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Doyle Saylor | 1 Jul 2006 01:43
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Re: Reply to Krauze

Greetings Economists,
I thought this an interesting quote.
On Jun 30, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> Disgustingly, a good chunk of American liberals and leftists rely upon
> exactly the same vocabulary.
>
Doyle;
I follow Nussbaum here.  The feeling of Disgust is about an emotion
that is not social.  One cannot in my view use disgust as a left
methodology for building a movement.

Secondly, While Yoshie sounds like she doesn't believe things will
happen, I don't interpret the relative quiet now as 'hopeless'.  This
is in my view a good time to organize.  Certain aspects of the times
seem interesting to me.  The polarization of the people is getting
stronger.  I would point again to the massive immigration protests.
That's the working class showing it's power.

Frankly while external events are important, internal to the United
States what's the internationalist argument?  The challenge in my view
is how decisively nationalist imperial strategies have failed in Iraq.
Yoshie thinks the Iraqi's are beaten, I don't think so.  They have
actually won for themselves and for us a lever to power.  The left can
take advantage not of single issues but the clarity of a diverse agenda
to start molding a global left.  I think it time to advocate for a mass
movement here.

In technical sense, organizing now requires a 'conversational' message.
  That means a focus upon human connection as opposed to reason based
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Yoshie Furuhashi | 1 Jul 2006 01:48
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Cuba Condemns Israel's Military Aggression against the Gaza Strip

Cuba Condemns Israel's Military Aggression against the Gaza Strip
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/cuba300606.html>

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Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>
<http://mrzine.org>
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Leigh Meyers | 1 Jul 2006 02:16
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Looking at the bright side of our nuclear arsenal...

If it weren't for the U.S. nuclear arsenal, Big Blue, Cray, and all
those super-crunchers  that model nuclear explosions so they don't have
to live-fire one and violate the ban would be put to use "good" use
monitoring our communication. (They failed to get approval for a live
one a month or so ago, Native Americans and locals in Nevada... the
downwinders, mugged them in court.)
.
> As envisioned, the next-generation nuclear weapon would have the same
> destructive power as existing ones, but be durable enough to last for
> decades.
>
> The next bomb is also meant to be so secure that it has jokingly been
> dubbed the "nuclear doorstop" - useless for any other purpose, should
> it fall into the wrong hands.
>
> The government and the labs refuse to discuss details of the two
> designs, citing national security. But they describe both proposals as
> "conservative" blueprints meant to assure reliability without
> violating a moratorium on full-scale nuclear testing in place since 1992
.
White House ponders NG nuclear warheads
By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer
Published 2:29 pm PDT Friday, June 30, 2006

http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/front/story/3321288p-12233670c.html

LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - The scientists who crack open the nation's
nuclear weapons for a living are never quite sure what they will find
inside.
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Michael Perelman | 1 Jul 2006 02:26
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mdriscoll@...: STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election*]

Ralph Johansen sent this to me.

----- Forwarded message from Ralph Johansen <mdriscoll@...> -----

Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:53:04 -1000
From: Ralph Johansen <mdriscoll@...>
To: Michael Perelman <michael@...>
Subject: STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican
 Presidential Election*

> *STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican
> Presidential Election*
>
> By Greg Palast
>
> /Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "//ARMED
> MADHOUSE/
> <http://www.gregpalast.com/mailing/link.php?URL=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ncmVncGFsYXN0LmNvbS9tYWRob3VzZS9pbmRleC5waHAvb3JkZXItdGhlLWJvb2sv&Name=&EncryptedMemberID=Mjc2Mg%3D%3D&CampaignID=21&CampaignStatisticsID=14&Demo=0&Email=lizr-SIbFVl+fliZeoWH0uzbU5w <at> public.gmane.org>/:
> Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to
> Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front
> Lines of the Class War."
>
>
> /Friday, June 30, 2006 --* GEORGE* Bush's operatives have plans to
> jigger with the upcoming elections.  I'm not talking about the
> November '06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too).
> I'm talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico for their
> Presidency.
>
> It begins with an FBI document marked, "Counterterrorism" and "Foreign
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Eugene Coyle | 1 Jul 2006 03:55
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Perelman's book!

My local bookstore phoned -- the book is in.  I'm away from home till
next week, so I won't get it before the 5th.  But the book exists!

Gene Coyle
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Paul Zarembka | 1 Jul 2006 04:18
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Fwd: Another Academic Persecuted for 9/11 Opinion.

http://www.gnn.tv/B16396

Another Teacher Under Fire for 9/11 Opinion.

http://tinyurl.com/kv7mp
Wis. lawmaker wants lecturer fired for 9-11 conspiracy views

    Thursday June 29, 2006

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) A state lawmaker is calling on the University
of Wisconsin-Madison to fire a part-time instructor who has spoken out
on his beliefs that figures in the U.S. government, not al-Qaida, were
behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

    Kevin Barrett is scheduled to teach a class in the fall in the UW-
Madison Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison
Provost Patrick Farrell confirmed in a statement Thursday.

    But Farrell said Barrett’s comments on a Milwaukee radio talk
show “raised some legitimate concerns about the content and quality of
instruction in his planned fall course, ‘Islam: Religion and Culture.’”

    During his appearance Wednesday night on Jessica McBride’s show on
WTMJ, Barrett disputed most of the widely accepted information about
the attacks that brought down the World Trade Center in New York City
when airliners were flown into the twin towers…

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This marks the second time in as many months that an academic has come
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Louis Proyect | 1 Jul 2006 15:34
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How to succeed in the business world

http://www.newstatesman.com/Bookshop/200607030054
Bookshop

Management guides claim that anyone can make it, if they work hard enough. 
By promoting this false dream, such books threaten to turn us into slaves. 
By Tom Hodgkinson
Tom Hodgkinson
          	
Buy now and find out what you could save!
Reviewed by Tom Hodgkinson
Monday 3rd July 2006
Winning: the ultimate business how-to book
Jack Welch with Suzy Welch HarperCollins, 372pp, £12.99
ISBN 0007197675

You Can't Win a Fight With Your Boss and 55 Other Rules for Success
Tom Markert HarperCollins, 146pp, £9.99
ISBN 0007227515

The Servant Leader: unleashing the power of your people
50 Cautionary Tales for Managers Peter Honey, How To Books, 262pp, £12.99
ISBN 0749445335

Bonjour Laziness: why hard work doesn't pay
Corinne Maier, Orion, 208pp, £6.99
ISBN 1400096286

In 1736, the American Puritan Benjamin Franklin published a pamphlet called 
"Necessary Hints to Those That Would Be Rich"; this was followed in 1748 by 
"Advice to a Young Tradesman". In these early management training guides,
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Leigh Meyers | 1 Jul 2006 15:39
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Following Fahrenheit 9/11 - The War Takes It's Toll

Friday, June 30, 2006
Guardian /UK

Fahrenheit 9/11 Marine Recruiter Killed in Iraq
by Suzanne Goldenberg

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0630-05.htm

The US Marine recruiter pictured in Fahrenheit 9/11
trying to persuade young men from the bleak town of
Flint, Michigan, to enlist has been killed by a
roadside bomb in Iraq, the Pentagon said.

Marine recruiters in Flint, Michigan approaching
teenagers outside a shopping mall to enlist them in
the military.
"Maybe we can get you a career in music, you know, let
the Marines go for it. I'm sure you know who Shaggy
is, right? How about a former Marine? Did you know
that?"

Staff Sergeant Raymond Plouhar, 30, died on Monday of
wounds suffered while on duty in Anbar province. He
had barely a month left of his tour of duty in Iraq,
where he was in charge of detecting and detonating
makeshift bombs.

Sgt Plouhar had been angered by his depiction in the
anti-war movie, where he was shown aggressively
pressing young men to enlist, his family told the
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Leigh Meyers | 1 Jul 2006 16:02
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A Second Opinion On Asymmetrical Suicides - Blame The Red Cross

One of these days, and I hope it won't be long, a WWII historian will
dig up a news clipping of the chief medical officer at a nazi
conentration camp or POW camp blaming the Red Cross for the condition of
the prisoners at their facilities.

FauxNews:

A Second Opinion

The chief medical officer at Guantanamo Bay said Tuesday that detainees
who hanged themselves in their cells three weeks ago were not suffering
depression, saying he agrees with military officials who called the
deaths an act of "asymmetrical warfare."

Exams performed one to two weeks before the suicides did not reveal
evidence that the prisoners were despondent over prolonged imprisonment
or maltreatment. The doctor also suggested that the detainees may have
been discovered earlier if officials hadn't been following strict Red
Cross standards on the treatment of prisoners, including how dark their
cells should be at night.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201431,00.html
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Leigh Meyers | 1 Jul 2006 16:22
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What do Ward Churchill & The Rainbow Family of the Living Light have in common?

Counter-cultural connections & Lawyers:

I was reading up on the suppression of the annual gathering of the
Rainbow Family of the Living Light in Colorado yesterday. The USFS is
clamping down, a few people are on trial for 'Illegal camping' and other
stupidity. The USFS has also claimed that their officers have been
assaulted by un-named & un-captured (most likely police agents). The
USFS agents are pulling cars and campers over on the way to the site,
and... dissuading the occupants (Read that as threatening).

Rainbow Family trials to stay in firehouse

By Deborah Frazier, Rocky Mountain News
June 30, 2006
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4812440,00.html

The trials for the Rainbow Family members camping in the Routt National
Forest will continue in the small firehouse near Steamboat Springs, a
federal judge said Thursday.

U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Krieger denied a motion for a temporary
restraining order filed by David Lane, an attorney for several Rainbow
Family members.
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This morning, I saw an article in regard  to Ward Churchill's legal
situation:

"Hopefully, the members of (the faculty committee) who review my case
will display the sort of integrity conspicuously lacking in their
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