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19786 [lbo-talk] Dem-leaning hedge fund managers -- rank: 1000

tfast at yorku.ca wrote: >Anyone want to venture a theory as to why the hedge fund industry prefers dems >over republicans. Has to have something to do with a preference for >neoliberal >internationalism over naked imperialism no? I don't know if that's really a representative cross-section of hedge funds. Finance as a whole gives about 40-45% to Dems <http://opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=F>. But that's a lot, compared to energy (70% to Reps) or pharmaceuticals (67% ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 09:48:56 PDT 2005

19787 [lbo-talk] Dem-leaning hedge fund managers -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >you'd think that "hedge" funds would hedge their bets better. Depends on your investment style. Some are cautious and some swing for the fences. Soros (following Keynes) made a fortune betting against extremes of popular consensus. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 09:37:27 PDT 2005

19788 [lbo-talk] Decency Act appeal -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE National Coalition for Sexual Freedom Contact: Susan Wright, NCSF Spokesperson (917) 848-6544 Supreme Court Appeal for Communications Decency Act Lawsuit August 22, 2005 - New York, NY - Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom have filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of the District Court's decision in the Communications Decency Act (CDA) challenge. Their appeal contends the District Court applied an incorrect legal standard for determinin ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 09:34:22 PDT 2005

19789 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > What kind of, "blockade, " (like during the Cuban Missile Crisis?) >w/ close to 2 billion $ foreign investment in Cuba? > Didn't look at the website I sent, eh? $2 billion in FDI over 10 years isn't much. US FDI in the Dominican Republic in 2004 was about $200 million. Chile and Argentina got 4-5 times as much, and Mexico, 37 times as much. Doug

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19790 [lbo-talk] Dem-leaning hedge fund managers -- rank: 1000

[reformatted by yours truly] Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:40:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Willy Greenfields <filthydirtyunwashed at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Dem-leaning hedge fund managers To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Political donations (at the national level) by the largest hedge funds. Apologies for potential crap formatting. From Bloomberg: Hedge Fund Firm Amount Party Affiliation Moore Capital Management $1.06 Mln 95% to Democrats Elliot Management C ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 09:02:59 PDT 2005

19791 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >The only reason you are asking this question is because you haven't >>bothered to look > >Chill out a bit. > >Doug >Comment: why does simply pointing out that there is ample, abundant >data about Cuba's strategies of development from different >sources requires a "chill out" admonition and the posting of anti >Cuban mainstream neo-lib dis-informative articles from Reuters >doesn't? Because I was reaccting to style, not c ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 09:00:46 PDT 2005

19792 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >The only reason you are asking this question is because you haven't >bothered to look Chill out a bit. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 25 05:52:19 PDT 2005

19793 [lbo-talk] Liberal hawks, lost in the war zone -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted Harold Meyerson: >He is rightly repelled by that left's a >priori anti-Americanism (two decades at The Nation can do that to more >sober sensibilities than Hitchens'). Would that The Nation were more anti-American! Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 24 21:14:53 PDT 2005

19794 [lbo-talk] American hit parade -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >At one time I might have more or less agreed with W on this, but for at >least two years now Lou has quite successfully refrained from the kind >of rants that now characterize Wojtek but only formerly characterized >Lou. Mystical almost, the way in which as the graph of W's shrillness >has gone constantly upward, Lou's graph of shrillness has pretty much >flattened out. W could now learn manners from Lou. Have you asked Lou if he's taking on students? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 24 14:38:47 PDT 2005

19795 [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn on India: wrong? (was, U.N. seeks aid...) -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >>ravi wrote: >> >>>first we create a caricature out of shiva. >> >>Hardly necessary; she does a fine job by herself: >> >><http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/text5.stm> >> > >actually, if you read through the below, it looks more like vinod >chowdhury and rovinder raki are making a caricature of shiva, than >she is. They seemed faithful to the text of her lecture. I co ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 24 14:33:37 PDT 2005

19796 [lbo-talk] Howl festival in NYC -- rank: 1000

Dear Friends, Please join me this Saturday (8/27) from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Howl Festival Parade, where Acts of Art will be parading and asking like Ginsberg: "America, why are your libraries full of tears?" And "America, when will you be angelic?" And parading and promising like Ginsberg: "America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel!" We'll be meeting between 11 and 11:30 a.m. in the triangular park near the Cooper Union Building, just southeast of As ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 24 12:47:40 PDT 2005

19797 [lbo-talk] GM rice - top of the crops -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >I don't think that one can separate the political economy from the >technology, even for a moment. That's only a half truth. Gene technology can be used in many ways. But no matter who's doing it, you're still going to need some basic lab equipment. > But I'm all in favor of new[*] >technologies _in the abstract_. The question concerns the specific >costs vs. their benefits of specific new technologies, where we can't >forget external costs or benefits. (The ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 24 12:46:44 PDT 2005

19798 [lbo-talk] Liberal hawks, lost in the war zone -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Mr. Hitchens, for his part, said that the >prospect of being dismissed by his former allies >or those in power is discouraging, but not >enough to dampen his prolific output, which he >said was motivated by “the reality in Iraq” (and >which included two pieces in the last week about >Cindy Sheehan, the war protester and mother of a >dead American soldier, whom he called “an >embarrassment to her family” in Slate). It's remarkable what an asshole he' ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 24 12:28:36 PDT 2005

19799 [lbo-talk] GM rice - top of the crops -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: > > More productive in the sense that the same cultivated acreage now >> feeds more people than it used to. India's pop is up 145% since 1960. > >a very common critique of "modern" crops (including the now-passé >"Green Revolution" crops) is that their introduction involves >increasing economies of scale and other advantages of bigness, along >with the replacement of farm labor with machinery of various sorts. >This means it's ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 24 12:12:35 PDT 2005

19800 [lbo-talk] Bolton arrives just in time! -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - August 23, 2005 U.N. 'AmBush' By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. Like John Wayne in a classic Hollywood western, John Bolton has ridden to the rescue at the United Nations with scarcely a moment to spare. As a result, he may just be able to spare America and George Bush the mugging -- let's call it the U.N. AmBush -- that the denizens of the East River have in mind for us next month. It turns out that, during the months Mr. Bolton was being denied a Senate confirmation vote as the U.S. ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 24 12:03:57 PDT 2005