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17056 [lbo-talk] Weather apocalypse now -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >And yes, I've learned Seattle doesn't rank as high on the rainfall >charts as its reputation. It drizzles most of the time, no? When I visited the Stranger's offices in 1997, an intern said that Seattle was the most passive-aggressive place she'd ever seen. Drizzle is p-a precip, no? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 20:36:13 PDT 2005

17057 [lbo-talk] Report from KPFA CAB meeting -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Doug, a lot has happened since 1958 Yeah, and not all of it good! Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 18:44:22 PDT 2005

17058 [lbo-talk] Report from KPFA CAB meeting -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: It is scary but worth pondering the fact that our attention is always poignantly drawn to that which we are about to lose or have already lost. Here's the beginning of an 8,000-word piece I wrote for the Socialist Register 2006 (Panitch & Leys, eds). I just got my author's copy of the Brit edition, so I guess it'll be out there soon. Dunno about here. Doug ---- The U.S. may be populated by nearly 300 million isolated monads, but do we ever love the word "community." ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 18:42:28 PDT 2005

17059 [lbo-talk] Report from KPFA CAB meeting -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >I personally belong to the tango community, the belly dance >community, the Bret Harte Middle School community, the ballet >community, and the Sun community. Translation: I sit in front of the >computer all day and type. Sometimes I go dance or help at my >daughter's school. Don't forget the lbo-talk community! Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 18:37:26 PDT 2005

17060 [lbo-talk] Report from KPFA CAB meeting -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Doug, try not to think of community as a bad word just because >Bernard White utters it. Reclaim it from him. Community is good. It's a mush word. It means whatever one wants it to mean. There's the business community, the Phish community, the economics community, you name it. Here's more from Hill which someone just sent me. It's from his posthumous book, Voluntary Listener Sponsorship (Pacifica, 1958), pages 4-5: >Some attempts to organize audience support for b ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 17:42:38 PDT 2005

17061 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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17062 [lbo-talk] Report from KPFA CAB meeting -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Doug, it is really a question of whether you fundamentally support >the 'idea' of community radio or whether you are always looking for >reasons to rain on its parade. Perhaps you should not be at WBAI if >you don't support the essential idea behind it. What is that? Pacifica founder Lew Hill's? I don't see the word "community" in that document - which Bernard White urged us all to read and take to heart when he took over as Program Director at WBAI. ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 16:15:12 PDT 2005

17063 [lbo-talk] Tarrying with the scripted -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >This news story sums up the American media's newly >acquired enthusiasm for telling us things they've no >doubt known for several years: > > > >Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged Most stunningly of all, perhaps: Fox did a tough report on this the other night during the Brit Hume show. They showed the pre-event prep and used the word "scripted." If they're losing Fox, what do they have left? Doug

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17064 [lbo-talk] admin hacks rewrite report -- rank: 1000

<http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/05/1012/art1.html> Political Appointees Re-Write Commerce Department Report On Offshore Outsourcing; Original Analysis Is Missing From Final Version BY RICHARD McCORMACK richard at manufacturingnews.com The Commerce Department has responded to a half-year-old request by Manufacturing and Technology News for the release a long-awaited study on the issue of "offshore outsourcing" of IT service-sector jobs and high-tech industries. But the 12-p ...

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17065 [lbo-talk] casualties -- rank: 1000

I know that some people on the left have been skeptical about estimates of how many Iraqis the US has killed. This is from an article by John Mueller in the forthcoming Nov/Dec issue of Foreign Affairs - a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, and so not exactly a radical source: >By some estimates, the number of Iraqis who have died as a result of >the invasion has reached six figures -- vastly more than have been >killed by all international terrorists in all of history. Sa ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 14:37:43 PDT 2005

17066 [lbo-talk] Report from KPFA CAB meeting -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >There were also about 10 community members present. Man, if that doesn't point to the problem with this notion of "community," I don't know what does. Ten people? If there were still phone booths around, you could hold the next meeting in one. But the other problem is...what the fuck is this all about? I've been following Pacifica politics from a more-or-less inside position for the last 15 years, and none of this makes any sense to me. It's further inside tha ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 13:10:09 PDT 2005

17067 [lbo-talk] a question regarding the future -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I am fully with you on the predictive aspect of the crisis talk, but you >seem to forget your own advice to look into what makes people "tick." Doom >saying is a bunch of hogwash if you take it as an advice to build your >future on it, but it tells you something about the state of mind of the doom >sayers. Like their idealism or religious mind-frame that is eager to >substitute wishful thinking for a rational analysis of material reality. ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 09:41:19 PDT 2005

17068 [lbo-talk] "four walls are three too many" -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Just to clarify: does 4 walls is 3 too many mean that the person in >question should be put up against the 4th wall and shot? Yup. Doug

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17069 [lbo-talk] a question regarding the future -- rank: 1000

Evidently Occupied wrote: >My coworker announced today that he thinks the >collapse of the U.S. economy is at hand. He said the >bankruptcy laws are changing Oct. 17, and that he >expects General Motors to declare bankruptcy before >that happens. As a result, the government will be >crippled by the shifted burden of GM's pensions; all >the people not getting pension checks will stop being >able to buy things; and investments will lose value. >"As GM goes, so the ...

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17070 [lbo-talk] Ace on fuel economy -- rank: 1000

Alexander Cockburn writes in his latest Nation column: >The Virtues of Gas Guzzling >ALEXANDER COCKBURN > >Since I don't believe in "peak oil"--and regard oil "shortages" as >contrivances by the oil companies and allied brokers and middlemen >to run up the price--I fill my aging fleet of 1950s- and '60s-era >Chryslers with a light heart, although for longer trips these days I >fill an '82 Mercedes 240D with diesel. True, diesel now costs more >than ...

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