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18286 [lbo-talk] podcast -- rank: 1000

Has anyone tried out my podcasting arrangement? I haven't heard anything, and I'd like some comments before trying to spread it around. See <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. Click on the appropriate iPod (which is a scan of m¥ own personal iPod). Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 14:29:14 PDT 2005

18287 [lbo-talk] HealthSouth -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >How did Scrushy get off? Reuters: > Jurors, speaking to reporters afterward, said there wasn't enough >hard evidence with Scrushy's fingerprints on it. > "The fraud was there," said a male juror. "The smoking gun wasn't." > Added a female juror: "There was reasonable doubt." > After the verdict, Scrushy hugged his wife, his lawyers and >Bishop Jim Lowe, pastor of predominantly black Guiding Light Church >Sc ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 14:22:36 PDT 2005

18288 [lbo-talk] Woodman on history -- rank: 1000

[from today's Page Six] BORED BY 9/11 WOODY ALLEN thinks 9/11 is like, so yesterday! The neurotic New Yorker tells Teutonic title Der Spiegel: "As a filmmaker, I'm not interested in 9/11 . . . it's too small, history overwhelms it. The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 14:04:12 PDT 2005

18289 [lbo-talk] Kommie Kamp -- rank: 1000

UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS (URPE) SUMMER CONFERENCE: ALTERNATIVES! Camp Chinqueka, Bantam, Connecticut Saturday, August 20 - Tuesday, August 23, 2005 For several years now, people have asked for a Summer Workshop/Retreat focused on alternatives - what can we do in the face of this brutal hegemonic world social-political-economic order? This year's workshop will be focused on this (with lots of other topics addressed in the workshops as well). It promises to be very interesting, and g ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 13:02:51 PDT 2005

18290 [lbo-talk] UC scientist says ethanol uses more energy than it makes -- rank: 1000

Adam Souzis wrote: >or the little flurry of postings in the blogsphere last week as to >whether or not the lack of a visible anti-war movement actually helped >turn Americans against the war Do tell!

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 12:16:25 PDT 2005

18291 [lbo-talk] When is private property NOT? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Eminent domain as it is put to use now, in addition to being a >corporate giveaway, is a scheme for job destruction than job >creation. That's what Kelo justifies: "Also rejected is >petitioners' argument that for takings of this kind the Court should >require a "reasonable certainty" that the expected public benefits >will actually accrue," in the words of Justice John Paul Stevens >(<http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/get ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 12:10:30 PDT 2005

18292 [lbo-talk] Randians: don't apologize to Indians! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick quoted Tony Judt: >If the Iraq war is wrong—"the wrong war at the >wrong time"—why, then, was the 1999 US-led war >on Serbia right? That's easy - it wasn't right! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 12:04:20 PDT 2005

18293 [lbo-talk] Absolut leather -- rank: 1000

[capitalism can be endlessly flexible...] Red, White and Leather presented by Absolut July 4th Weekend Red, White and Leather, a brand new national fundraiser will take place this coming July Fourth weekend - thirteen bars in twelve cities. Join the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and The Woodhull Freedom Foundation this July 4th Weekend as we join forces with the Leather community across the country to raise both awareness and funds. A portion of the proceeds raised that evening will go dir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 28 09:40:46 PDT 2005

18294 [lbo-talk] Nike apologizes -- rank: 1000

<http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-06/28.shtml> Nike Pulls Major Threat Ad, Issues Apology Caroline Bermudez reports: On Thursday, we reported that Nike Skateboarding used a classic Minor Threat album cover for its "Major Threat" 2005 East Coast Tour posters without asking permission. Much had been heard from the justifiably angry Dischord Records camp, including former Minor Threat frontman and label co-founder Ian MacKaye, who expressed his outrage towards the sneaker congl ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 09:38:14 PDT 2005

18295 [lbo-talk] KPFA's Hidden History -- rank: 1000

So, Joseph, do you really think that Larry Bensky is an avatar of Langley? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 07:59:54 PDT 2005

18296 [lbo-talk] Randians: don't apologize to Indians! -- rank: 1000

[these things read like self-parody] Dear Editor: The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is debating whether the United States should formally apologize to Indians for a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies." This proposal should be rejected. Before Europeans arrived, the scattered tribes occupying North America lived in abject poverty, ignorance, and superstition--not due to any racial inferiority, but because that is how all mankind starts out (Europeans ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 07:56:53 PDT 2005

18297 [lbo-talk] petit-bourgeois left on Kelo -- rank: 1000

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Nancy Allen, Media Coordinator, 207-326-4576, nallen at acadia.net GREENS CALL SUPREME COURT'S DECISION ON EMINENT DOMAIN 'LEGALIZATION OF THEFT' While Democratic and Republican officials side with developers, Greens vow to remain a bulwark against the condemnation of private homes. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 07:40:22 PDT 2005

18298 [lbo-talk] playing Athens to our Rome -- rank: 1000

[What drug is Blair on, that he think he has any influence over Bush?] Washington Post - June 28, 2005 From Memos, Insights Into Ally's Doubts On Iraq War British Advisers Foresaw Variety of Risks, Problems By Glenn Frankel Washington Post Foreign Service LONDON -- In the spring of 2002, two weeks before British Prime Minister Tony Blair journeyed to Crawford, Tex., to meet with President Bush at his ranch about the escalating confrontation with Iraq, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw sounded a presc ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 07:38:02 PDT 2005

18299 [lbo-talk] union update -- rank: 1000

[from ABC's The Note, which has been covering all this with surprising attentiveness <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> - links in original] House of Labor: From the Change To Win coalition: "The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America announced today that it is joining the Change to Win Coalition, the labor reform movement created on June 15, 2005 by the Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the Service Employees International Union, ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 07:30:28 PDT 2005

18300 [lbo-talk] Pathologies of Empire -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >But those structures are deeply toxic. I didn't realize this until my >latest quixotic adventure, in the public high schools. And realized, with >a shock, just how many teachers and administrators were ex-soldiers, >National Guard, etc. Half the kids in one middle school class had family >members in the military. In a thousand ways, great and small, the system >trains the kids to be centurions, not citizens. Not centurions, really - they're officers. We'r ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 28 07:00:57 PDT 2005