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18781 [lbo-talk] London - Amnesia Express -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/diplomatic/foreign.htm > >LONDON, July 11, 2005 -- Some informed British sources believe that >the recent London Transport bombings may have been the work of far >right-wing British terrorists It took what, four days for this? I'm disappointed. I'd been waiting for this kind of nonsense since I first heard the news. Joseph, you seem like a smart guy. Why do you fall for every piece of conspiracist nonsense in the bitstream? D ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 12 08:56:08 PDT 2005

18782 [lbo-talk] Lawrence O'Donnell on Rove & Plame -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Besides the fact that the President said on the record that he'd >fire *everyone* involved in the leak. Even Fox, on last night's Brit Hume Show, ran the clip of Bush saying he'd fire the leaker. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 12 06:28:03 PDT 2005

18783 [lbo-talk] petit bourgeois stupidity -- rank: 1000

The concluding paragraph of a press release from William Dunkelberg, chief economist of the National Federation of Independent Business, the small biz lobby: >The risks? Well, if house appreciation stops and eliminates balance >sheet saving, consumer might actually increase the saving rate out >of current income and spend less, and the housing sector would slow. >No one knows the trade balance for California, so maybe the trade >deficit doesn't really matter. Bad management - ca ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 12 06:22:18 PDT 2005

18784 [lbo-talk] gender ratios -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Of course. Katha Pollitt wrote a very good article for the Nation >many years ago in which she observed that even when women's writing >is publishied, it is typically only in connection with women's >issues. Katha herself is an articulate, intelligent, excellent >writer -- but I have seen very little writing by her published in >the Nation that was not about women's stuff. She gets to choose the topic of her column. My piece on the CNOOC tender for Unocal just go ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 17:02:05 PDT 2005

18785 [lbo-talk] The linguistic bubble! -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Does anybody know the *aims* of the bombers? >What popular constituency stands behind them? The NYT had a piece on how one of the bombs was planted in a neighborhood of fairly assimilated Arabs. Was the aim in part to dissaude them from assimilation into British society? That's really a question. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 16:47:34 PDT 2005

18786 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (smashing windows) -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Fox News slammed over 'callous' line > >Julian Borger in Washington >Saturday July 9, 2005 >The Guardian > >Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel was under fire yesterday for >comments by some of its leading journalists in response to the London >bombs. I didn't see it, but a friend told me that Wharton prof and stock market pundit Jeremy Siegel said on CNBC: "9/11 killed 3000. Madrid killed 300. Now it's 30. We're knocking off a zero each time!&quo ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 16:38:27 PDT 2005

18787 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts -- rank: 1000

There has been massive overposting by the parties to this thread. Three a day! Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 16:36:36 PDT 2005

18788 [lbo-talk] A: "again, I appreciated the question"; Q: "you're not saying anything" -- rank: 1000

<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050711-3.html> Q Does the President stand by his pledge to fire anyone involved in the leak of a name of a CIA operative? MR. McCLELLAN: Terry, I appreciate your question. I think your question is being asked relating to some reports that are in reference to an ongoing criminal investigation. The criminal investigation that you reference is something that continues at this point. And as I've previously stated, while that investigation is o ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 16:12:31 PDT 2005

18789 The linguistic bubble! (was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [lbo-talk] Obscurequestion on origin of ethnic slur]) -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I mean really: what the fuck are we supposed to do about random >senseless acts of violence? Commit even larger senseless acts of violence in retaliation? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 14:47:14 PDT 2005

18790 The linguistic bubble! (was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [lbo-talk] Obscure question on origin of ethnic slur]) -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Reminds me of a Russian political scientist I spoke >with who was trying to get published in the States and >was told he only had a chance if he wrote something >that "frightened Americans." Further proof that American culture thrives on fear. Sharks, kidnappings in Aruba, the Red Chinese threat...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 14:19:57 PDT 2005

18791 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >John Lacny wrote: > >>One I. F. Stone is worth a million Chuck Munsons. > >Perhaps you can share with us Stone's experience as an activist. >Stone was entitled as a journalist to have opinions, but he was not >an activist or revolutionary. > >How's the Democratic Party treating you these days, Lacny? Any >better than the ISO? Now boys...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 13:57:29 PDT 2005

18792 [lbo-talk] amazing stupidity of a union president -- rank: 1000

[This letter <http://www.workinglife.org/FOL/pdf/BuffenbargerJuly2005letter.pdf> has to be read to be believed: the problem isn't that the US union movement is shrinking, it's that the population and labor force are growing!] At 4:02 PM -0400 7/11/05, Jonathan Tasini wrote: >Folks: Don't worry, be happy. Or so says Tom Buffenbarger, the >president of the Machinists union, in the second of his recent >curious letters. He doesn't see the decline of the labor movement to >8.5 perc ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 13:47:03 PDT 2005

18793 [lbo-talk] Rove vs MoveOn -- rank: 1000

New from DIRELAND, July 11, 2005 http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/07/roves_latest_sm.html ROVE'S LATEST SMEAR CAMPAIGN: GOP TARGETS MOVEON AS "WEDGE" ISSUE TO BAIT DEMS In a hydra-headed propaganda attack, reminiscent of Joe McCarthy's wild charges in the 1950s that the Democrats were responsible for "twenty years of treason," Karl Rove and the Republican Party are engaged in a widespread smear campaign against MoveOn as" unpatriotic," hoping to hang the su ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 13:17:27 PDT 2005

18794 [lbo-talk] AG, father of electroclash -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Music/Content?oid=70536> "I think that Alan Greenspan is the father of electroclash," Svenonius says wryly, and with a chuckle. "He's the guy controlling interest rates and the real estate boom ... . It's no longer affordable to rent a house or a basement or a garage. So if you think about the terminology of groups, basement group, garage band, basement show, even a group just practicing somewhere--these are predicated on property. So the w ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 12:52:57 PDT 2005

18795 [lbo-talk] gender ratios -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/4/weiss-numbers.asp> Gentlemen's Club By Jennifer Weiss Bylines in the nation's top intellectual and political magazines are heavily male, as shown by these ratios (male/female), calculated using the ProQuest database from October 2003 through the end of May. At several magazines, women writers were occasionally shut out of entire issues. * National Review 13/1 * Foreign Affairs 9/1 * The New Republic 8/1 * Harper's Magazine 7/1 * The Weekly Standard 7/1 * T ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 12:37:53 PDT 2005