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16021 [lbo-talk] Fwd: our weird country -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Schwarz writes... Begin forwarded message: > Subject: our weird country > > According to George Seldes, Ned Lamont's great-grandfather Thomas > was mixed up in the weird 1934 plot to overthrow Roosevelt and > install a fascist government headed by Smedley Butler. > > Thomas Lamont also supervised gigantic "loans" by J.P. Morgan to > Mussolini during the twenties.

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Date:	Wed Aug 23 17:09:40 PDT 2006

16022 [lbo-talk] pull my finger -- rank: 1000

On Aug 22, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > from U.S. News and World Report, by way of Cursor: > > He loves to cuss, gets a jolly when a mountain biker wipes out > trying to keep up with him, and now we're learning that the first > frat boy loves flatulence jokes. A top insider let that slip when > explaining why President Bush is paranoid around women, always > worried about his behavior. But he's still a funny, earthy guy who, > for example, can't get enough of ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 23 16:26:45 PDT 2006

16023 [lbo-talk] topics -- rank: 1000

Holy shit, 50 of my now-199 unread messages are about 9/11 conspiracies. Have we lost our minds? Before having read any of them, I'm pretty sure that's more than enough for this one. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 23 16:11:27 PDT 2006

16024 [lbo-talk] back -- rank: 1000

I was out of email contact for a few days, so apologies for any delayed administrative tasks or for any creeping discursive indiscipline. I'm back now, with 200 unread messages.... Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 23 16:08:57 PDT 2006

16025 [lbo-talk] imperial war blowback? -- rank: 1000

US facing wave of murders and gun violence By Jason Szep ROXBURY, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Analicia Perry was kneeling to light a candle at a makeshift shrine to her brother when she was shot in the face and killed -- four years to the day after her brother was gunned down on the same spot. The slaying of the 20-year-old mother -- on a narrow street behind a police station in Boston's poor Roxbury district last month -- is one of the shocking examples of a rise in the murder rate across th ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 20 08:44:07 PDT 2006

16026 Re: [lbo-talk] Federico García Lorca and the Islamic Orient -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 19 August 1936, Federico García Lorca was murdered by fascists. He > was one of the critical gay Orientalists*. Can you try, just for a day, to post on something other than Islam? Now you're mailbombing in multiple languages. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 20 08:39:32 PDT 2006

16027 [lbo-talk] Broadcast News -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2006, at 4:39 PM, gboozell at juno.com wrote: > Why refuse to screen calls? It's elitist & undemocratic. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 20 08:28:55 PDT 2006

16028 [lbo-talk] Haaretz -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > Ha'aretz was > > Chris Doss wrote: >> A question about Haaretz for the Israelis (or anybody >> else) on the list. >> >> I've been on chatting a bit over the net with an >> Israeli reservist who just got back from fighting in >> Lebanon. He's actually a very nice guy. Anyway he told >> me that Haaretz is actually a fringe publication with >> only about 60,000 readers in Israel, mostly in T ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 19 09:16:52 PDT 2006

16029 [lbo-talk] Broadcast News -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > I listen a lot to KPFA. I absolutely abhor the talk show format. > First of all there > a lot of people who call in at every opportunity to make the same > point over and > over, like some woman who called in about some judge in Oakland. > Most of the callers > tend to be rhetorical. The questions are rarely on the subject. Part of the prob is that Pacifica stations refuse to screen calls - consequently you get lots ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 19 08:44:07 PDT 2006

16030 [lbo-talk] Walmart flak Andy Young joins the Gibson-Allen brigade -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > Nice apology. Sorry, I should have said, In _Atlanta_, the Jews, the > Koreans and the Arabs rip us off. Actually, I was just refering to my > neighborhood. > > Mel Gibson, George Allen, Andrew Young. Every other day, it seems, > another establishment bozo shoots himself with public racism. Is it a > sign of the end times? It's enough to make one look forward to waking > up in the morning. Who's next? Young's remarks we ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 19 08:02:36 PDT 2006

16031 [lbo-talk] Noam takes on the 9/11 conspiracists -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > On 8/17/06, Doug Henwood < dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:Hmm, he's > refused to do this on my show, out of fear of all the flak > he'd take from the conspiracoids, > Doug > ___________________________________ > > > JM: Is this your interpretation of why he refused, conclusion from > contextual evidence, or did he tell you something along this lines? > It was explicit. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 15:37:47 PDT 2006

16032 [lbo-talk] Noam takes on the 9/11 conspiracists -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:09 PM, ravi wrote: > Ah, well I guess I didn't hear that. But let me try to save my case by > clarifying that my essential point is that if questions are raised, > one > can ignore them (on the basis of lack of time) or address them > rationally. Not dismiss them using a phrase like "conspiracy theory". How about "psychotically delusional"? Would that pass muster?

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 12:22:58 PDT 2006

16033 [lbo-talk] Noam takes on the 9/11 conspiracists -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 2:42 PM, ravi wrote: > At around 17/8/06 2:13 pm, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Hmm, he's refused to do this on my show, out of fear of all the flak >> he'd take from the conspiracoids, but here's what he said elsewhere: >> <http://youtube.com/watch?v=LoDqDvbgeXM>. >> > > I watched only the first minutes, and what impressed me the most > (perhaps because of my choice of filters) is how basically decent and > rational he is in responding t ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 11:58:25 PDT 2006

16034 [lbo-talk] On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> In principle, we have to accept other peoples' choices even when >> those >> aren't choices we make for ourselves, unless they make war on us or >> exterminate an ethnic group or do both, a la fascists: e.g., the >> Palestinian people voted for Hamas this January, so others -- >> including all Israelis -- should have accepted that choice, rather >> than organizing ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 11:54:28 PDT 2006

16035 [lbo-talk] Europe's Muslims: France need not take advice from the Brits -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=50> The French-Muslim Connection Riots Aside, Is France Doing a Better Job of Integration than Its Critics? by Jodie T. Allen Pew Research Center August 17, 2006 When Muslim youth rioted in the suburbs of France late last year, commentators were quick to fault the French "color-blind" assimilation model. "The unrest in France's cities shows that social and policing policy has failed, as well as integration," read the headlin ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 11:14:24 PDT 2006