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20146 [lbo-talk] Feedback -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I've sent lots of material here on Chechnya, but >gotten precious little feedback on it, except from >Dwayne Monroe. Should I avoid sending this stuff in future? I like it. Keep it up. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 14:47:57 PDT 2005

20147 [lbo-talk] WSJ: Congress Threatens To Take Action It -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >BTW the pro-US Russian "liberal" press is touting the >opposition to pulling out the feeding tube as evidence >of the US populace's devotion to love of humanity and >democratic values. Same people who argued that Russian >opposition to the Iraq invasion was out of love of >Saddamite dictatorship. How'd the Russian liberals get to be so scummy? What's their social origin? Are they descended in any way from Soviet dissidents, who weren't always people ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 14:40:24 PDT 2005

20148 [lbo-talk] Fwd: new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 7, 2005 Laura Flanders, author of Bushwomen (just out in paperback) on masculinity, femininity, identity politics, and the Bush administration * Christian Parenti, author of The Freedom: Shadows & Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, on Chavez and his revolution in Venezuela it joins -------- March 31, 2005 Carlos Mejia, who deserted from his unit in Iraq, on war, resistance, and his year in jail * Nicol ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 14:20:39 PDT 2005

20149 [lbo-talk] Wall Street downloads -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Hey Doug, there are couple of Profs at York who have assigned this >book as part of their mandatory readings. I will talk to them and >ask that when they assign it in the fall they ask for the class to >make a group contribution. I take it if they dont like paypal you >would take a cheque? Who knows by september there might be a 1:1 >parity between the dollars. I was doing the math the other week on the US$ - it's humiliating how we've fallen against the C$! A ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 13:13:11 PDT 2005

20150 [lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video" -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >For many of us the Schaivo case was only an interesting debate >topic; Marta Russell sees it literally as a matter of life-and-death. Which is why I haven't objected to her strong language, in case anyone wonders why I haven't been "even-handed" in my moderation. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 11:23:24 PDT 2005

20151 [lbo-talk] Wall Street downloads -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: >Don't forget that there is the problem that many laser printers have >in properly kerning pdfs. Is it a prob with non-Postscript printers? I've got a HP LaserJet with postscript and it prints just like the original PageMaker files from which the book was printed. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 11:06:13 PDT 2005

20152 [lbo-talk] WSJ: Congress Threatens To Take Action It -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >I suspect "doom" is relative. What isn't? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 09:47:54 PDT 2005

20153 [lbo-talk] Wall Street downloads -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Meanwhile, I've been getting complaints that the kerning on the >_Wall Street_ pdf is not up to snuff... Hmm. It was produced by an old version of PageMaker (which was very cranky at times about turning it into a PDF). PageMaker's type control isn't as good as InDesign's. But the Acrobat looks to me like a very faithful replica of the book, so I'm curious to hear what the complaints are. >And how's the paypal button? Any evidence that the horizons of >bourgeois ri ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 09:33:18 PDT 2005

20154 [lbo-talk] WSJ: Congress Threatens To Take Action It -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Celi Ben wrote: > >>>What do you think about what they're saying here about oil >>>companies switching to the Euro from the dollar causing doom, and >>>they probably will do this, so it will be really really bad. Is >>>this realistic? >> >>http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney04082005.html > >I think the article you quote is very weak That's putting it kindly - it's bordering on right-wing lunacy. The "economic t ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 09:03:50 PDT 2005

20155 [lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video" -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >No, Miles is right: Marta is trippin, and this reflects very, very poorly on >her overall politics. [and] >Even if one disagrees with that, it can't help Marta that she's so barkingly >irrational about this. Please. I don't agree with Marta on this, but the personal insults are totally unnecessary. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 08:56:35 PDT 2005

20156 [lbo-talk] WSJ: Congress Threatens To Take Action It -- rank: 1000

Celi Ben wrote: >What do you think about what they're saying here about oil companies >switching to the Euro from the dollar causing doom, and they >probably will do this, so it will be really really bad. Is this >realistic? It will not cause doom. The US current account deficit will not bring about the terminal crisis of capitalism, or anything resembling it. It's a problem, maybe a serious one, but nothing of the magnitude that our more sensitive sorts are suggeesting. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 08:54:44 PDT 2005

20157 [lbo-talk] Cain's wife -- rank: 1000

A question for the theologically literate here - what's the story with Cain's wife? Where'd she come from? Was she his sister? She just pops up in Genesis without so much as an introduction. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 08:19:20 PDT 2005

20158 [lbo-talk] Wall Street downloads -- rank: 1000

It's hard to tell exactly, because HTTP server logs aren't perfect recorders of this sort of thing, but it looks like there have been somewhere between 2100 and 2500 downloads of Wall Street since I put it up on Thursday. I'm very impressed. So thanks to all of you who urged me to do it this way - it's given an old text new life! Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 07:57:37 PDT 2005

20159 [lbo-talk] news management -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - April 8, 2005 In the Loop No News Is Good News By Al Kamen Friday, April 8, 2005; Page A23 The Pentagon often whines about how the U.S. media only harp on the negative in Iraq. But there's some cheery, morale-building news about military-media relations in a recent internal Army study of its operations in the region around Mosul. The Army's Stryker Brigade -- equipped with vehicles that have been criticized for bad design and components that don't work -- organized an event of ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 8 13:16:45 PDT 2005

20160 [lbo-talk] WSJ: Congress Threatens To Take Action It Probably Can't Take -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >This complaint about the Yuan being undervalued seems weird to me. >The Yuan is pegged to the dollar. If the Yuan is "undervalued" does >this not proceed from the fact that we are printing too many >dollars? Why is it necessarily their "fault" that the Yuan is >"undervalued." ? The peg is precisely the point - those who think the yuan is undervalued think the peg should be broken and the currency allowed to float higher. The peg i ...

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