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20791 [lbo-talk] Re: birthday -- rank: 1000

jimi ayler wrote: > >Michel Foucault would be turning 78 today. Celebrate >>appropriately. > >you mean, like, discoursing in a sophrosyn-ic rupture >of power bio-political epistemes, taxonimically >related to panoptic/heterotopic strategies of, or >engaged in, governmentality-as-historicity? or should >i just score some blow and have unprotected sex? you could buy a fisting sling and test it out

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 15 10:00:50 PDT 2004

20792 [lbo-talk] reporters forbidden to express opinions, ever -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - October 15, 2004 To E-Mail or Not to E-Mail: Can Reporters Offer Views in Private Correspondence? By Joe Strupp NEW YORK The widely publicized experience of a Wall Street Journal reporter in Baghdad, whose private correspondance to family and friends ripping conditions in Iraq found its way online and into print in October, shows that journalists must guard their e-mail comments, industry leaders say. But, while several editors agreed that the Journal incident highlights ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 15 09:38:07 PDT 2004

20793 [lbo-talk] Kurt Andersen's blog -- rank: 1000

Kurt Andersen, formerly of Spy and several forgettable ventures, has started a blog <http://kurtandersen.com/blog/index.html>. The premiere entry: hursday, October 07, 2004 This Is Nothing This is, for the time being and maybe forever, a hypothetical blog, a placebo blog, at most a nascent blog. I enjoy knowing it's here, gassed up with the key in the ignition, available to me as a vehicle for immediately scribbling down any epiphanies I feel obliged to share with the world. But right now ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 15 09:29:31 PDT 2004

20794 [lbo-talk] Group Posts Surveillance Camera Locations -- rank: 1000

Lots of maps for NYC, some of them getting old. <http://www.notbored.org/scp-maps.html> <http://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/overview.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 15 06:58:36 PDT 2004

20795 [lbo-talk] birthday -- rank: 1000

Michel Foucault would be turning 78 today. Celebrate appropriately.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 15 06:55:40 PDT 2004

20796 [lbo-talk] radio -- rank: 1000

Apologies for the short notice, but I'm going to have Sebastian Mallaby, author of a new book about James Wolfensohn and the World Bank, on the radio today. In the book, he bashes NGOs in general and the International Rivers Network specifically; I'll bring on Patrick McCully of IRN about halfway into the show to respond. Then they'll go at it. WBAI, 99.5 FM or <http://wbai.org>, 5-6 PM NYC time. If you miss it live, I'll have it up in the archive soon. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 14 12:25:54 PDT 2004

20797 [lbo-talk] Oil prices rise yet again in US -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Provided that linearity assumption is reasonable. As I understand, the >regression equation your cited was determined from historical data, but the >projections go beyond the range of the historical data i.e. the price did >not go beyond $2.30 at the pump or $50 crude. True, but real crude prices today are well below the $80 real (CPI) level of 1980. You could also argue that nonlinearity would work the other way - that as oil prices rise, the ratio of reta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 14 11:15:01 PDT 2004

20798 [lbo-talk] Nomi Prins & Co. in NYC -- rank: 1000

[from Nomi Prins] Next Wednesday, October 20th, Demos is sponsoring an exciting event at New York Public Library's Donnell Center (20 W. 53rd St.), surrounding my new book, Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America. It will also feature best-selling authors, Greg Palast (The Best Democracy Money Can Buy) and John Cassidy (Dot.CON). Come be a part of this unique and provocative discussion! It will run from 6:30 - 8:00pm. A book signing and wine & cheese reception will follow. Att ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 14 10:18:13 PDT 2004

20799 [lbo-talk] Oil prices rise yet again in US -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >More good news: $54.60 /barrel > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3744094.stm > >It is not too farfetched to think that it will be $3/gallon at the pump >after the election. A bit farfetched. A linear regression of retail gas prices on crude oil prices (WTI) since 1985 suggests that we'd need $75 or $80 oil to produce a $3 pump price. The "fair" price right now is around $2.15; if $55 holds, it'd be $2.30. Every $5 increase in crude price ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 14 10:13:02 PDT 2004

20800 [lbo-talk] Energy article on Spiked -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >Eubulides wrote: > >>Please don't perpetuate the stereotype of the Luddites! > >They half deserve it for focusing on the machines and not the social >relations. > >Doug > > >================== > >Would you rather that they had simply killed the capitalists? Huh? The only choices are breaking machines or breaking capitalists? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 14 07:33:06 PDT 2004

20801 [lbo-talk] ex-friend: Paris "a racist, plus an idiot" -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] EX-PAL CALLS PARIS A 'RACIST' HOLLYWOOD oil heir Brandon Davis just poured gasoline on the Paris Hilton N-word furor, claiming that Hilton regularly uses the racial slur as well as slurs against other minorities. Davis, an old friend of Hilton who had a falling out with her this year, came forward after it was reported that Hilton used the N-word in a scene caught on videotape. Hilton later issued a statement saying, "Anyone who knows me knows that this is not me. I love eve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 14 07:30:23 PDT 2004

20802 [lbo-talk] Nader and His Detractors -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Nader promoted the Green Party during and after his 2000 presidential run: > ><blockquote>Ralph helped: > >* local Greens start 450 new local Green chapters, [...] >* went to Europe in 2002 for the 3rd annual Congress of European >Greens in Germany, and visited the French and Swedish Greens before >their elections. > ><http://www.votenader.org/why_ralph/news.php?cid=3></blockquote> You forgot to quote the next part: >So ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 14 07:24:31 PDT 2004

20803 [lbo-talk] Food for Thought from the MWM -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >The part about "analyzing the failure of the Labor party" is easy: Doug >Henwood Thought. You might find stupid formulations like that easier than thinking, but tell me about your experience or observations of the actual attempt to form a Labor Party. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 14 07:07:51 PDT 2004

20804 [lbo-talk] ABC insty-poll -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS POLL: THE THIRD PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE - 10/13/04 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A Draw in the Third Debate, With Bragging Rights to Kerry John Kerry and George W. Bush battled to another draw in their last debate of the 2004 campaign, with perhaps bragging rights to Kerry, since more Republicans tuned in. Among registered voters who watched the debate, 42 percent called Kerry the winner, 41 percent said Bush won and 14 percent called it a tie. That's similar to the outcome of the second debate, wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 13 22:10:49 PDT 2004

20805 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali (stems from RE: Nader and His Detractors) -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >So we are back to the same old questions: Why is the 'left' >responsible for defeating Bush? It's not. But it shouldn't be an obstacle either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 13 19:45:03 PDT 2004