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22921 [lbo-talk] McCarthy gay? -- rank: 1000

>The Pridelets Files for January 14 > On this day in 1952, Washington Post columnist Drew Pearson writes >in his private diary that Washington is abuzz with rumors that "queer- >baiting" Senator Joseph McCarthy is gay.

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Date:	Wed Jan 14 06:32:34 PST 2004

22922 [lbo-talk] FW: Suicide as a tactic -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > From my fave anti-sectarian sectarian left newspaper, the Weekly >Worker of the CPGB, >http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/396/turkey.html >Weekly Worker 396 Thursday August 23 2001 >Death fasts >Marxists and the politics of suicide >Aziz Demir analyses the class background to the hunger strike by >political prisoners 22k when there's a URL is just too much, Michael! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 17:53:32 PST 2004

22923 [lbo-talk] Re: I'm not sorry day... -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Doug quotes: > >"New York,NY - Jennifer Baumgardner, writer, announces a campaign to >amplify the voices of women who have had abortions. The campaign >will kick off with "I'm Not Sorry Day" on January 22, 2004, a >recasting of the Roe v Wade anniversary. Other events include a >documentary and a t-shirt campaign." > >This is such a bad idea. There's a tremendous amount of work left to >be done on behalf of women's rights (as ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 17:33:44 PST 2004

22924 [lbo-talk] I'm Not Sorry Day in NYC -- rank: 1000

New York,NY - Jennifer Baumgardner, writer, announces a campaign to amplify the voices of women who have had abortions. The campaign will kick off with "I'm Not Sorry Day" on January 22, 2004, a recasting of the Roe v Wade anniversary. Other events include a documentary and a t-shirt campaign. "My generation was raised believing abortion was a legal entitlement, should we seek one. But the guilt and silence around having an abortion hasn't dissipated since Roe," Baumgardner s ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 15:12:57 PST 2004

22925 [lbo-talk] CFR on Campaign 2004 -- rank: 1000

[what the ruling class thinks...] >THE WORLD THIS WEEK FROM THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS > > >COUNCIL LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN 2004 WEBSITE: http://www.cfr.org/campaign2004 >The Council on Foreign Relations is building upon the success of its >Campaign 2000 site to use the web to inform journalists, students, and >interested citizens on foreign policy in the U.S. presidential election. >The site includes: > >Issue Briefs: 500-word summaries of the top foreign polic ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 14:56:11 PST 2004

22926 [lbo-talk] spam authors -- rank: 1000

Lately my spam folder has been filling with missives from authors with the funniest names. A sample of today's crop: >Pulsating L. Disembodies >Placentals D. Consumed >Cathodes Q. Emerging >Telltales K. Precipitating Is this some ruse to trick spam filters? If so, it's not working very well. Otherwise, anyone know anything about this? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 13:52:33 PST 2004

22927 [lbo-talk] Keiretsu Capital -- rank: 1000

jjlassen at chinastudygroup.org wrote: >Yes, that's my understanding of what's happening. But then that's (in general) >job destruction, and if we believe these are connected processes, then we >wouldn't be good social scientists if we added the word 'creation' to it if >it's a negative-sum game, no? Or at least if we failed to hedge our bets >through fun oxymorons like: > >creative destruction >annihilatory ingenuity >productive ruination >devastating dynamism Is i ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 13:32:31 PST 2004

22928 [lbo-talk] Keiretsu Capital -- rank: 1000

Stephen Philion wrote: >Everything I've read/heard/seen about China suggests there's been massive >job creation; overall, real incomes do seem to be rising; mainland firms are >climbing the technology ladder very quickly; investment levels are very high >(maybe 30% of GDP, or higher); China's foreign reserves keep swelling; and >Taiwan continues to flourish. What's the evidence to the contrary? (A real, >not a rhetorical, >question.) > >-- DRR > >--surely that ca ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 12:10:44 PST 2004

22929 [lbo-talk] Re; To Michael: re India etc -- rank: 1000

Hari Kumar wrote: >By the way, did anyone see the out-sourcing prgramme on 60 minutes? >Showed well, what another side of India is today. Could you expand on that? What side? What did it tell you? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 11:57:19 PST 2004

22930 [lbo-talk] Re: the nation -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"Why did the editors of The Nation feel it necessary to issue that "we >disagree profoundly" disclaimer re: Cockburn's recent column on Hitler? >It comes across as cowardly and spineless." > >it was...fear of financing? whatever, it sucks. Is this a ref to AC's characterization of Hitler as a waxworks villain and mere Keynesian? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 11:25:56 PST 2004

22931 [lbo-talk] US brutalized Reuters crew -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - January 13, 2004 US military 'brutalised' journalists News agency demands inquiry after American forces in Iraq allegedly treated camera crew as enemy personnel Luke Harding in Baghdad The international news agency Reuters has made a formal complaint to the Pentagon following the "wrongful" arrest and apparent "brutalisation" of three of its staff this month by US troops in Iraq. The complaint followed an incident in the town of Falluja when American soldi ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 09:57:40 PST 2004

22932 [lbo-talk] OPEC mulls over euro -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >What benefit are elites extracting from Bushevik >militarism and belligerance? Other than a few firms - >the chosen few - I cannot discern any gain for the >broader corporate / political ruling class. Financial Times - January 12, 2004 Dislike of regimes colours consumer attitudes By Guy de Jonquiýres in London Disapproval of President George W. Bush's administration and Tony Blair's government is damaging goodwill among wealthier European consumers towards US ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 09:54:46 PST 2004

22933 [lbo-talk] Park Police Bomb Their Terrorism Test -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Park Police Bomb Their Terrorism Test >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11312-2004Jan12.html Later in the same column: >At another soiree, hosted by writer Christopher Hitchens, I waded >into a well-lubricated cabal of journos, Bushies and neo-cons. I >spied the deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz, still >chatting with admirers past midnight. > >"The new Reliable Source," I said, forking over my business card. > >He bri ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 09:48:03 PST 2004

22934 [lbo-talk] William Pfaff: The price of globalization -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[Most of the jobs that are safe would seem to be low-value-added >occupations like car mechanic, restaurant worker, barber, etc. The >jobs that earn -- or earned -- big bucks are in real peril. Here's >the latest from mega-gloom-monger Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley on >the death spiral of the Great American Job Machine:] According to the widely cited Forrester estimates, 3.3 million U.S. jobs will be "offshored" over the next decade, in an economy ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 08:41:10 PST 2004

22935 [lbo-talk] OPEC mulls over euro -- rank: 1000

Globe and Mail (Toronto) - January 12, 2004 OPEC mulls move to euro for pricing crude oil By PATRICK BRETHOUR Calgary - OPEC is considering a move away from using the U.S. dollar - and to the euro - to set its price targets for crude oil, the highest-profile manifestation of the debilitating effect of depreciation on the greenback's standing as the currency of international commerce. Several members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are seeking formal talks on using the euro, ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 13 08:24:24 PST 2004