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20221 [lbo-talk] Churchill Sets Limits on Academic Freedom of Speech -- rank: 1000

Thomas Brown wrote: >Boulder - Ward Churchill is unapologetic. > >He didn't plagiarize anyone's work, he says. He didn't misrepresent >himself as an American Indian. And he didn't untruthfully accuse the >U.S. Army of intentionally spreading smallpox to Indians in 1837. > >"Somewhere along the line, I'm going to sue for damages," he said >Wednesday of those allegations. When asked whom he would sue, he >replied, "I haven't played that part out yet. It ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 2 08:48:55 PST 2005

20222 [lbo-talk] more on 2004 election fraud -- rank: 1000

[this is a press release, not a news story] Scientific Analysis Suggests Presidential Vote Counts May Have Been Altered - Group of University Professors Urges Investigation of 2004 Election The absence of any statistically-plausible explanation for the discrepancy between Edison/Mitofsky's exit poll data and the official presidential vote tally is an unanswered question of vital national importance that needs thorough investigation. (PRWEB) March 30, 2005 -- Officially, President Bush won Novemb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 1 13:38:23 PST 2005

20223 [lbo-talk] Linux, was New Imperialism? Imperialism has been monopoly -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: > > Microsoft's monopoly days are numbered. Linux shall overcome. >> >> --tully > >Wanna bet? On which? For Linux or against MSFT? I'll take a bet against MSFT (the company Bill G named after his p*nis).

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 1 13:24:35 PST 2005

20224 [lbo-talk] new Marta piece & review of Liza's Wal-Mart book -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >The leader >also has a chart on the question - one we were discussing here - of >whether the Baran and Sweezy 60s prediction that the growth of US >capitalism would start slowing down has proven to be correct ><http://www.monthlyreview.org/0405editorc1.pdf> Like I said the other day, it all depends on your choice of base year. Growth in the 1960s was well above average, and some reversion to the mean could be expected. If this chart had started in the 1950 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 1 12:19:43 PST 2005

20225 [lbo-talk] SS news -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Social Security "House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has acknowledged that President Bush's call for completion of a Social Security bill this year could be unrealistic and that the legislation might have to wait until 2006," writes the Washington Post's Mike Allen, who Notes that Hastert's comments come in today's National Journal and were immediately met by insistence by Republicans and the White House that an overha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 1 11:08:49 PST 2005

20226 [lbo-talk] US employment -- rank: 1000

Pretty disappointing US jobs report this morning - just 110k new jobs, with Feb's gain revised down. The long-term average would be about 220k, and the long-term expansion average (excluding recession periods, that is) is around 360k. Gains weren't broadly distributed across industries, either. Factories lost jobs - as did temp firms, not a good sign. (Temp employment frequently leads broad employment trends.) Wages gained slightly after stagnating last month, but now they're just keeping up wit ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 1 10:57:56 PST 2005

20227 [lbo-talk] dirty bombs: a fraud -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >Who wanted to undue the industrial revolution? Such deliberate >misrepresentations help no one. My main guru on these issues is Tom Athanasiou, along with his pal Paul Baer. Their web site is <http://ecoequity.org>, which has lots of links to the science. They are not neo-primitivists by any means. Listen to my interview with them at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio_1.html#030313>, in which Tom says the Third World needs to use more energy, not l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 15:59:06 PDT 2004

20228 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >All a matter of taste. I rather liked the text myself. Roy is very, very >conscious about resisting the barrage of cliches about Third World >immigrants reinventing their happy selves via First World consumerism. It's very easy for residents of the First World, and richer residents of the Third, to adopt an attitude like that. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 15:49:06 PDT 2004

20229 [lbo-talk] IBD/TIPP: tight race -- rank: 1000

Investors Business Daily - September 30, 2004 Who's Leading Presidential Vote? This Time, Polls Offer Little Help By: Staff The race is dead even. No, it's Bush in a cakewalk. Americans have been bombarded and bewildered by a blizzard of reputable polls showing very different results. What's going on? IBD/TIPP's latest poll shows President Bush and Sen. John Kerry all tied at 45%, with Ralph Nader taking 2%. Head to head, Kerry actually leads, 46%-45%. But several other surveys show Bush with a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 15:38:55 PDT 2004

20230 [lbo-talk] dirty bombs: a fraud -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I'm not sure I'd call it a 'fraud' I'm following the old rule of journalism - simplify & exaggerate. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 12:30:27 PDT 2004

20231 [lbo-talk] draft? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/draft.asp > >... for those of you who won't believe the WSJ but will believe Snopes >:-) And I've pointed to this article several times. They don't want a rerun. Doug ---- <http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/Vietnam/heinl.html> THE COLLAPSE OF THE ARMED FORCES By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr. North American Newspaper Alliance Armed Forces Journal, 7 June, 1971 THE MORALE, DISCIPLINE and battleworthiness of the U.S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 12:04:19 PDT 2004

20232 [lbo-talk] dirty bombs: a fraud -- rank: 1000

<james at communistbanker.com> wrote: >I don't understand why people who last week were all for undoing the >industrial revolution in case of global warming are being so reasonable >and level-headed about dirty bombs this week. > >Doug's argument last week was, >"If the theorists of climate change are right - and, given the >stakes, it's prudent to assume they are". > >Well, the dirty bomb stakes are pretty high. So why aren't you running >for the hi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 11:53:47 PDT 2004

20233 [lbo-talk] Bush voters don't know his positions -- rank: 1000

<http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/html/new_9_29_04.html> Bush Supporters Misread Many of His Foreign Policy Positions Kerry Supporters Largely Accurate Swing Voters Also Misread Bush, But Not Kerry As the nation prepares to watch the presidential candidates debate foreign policy issues, a new PIPA-Knowledge Networks poll finds that Americans who plan to vote for President Bush have many incorrect assumptions about his foreign policy positions. Kerry supporters, on the oth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 10:33:58 PDT 2004

20234 [lbo-talk] Chicago Council on Foreign Relations poll -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >If this poll showing strong opposition to the so-called Bush Doctrine is an >accurate reflection of public opinion - and anecdotal evidence suggests it >is - it is of greater significance for American foreign policy than whether >Bush or Kerry is elected. Most Americans have long wanted to avoid "foreign entaglements." Some exception was made for the cold war, but elites have obsessed for decades about how to get the masses to go along with their impe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 10:31:47 PDT 2004

20235 [lbo-talk] WSJ reporter on Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://poynter.org/forum/?id=misc> From: [Wall Street Journal reporter] Farnaz Fassihi Subject: From Baghdad Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest. Forget about the reasons that lured me to this job: a chance to see the world, explore the exotic, meet new people in far away lands, discover their ways and tell stories that could make a difference. Little by little, day-by-day, being based in Iraq has defied all those reasons. I am hous ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 10:30:01 PDT 2004