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19636 [lbo-talk] Petrodollars: Good for the Greenback ? -- rank: 1000

Nobidicus wrote: >Stephen Roach's Global Economic Forum note of 28 November commented >at some length on the investment behaviour of [oil] exporting >nations: > > http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/20051128-mon.html > > ``As disruptive as they have been, the oil shocks of the past >have all had a silver lining: A significant portion of the revenue >windfall accruing to oil producers -- especially those in the Middle >East -- has been recycled back in ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 10:43:51 PST 2005

19637 [lbo-talk] Re: The Chomsky vs. Dershowitz debate: both sides were awful! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Demand the Impossible was a great May '68 slogan but, it isn't politics. division of labor, comrade - you need the crazies to make the reformists palatable! Without the maximialists, who will give tepid compromisers the time of day? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 09:01:18 PST 2005

19638 [lbo-talk] Hillary gets a primary challenge -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Or it could be that he is pulling a Labor Party - an effort to sway the >mainstream Democrats to the left rather than establishing a serious >alternative to them. I know Jonathan pretty well and had a chat with him the other night. He says he's serious about building an alternative organizational structure that will live beyond the election. I doubt, however, that he's trying to create an alternative party - which is sensible, because the Working Families Party ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 08:59:28 PST 2005

19639 [lbo-talk] Hillary gets a primary challenge -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE >> >>LABOR LEADER JONATHAN TASINI TO CHALLENGE HILLARY CLINTON FOR >>UNITED STATES SENATE > >What a great idea! But boy is this bassackward. Where's his >website and the place to click to volunteer or give money? This was a press release designed to get hacks to come to the announcement event. But the URL for the website was there, complete with contrib and volunteering links: >A list of Tasini's positions can be ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 08:49:21 PST 2005

19640 [lbo-talk] Chinese medicine: pay up front or die -- rank: 1000

[this almost makes the US system look humane] Wall Street Journal - December 5, 2005 Health Crisis Chinese Doctors Tell Patients To Pay Upfront, or No Treatment Parents of Boy With Leukemia Scramble for Cash to Cover New Chemotherapy Round Threat Seen to Social Stability By ANDREW BROWNE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BEIJING -- As soon as the money dries up, doctors warn, so will the drugs that could save the life of Cui Guangshun's 7-year-old son, Dejie, in the leukemia unit of Beij ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 07:21:53 PST 2005

19641 [lbo-talk] Boo Boo Bear's Quote of the Day -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >http://www.dailywav.com/0803/revolutionary.wav Huh? Who's Boo Boo Bear? I feel so out of touch. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 06:48:50 PST 2005

19642 [lbo-talk] Hillary gets a primary challenge -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LABOR LEADER JONATHAN TASINI TO CHALLENGE HILLARY CLINTON FOR UNITED STATES SENATE When: Tuesday, December 6, 12:30 p.m. New York City (December 5, 2005): On Tuesday, December 6, labor leader Jonathan Tasini will announce his candidacy as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Senator Hillary Clinton. His message has already drawn support from Cindy Sheehan, a leading figure in the antiwar movement, best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich, Progressive Democrats of America nati ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 06:10:14 PST 2005

19643 [lbo-talk] Judy B writes with clarity & force -- rank: 1000

[for all you Butler-haters out there] December 3, 2005 Dear Colleagues, As you know, the NYU administration continues to refuse to negotiate with the student union, has infiltrated the email system and, more recently, sent out a letter rescinding student funding for any students engaged in the strike. They have also recently hired a union-busting law firm to represent their interests. More the 400 faculty members moved their seminar off campus in solidarity with the strike, and support for negot ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 12:50:25 PST 2005

19644 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 1000

Unlike a lot of my comrades, I'm not hostile to Putin - I think he's kept Russia from going down the drain. But his retrospective judgment on the USSR now isn't a very reliable guide to much of anything. Had the USSR stayed together, I'm sure he'd still be a loyal functionary. Doug Peter Lavelle wrote: >Sorry, I am way over the posting limit, but: > >What difference does it make what Putin said in the 80s and 90s? >What is important is what he has done and said in power. Putin is > ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 12:40:12 PST 2005

19645 [lbo-talk] CFR on Africa -- rank: 1000

News Release COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Council Task Force Urges New Approach Toward Africa "Year of Africa" Provides Opportunity to Go Beyond Feel-Good Humanitarianism December 4, 2005-2005 was the "year of Africa," with world summits and rock stars focused on the plight of the continent. But a report by an Independent Task Force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations finds that "a policy based on humanitarian concerns alone serves neither U.S. interests nor Af ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 12:23:16 PST 2005

19646 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I don't really want to get into the boring (here) >issue of Was The USSR a Good Thing. We've already solved that one with the lbo-talk poll: Russian revolution - a good thing? Yes 46 74.2% No 8 12.9% Too soon to tell 8 12.9% -------------------------------- 62 100.0%

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 12:14:10 PST 2005

19647 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >Putin is on the record saying: "the outrageous price our country and >people had to paid for that Bolshevist experiment" or calls >communism a "road to a blind alley." That's what he says now. What was he saying when he was in the KGB? Boris Kagarlitsky said years ago that the old Soviet elite was a model of flexibility - they went from being Stalinists to social democrats to pure neoliberals in just a few years. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 12:12:34 PST 2005

19648 [lbo-talk] army to the left? or to the right? -- rank: 1000

Not exactly. Only boddhi was assuming that. Every other remark quoted in this post assumes a great deal of diversity. Doug joanna wrote: >This discussion assumes that there's no such thing as the Military, >but many different kinds of militiaries, as shaped by specific >historic and social forces. > >Joanna > >boddi satva wrote: > >>Yes the military is a well-known champion of democracy. >> >>Oh, wait, I guess that can't really be true, can it? >> ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 10:05:16 PST 2005

19649 [lbo-talk] Unmitigated gall -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >Ruling class types like Greenspan are going to try to guilt-trip the working >class into accepting the financial burden for mismanagement of the capitalist >system e.g. the enormous debt THEY owe to States like China. They're also trying to make us all be "self-reliant" - no more collective provision. If you don't save for your old age, tough luck buddy. You should have thought of that when you were 22. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 10:03:29 PST 2005

19650 [lbo-talk] US workforce -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >How can you >get management personnel count without relying on >occupational classification? In the establihsment survey, "management of companies and enterprises" is treated as its own sector. Doug

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