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14311 [lbo-talk] A highly critical take on Fitch -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >If I were to extend this argument, this is the exact same reason why many >other US institutions suck, such as piecemeal health care, piecemeal local >governance competing against each other for business, piecemeal education >system, or piecemeal transportation system. And oil production even - the fragmented nature of holdings made it difficult to use modern extraction techniques, raising costs and reducing production. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 13:11:45 PST 2006

14312 [lbo-talk] Pat Robertson uncorks another -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4805952.stm> Top US evangelist targets Islam Outspoken US Christian evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson has accused Muslims of planning world domination, and said some were "satanic". On his live television programme, The 700 Club, he said radical Islamists were inspired by "demonic power". A US religious liberty watchdog called the comments "grossly irresponsible". Mr Robertson had to apologise recently for calling for V ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 12:43:09 PST 2006

14313 [lbo-talk] Making Friends In Low Places... -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >>Unless you can explain why this is not homophobic and insulting, as >>well as not as idiotic as it seems on first reading, you're out of >>here. >> >>Doug >Homophobic? I don't think I need to explain why it isn't. >I've been accused of being ... racially insensitive... as well. >I'd REALLY like to see the yardstick you use. >(I think it's twisted...) > >But I'll waste a post rebutting the claim ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 12:36:55 PST 2006

14314 [lbo-talk] the Bulgarian right -- rank: 1000

[This bounced for excessive length (28k); I'm just forwarding the URL and lead.] From: "Julian Gollop" <gollop at bol.bg> To: "LBO" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: Right wing extremism in Bulgaria Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:51:56 +0200 I have been living here in Bulgaria for some 6 months, and there is still a lot of learn. One thing that alarms me is the growth of right wing extremism and the complacency of the Bulgarian public. The so-called 'Attack coalition ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 11:49:21 PST 2006

14315 [lbo-talk] VV ruckus -- rank: 1000

[The Village Voice extends its long decline... Related stories at Gawker [latest: <http://www.gawker.com/news/village-voice/breaking-village-voice-axes-doug-simmons-nick-sylvester-hangs-on-160244.php>]. VV announcement weirdly written on a napkin: <http://villagevoice.com/news/0611,news,72525,2.html>.] New York Post - March 14, 2006 BOSS AT VOICE IS AXED FOR LAX FACTS By KEITH J. KELLY The Village Voice has booted Managing Editor Doug Simmons one week after the cover story "Do Y ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 11:43:05 PST 2006

14316 [lbo-talk] A highly critical take on Fitch -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Of course, for me the more interesting question, which goes well beyond >Fitch, is why have all these well-intentioned movements and their leaders >fallen short? My own answer would be a two-parter. First, any leadership position is likely to exert a conservatizing influence on its occupant, regardless of intention. You have to balance competing forces within an organization and deal with the real world outside. I've quoted before the observation of a guy who used ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 11:37:47 PST 2006

14317 [lbo-talk] Karen Finley offends the Nation -- rank: 1000

March 14, 2006 Encl: Media Alert and Note from the Publisher FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 14, 2006 Verso author Karen Finley offends the Nation The Nation, America's oldest left-wing magazine, has abruptly cancelled its story on George & Martha by Karen Finley (publishing on April 13th). The assigned journalist was "offended by the anal sex," and refused to meet with Ms. Finley, though an interview had been scheduled. George & Martha is an illustrated political satire which ima ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 11:29:08 PST 2006

14318 [lbo-talk] HUAC comes to Pacifica Radio Again -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Okay, I apologize for misinterpreting your post. I agree that >getting involved with Pacifica governance is a daunting proposition >at best and my initial reaction perhaps partly due to being too >accustomed to being in combat mode. I do think - despite our >differences on almost everything - that voices such as yours are >important to what Pacifica is about. I hope you continue staying >involved in your own way. Thanks. I'm taking the unusual step of ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 11:19:17 PST 2006

14319 [lbo-talk] the Republican pornstar -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> After getting her $2500 contribution all sorted out and in her own name, Mary Carey - the porn star politician of California recall fame - is all set to attend Thursday evening's NRCC fundraising dinner at which President Bush is expected as well. Carey was disappointed to learn on Monday that the NRCC would not accept the original contribution sent from her producer's bank account in her legal name, Mary Cook. She got in touch with ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 10:59:53 PST 2006

14320 [lbo-talk] Arab CBs mulling shift out of dollar -- rank: 1000

<http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article351127.ece> Independent (London) - March 14, 2006 Arab Central Banks Move Assets Out of Dollar By Philip Thornton Middle Eastern anger over the decision by the US to block a Dubai company from buying five of its ports hit the dollar yesterday as a number of central banks said they were considering switching reserves into euros. The United Arab Emirates, which includes Dubai, said it was looking to move one tenth of its dollar reserves int ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 10:50:07 PST 2006

14321 [lbo-talk] Ariel Levy's confession: the academics did it! -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org quoted Ariel Levy: >But we figured it couldn't do any harm for them to offer one >canonical literature course for those of us who wanted to grasp the >references in the contemporary Latin American poetry we were reading >in every other class. Ok, appended below are the current undergrad course offerings in English at Wesleyan <http://www.wesleyan.edu/course/englc.htm>. I see some race/gender/queer stuff, but I also see plenty of canonical literature. (A ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 10:42:32 PST 2006

14322 [lbo-talk] Making Friends In Low Places... -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Leigh wrote: >>(They're really, truly, by definition, faggots.) > >Dennis Claxton wrote: >> What is this supposed to mean? > >Did I say something offensive? > >Doug Henwood wrote: >> Thank you - I missed that particular toxic eruption from our >>hippie. What the fuck is that supposed to mean? > >Ad homs... toxic... eruption... hippie... never to approach the >content of my argument (I yawn...). > >It's an attack o ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 10:33:30 PST 2006

14323 [lbo-talk] A highly critical take on Fitch -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Marvin Gandall wrote: > > > > Certainly, the > > indictment of his critics is that he has drawn a one-sided and misleading > > picture of US labour - one resembling the caricature of it by the right. If > > this is so, in Fitch's case would be unintentional, but it would flow from > > the same questionable starting point where much of the left begins its > > analysis: that all contemporary problems are reducible to deficient ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 10:32:06 PST 2006

14324 [lbo-talk] HUAC comes to Pacifica Radio Again -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Hey Doug, I see you are as smug as usual about this which is too >bad. One might be excused for thinking you have no connection the >network. Why bother? So we can continue to hear shows such as yours >no? - don't you care about your own program at least? Obviously I didn't make myself clear. Actually I care about this more than ever, and have been agitating among some of my fellow producers about doing something. (An awful lot of them are just shrugging, in a ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 10:28:36 PST 2006

14325 [lbo-talk] freedom of religion news -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 14, 2006 ISAAC QUITS 'PARK' OVER JOKE SOUL man-turned-Scientologist Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef on Comedy Central hit "South Park" since 1997, has quit the show because of an episode that poked fun at his controversial faith. The "Shaft" singer is apparently still steamed about an episode titled "Trapped in the Closet" that premiered last November. The show skewered Scientology and its most famous convert, Tom Cruise, who somehow ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 14 07:38:54 PST 2006