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22216 [lbo-talk] romantic notes -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - June 23, 2004 Lowdown Lloyd Grove The alleged dating triangle involving Page Six scribe Ian Spiegelman, magazine writer Douglas Dechert and the 47-year-old Dechert's 19-year-old ex-girlfriend, Abigail Vona - author of the new book "Bad Girl: Confessions of a Teenage Delinquent" - has claimed its first casualty. Yesterday morning, about six months after Spiegelman publicly likened his job to "being in a Mafia family," New York Post don Col Allan had him w ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 23 11:05:16 PDT 2004

22217 [lbo-talk] King of the Hill: solons watch Moon crown self Messiah -- rank: 1000

Washigton Post - June 23, 2004 The Rev. Moon Honored at Hill Reception Lawmakers Say They Were Misled By Charles Babington and Alan Cooperman Washington Post Staff Writers More than a dozen lawmakers attended a congressional reception this year honoring the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in which Moon declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be "reborn as new persons." At the March 23 ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-I ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 23 10:59:26 PDT 2004

22218 [lbo-talk] GDP per capita/Dougs comments -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: >I worry that this understates the problem. On many of the key >international questions, using PPP *reverses* what people would >otherwise - and more fairly - assume are "the facts". This reversal >is arbitrary and not justified. PPP numbers are presented as >statistics, but they are in fact a knowingly biased recalculation of >"real" statistics portraying an imaginary world that does not (and >can not) exist. I think that's overstating the ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 23 10:15:48 PDT 2004

22219 [lbo-talk] Calabresi: Bush's rise like Hitler's or Mussolini's -- rank: 1000

[This guy is a serious ruling-class character, no?] New York Sun - June 21, 2004 AUDIENCE GASPS AS JUDGE LIKENS ELECTION OF BUSH TO RISE OF IL DUCE 2nd Circuit's Calabresi Also Compares Bush's Rise to That of Hitler By JOSH GERSTEIN Staff Reporter of the Sun WASHINGTON - A prominent federal judge has told a conference of liberal lawyers that President Bush's rise to power was similar to the accession of dictators such as Mussolini and Hitler. "In a way that occurred before but is rare in ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 23 09:45:19 PDT 2004

22220 [lbo-talk] Re: Kansas as angst indicator -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >If Jon were a theatre producer he would hire a cast, rehearse them, buy >the costumes, etc., but he wouldn't have bothered to rent a theater to >produce it in or put any ads in the paper. All we have to do is stand in >our corner and say the right words and people will learn about us from >telepathy or something like that. Much better we just stand in a corner and talk among ourselves! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 23 09:22:28 PDT 2004

22221 [lbo-talk] Camejo: ex-Pabloite turned capitalist tool -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/sep2003/came-s30.shtml> Peter Camejo and the Greens bid for "respectability" in California recall campaign By Peter Daniels 30 September 2003 The gubernatorial campaign of Peter Camejo in the California recall election marks a further turn to the right by the Green Party. The Greens and their candidate have tailored their election statements and appearances to demonstrate their "responsibility"-i.e., subordination-to the political and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 22 21:16:51 PDT 2004

22222 [lbo-talk] gas prices -- rank: 1000

Can we do an lbo-talk survey? We've got people from all over the place on the list. Could people from outside the U.S. write me - offlist please!!!! there's enough traffic as it is - and tell me what the average price for gasoline/petrol/diesel is in your area? Local currency units are fine - I'll do the conversion. I'll put it all together and report after a couple of days. Latest average U.S. price, according to the Energy Information Administration, is $1.98/gallon. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 17:14:07 PDT 2004

22223 Nader Goes Buchananite (Re: [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >There's nothing irrational in seeing Nader as a threat. Take it as a >compliment. Nader is effective enough to possibly cost Kerry the election. Interesting point. For the pro-Nader people who say his candidacy can't seriously damage Kerry, what the hell do they think the race is about? Making a statement, or winning as many votes as possible? If the point is to damage Kerry enough so that the Dems wake up and do something, admit it. Don't hide behind the safe state ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 16:42:03 PDT 2004

22224 [lbo-talk] Re: naderphobia, camino and latinos -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >to most liberals, an upper class Venezuelan doesn't qualify as "latino", No, but let's interrogate this term "Latino," can we? Why should upper class Venezuelans and poor Mexican share the same label once they enter the U.S. - and share it with third generation Nuyoricans, second-generation Dominicans, and Miami Cubans? Doesn't it reflect a white Anglo view of the world, in which all the Spanish-speaking peoples of the hemisphere blend into one undiffer ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 16:39:14 PDT 2004

22225 [lbo-talk] The Politics of Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >The idea for the fire almost certainly originated with Goebbels and Göering. If you use the umlaut, you don't need the 'e.' This is continuing the conspiracism thread, which must end now. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 16:07:19 PDT 2004

22226 [lbo-talk] Televised Presidential Debates in Spanish in 2008! -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I look forward to 2008, when Peter Miguel Camejo will challenge the >Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to televised >debates in Spanish! Whatever happened to you? You've become an activism-ist. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 15:11:06 PDT 2004

22227 [lbo-talk] Air America's troubles -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 at 9:45am Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Air America's left-leaning orientation gave the fledging network a >> public profile and helped lure donors, including RealNetworks Inc.'s >> Chief Executive Rob Glaser and New York's Durst family of real-estate > >same family as the guy that hacked his neighbor up into >pieces and dumped him in gaveston bay? Yup. > he just had his >$3Billion bail for bail-jumping judged unreasonab ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 13:04:31 PDT 2004

22228 [lbo-talk] PPP again -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman asked me offlist what the income comparisons between the EU and US look like over time. Might as well share the answer with the masses. Doug ---- PER CAPITA GDP, PERCENT OF U.S. (1995 international dollars, PPP) euro area France Germany Japan 1975 72.5% 79.0% 75.1% 69.3% 1976 72.4% 78.3% 75.4% 68.3% 1977 71.7% 77.9% 75.5% 68.3% 1978 70.5% 76.8% 74.3% 68.2% 1979 71.3% 77.2% 75.9% ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 12:58:43 PDT 2004

22229 Nader Goes Buchananite (Re: [lbo-talk] Vote Nader/Camejo 2004! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Those attacking Nader are for the most part adherents of the ABB >position: Anybody but Bush. But they simply refuse to recognize the core >argument for Nader etc. Could you explain to me how a vote for Nader is anything but a protest vote, given his failure to organize anything other than a presidential campaign in years divisible by four? It's funny to see him coming back to the Greens now, desperate for their ballot lines, even though he flipped them the bird just ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 12:56:00 PDT 2004

22230 [lbo-talk] ooops -- rank: 1000

Per Inge Mathisen wrote: >So what do they "purchase" with purchasing power parity to make these >calculations? For a quickie overview, see the page from the World Bank website I just cited. For a more technical approach, see this paper: <http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ICPINT/Resources/ICPhandbook_Chapter1.doc>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 12:22:48 PDT 2004