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23701 [lbo-talk] biz ethics/slavery/groups/constitutional -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Doug wrote: >>Charles Brown wrote: >> >>>Afterall, Bush may be the lesser evil. How can we say that Kerry's election >>>wouldn't be something very close to fascism ? >> >>Easy: Kerry's election wouldn't be something very close to fascism. > >Was Hindenburg's [1932] election "something very close to fascism?" So the U.S. is a country in deep economic depression and profound political crisis, humiliated and bankrupted ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 24 09:51:13 PDT 2004

23702 [lbo-talk] enjoy -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >also good for making me homesick for winter. I mean it, I miss winter. Wallace Stevens on why he didn't enjoy his visit to South Georgia (the U.S. state, not the former Soviet republic): "there is no winter and nothing to read"

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Date:	Tue Aug 24 08:07:43 PDT 2004

23703 [lbo-talk] further evidence of the crackdown: business casual, RIP -- rank: 1000

DATE August 24, 2004 CONTACT Herbert H. Rozoff, James K. Pedderson FOR Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. For Release Upon Receipt See Clothes Rules Squelching Creativity CASUAL OFFICE ATTIRE GOING, GOING ..... NEW YORK -- This Labor Day may mark the end of yet another mainstay of the happy-go-lucky dot.com era: the casual dress code. In growing numbers, employers are abandoning casual dress policies established in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 24 08:02:26 PDT 2004

23704 [lbo-talk] Elaine & John -- rank: 1000

[this fascination with McCain among the cultural elite is weird and sick] New York Post [Page Six] - August 24, 2004 WE HEAR... ...THAT bi-partisanship will be the order of the day on Sept. 2, the last day of the GOP convention, when Democratic-leaning Elaine Kaufman will host Republican Sen. John McCain at a Fast Company maga zine invitation-only reception at her Second Avenue saloon.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 24 07:57:47 PDT 2004

23705 [lbo-talk] biz ethics/slavery/groups/constitutional -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Afterall, Bush may be the lesser evil. How can we say that Kerry's election >wouldn't be something very close to fascism ? Easy: Kerry's election wouldn't be something very close to fascism. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 24 07:52:39 PDT 2004

23706 [lbo-talk] archive -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >What's happened to the LBO-Talk Archive? It seems to stop on Aug. 7. You going to the right archive? I see your query in it. The squawk.ca archive isn't the main one. As shown in the header of every list message, it's now at <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 24 07:33:20 PDT 2004

23707 [lbo-talk] lawyers at work -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/topic/manhattan-lawyers-masters-of-etiquette-020120.php> Manhattan Lawyers, Masters Of Etiquette Lawyers aren't often in pretty, glossy magazines, so we tend to forget they exist (unless they're calling us, of course). But then a nice little audio file comes our way and we're reminded that Manhattan lawyers are kind of like hungry rottweilers with expensive degrees. Take, for instance, a voice message left from an associate at legal behemoth Winston & Strawn for ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 23 14:41:31 PDT 2004

23708 [lbo-talk] Bush 2000 on Iraqi oil -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] FORGOTTEN BUSH 2000 CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT REVEALS OBSESSION WITH IRAQI OIL Unnoted during the 2000 campaign, and forgotten since, is a remarkable document the Bush campaign released on September 29 of that year in Saginaw, Michigan: "A Comprehensive National Energy Policy." In the context of the campaign it was just another report, but in retrospect it was a canary in the mine shift, warning of Bush's obsession with Iraq and it ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 23 12:05:09 PDT 2004

23709 [lbo-talk] Krugman's great unraveling -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted: >Then I get a chance to ask this: "Based on the advertisement in the >papers for your book, the paper you write for claims you have >fluency in economics. What are your credentials in economics?" > >At first, P.K. is a little taken aback by this question. He >hesitates, then blurts, "I've written a hundred papers on the >subject. I have a background and education." The audience laughs and >claps hysterically. P.K. does not claim ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 23 10:55:43 PDT 2004

23710 [lbo-talk] Chinese retail boom -- rank: 1000

Monday August 23, 7:34 AM Sales of China's Top 100 Retailers Rises 18.5PCT in July BEJIING, Aug 23 Asia Pulse - Total sales value of China's top 100 retailers reached 11.68 billion yuan ($US1.4 billion) in July, up 18.5% year on year, according to a marketing research report on the country's 100 key large retailing enterprises issed by the Chinese Commerce Federation on August 19. This includes 9.79 billion yuan of retail sales value, up 21.6%. The report says that the consumer product market wa ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 23 09:44:45 PDT 2004

23711 [lbo-talk] odds on getting a dock job worse than getting into Harvard -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times [editorial] - August 21, 2004 3,000 Jobs; 500,000 Seekers A tsunami of applicants at the ports here doesn't bode well for Bush. August 21, 2004 Bush administration spin doctors won't be able to paint a happy face on the fact that an effort to fill 3,000 new jobs at the increasingly busy ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach led to a spectacular flood of applications, with half a million underemployed people seeking to fill the slots. This California gold rush - applications were ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 23 06:59:56 PDT 2004

23712 [lbo-talk] is Arnie a secret girly-man? -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - August 23, 2004 NATURAL LOOK BEVERLY Hills hair stylist Giuseppe Franco is shooting down rumors that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a "girly-man" who dyes his hair. The Governator has been spotted making weekly trips to his North Canyon Drive salon, leading to speculation that he was having a weekly color and cut along with a manicure-pedicure for good measure. But Franco tells PAGE SIX's Tom Sykes: "We've known each other for 20 years and he j ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 23 06:39:52 PDT 2004

23713 [lbo-talk] One Michael Moore is worth a hundred cult-crit -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >--- Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org> wrote: >True in a sense, but it overlooks the point that, >independently of all >theories, shit happens: when, as Sam Johnson pointed >out in arguing >against Bishop Berkeley, your foot strikes the stone, >the theory you >were going on, that there wasn't a stone in your path, >is rather >seriously diminished in likelihood, to say the least. >--- > >Johnson didn't refute anything. He had the ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 23 06:36:42 PDT 2004

23714 [lbo-talk] One Michael Moore is worth a hundred cult-crit -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On Aug 22, 2004, at 10:43 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > >>Isn't practice the ultimate test of whether theory is true ? Isn't theory >>the means and practice the end ? > >Not, apparently, to a lot of self-named "theorists," since their >theories, as far as I can see, have no practical relevance whatever. >(If the non-initiated can't even understand what they're talking >about, how can their theories be tested in practice?) At a semina ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 22 12:35:20 PDT 2004

23715 [lbo-talk] nonaligned countries propose sanctions on Israel -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - August 22, 2004 Non-aligned states want sanctions on Israel By Shlomo Shamir NEW YORK - The Non-Aligned Movement last week urged all of its members to act "individually or collectively" to impose sanctions both against Israeli settlements and against international companies that participate in settlement activity, including construction of the separation fence. The 115-member movement, whose foreign ministers met last week in Durban, South Africa, said in its final document ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 22 12:10:22 PDT 2004