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18646 [lbo-talk] Kim Fellner on the Google News Homepage -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >An article by Kim Fellner ("The Labor Movement: It's More than We >Bargain for" at ><http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/fellner240705.html>), one of our MR >contributors, is already getting _a lot_ of readers (though it's >only early morning on Sunday now) -- it's featured on the homepage >of Google News (at <http://news.google.com/>) today. Cool! Cool indeed! And it's still there, a remarkable tenacity in the cyberworld. To counter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 24 07:15:47 PDT 2005

18647 media concentration (was Re: [lbo-talk] Bloomberg) -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >there were hundreds of thousands of subscribers >and probably millions of readers of the Appeal to Reason I have a hard time believing that their disappearance is the fault of Time Warner, though. I'm not going to be one of those giddy techno-utopians and say the web has changed everything, but it has changed more than nothing. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 23 15:19:29 PDT 2005

18648 [lbo-talk] and now a word from our Homi -- rank: 1000

[via Debate] The Hindu Literary Review FACE TO FACE Towards a global cultural citizenship SACHIDANANDA MOHANTY Homi K. Bhabha speaks on his theoretical constructs, the place of aesthetic life in late capitalism, and his exploration of the issue of global culture and cultural citizenship. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The attempt at making new connections, articulating new meanings, always takes the risk of being not immediately comprehensible to ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 23 13:19:00 PDT 2005

18649 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >As I understand media analysts like McChesney, the "media concentration" >line consists of two parts: > >1. The ownership of media outlets is becoming increasingly concentrated in >the hands of a few major media conglomerates (Time-Warner, Disney, etc). > >2. This concentrated ownership leads to less diversity in media content >and tends to filer out or marginalize content that challenges the status >quo (Chomsky and Herman). > >Th ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 23 12:59:35 PDT 2005

18650 [lbo-talk] A time of doubt for atheists -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >Better to say you're Jewish or Catholic, I'm told. :) Apparently the same is true of the Iraqi resistance - not the Jewish part, but Christian. The eponymous Christian Parenti says that when he went to meet with resistance people, his translator told him never to say he was an atheist - just say Christian. They don't like people who don't believe in God, and when they don't like you, the consequences can be a bit nastier than having JW's knock on your door twice a week. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 23 09:52:58 PDT 2005

18651 [lbo-talk] bell curves -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Bill Bartlett wrote: >>The point I'm trying to get across is that all US politicians are >>really independents, by world standards. > >-Yeah, but any index that measured the diversity of their beliefs >-would come in close to 0. > >Again, a ridiculous statement. The range from Bernie Sanders or most of the >progressive Caucus compared ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 23 09:38:47 PDT 2005

18652 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >Was that because you don't buy the notion of media >concentration or was it that Alterman got taken down a >notch? Both. I work out my beef with the media concentration line at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Why_TV_sucks.html>. It's pretty telling that Alterman couldn't come up with a serious example. At that point, Bloomberg owned something of an upstart media company, and he might even have had some material interest in supporting the concentration line. Dou ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 23 08:10:05 PDT 2005

18653 [lbo-talk] China's growth -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >Chris Doss wrote: > >> What would you recommend if you were the Kremlin's >> economic advisor? I mean this question seriously. > >Clone Finland's industrial policies. Reason: it was a northern >resource-based economy, which no mainstream economist ever thought would >amount to anything. But Finland upscaled from forestry into cellphones and >the rest is euro-history. Russia could do the same. Finland is a small country that can do nicely ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 23 08:04:42 PDT 2005

18654 Party endorsement, was Re: [lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Robertsadecent guy" -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >The point I'm trying to get across is that all US politicians are >really independents, by world standards. Yeah, but any index that measured the diversity of their beliefs would come in close to 0. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 23 00:04:21 PDT 2005

18655 [lbo-talk] Why Not Sell WBAI? -- rank: 1000

Autoplectic wrote: >On 7/22/05, Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Lance Murdoch" <lancemurdoch at gmail.com> >> >> >> On 7/22/05, Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote: > >> How about giving the money to a whole range of youth and minority >> collectives to produce radiocasts for the Internet? Helping the >> communication efforts of com ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 22 22:45:34 PDT 2005

18656 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >The Economist lamented recently (quoting roughly) that >Bloomberg "doesn't have a privatization bone in his >body." Another fine thing about Bloomberg is that about 8 years ago, when he was first thinking of running for mayor, he visited The Nation's office (!) to talk up himself. He seemed like a very smart guy with a very generous opinion of himself. Eric Alterman brought up that old chestnut, media concentration, and Bloomberg asked him for examples. Eri ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 22 22:20:51 PDT 2005

18657 [lbo-talk] conspiracism: manna for community radio -- rank: 1000

Apparently some 9/11-conspiracy-related premiums brought in $36,000 in pledges in 90 minutes on WBAI.That's a very big number as these things go - the phones were ringing at capacity. I'm speechless. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 22 22:16:21 PDT 2005

18658 Party endorsement, was Re: [lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Robertsadecent guy" -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >At 10:54 AM -0400 22/7/05, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>>Which is the historic goal, to take power over selection from the "party >>>bosses." The phenomenon of omeone like Ken Livingstone, popular with >>>grassroots Labourites, being denied the nomination for mayor on the Labour >>>tickett couldn't happen in the US. That's the good side of it all. >> >>Of course the bad side is that he'd never get elected here. &g ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 22 22:11:56 PDT 2005

18659 [lbo-talk] China's growth -- rank: 1000

Randy Steindorf wrote: >Are there any statistics on the differential between the >average rate of return on capital between Russia and China from >direct foreign investment. Isn't the worldwide surplus of money >capital searching for the highest returns (20% or more) with the >least risk of loss? I don't know of any general numbers. The US doesn't publish stats on US direct investment in China - it's "suppressed" to avoid disclosing corporate information. Russian inves ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 22 16:17:03 PDT 2005

18660 [lbo-talk] UK police given shoot-to-kill orders -- rank: 1000

FT.com - July 22, 2005 Shoot-to-kill guidelines for UK police By Jimmy Burns and Frederick Studemann in London Police have been given secret new shoot-to-kill guidelines in recent weeks, it emerged on Friday after officers shot a man dead on an Underground train at Stockwell, south London. The new guidelines for armed police and surveillance officers confronting suspected suicide terrorists advise them to shoot to the head and not the body in case the suspect has a bomb. Friday morning's shootin ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 22 16:15:12 PDT 2005