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17716 [lbo-talk] New Al Qaeda plot to kill Musharraf foiled -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But you are deliberately blinding yourself to reality Sounds like an imputation of motive. >You remind me of the mad >astronomer in Rasselas. Can you make a point without being nasty? Just wondering if it's even possible. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 16 16:07:46 PDT 2005

17717 [lbo-talk] Re: Greenwashing (Jared Diamond thread) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >If someone were to point out that chemical fertilisers have increased >food production dozens of times over, he would reply: 'Yes, but they >are a drain on fresh water, and what about all that phosphorus >run-off?' Sounds like Michael Perelman! Doug

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Date:	Mon May 16 14:51:20 PDT 2005

17718 [lbo-talk] update: Dave Chapelle not in madhouse -- rank: 1000

<http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1061415,00.html> Web Exclusive | Arts - TV On the Beach With Dave Chappelle In South Africa, TIME's Simon Robinson talks with the comic about his sudden disappearance from Chappelle's Show In this week's TIME, Christopher John Farley reveals why Dave Chappelle decided to leave his hit show and what he's been up to since he disappeared to South Africa two weeks ago. Last Friday night, TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Simon Robinson met with the co ...

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Date:	Mon May 16 14:39:17 PDT 2005

17719 [lbo-talk] Fwd: REVEREND BILLY -- rank: 1000

[Ah the contradictions. The Rev Billy had a launch party last week for his new CD/DVD, whose tab ran into the many thousands of dollars. The record label that sponsored the party just got an infusion of venture capital money. Now his publicist is contacting me with a follow-up. For those who don't know the Rev Billy, he is the leader of the semi-fictitious "Church of Stop Shopping," and decries commercialism in a fundie-preacher style. I have nothing against snazzy launch parties or th ...

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Date:	Mon May 16 13:35:17 PDT 2005

17720 [lbo-talk] public attitudes towards the press -- rank: 1000

[further proof that Cockburn's piece about popular attitudes towards the press being sometehing to cheer is a little off...] Editor & Publisher - May 15, 2005 New Survey Finds Huge Gap Between Press and Public on Many Issues By Joe Strupp NEW YORK A survey to be released Monday reveals a wide gap on many media issues between a group of journalists and the general public. In one finding, 43% of the public says the press has too much freedom, while only 3% of journalists agree. And just 14% of ...

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Date:	Mon May 16 09:57:14 PDT 2005

17721 [lbo-talk] Bush plan to bomb Iran? -- rank: 1000

The fully formatted report may be found at <http://polyconomics.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=4359> The Bush-Bolton Plan to Bomb Bushehr May 14 2005 The Bush-Bolton Plan to Bomb Bushehr Memo To: Republican Senators From: Jude Wanniski Re: With Tony Blair's Support Buried down in today's New York Times report on President Bush reaffirming his unqualified support for John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador is the reason why almost all of you are ready to vote for his confirmation. "Republicans a ...

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Date:	Mon May 16 09:15:15 PDT 2005

17722 [lbo-talk] health insurance inflation -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > If as word has it, health care costs are rising, then these "raises" >merely keep workers up with the rise in the cost of living, if that much, no Barely. There's not much evidence that health care inflation reflects any serious quality increases - it's mostly pure price. Maybe Jim Westrich could say more. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 16 08:18:21 PDT 2005

17723 [lbo-talk] more class! -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >---- Original Message ---- >From: Doug Henwood >To: lbo-talk >Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 9:26 AM >Subject: [lbo-talk] more class! > >> What's going on? The other day, the WSJ started a series on class and >> mobility in America, and today the NYT starts one. >> >> I'm not going to post the text because the graphics are an important >> part of the article >> <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/national/class/OVERVIE ...

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Date:	Mon May 16 06:49:09 PDT 2005

17724 [lbo-talk] Re: An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >As it happens I read this just as I finished reading a most excellent >book _Taxi!_ by Biju Mathew (New Press, 2005). I just posted the first >book review to Amazon that I've ever attempted, I've pasted it in below. One of the inspiring things about the taxi drivers story is that it was a fine example of thinking and action working together. Mathew and his fellow organizer, Bhairavi Desai, are very sophisticated politically, but they did years of work at gas stations a ...

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Date:	Mon May 16 06:31:52 PDT 2005

17725 [lbo-talk] Jeffrey Blankfort: Damage Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.leftcurve.org/LC29WebPages/Chomsky.html >>...Given the viciousness and the consistency with which Chomsky has >been attacked by his critics on the "right," one ventures cautiously >when challenging him from the "left." To expose serious errors in >Chomsky's analysis and recording of history is to court almost certain >opprobrium from those who might even agree with the nature of the >criticism but who have become so ...

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Date:	Sun May 15 21:21:26 PDT 2005

17726 [lbo-talk] more class! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Nothing in Marx's idea of class was incompatible with some degree of >economic mobility, at least for a tiny segment of the population. Marx said the better a ruling class is able to incorporate the natural leaders of the oppressed class, the more solid & dangerous its rule. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 15 14:37:33 PDT 2005

17727 [lbo-talk] the working class etc -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because, with all the quoted text and HTML coding, it hit 17k. Trimmed and code-stripped, it's now 3k. Please please please trim, and use plain text. Less work for me, less bandwidth for everyone.] From: Turbulo at aol.com Message-ID: <20d.1030e4b.2fb8c8dc at aol.com> Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 11:46:36 EDT Subject: Re: Appeal to the US Anti-War Movement To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_20d.1030e4b.2fb8c8dc_b ...

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Date:	Sun May 15 10:52:36 PDT 2005

17728 [lbo-talk] Marx on competition -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Doug quotes Marx: >> >>No matter how powerful the means of production which a capitalist >>may bring into the field, competition will make their adoption >>general... > >But in those days, 1.5 centuries ago, patents were very few, >held only by individual inventors, and barely enforcable. And the >Devil had not yet gotten around to inventing "intellectual property" >and "trade secrets"... Not to mention Chinese pi ...

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Date:	Sun May 15 09:41:00 PDT 2005

17729 [lbo-talk] NYT gazes at navel, sees lint -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick quoted Ace Cockburn: >We won! On the left we've always said that the corporate press tells >lies and now, for a variety of reasons, at most people believe us. The people who don't believe what they read in the NYT and other big media don't do so from the left. They're mostly rightwingers who think the Times is liberal. And, sorry to be so conventional, but a lot of the stuff in the NYT isn't lies. Most of it is true, in some sense. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 15 09:33:05 PDT 2005

17730 [lbo-talk] more class! -- rank: 1000

What's going on? The other day, the WSJ started a series on class and mobility in America, and today the NYT starts one. I'm not going to post the text because the graphics are an important part of the article <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/national/class/OVERVIEW-FINAL.html>. Some really good Flash stuff at at <http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_03.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 15 09:26:47 PDT 2005