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1981 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:03 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Come on, Doug. Loughner is indisputably crazy, but that hasn't stopped many from saying, "See? this is what happens when you let those tea-party ideas get about." Actually, the liberals, bien-pensant or not, have been complaining about violent language and imagery used by name-brand Republican politicans and right-wing media stars. And the language is really violent. Yes, Loughner is crazy, but madness operates in a social contex ...

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1982 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Mark his logic: 1) neoliberalism emerged as an attempt to > institute equality for gays, women, and African Americans Really, where does he say that? I recall him saying that neoliberalism has masterfully co-opted those demands and they are no challenge to the power of capital. That's rather different. Of course, WBM is actually some sort of socialist or serious social democrat, which makes him rather unlike the TP. Doug

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1983 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:23 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > The Tucson shooting is fast becoming a Reichstag fire for American liberals - a crime perpetrated by a crazy person, employed to pillory those who have unacceptable political ideas - in this case, libertarians, anti-abortionists, and populists. The actions of a madman are interpreted to restore the limits of allowable debate. Standby for the list of unacceptable political asseverations in this new McCarthyism. > > Berlet enacts a ver ...

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1984 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2011, at 8:37 PM, mep wrote: > Seriously though, the difference between the two is that Dees is smart > enough to make it as a con-artist and a snake-oil salesman, Berlet, on > the other hand, is simple and sincere: he really believes the > hysterics he peddles in an almost sad and touching way... or at least > he would be if he wasn't such a douche-bag in denouncing others as > soft on fascism(see below) I don't know who you are, but you're on moderation. Doug

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1985 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2011, at 5:52 PM, mep wrote: > No, Berlet has a lengthy record as a creepy Morris Dees-type hysteric > who makes a living bilking money out of credulous bien pensant > liberals. I don't think Chip has $170 million in the bank. Look, disagree with him, but drop the noxious language. He's neither a creep nor a bilker. He's a serious guy and I'm always glad to hear from him. Doug

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1986 [lbo-talk] Surowecki on unions -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > I expect we'll know the ansewer in the next two years as the assault on unionized teachers, federal and state employees, and other public sector workers, who are currently being made the scapegoats for the fiscal crisis of the state and widespread economic distress, gathers steam. They now comprise the majority of the US trade unionists, and are not as passive as is often assumed by virtue of their relatively higher status and income. Teacher ...

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1987 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:46 PM, David Green wrote: > Of course it's not, because Jews are now whites, and Israel is a good example > for racists, and you don't want to go there, because your bread and butter is > the white gentile rabble. And Chip, you'd rather get sniffy and nasty than > address your inability to follow the path of racism into more respectable > quarters, because you've hung your hat on the racism of those that you feel > morally superior to. Again, why are you n ...

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1988 [lbo-talk] Surowecki on unions -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:26 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > It's simpler than that. The Empire we Americans were forced to live in > (none of us had any choice in the matter) is committing suicide. Basic > math: $14 trillion bankster bailout + $1 trillion annual bombster bailout > + 2 failed and criminal colonial wars = 1 burned-out wreck of a former > superpower. So Jim McNeil, the Goldman Sachs economist who coined the term "BRICs," says the U.S. is going to surprise eve ...

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1989 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:58 AM, David Green wrote: > I also find Berlet's comment on American Renaissance passing strange. Berlet seems > to be defensive that they might be thought of as anti-Semitic, when in fact--as > one would predict--they're the kind of racists that are pro-Israel. Jared Taylor (Yale '73): <http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2006/04/jews_and_americ.php> That changed at the most recent American Renaissance conference. At least one participant told a Jewish con ...

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1990 [lbo-talk] Surowecki on unions -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Do very many people even have the word "losers" in their everyday > vocabulary It gets 25.5 million hits on Google. Doug

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1991 [lbo-talk] rent Nouriel Roubini's pad -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > any of them you, doug? Nope. Alas.

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1992 [lbo-talk] rent Nouriel Roubini's pad -- rank: 1000

$7,600 a month, but alas the plaster vulvas have been removed: http://gawker.com/5730855/now-you-can-live-in-nouriel-roubinis-former-vulva-palace

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1993 [lbo-talk] you can now trade yuan -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Adam Proctor wrote: > Doug and others, can you link to some articles or blogs involving the > significance of this move?--that is, if anyone has taken notice... The WSJ's PR people just sent around a release bragging about having broken this news, so I suspect it's very new. Doug

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1994 [lbo-talk] it was punk rock that set him off -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:40 PM, c.berlet at publiceye.org wrote: > "Some people who study right-wing militia groups and those who align > themselves with the so-called Patriot movement said Mr. Loughner s > comments on subjects like the American currency and the Constitution, > which he posted online in various video clips, were strikingly similar in > language and tone to the voices of the Internet s more paranoid, extremist > corners." Yale's 06520 blog notes: <http ...

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1995 [lbo-talk] it was punk rock that set him off -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:24 PM, joel schalit wrote: > No offense to Anti-Flag, but they're about as revolutionary as a Che > tee-shirt. Still, not good. The author's a Swift Boater. Whaddya expect?

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