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19921 [lbo-talk] Basaev -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: nine posts today the limit is three

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Date:	Thu Aug 4 15:50:20 PDT 2005

19922 [lbo-talk] Basaev -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >BTW I realize that I've linked to Anatole Lieven's >great article before, and that it's 5 years old, and >also that I am way overposting, Confession of your sins in advance of committing them provides no automatic absolution. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 4 15:38:10 PDT 2005

19923 [lbo-talk] more None Dare... -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fortifyingthefamily.com/None_Dare_Call_It_Treason.html> This book is a must read for us as homeschoolers, if for no other reason than the chapter on education. Stormer presents an excellent history of John Dewey and other education reformers and their communist influence on the American education system. This book reads a bit like present day conspiracy theory book, but it was written 40 years ago, and the things he wrote about have happened and are present realities that we se ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 4 11:53:03 PDT 2005

19924 Sixteenth-Century Wisdom, was Re: [lbo-talk] Basaev -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? >For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. > Sir John Harington (1561-1612) Ever read that enomrously popular right-wing tract from the 60s called None Dare Call It Treason? Revealed the Council on Foreign Relations as a commie plot! Doug <http://www.aobs-store.com/reviews/ndcit.htm> Owing largely to the concerted book-distribution campaigns of such patriotic groups as The John Birch Society, some six million co ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 4 11:38:02 PDT 2005

19925 [lbo-talk] blog audience "minuscule" -- rank: 1000

<http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=96366> Americans aren't all agog for blogs By Brett Arends Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - Updated: 06:10 PM EST To hear some folks tell it, the insomniac army of bloggers is already inheriting the Earth. Clad in pajamas and armed only with Pringles, cocoa and a keyboard, they sway millions and make the mighty tremble as they tap away into the night. The only problem: it isn't quite true. Cambridge-based Forrester Research repo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 4 11:11:34 PDT 2005

19926 [lbo-talk] Re: a question about a housing bubble argument -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >But this last stage does not seem >possible in the housing market, since it takes a lot of money to >enter. Not these days - all you need to get a mortgage these days in the US is a pulse. No down payment required, special low teaser rates, etc. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 4 11:05:39 PDT 2005

19927 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart woos the eggheads -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050815&s=featherstone> Wal-Mart Woos the Eggheads by LIZA FEATHERSTONE [posted online on August 3, 2005] Last year, labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein organized an academic conference on Wal-Mart at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Experts held forth on the Wal-Mart phenomenon, and what it revealed about contemporary American capitalism. (Nothing good, most concluded.) Many of the conference papers have now been organized into a bo ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 4 11:03:57 PDT 2005

19928 [lbo-talk] Basaev -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It's worth continuing to pound away at though, because a precondition to >resolving _any_ of those disagreements is an honest acknowledgment that >they exist and that sentences about "The Left" or about "Leftists" (in >general) are always mistaken (when they are not mere trivia) and often >outright lies. So which is this sentence? Trivial, mistaken, or an outright lie? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 4 10:56:03 PDT 2005

19929 [lbo-talk] Fwd: New Text on Fictitious Capital -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 23:25:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> Subject: New Text on Fictitious Capital Hi Doug-- At the risk of driving you crazy, I'd appreciate it if you'd announce this new article on mine on your list. Many thanks Loren This is to let you know that I have just posted a new text "Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism" on the Break Their Haughty Power web site at http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner Comments and critiqu ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 4 06:17:56 PDT 2005

19930 [lbo-talk] underconsumption undertow (was: India: Marx invoked tobreak Lefts FDI barrier) -- rank: 1000

Randy Steindorf wrote: >In a chapter titled "The End of the Boom and the Neo-Classical >Reaction," Shutt gives the following from the OECD National Accounts >Statistics and IMF International Financial Statistics: GDP was 4.3% >annnual average change between 1950 and 1973 and dropped to 2.4% >between 1973 and 1995; Private consumption 4.3% fell to 2.6% >respectively for the two periods; Fixed Capital formation 5.7% >dropped to 2.1%, and consumer prices increased fro ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 3 13:36:34 PDT 2005

19931 [lbo-talk] plagiarism? -- rank: 1000

<http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/185/02/050731NB_The_Scientist_and_the_Church_(web).htm> The Scientist and the Church Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler Montreal and Jerusalem, July, 2005 www.bnarchives.net The April 21, 2005 issue of the London Review of Books carried a lead article titled 'Blood for Oil?' The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists - Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts - who identify themselves by the collective name 'Retort.' In their a ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 3 12:17:09 PDT 2005

19932 [lbo-talk] Merrill on CNOOC -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg's morning market memo] China (Cnooc) withdraws its bid for Unocal but the tactic seems to have worked. How this became a "national security" question is anyone's guess (oil reserves in Asia are now considered to be a 'strategic asset'-interesting.) By our estimates, roughly 20 Canadian energy companies were bought out by US counterparts in the past decade). How it's in our interest to implicitly encourage China now to link itself up with Ir ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 3 11:46:11 PDT 2005

19933 [lbo-talk] Farrakhan sings! -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: > > Also, I don't ask for a denunciation of >> Louis Farrakhan every time I speak to a black person. > >Hear Louey F. sing "Is She Is, Or Is She Ain't?" at >http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/ -- on April 1, appropriately. >Unfortunately, I can't figure out the URL of the actual MP3 file. But >it's available for those who try... <http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/365/365-Days-Project-04-01-farrakhan-louis-is-she-is-or-is- ...

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19934 [lbo-talk] why save? we'll just borrow from the Chinese! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> The only time it was ever negative since the national income accounts >> begin in 1929 was 1932 and 1933. (In fact there was an old rule of >> thumb that the difference between a recession and a depression is >> that savings rates rise in a recession and fall in a depression.) The >> savings rate averaged 8% in the 1980s, and 4% in the 1990s. > >I believe there was some discussion on Pen-L a f ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 3 08:57:35 PDT 2005

19935 [lbo-talk] E&P on Hiroshima coverup -- rank: 1000

[long, so here's the lede] <http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=90&e=1&u=/ep/20050802/en_bpiep/specialreporthiroshimacoverupexposed> SPECIAL REPORT: Hiroshima Cover-up Exposed Tue Aug 2, 6:11 PM ET NEW YORK In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military crews an ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 3 07:04:18 PDT 2005