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11506 [lbo-talk] Regime Change and Paranoid Reaction -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2007, at 5:06 AM, Russell Grinker wrote: > Mike is sitting in the USA Australia, actually. Doug

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11507 [lbo-talk] A. Cockburn's latest lunacy -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 11:12 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > Did he meet her in Olympia, and then she went back to Russia? Or was > his Olympia girlfriend who moved out of Olympia (we all assumed to be > with Alex) a different woman? Man gets around. Doug

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11508 [lbo-talk] A. Cockburn's latest lunacy -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Wow! Ace reporter Ace, on the scene, "flying thither over the > Arctic and thus able to make a direct review of the ice cap." He's got a Russian girlfriend, whom he was visiting in Moscow. Doug

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11509 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > But labor sensitivity in general probably spring from the fact that > most > union organizers I've ever known have thought that left was on > mars, if they > thought about it at all. I won't dispute the location of much of the left on Mars - except me and many members of this list, of course - but what planet does the American working class live on? Doug

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11510 [lbo-talk] Seitz -- rank: 1000

Cockburn quotes Frederick Seitz as an expert in his latest column. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Seitz> Shortly before his retirement from Rockefeller University in 1979, Seitz began working as a paid permanent consultant for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, advising their research program. By 1989, the CEO of R.J. Reynolds, William Hobbs, concluded that "Dr. Seitz is quite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offer advice." [2] However, in 1994, Seitz authore ...

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11511 [lbo-talk] A. Cockburn's latest lunacy -- rank: 1000

The Nation - June 11, 2007 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070611/cockburn> beat the devil by Alexander Cockburn The Greenhousers Strike Back, and Strike Out I began this series of critiques of the greenhouse fearmongers with an evocation of the papal indulgences of the Middle Ages as precursors of the "carbon credits"--ready relief for carbon sinners burdened, because all humans exhale carbon, with original sin. In the Middle Ages they burned heretics, and after reading thro ...

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11512 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > I think your findings might be skewed by a small sample size. I find > "laboristas" no more (or no less!) bitchy than the left, broadly > defined, in general. Yeah, that too. I'm getting mellow in my middle age, though maybe some would say I'm less left than I used to be. Doug

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11513 [lbo-talk] damn, some feminists really don't have a sense of humor -- rank: 1000

[I always thought that the subject heading was a cheap shot issuing from the likes of Katie Roiphe, but I might have to reconsider. Jezebel is a smart and amusing new product from Gawker Media.] <http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2007/may#000874> What women (don't) want Imagine taking the very worst of those magazine's supposedly aimed at women and distilling it in a big vat of misogynist nonsense and then unloading it onto the web. Welcome to Jezebel, the new "women's" blog f ...

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11514 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul assigns Rudy some reading -- rank: 1000

Candidate Paul assigns reading to Giuliani By Andy Sullivan 1 hour, 44 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Longshot Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul (news, bio, voting record) on Thursday gave front-runner Rudy Giuliani a list of foreign-policy books to back up his contention that attacks by Islamic militants are fueled by the U.S. presence in the Middle East. "I'm giving Mr. Giuliani a reading assignment," the nine-term Texas congressman said as he stood behind a stack o ...

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11515 [lbo-talk] Nathan Newman quoted on UnionFacts.com!!!! -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > If the rest of Change to Win rejoined the AFL-CIO and the reunited > federation turned en masse on SEIU, how long do you think you would > keep your job? Is that just a rhetorical question, or is there really some possibility that CTW could suffer defections back to the AFL-CIO? Doug

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11516 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

Jim Straub wrote: > The > labor geeks and professors are too busy talking about P9 and tdu to > ever get > to it. Someone wrote me offlist with the very interesting and pertinent question: why are laboristas so bitchy? Why the constant assertions of authenticity, and the constant dis'ing of (essentially sympathetic) intellectuals? And why the intense sensitivity to criticism? One thought my correspondent had was that when you're losing so big in the real world, then you lash out ...

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11517 [lbo-talk] Nathan Newman quoted on UnionFacts.com!!!! -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 12:13 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > Yes, I wonder if Nathan will join Bob in using them and their anti- > union > cronies in the boss media to further his career, getting op-eds in > the nyt > and fauning coverage for his flop of a book. > > By the way stephen, bob's critiques of seiu are NOT spot on, they > are wrong > on every level, factually, analytically, and strategically. He is a > jackass. fuck him. I am full of plenty of tough love for andy ...

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11518 [lbo-talk] CTW goes to China -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 23, 2007 How U.S. Labor Leaders Chart a Global Course By ANDREW BATSON BEIJING -- U.S. labor leaders, taking a new approach to the challenges of globalization, plan to work more closely with their Chinese counterparts in hopes of raising wages and working standards in the country and thereby easing the competitive pressure on American workers. Wrapping up a five-day visit to mainland China, officials from the Change to Win labor coalition said they had found much co ...

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11519 [lbo-talk] more on Edwards -- rank: 1000

<http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=3> Book season is just beginning (two Clinton books next month), and Bob Shrum's memoir is being picked apart for Edwards tidbits. Shrum dismisses Edwards as "a Clinton who hadn't read the books," and says Kerry "wished that he'd never picked Edwards, that he should have gone with his gut" and chosen Dick Gephardt. As Michael Crowley sums it up on The New Republic's Website, " 'No Excuses&qu ...

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11520 [lbo-talk] gas price "tipping point": a little above current levels -- rank: 1000

[I saw a pundit on CNBC last week who said that polls consistently show the point at which Americans say that high gas prices will cause them to drive less is always about a quarter above present levels. While this poll doesn't exactly confirm that, the results are in line with the "somewhat above present levels" standard. In July 2006, the median "tipping point" tipping point was $3.50 and the price of gas was just over $3.00; now it's about $3.25, and the "tippin ...

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