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22936 [lbo-talk] RE: David Horowitz -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I now eat right wingers for breakfast. Are they nourishing? Don't they cause terrible indigestion? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 13 07:45:35 PST 2004

22937 [lbo-talk] CEPR housing bubble essay context -- rank: 1000

Win $1000!!!!!! Why Is the Run-up in Housing Prices Not a Bubble? There is no precedent for the nationwide run-up in home prices over the last eight years -- 35 percentage points in excess of inflation. Neither the great boom of the sixties, nor the demographic surge created by the baby boomers forming their own households in the seventies and eighties, led to any substantial increase in home prices, adjusting for overall inflation. Economists who claim that that there is no housing bubble - tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 13 07:36:27 PST 2004

22938 [lbo-talk] criticize Bush, get investigated -- rank: 1000

Treasury Seeks Probe Into Papers Taken by O'Neill By Jonathan Nicholson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury requested a probe on Monday of how a possibly secret document appeared in a televised interview of Paul O'Neill, as a book criticizing the Bush administration that uses material supplied by the ex-Treasury secretary hits the stores. In the book about his term as Treasury chief, O'Neill, who left the job in December 2002 in a shake-up of President Bush (news - web sites)'s economic tea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 12 13:55:48 PST 2004

22939 [lbo-talk] welcome to Falluja -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 12, 2004 Falluja's message of hate for US troops By Charles Clover in Falluja Until last Friday, a sign reading "Welcome To Falluja" greeted US soldiers arriving in the Iraqi city along highway 10. But the cheerful bilingual message carried hidden menace: remote-controlled bombs were often concealed in its cement base. After being hit by at least five bombs in as many months, US commanders decided last week they had had enough of the Iraqi guerrillas' sense of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 12 11:50:42 PST 2004

22940 [lbo-talk] Richard who? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=110> The 2004 presidential campaign is continuing the long-term shift in how the public gets its election news. Television news remains dominant, but there has been further erosion in the audience for broadcast TV news. The Internet, a relatively minor source for campaign news in 2000, is now on par with such traditional outlets as public television broadcasts, Sunday morning news programs and the weekly news magazines. And young people, b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 12 09:32:15 PST 2004

22941 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [Infoshop News] Support Infoshop.org in 2004 -- rank: 1000

Support Infoshop.org in 2004 January 12, 2003 Dear Infoshop supporter, Nine years. Nine years of tweaking the nose of authority. Nine years of alternative news. This month, Infoshop.org observes its ninth birthday. In January of 1995, this project started small as a collection of web pages called the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop. Now Infoshop.org has become an important and popular resource for activists and people interested in alternatives to corporate media. Infoshop.org currently averages over 6 mi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 12 09:18:37 PST 2004

22942 [lbo-talk] Indians, pioneers of property rights -- rank: 1000

[This is from a Reason review of Krech's Ecological Indian by Terry Anderson <http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1568/10_31/59580160/p2/article.jhtml?term=>. Thanks to MPug for pointing this out.] For instance, my own research shows at Southeastern and Southwestern Indians had property rights in land that encouraged agricultural productivity, and that California Indians had property rights to pinon forests that encouraged good stewardship. Similar research by law professor Bruce Johnsen o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 11 17:50:00 PST 2004

22943 [lbo-talk] retail deflation strikes France -- rank: 1000

Reuters Deep discounters conquer French consumers Sunday January 11, 6:29 pm ET By Caroline Jacobs PARIS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Discount stores are booming in France where consumers, disheartened by poor economic prospects, are flocking to no-frills supermarkets and forcing traditional retailers like Carrefour (Paris:CARR.PA - News) to cut prices. First launched in an impoverished Germany several years after World War Two when two brothers opened an Aldi store, deep discounters came to France 30 ye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 11 17:42:53 PST 2004

22944 [lbo-talk] Dr Dean gets angry -- rank: 1000

Voter Triggers Dean's Much-Talked About Temper By Patricia Wilson OELWEIN, Iowa (Reuters) - Dale Ungerer, a 66-year-old retiree from Hawkeye, Iowa, succeeded on Sunday where eight Democratic presidential hopefuls have failed -- he madefront-runner Howard Dean (news - web sites) show a flash of his much-discussed temper. The former Vermont governor had just finished his standard stump speech blasting President Bush (news - web sites) for, among other things, his Iraq (news - web sites) policy and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 11 15:44:46 PST 2004

22945 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Also, while our esteemed moderator does care overly >much for Proyect, Proyect's piece was useful IMO >in pointing out how Marxists have used these >sorts of rhetorical troupes to rationalize the >subjugation of aboriginal peoples. And those >sorts of troupes are very much like the ones >that Benny Morris relies upon. I have no beef with that. It was the characterization of David Harvey that set me off. Here's the full context that LNP was commenting o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 11 15:41:20 PST 2004

22946 RES: [lbo-talk] Keiretsu Capital -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >-On inequality data, I would like to disagree with you. While Taiwan is less >unequal than the USA (Ginni 32), SK is only marginally better (Ginni=36) and >Malaysia is almost as unequal as Latin America (Ginni=48). I will check data >for Thailand. Hmm, where'd you get these numbers? Here's what I have for 1993 from Branko Milanovic at the World Bank. The figures are pretty old, but generally these things don't change too much over a decade. Brazil 59. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 11 15:07:07 PST 2004

22947 [lbo-talk] SHIT-list -- rank: 1000

Stephen Philion wrote: >on the other hand...the axis of evil webloggers Perleman, Henwood, and >Proyect seemed to have fallen under the radar (?!). On the bright side, Max >has won a nomination.... I'm not Jewish. Which didn't stop them from including A. Cockburn, I know, but I'm just not qualified. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 11 12:37:02 PST 2004

22948 [lbo-talk] more from the disgruntled ex-employee -- rank: 1000

Ex-Treasury Chief: Saw No Evidence of Iraq WMDs By Adam Entous CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said he never saw any evidence that Iraq (news - web sites) had weapons of mass destruction -- President Bush (news - web sites)'s main justification for going to war -- and was told "deficits don't matter" when he warned of a looming fiscal crisis. In excerpts from a new book chronicling his rocky two-year tenure and an interview with Time magazine, O'Neill ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 11 12:21:28 PST 2004

22949 [lbo-talk] SHIT-list -- rank: 1000

...of "Self-Hating, Israel Threatening Jews": <http://masada2000.org/shit-list.html>. Includes "Andrew Cockburn," with a picture of brother Alex; Norman Solomon, with a picture of Norman Finkelstein; Caspar Weinberger; and...Michael Walzer!!! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 11 12:01:58 PST 2004

22950 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Indeed, as Louis Proyect once pointed out, >(http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/1999m05.e/msg00078.htm), >Karl Kautsky before becoming a Marxist, had >been an enthusiastic follower of Darwin and Herbert >Spencer, and indeed in an 1881article for Die Neue Zeit >titled "The Indian Question," he argued according to >Proyect that: > >"The reason the Europeans defeated the >Indians, he explains, is that they had not gone far ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 11 10:18:39 PST 2004