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18796 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This shows your paper on actionism (better term than activistism, being >pronounceable among other advantages) (a) was aimed at people who were >not going to recognize its existence Actually we heard a lot from "activists" who'd had an inchoate critique similar to ours but had never been able to articulate their dissatisfaction before. So there's probably a hard core who'd be immune to the argument for the reason you mention, but also a large group on the ma ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 12:30:01 PDT 2005

18797 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >If you are going to start smashing capitalism, you have to go where >capitalism is, right? ;-) Where is capitalism? Does it have a home address? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 11:38:02 PDT 2005

18798 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Michael Pugliese wrote: > >> Ravi, I.F. Stone, no Rightist, on late 60's new left street >>trashers ala Days of Rage , "stunt mongers and suicide tactics." >> William Appleman Williams, leftist historian, called this kinda >>pseudo-militant nonsense the work of , "orangutans." > >A journalist and a historian, two people unqualified to understand >the naunces of being a social change activist or a revolutionary. Huh? ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 11:37:05 PDT 2005

18799 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (smashing windows) -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Q: Which police agency do you work for? To whom was that directed? That sort of thing is *streng verboten* here. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 11:28:57 PDT 2005

18800 [lbo-talk] Clear Channel's personnel practices -- rank: 1000

WILD 94.9 HIRES RACIST PRODUCER OF "TSUNAMI SONG" - WE SAY HELL NAW! After Producer Rick Delgado was fired from HOT 97 in New York for airing an explicitly anti-Asian and racist song about tsunami victims, Clear Channel Radio has hired Delgado at local hip hop station Wild 94.9. He starts work on Monday. Two years ago, when Michael Savage was fired from MSNBC for his racist and anti-gay remarks, guess who picked him up? 910am KNEW, a Bay Area Clear Channel station! Don't let the music ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 09:39:14 PDT 2005

18801 [lbo-talk] depends on what the definition of "name" is -- rank: 1000

[as they say in j'ism, there's no such thing as off the record] Newsweek - July 18, 2005 Matt Cooper's Source What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter. By Michael Isikoff It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 09:32:49 PDT 2005

18802 [lbo-talk] we may never know results of Fitzerald probe -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - July 11, 2005 Public Might Never See Results of CIA Leak Probe BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun If federal prosecutors manage to get to the bottom of how CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity was leaked to the press - an investigation that has led to one reporter's incarceration - sharing their conclusion with the public may require something quite ironic: another leak. Attorneys involved in the case say there is no clear legal authority for the special prosecutor pur ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 09:25:53 PDT 2005

18803 [lbo-talk] Hunter T has a blast -- rank: 1000

Denver Post - July 10, 2005 Writer's ashes set for gonzo blastoff By Nancy Lofholm Denver Post Staff Writer A meadow at Woody Creek is being prepped for a Statue of Liberty-size, cannon-containing tower that will pepper the sky over Aspen with the cremated remains of Hunter S. Thompson next month. A Beverly Hills, Calif., events planner hired by actor Johnny Depp is pulling together details of the private celestial send-off that will culminate in Thompson's ashes being blasted from the top of a ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 09:22:48 PDT 2005

18804 [lbo-talk] Finkelstein update -- rank: 1000

["Mr Dershowitz, a noted proponent of the first amendment..."] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - July 11, 2005 U. of California Press to Publish Book That Alan Dershowitz Has Criticized as Anti-Semitic By JENNIFER HOWARD The University of California Press will proceed with the publication of a controversial book that attacks supporters of Israel despite efforts by its chief target, the Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, to block the book's release. The press's intentio ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 07:02:28 PDT 2005

18805 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (It's the actuaries... Really!) -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >10 posts today, huh? Something Pugliese said must have >really upset you. That's a bit more than I count, but Chuck0, Leigh, and Michael Pug - three a day, remember? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 05:56:10 PDT 2005

18806 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (It's the actuaries... Really!) -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Not the least of which is... "growing up..." Hardly an unmixed blessing. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 05:54:24 PDT 2005

18807 [lbo-talk] Newsweek on Rove/Cooper -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Ok, so now we know it was Rove: now what? Think he'll actually get >charged with breaking the Intelligence Protection Act? It'd be funny if Rove got indicted under a law designed to rein in Covert Action Information Bulletin. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 10 21:09:06 PDT 2005

18808 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts -- rank: 1000

I'm at risk of turning into Pugliese! Someone sent me a link to this - a 9/11 conspiracy site that denounces other 9/11 conspiracists: <http://mysite.verizon.net/vze25x9n/id15.html>. Wow. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 9 09:33:09 PDT 2005

18809 [lbo-talk] the dark Balkans -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - July 9, 2005 TOUGH CROWD TOMMY Lee was menaced by gun-toting goons after his deejay set at a private club in Croatia the other night. Lee had teamed up with Subliminal Records head honcho Erick Morillo for a dual deejay gig at the launch of the club, but apparently his turntable skills did not impress the irritable owner. A source told blabbermouth.net: "The owner didn't think Tommy played enough, and he just wasn't into it. Suddenly, on the way to the after-party ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 9 09:21:32 PDT 2005

18810 [lbo-talk] Angst of a stagnating Germany -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >now we better say something nasty about each other's mothers, just so we >aren't accused by the machos of LBO of being sissy liberals. ;-) > >i'll go first: yo mama's so phat that even the bush twins can't keep up >with her. Who said that's nasty? Niceness is welcome. More niceness, please. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 9 09:19:13 PDT 2005