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17941 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> Because, to paraphrase Sonic Youth, it's hard to understand the exact >> dimensions of Canadian hell. There seems to be less poverty, less >> insecurity, less inequality, less militarization, less incarceration, >> and more political freedom than down here in the imperial heartland. >> Ditto the rest of the second-tier imperialist countries. > >Doug, sometimes you surprise me. The above seems to imply that any countr ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 08:36:23 PST 2005

17942 [lbo-talk] A picture tells a thousand words -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Lance Murdoch wrote: > >>I have helped put together a collection of photographs showing the >>people gathered outside of Terri Schiavo's hospice. From watching TV, >>one would never get the idea of how fucking nuts these people are. > > >O.K. let's accept your premise that these people are "fucking nuts" They may be fucking nuts, but they don't look all that unusual. America is full of people who look like that. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 07:35:25 PST 2005

17943 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >The answer has to do with seeking the tremendous advantages of >monopolies and the security of outright theft. The over accumulation >of capital has to find investments and those are best secured and have >the maximal likehood of profit increases within tightly controlled >environments like capturing of whole swathes of a subjugated >earth, its people, and its societies through a complex set of >repressive political, financial, production, and military & ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 07:24:07 PST 2005

17944 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >So explain to me why you find Canadian subordination to the US so >funny-- is it because we are better off then Porto-Rico? Because, to paraphrase Sonic Youth, it's hard to understand the exact dimensions of Canadian hell. There seems to be less poverty, less insecurity, less inequality, less militarization, less incarceration, and more political freedom than down here in the imperial heartland. Ditto the rest of the second-tier imperialist countries. You were annoyed that I ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 07:21:52 PST 2005

17945 [lbo-talk] the English take on Summers -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 30, 2005 Improved Formula In England, Girls Are Closing Gap With Boys in Math Making Class Interactive Has Side Effect: Females Thrive; Echoes of Harvard Debate What It Means to Be 'Innate' By JEANNE WHALEN and SHARON BEGLEY Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL LEICESTER, England -- In her 10th-grade math class, Frankie Teague dimmed the lights, switched on soothing music and handed each student a white board and a marker. Then, she projected an arithmetic probl ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 07:10:01 PST 2005

17946 [lbo-talk] stats -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I don't exactly want to watch one; so could you guys explain why it >was a freak out? The deed was done using a knife held with bare hands. It's very messy - lots of hacking, punctuated initially by screams. Lots of spurting blood. I watched some videos of guys being shot (on the same Ogrish site), but those are relatively quick and clean. The beheading was drawn out, and it seemed that the victim experienced lots of pain and terror before the lights dimmed. It's a ver ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 06:30:06 PST 2005

17947 [lbo-talk] interracial marriage -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport's Tuesday Briefing] Guess Who? The top-grossing movie of the weekend was Guess Who, a highly updated version of the 1967 classic, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The old movie revolved around the reactions of two white parents (played memorably by Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn) whose daughter brought home a black fiancé to meet them. The current version reverses the situation and portrays a black woman who brings home her white fiancé to meet her bl ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 16:09:49 PST 2005

17948 [lbo-talk] poll on PVS -- rank: 1000

Gallup.com - March 29, 2005 Americans Choose Death Over Vegetative State Most would have feeding tube removed for their child, spouse, or themselves by Lydia Saad, Senior Gallup Poll Editor The court of public opinion has been no more favorable to Terri Schiavo's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, than have been the state and federal courts that rebuffed their various requests to reinsert the feeding tube that keeps their daughter alive. Yes, Americans feel sympathetic toward the Schindlers, bu ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 16:02:21 PST 2005

17949 [lbo-talk] Harold Cruse dies -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - March 29, 2005 Social Critic, Essayist Harold Cruse Dies By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer Harold Cruse, 89, a captivating, sometimes audacious voice in black social, political and artistic life for five decades whose best-known work was the essay collection "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," died March 25 at an assisted living facility in Ann Arbor, Mich. He had congestive heart failure. Mr. Cruse had been a student of the theater -- stagehand, fail ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 29 15:35:24 PST 2005

17950 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >These and other facts themselves need an explanation. The question >is why the relationships between the North America, Europe and Japan >are not based on "liberty, equality and Bentham." The capitalist >system, unlike the pre-capitalist ones, doesn't require direct and >immediate use of coercion. No need to coerce Level Two (Canada, Western Europe, Japan, Australia): they get a pretty good deal. High standard of living, low military bills. Of cou ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 15:22:42 PST 2005

17951 [lbo-talk] stats -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >leftbusinessobserver.org 791 Except it's <leftbusinessobserver.com>. Links for <www.leftbusinessobserver.com>: 30,643 <leftbusinessobserver.com>: 3,141 ______ 33,784

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17952 [lbo-talk] stats -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >>Doesn't everyone know the beheading video archive is at >><http://www.ogrish.com/beheading_videos.html>? >> >>Doug > > >according to the link popularity index, the archives have an above >average rating, (5,001-20,000) while orgish comes in as a limited >presence, I watched a beheading video a few months ago - freaked me out. I was destabilized for hours afterwards. I'd thought I could take it, but I couldn't. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 14:40:52 PST 2005

17953 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I think the neocons, if I'm remembering the theory-of-action >described within the >PNAC docs and other sources accurately, base their hyper-aggressive notions of >foreign policy upon two pillars: > >* a belief (not unjustified it seems) that the Soviet Union's >collapse opened new >vistas of possibility -- call it the 'nothing can stop us now' approach to >foreign policy > >* a fear of so-called, *peer competitors* which, described in other ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 14:01:53 PST 2005

17954 [lbo-talk] Re: New (or Old) Imperialism -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >Do you have the stats concerning US consumption as a percentage of >world consumption for roughly the same period? Not at my fingertips but my guess is that it'd be the same or slightly higher than the GDP share. Over the last few years, US consumption has inched above 70% of GDP (after being in the mid-60s in the 1990s and the low 60s in the early post-WW2 decades). That's higher than most other countries (which have higher investment, government, and net export ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 13:58:38 PST 2005

17955 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill & 9-11 -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Chuck strikes back I know you don't like Chuck0, but the insults are completely unnecessary. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 13:21:17 PST 2005