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1291 [lbo-talk] Galloway and Hitchens -- rank: 1000

From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> > > > I've been told by a friend of Hitchens that, "Wide Boy, " that was > > his retort back to GG, is Brit slang for gay. No, it means someone of dubious reputation, usually related to trade, like a war-time black marketeer; or a braggart. It might be a reference to 1940s zoot suits, as adopted in England from the US. (See actor George Cole's early role in the St Trinians' film series, or Pinkie in Greene' ...

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Date:	Fri May 20 23:31:34 PDT 2005

1292 [lbo-talk] Galloway and Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Dennis: "And I love how he handled Hitchens before the hearing. Poor Hitch, beaten up verbally by, in his words, a "real thug." " Though Hitchens' own write up was relatively generous to Galloway: http://www.mirror.co.uk/archive/archive/tm_objectid=15528737%26method=full%26siteid=94762-name_page.html

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Date:	Fri May 20 00:37:30 PDT 2005

1293 [lbo-talk] Galloway Saddamist? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese > Galloway, right on the war, incredible orator, but, I suspect in >the end we'll have confirmed he was in the receipt of Saddammist $. No, I would be surprised if Galloway was motivated by financial gain, you can argue with his politics, but the attempt to circumvent the argument by finding his fingers in the till is just childish. I wouldn't even fault him necessarily for 'bending the knee to Saddam', though he does seem to have got a bit carried away. After all, no-o ...

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Date:	Wed May 18 13:32:25 PDT 2005

1294 [lbo-talk] Galloway to Senate -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick: "I've seen minimal coverage on TV and in print. E.g., check Slate's "summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers" today -- not a word about Galloway's Senate testimony:" British papers here have been transfixed in Galloway's headlights. Sticking it to the US Senate is very popular here. (If anyone has seen the patriotic rom-com Love Actually, you'll see the fantasy played out that the Blair-like Prime Minister decides enough is enough and sticks it to lascivi ...

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Date:	Wed May 18 07:56:47 PDT 2005

1295 [lbo-talk] Karl M on crass consumerism -- rank: 1000

From: "Leigh Meyers" <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> asks "And how DOES Karl M rationalize supporting the capitalist system via crass consumerism, conspicuous connsumption & derivative markets, anywhoo? Inquiring minds want to know?" In the Grundrisse, Marx talks about the expansion of industry leading to "exploration of all of nature in order to discover new, useful qualities in things; universal exchange of the products of all alien climates and lands; new (art ...

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Date:	Tue May 17 01:06:49 PDT 2005

1296 [lbo-talk] The Creative Class in the UK? -- rank: 1000

* The Department of Trade and Industry wants to put design at the centre of boosting British export - but why are British firms putting less and less importance on design? * There are 123 675 Art and Design Students in Britain, one in every 16 students in higher education - so why is it that less than a quarter of them will be working in design related industries when they graduate? * Tony Blair says that, if no longer the workshop of the world, Britain can claim to be its drawing board - so why ...

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Date:	Mon May 16 11:39:35 PDT 2005

1297 [lbo-talk] Heidosser -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss writes "People would read things into Heidegger's laundry list if they could. "Heidegger liked to wear red and black underwear. Here the echo of the Nazi flag is unmistakable."" What about Heidegger's signature on the Nazi Party membership card, renewed every year from 1933 to 1943 - is it too much to read a political affiliation into that? James Heartfield

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Date:	Thu May 5 13:05:52 PDT 2005

1298 [lbo-talk] Churchill and Thomas Brown -- rank: 1000

Sorry to chip in late, but it did seem to me that Thomas Brown's essay on Ward Churchill's smallpox claims was good coin. It does not help the left to have to defend overstated claims. There is enough evidence that the US military attacked native Americans without having to make up stuff. I take the view that the critique of the USA from the standpoint of the now destroyed culture of the native Americans is moral posturing. There is no way to undo the colonisation of the Americas with any justic ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Mar 14 02:09:20 PST 2005

1299 [lbo-talk] Bombs in London -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 31 July 2005 REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE After the arrest of a second group of bombers, the British press announces the search for the mastermind behind the London bombs. They are bemused by the difference between the most second-generation Pakistani bombers of 7 July and the mostly East African suspects arrested for the failed bomb attack of 21 July. Clearly there must be a mastermind behind the attacks. Hussain Osman, currently detained in Italy says otherwise, claiming that his tea ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 31 09:21:58 PDT 2005

1300 [lbo-talk] Engels -- rank: 1000

"For a defense of Engels ..." Yes Timpanaro is very good. Chris Arthur edited a book of essays Engels Today (on the Centenary of his death?) S.H. Rigby wrote Engels and the Formation of Marxism. I think Engels best works were the little Essay On Revolution (it's 'not a tea party' but the violent repression of one class by another), Utopian and Scientific Socialism (Socialism is not a pious wish, but presaged in the material development of society), Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Class ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 08:33:40 PDT 2005

1301 [lbo-talk] The bomber's psyche (was Bombs in London) -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall writes "The following profile of one of the London suicide bombers, Mohammad Khan, suggests the political and psychological characteristics of the Islamists are somewhat more complex", before retailing the story about Mohammad Sidique Khan's voluntary work taking children to school and as a classroom assistant. All of which is very interesting, especially as Khan is reckoned to be the mastermind (by dint of his age). This is presented as a big paradox in the British pres ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 28 12:36:51 PDT 2005

1302 [lbo-talk] Interesting last words -- rank: 1000

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. Karl Marx

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Jul 27 14:12:10 PDT 2005

1303 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 1000

Thanks for the comments on the 'Shot dead in London', which I should point out was not written by me but a law student (choosing to remain anonymous). He makes the following comments: Should the killing be called an 'execution'? According to Oxford Concise execution means 'infliction of capital punishment'. The point of the piece is that if as is probable on past experience no prosecution results from the police killing then capital punishment for acting suspiciously is what this will amount to ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 27 04:31:28 PDT 2005

1304 [lbo-talk] Bombs in London -- rank: 1000

Further insight into the bombers' motivations: Mukhtar Said Ibrahim, 27, was granted exceptional leave to remain in Britain in 1992, as a dependent of a someone granted asylum, having arrived here age 14, and went to a North London Comprehensive. At 16 he was jailed for five years for street robbery as part of an armed gang of youths. He became a naturalised British citizen last year, swearing: "I will give my loyalty to the United Kingdom and respect its rights and freedoms. I will uphold ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 27 03:12:11 PDT 2005

1305 [lbo-talk] Arab opinion (was shot dead in London) -- rank: 1000

I agree with Dennis Perrin's approach ("This has to be faced -- many of these bombers want us dead as well. They are not progressive.") But I think his assessment, below is unduly pessimistic: "deep anti-Western sentiment among young Arab Muslims that, in the many cases I've seen and read about, goes against what most (if not all) people on this list subscribe to -- secular culture. The right to be obscene. Drugs. Booze. Porn. The lot." My recollection of some Pew research n ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 27 02:44:21 PDT 2005