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15886 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Chuck wrote: > I think that anarchists have done a poor job of articulating the > anarchism found in everyday life. A Hayekian would say that's what The Market is about - a decentralized, spontaneous organizing principle that's smarter than any central planner could ever be. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 09:54:57 PST 2006

15887 [lbo-talk] Reyes: send more troops -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16062351/site/newsweek/> Iraq: Top Dem Wants More Troops As the debate over Iraq intensifies, leading Democrat Silvestre Reyes is calling for the deployment of more U.S. troops. WEB EXCLUSIVE By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball Newsweek Dec. 5. 2006 - In a surprise twist in the debate over Iraq, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops as part of a s ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 08:29:48 PST 2006

15888 [lbo-talk] internal divisions in Lebanon -- rank: 1000

[apparently without the unifying influence of an Israeli attack, Hezbollah is losing fans among the Lebanese] Shia fury highlights Lebanon sectarian crisis By Ferry Biedermann in Beirut Lebanon's sectarian fabric yesterday looked increasingly stretched as thousands of Shia demonstrators attended the funeral of the first fatality in their continuing protests to topple Fouad Siniora, the country's Sunni prime minister. The army's commander warned that the military may not be able to control t ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 08:16:55 PST 2006

15889 [lbo-talk] Trump on Spy -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 6, 2006 Trump Fingers Spy 'failure' DON'T invite Donald Trump and Graydon Carter to the same party. Trump read the Page Six story about Carter's recent interview with Bergdorf Goodman magazine, in which Carter seemed to gloat that his Spy magazine dubbed Trump "the short-fingered vulgarian." "In fact," Trump tells us, "my fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body. From what ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 05:53:59 PST 2006

15890 [lbo-talk] bloodsuckers at work -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 8:44 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > I am not sure I understand the widespread view that > attorneys, unlike other business people, are out of > line for charging money for our services. It's not the charging of money - it's the egregious piling-on of this: > fees > totaling about $3 million for the services of 56 > lawyers, 65 legal > assistants, 6 accountants, 5 bankers, 6 doctors, 2 > public relations > firms and a law school professor. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 21:30:36 PST 2006

15891 [lbo-talk] Flirting With Fascism on CNN Headline News -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 5:51 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> <http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3014> >> >> Action Alert >> >> Flirting With Fascism on CNN Headline News >> Host Glenn Beck threatens Muslims with concentration camps > > Shades of FDR! Two points: > > 1. This sort of threat _does_ have more of an aroma of naziism than do > most things that get loosely labelled fascist. > > 2. But the example of F ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 15:04:08 PST 2006

15892 [lbo-talk] Voter support for same-sex marriage bans declining -- rank: 1000

[report: <http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/Egan_Sherrill_06.pdf>] Voter support for same-sex marriage bans declining, study finds Ballot measures' appeal diminishes in states with fewer evangelical Christians; marriage initiatives did not help Republican Senate candidates in 2006 WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 Bans on same-sex marriage performed more poorly in the November 2006 elections than in the past, in part due to their declining appeal in states with smaller "born-again" Ch ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 14:55:36 PST 2006

15893 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > The point is not to deny the > usefulness of a notion of ideology, just to say that we don't need > obscure speech to talk about it, point to it, and look at how it > functions. The fetish for "clear speech" is yet another ideology. It assumes that truth can be made easily transparent. But, as the Old Man said, "There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 14:52:21 PST 2006

15894 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > My point here is that all this throwing brains about over > "ideology" does not improve on the common sense view expressed by > Chomsky and for that matter Marx and Engels in the German Ideology. > > "Plato's problem, then is to explain how we know so much, given > that evidence to us is so sparse. Orwell's problem is to explain > why we know and understand so little, even though evidence > available to us i ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 14:07:42 PST 2006

15895 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > we can only use the word "ideology" in a more or less common sense Of course, "common sense" is itself a deeply ideological category - all the knee-jerk responses we're programmed with from birth. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 14:05:22 PST 2006

15896 [lbo-talk] Flirting With Fascism on CNN Headline News -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3014> Action Alert Flirting With Fascism on CNN Headline News Host Glenn Beck threatens Muslims with concentration camps 12/5/06 The New York Times (12/4/06), profiling new CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck, called him "brash" and "opinionated," with an "unfiltered approach." The conservative talk-radio host-turned-cable news announcer, the paper reported, "take[s] credit for saying what others are feeling but are a ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 13:26:55 PST 2006

15897 [lbo-talk] further signs of cultural decay -- rank: 1000

<http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/12/radio_news_you_.html> Radio listeners give up baby for PS3 A DJ on KDWB asked listeners to call in if they were willing to give up their child for 24 hours in exchange for a PS3. Much to the DJ's surprise, quite a few people called in, seriously ready to trade their baby for the video game console. The callers were disappointed to discover that the DJ was only kidding and that they'd have to shell out $800 on eBay and find a babysitter to live th ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 12:55:49 PST 2006

15898 [lbo-talk] UN: Richest 2% of adults own more than half of global household wealth -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:42 PM, ravi wrote: > I think Doug is mentioning wealth vs income because you wrote, in the > quoted text above: $60k a year. From Doug's calculations, it seemed > like > wealth redistribution would yield $45k per person one time. Right. I was confused by the "per year." $45,000 would yield only about $2,250/yr, which isn't much by US standards but is about the per capita income of Pakistan (PPP basis). Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 12:51:00 PST 2006

15899 [lbo-talk] Richard Viguerie seriously bummed -- rank: 1000

** MEDIA ALERT ** Richard Viguerie: Bolton's Withdrawal Discourages Conservatives BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAS "THROWN IN THE TOWEL" Conservative Richard Viguerie Reacts to Bolton's Withdrawal DECEMBER 5, 2006 (Manassas, VA) -- Conservative activist/author Richard A. Viguerie released the following statements today, in reaction to the withdrawal of John Bolton as Ambassador to the United Nations: "There are only a mere handful of conservatives in significant policy- making positio ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 5 12:47:17 PST 2006

15900 [lbo-talk] credit -- rank: 1000

My favorite song credit so far among all the Soviet national anthems: Band of the guards regiment "Felix Dzerzhinsky" (Ministry of State Security, East Germany), Günter Krause, cond.

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