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16276 [lbo-talk] Power of Nightmares in NYC -- rank: 1000

The Power Of Nightmares, May 4th, 7.30pm, Alwan for the Arts. "In the past politicians promised to create a better world. They had different ways of achieving this but their power came from the optimistic visions they offered their people. Those dreams failed and today people have lost faith in ideologies. Increasingly politicians are seen as managers of public life. But now, they have discovered a new role that restores their power and authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 26 07:49:48 PDT 2006

16277 [lbo-talk] the legal implications of the word fuck. -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: >I usually don't use profanity -- too much Catholic school and all -- >but I thought that someone would find this scholarly article mildly >amusing. Why the fuck not? Come the fuck on, man. Fuck is fuckin' great!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 20:20:09 PDT 2006

16278 [lbo-talk] foreclosures +72% -- rank: 1000

[I got this forwarded from a real estate banker, so this isn't your usual lefty heavy-breathing.] <http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0604250181apr25,1,3999687.story?coll=chi-business-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true> Home foreclosures increase 72% Bloomberg News Published April 25, 2006 IRVINE, Calif. -- Mortgages entering foreclosure jumped 72 percent during the first quarter from a year earlier, as higher interest rates increased monthly payments and strained the budgets of homeow ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 14:30:51 PDT 2006

16279 [lbo-talk] C2W proposes joint venture with AFL-CIO -- rank: 1000

New York Times - April 25, 2006 After Quitting A.F.L.-C.I.O., Group Suggests Reunion of Sorts By STEVEN GREENHOUSE The coalition of unions that broke away from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has asked that federation to join it in creating a third union federation that would concentrate on political and legislative efforts. But the federation's president, John J. Sweeney, dismissed the idea, mocking the "obvious irony of a proposal to essentially recreate the A.F.L.-C.I.O. as it existed prior to" t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 11:27:49 PDT 2006

16280 [lbo-talk] strange affinities -- rank: 1000

Who knew that Anglo-Indian techno and Renaissance liturgical music had so much in common? At 9:27 AM -0700 4/25/06, Amazon.com wrote: >Dear Amazon.com Customer, > >We've noticed that customers who have purchased Asian Travels, Vol. >1: A Six Degrees Collection also purchased Orlando de Lassus: >Penitential Psalms. For this reason, you might like to know that >Orlando de Lassus: Penitential Psalms is now available . You can >order your copy at a savings of 10% by following th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 11:23:55 PDT 2006

16281 [lbo-talk] Perry Anderson on Fukuyama -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Well, you know, this is yet another example of the fact that >Anderson is unable to take off the academic blinders. It is >unfortunate because he is a smart man and a hard working man. But he >has never stepped out of academia and does not even seem to >understand why it might be a good idea. Heck, he's hardly stepped out of his patrician class. As someone who knows him well once said to me, Perry's afraid of the working class - they might scuff his floors. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 08:35:19 PDT 2006

16282 [lbo-talk] Kathleen Cleaver correction -- rank: 1000

[please note the date in the original was wrong - corrected announcement follows] Kathleen Cleaver, former Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party and currently a professor at Emory and Yale, will be speaking at Brooklyn College on Thursday, May 4, at 4:30 pm. The title of her talk is "Behind the Myths: Rosa Parks and America's Struggle for Human Rights." The talk will be held at the Bedford Lounge of the Brooklyn College Student Center, which is on Campus Road and East ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 08:31:12 PDT 2006

16283 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: world monetary system collapse by Sept '06 -- rank: 1000

Blackmail wrote: >I'm anxious to read Christian Parenti's next book already. Anyone on >here have insight as to when that might be published? What book? He's not doing anything on Afg immediately, though he'd like to someday. He's doing a series of articles for The Nation this year - Colombia, climate change in the Arctic, others TBA. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 08:27:30 PDT 2006

16284 [lbo-talk] Kathleen Cleaver at Brooklyn College -- rank: 1000

Kathleen Cleaver, former Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party and currently a professor at Emory and Yale, will be speaking at Brooklyn College on Thursday, May 5, at 4:30 pm. The title of her talk is "Behind the Myths: Rosa Parks and America's Struggle for Human Rights." The talk will be held at the Bedford Lounge of the Brooklyn College Student Center, which is on Campus Road and East 27th Street. To get to Brooklyn College by subway, take the 2 train to the last st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 08:24:02 PDT 2006

16285 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: world monetary system collapse by Sept '06 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Jerry Monaco wrote: >> >> >Yes, yes, I was being unfair... Favorite headlines of WV, from the >> >old days -- of Hubert Humphrey when he shuffled off, "Dead at Last", >> >of Alex Cockburn when he was suspended from the Voice "Defend the >> >Scoundrel." Good article too, as I remember. >> >> Don't forget "Hail Red Army in Afghanistan!" > >Lo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 25 06:12:43 PDT 2006

16286 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: world monetary system collapse by Sept '06 -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: >Yes, yes, I was being unfair... Favorite headlines of WV, from the >old days -- of Hubert Humphrey when he shuffled off, "Dead at Last", >of Alex Cockburn when he was suspended from the Voice "Defend the >Scoundrel." Good article too, as I remember. Don't forget "Hail Red Army in Afghanistan!"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 16:20:17 PDT 2006

16287 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: world monetary system collapse by Sept '06 -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >Nuttery it certainly is, but they must have some well to do angel or >two. Every week or so the LaRouchies are out in force in the San >Francisco Financial District with reams of glossy brochures and > magazines to hand out to the unwary passers by. They probably finance themselves the way most parties do - by members' tithing. The Sparts are small, but the LaRouchies seem much more numerous. I bet the ISO has a nice dues income too. Douog

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 15:46:33 PDT 2006

16288 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: world monetary system collapse by Sept '06 -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: >Why do you even look at this stuff? Is it perhaps for the same >reason I used to read Worker's Vanguard, for the pleasure in the >lunacy. I must dissent! I've fallen behind on my WV reading, but if you overlook the Trotbottery at the beginning & end of the articles, they're often very informative and even thoughtful. But LaRouche - purely amusing nuttery. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 15:15:17 PDT 2006

16289 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 14:23:57 PDT 2006

16290 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: world monetary system collapse by Sept '06 -- rank: 1000

[the last graf is masterpiece of pure lunacy] <http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/writings_files/2006/060420_weimar_collapse.htm> Hyperinflation like Weimar 1923: World System on Weimar Collapse Curve by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. April 20, 2006 The fakery of the outgoing Alan Greenspan administration, in burying the "M3" report, was clearly intended to conceal the fact that the rate of rate of increase of world prices of primary materials has the world as a whole currently on the sam ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 13:08:37 PDT 2006