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17956 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill & 9-11 -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: > > Michael Dawson wrote: >> >> >The USG is the second most powerful reality in the world, after >> >the power of international capital. > >Doug: >> >> How many divisions has international capital? > >Lots, of course. Maybe "big capital" is what I should have said. I >certainly don't subscribe to any claim that capital is run by a global >politburo. But capital is ultimately backed by the U.S. milit ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 13:18:26 PST 2005

17957 [lbo-talk] Anarchists get authoritarian! -- rank: 1000

chuck at mutualaid.org wrote: > > "A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and > > honorary titles, interesting research and professorial > > wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, > > prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by > > only an almost superhuman belief." - Max Horkheimer > > How fucking true this morning and on most days. I think this is a favorite quote of a certain computer programmer who works at Col ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 13:10:54 PST 2005

17958 [lbo-talk] FBI headaches -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >What I don't get is why a site like that saves logs at all. If they >didn't (it's trivial to tell Apache not to log anything), there'd be no >subpoena, right? What kind of logs does the lbo-talk server keep? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 13:08:19 PST 2005

17959 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Nonhierarchical social arrangements are relatively common in human >societies; people just take them for granted. (e.g., peer groups, >many family relationships, food co-ops, my local bike repair >collective, most open source software projects, lots of bands, >just to draw a few examples from our own society.) Those are pretty small groups, and I'll bet lots of them have hidden hierarchies. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 12:53:59 PST 2005

17960 [lbo-talk] stats -- rank: 1000

Number five in the list of domains by hits visiting the lbo-talk archives: federalreserve.org. It's also number two in the list of kbytes transferred. Among the top 20 strings in the archive's search function: 1 execution photos 2 jimmy hendricks 3 rigoberto menchu 5 ward churchill vietnam 11 baby knauer 14 ann coulter deadhead 15 clitoris reduction 18 terrism 19 ward churchill indian 20 carly's way delio Doesn't everyone know the beheading video archive is at <http://www.ogrish.com/beheading ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 12:26:15 PST 2005

17961 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >Are you saying that hierarchies are the natural and inevitable order >of things and that non- >hierarchal arrangements are not? It's hard to say anything's "natural" in human behavior, but nonhierarchical arrangements have yet to present themselves in durable quantity. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 11:57:07 PST 2005

17962 [lbo-talk] whipping cures mental disorders -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Dog bites man. Sure, but "man enjoys it" is a fresh twist. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 11:34:57 PST 2005

17963 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Hierarchies have always existed, within each nation-state and >internationally. Can we say hierarchy = empire? But this is much more systematic - look at the structure of international bodies: WB/IMF dominated by the rich countries, U.S. has blocking but not determining vote; NATO, a US-dominated institution for keeping Europe in line; the UN Security council, with 5 veto members. Or international currencies, with the US dollar at the center (that position now under ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 09:56:30 PST 2005

17964 [lbo-talk] whipping cures mental disorders -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >But, it's no more long-term therapy than an anti-depressant. I mean, >you'd have to get whipped regularly for it to work. Of course, it's >cheaper than anti-depressants. 30 sessions X 60 reps = 1800 blows, which ain't nothin'. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 09:53:21 PST 2005

17965 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Yes, this is similar to the point I try to make -- from time to time -- when I >say it's not insignificant (though I think the full significance is >not yet fully >understood) that there's practically no area of the modern enterprise in which >Americans possess a monopoly of expertise. I agree with this (and Seth's points too), but again, this has been around a while - it's not an innovation that can explain the Bush turn in foreign policy. Especially since t ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 09:52:33 PST 2005

17966 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill & 9-11 -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >The USG is the second most powerful reality in the world, after >the power of international capital. How many divisions has international capital?

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 08:28:22 PST 2005

17967 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Ok, I will read Harvey, but my question was why the contemporary >global process of capital accumulation takes the form of an empire? The world is politically organized into countries, some more powerful than others, with one considerably more powerful than any other, but still largely incapable of acting entirely on its own. How could it not arrange itself into some kind of hierarchical system? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 08:25:13 PST 2005

17968 [lbo-talk] whipping cures mental disorders -- rank: 1000

[When I was in Italy in 1976, I heard a story from a guy who said he'd been bicycling on Sardinia and rode past a mental hospital. On the hospital grounds, a female patient was tied to a tree, and three shrinks in white coats were slapping her, saying, "You're *not* the Virgin Mary!" Ever since, I've been tempted to recommend a trip to Sardinia for certain neurotics I know. Now this approach receives some confirmation from Siberia.] <http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/360/15176_whi ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 08:09:09 PST 2005

17969 [lbo-talk] the Economic Freedom Index isn't quite meaningless -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >PS: It's always worth remembering that the "2005 Index Of Economic Freedom" is >based on "data for the period covering the second half of 2003 through the >first half of 2004". I maintain my view, expressed a while ago >(http://crookedtimber.org/2003/07/11/cor-baby-thats-really-free ) that this >massive lag in such a self-important document, is quite risible. Where you also say that Cato's version of the thing is really an index of what r ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 07:29:00 PST 2005

17970 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >On a purely impressionistic basis one would think that American >power has declined from its post-war zenith relative to Europe, >Japan and the newer Asian economies. It may be helpful to look at >the US share in world production from 1945 to the present. Does Doug >or anyone else have stats on this? That's an old, old story, completely inappropriate to an analysis of a "new" imperialism. According to World Bank stats, the U.S. was 39% of world ...

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