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18016 [lbo-talk] Terri Schiavo and Disability 4 -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Part 4, announced in the subject heading! Three posts a day, remember? How many more installments are you planning? Do you imagine there's some exception for encyclopedia articles?

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Date:	Fri Mar 25 06:37:34 PST 2005

18017 [lbo-talk] Odd theory for housing bubble -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >ECONOMY: CHINA'S CURRENCY POLICY LEADING TO HOUSING BUBBLE IN U.S. >JAMES BERMAN, president of JBGLOBAL: "China must buy our bonds to >peg its currency in order to possess enough dollar-denominated >assets to serve as a backstop to the Yuan. This gun to their head >shanghais them into buying treasury bonds without regard to our >deficits or low yields -- the type of thing a normal investor would >care about. The artificial buying of our bonds w ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 15:30:16 PST 2005

18018 [lbo-talk] the Green Nazi platform -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Since, if you do the math, following current trends, >in a few hundred years the total mass of human beings >will outnumber that of the Earth, clearly it has some meaning. Following what trends? Pop growth is slowing. AVERAGE ANNUAL POPULATION GROWTH by World Bank country grouping 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s world 2.0% 1.9% 1.7% 1.4% 1.2% low income 2.4% 2.5% 2.4% 2.1% 1.8% middle income 2.1% 1.9% 1.6% 1.2 ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 13:23:55 PST 2005

18019 [lbo-talk] the Green Nazi platform -- rank: 1000

Celi Ben wrote: >It's interesting to click through the articles in this Idaho >independent newspaper, because if you went by the most frequent >topics of plight of family farmers and int'l economic agreements, >criticism of Bush and aspects of the war, health topics like >aspartame and whether you should vaccine your kids, it wouldn't seem >to be that different from progressive focuses, which would initially >make you hope for a potential alliance. Either that, or rethink th ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 13:16:10 PST 2005

18020 [lbo-talk] Shaivo finale on my part (for real) -- rank: 1000

Who are these "liberals," anyway? The next sentence in the column is charming too: "Having been told that they can enlist in the catering corps or be behind-the-lines hairdressers, gays are not so sanguine about Mr. C." Gosh, isn't that witty? Doug C. G. Estabrook wrote: >His "Beat the Devil" column in The Nation for 05/03/1993: ><www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v256i0017_07.htm>. --CGE > > >On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> ...

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18021 [lbo-talk] Shaivo finale on my part (for real) -- rank: 1000

I guess I was feeling more forgiving towards him in 1993, because that's a really ugly remark. By the way, what the fuck has Cockburn ever done for the "unwanted"? Doug C. G. Estabrook wrote: >His "Beat the Devil" column in The Nation for 05/03/1993: ><www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v256i0017_07.htm>. --CGE > > >On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> C. G. Estabrook wrote: >> >> >The latter group seem like the Clinton > ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 12:08:59 PST 2005

18022 [lbo-talk] spam filters -- rank: 1000

Man, this is annoying: >I apologize for this automatic reply to your email. > >To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I >have approved beforehand. > >If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please >fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve >you, I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not >need to resend your message. I apologize for this one-time >inconvenience. > >Click t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 11:49:41 PST 2005

18023 [lbo-talk] Shaivo finale on my part (for real) -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >The latter group seem like the Clinton >whom Alex Cockburn described a dozen years ago: "He's no friend of the >unborn and unwanted, and that's enough to keep the liberals happy." Did Cockburn really say that? Where? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 11:35:41 PST 2005

18024 [lbo-talk] CBGB's petition -- rank: 1000

Sign the petition to save CBGB's: <http://www.petitiononline.com/landmark/>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 09:32:01 PST 2005

18025 [lbo-talk] 85, or 11? -- rank: 1000

Insurgents cling to training camp after Iraq-US assault SAMARRA, Iraq (AFP) - Insurgents were still manning a training camp in northern Iraq (news - web sites) in defiance of a blistering raid by the authorities, as British lawmakers accused the US-led coalition of "mistakes and misjudgments" by failing to prepare for the insurgency. About 30 to 40 fighters were seen Wednesday at the lakeside training camp attacked by US and Iraqi forces on Tuesday and denied they had ever left, an AFP ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 07:21:59 PST 2005

18026 [lbo-talk] film notes -- rank: 1000

At 2:15 AM -0500 3/24/05, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote: >Five months before he went on a shooting spree at his Minnesota high >school, Jeff Weise created a violent animated short entitled "Target >Practice" and posted the blood-soaked video on the Internet. The >16-year-old's chilling film appears to foretell this week's carnage. >View it here: > >http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0323051weise1.html >

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 06:45:55 PST 2005

18027 [lbo-talk] CBS poll: Congress & Bush take a hit -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/23/opinion/polls/main682674.shtml> Poll: Keep Feeding Tube Out NEW YORK, March 23, 2005 There is widespread cynicism about Congress' motives for getting involved: 7 percent say Congress intervened to advance a political agenda, not because they cared what happened to Terri Schiavo. (CBS) Americans have strong feelings about the Terri Schiavo case, and a majority says the feeding tube should not now be re-inserted. This view is shared by Americans of ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 06:32:58 PST 2005

18028 [lbo-talk] the real power law -- rank: 1000

kevin lapalme wrote: >I don't know much about this stuff, but I thought >shareholder activism and "capital strategies" have >been a tactic of community radicals like Saul Alinsky >and institutions like the AFL-CIO, one at a grassroots >level, the other at an aggregate level. So are both >varieties ineffective? I would really like to hear a list of Alinsky-style community organizing successes. As far as I can tell, it's done nothing to resist, much less reverse, the su ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 24 06:22:39 PST 2005

18029 [lbo-talk] Zizek on the Frankfurt School and Stalinism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >My point was that MP was in effect lying about >Zizek by the misleading selection he quoted. Refrain from using words like lying. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 23 16:32:34 PST 2005

18030 [lbo-talk] Make my day in the Giant Wang -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >Backed by the National Rifle Association, the proposed bill also >would have let Jay Levin, the suburban Boca Raton accountant who >shot and killed a teenager playing a door-knocking prank, walk away >without being prosecuted. I just love the way we "err on the side of life" in America, don't you?

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Date:	Wed Mar 23 13:21:57 PST 2005