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22171 [lbo-talk] the Passion of Michael -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted: >Another aspect of the film that the critics have missed is the >emotion underlying that anger: guilt. For there is one crucial >political figure who is conspicuously missing from the film: Ralph >Nader, whom Moore (as we all know) passionately supported in the >2000 election. I was there at the big Madison Square Garden Nader >Rally in October 2000, where I heard Moore gleefully tell 10,000 >cheering people that there was no difference between Al Gore ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 30 08:54:52 PDT 2004

22172 [lbo-talk] Asshole -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >If his show tanks, he can be a reg on Colin Quinn's hate-filled >"Tough Crowd" -- a show that beautifully reveals the bile & stench >of stand-up comedy. I gotta say that show makes me laugh a lot, but it's really disturbing too - naked ids overflowing with aggression. Is that the way comics are? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 30 06:45:44 PDT 2004

22173 [lbo-talk] hatchet job -- rank: 1000

R quoted Matt Rothschild: >Instead, he intruded, as is his trademark, too much into his own film. He >used a sledgehammer approach when a dagger would have done the job, and he >tarnished his whole enterprise with a tone that will be off-putting to all >but the Moveon.org crowd. This is rich - the editor of The Progressive, with a circulation little larger than a few combined MoveOn.org meetups, giving advice on reaching the masses to Michael Moore. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 30 06:35:54 PDT 2004

22174 [lbo-talk] MAINLY IMMIGRANTS OR BIRACIAL -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >If Black immigrants can make it >(as well as some US Blacks), then "racism" is not a good explanation why >other cannot. Racism includes things like inherited wealth and expectations and school quality. You don't need to descend into culture of poverty explanations. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 15:42:28 PDT 2004

22175 [lbo-talk] Berg's father hammers Bush again -- rank: 1000

Father of Executed American Blasts Bush, Media Tue Jun 29,12:49 PM ET By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - The father of an American civilian beheaded in Iraq (news - web sites) accused President Bush (news - web sites) and the U.S. media Tuesday of ignoring the "horrible face of war." "People like George Bush and (U.S. Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld (news - web sites) don't see the pain that people have to bear -- they don't know what it feels like to have your guts ripped out,& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 13:00:14 PDT 2004

22176 [lbo-talk] End of Suburbia: Peak Oil -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> A better measure might be the >> number of hours it takes the average U.S. worker to earn the >> equivalent of a barrel of crude (since you avoid all the >> complications of price indexes); it was 5.25 at the 1980 peak, vs. >> 2.56 in May 2004. >> > >For those of us who mistrust (and/or don't really understand) the >concept of "average u.s. worker," would it be possible to calculate ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 29 12:42:57 PDT 2004

22177 [lbo-talk] more McLemee on Solanas etc. -- rank: 1000

Worth checking out: <http://www.mclemee.com/id4.html> 29 June An addendum to yesterday's sprawling entry on the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers and affiliated matters. As mentioned, the film I Shot Andy Warhol shows Valerie Solanas exchanging rants, then sleeping, with a character identified in the credits as Mark Motherfucker. The soundtrack for this scene is "Kick Out the Jams" by the MC5. (How could it not be?) In the course of writing my article, I watched the film twice. S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 12:26:29 PDT 2004

22178 [lbo-talk] End of Suburbia: Peak Oil -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >Can you translate that into price per gallon of gasoline. (Just so I >can gauge how many fill ups your $500 will buy.) Peak was $2.80 in 2004 dollars, in 1981. But the relation between crude and gasoline prices isn't constant; peak oil price was $81.40 in 2004 dollars in 1980. > And does the US CPI include energy costs? If so, it seems that >would be a closed loop in your equation. Energy accounts for 7% of the CPI. A better measure might be the number of hours it tak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 11:53:03 PDT 2004

22179 [lbo-talk] monetary policy makes strange bedfellows too -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - June 29, 2004 Rate hike reservations By James Galbraith/Jude Wanniski One of us is the First Supply Sider. The other is the Last Keynesian. One is Republican; the other Democrat. One helped invent Reaganomics; the other spent four years trying to stop it. Yet we agree on one thing. Alan Greenspan should not raise interest rates now or in the near future. To begin, there is no evidence of a monetary inflation. If that were happening, gold prices would go up. But the price of go ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 10:21:13 PDT 2004

22180 [lbo-talk] End of Suburbia: Peak Oil -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >I'm not sure that I heard a definition of 'it' (as in 'it wouldn't >happen'). It seems to me that peak oil is when demand outstrips >supply and price escalates to the point where economic growth ceases. That'll do as a definition. Or, more rigorously, I'll say that real oil prices (deflated by the U.S. CPI) won't exceed their 1980 peaks for a sustained period of six months or more any time in the next 10 years. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 10:15:37 PDT 2004

22181 [lbo-talk] Pearl's father promoting Muslim-Jewish dialogue -- rank: 1000

Father of Murdered Journalist Daniel Pearl Promotes Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Saturday, June 26, 2004 London: The father of a Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by Islamic extremists in Pakistan two years ago is leading a series of public dialogues with a Pakistani scholar aimed at improving Jewish-Muslim relations. The series that began in the United States last year moved to London this week and will continue to travel around the world. Megan Parlen reports. After ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 09:10:24 PDT 2004

22182 [lbo-talk] McLemee on Verso's SCUM Manifesto -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - July 2, 2004 HOT TYPE New Edition of 'SCUM Manifesto' Suggests Continuing Fascination With the Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol By SCOTT MCLEMEE DARK SUPERSTAR: It was called the Factory, and what it manufactured was a new sensibility. It was the studio where, during the mid-1960s, Andy Warhol mass-produced his pop-art canvases, and "directed" underground films in which his entourage shot up drugs, bent their genders, and threw histrionic fits. What fueled cr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 08:46:34 PDT 2004

22183 [lbo-talk] End of Suburbia: Peak Oil -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >Someone here said they would bet it wouldn't happen in the next 10 >years. I'll take the bet. That was me. >How much and how in the hell do you collect on a bet made on-line? $500, and good question. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 08:08:31 PDT 2004

22184 [lbo-talk] Comment on F-9/11 and racism -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >as Yamato points out, it's just another form of racism where you say >that everyone else is racist, but you aren't! Bob Fitch to Mimi Rosenberg, on WBAI, about 12 years ago, in response to Mimi's polemic against the white race: "I don't understand Mimi. If white people are so terrible, how'd you turn out so good?" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 08:04:24 PDT 2004

22185 [lbo-talk] Low Taxes Do What!? -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >International trade has no monopoly on economic illiteracy. One of the >apparently invincible fallacies of our times is the belief that President >Ronald Reagan's tax cuts caused the federal budget deficits of the 1980s. In >reality, the federal government collected more tax revenue in every year of >the Reagan administration than had ever been collected in any year of any >previous administration. But there is no amount of money that Congress >cannot outsp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 29 07:28:01 PDT 2004