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18436 [lbo-talk] G8 debt plan -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Are there such provisions in the agreement, which I haven't read or >seen reported in any detail? When the IMF imposes an austerity plan, >that is certainly "tied" relief. The writeoffs are being granted to countries that complete the HIPC (Highly Indebted Poor Country) process, which means, essentially, more structural adjustment programs. According to today's FT, Uganda, the poster country for the whole process, saw the share of its pop in absolute pov ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 13 07:49:27 PDT 2005

18437 [lbo-talk] Way to Go, Kruggie -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >most folks never heard of 'harry and louise' because most never saw >ad referenced above (according to public opinion data at time)... As I recall, the industry ran the ads only in NY and DC to trick "opinion leaders" into believing the masses were seeing them too. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 13 06:09:19 PDT 2005

18438 [lbo-talk] WorldNetDaily: Activists: Anti-war leaders 'McCarthyists' -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38585 > >>...Away from the media spotlight, Nathan Newman, a prominent attorney >and activist, accused the anti-war ANSWER coalition of having >conducted an "ideological inquisition" and "witch hunt" against >leftist critics. You forgot to include the date on this: May 21, 2004. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 12 15:26:46 PDT 2005

18439 [lbo-talk] G8 debt plan -- rank: 1000

FT.com - June 12, 2005 Caution over G8 debt plan for poor countries By Chris Giles and Friederike Tiesenhausen Cave While the Group of Eight finance ministers were hailing a "historic breakthrough" at the weekend after they agreed to cancel the debts of 18 poor but well-governed countries, doubts were already being raised about how great an impact the deal would have. Ministers came to a last-minute compromise after Germany and Japan - under pressure from Gordon Brown, UK finance minis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 12 15:24:23 PDT 2005

18440 [lbo-talk] BLS hourly earnings stat question -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >I'm looking at the following statistic: > >http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/srgate >Ask for series CEU0500000049 >in select list for year, choose all years >results in following table >http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/srgate >Series Id: CEU0500000049 >Not Seasonally Adjusted >Super Sector: Total private >Industry: Total private >Data Type: AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS, 1982 DOLLARS >1964 - 2005 > >Does anyone know if this is of people ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 12 15:04:33 PDT 2005

18441 [lbo-talk] American Religion (Was Irrationality of the Masses) -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >I >suspect most Americans - save for the religious fanatics among them Who are not in short supply! Dou

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Date:	Sat Jun 11 11:08:48 PDT 2005

18442 [lbo-talk] Pacifica records update -- rank: 1000

A few days ago, director LaVarn Williams and Patty's representative, Richard Phelps, tried to insoect records at Pacifica's national office. Here's what happened (Richard Phelps sent the following message to the KPFA LSB): ---------------------------------------------------------- On June 8, 2005 at around 2 pm KPFA Director La Varn Williams and I went to the National Office to inspect records and documents as allowed by Pacifica Bylaws, Article 12, Section 3 and the law of the State of Californ ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 11 11:08:48 PDT 2005

18443 [lbo-talk] even the NYP is skeptical of Klein's Hillary -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 10, 2005 HILLARY BASHER IS ERROR PRONE ED Klein's new hatchet-job book on Sen. Hillary Clinton says she was heavily influenced by the "culture of lesbianism" at her alma mater, Wellesley College - but a classmate of the former first lady tells us there was no such thing. "The Truth About Hillary," to be published by Penguin's right-wing Sentinel imprint this month, makes much of Clinton's supposed lesbian affinities. Klein says that she "e ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 09:09:24 PDT 2005

18444 [lbo-talk] Rationality of the Masses -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >In other words, Americans regard religion as a personal choice, >rather than the collective expression of beliefs and even culture of >the society. Sure - and we're eclectic! A little Catholicism, a little wicca, a little Buddhism. Mix and match to create your own personal religion! Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 08:58:27 PDT 2005

18445 [lbo-talk] Rationality of the Masses -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >what i'm curious about, though, is how you think that >romantic-individual-dissent element relates to the theocratic >evangelicalism dominating the american religious landscape today? And which certainly is not at odds with power, as Michael's "frisson of dissent" would suggest. Or is that why the Christian right needs a myth of persecution by a dominant secular elite? They can't cope with having their man in the White House? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 10 05:51:15 PDT 2005

18446 [lbo-talk] Re: Blowing Up an Assumption -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Like the grad student I lived with once who wrote book reviews for >Rethinking Marxism who thought Irving Kristol edited Dissent. Ha. As Melville said of The Confidence-Man, sometimes fiction can be more real than reality itself. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 9 19:25:36 PDT 2005

18447 [lbo-talk] DIRELAND: The New Blacklist: Corporate America Caves Into the Christers -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Chip Berlet wrote: > >>What nonsense. > >The same can said about the nonsense of your argument. > >We know who the main players of the religious right are. What we >don't have is much activism against them. Just lots of talk. To me, >the suggestion that we need to research the right more is like >President Bush saying that we need to research global warming more. >We all know who the main players are in the religious right. So what >do we do ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 9 19:24:16 PDT 2005

18448 [lbo-talk] public supports Patriot exensions, worries abt civil liberties -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: PATRIOT ACT - 6/5/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 12 p.m. Thursday, June 9, 2005 Most Back Extending the Patriot Act, But Concerns about Intrusions Grow Against a backdrop of heightened public concern about government intrusions, six in 10 Americans favor extending the Patriot Act, but majorities oppose expanding it by adding new FBI powers to issue subpoenas and access U.S. mail. Fifty-nine percent in an ABC News/Washington Post poll favor continuing the additional ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 9 11:15:15 PDT 2005

18449 [lbo-talk] GOP hack leading candidate for CPB -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - June 9, 2005 Front-Runner for Public Broadcast Agency Job Is Former GOP Chair By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer A former co-chairman of the Republican National Committee is the leading candidate to take over the agency that funds public broadcasting, sparking new concerns among broadcasters about conservative influence over National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service programming. Patricia de Stacy Harrison, a high-ranking official at the State Department, is ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 9 09:07:36 PDT 2005

18450 [lbo-talk] DIRELAND: The New Blacklist: Corporate America Caves In to the Christers -- rank: 1000

New from DIRELAND, June 09, 2005 <http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/06/the_new_blackli.html> THE NEW BLACKLIST: Corporate America Caves In to the Christers Spurred on by a biblical injunction evangelicals call "The Great Commission," and emboldened by George W. Bush's re-election, which is perceived as a "mandate from God," the Christian right has launched a series of boycotts and pressure campaigns aimed at corporate America - and at its sponsorship of entertai ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 9 07:22:30 PDT 2005