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11521 [lbo-talk] Who is the worst american president... -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > Wilson (Ubu's main competition) imprisoned Debs. Yeah I was just reading some on the Wilson years. The repression in WW I makes George W look like a card-carrying member of the ACLU. Mass roundups and deportations. The entire leadership of the IWW jailed. Socialist periodicals forbidden in the mails. Gotta watch those high-minded liberals. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 24 04:56:22 PDT 2007

11522 [lbo-talk] union salaries -- rank: 1000

Ok, so all you SEIU people on here - I just read up on your salaries on UnionFacts.com. Andy Stern makes 10-15 times as much as an organizer. A guy I know with an MBA makes almost $90,000, while the cleaners make $17,000. What's the internal debate like about the pay scale, if any? What's the justification for these gaps? How can people work 60 hours a week for $25,000 a year and not go mad? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 23 19:57:44 PDT 2007

11523 [lbo-talk] A public square -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This list provides an endless supply of > tautologies. "All truth is a deep tautology." - Harold Bloom

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Date:	Wed May 23 19:53:21 PDT 2007

11524 [lbo-talk] Nathan Newman quoted on UnionFacts.com!!!! -- rank: 1000

<http://unionfacts.com/unions/unionProfile.cfm?id=137> "A powerful local of Stern's SEIU budgeted another $35 million of its members' money on political advocacy in 2004, according to union activist and lawyer Nathan Newman." Ha! Nathan joins Bob Fitch as a left source for UnionFacts!

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Date:	Wed May 23 19:35:24 PDT 2007

11525 [lbo-talk] 4 in 10 Americans have friends or relatives who are gay -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Change is always brought about in the first instance by a minority, > only confirmed later, first by a larger minority, then by a majority. My aunt-in-law Jane Mansbridge is working on a book called Everyday Feminism. Her argument is that social movements like feminism go through a very visible, organized early phase, and then ebb at the public level while they continue to do their work at the private or personal level. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 23 14:05:50 PDT 2007

11526 [lbo-talk] missing hegemon at the CFR -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > The problem described in your report was not "widespread > antagonism" but one of perceived comparative weakness of US > imperial power. They're related, you know. Sophisticated imperialists know that you need assent to rule, and that armed force should only be a last resort - and when you resort to it, you should win convincingly. The consensus of the panelists and the audience was that American power has been weak ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 13:55:55 PDT 2007

11527 [lbo-talk] Black or Latino ? -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > There is anti-immigration sentiment in some Black people, but that > it is > decidedly more concentrated than in the white population is > debatable, a > debate which Doug might have some empirical evidence based opinion > figures. Here's one piece of evidence - the exit poll from Prop 187, the 1994 anti-immigrant ballot initiative in California. About 2/3 of whites were for it, and about 1/2 of blacks. No demographic group ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 13:54:02 PDT 2007

11528 [lbo-talk] 4 in 10 Americans have friends or relatives who are gay -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/485/friends-who-are-gay> May 23, 2007 Four-in-Ten Americans Have Close Friends or Relatives Who are Gay Survey finds Familiarity Is Closely Linked to Greater Tolerance by Shawn Neidorf , Research Associate Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and Rich Morin, Senior Editor, Pew Research Center In the past four decades, growing numbers of gays have come out of the closet and into the mainstream of American life. As a consequence, 4-in-10 American ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 12:44:16 PDT 2007

11529 [lbo-talk] Michael Yates on the air -- rank: 1000

Listen to Michael Yates with Tavis Smiley: <http://www.pbs.org/kcet/ tavissmiley/archive/200705/20070522.html>. Nudged his book <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583671439/ leftbusinessobseA> up to 4,378 on Amazon's bestseller list! Doug

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Date:	Wed May 23 12:40:05 PDT 2007

11530 [lbo-talk] missing hegemon at the CFR -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Eh? How do you figure that? The subtext was that the invasion of Iraq >> was in no small part responsible for the U.S.'s weakened political >> position and the widespread antagonism towards us. Fixing that >> situation, insofar as it can be fixed at all, requires making nice >> with the rest of the world. > > It does not follow from this ("the invasion of Iraq was in no sm ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 12:16:58 PDT 2007

11531 [lbo-talk] some economists explain 10,000 years of human history -- rank: 1000

"A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History" NBER Working Paper No. W12795 Contact: DOUGLASS C. NORTH Washington University, St. Louis - Department of Economics Email: DNorth at WUSTL.EDU Auth-Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1495 Co-Author: JOHN JOSEPH WALLIS University of Maryland - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Email: wallis at econ.umd.edu Auth-Page: http://ssrn.com/author=230873 Co-Author: BARRY R. WEINGAST Stanford Uni ...

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11532 [lbo-talk] You just can't make this shit up... -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 1:39 PM, ravi quoted: > Al Hurra television, the U.S. government's $63 million-a-year effort > at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by > executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a > senior official who oversees the program. We've come a long way from Frank Wisner's "Mighty Wurlitzer"! <http:// www.namebase.org/news17.html>.

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Date:	Wed May 23 10:53:58 PDT 2007

11533 [lbo-talk] Greenberg & Co.: how to sell hot climate action -- rank: 1000

<http://gqrr.com/articles/1971/3378_energymessage.pdf> GREENBERG QUINLAN ROSNER May 9, 2007 Dramatic Transformation in Energy, Global Warming Debate America Must Take the Lead in New Energy Future To: Interested Parties From: Al Quinlan, Stan Greenberg, John Podesta The public debate about energy and global warming has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past few years. The results of recent polling and focus groups for the Center for American Progress argue that public officia ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 10:48:28 PDT 2007

11534 [lbo-talk] the lifestylist -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/first-up-against-the-wall/hamptons-concierges- catering-to-better-class-of-douchebags-262894.php> First up against the wall Hamptons Concierges Catering To Better Class Of Douchebags It's not online, but it's worth your dropping your two bits for the Hamptons Survival Guide in today's Post, particularly if you enjoy reading about douchebags. In an article called "Pay for the Privilege," the paper introduces you to Tony Abrams, "lifestylist." ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 10:37:19 PDT 2007

11535 [lbo-talk] O.C. freeway fatality an international case -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Lee, a 40-year-old personnel administrator at Hyundai Motor America, > joined six colleagues for dinner at Seoul Oak Korean restaurant in > Garden Grove about 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 18, 2005, to welcome one of the > businessmen to the U.S. The group ate barbecued ribs and soup and > consumed 14 bottles of Saan Soju, a Korean rice wine with a 21% > alcohol content. Lee drank about eight shots, one of his colleagues > later told ...

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