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18271 [lbo-talk] nabbing Souter's house? -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] JUDGE SOUTER'S HOUSE THREATENED WITH EMINENT DOMAIN WASHINGTON TIMES - A businessman has asked the town of Weare, N.H., to seize the home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter in order to build a hotel and museum on the property. Logan Darrow Clements faxed a request to Chip Meany, Weare's code-enforcement officer, seeking to start the application process to build a hotel at 34 Cilley Hill Road, the site of Mr. Souter's home. . . Mr. Clements, CEO of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 29 13:55:57 PDT 2005

18272 [lbo-talk] secret prison ships? -- rank: 1000

US suspected of keeping secret prisoners on warships: UN official Tue Jun 28, 3:42 PM ET VIENNA (AFP) - The UN has learned of "very, very serious" allegations that the United States is secretly detaining terrorism suspects in various locations around the world, notably aboard prison ships, the UN's special rapporteur on terrorism said. While the accusations were rumours, rapporteur Manfred Nowak said the situation was sufficiently serious to merit an official inquiry. "There are v ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 13:55:05 PDT 2005

18273 [lbo-talk] democracy in Iraq: a progress report -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 29, 2005 Sunnis feel full force of Lightning strike By Awadh al-Taee and Steve Negus For the past month, Iraqi troops backed by US forces have stormed through Baghdad's predominantly Sunni Arab neighbourhoods, arresting thousands in a series of sweeps aimed at deterring bomb attacks that have killed hundreds in the capital. But while Iraqi military officers say that Operation Lightning is a necessary, if draconian, step aimed at sifting out insurgents from a civilian popul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 29 12:22:52 PDT 2005

18274 [lbo-talk] podcasting update -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Yes, it's a nice tool but I've noticed an anomaly. > >IPodder, when I subscribed to the LBO podcast, gave me the following: > >Behind The News - 6/23/05 >BTN - 6/9/05 >BTN, CBGB Segment - 5/26/05 >BTN, Taxi! Segment - 5/26/05 >BTN - 5/5/05 > >iTunes, on the other hand, only downloaded BTN 6/23/05; the most >recent file. > >It did so even though the Podcast settings (from the iTunes interface: edit - >preferences - Podcasts - &quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 29 12:19:08 PDT 2005

18275 [lbo-talk] liberal wing of bourgeoisie hiring -- rank: 1000

THE FORD FOUNDATION 320 EAST 43RD STREET, BOX 783 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017 POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT PROGRAM OFFICER Peace and Social Justice Program Governance and Civil Society SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: The new Program Officer will be responsible for developing and overseeing the Foundations work designed to strengthen Global Economic Governance in the interests of all members of the world community. Building on prior Foundation-funded work to reform international markets and institutions in trade an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 29 12:10:00 PDT 2005

18276 [lbo-talk] podcasting update -- rank: 1000

The freshly released iTunes 4.9, for Mac & Windows, has built-in podcasting support. Just subscribed to myself, and it's really easy. No need to mess with iPodder or anything like that. Download it at <http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/>. System requirements: Macintosh Requirements * Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later; Mac OS X v10.3 required for AirPort Express * 400MHz G3 processor or better * QuickTime 6.2 required to encode AAC * QuickTime 6.5.2 and latest iLife updates requi ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 10:08:56 PDT 2005

18277 [lbo-talk] Jillette, cosmpolitan -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 29, 2005 HATES THE WORLD MAGICIAN Penn Jillette has traveled all over the world with his partner, Teller, and he hates every trip. "Every place outside of the U.S.A. is an absolute hellhole," Jillette rants to Mean magazine. "As much as we can complain about the U.S.'s lack of freedom, I just can't stand when they force women to dress like Batman, when they leave little girls out to die. I mean, at least we address the issues of equality and freedom ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 29 08:03:37 PDT 2005

18278 [lbo-talk] watching The Speech -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=local&Story=7080791> Bush's speech was more popular among the British than it was with his own countrymen at the Big Apple Bar and Sports Pub on Yadkin Road. Members of the British Airborne's 3rd Battalion turned their chairs to watch the speech on the bar's eight televisions, while most of their American comrades played pool and ordered drinks. Some of the British soldiers, who are visiting Fort Bragg as part of an exchange program, ha ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 07:46:39 PDT 2005

18279 [lbo-talk] Cordesman on Bush's speech -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Tony Cordesman: "Key parts of his speech . . . . were driven by spin, rather than a frank effort to warn the American people of the sacrifices necessary to win and the risks involved. The end result was to mislead in ways that can come back to haunt the Administration and reduce longer-term public support." "One key failure was his effort to explain the insurgency in Iraq almost solely in terms of foreign Islamic extre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 29 07:43:18 PDT 2005

18280 [lbo-talk] When is private property NOT? -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Nathan Newman wrote: > >>But THIS DECISION was about the rights of property versus >>democratic control. Period. >> >>And democracy won. Hurray. > >So, to repeat my earlier query, if abunch of citizens decide that a >car dealership would be more productive than Bill Gates' mansion, >then we get to raze the mansion? You think this decision will >support that move? It occured to me last night that we're talking past each other (we're s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 29 07:14:33 PDT 2005

18281 [lbo-talk] A Visual Presentation of Military Deaths In Iraq -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > >><http://www.obleek.com/iraq/index.html > > >I get a 404. Is there another URL? Dwayne's links always come with a trailing space that doesn't belong there (it shows up as a %20 in my browser). Delete it and it'll work. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 29 07:03:43 PDT 2005

18282 [lbo-talk] podcast -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Using IPodder v2.1, I was able to successfully download and play the mp3s. Good, me too. >However, I had to manually insert the feed's URL (which isn't all >that unusual really) because clicking the hyperlinked art object >failed to start an auto download. Hey, I was just following the example Jordan gave me! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 28 20:04:20 PDT 2005

18283 [lbo-talk] Taxi! party -- rank: 1000

[I just posted my interview with Mathew and driver Rizwan Raja to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. For some reason, the podcasting script isn't picking it up though.] New Yorker - July 4, 2005 THE NIGHT LIFE OFF DUTY A book party with no cocktails: ouch. In fairness to the folks at the New Press, which helped organize such a dreaded event recently, at a restaurant on West Twenty-ninth Street, there were a few limiting circumstances. For one thing, almost a ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 15:04:39 PDT 2005

18284 [lbo-talk] Pathologies of Empire -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >About the Mexican immigrants, what immigrants ? In California ,Texas >and the South West they are mostly American natives.Only that >fascist bigot called Lou Dobbs sees Mexicans as a threat as he >supports squads of frontier vigilantes in his CNN slot every day, >without drawing any visible opposition from anyone in the country. >Amazing! It's not just Dobbs - it's O'Reilly too. He's obsessed. He once shut the microphone off on someone who was deta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 28 14:55:26 PDT 2005

18285 [lbo-talk] When is private property NOT? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Not necessarily. Even in an advanced socialist regime, it would not be >common to 'take' one person's wardrobe for public purposes. The kind of >property rights leftists (or most leftists) are concerned to challenge >are rights to productive property, not rights to property in its >original sense of pertaining to the person. Yes, thank you! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 14:31:56 PDT 2005