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17896 [lbo-talk] union notes -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> House of Labor: The Teamsters kick off their annual conference next week in Las Vegas, and five leaders of a reformist faction of the AFL-CIO will meet to plan the next phase of their revolution. Several union officials said they expect John Wilhelm of UniteHere to announce his candidacy for AFL-CIO president, but others close to Wilhelm say he hasn't decided whether to run. (Much of the "expectation" here is probably more ...

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Date:	Tue May 3 07:46:42 PDT 2005

17897 [lbo-talk] Farrakahn in NYC -- rank: 1000

[I'd almost forgotten about this guy!] The Institute of the Black World 21st Century, Dr. Ron Daniels, President presents the Monthly State of the Black World Forum: The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakahn hosted by M1 of dead prez will speak on the "Millions More Movement to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Million Man March" SPEAKERS AND PERFORMANCES Lumumba Bandele of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Coucilman Charles Barron Kazembe Batts, Universial Hip Hop parade Rosa Clem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 2 15:10:22 PDT 2005

17898 [lbo-talk] question for doug: bush's remark about IOUs and the SS surplus -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >in your interview in hugh hamilton's show (btw, what's up with his >accent? where is he from?), One of those islands in the Caribbean - can't remember which one. > you mentioned that bush is correct in a way >i.e., the money to pay the SS borrowing (treasury bonds?) has to come >from somewhere -- potentially tax increase, etc. however, what you >failed to mention was that in a way this was a clever transfer of the SS >surplus i.e., bush would not be in the situ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 2 14:53:46 PDT 2005

17899 [lbo-talk] Not a good day for the redacters ... -- rank: 1000

I'm waiting for the conspiracist version of this "accident" - was it all part of a sinister plot? Or is the USG sometimes just stunningly incompetent? What would David Ray Griffin say? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 2 14:24:45 PDT 2005

17900 [lbo-talk] The Jungle -- rank: 1000

Scott McLemee interviews Christopher Phelps, who put together a new teaching/scholarly edition of Sinclair Lewis' The Jungle: <http://insidehighered.com/views/2005/04/28/mclemee>. History & fiction, worker & consumer, etc. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 2 14:18:34 PDT 2005

17901 [lbo-talk] Re: How Americans Would Respond -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >But I can't help but think that part of it also had to do with a >generalized mentality that exalted pleasure and scorned sacrifice or >methodical effort. The rebellion simply wasn't as profound or >serious as the rebellion of the thirties. (This isn't simply >revolutionary ascetic scolding. I am very much a child of the >sixties, and consider many of its weaknesses to be my weaknesses as >well.) Why are they weaknesses? Why can't our critique of ...

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Date:	Mon May 2 07:22:02 PDT 2005

17902 [lbo-talk] To cry or not to cry? -- rank: 1000

Richard Harris wrote: >The author of this article, being an ass Tory politician, then draws >the most absurd conclusion about why this state of affairs has >arisen. But what he saw is how it is. There is a collapse in trust >in the bourgeois political order several Western European countries. >Now if this is not a key moment for the left to intervene, I don't >know what is. >Ri Hmm. That popular attitude sounds familiar to an Amerian - all politicians are crooks and phoni ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 2 07:12:21 PDT 2005

17903 [lbo-talk] Laura Bush describes self as "desperate housewife" -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: > 'Desperate Housewife' Laura Grabs Stage from Bush > I just learned from the NYT's uber-hack White House correspondent, Elizabeth Bumiller, that this schtick helps "humanize" W, to soften his rough edges. And that Laura hasn't yet watched the show (though she plans to watch the early shows on DVD, soon), but she learned about it from the twins, who are big fans. God bless America, eh? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 2 07:02:11 PDT 2005

17904 [lbo-talk] Fwd: To cry or not to cry? -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - May 2, 2005 May 02, 2005 Leak shows 'Blair set on Iraq war a year before invasion' By Michael Evans The Prime Minister, eager to focus on more positive aspects of his strategy in the final week of campaigning, cannot yet put Middle East conflict behind him IT WAS alleged yesterday that Tony Blair had decided on war with Iraq nearly a year before the invasion, according to leaked Downing Street documents. The leak revealed what appeared to be minuted war preparations at the highe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 1 21:28:59 PDT 2005

17905 [lbo-talk] Zizek blurbs Bob Avakian -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Did anybody tell Zizek what a bunch of morons Avakian and Martin are? I'm planning to. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 1 18:42:04 PDT 2005

17906 [lbo-talk] Mayday -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >can you say more? What does "deregulation of commissions" mean? How >did it play out? Stock commissions used to be fixed, and price competition was really constrained on Wall Street. It was a clubby world based on connections and relationships. Commission dereg introduced competition into this Eden, and the trend over the next few years would be towards the transaction replacing the relationship. More competition, more volatility, more aggression. The end of finan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 1 17:10:14 PDT 2005

17907 [lbo-talk] Mayday -- rank: 1000

By the way, today is the 30th anniversary of another Mayday, the May, 1, 1975, deregulation of commissions on Wall Street. It was a major early step towards the transformation of the financial markets into the institutions of social discipline they became in the 1980s and beyond. Relationships gave way to transactions, and the old polite world of Galbraith's new industrial state gave way to the pitiless regime of Milken, Kravis, & Co. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 1 16:24:56 PDT 2005

17908 [lbo-talk] Chavez: 1 Condi: 0 -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >In Colombia, she worked out a proposal for monitoring Venezuela's >purchase of 100,000 Russian rifles that she worries could be >transferred to Marxist guerrillas. Do they discuss the transformation problem over the campfire? The merits of Harvey's concept of accumulation by dispossession? Amazing what power this word still packs. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 1 16:11:15 PDT 2005

17909 [lbo-talk] How Americans would respond -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >I don't take the 60's much into account in trying to understand the >phenomenon of mass protest under capitalism. That decade impresses me mostly >a period of student cultural rebellion, very progressive in its own way but >also very different from typical class struggles. But this underestimates the importance of black and feminist struggles in the 1960s - and there was enough popular militance of the class sort around to give us Medicare, minimum wage increas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 1 15:19:57 PDT 2005

17910 [lbo-talk] Zizek blurbs Bob Avakian -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Does Zizek just give a blurb to anybody who asks for >one? It's not just a blurb - the blurb is a quote from a full-blown foreword, which I haven't had the nerve to read yet. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 1 12:04:21 PDT 2005