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23386 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Lassen wrote: >andie nachgeborenen wrote: > >> I am a Hayekian. Hayek's idea was that markets are >> information systems, not straw-bosses. The point is >> that people cannot know enough if they have to plan >> how many buttons and how much broccoli they will >need >> -- but mnarkets give people who are interested in >> making profits spedcial incentives to find out >without >> central coordination. No planning board can do as ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 07:49:30 PST 2004

23387 [lbo-talk] Riggs & the CIA -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 31, 2004 Riggs Bank Had Longstanding Link To the CIA Ties May Pose Challenges For Prosecutors Investigating Money Laundering at Bank By MARTIN FACKLER and ROBERT BLOCK Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 31, 2004; Page A4 WASHINGTON -- Riggs Bank, which is under investigation by the Justice Department for money laundering, has had a longstanding relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, according to people familiar with Riggs operations an ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 07:21:23 PST 2004

23388 [lbo-talk] Fwd: tsunami relief : please forward -- rank: 1000

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: tsunami relief : please forward From: "Priyamvada Gopal" <bibaji at yahoo.com> Date: Fri, December 31, 2004 9:51 am To: mcn at jiscmail.ac.uk mrya at conncoll.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, Apologies for the bulk email. This is an appeal to you to contribute, if you can, to relief work in South and South East Asia where the deva ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 07:19:47 PST 2004

23389 [lbo-talk] capital's contribution to the tsunami death toll -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 31, 2004 WAVE OF DESTRUCTION On Asia's Coasts, Progress Destroys Natural Defenses By ANDREW BROWNE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 31, 2004; Page A5 HONG KONG -- The ring of coral in crystal waters around the Surin Island chain off Thailand's west coast forms a sturdy defense against the sea. So when the tsunami struck on Sunday it punched a few holes in the reef, but the structure mostly held firm. The reef, says Thai marine environmentalist Th ...

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23390 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [NYCAnti-War] U.S. Groups Urge Indonesia to Put People over Politics in Aceh -- rank: 1000

Media Release U.S. Groups Urge Indonesian Government to Put People over Politics Humanitarian Catastrophe Adds to Human-Created Destruction in Aceh Contacts: Michael Beer, NI, 202-244-0951 (w), 703-875-9482 (h) Karen Orenstein, ETAN, 202-544-6911 (w), 202-319-1711 (h), karen at etan.org Bama Athreya, ILRF, 703-328-1964 (cell) December 30 -- U.S.-based groups with a long record of experience in the region today called on the Indonesian government to not let politics override the needs of people i ...

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23391 [lbo-talk] Investing in Russia? Some LBO folks have asked -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >We agree that *both* Yeltsin and Putin are venal elites... but if Yeltsin >defaulted even simply due to financial repayment problems, that still was a >useful stance, had it persuaded other countries' elites to give it a try. >'Provincial'? The Jubilee South activists I learn from are amongst the most >serious internationalists writing anywhere. Provincial in the sense that it's pretty odd to take Yeltsin as a model, since he ran a horribly corrupt government ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 06:55:20 PST 2004

23392 [lbo-talk] Re: Amartya Sen and Wolfensohn on disability -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.irn.org/programs/finance/index.asp?id=sebastianmallaby/041109review.html >...By Peter Bosshard, International Rivers Network Hmm, scratch that Bosshard review in LBO. He never told me about that. Doug

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23393 [lbo-talk] Re: Amartya Sen and Wolfensohn on disability -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >On 30-Dec-04 Michael Pugliese wrote: >> Watch for the Q&A w/ Mallaby from the lefty NGO policy wonk and the >> Tibet activist, > >-------- > >Gotta write up a quick overview Mike. I don't have an audio card... > I interviewed Mallaby, with a response from Patrick McCully of the International Rivers Network: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#041014>. McCully rips him pretty well. In the next LBO, a review of Mallaby ...

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23394 [lbo-talk] Amartya Sen and Wolfensohn on disability -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >No doubt about it Patrick -- but one thing the World Bank is doing >now is to see that any construction or reconstruction that gets done >is wheelchair accessible. They hired a disabled activist, Judy >Heumann to guide them. Now I am as suspicious as you might be that >this is window dressing for the most part. I suspect Wolfensohn would want us to believe he's doing the best he can under the constraints of Wall Street & the IMF. Stiglitz told me once t ...

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23395 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: [nowar_australia] Diego Garcia -- did US military/CIA know tsunami was in progress?] -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >This is an ex post facto rationalization bordering on a conspiracy theory. >To my limited understanding, predicting tsunami or its effect is quite >difficult because it depends pretty much on the underwater topography, and >the type and location of the quake - not just the magnitude. Therefore, >claiming that a 8.9 quake will certainly produce a devastating tsunami is a >long stretch - to say the least. I'm not endorsing the post, but it did come from ...

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23396 [lbo-talk] Investing in Russia? Some LBO folks have asked -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Most of the international debt activists I talked to in mid-1998 >were extremely excited when Boris Yeltsin defaulted on US$41 billion >in foreign portfolio bets (with those unbelievably high interest >rates), especially because it was the key factor in bankrupting the >Nobel speculators at LTCM, and because it set the stage for a series >of subsequent defaults - from Argentina to Nigeria to Zimbabwe - >that at least partially alleviated the awful pressu ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 08:27:22 PST 2004

23397 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: [nowar_australia] Diego Garcia -- did US military/CIA know tsunami was in progress?] -- rank: 1000

[This is from an old friend who spent many years as a US government seismologist. He's now in self-imposed exile in Australia.] From: Edward Cranswick <e_cranswick at yahoo.com> Mailing-List: list nowar_australia at yahoogroups.com; contact nowar_australia-owner at yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:27:22 +0000 NOWAR-SA- Reading the New York Times article, "At Warning Center, Alert for the Quake, None for a Tsunami" (appended below), and thinking of my experience with inve ...

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23398 [lbo-talk] Susan Sontag dead -- rank: 1000

[been away from email for a bit - back in the fray soon - in the meanwhile, just got this] December 28, 2004 SUSAN SONTAG'S DEATH http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2004/12/susan_sontags_d.html I was quite pained to learn just now of the death of Susan Sontag, who left us this morning at 7:00 AM in New York. I first encountered Susan on the page when I was a teenager, through her groundbreaking essays in the Partisan Review--where she helped introduce Americans to European intellectuals of th ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 28 12:25:46 PST 2004

23399 [lbo-talk] Re: bye bye ralph, hello karl -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"...His life furnishes the context to present remarks by his political >opponents Marx and Engels, which reveal their deep-seated homophobia.." > >they were also sexist, racist, ageist, antisemitic and other handy >contemporary labels for 19th century revolutionaries, as applied by 21st >century labelers... Maybe, but sometimes I get the feeling that you don't think those things matter even in the 21st century. E.g., the subject heading - Ralph has ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 28 10:35:42 PST 2004

23400 [lbo-talk] Re: plagarism watch -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >I wonder, in fact, how the economic situation of the average >non-fiction writer (especially on political subjects, and especially >on political subjects from a left standpoint) has changed between >before the internet and after it. Were they living like kings and >queens before? Hardly - but now we've got scabs on the net giving it away! Doug

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