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17971 [lbo-talk] Slavoj's nuptials -- rank: 1000

By the way, I have it on the testimony of several eyewitnesses that the new Mrs Zizek is absolutely hot for him - and protects her man when in the company of others. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 17:33:30 PST 2005

17972 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill & 9-11 -- rank: 1000

Ian M. wrote: >In response to the inevitable "what am i supposed to do?" question >Churchill said, "That's a question I never hear when I speak in the >Third World." Very telling... Things haven't been going great for the Third World masses since the defeat of the Nicaraguan revo, have they? Ok, there's Chavez, but that's just one name, and it's been a long time since there were any others. And it's not self-evident "what to do." How the hell do you fight m ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 17:14:03 PST 2005

17973 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Sorry, Panitch is not convincing. He doesn't seem know much about >the "Third World" either. Write up a critique & I'll forward it to Leo. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 17:10:24 PST 2005

17974 [lbo-talk] Slavoj's nuptials -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote, > >...sleazy old chap with young cupcake... Not me - that was Dwayne Monroe. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 17:08:22 PST 2005

17975 [lbo-talk] Re: The LA Times report on gender/race distinctions in income -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >There's no reference in that report to what exactly the study was - no >information on the sample, on what variables were excluded and so on. Has >anyone seen a reference to this elsewhere with more information? It's probably this: <http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/004214.html>. There are links to summary and detailed tables in the press release. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 16:56:22 PST 2005

17976 [lbo-talk] Rediff: Bahrain - Suicide by Indian tailor sparks rampage -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >I know... overposted... but it seemed so important at the time..... It always does, but that's no excuse. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 13:39:34 PST 2005

17977 [lbo-talk] the Heritage/WSJ Freedom index is meaningless -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > Doug: > > I'm tired of the way these fuckers get away with murder. Ward > > Churchill screws up and the lynch mobs are trying to get him fired. > > Heritage pulls some nonsense out of their butts and no one ever calls > > them on it. Fuck 'em. > >I'm sure as a "gift to the left" Thomas Brown will go after them >next. Since Churchill's footnote >issue got him riled he's certain to be apoplectic over this. He ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 13:23:58 PST 2005

17978 [lbo-talk] Slavoj's nuptials -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >And then there's the target rich matter of Analia being >an underwear model: does this mean he married a woman who's not his >intellectual >peer so he won't be challenged? Sorry, I included that detail for a cheap laugh. She did that when she was 15. Now she's a PhD student, and while few people are Slavoj's intellectual peer, from what I hear, she's no slouch. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 13:06:02 PST 2005

17979 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill & 9-11 -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Then he added "But, the problem with the idea that it was an inside >job is that it suggests that brown people are not capable of such >feats and gives all the credit to the white man, another master race >fantasy". Many people seemed impressed by this facile analysis - >although a couple of people shouted loudly "that's ridiculous!". Yeah, but that's what happens when you see the entire world through a race/nation prism. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 10:58:07 PST 2005

17980 [lbo-talk] Schindler pulled plug on his mother -- rank: 1000

DIRELAND - March 28, 2005 <http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/03/now_that_rober_.html> MORE HYPOCRISY: SCHIAVO'S FATHER PULLED THE PLUG ON HIS OWN MOTHER Now that Rober Schindler--the father of Terri Schiavo--is under the sway of Randall Terry (the anti-abortion terrorist, one of whose acolytes and deputies was the abortion-doc killer James Kopp), his rhetoric has increased in vehemence against letting a human vegetable die in peace. But it wasn't always that way. The Guardian repor ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 10:48:20 PST 2005

17981 [lbo-talk] on the prerequisites for LBO-talk'ing -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 21:22 -0800, Miles Jackson wrote: > >> Most of the people who post to LBO have read Marx, and many are >> enthusiastic enough about his work to call themselves Marxists >> ("liberals" are right-wingers around here!). If you want to >> participate in the discussion in a meaningful way, you need to >> understand Marx. The Communist Manifesto is a good place to >> start! > > >so doug, would you a ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 10:37:41 PST 2005

17982 [lbo-talk] Slavoj's nuptials -- rank: 1000

Pix from Slavoj Zizek's recent marriage to an Argentine graduate student and undwrwear model named (I'm not kidding) Analia (gotta wonder if she's got a sister named Oralia): <http://huh.34sp.com/wrong/2005/03/24/scoop/>. She's the daughter of two Lacanian shrinks. Slavoj is quite the celebrity in Argentina, I hear. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 08:31:14 PST 2005

17983 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Ancient Rome fell into decline as a result of its local industries >being unable to compete with imports. Its economic power was >effectively crippled by the success of its military power, which >enslaved vast other peoples and caused great suffering on the >majority of Romans. So as I understand it, decline in economic >power and overwhelming military power, go hand in hand. True or not, that has nothing to do with Harvey's argument, which is that Bush's ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 07:00:24 PST 2005

17984 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Gee, Doug that sounds a tad harsh. Good. >Have you looked at David Harvey's New Imperialism? I am about a >hundred pages into it. > >If you've read it, any comments? It's been a while, but while I always like reading Harvey, my two probs with it are: 1) he exaggerates the novelty of "accumulation by dispossession" (which is a very catchy phrase, I'll admit), and 2) he never makes the connection between the alleged decline in U.S. economic power and t ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 05:42:03 PST 2005

17985 [lbo-talk] the Heritage/WSJ Freedom index is meaningless -- rank: 1000

Thomas Brown wrote: >Your tables don't specify the units of measurement. Rankings. As I said: >In the exercises that follow, the 125 countries with scores for both >1996 and 2003 were ranked by their freedom scores and their growth >rates, and their positions in the two sets of rankings compared. >(The test ends in 2003 becuase 2004 GDP data aren't available yet.) >The first chart, nearby, compares countries' freedom ranks in 1996 >with their ranks in 1996-2003 growth contes ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 27 18:22:09 PST 2005