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23881 [lbo-talk] life in the Sunni triangle -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 30, 2004 Rebels' writ runs large across the troublesome Sunni triangle By Akeel Huseen and Nicolas Pelham In the capital of the largest province of Iraq's so-called "Sunni triangle", rebels have taken to announcing their daily arrival by loud- speaker. "Close your shops before 1400. We don't want to hit anyone. The fighting will begin after 1400. Stay safe," trumpets the megaphone strung to a white Nissan pick-up that circulates around the main thorough ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 08:24:10 PDT 2004

23882 [lbo-talk] Phila: Nader office shuts down as workers seek pay -- rank: 1000

Nader office shuts down as workers seek pay Petition circulators demanded payment for signatures collected. A campaign employee said the scene smacked of dirty politics. By Michael Currie Schaffer Inquirer Staff Writer Ralph Nader's presidential campaign this week abruptly abandoned the Center City office that housed its efforts to get on the Pennsylvania ballot, leaving behind a mess of accusations and a damaged building. The office, on the 1500 block of Chestnut Street, was emptied Thursday af ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 08:17:11 PDT 2004

23883 [lbo-talk] Re: Sexuality Under Seige, or What Else is New? -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >Sure, but if there's one thing to be learned from Tom Frank, it's that >Rightwing micropolitics is the flip side of quite real geopolitical >conflicts, a.k.a. the fact that the US Empire continues to decay. The US >really is under juridical-theocratic occupation by the combined forces of >the oiligarchy and free market fundamentalism, so I thought Kerry's >gesture was entirely appropriate to the made-for-video production >otherwise known as JFK2. How d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 08:07:41 PDT 2004

23884 [lbo-talk] Re: banning sex toys(the horror, the horror) -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >this debate is interesting for what isn't being said about "free" >markets, and "free" marketing...we seem to have some closet and not so >closet pro-market folks here, arguing sexual freedom, and some market >controllers there, suppressing all the way...really? > >so, in this society of wonderful laws for people who can afford them , >if i have the money, i can get housing, dildoes, hotel rooms, vibrators, >young girls or boys, pet ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 07:58:55 PDT 2004

23885 [lbo-talk] Naomi Klein: ABB -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >Klein's argument is that supporting Kerry will mean we can move >forward and stop obsessing about a presdinet or even the neocon >cabal: > > >Anybody but Bush - and then let's get back to work I just posted this to the LBO website. Lots of links in the web version. <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Election2004.html> Ralph 'n' stuff [by Doug Henwood, from LBO #107, April 2004] Twice before, in 1996 and again in 2000, this mighty page endorsed Ralph Na ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 07:51:01 PDT 2004

23886 [lbo-talk] Re: perot vs nader (or, naderphobia continued?) -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >Beyond The Nation, I saw plenty of progressive commentators that >talked about all the issues that Kucinich backed (universal health >care, US out of Iraq, living wage, etc.) that completely dismissed >Kucinich and backed Dean instead. Dean became the candidate of the >left while Kucinich ended in single digits. All that did is show >the Democrats that there is no progressive wing of the DP. Problem is, Kucinich is kind of a goofball. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 19:26:17 PDT 2004

23887 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: > >Not much. On the first point, for instance, greater participation >of women in executive ranks has simply proved that women can be the >same mega-assholes in business that men can be. Ditto women in the >military; it was very impressive seeing that at least one female US >soldier joined in sexually taunting those Iraqi POWs. Sorry to descend into the old standpoint business, but that's easy for a straight white guy to say, isn't it? Women aren't just ass ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 19:25:00 PDT 2004

23888 [lbo-talk] RE: Happy Days -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Even enormously profitable enterprises can be absurdly overvalued. >The insiders will cash their chips in time I'm sure. As for the >rest... For sure. Google's advantages could evaporate - not overnight (Dwayne's made some good points about their real edge), but someday. And the valuation looks ludicrous. But this is an unusual deal: the founders have reserved big chunks of the shares for themselves - the public would be buying a minority interest. And if insiders t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 17:12:38 PDT 2004

23889 [lbo-talk] perot vs nader -- rank: 1000

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >>he was part of the >>debates, was officially dubbed "reasonable", and barry commoner was the >>left-out leftist of that time... > > >really? although I wasn't able to vote yet, I remember hearing about >Commoner in my yoot. The media are never going to dub any mildly radical candiate as serious or reasonable, so might as well give up hope on that one and figure out an alternative tactic. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 16:43:28 PDT 2004

23890 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >As I said, the sixties were a great time to be young, and I miss the >exuberance of that time. Regrettably, most of the real goofing >around I've done has been in adulthood in the service of Corporate >America. BTW, I'm not sure it's such a good thing that "parents and >children get along with each other better than they did a generation >or two ago" -- I'd like to see a lot more rebelliousness on the part >of young people today. And it doesn' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 15:45:37 PDT 2004

23891 [lbo-talk] Re: perot vs nader (or, naderphobia continued?) -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 4/30/2004 10:57:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, >dhenwood at panix.com writes: > >And what about Kucinich? He was in all the Dem debates, and got a >chance to air his views. Why couldn't he get more than 1-2% of the >primary vote - the Democratic primary, where voters are to the left >of the general election? It's easy to blame money or the media, but >the problem is more complex than that. > >Doug > >Because progr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 15:35:59 PDT 2004

23892 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 29, 2004 Sean Jacobs, one of the organizers of the Ten Years of Freedom film festival, talks about the festival and South African politics * Richard Burkholder, Gallup's director of international operations, talks about the firm's polling in Iraq * Aimee Liu, author of the novel Flash House, talks about the CIA in Asia and trafficking in women it joins: -------- April 15, 2004 Jagdish Bhagwati, professor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 14:48:45 PDT 2004

23893 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Yes, the counterculture opened up huge holes ... one micron deep. >While I recall the sixties as a great time to be young, I'm sorry to >say the era was a complete waste of time in terms of lasting >positive effect. The USA wouldn't be the utterly malignant >fucked-up mess it is today if the counterculture had made any >difference at all. Sad. Oh come on. Relations between the sexes and among the races are far better than they were in the 1950s, as is the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 14:08:59 PDT 2004

23894 [lbo-talk] fun fact -- rank: 1000

[via competitor Yahoo!] Interestingly Enough The Google IPO filing reports a Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price of: $ 2,718,281,828 The value of the natural log e is 2.71828183. [or, taken out one more place, 2.718281828]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 12:38:26 PDT 2004

23895 [lbo-talk] Wimps on LBO -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >It would be considered more offensive, I think, if you compared Andy >Stern to Lane Kirkland. > >The word "fucking" might be removed just for propriety's sake, but >I'm reminded of an encounter I had with a longtime labor activist >whose origins were in a certain local that is now part of SEIU (I >will not go into further detail, nor will I name names). About five >years ago at a party, she raised her glass and said: > >"I propose a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 12:01:49 PDT 2004