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17551 [lbo-talk] Achcar in NYC -- rank: 1000

[bounced because HTML coding and an attached word document pushed this 4k announcement up to 81k. PLEASE: NO ATTACHMENTS AND PLAIN TEXT!!!!! And maybe format stuff so it doesn't have weird line breaks?] Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 23:25:45 -0500 From: Michael Hirsch <mmh655 at gmail.com> Subject: NYC meeting: Achcar to speak on Immediate Withdrawal from Iraq REMINDER--Thursday eve--New York Area Please forward and post. Dear Friend, New York DSA, in conjunction with the Campaign for Peace and De ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 3 07:04:15 PST 2005

17552 [lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Decadence has a nice ring but it doesn't help understand >what is going on. Yes it does. I think the US ruling class has entered a decadent phase, characterized by an inability to think beyond the next quarter's profit report or the next election cycle. Seduced by tax cuts, it's allowed the Bush admin to ravage the national finances and threaten the pillars of empire. It may not be irreversible, but it's a problem, and I think it's a fine way to begin to think about what ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 15:37:03 PST 2005

17553 [lbo-talk] 7 million Americans under correctional supervision -- rank: 1000

Washington, D.C. -- The number of adults in prison, jail, or on probation or parole reached almost 7 million during 2004, the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today... The press release in HTML and report in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) for "Probation and Parole in the United States, 2004" are located on the BJS website at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/ppus04.htm.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 12:55:04 PST 2005

17554 [lbo-talk] A hundred grand a year??? -- rank: 1000

john taylor wrote: >What are you guys smoking? Skilled trades at max >seniority and overtime can't make that much in a year. > I topped out in production at $45,000 (with >overtime)! And I thought I was making it good! According to the BLS, the average weekly wage for a production worker in automobiles & light trucks was $1,305.32 in August, which works out to $65,000 a year. That included 6.2 hours of overtime.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 12:35:10 PST 2005

17555 [lbo-talk] re: a Delphi worker on Delphi -- rank: 1000

john taylor wrote: >On the UAW and national health care. Well, the union >even those guys at Solidarity House, are saying they >are favor of a national plan. Saying you're in favor of it and launching a serious political campaign to promote it are two different things. I can't shake the suspicion that unions don't want to get serious about this because it would remove a selling point for union jobs. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 11:47:25 PST 2005

17556 [lbo-talk] BYT: Oops, sorry about that Iraq/WMD thing -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >From: http://suicidegirls.com/news/politics/12653/ > >Before we started bombing the shit out of Iraq Suicide Girls? Is this a departure for them, or have they been waxing political all along? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 10:59:31 PST 2005

17557 [lbo-talk] Democrats in Senate Act as An Opposition Party: Republicans Dumbstruck -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers quoted that liberal cliche: >Bushevik This insults Bolsheviks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 10:57:00 PST 2005

17558 [lbo-talk] the Langley archipelago -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Same one it did during Watergate - the Voice of the Establishment. > >Does the wiki def of est (below) fairly represent your meaning? And >do you mean that they represent a third, and independent party, >rather than an ally of either side (intel/admin)? > >"The Establishment" is a pejorative term used in Western societies >to refer to the controlling (elite) structures and majority valu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 10:56:12 PST 2005

17559 [lbo-talk] the Langley archipelago -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >On Nov 2, 2005, at 6:54 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Washington Post - November 2, 2005 >> >>CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons >>Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of >>Overseas System Set Up After 9/11 > >If what we are witnessing - admittedly through clouded filters - is >a pitched contest between US intelligence and the administration, >what roll does the Washington Post fill? Same one it did duri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 10:12:14 PST 2005

17560 [lbo-talk] Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson Praises Alito -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >(Hopes for a successful filibuster to stop right wing Judge Alito >from getting on the U.S. Supreme Court seem dim. Half of the Dem >Senators voted for Roberts and judging from this story it looks like >tha may be the case again with Alito. One wonders whether the Dems >really believe their fequent campaign rhetoric about how important >the Supreme Court is. SR) They're prisoners of the idiotic doctrine that appointments to the SC are more about compe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 10:00:41 PST 2005

17561 [lbo-talk] lifestyles of the rich & semi-famous -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - November 2, 2005 PARIS Hilton plaything Stavros Niarchos III is some kind of class act. After he fueled up at L.A.'s Element club the other night, the Greek shipping heir and a posse of pals stopped at Burger King. "Stavros offered a homeless man outside $100 to dump a soda on himself," a source squealed to Us Weekly. The desperate bum took the payout "and everyone laughed," reports the source. This one's a keeper, Paris!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 09:21:05 PST 2005

17562 [lbo-talk] Judy returning to NYT? -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - November 7, 2005 Judy, Come Home! Miller's Return On Times' Table By: Gabriel Sherman, Anna Schneider-Mayerson Reporter Judith Miller may be returning to the New York Times newsroom this month. According to sources familiar with Ms. Miller's negotiations, she has signaled that her potential homecoming could happen as early as next week. "I am not commenting on my discussions with the paper," Ms. Miller said by phone on Nov. 1. "No decisions have been made. I ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 09:10:56 PST 2005

17563 [lbo-talk] A Delphi worker on Delphi -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >I keep hearing figures like this. Do line workers actually make that >much money? I took a look at the UAW website, and the wage rates posted >there indicate that under the present contract a line worker could earn >about $65,000 in salary and bonuses. I'm sure the benefit package >pushes the value of yearly compensation over $100k, but actual earnings >aren't in that range, are they? With overtime they can, yes. Some years ago, when I was first doing my ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 08:29:27 PST 2005

17564 [lbo-talk] the Langley archipelago -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 2, 2005 CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11 By Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 2, 2005; A01 The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement. The secret facility is part of a covert priso ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 06:54:24 PST 2005

17565 [lbo-talk] A Delphi worker on Delphi -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >GM, Delphi, etc., *if* they lose their attacks on unions, have an >incentive to push for national health insurance; if they win and >bust unions (through lockouts) or cut unionized auto workers' wages >and benefits (through the UAW's concessions) to the level of >meatpacking workers', they won't have any incentive to push for it >AT ALL. Shouldn't the union be taking the lead on this, rather than hoping that some dying industrial dinosaurs might? It's h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 2 06:57:40 PST 2005