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4921 [lbo-talk] Punish a Pinochet: Cui Bono? -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The _real_ war criminals in the case of Chile were all in Washington, > D.C. -- except for a bunch of thugs from the University of Chicago. > Punishing Pinochet is a perfect way to take the real criminals off the > hook. What a US-centric view of the world. Chile didn't have its own ruling class, to whom Pinochet was also a savior? The American empire would be so successful if it didn't have natural allies all over the place. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 28 20:19:30 PDT 2009

4922 [lbo-talk] Florida -- rank: 1000

A friend in the real estate business in South Florida writes: > A tidbit from the bad old days > At the height of the boom,over 10,000 convicted felons were licensed > mortgage brokers > It truly was crazy > Now we've got condo squatters,gangs looting abandoned sub- > divisions,and > sundry post-apocalyptic behaviors flourishing as we await the > arrival of > hurricane season

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Date:	Wed May 27 13:29:28 PDT 2009

4923 [lbo-talk] United States of Zimbabwe -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > "Faber, who said he s adding to his gold investments..." :) > > * * * > > U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says Ok, put him on the Someone Not To Take Seriously Anymore list. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 27 11:42:00 PDT 2009

4924 [lbo-talk] the further devolution of the USA -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 27, 2009 <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124338836675757049.html> Banks Aiming to Play Both Sides of Coin Industry Lobbies FDIC to Let Some Buy Toxic Assets With Taypayer Aid From Own Loan Books By DAVID ENRICH, LIZ RAPPAPORT and JENNY STRASBURG Some banks are prodding the government to let them use public money to help buy troubled assets from the banks themselves. Banking trade groups are lobbying the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for permission to bid on t ...

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Date:	Wed May 27 06:56:43 PDT 2009

4925 [lbo-talk] God's ruling on good price-comparison bargain shopping -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > "Ultra-Orthodox Jews should prefer shopping in businesses owned by > religious Jews, rather than by secular or non-Jewish owners, Rabbi > Yaakov Yosef ruled. [...] However, the rabbi noted that according to > one halachic view, it is permitted to shop at a secular or non- > Jewish-owned business if the price difference between the latter and > the religious competition is greater than 16.6%." > > http://www.yne ...

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Date:	Wed May 27 06:54:17 PDT 2009

4926 [lbo-talk] CPUSA on drugs, attacks Liza Featherstone as right-wing -- rank: 1000

[This is just round the bend delusional. These guys are so in the tank for the Dems, who probably wouldn't mind seeing them in jail, if they even thought about the CPUSA.] <http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/15771/> Rumors of death of card check are greatly exaggerated Author: John Wojcik People's Weekly World Newspaper, 05/26/09 16:44 Many senators and congresspersons returning home for the Memorial Day weekend and the week that followed found themselves face to face in their ho ...

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Date:	Tue May 26 14:05:00 PDT 2009

4927 [lbo-talk] the Fed is so far out to lunch... -- rank: 1000

This is amazing: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXlxBeAvsB8>

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Date:	Tue May 26 13:42:41 PDT 2009

4928 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> Facebook group: <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53240558375>. ---------------------------------- ...

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Date:	Tue May 26 11:05:36 PDT 2009

4929 [lbo-talk] mid-70s punk blog -- rank: 1000

On May 26, 2009, at 11:24 AM, John Gulick wrote: > PS Doug, after your last couple of BHN shows, I really rue returning > to the US. Could the Obama regime have turned out any worse, worse > than even leftist I-told-you-so'ers foretold? Accelerated imperial > decline with ordinary US'ers paying the increasingly heavier freight > seems structurally overdetermined at this point. Grim. Yeah, but 1) who knows how Americans will react to this over the next year or two, and 2) where is ...

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Date:	Tue May 26 08:30:15 PDT 2009

4930 [lbo-talk] mid-70s punk blog -- rank: 1000

Miriam Linna, who spent a year or so drumming for The Cramps, set up this blog after Lux Interior's death. Lots of memorabilia from the years around 1975, if you're into that sort of thing: <http://kicksville66.blogspot.com/> Doug

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Date:	Tue May 26 08:09:20 PDT 2009

4931 [lbo-talk] Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, and Lasts Six Seconds Before Saying It's Torture -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > Mancow What's with the weird nickname, anyway? Doug

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4932 [lbo-talk] Irish priests beat, raped children -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > And as long as I'm breaking my STFU for the day rule - regarding Jim's > earlier suggestion that the Left in Britain ignored the sexual abuse > hysteria or signed on for it: I think this was much less common on > this > side of the pond, partly because Ace got on the right side of this > issue > early and hit it often. Actually I think that Dorothy Rabinowitz of the WSJ had a bigger effect. And the excellent Debbie Nat ...

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Date:	Fri May 22 17:39:34 PDT 2009

4933 [lbo-talk] Ace nails it -- rank: 1000

[Cockburn in his classic mode.] <http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05222009.html> How Long Does It Take? By ALEXANDER COCKBURN How long does it take a mild-mannered, antiwar, black professor of constitutional law, trained as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, to become an enthusiastic sponsor of targeted assassinations, decapitation strategies and remote-control bombing of mud houses the far end of the globe? There s nothing surprising here. As far back as Presiden ...

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Date:	Fri May 22 11:15:39 PDT 2009

4934 [lbo-talk] Close the Prisons Re: Irish priests beat, raped children -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > Carrol Cox: > > I happen to live in the United States, not Cuba. How they run their > revolution is their concern. > > ---- > > And your giving out litmus tests over who should be considered a > leftist? > > This is honestly one of the most ignorant, reactionary statements > I've ever > read coming from a self-described Marxist. I don't believe he's sincere about it. He doesn't want to deal with the co ...

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Date:	Fri May 22 04:42:01 PDT 2009

4935 [lbo-talk] Irish Priests Beat and Raped Children -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It is not a matter of either defending or attacking the Roman > Church; it > is a political fact that any left movement that does not include large > numbers of Roman Catholics (in the U.S. as well as Latin America) is > not > a movement. Now you're concerned about not alienating the masses. You make no sense. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 21 17:16:03 PDT 2009