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19801 [lbo-talk] The struggle over science -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Given the U.S.'s current role as the world's criminal and >imperialist power, if the Bush administration were to slow down American >science, it might be doing humanity a favor. Let's just give up on politics and root for dumbness? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 24 12:01:26 PDT 2005

19802 [lbo-talk] personal attacks v delusional rants -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Wojtek: >> By publishing his [Louis Proyect's] delusional rants, Counter Punch >> stooped lower than tabloids. The latter claim to be nothing more than low >> brow entertainment, the former pretends to be serious. > >some of LP's "rants" are worth reading, others not. But the above kind >of personal attack is worse than a delusional rant. I'd be among the last to shill for LNP (though I have recommended him for a writing assignment), ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 24 10:01:02 PDT 2005

19803 [lbo-talk] fishy election in San Diego? -- rank: 1000

<http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Citizens_Request_Recount_IN_SAN_DIEGO_MAYO_0818.html> Support Senate Democrats See the new DSCC website and join the fight today! George W. Bush Are You Happy Bush Won? Cast Your Vote and Get $250 at Starbucks Ads by Goooooogle FORUMS | ABOUT | CONTACT tips at rawstory.com ADVERTISE Advertisements Advertise here Premium Adstrip Raw Story Second Strip Is anyone playing with a full deck? Exposing the top 53 neocons who avoided armed service through connections, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 24 09:49:50 PDT 2005

19804 [lbo-talk] GM rice - top of the crops -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >It depends on what you mean by "more productive" >Increases rice production for *whom*? >WHO is the beneficiary of that increased production? >Read the subject line of the follow post. > >Also: It's *disingenous* to speak on this topic as if the plants in >question are simply >hybrids, and the goal is to feed more people, they aren't, they are >organisms previously >non-existant in our biosphere, and the motive is profit... Right? Well ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 24 09:41:35 PDT 2005

19805 [lbo-talk] American hit parade -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Carl Remick wrote: >> >> >Gee, maybe they should parachute in world-famous author, >> >physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer Jared Diamond >> >-- friend of indigenous peoples and Fortune 500 CEOs alike -- to act >> >as peacemaker. Diamond is a huge admirer of Chevron: >> >> Ah yes, the most pressing problem of our time is the ideological >> unsoundness ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 24 09:30:34 PDT 2005

19806 [lbo-talk] American hit parade -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Gee, maybe they should parachute in world-famous author, >physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer Jared Diamond >-- friend of indigenous peoples and Fortune 500 CEOs alike -- to act >as peacemaker. Diamond is a huge admirer of Chevron: Ah yes, the most pressing problem of our time is the ideological unsoundness of Jared Diamond. I love a bracing set of priorities. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 24 07:56:55 PDT 2005

19807 [lbo-talk] most conservative/liberal cities in US -- rank: 1000

[full report: <http://votingresearch.org/USAstudy.doc>] Table 1: Top Twenty-Five Most Conservative Cities 1 Provo, Utah 2 Lubbock, Texas 3 Abilene, Texas 4 Hialeah, Florida 5 Plano, Texas 6 Colorado Springs, Colorado 7 Gilbert, Arizona 8 Bakersfield, California 9 Lafayette, Louisiana 10 Orange, California 11 Escondido, California 12 Allentown, Pennsylvania 13 Mesa, Arizona 14 Arlington, Texas 15 Peoria, Arizona 16 Cape Coral, Florida 17 Garden Grove, Calif ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 24 07:44:33 PDT 2005

19808 [lbo-talk] profiling Muslims is nearly impossible -- rank: 1000

[lots of links & charts in original] <http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/demographics/20050824/5/1541> Can NYC "Profile" Young Muslim Males? by Andrew Beveridge Earlier this month Assemblyman Dov Hikind and Councilmember James Oddo both suggested that random searches in the subway weren't good enough; the police should target particular people. "When we look at the list of the most-wanted people by the FBI in terms of terrorism, they fit a profile," Hikind said. & ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 24 07:36:57 PDT 2005

19809 [lbo-talk] GM rice - top of the crops -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Of course, many aid organisations - often heavily influenced by >Western green campaigns - have attacked the emphasis on GM >technology, calling it a "technical fix" that does little to address >the real social and economic causes of world poverty and hunger. >They said the same several decades ago when widespread famine was >predicted to follow a population explosion. The population explosion >materialised but the famine did not. The reason ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 24 07:30:59 PDT 2005

19810 [lbo-talk] Chavez offers Cheap Gas, FREE Healthcare to Poor Americans! -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Gasoline is cheaper than mineral water in >oil-producing Venezuela True in the US too. A .5 liter bottle of Poland Spring goes for $1 in New York, which works out to $7.57 a gallon, nearly three times the price of gas. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 24 07:23:39 PDT 2005

19811 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 23 16:37:19 PDT 2005

19812 [lbo-talk] Jim Devine's Real Energy CPI -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >On 8/23/05, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: >> One thought is that the price index alone does not tell the full story. < > >Of course! No single ratio can tell us the whole story about anything. Glad to see we're in line with last month's writ: At 4:55 PM -0500 7/15/05, Carrol Cox wrote: >Nothing is ever the whole story. "It's not the whole story" is one of >the most fatuous combination of words in the english language.

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Date:	Tue Aug 23 14:59:41 PDT 2005

19813 [lbo-talk] Pat Robertson calls for Chavez hit -- rank: 1000

Keith Nybakke wrote: >Is this story getting any traction in other cities' mainstream press? It was all over CNN when I was in the gym this morning. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 23 12:50:17 PDT 2005

19814 [lbo-talk] Lanier v Merck: masterful lawyering -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> True enough, but again, what's your point? Should we fight for a >> different FDA, or just give up on everything? > >Your alternatives are identical, and hence not alternatives. We, whoever >you mean by we, are not going to get a different FDA under either the >RP or the DP. Hence arguing for that is the same as just giving up. > >The trouble with posing pseudo-alterntives is that they then usurp the ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 23 09:47:59 PDT 2005

19815 [lbo-talk] BBC NEWS | South Asia | Bhutan puts farms before markets -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >w.r.t above: having been on usenet/mailing-lists for as long as i >have, i should've known better than to let my temper do the talking. >i think those who posted in the cockburn thread against his analysis >(including sujeet) made an incomplete and IMHO incorrect argument. i >also think sujeet's dismissive tone, w.r.t the forwarded article >about bhutan, was unsubstantiated. nonetheless, i do not really >believe that the arguments on the cockburn thread were > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 23 08:26:56 PDT 2005