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17206 [lbo-talk] Stephanopoulos: Source Told Me Bush Directly Involved In Plame Leak Scandal -- rank: 1000

Ira Glazer wrote: >Near the end of a round table discussion on ABC's This Week, George >Stephanopoulos dropped this bomb: > >Definitely a political problem but I wonder, George Will, do you >think it's a manageable one for the White House especially if we >don't know whether Fitzgerald is going to write a report or have >indictments but if he is able to show as a source close to this told >me this week, that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were >actually invol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 2 11:59:45 PDT 2005

17207 [lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There he goes again! I love your Reagan imitation. Very convincing! >In your second post you properly focus on the writer whose work is at >question. Why in the hell do you always have to generalized to "so many >leftists" when none of those "so many leftists" are around on the list >to profit from your wisdom? Too much like preening in the mirror. Perhaps you've missed all the anti-China stuff, which as even you admitted the other day, parta ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 2 11:53:38 PDT 2005

17208 [lbo-talk] The Osama bin Laden collection -- rank: 1000

[Here we go... "Smaller than usual fee" from Verso is pretty funny.] New Yorker - August 22, 2005 CLOSE READING DEPT. O.B.L. by Lauren Collins Bruce Lawrence, a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University, lives near Durham, North Carolina, with his wife, Miriam Cooke, a scholar of modern Arabic literature. "Our house is on a hill, and we have a guesthouse-library that we use as a retreat," he said the other day. "We sit up there a couple of nights a week, and we med ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 2 11:51:22 PDT 2005

17209 [lbo-talk] David Harvey's "The New Imperialism" -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood on Verso: > >>their forthcoming Osama bin Laden collection > >Say what? Yup. Translated and edited by an academic based in North Carolina - can't remember which university. I can't wait for O'Reilly's review. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 2 11:44:14 PDT 2005

17210 [lbo-talk] A REPORT FROM TULSA -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But that isn't wisdom, it's unwisdom & the ticket to obscurity. Local >contests (by themselves) are like a very light drizzle of rain on a sand >dune. All the drops soak in and no channels for future drops are formed. >Local contests only trigger energy if they are felt to be linked to a >national struggle. The exception is when there is some seriously >outrageous local condition, but that can best be met by a one-time local >struggle within the local ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 2 11:41:27 PDT 2005

17211 [lbo-talk] A REPORT FROM TULSA -- rank: 1000

Cactus Pat wrote: >If the liberal wing is able to maintain its dominance of the party >and orient the Greens towards subordinating themselves to the >Democratic Party, the Green Party is likely to wither away like the >New Party and other progressive alternatives before them. Interesting. Was there any discussion of the wisdom of running presidential campaigns, vs. starting further down the foodchain, with city- and state-level contests? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 2 09:55:49 PDT 2005

17212 [lbo-talk] David Harvey's "The New Imperialism" -- rank: 1000

Zachary Levenson wrote: >If I want to understand this book, what else do I need to read >besides his "Limits to Capital" and Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth >Century"? Is anything else necessary? Also, does anyone know if >"Limits to Capital" is still out of print? Wow Verso let it go out of print too? I don't feel so bad now. Let's hope their forthcoming Osama bin Laden collection boosts their cashflow. "The New Imperialism" seems pretty much ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 2 09:47:47 PDT 2005

17213 [lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Or, perhaps those Latin governments might have even more lax >regulatory oversight >than the US. But if the planes are flown here, it's the US's responsibility to regulate them, no? In any case, he should have proved that rather than treating it as self-evident. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 2 09:35:05 PDT 2005

17214 [lbo-talk] good news: most Americans don't think God caused hurricanes -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >>Are the hurricanes a deliberate act of God? >> >> >> Yes No >> >>18-34 32 60 >> 35+ 19 71 > >Wait a minute -- how is THIS a good sign?!?!! I was commenting on the topline numbers, not the innards. I was afraid it'd be something like 40% overall. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 2 09:30:11 PDT 2005

17215 [lbo-talk] Jon Stewart misbehaves -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 2, 2005 WRONG 'SHOW' FOR MAG EXECS JON Stewart was the wrong pick to emcee the Magazine Publishers of America panel at Lincoln Center featuring Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair), Jim Kelly (Time), Kate White (Cosmopolitan) and Dave Zinczenko (Men's Health). The "Daily Show" host was derisive and insulting. "He went to a dark place," said one magazine exec. Stewart asked Zinczenko, "Do all the men on the cover have to be - what's the word - g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 2 09:12:33 PDT 2005

17216 [lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >More surprising still was the news about JetBlue's long-term maintenance of >its aircraft. When the planes are inspected for damage and then reassembled, >the work takes place either in Canada or El Salvador. > >El Salvador? Yeah, those Latins just can't be trusted to fix a plane, can they? Always slinking off to take a nap or smoke some cheeba. The cost-cutting and union-busting suck, but why do so many leftists have to paly with racist stereotypes? Dou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 2 08:59:01 PDT 2005

17217 [lbo-talk] Pigbag -- rank: 1000

I closed my radio show the other week with Pigbag's 1981 song, "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag," a digitized version of a 7" I got when it first came out. Now I find it's a bit of a classic, with remixes and everything. I have one question though: what's a pigbag? The band took its name because the founder liked to carry one. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 1 21:10:47 PDT 2005

17218 [lbo-talk] good news: most Americans don't think God caused hurricanes -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: HURRICANE CAUSES - 9/27/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 7 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005 Most Rule Out God or Warming As a Direct Cause of Hurricanes Most Americans rule out either a deliberate act of God or the effect of global warming as direct causes of the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes. Just under a quarter in this ABC News/Washington Post poll see the hurricanes as "a deliberate act" of God; two-thirds instead see them as an occurrence on God's Earth, but ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 1 18:31:55 PDT 2005

17219 [lbo-talk] Wow! -- rank: 1000

knowknot at mindspring.com wrote: >Or that the poster above (and the others who have contributed to the >parallel thread here characterized as Bennett's supposed "Racism") >disagree with what, quite obviously, was Bennett's actual statement >-- namely, that that ignoring nuance and complexity and instead >extracting as a "sole purpose" an aim (here: such as "reduc[ing] >crime") risks reaching "ridiculous" and "represhensible" c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 1 18:11:28 PDT 2005

17220 [lbo-talk] [offlist] Bush Adimin Procurement Policy Chief Arrested -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >information overload No kidding. There's too much of that around.

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Date:	Sat Oct 1 08:44:45 PDT 2005