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20296 [lbo-talk] boom in Brazil? -- rank: 1000

[anyone know how real this is?] Miami Herald - September 27, 2004 BRAZIL Mired in slow growth, economy now booming Growth has been brisk in South America's largest economy as automotive, soybean, citrus, beef and chicken exports surge. BY KEVIN G. HALL Knight Ridder News Service RIO DE JANEIRO - Led by a boom in farm exports and car manufacturing, Brazil's economy is bouncing back after years of sluggishness. It's good news not just for Brazilians, but also for U.S. companies and investors who'v ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 06:55:23 PDT 2004

20297 [lbo-talk] campaign -- rank: 1000

>The Pridelets Files for September 27 > On this day in 1939, the Nazi Party's Federal Security Bureau Office for >Combating Abortion and Homosexuality is reorganized so that a larger portion >of agents can be sent out on patrol to cart off offenders.

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 06:51:26 PDT 2004

20298 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Comments On Kinky Sex -- rank: 1000

[this is quite long, but is highly detailed and was written for the list - the author considers it a work in progress and welcomes comments - if the author is reading this, please contact me so I can forward you any comments I receive] Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:06:38 -0700 (PDT) From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> Subject: Comments On Kinky Sex To: doug henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> The following (somewhat extensive) comments about kinky sex -- the author p ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 06:42:50 PDT 2004

20299 [lbo-talk] Camille, coiled like a spring -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - September 27, 2004 READY OR NOT FANS of Camille Paglia, take heart. The opinionated professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia has been lying low, working on "Break, Blow, Burn" (Pantheon), a study of 43 of the world's best poems. The title comes from a line by John Donne. Plus, Paglia's girlfriend of 12 years, Alison Maddox, has been raising her baby Lucian, 2. But Paglia promises PAGE SIX she will regain her high profile in the spring when she ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 06:22:49 PDT 2004

20300 [lbo-talk] anti-Suburban snobs, was petro-thusians -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Sure, the US would look a lot different. Not in a way I'd like to see >it, though ... This wouldn't be because you have a gas-guzzler & like driving it? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 26 19:17:35 PDT 2004

20301 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >degenerate culture Any relation to the Nazi concept of entartete Kunst? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 26 19:13:54 PDT 2004

20302 [lbo-talk] MWM, take 2 -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Here's my question: Why not make the MWM a movement to generate a true MWM? >Why not spend a year or two recruiting enough people to actually put a >million workers in the street? Because one suspects the organizers wanted to be able to say: "see how in bed big labor is with the Dems!" So when the march turns out to be a trickle, they can justify it with a "told you so!" It's almost the definition of sectarianism. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 26 07:32:18 PDT 2004

20303 [lbo-talk] MWM, take 2 -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Sat Sep 25 08:59:06 PDT 2004: >>Carrol Cox wrote: >>>The thrust of the march is to measure commitment to non-electoral >>>politics (i.e., real politics). >> >>You've said that before. It's almost certain that the turnout will >>be small, and the measurement of commitment will therefore be >>small. Do you really want to set yourself up for that? > >Supporting only what is already ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 25 15:28:32 PDT 2004

20304 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Query] -- rank: 1000

Years ago, when Letterman interviewed Rush Limbaugh, he asked him something like, "Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and worry if you're just a bag of gas?" Doug Carrol Cox wrote: >When the problem of turning on the water was first discussed on LBO >those who thought the u.s. should "fix" the damage it had done scoffed >at those of us who claimed that citizen action could have only "long >range" effects. Someone in fact queried of either Yos ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 25 14:06:29 PDT 2004

20305 [lbo-talk] Squawk's hacker manifesto 001-006 -- rank: 1000

[via nettimes - wow, is this Wark character a charlatan - good for a laugh or two] From: "McKenzie Wark" <mckenziewark at hotmail.com> Subject: <nettime> a hacker manifesto 001-006 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:26:17 -0400 -- from the uncorrected page proofs. For the book, see: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WARHAC.html A Hacker Manifesto 001-006 McKenzie Wark 001. A double spooks the world, the double of abstraction. The fortunes of states and armies, companies and communi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 25 13:09:54 PDT 2004

20306 [lbo-talk] Iraq's Oil -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >U.S. Steel turned itself into Marathon. I imagine Exxon (or whatever >it's called now) would willingly turn itself into X if necessary. The ticker symbol of U.S. Steel *is* X. So the name's already taken. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 25 09:11:59 PDT 2004

20307 [lbo-talk] Re: Kink, Ick & the Left /sexual self-expression -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >I actually have a hoot of a story about a recent trip to an erotica >shop with current partner. The cashier and I got into a great >conversation about contemporary academic theories of porn and >whether dykes with huge dildo collections really want to be men. >Sometimes, people who are queer are just so fucking heterosexist it >slays me. At the Rivington St Toys in Babeland <http://www.babeland.com>, I once eavesdropped on a sales clerk advising a lesbia ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 25 09:04:52 PDT 2004

20308 [lbo-talk] MWM, take 2 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The thrust of the march is to measure commitment to non-electoral >politics (i.e., real politics). You've said that before. It's almost certain that the turnout will be small, and the measurement of commitment will therefore be small. Do you really want to set yourself up for that? > Hence the important impact the march can >have is (a) on the marchers themselves Is this the circle-jerk theory of politics, to go with the shit happens school of history? >and (b) ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 25 08:59:06 PDT 2004

20309 [lbo-talk] MWM, take 2 -- rank: 1000

????????? [the weird new self-identification of Brad Mayer] wrote: > >N.N. Ridiculous timing. It is idiotic to expect labor leaders and >activists to >>devote twelve to eighteen hours of travel to DC, when that same time would >>be better spent mobilizing for get out the vote among poor and multi-racial >>communities. > >Not if it keeps trade union activists and leftists from working to >elect another RIGHT WING politician to the US Presidency. Then it > ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 25 08:52:20 PDT 2004

20310 [lbo-talk] anti-Suburban snobs, was petro-thusians -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug says: > >> But if the price of transportation isn't adequately >> reflecting the costs of environmental damage, their >> choices are based on false information. > >... as opposed to all those other "choices" we make based on prices >which DO adequately reflect the costs of the environment damage? Did I say that? Did I say that market prices in general fully reflect social costs? I didn't because I don't think so. But the dis ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 25 08:45:42 PDT 2004