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17176 [lbo-talk] 3 months in jail = $1.2 million -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 4, 2005 TIME WELL SPENT NEW York Times jailbird Judy Miller has landed a $1.2 million book deal with Simon & Schuster. The tome - which will presumably detail Miller's imprisonment for refusing to reveal her source in a probe about a leak of a CIA operative's name - will be edited by Alice Mayhew, who oversaw Miller's previous two books, "God Has Ninety-Nine Lives" and "Germs," huffingtonpost.com reports. After spending 85 days behind ba ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 07:02:16 PDT 2005

17177 [lbo-talk] David Harvey's "The New Imperialism" -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Limits was republished by Verso in 1999. Yup, but they've apparently let it go out of print. >And Harvey's brand new book on neoliberalism (also OUP) will be >launched in NYC later this month partly to coincide with his 70th >birthday. I've read almost all of it, and it's really good. I'll be part of a panel organized by Neil Smith at CUNY at that launch on October 31. Allow me to take this opportunity to say I really admire David Harvey. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 06:49:39 PDT 2005

17178 [lbo-talk] Credit Card Loan Delinquencies Reach Record High -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >minimums so low, you never pay off the principal Minimum payments are about to double, from roughly 2% of the balance to 4%. A lot of people are going to be surprised - about 5% of CC holders make only minimum payments. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 06:45:05 PDT 2005

17179 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg and City Govt in the US (was Freddy - even his supporters don't like him) -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: >As I said, I make no case for Ferrer...But I still don't hear how >that translates to good words for Bloomberg? All I said was he's not all that bad. I'm not going to vote for him, but I won't be crushed if he wins. Maybe I'll write you in, Paul. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 06:37:00 PDT 2005

17180 [lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug-- this is just a plain ignorant statement. In non-union companies, >such rights are weak. In heavily unionized industries Oh yeah, we've got lots of those! Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 06:35:42 PDT 2005

17181 [lbo-talk] KPFA CAB -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >A meeting of the KPFA Community Advisory Board will take place on >October 10th, 2005 at KPFA, 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way at 7.00 >pm. The public is invited to attend. Sane attendees desperately needed, from what I hear. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 06:34:05 PDT 2005

17182 [lbo-talk] Wow! -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >2008 That's so far away I can't even imagine talking about it. Even November 2006 is far away. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 06:25:00 PDT 2005

17183 [lbo-talk] corps & single-payer -- rank: 1000

After canvassing her colleagues at Physicians for a National Health Program, Joanne Landy says that no one could think of a corporation that's supporting a single-payer health insurance scheme. No surprise, but there you have it. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 06:20:13 PDT 2005

17184 [lbo-talk] Wow! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I agree that the power elite wants a change. They see the >handwriting on the wall. The current regime has gone far beyond >being friendly to the ruling class, they are actively looting on >behalf of their network of buddies. Let's just say that the ruling >class doesn't like the competition and they probably are worried >that the growing public distrust in institutions may open the door >for something more radical. Yeah, thinking more about Bartels' remarks, ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 3 16:29:30 PDT 2005

17185 [lbo-talk] Wow! -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Perhaps I am reading too much into it, but that seems to be consistent with >my concept of "puppet presidency" - the president is merely an actor hired >to announce to the public decisions made by the power elite. I was fascinated, in an unconvinced sort of way, by Larry Bartels' remarks at the end of his interview with me. He argued that the elite reads low approval ratings in the polls as a sign that the president is in trouble, and so is his agend ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 3 15:02:09 PDT 2005

17186 [lbo-talk] Wow! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted, re the author of The Book of Virtues: >(Which, he made abundantly >clear, he was not recommending and thinks a morally reprehensible >notion.) As they say in the south, that's mighty white of him. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 3 14:57:12 PDT 2005

17187 [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> >> >>... It >>is a cateastrophic error to suppose that there is >>nothing to be learned from the right, including their >>ideas. ... > >No, there is nothing to be learned from the right I wouldn't go to Carl's extreme, but I'm closer to him on this than to Justin. Hayek had a few non-worthless ideas - you can't plan everything is one of them. But that critique has bee ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 3 14:56:01 PDT 2005

17188 [lbo-talk] Wow! -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >When someone who is a real dick, like Bennett, shoots himself in the >foot (or would that be somewhere on his scrotal sac?), why bother >defending him? Aren't there more important things to do? You would think. The guy's such a major scumbag that it's a lot of fun to watch him squirm. There's a lot of this going around lately - is the right in a meltodwn phase, or am I just thinking wishfully? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 3 13:22:42 PDT 2005

17189 [lbo-talk] Schadenfreude -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: If all those rightwingers sincerely don't like her, maybe she's a lesser >evil. Is she a Phyllis Shafly type ? If Phyllis Schafly is a lesser evil, what's the greater one? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 3 11:34:33 PDT 2005

17190 [lbo-talk] Re: Bloomberg and City Govt in the US -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Dear List: > >Doug writes: > >> Aside from same-sex marriage, I doubt a >Dem administration would have behaved >much differently on your top (or bottom) ten >list. > >And aside from chattel slavery, the antebellum >South wasn't very different from the antebellum >North. But at least there was some resistance to >the huge human rights issue of the time. As you know, I take sexual freedom issues really seriously, but this comparison ju ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 3 11:24:30 PDT 2005