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18961 [lbo-talk] Re: boycotting the unorganized (middle class) -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >You think it's that straightforward? You think people don't cling to >myths as defenses against unpleasant realities? Americans hear from >the day they're born that we're all middle class and upwardly mobile >and life is constantly getting better. Of course a lot of that is a >crock, but telling someone they're full of it is more likely to get >you a punch in the face than a new recruit. > >Doug > > ************* > ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 08:47:32 PST 2005

18962 [lbo-talk] PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Well as usual Chip's 'explanations' are not what they purport to be. >PROMIS and Lotus Notes are not the same thing. PROMIS is proprietary >software that is based on Lotus Notes applications. Many >sophisticated computer programs are based on previously developed >and less complex applications, and can be much more powerful and >advanced, as is the case with PROMIS in relation to Lotus Notes. >PROMIS was developed in the 1980s by a firm called INSLAW ( ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 10:55:26 PST 2005

18963 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized? -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >And don't stop there, treat corporations as public goods too. It >only requires some minor tweaking of the legislative framework. >After all, corporations are already accountable to the public in the >sense that they are required to make their finances public. But >perhaps that could be extended and expanded, so that corporations >are increasingly required to be more accountable. Until eventually, >corporations are forced to become public goods like cha ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 10:42:47 PST 2005

18964 [lbo-talk] Re: boycotting the unorganized (middle class) -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >Yes, this is what you have to tell them in one way or another.Unless >people discard their illusions and face their reality, nothing much >will ever change. Why should anyone want to transform his/her >reality if s/he doesn't perceive it as unappealing? You think it's that straightforward? You think people don't cling to myths as defenses against unpleasant realities? Americans hear from the day they're born that we're all middle class and upwardly mobile a ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 10:29:23 PST 2005

18965 [lbo-talk] We shipped weapons, Sandinistas say -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.fiu.edu/~yaf/reagannica.html >We shipped weapons, Sandinistas say >By GLENN GARVIN >Herald Staff Writer > >MANAGUA -- When Ronald Reagan and Sandinista leaders slugged it out during >the 1980s over events in Nicaragua, Reagan was right more often than they >liked to admit, the Sandinistas now say. > >In a series of interviews with The Herald, several past and present >Sandinista officials confirmed that they shipped weapons to ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 10:05:58 PST 2005

18966 [lbo-talk] credit bubble -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug asks: > >>[Negative amortization mortgages strike me as a symptom of a >>serious credit bubble; here's some more evidence. So Jordan, is a >>torrent of Caa paper nothing to worry about either?] > >I'm not sure where you're headed with this; my points about negative >amortization, I think, stand unchallenged by you. Which points are those? I say it's absolutely mad to take out a variable rate mortgage that puts you more deeply in the hole ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 09:49:53 PST 2005

18967 [lbo-talk] Re: John Hess dies -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Looked at his blog. Doug, thanks for the URL. He was sharp to the end. >Several times I took a guest visiting NYC to Gennaro's (92nd and >Amsterdam) on Tuesday around 6pm knowing that there was a 50-50 chance >we could get to sit with John and Karen, and hear some of the best talk >available anywhere - and the food there's good too. >Among his many NYTimes stories ( a special subset was stupid things said >by Flora Lewis) my fave was a rant about their hype ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 21 14:39:44 PST 2005

18968 [lbo-talk] Theory, Importance of -- was boycotting ... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug's post is particularly silly coming from someone who whines about >the lack of theory among u.s. activists. I try to be constructive in reacting to something you said, and you call me silly. I'll go back to taunting you I guess - it's a lot more fun! Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 21 14:33:52 PST 2005

18969 [lbo-talk] credit bubble -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Spendthrift Canadians face 'debt time bomb' >CIBC says household debt up 20% in 4 years, slow growth of incomes >partly to blame Wonder how much of the debt CIBC holds? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 21 12:44:03 PST 2005

18970 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Doug, if you think that anarchists don't like organizations, you are >welcome to come to one of our meetings. ;-) I've been to a couple of meetings where people twinkled. Does that count? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 21 11:36:04 PST 2005

18971 [lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >An analysis of this situation that endlessly invokes a mythical "middle >class" is simply not serious. You've got a serious point with this, but most Americans believe they're middle class. What do you do, tell them they're deluded? Tell them to substitute something less appealing for their aspirational self-ID? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 21 11:11:47 PST 2005

18972 [lbo-talk] GWB's balls -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I just looked over the Inaugural coverage I spared myself yesterday, >and -- step back, Louis Quinze! -- must say that George W. Bush sure >has a lot of balls (the Freedom Ball, Constitution Ball, Stars & >Stripes Ball, Texas-Wyoming Ball, Commander In Chief Ball, and >Patriot Inaugural Ball.) Cue AC/DC's "Big Balls": I'm [ever | rather] upper class high society God's gift to ballroom notoriety I always fill my ballroom The event is never small Th ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 21 11:07:09 PST 2005

18973 [lbo-talk] Hess -- rank: 1000

I hadn't realized it, but John Hess had a blog: <http://johnlhess.blogspot.com/>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 21 09:47:14 PST 2005

18974 [lbo-talk] John Hess dies -- rank: 1000

John Hess, the former New York Times reporter turned radical journalist (and WBAI commentator) died yesterday. He was a very likeable fellow, but quite ferocious when the occasion demanded. Sad news. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 21 09:46:20 PST 2005

18975 [lbo-talk] America's civic religion -- rank: 1000

New York Times - January 21, 2005 Inaugural Diary John Tierny [...] The Prudent Speech Is Always a Winner A week before Mr. Bush's inaugural speech was delivered, Rick Shenkman had a good idea of what he would say. Professor Shenkman, a historian at George Mason University and editor of the History News Network Web site, had concluded that inaugural addresses sound so much alike because America has a "civil religion" that forces presidents to recite tenets from "a national templat ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 21 07:50:08 PST 2005