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18931 [lbo-talk] more pundit payola -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 26, 2005 Writer Backing Bush Plan Had Gotten Federal Contract By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families. "The Bush marriage initiative would emphasize the importance of marriage to poor couples" and "educate teens on the value of delaying childbearing until marriage," she wro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 26 09:22:12 PST 2005

18932 [lbo-talk] transportation bottlenecks -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > I understand that it's been noted to be in disrepair, >> but how is it clogged? > >Here's a quick article that touches on some of the themes. Google for >more ... Financial Times - November 16, 2004 COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The just-in-time supply chain model is unravelling as truckers, port operators and train companies struggle to cope. Investment is rising but the problem will take time to resolve, write Dan Roberts, Christopher Parkes and Jeremy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 13:39:56 PST 2005

18933 [lbo-talk] Re: cynicism, opportunism and fear (was lefties, fulfillment) -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Well, no. In fact, the immateriality story doesn't "overlook" that >at all. I don't know about Hardt and Negri but Virno talks about the >simultaneity of all previous modes of work I haven't read Virno - I was talking about H&N. As I wrote in my review of Empire <http://www.leftbusinessobserer.com/Empire.html>, you'd never know from reading the book that half the world's pop lives in the rural Third World, where the principal occupation is tilling ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 12:46:31 PST 2005

18934 [lbo-talk] Re: cynicism, opportunism and fear (was lefties, fulfillment) -- rank: 1000

Etienne wrote: >Right, but isn't that a qualitative, rather than a quantitative >argument? That is, that the labour involved in moving things around >hasn't been changed all that much by immaterial/affective labour. I >guess part of what I'm wondering is how we would go about measuring >whether the changes brought about to a physical job by informational or >affective factors are significant enough to be evidence of the hegemony >of immaterial labour. I wouldn't want to argu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 12:25:21 PST 2005

18935 [lbo-talk] Re: cynicism, opportunism and fear (was lefties, fulfillment) -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: > >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> around. In fact, while we're busily celebrating (or >> bemoaning) >> today's supply chains, the U.S. transportation >> system - ports, >> trucks, rail - is clogged almost to the breaking >> point now, and no >> one is eager to make the necessary investments to >> relieve the >> problem. > >I understand that it's been noted to be in disrepair, & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 12:20:54 PST 2005

18936 [lbo-talk] Illuminati & Satan at inauguration -- rank: 1000

<http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2005/210105devilhand.htm> Satan Displays Bush 'Hook 'em' Hand Gesture; Is The Devil a UT Fan Too?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 08:50:48 PST 2005

18937 [lbo-talk] Re: cynicism, opportunism and fear (was lefties, fulfillment) -- rank: 1000

Etienne wrote: >the fact that there are more truck drivers than computer >programmers is irrelevant if the computer programmers' work is changing >supply chains in such a way that the truck drivers' conditions of work >are being radically altered Hey, I recognize that example. But it's not irrelevant. All this talk of immaterial and affective labor obscures how much of work life is still about moving stuff around. In fact, while we're busily celebrating (or bemoaning) today's supply ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 07:19:22 PST 2005

18938 [lbo-talk] response to Focus on threats -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug] Red-baiting and Baseless Accusations have no place in the People's Movement Official Statement of the Regional Secretariat of the Asian Students Association January 17, 2005 We write this in the light of a statement released by the Focus on the Global South yesterday January 16, 2005, entitled "Assassination and violence have no role in civil society." We in the Asian Students Association regional secretariat respect the Focus's position with regards to the ongo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 25 06:38:10 PST 2005

18939 [lbo-talk] Bertell Ollman on the stolen election -- rank: 1000

[for more Bertell Ollman, see <http://www.dialecticalmarxism.com>] "SHOULD THE LEFT IGNORE THE 'STOLEN ELECTION'?" Dept. of Politics, NYU In the course of his very rich article, "The Non-Election of 2004" (Z Magazine, Jan., 2005), Noam Chomsky sought to minimize the importance of the fact that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. And if there is still any doubt in the anti-Bush camp that this past election was stolen, it is - in my view - chiefly because most opin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 24 14:15:04 PST 2005

18940 [lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I think Chris Doss' comment about Black Blocs versus the Wermacht is >not as useless or off track as you seem to believe. The question >can be re-phrased: how do anarchists who agree with your >understanding of what anarchism means propose to deal with the very >real power of states to destroy on a vast scale? Yeah. Now I'm pretty sympathetic to the argument that a revolutionary government that adopts the enemy's command and control structures is a long way ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 24 13:58:48 PST 2005

18941 [lbo-talk] Credit Where Credit is Due -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Chris Doss wrote: > >>I wonder how the black bloc would have done against >>the Wehrmacht. > >Oh, brother. We anarchists are devastated by your ignorant remark. > >You think the Soviets were excusable because they fought Nazi Germany? I'm still waiting to hear how the anarchist revolution would defend itself against Nazi-equivalents or the CIA. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 24 13:03:04 PST 2005

18942 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole on US Troop withdrawl -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >There is a saying in Arabic, Ahl al-bayt a`lamu bima fi'l-bayt--the >people of a house know best what is in the house. When Sistani says >the US should set a timetable and go, then I think we should all >support that. But the US has made a big enough mess in Iraq without >compounding it by hanging the Iraqis out to dry and decamping >suddenly. By the way, Iraqis have more than once pleaded with me to >argue against precipitous withdrawal by the US. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 24 13:01:18 PST 2005

18943 [lbo-talk] boycotting the unorganized -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Brian Charles Dauth: > >> But John L wants to claim that one identity trumps >> all others: union member. > >Not true at ALL. You are not engaging what I said at all. > > >> John L. reduces everything to "the union is right >> every time." > >Brian, I'm sorry, but you're completely full of shit. I did not say anything >like this. Learn to read. > > >> Under John L's method, it is support no matter wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 24 12:40:23 PST 2005

18944 [lbo-talk] DN on inaugural protests -- rank: 1000

It'd be nice if DN did a bit more political analysis and a little less on the pornography of repression. But I guess it's popular with the hard core... >http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/21/1531230 > > >The security apparatus for the inauguration was unprecedented. More >than 7,000 law enforcement officers from over 100 different agencies >were deployed on the streets and throughout the DC area. There were >also National Guard and Army officers at various chec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 24 10:18:35 PST 2005

18945 [lbo-talk] race and sex adjusted pension checks? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31171-2005Jan23.html> [...] On NBC, [House Ways & Means Committee Chair Bill] Thomas introduced a new and controversial possibility into the debate by saying that Congress should look at inequities in the system based on race, occupation and gender, because women live longer and blue-collar workers often need to retire earlier. Thomas said he wants to examine "the question of race, in terms of how many years of retirement do you get ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 24 10:07:08 PST 2005