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22846 [lbo-talk] Davos no tie policy raises money for UNICEF -- rank: 1000

[who sez the ruling class is a bunch of uptight greedheads?] PRESS RELEASE Contact: Mark Adams, Head of Media <http://www.weforum.org>http://www.weforum.org Annual Meeting 2004 Davos, Switzerland 21-25 January DAVOS 'NO-TIE POLICY' RAISES MONEY FOR UNICEF Davos, Switzerland 26 January 2004 - The World Economic Forum's 'no-tie policy' has raised 20,000 Swiss Francs for UNICEF. Participants who wished to continue to wear their ties were asked at security to pay a 'forfeit' of five Swiss Fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 11:43:38 PST 2004

22847 [lbo-talk] UK lbo-talk subscribers, set your videos ... -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >My spies tell me that Doug Henwood will be appearing on Newsnight tonight ... >I dunno who's presenting, but you've gotta think that Paxman v. Henwood would >be a pretty fun show to watch. Alas, two corrections: it's Business Today on BBC News24, and the live version originally scheduled for tonight was rescheduled for a taping tomorrow or Wednesday. Details to follow. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 10:46:29 PST 2004

22848 [lbo-talk] Bombay->Mumbai -- rank: 1000

How, when, and why did Bombay become Mumbai? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 26 10:44:50 PST 2004

22849 [lbo-talk] Oil: The illusion of plenty -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >What is up with hotmail? I haven't gotten any e-mail in three days. Mailman says you're boucing. As a list manager and emailer of LBO Acrobat attachments, let me tell you: Hotmail sucks. Mailboxes fill up quickly, attachments are garbled, the thing goes into a coma now and then, etc. From my experience as a sender, Yahoo mail works much better. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 26 04:08:11 PST 2004

22850 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris responds -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I don't think I want to read beyond Morris's paragraph two. Is there >any reason to do so? Because, as my friend Joel Schalit put it, the contradictions of Morris' position are "very very Israeli." How can one really be a leftist and advocate an ethnically based state? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 26 04:02:20 PST 2004

22851 [lbo-talk] Defeating Homeland Security... -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Actually, wecould defeat this Homeland Security stuff without firing >a shot. If a sizeable proportion of people would change their name >to something Middle Eastern... Bertell Ollmann says all the goyische lefties should convert to Judaism and undermine Zionism from within. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 24 10:02:21 PST 2004

22852 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris responds -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - January 23, 2004 Right of Reply / I do not support expulsion By Benny Morris A few days after the publication of the interview with me ("Survival of the fittest," Haaretz Magazine, January 9), an angry Israeli-Arab student came to my office at Ben-Gurion University. He suggested that the Holocaust never happened (he cited what he called "an important and world-renowned Egyptian historian"), and claimed that the Twin Towers in New York were destroyed at the order o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 24 09:05:38 PST 2004

22853 [lbo-talk] Left Bonkerism Re: Afghanistan and Oil -- rank: 1000

100% vagina free wrote: >From: "100% vagina free" <mullah_omar at email.it> I'm not surprised Mullah Omar likes things 100% vagina free, but could you explain the nicknames, and maybe offer a hint about who you are? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 23 14:19:33 PST 2004

22854 [lbo-talk] NH: graveyard of pollsters (and Zogby's questionable rep) -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 23, 2004 New Hampshire: Graveyard of Pollsters By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane Washington Post Staff Writers "Now I know why they call this the Granite State," said candidate Bob Dole eight years ago after losing a Republican primary in the state for the second time. "It's so hard to crack." Dole's assessment is as true for pollsters as for the candidates in New Hampshire, where bad methodology, bad timing or simply bad luck have produced some of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 23 12:14:02 PST 2004

22855 [lbo-talk] How Dean REALLY Destroyed the Democratic Establishment -- rank: 1000

The media need a Dean comeback story. - Doug mike larkin wrote: >"...we'd all gotten accustomed to thinking that Dean destroyed the >Democratic establishment in the Fall when he rocketed ahead of their >candidates, developed a new way of fundraising, and bashed them >silly for their feeble opposition to the president. But maybe that's >wrong. Perhaps when he really delivered that establishment a fatal >blow was in the winter when he got all of them (Gore, Bradley, >Cart ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 23 11:04:06 PST 2004

22856 [lbo-talk] match game -- rank: 1000

http://www.presidentmatch.com/Main.jsp2?cp=main Allows you to compare your views on the issues with the candidates and tells you how well each candidate matches your views.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 23 09:44:10 PST 2004

22857 [lbo-talk] meat and Meat -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 23, 2004 A POTENT CHALLENGE TO PETA REAL men who eat meat are disputing the bogus claim of animal rights activists that a diet of burgers and bacon causes impotence. The quiche-eaters at PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) hope to air a commerical during the Super Bowl which shows a pizza boy delivering a pie with "extra sausage" who fails to please two comely customers. After the curvy cuties drag him down behind a couch, one of them w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 23 08:33:35 PST 2004

22858 [lbo-talk] Imperialism & Exploitation -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >But Roemer show syou can have >inequality without "bad" exploitation -- he has models >in which the poor exploit the rich (the rich transfrer >surplus labor to be poor). He uses these to conclude >that it's not exploitation that is troubling, but >inequality. "He has models..." Neoclassicals have a lot of models too, but they're mostly crap. These sound like crap too. Where does inequality come from if not the appropriation of val ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 23 08:05:41 PST 2004

22859 [lbo-talk] Re: Undecided Until the Last Minute Re: Dean'sSelf-Demolition -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: > > No need for a Plan B if one's Plan A is to ignore the election and >> conentrate on the long-term project of building a mass resistance >> movement. > >Yep, right Carrol, you bypassed genius, you. You've caught all of us. >Because we spend some time on the election, that proves we don't care about >building movements. Oh, well, it's no biggie, since you're achieving so >much success in that area, making The Movement out of the angst ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 23 07:39:26 PST 2004

22860 [lbo-talk] Randall Terry pied -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] Communiqu» from the Biotic Baking Brigade- NYC cell January 20, 2004 Contact: bbb_nyc at yahoo.com NY, NY: 12:00PM Agents of the Biotic Baking Brigade-NYC cell have pied Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry who was speaking on behalf of his new anti-abortion group, the Society for Truth and Justice. The anti-choice group was holding a meek protest and press conference outside Planned Parenthood's Manhattan office (corner of Mott and Bleecker Streets). Agent Cheesecake served up a ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 13:06:21 PST 2004