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23401 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism or New Capitalism? -- rank: 1000

Sunil/Dissident Voice wrote: >Nitzan was interview yesterday on KPFA's "Against the Grain" >program. (www.againstthegrain.org) The interview can be heard on the >website. Would love to hear Doug interview them on his show. I did interview him about two years ago: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio_1.html#021205>, mostly about Israel. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 24 09:58:45 PST 2004

23402 [lbo-talk] Reconstruction forges ahead! -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >Ever wonder just how many DID live in Fallujah? I believe the >population has been seriously misstated to make it a smaller figure. >US mainstream (right wing) media stay away from estimates that say >Fallujah, at one time, had nearly 500,000 people. Imagine if an >invading army forced an evacuation of Cleveland so they could >destroy the city in order to fight 10,000 'rebels'. Does it really matter if it's 200,000 or 500,000? The U.S. attack was barbaric in ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 24 09:57:20 PST 2004

23403 [lbo-talk] Prison Moving Martha Stewart to the Left? -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >I was just having this sort of weird flash about her and George >Soros as the next "hot item"... oh my, gotta go! Ha, well George did subsidize Bard College's interior design institute on West 86th St in Manhattan because it was his now ex-wife's pet project. And Martha wouldn't even need a subsidy! Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 24 09:33:53 PST 2004

23404 [lbo-talk] Re: plagarism watch -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >and here's me thinking the only true legitimate artist is the one >starving in a garret. Saatchi is about to sell Hirst's shark-in-formaldehyde for $11.5 million. Not that Hirst will see any of that, but I doubt he's starving in a garret. More likely he's at the Drones. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 24 09:29:53 PST 2004

23405 [lbo-talk] Re: plagarism watch -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Given that we don't have a guaranteed universal income, we should want the >playwright (or Doug) to be paid because we want that work >produced--not just now >but in the future. We don't want to deter writers from writing by promising >them poverty and desperation for their efforts. We don't want the next book >never to come cause Doug's out driving a cab. Me either! But, oh, the things I do to make money... The net has transformed a lot of peopl ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 24 08:09:10 PST 2004

23406 [lbo-talk] religion polling -- rank: 1000

<http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrow&BarnaUpdateID=177> Barna's Annual Review of Significant Religious Findings Offers Encouragement and Challenges December 21, 2004 (Ventura, CA) - After a year of interviewing thousands of adults, ministers, and young people, many insights into the spiritual contours of Americans emerged from the studies conducted by The Barna Group. In his annual yearend summary of some of the highlights and lowlights from his company's research ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 24 07:47:55 PST 2004

23407 [lbo-talk] Reich on sex & religion -- rank: 1000

[Jim Farmelant posted this to Marxism-Thaxis. The religion-sex link seems really important for contemporary American politics - a link that would make it not "merely cultural," but profoundly materialistic in its origin. Time for a Reich revival!] I would agree with the author that the Frankfurters' well-known writings on the psychology of fascism (i.e. Adorno's work on *The Authoritarian Personality* for instance, or Erich Fromm's writings on this subject, owe a very great deal to Wil ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 24 06:59:50 PST 2004

23408 [lbo-talk] breaking: important new poll! -- rank: 1000

A new ABC/Wash Post poll reports: 94% of Americans celebrate Xmas 88% put up an Xmas tree 58% of those trees are artificial (up from 40% in 1989) Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 23 15:17:48 PST 2004

23409 [lbo-talk] christmas bonus on eBay -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >><http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category%&item770539257&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW> >> >>You are bidding on my Christmas Bonus! >> > >Invalid Item >This listing () has been removed by eBay That was quick! It was there an hour ago. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 23 12:03:13 PST 2004

23410 [lbo-talk] christmas bonus on eBay -- rank: 1000

<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category%&item770539257&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW> You are bidding on my Christmas Bonus! I am an Aircraft Mechanic, and the company I work for, Horizon Airlines, has blessed me this year with a wonderful Collectable coffee mug. It is made of Fine China. I know this to be true, because when I turn it over, it says china, in fine letters. It is adorned with printed images celebrating our sacrifices to the Company, thanking us for ou ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 23 10:02:58 PST 2004

23411 [lbo-talk] Re: plagarism watch -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >No man ids an island. A proverb for our times! Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 23 06:29:21 PST 2004

23412 [lbo-talk] state buys Yukos buyer -- rank: 1000

[they didn't waste much time with this!] Russia state-owned firm buys Yukos bid winner: reports (YUKOY) By Alexander Davis SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Rosneft, Russia's state-owned gas company, said Wednesday it has acquired BaikalFinance, the obscure holding company that won the bidding for Yukos, according to wire service reports. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, Dow Jones reported. BaikalFinance's emergence as the auction winner prompted critics to suspect that the Russian state was orchest ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 22 14:53:42 PST 2004

23413 [lbo-talk] Re: The Occupation -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Dear List: > >Chris Doss wrote: > >>FWIW I don't think it makes much sense to talk about >slave owners as being "bad people" in an era in which >slavery was taken for granted. > >I must disagree. Slavery was a fact of life for many, but >the existence of an abolition movement seems to suggest >that slavery was not "taken for granted" and that slave >owners were viewed in their own time as bad people. Besides, Jefferson ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 22 14:52:12 PST 2004

23414 [lbo-talk] already thinking about post-Xmas sales -- rank: 1000

ONE IN FIVE CONSUMERS TO SHOP ON DECEMBER 26 NEW YORK (December 22, 2004) - As the 2004 holiday season comes to a close, consumers are already thinking about their post-Christmas shopping plans. According to a nationwide survey, commissioned by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and UBS, one in five consumers definitely plan to shop on December 26, which this year falls on a Sunday. December 26 has traditionally been one of the top 10 busiest holiday shopping days. According to ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 22 13:23:48 PST 2004

23415 [lbo-talk] The Occupation/WWII -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This question ought not to be among the two or three thousand legitimate >matters of dispute among the U.S. left. Do you have a list? Could you post it? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 22 13:12:28 PST 2004