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16756 [lbo-talk] Koizumi after Koizumi: Japan's changing pains -- rank: 1000

ira glazer wrote: >Japanese people are suddenly wanting to find out who the rich people >are, why the poor are poor, how poor they are, and what hope if any >is left for the down-and-outs. A growing sense of unfairness is >pervading this society in the aftermath of more than a decade of >economic deflation.... So they voted overwhelmingly for postal privatization. It's nice to see Americans aren't the only heads-up-asses people. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 17:36:41 PDT 2005

16757 [lbo-talk] Left weakness (Was "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!") -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >when >conditions change, which they invariably will at some point. They always will change, but why do you think they'll change significantly for the worse? >the relative ignorance of >a large part of the American population are epiphenomena Hey, the US bourgeoisie has been working on this for decades! They're not going to give it up lightly. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 17:27:12 PDT 2005

16758 [lbo-talk] Black Vote -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >How do cadre get recruited and trained? Dunno, big guy. Could you tell us? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 17:22:05 PDT 2005

16759 [lbo-talk] racial divide -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >is this our own blindspot, we are shocked because we don't expect these views. >Are we just as blinkered, just as removed from reality ? I'll plead guilty to this: I live in New York and most of my friends are left of center to some degree or other (though CSenior says my borough of residence blinds me to the really groovy leftwing stuff going on in the world). So I don't get much white ressentiment in my life. I was surprised by the 65-75% number though. I'd have guessed mo ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 17:18:54 PDT 2005

16760 [lbo-talk] Pat Robertson's idea of charity -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug] [nutgraf: "According to its most recent filing with the Internal Revenue Service, Operation Blessing gave more than half of its yearly allocation of cash donations -- $885,000 -- to the Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, of which Robertson is also the chairman."] <http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=1112518> Some Question Robertson's Katrina Charity Operation Blessing Is Second on FEMA's List for Donations for Hurricane Victims By BRIAN ROSS Sep. 9, 20 ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 17:15:25 PDT 2005

16761 [lbo-talk] "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!" -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >There's a lot to know, what specifically were you wondering? Where else it's been done, how, lessons learned, technical/organizational/political questions. All of it. I'm looking to do a radio series on the topic, and maybe write up some of it too. I'm pretty fired up about it, in fact. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 16:58:32 PDT 2005

16762 [lbo-talk] "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!" -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote, > >>Something that seems promising, or at least attractive, in the >>current sitch is promoting the idea of popular planning of NO's >>recovery. > >Naomi Klein wrote about this idea in the Nation a few days ago. I >posted the following exerpt to LBO: Yeah, I know. I was wondering if someone actually knew anything about doing this kind of planning. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 13:57:51 PDT 2005

16763 [lbo-talk] "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!" -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >It seems to me that "disasters preparedness" is a fertile ground for >popular mobilization in that emphasis needs to be on community >resources and mobilization rather than on individuals and the state. Something that seems promising, or at least attractive, in the current sitch is promoting the idea of popular planning of NO's recovery. The city elite wants to rebuild it as a gentrified Disneyland, with only the bare minimum of poor people necessary to bus ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 13:35:55 PDT 2005

16764 [lbo-talk] sex in the cities -- rank: 1000

New York Post - September 13, 2005 THE SEX QUEENS By LUKAS I. ALPERT Sex in the city is as hot as ever. Nearly one-quarter of New York City women say they're doing the deed several times a week, according to a new survey, far outstripping the competition. Twenty-three percent of Big Apple gals say they're regularly steaming up the sheets, compared with 18 percent of women in Los Angeles, and 17 percent in Dallas, Miami and Chicago, the Trojan Survey of Women and Desire found. But don't expect to ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 13:20:34 PDT 2005

16765 [lbo-talk] "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!" -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Yea, it might have been that the objective conditions were too much against >the left , i.e. the right had infinitely more money, and money talks and >bullshit walks. Yeah, they've got the money, but we're supposed to have the people. Last I checked, though, we don't. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 13:02:13 PDT 2005

16766 [lbo-talk] red state nightmare: German kids deface Bush photo -- rank: 1000

<http://www.paetau.com/downloads/KiezAvantgarde/ThePunishment.mov>

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 11:03:38 PDT 2005

16767 [lbo-talk] racial divide -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> The breakdowns by race in that ABC/WP poll were presented in a >> graphic, so I didn't include it in the text. It's worth looking at >> though. What planet do 3/4 of white Americans live on? >> > >Why is that surprising? I suppose it shouldn't be surprising, but it is. It's distressing that scores of millions of people are so far removed from reality. I know I should know this, but it never fails to shock. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 10:49:47 PDT 2005

16768 [lbo-talk] Zizek! -- rank: 1000

[This is a splendid movie!] <http://insidehighered.com/views/2005/09/13/mclemee> The Zizek Effect By Scott McLemee My ambition to write a musical about the arrival of Lacanian theory in Tito-era Yugoslavia has always hinged on the zestiness of the intended title: Zizek! The music would be performed, of course, by Laibach, those lords of industrial-strength irony; and the moment of psychoanalytic breakthrough that Lacan called la Passe would be conveyed via an interpretative dance, to be pe ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 10:43:12 PDT 2005

16769 [lbo-talk] "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!" -- rank: 1000

Lionel Mandrake wrote: >As with a lot of the free-floating facetiousness on >this board, I can only guess at the target here. Is it >the foolish idea that the radical right's success owes >to something other than its oligarch-friendly >ideology? Like maybe strategy and tactics? Discipline? >Certainly they'll have an easier time at grabbing >power, but it doesn't explain the extent of the power >they've grabbed nor the extent to which progressives >have lost. The ideolo ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 13 10:23:40 PDT 2005

16770 [lbo-talk] juicing up oil production -- rank: 1000

[here's one for you Hubbertians out there] <http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4051709,00.html> Shell's ingenious approach to oil shale is pretty slick Linda Seebach September 3, 2005 When oil prices last touched record highs - actually, after adjusting for inflation we're not there yet, but given the effects of Hurricane Katrina, we probably will be soon - politicians' response was more hype than hope. Oil shale in Colorado! Tar sands in Alberta! ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 12 17:12:18 PDT 2005