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16531 [lbo-talk] millions strike in India -- rank: 1000

[so, Indian comrades, what's up?] Millions join national strike in India to protest privatisation plans 1 hour, 40 minutes ago NEW DELHI (AFP) - A national strike has disrupted flights and shut down government offices and banks in India as millions of state workers staged a one-day protest over moves to liberalise Asia's fourth-largest economy. Television station NDTV said some 40 million workers had joined Thursday's strike, matching the prediction of M.K. Pandhe, president of the trade union g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 29 08:13:45 PDT 2005

16532 [lbo-talk] corps & single-payer -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >It's my recollection that while no major corporation has come out in >FAVOR of single-payer per se, there have been some transnationals >that have gone on record -- in the course of union negotiations -- >that their costs are lower in Canada than the US, and that the >national health insurance program makes the difference. Yup, but I suspect they would never come out for single-payer for ideological reasons. On my radio show this evening, I'll be interviewing so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 29 08:10:30 PDT 2005

16533 [lbo-talk] sociology of disaster -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - September 29, 2005 Disaster Sociologists Study What Went Wrong in the Response to the Hurricanes, but Will Policy Makers Listen? By DAVID GLENN In mid-September, John A. Barnshaw, a graduate student at the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center, made his way to Houston and spent five days in the shelters in and around the Astrodome. He wanted to learn how families from New Orleans were making decisions about whether to return to their city. It was not a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 29 07:14:44 PDT 2005

16534 [lbo-talk] corps & single-payer -- rank: 1000

Joanne Landy, who does press for Physicians for a National Health Program, says she doesn't know of any corporations that support single-payer. But she's asking around. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 29 07:24:41 PDT 2005

16535 [lbo-talk] Corporations that support single payer health...? -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >I know there are corporations thats upport single >payer or universal health? Really? Names don't leap to mind. Lemme ask my pals at PNHP. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 07:09:12 PDT 2005

16536 [lbo-talk] crony capitalism, Katrina-style -- rank: 1000

[HTML coding boosted this above the length limit: from 6k to 18k - PLAIN TEXT PLEASE!!!!!!!] From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> Subject: crony capitalism hurricane Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:56:15 -0700 <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-turley28sep28,0,4065953.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions> By Jonathan Turley September 28, 2005 IT IS ONE OF THE secrets of the Beltway: Washington loves disasters. With large-scale disasters, government expands, its friends ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 29 07:07:05 PDT 2005

16537 [lbo-talk] Charles Murray rants -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 29, 2005 The Hallmark of the Underclass By CHARLES MURRAY Watching the courage of ordinary low-income people as they deal with the aftermath of Katrina and Rita, it is hard to decide which politicians are more contemptible -- Democrats who are rediscovering poverty and blaming it on George W. Bush, or Republicans who are rediscovering poverty and claiming that the government can fix it. Both sides are unwilling to face reality: We haven't rediscovered poverty, we ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 06:45:01 PDT 2005

16538 [lbo-talk] Matt Drudge's faves -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007218.php> After Washington landscaper David Cohen confirmed to Daily News columnist George Rush that he did, in fact, date Drudge, as Walls had reported, and after Walls hinted that she had refrained from printing even more "lurid allegations" about him in her book, Drudge seemed to get a little panicky. After a mutual friend of both gossipists tipped off Drudge as to just what these "lurid allegations" wer ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 28 21:15:56 PDT 2005

16539 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

Michael Hirsch wrote: >Think your hands are clean? Arguing (okay, you are not arguing so >much as Ravi is asking) for absolution for Torture Girl Can you fucking read? I said she's guilty and should do time. Jesus Fucking Christ.

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Date:	Wed Sep 28 15:19:19 PDT 2005

16540 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Surprised to see you go for the Lt. Calley defense, >Doug. Sure, Rummy and Gonzalez and ultimately the W >himself are the ones who are really responsible, and I >hate scapegoating and nailing the grunts while >criminals in suits and ties sip martinis and watch the >sun rise -- but we were all produced by a particular >set of circumstances and are all twisted by the >institutions we have operate in. True, the ones >England found herself in we ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 28 15:16:29 PDT 2005

16541 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

Michael Hirsch wrote: >So you get the creeps when somebody exhalts in the punishment Lyndie >English will receive? Do you also quiver 'n shake when civil rights >leaders join Mickey Schwerner's widow in saying hard time for the >septogenarian killer racist of her husband is long overdue? If not, >why not? That Mississippi fucker was just a pawn in their game, too? > >Of course she deserves punishment. And if there is justice in the >world, it wouldn't be the US army tryin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 13:13:58 PDT 2005

16542 [lbo-talk] search terms -- rank: 1000

[from the NY Observer profile of Nick Denton, proprietor of Gawker Media <http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=11561&ic=Off+the+Record>] "You can't pretend to yourself that people actually have highfalutin taste," Mr. Denton said. " ... Nobody ever searches for 'Inequality in America.'

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 12:28:20 PDT 2005

16543 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >It's all true, and Lyndie England is STILL responsible for her actions. In a legal sense, yes. But it gives me the creeps how quick you are to denounce her with enthusiasm. She was produced by a particular set of gender and class relations and then twisted by the military. You sound like some hyperindividualist right-winger - which is not unrelated to hippiedom, is it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 11:54:38 PDT 2005

16544 [lbo-talk] AP: Iraq/Afghanistan costs up to $400 Bln -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > Senate measure would push Iraq, Afghanistan war costs to $400 billion Five years of a fully funded universal child care program! Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 28 10:43:12 PDT 2005

16545 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: I think you missed his point, Doug. We are a nation of "twinkie defense" excuse makers - there is an army of professional excuse makers supplying every imaginable excuse for every conceivable kind of slack, delinquency, vice, or dereliction of duty. The bottom line is, however, that people should be responsible for their actions, whether they had to go uphill to school both ways or not. It is common sense. What is so moralistic about it? Because she's taki ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 28 10:40:58 PDT 2005