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19516 [lbo-talk] Hustling The Left -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Michael Hoover writes: > >>poverty draft exists simultaneously with 'better' elements, >>two are not mutually exclusive > >Whoa, Michael, are you saying that we should all be able to keep two >or even more ideas in our heads at the same time? That's pretty >badass. It's a wonder you haven't been branded an ill-tempered >killjoy for pointing it out. One-sided superficiality is so much >more fun, not to mention more conducive to the bullshit & ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 19 07:42:46 PST 2005

19517 [lbo-talk] same-sexers tie the knot in Belfast -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4540226.stm> 'Gay weddings' first for Belfast Shannon Sickles and Grainne Close say they are privileged The first set of civil partnership ceremonies for gay couples in the UK are being held in Northern Ireland. Two women, Shannon Sickles and Grainne Close, exchanged vows at Belfast City Hall, followed by a gay couple and another lesbian couple. The new Civil Partnership Act provides same-sex couples with similar legal rights to married couples. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 19 07:26:26 PST 2005

19518 [lbo-talk] poverty draft -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Daniel Davies wrote: > >>Doug wrote: >> >>>And he agrees that the notion of a poverty draft is bullshit. The >>>military is made up of the "better" echelons of the working >>>class.<< >> >>Not sure that one follows from the other; the reductio ad absurdum >>of this would be that the Royal Regiment of Gurkhas is >>predominantly made up of the "better" echelons of Nepalese hill & ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 19 07:23:13 PST 2005

19519 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The rest -- betrayal, sacrifice, resurrection, breath of life, good >triumphing over evil, etc. -- are elements found in many myths and >fairy tales. Nothing Christian about resurrection, is there? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 19 07:15:14 PST 2005

19520 [lbo-talk] the new breeze! -- rank: 1000

For some reason I don't fully understand - I've read Adorno and everything - I subscribe to a daily horoscope service from <http://www.astrocenter.com>. Here's today's: >Today you will be in a kind of ideological no man's land, DOUG. All >the ideas floating around in the air seem so mediocre to you, >especially when you compare them to your own. If you are interested >in politics, today would be a good time to come up with your >campaign platform. You certainly have a lot of ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 19 06:33:20 PST 2005

19521 [lbo-talk] leftist coca farmer in lead -- rank: 1000

[Kinda funny that while Bush is preoccupied with his lunatic adventure in Iraq, he's losing Latin America.] Exit polls put leftist coca farmer in the lead of Bolivia's presidential Sun Dec 18, 6:42 PM ET LA PAZ (AFP) - Leftist, anti-US indigenous leader Evo Morales took an unexpectedly strong lead in Bolivia's presidential election, but fell short of the 50 percent needed to avert a second round, according to exit polls. Morales garnered about 45 percent of the vote, more than 11 points ahead of ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 19:44:46 PST 2005

19522 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >I saw it last night and LOVED it. As reluctant as I am to show any signs of dissent from my wife, I'm moved to forward this entertaining review from the FT. She went to see the film when I was out of town knowing that I wouldn't have gone anywhere near it. Doug ---- Financial Times - December 8, 2005 All aboard for a nightmare trip to the hereafter By Nigel Andrews It is never too late to honour one's parents, but always too late to honour them enough. That they neve ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 19:42:15 PST 2005

19523 [lbo-talk] Hustling The Left -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >GIs who read Hustler and come across Christian Parenti's article are >often going to be the kind who do not actively seek out the left >media. Some of them -- no, many of them -- will be people who have >uneasy but incoherent feelings about the war, but don't know exactly >what to think of them, and they will read this article from a >leftist that says a lot more about the insanity of what they've >experienced than anything else they've read or seen in the ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 16:51:21 PST 2005

19524 [lbo-talk] freedom of the press -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 16, 2005 RADAR TARGETS HIT ON BACKERS DID Radar magazine's financial backers Mort Zuckerman and Jeffrey Epstein pull the plug on the scrappy mag because of pressure from their ultra-wealthy friends? Media insiders claim the glossy was canned after Radar ignored repeated warnings not to write about their patrons' powerful pals. Over the last year, our sources claim, both Zuckerman and Epstein were besieged by calls from power players distressed over Radar's sna ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 16:51:06 PST 2005

19525 [lbo-talk] read "harmless" Mao, get visited by federal agents -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] HOMELAND SECURITY AGENTS VISIT STUDENT WHO TOOK MAO'S BOOK FROM LIBRARY AARON NICODEMUS, STANDARD-TIMES - A senior at U Mass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book." Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through the U Mass ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 16:50:43 PST 2005

19526 [lbo-talk] NYT sat on wiretapping story for a year -- rank: 1000

[looks like the Post is having fun with a competitor, esp after the Woodward stuff] Washington Post - December 17, 2005 At the Times, a Scoop Deferred By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer The New York Times' revelation yesterday that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to conduct domestic eavesdropping raised eyebrows in political and media circles, for both its stunning disclosures and the circumstances of its publication. In an unusual note, the Times said in its story ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 16:50:35 PST 2005

19527 [lbo-talk] Hustling the Left -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Also, at least on this list, there is an obsessive and probably >unhealthy concern with reaching the followers of Falwell & David Duke >rather than with reaching the 10s of millions who already agree with us >on the war, on anti-racism, on women's liberation and other key issues. And all those people in between, or with contradictory attitudes, or un- or malformed opinions - just forget about 'em? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 16:50:19 PST 2005

19528 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart, the war on Xmas, and stuff -- rank: 1000

Wal-Mart a Good Place to Shop But Some Critics Too Holiday Greeting Flap: Ho, Ho, Hum As shoppers flock to the stores for holiday gifts, some express mixed feelings about the nation's largest retailer. Nearly every American lives near enough a Wal-Mart to shop there, and 84% say they have done so in the past year. Praise for the retailer's low prices, wide selection and convenience flow freely, and 81% of those with a Wal-Mart nearby say it is a good place to shop. Somewhat less glowing, however ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 16:50:03 PST 2005

19529 [lbo-talk] Chip on Hustler -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >That males on the left has not been willing >>to recognize how their own privilege, as males, their own social >>privilege as males, informs and creates this sort of myopia around >>gender. And I think it's time we start correcting this. God I hope >>it's possible. > >Jesus F. Christ, I'm so tired of how the word "privilege" Just to clarify, I didn't write the quoted words - Chip did. I was just forwarding. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 16:45:53 PST 2005

19530 [lbo-talk] NYC Transit strike -- rank: 1000

The 30 Pound Snail Who Lives on Gar Lipow's Monitor wrote: >For those of us seeing the NY city transit stike from a distance, >what is the trick behind the management offer of binding arbitration? > Is it simply that the union is certain to win a strike?Why go out of >your way to provoke one in that case? I don't know the answer about binding arbitration, though I'd guess that the union doesn't want to sacrifice any of its potential power and autonomy, esp in striking just before ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 18 15:21:37 PST 2005