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23521 [lbo-talk] bugmenot.com -- rank: 1000

[if you're into this sort of thing - from Carrie McLaren of Stayfree!] BUGMENOT.COM If you hate when websites require you to register just read a short article, you'll love this site. Bugmenot.com allows users to bypass compulsory web registration by providing functioning logins and passwords for over 40,000 sites: http://www.bugmenot.com/

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 13:12:06 PST 2004

23522 [lbo-talk] Refugee status for US deserter? -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >An online poll: > >Should Canada grant refugee status to the U.S. Army deserter who >doesn't want to go back to Iraq? > >http://www.mytelus.com/news/display.do Ok, I voted yes - the good guys are still 4 points behind! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 13:08:01 PST 2004

23523 [lbo-talk] Jamie Galbraith: Apocalypse Not Yet... -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tompaine.com/articles/apocalypse_not_yet.php> Apocalypse Not Yet James K. Galbraith With the euro touching $1.33 and the pound so high I couldn't bear to look at the rate, my thoughts on a flight home from across the pond turned painfully to the decay of the once-almighty dollar, and to the cries of fear emanating these days from Wall Street. How We Got Here The current jitters are no surprise; the few Keynesians left in the economics profession have long thought them overdue. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 11:22:27 PST 2004

23524 [lbo-talk] ....reminder -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, joanna bujes wrote: > >> A friend sent me this recently... >> >> Just in Case Anyone Wondered Why We Still Read William Shakespeare: >> >> Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in >> order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for >> patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both > >Ummm--this is bogus. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm >has the scoop. (Evidently ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 10:00:04 PST 2004

23525 [lbo-talk] pay gap -- rank: 1000

According to Business Week, a BLS consultant has developed good data on Chinese pay rates, which hadn't been available before. In dollar terms, including fringe benefits, the average U.S. manufacturing worker earns $21.11 an hour; the average Chinese worker, $0.64 (3% as much). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 07:16:40 PST 2004

23526 [lbo-talk] Kinsey died of fiendish levels of masturbation, and other fun facts -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug] The New Yorker - December 6, 2004 THE CULTURE WARS WHY KNOW? by Daniel Radosh When Judith Reisman and Eunice Van Winkle Ray lectured together recently in Nashville, Mrs. Ray was introduced by her husband, Colonel Ronald Ray, who grabbed the audience's attention by announcing that the United States "lost the most important war of the twentieth century." He was referring not to Vietnam, where he served, but to the sexual revolution. "Many of us are casualties ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 06:26:12 PST 2004

23527 [lbo-talk] Crunch time for US capitalism?: Bond responds -- rank: 1000

From: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at mail.ngo.za> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>, "debate: SA discussion list " <debate at lists.kabissa.org> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > By Patrick Bond >If you are like many aggrieved people I know, the prospect of the US >economic empire stumbling, tripping, and maybe even crashing is welcome >indeed. DH: This POV ignores the collateral damage that a U.S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 06:08:10 PST 2004

23528 [lbo-talk] Re: Crunch time for US capitalism?Henwood & Gandall (Doug Henwood) -- rank: 1000

<hari.kumar at sympatico.ca> wrote: >Why "Austrian"? Austrian = Hayek, von Mises, that gang. The relevant "Austrian" doctrine here is that excessive credit leads to booms and bubbles and the excesses can only be cured by a humdinger of a recession/depression. It's a line popular with hardcore Wall Street permabears, like James Grant. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 05:30:26 PST 2004

23529 [lbo-talk] Fwd: class background of academics -- rank: 1000

From: "MICHAEL YATES" <mikedjyates at msn.com> To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: class background of academics Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:41:33 -0800 Dear Doug, Post this to the list if you like. My experience as a college teacher at a very pedestrians school is that teachers from the working class, especially that part of it made up of production and nonsupervisory workers, are not very common. Out of about 120 faculty at my school, I can't think of 10 whose parents were factory ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 5 19:57:47 PST 2004

23530 [lbo-talk] Hustler outs David Dreier -- rank: 1000

<http://larryflynt.com/notebook.php?id=88> Congressman David Dreier: Gay & Ashamed After a quarter century gliding through the raindrops, it's time for the influential Republican lawmaker to come clean about his homosexuality and the lethal hypocrisy he's employed in pursuit of power. MICHAEL COLLINS and MARK CROMER hold up the mirror to Dreier's face. [...]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 5 19:15:04 PST 2004

23531 [lbo-talk] Japan threatens huge dollar selloff -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Yet somehow - and I make no claim to special knowledge in this area >and so welcome correction - this seems much more serious; the >situation, I think, has changed in ways that make this threat cast a >much longer shadow. The new Axis of Evil - the yen-euro alliance!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 5 16:38:39 PST 2004

23532 [lbo-talk] new issue of borderlands -- rank: 1000

[via aut-op-sy] borderlands e-journal Volume 3 Number 2, 2004 http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/issues/vol3no2.html Why Whiteness Studies? Editor: Damien W. Riggs EDITORIAL Damien W. Riggs 'We Don't Talk About Race Anymore': Power, Privilege and Critical Whiteness Studies ESSAYS Fiona Nicoll 'Are You Calling Me a Racist?': Teaching Critical Whiteness Studies in Indigenous Sovereignty Nado Aveling Critical Whiteness Studies and the Challenges of Learning to be a 'White Ally' Jane Hag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 5 15:54:19 PST 2004

23533 [lbo-talk] Japan threatens huge dollar selloff -- rank: 1000

[According to the FT, there's some controversy over whether Trichet fully understands the meaning of "brutal" in English.] <http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1366578,00.html> Observer (London) - December 5, 2004 Japan threatens huge dollar selloff By Heather Stewart TOKYO -- Japan is warning the White House that there will be "enormous capital flight" from the dollar if the Bush administration maintains its laissez-faire approach to the mounting curre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 5 15:52:17 PST 2004

23534 [lbo-talk] stats on profs' class background? -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >The only person I'd ever heard of being from a well-to-do background >was... hmmm.... I was at SU's retreat up near Blue Mountain Lake >where the Hochschild's was it (?) had some property... We were on >the obligatory tour of the way the Adirondacks had been used as a >retreat by the elite escaping NYC and someone mentioned the >Hochschilds or maybe it was Arlie's family. Pugliese? Anyone else >familiar with left pedigrees help me out here? Adam Hochschild. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 5 14:23:54 PST 2004

23535 [lbo-talk] Re: Crunch time for US capitalism?Henwood & Gandall -- rank: 1000

<hari.kumar at sympatico.ca> wrote: >What is with this "Austrians" counter-position to "Marxists" on this strand? >I vaguely get the sense that it is meant as an insult. >Is that right? If yes - why is it supposed to be one? Not an insult, just a criticism. Seems to me a lot of Marxists share the belief of a lot of right-wingers that the state can't defuse an economic crisis - it can only displace one. You disagree? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 5 14:17:41 PST 2004