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13846 [lbo-talk] World Bank sets out 5-year China development plan -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >UPDATE 1-World Bank sets out 5-year China development plan Why does China need the WB"s money or advice? They're overflowing with reserves, and they're obviously doing something right. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 24 16:00:21 PDT 2006

13847 [lbo-talk] Alternet reviews Singer's latest (The Way We Eat) -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >And, my point would be, of course, even if you ate all the fresh >spinach you needed, it would cost more to buy loads of fresh spinach >than the meat you'd buy to get you fat, protein, and B in. And your primal urges to tear flesh would remain unfulfilled. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 24 15:04:45 PDT 2006

13848 [lbo-talk] Moscow's social democracy -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>The parent/child thing of yesterday was an allusion to the aborted >>conversation about Judith Bulter's Psychic Life of Power that >>almost began this list: if the human subject is founded in >>subjection, that subject may come to fear the loss of authority as >>threatening psychic cohesion. We are, of course, on alert not to >>produce a little authoritarian, but some degree of coercion comes >>with the ...

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Date:	Wed May 24 14:36:49 PDT 2006

13849 [lbo-talk] Moscow's social democracy -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >On May 24, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Maybe I'm just influenced by my current life sitch, but...what more >>do you need?!?!?! >> > >Yesterday it was the 'parent/child' relationship. Today this. > >I'll bite. How is the little tyke? He's terrific, a truly excellent little human. The parent/child thing of yesterday was an allusion to the aborted conversation about Judith Bulter's Psychic Life of Power that almost began this list: if ...

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Date:	Wed May 24 13:10:29 PDT 2006

13850 [lbo-talk] IMF cuts off credit to Bolivia -- rank: 1000

tfast wrote: >http://canadianobserver.wordpress.com/ Is "Blaire" a Canadian spelling - maybe a bilingual nod to Quebec? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 24 10:07:20 PDT 2006

13851 [lbo-talk] IMF cuts off credit to Bolivia -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Her fourth post of the day. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 24 09:51:44 PDT 2006

13852 [lbo-talk] Moscow's social democracy -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > What other social democracy does Moscow have besides free daycare for >all ? Maybe I'm just influenced by my current life sitch, but...what more do you need?!?!?! Doug

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Date:	Wed May 24 08:23:48 PDT 2006

13853 [lbo-talk] IMF cuts off credit to Bolivia -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >[with of course the obligatory digs at Evo from the left] > >http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/boli-m24.shtml Digs? Or are they just pointing out some real problems (as if a revolutionary Trotskyist government would have an easier time of it!)? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 24 07:12:45 PDT 2006

13854 [lbo-talk] artsy-fartsy -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >what _is_ art, anyway? how do we distinguish art from non-art? If you look vaguely bored while listening to a recording of a fart, it's art. If you guffaw, it's not. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 24 06:53:50 PDT 2006

13855 [lbo-talk] frontiers of activism: mail a letter for peace -- rank: 1000

<http://www.unitedforpeace.org> | 212-868-5545 | Seventy-two percent of our soldiers in Iraq say the U.S. should end our occupation of that nation this year.1 It's more clear than ever that "supporting the troops" and "ending the war" are one and the same. In order to spread that message and raise money for UFPJ's ongoing work, we at United for Peace and Justice have teamed up with the creative activists at BringThemHomeNow.com. By putting a peace sign emblazoned with a ...

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Date:	Wed May 24 06:34:51 PDT 2006

13856 [lbo-talk] McLemee on Euston -- rank: 1000

<http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/05/24/mclemee> Euston.... We Have a Problem By Scott McLemee Tomorrow night at a church in London, there will be a gathering of several hundred people to celebrate the launch of "The Euston Manifesto" - a short document in which one sector of the British and American left declares itself to be in favor of pluralist and secular democracy, and against blowing people up for the glory of Allah. The Eustonians also support open-source software. (I ...

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Date:	Wed May 24 06:31:45 PDT 2006

13857 [lbo-talk] artsy-fartsy -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 23, 2006 ART WITH AN F IN LONDON THE geniuses who run the art world in London are getting their just deserts. They awarded the prestigious Turner Prize to Martin Creed for his work titled "The Lights Going On and Off," in which a pair of gallery lights were programmed to go on and off at regular intervals. Now Creed has installed "Work No. 401" in London's preeminent museum, the Tate Modern, which reverberates with a nine-minute recording - play ...

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Date:	Wed May 24 06:06:38 PDT 2006

13858 [lbo-talk] 3 videos I uploaded to YouTube, enjoy -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Sounds like you got a real kick out of what Bookie had >to say. I kind of like the old sourpuss. We talked on the phone once about 15 years ago - he mostly growled at me. But I like what Bookchin had to say - he's got a point about what the capitalist workplace does to the consciousness of the worker. But on bad days, I don't see that too many people resist hierarchy - in fact, an awful lot of people seem to take pleasure in it. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 23 16:37:56 PDT 2006

13859 [lbo-talk] Bush & gas -- rank: 1000

Bush's approval rating & the gas price: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/BushNGas.html>.

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Date:	Tue May 23 15:53:56 PDT 2006

13860 [lbo-talk] Street-fighting Days -- rank: 1000

Aditya Mopur wrote: >I'm sure this has been debated to death and maybe beyond on this >forum, but I'm fresh off the boat, so please bear with me and feel >free to point out any errors:) > > >> What is exactly "neo-liberal orthodoxy"? It's really an odd question from Ulhas, as you & several others have noted. The definition is hardly a mystery - the familiar package of deregulation, opening up to foreign trade and capital flows, cuts in social spending, orienta ...

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Date:	Tue May 23 14:57:40 PDT 2006