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20986 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Daily Newsnudniks launch attack on Hamid Dabashi -- rank: 1000

[sorry, just catching up after hol - I've had Dabashi on my show a couple of times (one: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio_1.html#030605>) - I really like him and find him very smart & interesting, though I got an email saying he wasn't properly Marxist - Michael Pollak sent this along, and I doubt he'll mind my forwarding the headnote] [Have you been keeping on on this? Maybe you should invite him back on your show to give his side. And of course there's all the Iran stuff ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 16:12:13 PST 2004

20987 [lbo-talk] a drag queen is not an impersonation of a woman -- rank: 1000

via Thomas Heald's daily Pridelets >QUOTE OF THE DAY > "I do not impersonate women. How many women do you know who march around >in 7-inch heels, 3-foot wigs and skin-tight outfits? Women don't wear that, >drag queens wear that! The public persona of RuPaul is just a fabulous, >eye-popping celebrity package designed to work well in front of the >camera." -- RuPaul

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 15:53:09 PST 2004

20988 [lbo-talk] Re: Trotsky -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Incidentally, what Louis says here could link up to my suggestion that >we take seriously the genre theory reflected in the taxonomy of >theory/propaganda/agitation. Marcuse's work is perhaps still of >importance (though I don't remember it in enough detail to be sure of >this) in describing and theorizing the terrain on which agitation must >be carried out. You know, sometimes I'd rather just think or talk. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 15:48:59 PST 2004

20989 [lbo-talk] Challenge for leftists of all stripes -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >Get rid of corporate personhood And replace it with what? Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 15:46:23 PST 2004

20990 [lbo-talk] FARC and Bush -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/11/27/bush-plot/ >Colombian official: Rebels planned to kill Bush >(CNN) -- U.S. President George W. Bush was targeted for >assassination by Marxist rebels this week when he visited the city >of Cartagena, a Colombian official said Saturday The NYT headline was someething like Marxists Targeted Bush. It's amazing how energized the system seems by having Marxists to get excited about. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 15:19:38 PST 2004

20991 [lbo-talk] No Sharing -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Yesterday, I went to Waffle House with my partner and his family, >and I noticed the menu's insistence that Double Waffle is for >"dine-in only, no sharing" (you can see the menu at ><http://www.wafflehouse.com/menupdf.htm>). From enclosure to >enforcement of intellectual property rights, capital's message is >always No Sharing. A friend & I went to a fancy steakhouse the other week, where they serve massive slabs of beef. We asked ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 14:54:49 PST 2004

20992 [lbo-talk] WMT sales slow to a crawl, other retail signs strong -- rank: 1000

FT.com - November 28, 2004 Wal-Mart Sales Stoke Recovery Fears By James Politi in New York and Chris Giles in London Worries about the sustainability of the US economic recovery were stoked on Sunday after the stores group Wal-Mart, seen as a bellwether for the country's retail sector, announced that sales had grown by only 0.7 percent in the year to November -- a much lower rate than the 2-4 percent increase Wal-Mart had estimated just 10 days ago. The world's largest retailer revised its estim ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 14:48:30 PST 2004

20993 [lbo-talk] Re: lefty percentiles, or, why we lose? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Exactly! That is my point. How many know of The Left at all as an >existing entity? > >I'm not sure why you thought this weird question countered rather than >supported the thrust of my post. The Nation's circ is somewhere between 160,000 and 180,000. That's not Time or People, but it's not tiny either. There are about 200 Pacifica affiliates around the U.S., broadcasting Democracy Now and such. That's not Infinity or Rush, but it's not tiny either. Compare that ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 14:04:34 PST 2004

20994 [lbo-talk] Memphis ends school paddling -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - November 24, 2004 In Memphis, a Battle Won, the Paddle Lost Wed Nov 24, 7:55 AM ET Top Stories - Los Angeles Times By Ellen Barry Times Staff Writer ATLANTA - The Memphis City School Board has voted to ban corporal punishment in the public schools, forcing teachers to replace the traditional wood paddle with tools like mental health support, problem-solving teams and more recognition for students who perform well. The 5-4 vote late Monday ends years of debate over paddling in ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 13:50:55 PST 2004

20995 [lbo-talk] Tom Walker's correction -- rank: 1000

[is this a case for (Claud) Cockburn's law - "never believe anything until it's been officially denied"?] Financial Times - November 26, 2004 Dollar recovers on denial China cutting US treasuries By Mure Dickie BEIJING -- The dollar recovered from a record low against the euro and a five-year nadir to the yen after a Chinese official denied a report that China had trimmed the amount of US treasury bonds in its portfolio. The China Business News, a Shanghai-based newspaper launched rece ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 06:14:22 PST 2004

20996 [lbo-talk] Final Tallies Minus Exit Polls = A Statistical Mystery! -- rank: 1000

Philadelphia Inquirer - November 24, 2004 Final Tallies Minus Exit Polls = A Statistical Mystery! by John Allen Paulos Why did the exit polls taken on election day in the battleground states differ so starkly from the final tallies in those states? As my crosstown colleague, Steven Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania has demonstrated in his paper, "The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy," the pattern is unmistakable. In Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, the differences between Bush ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 06:08:03 PST 2004

20997 [lbo-talk] review -- rank: 1000

The American Prospect - December 6, 2004 Big-Box Battle For 1.6 million women, Wal-Mart represents the decline of the American dream. Ruth Rosen Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart By Liza Featherstone * Basic Books * 336 pages * $25.00 When Betty Dukes, a 56-year-old African-American Wal-Mart worker in Pittsburg, California, first read about Sam Walton, the founder of the world's largest retailer, she felt inspired. "I learned that Sam Walton had a prof ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 21:12:16 PST 2004

20998 [lbo-talk] Canada's chief bourgeois weighs in on marijuana -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >But wait...I thought we established that intelligence is inimical >to/irrelevant to good business? Paying attention is what's important, and both intelligence and drugs can get in the way of that. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 06:42:02 PST 2004

20999 [lbo-talk] Coming Currency Shock -- rank: 1000

Eugene Vilensky wrote: >I lurk the list but I'm not sure my big question has been touched upon: > >Are other major 'developed' countries in as much danger of having >their economies tank if the US goes under? That is, will this be >accompanied by a global depression? If the U.S. "went under," it'd take down most of the world with it. And since so many countries depend on exports to the U.S., even a recession here would cause problems abroad. I'd say the likelihood of th ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 25 06:39:09 PST 2004

21000 [lbo-talk] Re: lefty percentiles, or, why we lose? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >Q: What percentage of adult americans have heard of the Nation? > > >A: The Nation, a liberal critic of President Bush, surged 17.8%, to >139,600. > >that's roughly .005%...if we subscribers each get ten people to read our >issue, that "grows" it to .009%...if they tell ten people each that the >magazine exists...oh well... How many Americans know that either Carrol Cox or Frank Scott exists? Doug

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