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6016 [lbo-talk] Obama: killing for 2012 -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2009, at 10:54 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Noam Chomsky points out, "Note that the critical issue is control, > not access. US policies towards the Middle East were the same when > the US was a net exporter of oil, and remain the same today when US > intelligence projects that the US itself will rely on more stable > Atlantic Basin resources [i.e., those of the Western hemisphere plus > west Africa]. Policies would be likely to be about the same if the > US ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 14 04:36:53 PST 2009

6017 [lbo-talk] Mr Samuelson, he dead -- rank: 1000

News Alert from The Wall Street Journal Paul A. Samuelson, whose analytical work laid the foundation for modern economics, died Sunday. He was 94. Actively publishing into the 2000s, Mr. Samuelson's career in economics spanned eight decades. In 1970, he was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics, the second year the prize was offered. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126072304261489561.html

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 09:28:07 PST 2009

6018 [lbo-talk] Reed, in German -- rank: 1000

A translation of Adolph Reed's article in LBO #121 Die Grenzen des Antirassismus <http://www.akweb.de/ak_s/ak545/34.htm> original: The limits of anti-racism <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Antiracism.html>

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 09:15:25 PST 2009

6019 [lbo-talk] Obama: killing for 2012 -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/parenti> The Road to Re-Election Runs Through Kabul? by CHRISTIAN PARENTI December 7, 2009 To cover his flank and look tough in the next US election, Obama is expanding the war in Afghanistan. To look strong in front of swing voters, he will sacrifice the lives of hundreds of US soldiers, allow many more to be horribly maimed, waste a minimum of $30 billion in public money and in the process kill many thousands of Afghan civilians. It is political ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 08:03:13 PST 2009

6020 [lbo-talk] In Defense of Scrooge -- rank: 1000

[A seasonal classic, which I last posted here 9 (!) years ago. New relevance, now that my kid is fascinated by Scrooge. I told him about this essay and he couldn't believe it.] <http://mises.org/story/573> In Defense of Scrooge Mises Daily: Monday, December 18, 2000 by Michael Levin It's Christmas again, time to celebrate the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge. You know the ritual: boo the curmudgeon initially encountered in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, then cheer the sweetie p ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 12 12:57:38 PST 2009

6021 [lbo-talk] Firesale of the Empire -- rank: 1000

On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > Everyone already knows that The > System is fucked. What nobody knows, including especially the > prophetic left, is what to do about it. Or that anything can be done about it. It's been a while: > What element of the higher circles - what would-be element - has > such immorality not touched? Perhaps all those cases that come > briefly to public attention are but marginal - or, at any rate, > those that were caught. But then, ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 12 04:21:59 PST 2009

6022 [lbo-talk] Huckaboom, revisited -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30459.html> Poll: Obama, Huckabee running even By: Andy Barr December 10, 2009 02:51 PM EST Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is trailing President Barack Obama by only one percentage point in a potential 2012 matchup, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey out Thursday. Huckabee runs stronger against Obama than any other Republican in the poll of 1,253 registered voters, getting 45 percent to Obama s 46 percent. Despite having taken ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 11 17:23:21 PST 2009

6023 [lbo-talk] Toby Keith sings of peace -- rank: 1000

<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaE0LphGXd9xP4dVERMGFqViScwQD9CH80SO0 > Toby Keith stands by war before Nobel peace show By IAN MacDOUGALL (AP) 7 hours ago OSLO There's no reason to apologize for supporting U.S. war efforts, American country singer Toby Keith said Friday, just hours before performing at the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert. Keith, whose 2002 saber-rattling hit "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)" was inspired by the ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 11 17:21:57 PST 2009

6024 [lbo-talk] Seppukoo: Situationist Prank or Exodus? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Now, about those kids who love to hit... > > Yeah, this issue has recently popped up in my life. There's a ban on > hitting in our house but the kiddo -- who I suspect of being the > reincarnation of Ida Lupino, or at least, Ida's hard boiled screen > persona -- knows that rules are made to be hit with a right cross. <http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/C/thecouplyrics/thecoupwearcleandrawslyrics.htm > This for you and the w ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 11 17:11:25 PST 2009

6025 [lbo-talk] Seppukoo: Situationist Prank or Exodus? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Thomas Seay wrote: > <<There comes a time when kids like to hit. I never encouraged it, > but I never had a blanket no hitting rule. If the kid wants to fuck > around a little, what's the harm? There was one rule: no hitting in > the face. Sometimes I'd pick her up at school and as I was walking > up she'd tell her friends, "he doesn't mind if you hit him." That > was unexpected. >> > > When my 7 year old, Arianna g ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 11 16:25:25 PST 2009

6026 [lbo-talk] Firesale of the Empire -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > More generally, the left really needs to get over its > accumulation-by-dispossession kick. Thank you. My complaint is that it treats as new something that's been around forever, and minimizes the role of production in favor of appropriation - and exchanges analysis for moralizing. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 11 12:58:39 PST 2009

6027 [lbo-talk] Katrina Vanden Heuvel In the Court of the Crimson King -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > I love her black leather jacket. It's so proletarian. You should see her green leather miniskirt. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 11 10:55:22 PST 2009

6028 [lbo-talk] Katrina Vanden Heuvel In the Court of the Crimson King -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > who among you will explain Nation editor As I think I've said before, my understanding of the Nation's foundational political/editorial philosophy, is that you can criticize specific policies pursued by Democrats, but you cannot name the Dems in any systemic way as the major cog in the horror machine that they are. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 11 10:11:20 PST 2009

6029 [lbo-talk] "Latino" identity more prevalent on left than among actual Latinos -- rank: 1000

<http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=117> According to the Pew Hispanic Center's National Survey of Latinos, more than half (52%) of Latinos ages 16 to 25 identify themselves first by their family's country of origin, be it Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republican, El Salvador or any of more than a dozen other Spanish-speaking countries. An additional 20% generally use the terms "Hispanic" or "Latino" first when describing themselves. Only about one-i ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 11 08:11:13 PST 2009

6030 [lbo-talk] deadly force -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/to-live-and-die-in-oklahoma> To Live and Die in Oklahoma Dispatcher: "OK. County 13 is advising that you can defend your property if you need to." Jackson: "I don't want to have to kill this man, but I'll kill him graveyard dead ma'am." Dispatcher: "I understand." An 911 operator explaining to 57-year-old Donna Jackson, of Cushing, Oklahoma, that she was within her rights to kill an intruder in her home. Which she then prompt ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 10 08:49:37 PST 2009