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11671 [lbo-talk] free Paris? -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2007, at 11:56 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: His 8th post of the day. Yesterday it was 7. The limit is 3. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 11 09:33:51 PDT 2007

11672 [lbo-talk] Minority Report (was Southern vs. Northern violence) -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > Lynching is an amateur sport in the South; in the North it has been > professionalized and is taken care of by the police. Uh, no region beats the South at jailing and executing people. If you rank states by their death row populations, 5 of the top 10 are alumni of the Confederate States of America (marked in the tables below with an asterisk); if you rank them by incarceration rates, 6 of the top 10 are ex-CSA. Not a bad showing fo ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 09:31:23 PDT 2007

11673 [lbo-talk] political constraints on oil production -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 10, 2007 Politics and easy profits signal global oil crunch By Sheila McNulty in Houston In the oil business, the constant development of new technology has created the adage "good fields just keep getting better and better". Companies are able to get more out of oil fields than they expected even a decade ago. Yet if they cannot access those fields, the oil within is not going to come to market. A study by PFC Energy, the respected consultancy, shows world oil ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 16:29:31 PDT 2007

11674 [lbo-talk] Zizek! (the movie) in NYC -- rank: 1000

Hello, Please join us for a screening of Zizek!, a feature documentary in which wild man of theory Slavoj Zizek obsessively reveals the invisible workings of ideology through his unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critique of pop culture. Never ceasing to observe the paradoxes that underpin our perception of reality, little goes untheorized over the course of the film, particularly Zizek's recurring themes -- ideology, belief, revolution, and love. Q & A with filmm ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 11:11:26 PDT 2007

11675 [lbo-talk] Repub divisions on Iraq -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] This wasn't what Karl Rove's permanent majority was supposed to look like. Even as Vice President Cheney was being dispatched to Baghdad to prod the Iraqi government and shore up public support for the war, President Bush was being bluntly told by Republican moderates that Iraq is a looming political disaster for the GOP. Meanwhile, in the 2008 presidential race, the abortion issue is splintering the party, leaving two of the top three Republican candidates scrambling to e ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 09:12:10 PDT 2007

11676 [lbo-talk] Minority Report (was Southern vs. Northern violence) -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2007, at 11:33 AM, ravi wrote: > New England is truly frigid when it comes to interaction with > "aliens" Even to white Yalies from New York. NE is the chilliest damned place I've ever been. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 10 09:00:17 PDT 2007

11677 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It was bourgeois democracies that reduced Africa to its present > status. It was a bourgeois democracy that superintended the > genocide of > Indians in the u.s. It was a bourgeois democracy that that created the > situation summarzied in the phrase, "the open veins of Latin America." How democratic were the countries that colonized Africa and Latin America, actually? They were capitalist, but how widespread was the fran ...

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Date:	Wed May 9 18:39:46 PDT 2007

11678 [lbo-talk] Iraqi parliamentarians reject U.S. occupation -- rank: 1000

<http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/51624/> Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted May 9, 2007. On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, t ...

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Date:	Wed May 9 17:43:14 PDT 2007

11679 [lbo-talk] Guma responds -- rank: 1000

[My post that cited WBAI's R Paul Martin's observations on the possibility of Pacifica exec director Greg Guma's imminent departure made its way to Guma, whose response is below. As for the conspiracy issue, it's all over the Pacifica airwaves, though he's not the responsible party. Many Pacifica producers and audiences love conspiracy theories.] While there may be some kernels of reality embedded in this post, they are overwhelmed by the inacaccuracies and assumptions. Drawing conclusions ...

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Date:	Wed May 9 17:09:17 PDT 2007

11680 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 6:44 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > when Christ raises the issue Is he posting? Did I miss him because I'm damned? Speaking of damnation: this is your tenth post of the day. Chris Doss has posted six times. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 9 16:24:16 PDT 2007

11681 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 6:19 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Plainly, the idea that Russia is just a third world country being > sucked dry > of its oil does not hold up, any more than that it is a direct > rival to US > blue chip companies. The truth must be somewhere inbetween. Of course it is, but who said that Russia is just a third world country being sucked dry of its oil? The argument is that Russia is not creating any new industries or investing in the capital infrastructure n ...

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Date:	Wed May 9 15:37:20 PDT 2007

11682 [lbo-talk] free Paris? -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Paris's petition was easier to find quickly: Paris got busted for driving drunk and recklessly, got put on probation and sent to a booze maangement class. She failed to enroll in the booze management class, and got busted again for driving drunk and recklessly. 45 days is a pretty light sentence considering that she put a lot of people at risk. She's no Martha Stewart, that's for sure. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 9 15:17:04 PDT 2007

11683 [lbo-talk] free Paris? -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Personally, I'd rather see her wearing a signboard out in front of > one of the clubs she frequents, but I haven't given it much more > thought than that. I was in favor of freeing Martha Stewart though. Martha was a victim of the federal practice of trying to trap people into lying to a federal agent just to jail them, even if they weren't necessarily guilty of a crime in the first place. That's really sleazy and outrageous. By th ...

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Date:	Wed May 9 14:44:04 PDT 2007

11684 [lbo-talk] Russia's Economy -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 5/9/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote: >> I confess I find your attachment to Russian >> authoritarianism disconcerting -- it's less alarming >> than Yoshie's endorsement of reactionary theocracy in >> Iran, but neither strike me as socialist attitudes. > > No one is saying that Iran or Russia is socialist. It's up to the > Iranians and the Russians to decide whether ...

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Date:	Wed May 9 14:41:08 PDT 2007

11685 [lbo-talk] free Paris? -- rank: 1000

A report from slightly uptown: a friend on the NYU faculty says there's a "Free Paris!" - as in Hilton - demonstration going on in Washington Square Park right now, organized by NYU students. They want her 45-day jail sentence reduced. I don't think they're kidding.

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Date:	Wed May 9 11:37:33 PDT 2007