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15811 [lbo-talk] Greenspan plays with language -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Doug wrote: > >> Gotta love Alan Greenspan's use of language. For example, >> "sophisticated" in this excerpt from a Reuters story: "Greenspan said >> markets were so sophisticated it was very difficult to forecast the >> short term direction of the dollar." He could have easily said >> "random" or "irrational," but "sophisticated" sounds so much better, >> ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 15:20:51 PST 2006

15812 [lbo-talk] Greenspan plays with language -- rank: 1000

Gotta love Alan Greenspan's use of language. For example, "sophisticated" in this excerpt from a Reuters story: "Greenspan said markets were so sophisticated it was very difficult to forecast the short term direction of the dollar." He could have easily said "random" or "irrational," but "sophisticated" sounds so much better, especially when you're billing at his rates for speeches. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 14:36:30 PST 2006

15813 [lbo-talk] Iranian elections -- rank: 1000

<http://counterpunch.org/ghamari12092006.html> December 9 / 10, 2006 Iran's Upcoming Municipal Elections The Donkey and the Date By BEHROOZ GHAMARI On December 15 Iranians will cast their ballots for municipal elections. Reformist candidates across the country, particularly in Tehran, have a credible opportunity to win, if their constituents emerge from their hibernation and actively participate in these elections. The government has hindered the domestic media's attempt to generate a ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 14:16:32 PST 2006

15814 Re: [lbo-talk] Iran s New Power Balance -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Far more interesting is the faction fight in Iran's power elite, which > generally goes unnoticed among Western leftists except Iranian > leftists and Iran Studies scholars in the West. The way you look at > Iran is the same as the way most Western liberals look at Russia. I'm not going to say any more on this topic after this post, but I'm aware of that faction fight, and your boy is on the right-wing of it. As the Le Monde D ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 13:57:22 PST 2006

15815 [lbo-talk] Primitive accumulation - Harvey on Marx -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 11:19 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > Isn't "parasitism" the whole point of the "vulgar" > labor theory of value, that value is exhaustively > constituted by accumulated labor? And isn't the charge > of parasitism the real point of value theory, not in a > moralistic sense, although also) in an ethical one -- > that, as a matter of scientific fact, capitalists qua > capitalists contribute nothing essential to the > economy, an ...

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15816 [lbo-talk] Primitive accumulation - Harvey on Marx -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 8:03 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > I posted more than my limit on Sunday but here in Durban it's > Monday. And Doug, sorry about sig.card - it's gone now I think. > > Doug Henwood wrote: >> How can the system as a whole conjure value merely out of >> exchanging virtual titles to wealth? The profits of financiers >> come ultimately from interest and fees paid by business and >> consumer debtors, even if there are countless steps between >> ...

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15817 Re: [lbo-talk] Iran s New Power Balance -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Politics in Iran, even as it is, seems to me to be much livelier than > in Japan or the USA. Yeah, I think a conference on the Holocaust featuring David Duke and Robert Faurisson is the peak of liveliness! Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 12:48:35 PST 2006

15818 [lbo-talk] What's Lies Behind the West's Russia Phobia? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Why are many (most?) Western news organizations so > heavily invested in portraying Russia in the bleakest > terms possible? One of the odd things about it is that so many of these western Russophobes - or Pootey-Poot-o-Phobes - are on the left, to some degree or other. It's like a new toy for the human rights imperialists. Except no one on earth can be crazy enough to think of bombing Russia, right? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 11:30:13 PST 2006

15819 Re: [lbo-talk] Iran s New Power Balance -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Ha, ha, ha, you belong to the "glass is nearly always empty" camp, so > it's a surprise that you mustered any enthusiasm at all for Chavez and > Putin. :-> They're both doing good things for the masses in their countries, and have approval ratings to show for it. And they don't seize satellite dishes and whip women for wearing short skirts. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 10:58:47 PST 2006

15820 [lbo-talk] why the water will soon be around our ankles -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > On 12/11/06, Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12/10/06, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> It sounded like the heat was centrally controlled and the AC not. >> There's nothing unusual about this -- the crude version is to open a >> window when the heat is too high. I've done it too. >> > > Sure - but Carrol seem to suggest there might be a reason why it might &g ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 10:20:50 PST 2006

15821 [lbo-talk] What Lies Behind the Rash of Russian Poisonings? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Peter Lavelle wrote: > I would like to point out that Gaidar has gone to great lengths to > play down this whole thing. If he was poisoned, he claims that it > was only to hurt Russia's image in the world. And he isn't "a > Kremlin critic" as most media report. He is a neo-classical > economist and disagrees with Russia's current economic policies. His policies helped produce one of the greatest social collapses in modern history. Current R ...

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15822 Re: [lbo-talk] Iran s New Power Balance -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > FWIW, from the "glass is always more than half empty" camp: > > Alexandre Leroi-Ponant, "Iran's New Power Balance," > <http://mondediplo.com/2006/12/04iran>. Indeed. That's a pretty damning article for your POV, Yoshie. Not only has your Prince brought deepened repression, his half-assed economic policies have stoked inflation and further worsened the living standards of the poor, and he's handed out ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 09:31:37 PST 2006

15823 [lbo-talk] world improved when you want to lick a computer -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:07 PM, bitch wrote: > Because like it or not, Apple has actually managed something quite > radical for a tech company: They have not merely changed the world, > they have actually improved it. Oh yes they have. > > I ain't talkin' global warming. I don't mean they've solved world > hunger or cured cancer or ended racism or muzzled Ashlee Simpson. > But I do mean something that, in its way, is nearly as profound: > They've managed to make the world j ...

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15824 [lbo-talk] What Lies Behind the Rash of Russian Poisonings? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Wendy Lyon wrote: > On 12/11/06, Michael Givel <mgivel at earthlink.net> wrote: > >> Posted Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006 Russians learned Thursday that former >> prime minister Yegor Gaidar, the mastermind of Russia's early 1990s >> "shock therapy" economic reform, was poisoned last Friday in Dublin. >> Irish doctors managed to save Gaidar from what he now calls "a threat >> to my life." > > According to ...

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15825 [lbo-talk] let's hold a bake sale! -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 11, 2006 Escalating Tab Despite Its $168 Billion Budget, The Army Faces a Cash Crunch After Years of Gearing Up For High-Tech Warfare, Service Is Short on Basics Humvees Rise to $225,000 By GREG JAFFE FORT STEWART, Ga. -- With just six weeks before they leave for Iraq, the 3,500 soldiers from the Third Infantry Division's First Brigade should be learning about Ramadi, the insurgent stronghold where they will spend a year. Many of the troops don't even know the b ...

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