lbo-talk] Hippies -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > Hippism was sort of a demi-generational descendent of Beatnikism. > Both were > indigneous American movements against comformity to post > WWII ,American > bourgeois culture Yup, which is both the strength & weakness of the hippie thing. Chuck Grimes wonderfully evoked all the good stuff about it - but it was also a deeply individualistic movement. So it devolved easily into the apolitical lifestyle hippiedom of the 1970 ...

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15969 [lbo-talk] Re: WMT goes orgo -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2006, at 4:21 PM, jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > Organic food is seen as premium food and is for a large percentage > of the market a class signifier. It is seen as > a premium brand as much as anything else. The other week we overheard some dairy farmers in upstate New York talking about their fairly dismal economic plight. Farmer 1: "Gordon, the price of milk ever going to go up again?" Farmer 2 (Gordon, who was old & cranky): "Nope. Maybe we should ...

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15970 [lbo-talk] Re: WMT goes orgo -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2006, at 2:08 PM, ravi wrote: >> Combined with a smart business strategy that >> sells a mix of higher-margin products to more affluent customers, Talk about burying the lead (or lede, as they say in j'ism). Go to the respective websites - Costco <http://www.costco.com/Home.aspx> features digital cameras, computers, mid-level cookware sets. Wal- Mart <http://www.walmart.com/> features $16 chairs and $8 lamps. WMT is a much bigger company, with a market cap ni ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 11:32:44 PDT 2006

15971 [lbo-talk] Sistani, Elections, and Sectarianism (was Poll: They really don't want us there) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Now, the media's portrayal of Iraq has changed, in accordance with the > change in US strategy on the Middle East, and the main problem in Iraq > is made out to be not Sunni guerrillas and terrorists but Shi'i > militias. So was this battle just an invention of the capitalist hyena press, or does it not really matter much? <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.html? _r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin> ...

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15972 [lbo-talk] Re: RE: WMT goes orgo -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > But I find it hard to believe the 80% figure. The > corresponding figure for the public sector, definitely the most > unionized > sector in this country, is about 36%. That would make US food > retailers the > most unionized industry in the US, and probably in the world. You're misquoting again: "union density in many regions in supermarkets is like 80%!" >> I think that singling out retailers like Whole ...

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15973 [lbo-talk] 38 Years ago today -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Jason Morris wrote: > 8/28/1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic > National Convention. > > Here's a good site with ABC news reports on the Convention, > including the Vidal-Buckley debate > > http://kronykronicle.com/1968/ Oh that's wonderful - haven't seen that in 38 years! Love the way WFB says "Buchenwald." Doug

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15974 [lbo-talk] Re: RE: WMT goes orgo -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > [WS:] Not according to BLS http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ > union2.t03.htm, whose data show that union membership in retail > industry is 5.7% - BELOW, the private sector average of 7.9%. He said supermarkets, not all of retail. Food and beverage stores are about 18% of retail employment. > I think that singling out retailers like Whole Foods has more to do > with blue collar anti-intellectualism (your use of vernacular se ...

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15975 [lbo-talk] Poll: They really don't want us there -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Proyect has a habit of unsubbing people who know more > than he does on a given topic. Trash-talking LNP is streng verboten here. Doug

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