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16696 [lbo-talk] Global warming 'past the point of no return' -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >There may be a shorter term empirical question here. Given the will, I >think eliminating the carbon emissions is technically easier that a >lot of people think. Gar, you're arguing rationally. I'm afraid that, for some, it's a bedrock belief that nothing can change until everything changes, but since we can't make everything change, we just have to watch it all go by. Unless something Really Big takes us by surprise, but there's no way to increase the odds of that hap ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 13:33:17 PDT 2005

16697 [lbo-talk] Australian Professor Discusses His Country's Complicity in Iraq Mass Mortality -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >100,000 "...dead at Saddam's command", MichaelP, I'm still waiting for >something verifiable. [Just like a majority of the rest of the world] From interviews broadcast on October 17, 2002 and archived at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio_1.html#021017>: "This is a monster who has been created and backed by the West. On the left, he's been hated for ages. He's a pitiless and ruthless dictator." - Tariq Ali, starting at 12:56 "Sadd ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 11:25:44 PDT 2005

16698 [lbo-talk] Australian Professor Discusses His Country's Complicity in Iraq Mass Mortality -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >100,000 "...dead at Saddam's command", MichaelP, I'm still waiting for >something verifiable. [Just like a majority of the rest of the world] Why is it so hard to believe that Saddam's regime killed that many people? Left critics of the Ba'athist, like Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, and even George Galloway, have said as much. To admit that doesn't make the US and its allies any less guilty. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 11:20:13 PDT 2005

16699 [lbo-talk] German election: the markets won't like this -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Because the SPD and the Greens refuse to ally with the Left party. Fucking sectarians. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 11:01:23 PDT 2005

16700 [lbo-talk] Free to Choose to Conform -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >I think black guys are free to choose to conform in different ways. We all gotta conform to something - it's part of being human. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 10:38:12 PDT 2005

16701 [lbo-talk] Contemporary forms of female self-objectification -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: > > I don't get what's wrong with makeup. > >It tastes yukky. That's not the part you're supposed to eat. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 10:32:46 PDT 2005

16702 [lbo-talk] German election: the markets won't like this -- rank: 1000

[CDU+CSU+FDP = 46.1%. SPD+Left+Greens = 49.9%. So why can't there be a "left" coalition?] Germany appears headed for right-left coalition By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - Voters appeared to have forced Germany's main political rivals into coalition with each other on Sunday, as exit polls showed conservative challenger Angela Merkel the winner but unable to form a centre-right alliance. Projections by leading institutes broadcast on German television gave Merkel's conservatives -- the ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 10:31:44 PDT 2005

16703 [lbo-talk] Palast's Palimpsest: Lying About Galloway. -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > My last. Read the Weekly Worker? Full of material on the wreck of >Scargill's SSP and his membership in the Stalin Society. Michael, you seem to have a problem with almost every actually existing leftist in the world - not just a problem, but a fatal objection. Can your politics actually exist in this world, or does it all live only in your head? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 10:14:47 PDT 2005

16704 [lbo-talk] Re: Contemporary forms of female self-objectification -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Ariel Levy, her obit for Andrea Dworkin is quite good: <http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11907/>. E.g.: >Dworkin was a one-dimensional public persona, but she was a nuanced >writer, with a gift for conveying abstract concepts through acute, >unusual metaphors. "It's not as if there's an empty patch that one >can see and so one can say, 'There's my ignorance; it's about ten by >ten and a dozen feet high and someday someone will fill in the ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 10:00:44 PDT 2005

16705 [lbo-talk] Re: Contemporary forms of female self-objectification -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >He tried to point out how, for pretty much any het guy whose libido >was in the on position and who wasn't a jackass, the simple fact she >was smart, funny and beautiful would be all the inspiration required. > >As we talked about this, he sighed heavily into the phone; "Dwayne, >where are these women learning they have to act like pornstars to >get some attention? Where the hell is that coming from?" Levy does write about the phenom you're t ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 09:56:08 PDT 2005

16706 [lbo-talk] Contemporary forms of female self-objectification -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >My wife brought the item to my attention. A much more muted and >benign form of self-objectification is the tendency of many >progressive feminists to wear lipstick, perfume, and dye their hair. >Now I will quickly put on my helmet, because whenever Walker (yes, >her first name) and I have chided left-wing women friends about >this, the brickbats have quickly rained down on us. But in >cyberspace, I feel safer, and it is an interesting question, no? An ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 09:50:19 PDT 2005

16707 [lbo-talk] Palast's Palimpsest: Lying About Galloway. -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >I also thought that the comment about him being rich now was a cheap >shot, unworthy of Palast's body of work And easily turned on Palast himself, who is far from poor - he owns a building in the East Village, which has to be worth several million dollars. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 09:29:26 PDT 2005

16708 [lbo-talk] Palast's Palimpsest: Lying About Galloway. -- rank: 1000

www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: >In other words, Greg Palast has cited a report that he claims >justifies the suggestion that there is $1 million unaccounted for, >and that Mr Galloway was 'excoriated' for this reason, and further >that some of the unaccounted for money went to Galloway's wife in >'emergency payments'. The report does not in fact support the first >assertion, hardly rises to the level of excoriation anywhere, and >cites payments to Mr Galloway's wife as ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 09:24:27 PDT 2005

16709 [lbo-talk] Palast's Palimpsest: Lying About Galloway. -- rank: 1000

www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: >This whole fiasco is yet another instance of an embattled American >left appropriating the terms of the right, seeking to exculpate >itself and prove its own innocence before the neoconservative >tribunal by placing before it endless examples of left-wing venality. It's not just that - it's something about Palast himself. I know some people who used to work for him; I intend to get to the bottom of this. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 18 09:13:19 PDT 2005

16710 [lbo-talk] Contemporary forms of female self-objectification -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >(The psychological emanicpation of women has lagged their social and >economic advances, argues a new book by Ariel Levy of New York magazine) > >'Female Chauvinist Pigs': Girls Gone Wild >Reviewed by JENNIFER EGAN >New York Times >September 18, 2005 By This is a very intelligent and well-written book, though Levy isn't clear on the causes of the situation. I recorded an interview with her the other day, and I'll probably be running it next Thursday. D ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 17 07:24:52 PDT 2005