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9016 [lbo-talk] Sad Leninism. -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:49 PM, boddi satva wrote: > I've made the point before, and make it again in my most recent post, > but apparently it bears repeating: > > Any country - like RUSSIA, FOR EXAMPLE - that relies on artillery > rockets as its main battlefield artillery - which most of the world > does - limits itself to imprecise artillery bombardments - like, oh, I > don't know, Grozny? > > All the Soviet-era weapons are like this - from the Kalashnikov to the > R ...

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9017 [lbo-talk] Putin = Opposition to Capital????? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:13 PM, boddi satva wrote: > I'm gathering that people here see Vladimir Putin's Russia as some > kind of counterweight to Capital. No one here has said anything like that. In fact, I'm guessing most think that Russia is a more or less capitalist country. The only virtue to a resurgent Russia - aside from the fact that it's made most Russians better off than they were during the 1990s, when they were run by Clinton, Harvard, and the IMF via Yeltsin - is that it off ...

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9018 [lbo-talk] a specter haunts Obamaland, the specter of Rubin! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=washingtonstory&sid=aJ.pKsYB_DfU> Obama Tilt Toward Rubinomics Stirs Warning From Organized Labor By Kristin Jensen and Matthew Benjamin Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka delivers a slap at former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin in a slide show exhorting union members to back Democrat Barack Obama for president. Blaming unfettered global trade and inadequate government regulation for lost manufacturing jobs an ...

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9019 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Laura's new site -- rank: 1000

From: laura agustín Date: August 17, 2008 9:13:26 PM EDT Subject: Laura's new site Just to let people know I've closed up my old website and opened a new one using blog software. All the publications that were available on the old will eventually get onto the new, some in the form of posts, and much of it is available now. I'll start writing about new issues here, picking up suggestive photos, videos and news items I run into. The address is slightly different, but going to the old will bounce ...

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9020 [lbo-talk] Sad Leninism. -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Andie, they were firing on a city with missile launchers. How do you > stop them? Yeah, but really, weren't the Russians just looking for a pretext? The Georgians aren't innocents, but the Russians weren't motivated by a humane rescue mission either? Great powers don't act that way. Doug

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9021 [lbo-talk] Sad Leninism. -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2008, at 11:59 AM, boddi satva wrote: > Lenin is dead, folks. > > The old world of black hats and white hats is gone. > > If you want to believe that the U.S., Western Europe and Barack Obama > are the "Great Satan" and that Vladimir Putin will save the world, you > have completely faded into irrelevance. Uh, no one made an argument like this. If you want to dispute with phantoms, please keep to the three post a day limit. Doug

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9022 [lbo-talk] Texas school district to allow teachers to bring guns to class -- rank: 1000

Hmm, does Alexander Cockburn know this? Doug On Aug 15, 2008, at 6:02 PM, B. wrote: > HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas school district will let > teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's > superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said > appeared to be a first in the United States. > > http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1538661720080815 > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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9023 [lbo-talk] I thought this only happened to hicks -- rank: 1000

TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 516 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... BRONX COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... EASTERN BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY. * UNTIL 545 PM EDT... * AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ENGLEWOOD...OR NEAR BERGENFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 19 MPH ...

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9024 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood 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> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Recently posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: August 14, 2008 Moustafa Bayoumi, aut ...

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9025 [lbo-talk] "There are gray areas in war" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2008, at 5:22 PM, John Thornton wrote: > You forgot to mention the oil pipeline Putin wants to grab. > According to BS that is what this is all about. That's included in "Russians bad." And this may be true. But so what? Why should I care? Regardless of which parasite owns the pipeline, the oil will flow and someone will make money. Doug

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9026 [lbo-talk] What Russia Should Have Done. -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > You're the implied apologist on this thread. Why is it, according > to you, what's your apologia for, the Georgians attacking South > Ossetia, > sneaking or overtly ? Please don't encourage him. Doug

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9027 [lbo-talk] "There are gray areas in war" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > I'm sorry -- I was busy shaving my sack. What was bod's point again? Bush stupid. Russians bad. Mount high horse and pontificate accordingly. Doug

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9028 [lbo-talk] What Russia Should Have Done. -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2008, at 3:37 PM, boddi satva wrote: > His third post of the day. C'est tout. Doug

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9029 [lbo-talk] "There are gray areas in war" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2008, at 3:26 PM, boddi satva wrote: > Wait, you mean a twelve-year-old South Ossetian girl with her South > Ossetian aunt sitting right next to her condemned the Georgians and > praised the Russians? I'm gonna shut this down pretty soon. We get your point. Doug

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9030 [lbo-talk] Russia's Blessedly Brief, Defensive War Of Occupation - Toonces Darn Mad -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2008, at 3:22 PM, boddi satva wrote: > President George "Toonces" Bush continues to steer the American > automobile of state - and thus the world - straight into the > guardrail. You have to admit that the following was classic, classic > Toonces: > > "Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign > policy in the 21st century..." > > I mean...the words actually passed his lips - and apparently he didn't > even st ...

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