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8731 [lbo-talk] Carl Remick, RIP -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:20 PM, shag at cleandraws.com wrote: > Does anyone know if he had a cause to which he > wanted folks to donate? Dunno, but he'd probably say something like the end of capitalism. So let's get to work!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 13:48:26 PST 2008

8732 [lbo-talk] Rush on McCain -- rank: 1000

Has the Republican right completely lost it? Rush Limbaugh on Schwarzenegger's endorsement of McCain: <http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Vote2008/story?id=4224754&page=1> "So [McCain] just got the endorsement of a big taxing, big spending, socialist health care eco-extreme governor who says the Republican party needs to follow him to the left."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 12:34:40 PST 2008

8733 [lbo-talk] more on Obama -- rank: 1000

[also from The Note] He doesn't look liberal here: the Chicago Tribune has details of the laid-off Maytag workers that Obama didn't rush to help: "Obama had a special connection to Maytag: Lester Crown, one of the company's directors and biggest investors whose family, records show, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Obama's campaigns since 2003," the Tribune's Bob Secter reports. "But Crown says Obama never raised the fate of the Galesburg plant with him, and the b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 12:32:23 PST 2008

8734 [lbo-talk] the ad war -- rank: 1000

[From The Note. More at <http://wiscadproject.wisc.edu/>.\ Yet money's not everything, as a new report out Friday from the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project makes clear. Through Sunday Republican candidates spent about $50 million on 67,798 TV ads, with Romney alone accounting for nearly $29 million spent on some 35,000 ads. "John McCain was far behind, with less than one- third as many/much," per the report's summary. As for the Democrats: "83,320 advertisemen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 12:29:54 PST 2008

8735 [lbo-talk] a call from Iran -- rank: 1000

Wow, not sure how this fits into my "When I get calls from journalists, the markets are near a bottom" model. I just got a call from an English-language radio station in Tehran. They wanted to know about subprime, the Fed, and the impact on the presidential race. Who'd've guessed?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 12:24:08 PST 2008

8736 [lbo-talk] Surge II -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook - no idea who Avi is] Coming soon to a national newspaper near you - Avi spots a NAVY TIMES blockbuster: 'The American Enterprise Institute, the think tank that came up with the 'surge' strategy for Iraq, has just completed a re- evaluation of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and concluded that another surge of U.S. forces is required, this time into southern Afghanistan.'

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 12:04:08 PST 2008

8737 [lbo-talk] layoffs = death -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:16 AM, Tahir Wood wrote: > However, let's just note in passing > that this immiseration argument, which is rightly despised, is often > deliberately conflated with another quite different argument > concerning > the sustainability of capitalist society. (The very prominent list > member who does this most often for rhetorical effect knows who he > is.) I assume this would be me, though I don't get your point. Capitalist society has proved itself sustain ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 11:52:51 PST 2008

8738 [lbo-talk] Chris is going to California -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> There are inexplicable traffic jams on what looks >> like a godforsaken stretch of I-84 between Danbury >> and Hartford in the middle of weekday afternoons. > > What's inexplicable about them? They built the freeways, people moved > further away, now they have to drive more, et voila as they say in > Paris. Population has increased while density continues it's long > slide: it's inevitable that "traffic&q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 11:48:54 PST 2008

8739 [lbo-talk] Carl Remick, RIP -- rank: 1000

If you're sending anything, his widow's name is Judith Remick.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 11:42:01 PST 2008

8740 [lbo-talk] Carl Remick, RIP -- rank: 1000

I just got an email from Judith Remick, reporting that her husband (and long-time list stalwart) Carl died on January 7. I'd suspected that his long silence was not good news. I'd only met Carl a few times in person, but I was very fond of him, and am very sad about this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 1 09:55:05 PST 2008

8741 [lbo-talk] layoffs = death -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Name any of them -- and don't name any who are not regarded as > influential by other marxists. This is pure ignorant bullshit. RIght on this list we have Patrick Bond, who has said many times that he's hoping for a serious crash in the U.S. to reconfigure world power relations and reduce CO2 emissions. Patrick is far from alone in this position, and your pose of naivete isn't convincing. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 08:21:43 PST 2008

8742 [lbo-talk] Chris is going to California -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Bob Morris wrote: > If you haven't been in LA in eight years you will be stunned by the > unending > traffic. My wife had a client 17 miles away, 1/2 was on freeway. > The drive > was generally 90 minutes each way. > > We giggle at what they call "traffic" here in CT. Still, I hadn't driven much for more than 10 years - from the early 90s until just a few years ago, when I resumed that troublesome habit. I couldn't believe how much tra ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 07:02:51 PST 2008

8743 [lbo-talk] Summers on The Plan -- rank: 1000

On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > I have great trust in you (why, I dunno) Well don't put yourself under any strain on my behalf. Look, Patrick. I didn't say that Summers plan was going to usher in Utopia, or anything resembling that. I said it's "not bad." There's very little in the way of a constituency or movement pushing for something more radical here in the U.S. (or, I'm told, for your sort of politics in South Africa, either). Schools, libraries, aid to ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 31 09:20:38 PST 2008

8744 [lbo-talk] Summers on The Plan -- rank: 1000

Of course not, Chris. If Summers proposes it, it's evil. On Dec 31, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > > Is this necessarily an either/or question? You can't have both? > > --- On Tue, 12/30/08, Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote: >> >> Which will it be, Doug? The 'highest rate of return for >> the economy' (LS) or 'the US a healthier and more >> humane place' (DH)? >> > > > > ___________________________________ > http://m ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 31 09:16:06 PST 2008

8745 [lbo-talk] IDF promotes itself on YouTube -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5120819/watch-israel-bomb-gaza-on-youtube> WAR 2.0 Watch Israel Bomb Gaza On YouTube By Richard, 1:45 PM on Tue Dec 30 2008, 1,324 views Forget Bromance and The City. The truly horrifying reality TV is being broadcast on global video yearbook YouTube. By the Israeli army. Yes, they have a YouTube channel! It's brand new as of yesterday. What they're (they = the Israeli Defense Forces' Spokesperson's Unit) using it for is to, well, show instances of successful bombing ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 30 12:05:28 PST 2008