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19126 [lbo-talk] no controversy please, we're a corporation -- rank: 1000

At 12:05 PM -0500 1/5/05, Poynter Institute wrote: >Staples pulls ads from news shows on Sinclair TV stations > >Washington Post >The office-supply retailer made the move after hearing from >customers angry at the broadcaster's alleged right-wing bias in news >and commentary. Advertising during Sinclair's news programs accounts >for "a very small part of the overall buy," says a Staples spokesman.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 10:33:02 PST 2005

19127 [lbo-talk] Re: Atheistic religions -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Course, Jesus isn't much improvement, if any. He's >supposedly the God of Love, but if you don't believe >in him he'll cast you into a pit of eternal torment. >Why does he care whether believe in him or not? If >he's so omnipotent, why does it matter to him what our >cognitive state is? And cruel, you can't beat it. Fail >to believe and suffer the tortments of the damned >forever. Also a bad neighbor. Zizek writes about a medieval heresy that h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 10:27:29 PST 2005

19128 [lbo-talk] Allan Nairn on Aceh, tsunami -- rank: 1000

Allan Nairn on Aceh, tsunami January 4, 2005 Derrick O'Keefe, Seven Oaks Magazine 1. Could you tell us the latest with respect to the devastation caused by last month's earthquake and tsunami, specifically in Aceh? Well, the coastal areas of Aceh have been crushed by the earthquake and the tsunami. Large parts of Banda Aceh are under water; they've become part of the sea. The west coast is hardest hit and whole villages are leveled. But this is not the first catastrophe to hit Aceh. Previously, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 08:00:21 PST 2005

19129 [lbo-talk] Gore Vidal: Lincoln Was, Like, Totally Gay -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >http://www.channel4.com/gayometer > >Heh. > >-- Shane, "56% gay" Beat you by 7! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 5 07:19:56 PST 2005

19130 [lbo-talk] Questions for Pugliese & Dolgoff on the CubanEconomy -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >As John Lie argues in _Han Unbound_, the ROK's quick and radical land reform >allowed millions of small farmers, in what was one of the world's poorest >nations c. 1953, to subsist decently while the country was being >industrialized by the state planners, who were largely drawn from the >liquidated landlord class. The land reform allowed for a relatively easy >way of slowly converting farmers into urban workers over three decades. All >of this was p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 17:34:50 PST 2005

19131 [lbo-talk] Iraq: Guerrillas Fielding 200,000 Men? -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Iraq battling more than 200,000 insurgents Isn't there some sort of rule of thumb that you need a military force ten times the size of a guerilla insurgency to defeat it? That leaves the U.S. about 1.85 million short. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 16:57:56 PST 2005

19132 [lbo-talk] Libertarians freak out -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[Wow.] > >The Reality of Red-State Fascism > >by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. I'm going to have Rockwell on the radio a week from Thursday to talk about all this. He says he "loves Pacifica"! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 12:30:40 PST 2005

19133 [lbo-talk] Questions for Pugliese & Dolgoff on the CubanEconomy -- rank: 1000

lweiger at umich.edu wrote: >mperial aid=the rocket booster theory. Why not make or at least point to a >convincing argument that this variable was as important as you suggest? I don't have stats for the 1950s at hand, but in the 1960s, S Korea received a total of $1.6 billion in "official unrequited transfers" - free money from foreign governments, meaning U.S. aid. The aid shrank as the decade passed and SK's economy grew, but from 1960-62, the aid averaged almost 8% of GDP; f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 12:20:58 PST 2005

19134 [lbo-talk] Gore Vidal: Lincoln Was, Like, Totally Gay -- rank: 1000

lweiger at umich.edu wrote: >Quoting Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>: > >> As Kinsey argued, homosexuality/heterosexuality is not an "either/or" >> proposition but a continuum measured on a scale 1-10. Most people fall >> somewhere in between. > >Evidence from anyone other than Kinsey himself? According to Hamer, most are >either 1.1s or 9.9s. That corresponds pretty closely with my impressions of >myself and others. Homer? The Greek ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 4 12:11:17 PST 2005

19135 [lbo-talk] Atheistic religions (Was Reich) -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >Don't know whether you are channeling Hubbard or Heinlein here, but >I can imagine a creative effort to design and popularize a new god >that better meets the personal and social needs of a vast segment of >humanity. Excellent idea. We've got a friend who runs focus groups for a living - maybe she can help us out. What do today's god-users need in a deity? What's the proper mix of support and critique? Stern disciplinarian or warm bath of friendly light? One god or man ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 07:46:56 PST 2005

19136 [lbo-talk] After The New Economy -- rank: 1000

These are good suggestions, esp 2 & 3, but it's too late for that. The major feature of the paperback is a 10,000-word afterword on the economy of the last couple of years. Doug Tommy Kelly wrote: >After The New Economy: The BingeŠand The Hangover That Won't Go Away >New Press (May 1, 2005) > >Doug I have 3 suggestions: > >(1) Chapter Style: Instead of just listing in this style: > >1. Novelty >2. Work... > >Make it more clearer: >1. Novelty >The Gilder ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 07:39:55 PST 2005

19137 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >The exact argument of Lord Edward Lytton and Sir Richard Temple in >not wishing to pervert "the market" by saving lives who would >otherwise die anyway. Of course 50 million dead between the years >1876-1899 because of the imposition of market forces is generally >considered a "natural disaster", the result of drought rather than >what it really was. "The markets" failures are every bit as >spectacular as anything any centr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 4 07:30:51 PST 2005

19138 [lbo-talk] red-state fascism -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug] <http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/red-state-fascism.html> The Reality of Red-State Fascism Year's end is the time for big thoughts, so here are mine. The most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism, manifested in the Congressional elections of 1994, to almost totalitarian statist nationalism. Whereas the conser ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 4 07:24:09 PST 2005

19139 [lbo-talk] Atheistic religions (Was Reich) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >God free monotheism: no calories, no fat, no carbs! >Let's advertise. > >Doug, I think you should become the High Priest or >Rabbi and make LBO tax-exempt. Listen, don't laugh, >with my brilliant advertising slogan (copyrighted, >natch) you'll make a fortune. (I'll take 10% and you >can keep me on retainer for legal matters.) Lose >weight and promote a just and peaceful world by merely >_not_ believing silly things! I see a new world ope ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 14:41:47 PST 2005

19140 [lbo-talk] Re: Questions for Pugliese & Dolgoff on the Cuban Economy -- rank: 1000

Also...pre-revolutionary development was important (e.g., the Cuba vs. Haiti comparison), but holding on to good development numbers hasn't been easy over the last few decades. The number one proof of that: Argentina, which had incomes near U.S. levels 100 years ago, and now doesn't. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 3 13:52:57 PST 2005