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17476 [lbo-talk] lesbian cheerleaders! -- rank: 1000

[see if this survives the spam filters] <http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2005/11/hell_hath_no_fu.html> ... I read Reneé as a butch in drag. Here's her motto from her Panthers bio: "Pain is weakness leaving the body." Her deepest loyalties lie with her family and her three dogs. When that straight bitch outside the barroom stall insulted her girlfriend, Reneé clocked her but good. Oh my god, I'm in love. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 07:43:03 PST 2005

17477 [lbo-talk] Cindy Sheehan in Berkeley -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>I just heard that Cindy Sheehan moved to Berkeley. This sounds >>alarming on the face of it. Am I overreacting? >> >>Doug > >Why alarming? That's not as disturbing as the rumor of DP PR >control that you heard (and mentioned in ><http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050822/018044.html>). >You think that Cindy's gonna come out as a lesbian now and that >would make it so very Seventies? Seventies? If ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 07:40:02 PST 2005

17478 [lbo-talk] two views of the French riots -- rank: 1000

New York Times - November 9, 2005 Get French or Die Trying By OLIVIER ROY Paris THE rioting in Paris and other French cities has led to a lot of interpretations and comments, most of them irrelevant. Many see the violence as religiously motivated, the inevitable result of unchecked immigration from Muslim countries; for others the rioters are simply acting out of vengeance at being denied their cultural heritage or a fair share in French society. But the reality is that there is nothing particul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 07:38:27 PST 2005

17479 [lbo-talk] Cindy Sheehan in Berkeley -- rank: 1000

I just heard that Cindy Sheehan moved to Berkeley. This sounds alarming on the face of it. Am I overreacting? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 8 20:43:42 PST 2005

17480 [lbo-talk] British to help China build 'eco-cities' -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >I know the Chinese are serious about buying up all >the available carbon-based energy resources. > >*That* shows some faith in the conversion to >more sustainable power sources. [snickerintocuff] Ok, so you are shooting from the lip, as I suspected. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 8 16:10:52 PST 2005

17481 [lbo-talk] British to help China build 'eco-cities' -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Yep, China is going to build 10 new cities outside Beijing where the working >people will live while the rich stay behind in Beijing and aimlessly >drive their >SUVs around without the risk of running over some overworked prole bicyclist >too tired to pay attention to the traffic and the SUV's blaring horn... did I >mention the driver owns an SUV and is rich? It bears repetition. How do you know this? There's nothing in the article that says anything like t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 8 14:40:17 PST 2005

17482 [lbo-talk] Wood on Globalization 2 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox quoted Ellen Wood (though I'm curious why we had to get 24k of block quotes at this moment in time): >This apparent failure of global integration is not, however, a failure >of globalization so much as a symptom of it. Globalization has been as >much about preventing as promoting integration. Funny you should mention "integration," the keyword of CFR overboss Haass's op-ed in today's NYT. Doug ---- New York Times - November 8, 2005 Is There a Doctrine in the House? ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 8 13:55:30 PST 2005

17483 [lbo-talk] Why do English speaking folk have penchant for feudal theocracies? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I never could grasp it why English speaking folk on both sides of the pond >make such a big fuss over Tibet? Early in the life of this list James Heartfield wrote a post that's still one of my favorites. Doug ---- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 02:59:57 +0100 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Jim heartfield <Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Tibet In message <l03130300b1c149853a69@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 8 10:03:12 PST 2005

17484 [lbo-talk] Why are the US-ers such assholes? -- rank: 1000

N P Childs wrote: >Years ago I spent about three weeks arguing with some dip who called >himself 'Duke Nukem' about politics, loads of laughs. He trotted out >the usual right wing, own guns and 'live free or die' shit even >while he admitted that, yes, he lived rent free in his parents >basement, but if he CHOSE to he could have the 8000 square foot >house and the pneumatic blonde that came with it. This was just what >we was doing for now, that and working PT at Blockbuster ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 8 08:22:35 PST 2005

17485 [lbo-talk] Bush-Cheney ties fraying -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - November 8, 2005 Dubya-Cheney ties frayed by scandal 'There has been some distance for some time' BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON - The CIA leak scandal has peeled back the veil on the most closely held White House secret of all: the subtle but unmistakable erosion in the bond between President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Multiple sources close to Bush told the Daily News that while the vice president remains his boss' valued political ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 8 07:36:10 PST 2005

17486 [lbo-talk] getting written up -- rank: 1000

JC Helary wrote: >So do we need a proof of purchase to get the update or does it come >as a separate product ? The updating ain't much. If you've read the globo chapter, you've got 95% of it. >ps: After The New Economy is at 1750 in PaperBack on Amazon Japan, >it shows published 2005/05 is it an updated version ? There's a new 30-page afterword on the Bush years. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 8 07:09:00 PST 2005

17487 [lbo-talk] Nation changes -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Is that Peter Norton of Norton's Utilities? Yup. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 7 20:39:21 PST 2005

17488 [lbo-talk] getting written up -- rank: 1000

JC Helary wrote: >>His 40-minute talk to the Cape Ann Forum found globalization to be >>a false bogeyman, not responsible for the homogenization of world >>cultures, lower living standards and lousy music. > >Do you have a transcript ? It's an updated subset of the globo chapter of After the New Economy. So no free transcripts available! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 7 20:29:08 PST 2005

17489 [lbo-talk] getting written up -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >---- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> >> The bad results - slavery, exploitation of Third World labor, lower >> wages here and exported jobs - are not due to the intrinsic impulse >> to trade, but to the bad values of the traders, especially those of >> American government leaders and corporations. >> >> "Corporate globalism: bad," he said. "Popular globalism: good." >> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 7 20:28:01 PST 2005

17490 [lbo-talk] Nation changes -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 7, 2005 Contact: Mike Webb, The Nation Publicity Director Jill Danzig/Danzig Communications VICTOR NAVASKY TO STEP DOWN AFTER 28 YEARS FROM NATION HELM VANDEN HEUVEL TO BE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER NEW YORK, NY: On November 7, 2005, Katrina vanden Heuvel, who has served as The Nation's Editor since 1995, will become its Publisher. She will succeed Victor Navasky who came to the magazine in 1978 as Editor and became Publisher and General Partner in 1995. Ms. vanden Heuv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 7 20:23:41 PST 2005