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9631 [lbo-talk] Obama outlines his troop pullout plan -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Does that mean Obama wants to prosecute the current Administration > and US military commanders for war crimes, as of course they should > be? Of course not. If this ever materializes, which is highly unlikely, they'd go after rogue corporals. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 12 11:06:54 PDT 2007

9632 [lbo-talk] Obama outlines his troop pullout plan -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_el_pr/obama_iraq Hillary's gonna triangulate this, as she has all along - which is why she's a steady 16 points ahead of Obama. Split the difference: that's the American way!

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Date:	Wed Sep 12 10:52:14 PDT 2007

9633 [lbo-talk] What Gawker Means to Me (was, the end of western civ...) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2007, at 1:27 PM, B. wrote: > Yeah he is a popular YouTube "director" (video > blogger) and has cranked out vids -- does that mean > his crying over Britney is fake? It's really hard to believe it was real. Objective correlative and all that. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 12 10:43:38 PDT 2007

9634 [lbo-talk] the end of western civ (cont.) -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/raising-the-bar/tmz-tv-slatternly-drunk-girls- say-the-darndest-things-298604.php>

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Date:	Wed Sep 12 08:48:42 PDT 2007

9635 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Reply to Critics -- rank: 1000

Begin forwarded message: > From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> > Date: September 12, 2007 11:39:36 AM EDT > To: dhenwood at panix.com > Subject: Reply to Critics > > Dear Doug, > > As you know, quite a debate took place on the > libcom.org list about my article "Imperialism, > 'Anti-Imperialism"...". The link to the list: > > http://libcom.org/forums/thought/fictitious-capital-beginners- > imperialism-anti-imperialism-continuin ...

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9636 [lbo-talk] user-driven news: techie, silly, provincial -- rank: 1000

<http://www.journalism.org/node/7493> he Latest News Headlines Your Vote Counts September 12, 2007 If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like? How would citizens make up a front page differently than professional news people? If a new crop of user-news sites and measures of user activity on mainstream news sites are any indication, the news agenda will be more diverse, more transitory, and often draw on a very diffe ...

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9637 [lbo-talk] Japan Prime Minister Abe has quit ! -- rank: 1000

On Sep 12, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > Surprise news, Abe has abruptly announced today he'd quit. There was > a press conference around 2pm Tokyo time. I knew he was in trouble but was never clear on why. What's the problem? Doug

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9638 [lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwar movement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Chuck wrote: > Sometimes I have to remind myself that this list has gone in a more > liberal direction and has mostly abandoned the radical leftism that I > remember when I first joined. > > Me and what army? How about the anti-war movement? It would make more > sense to march tens of thousands around an army munitions plant > than to > do the same comfortably in Washington, DC. All right. Go ahead an try to organize this. If you get more tha ...

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9639 [lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwar movement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Chuck wrote: > You want strategy? Bring the anti-war movement out to Independence, > Missouri for a visit to the Lake City ammo plant. That plant supplies > *all* of the small arms ammunition being used in the ongoing war. Shut > down that plant for a week and you'll have the warmongers by the > balls. You and what army? Do you know what the US government would do if something like this happened? Massive force to remove everyone involved and then mas ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 18:49:48 PDT 2007

9640 [lbo-talk] subprime -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > That is, (paraphrasing now) 'people facing foreclosure > are often pressed to the wall by larger personal > financial issues and not by resetting rates alone.' No, but the resets are only now just starting, and rise through mid-2008. Here's a chart: <http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/10/175059/351>

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9641 [lbo-talk] subprime -- rank: 1000

[This is from the Washington branch of ISI, the entity run by Wall Street's fave economist, Ed Hyman.] INVESTORS CHEER UNCLE SAM RIDING TO THE RESCUE, THEN RECONSIDER Since the peak of the market in the middle of July, there have been three market rallies, and the catalyst for all three was the expectation of a policy response from Washington - not any improvement in economic data or the fundamentals. As the chart shows, there was the Fannie rally, the Fed rally, and the FHA rally - all of ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 13:30:31 PDT 2007

9642 [lbo-talk] What are you reading now? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: Assume Marx doesn't consider fiat money a sham. Nonetheless, > surely > Marx's attitude toward fiat money is as critical as his attitude is > toward the capitalist system of commodity exchange - he advocates its > overthrow. Doesn't Marx advocate the overthrow of fiat money as > much as > he advocates overthrow of capitalism ? Shouldn't those following > Marx's > ideas have revolutionary critiques of the capitali ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 12:41:36 PDT 2007

9643 [lbo-talk] everyday is 9/11 for nature -- rank: 1000

An image that could never appear in the U.S. media: <http://gawker.com/news/lies-well-disguised/is-it-too-soon-to-use-the- burning-twin-towers-in-ads-298546.php>

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Date:	Tue Sep 11 12:13:47 PDT 2007

9644 [lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwar movement -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Lou Proyect for pointing this out. His comments are at <http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/eavesdropping-on-a- phone-conference/>. The original transcript is at <http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php? story=20070907191110516&mode=print>.] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5723.html> Anti-war leaders stymied, frustrated By: Mike Allen September 10, 2007 07:32 PM EST A well-known anti-war leader has gone public with the transcript of a ...

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9645 [lbo-talk] Constructive Criticism vs. Opposition Criticism (wasTargeting Empire?) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 11, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > I'd take it a step further and ask what's wrong with outside > criticism of > any state, even one that is anticapitalist? You're absolutely right, of course. But I suppose that could be construed as "constructive" rather than "oppositional" criticism, which sounds like some kind of tut-tut distinction a high school guidance counselor might make. Doug

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