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23941 [lbo-talk] touring Dick -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html> Bring . . . It . . . On!!! (Vol. XXVI) Is "Winning the War on Terror Tour" Catchier Than "Terrorpalooza"? [...] Dick Cheney, anchoring the non-ironically named "Winning the War on Terror Tour," is going after John Kerry's national security record.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 09:05:18 PDT 2004

23942 [lbo-talk] War and Peace -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >How many Americans even have an international passport? Relatively few. According to the State Department <http://travel.state.gov/passport_statistics.html>, 7.3 millions U.S. passports were issued last year. I can't find stats on the number of valid passports outstanding, but since passports are valid for 10 years, we can come close to an approximation by adding up the number of passports issued in the last decade - 64 million. Since some holders undoubtedly died, 50 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 07:09:10 PDT 2004

23943 [lbo-talk] War and Peace -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: > > John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace, pp. 11-12: >> >> The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his >> morning tea in bed > >How many people had phones during Keynes' day? Relatively few. > >> delivery upon his doorstep; he could at the same moment and by the >> same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new >> enterprises of any quarter of the world, > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 26 06:58:17 PDT 2004

23944 [lbo-talk] Lockdown NYC -- rank: 1000

JW Mason wrote: > There's >something seriously screwy about the whole Ruckus-style approach, which >teaches how to rock-climb and set up tripods and get arrested but nothing >about knocking on doors or phone-banking or, you know, talking to people. Or devloping much of a program, if we're still allowed to say that word. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 14:42:25 PDT 2004

23945 [lbo-talk] War and Peace -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: > > As for international trade preventing war, I seem to recall that that >> was a popular theory before WW I, and it didn't seem to work very well >> then. > >The oiligarchy is bent on returning to the 19th century, but its >paymasters are not. Three things make world wars exceedingly unlikely >today: (1) thermonuclear weapons, which ensure that noone would survive, >let alone win, (2) the cultural integration of the planet, via tourism, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 14:32:18 PDT 2004

23946 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 15, 2004 Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia and author of In Defense of Globalization, talks about trade, capital flows, poverty, and development April 8, 2004 Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire, talks first about the political economy of Japan (recovery for real? rightward move among the elite?) and then the evil effects of the U.S. empire on the outside world and on our ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 13:57:35 PDT 2004

23947 [lbo-talk] LBO merch: "Give Martha's Cell To Cheney" t-shirt -- rank: 1000

lbo-talk subscribers are among the first to hear... Illustrating her article on the state of the corporate scandals, and the light treatment of their perps, in LBO #107 (just on its way to subscribers), author Nomi Prins models a t-shirt of her own design, bearing the just plea, "GIVE MARTHA'S CELL TO CHENEY." For the pic, see the LBO front page: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com>. To order, visit the LBO shop at CafePress: <http://www.cafepress.com/lbo>. Comes in many f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 12:12:30 PDT 2004

23948 [lbo-talk] More on the Freed Japanese Hostages -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>>Bill Bartlet writes: >>> >>>"Are there any redeeming features whatsoever of Japanese culture? >>>Nothing comes to mind." > >Izzat so? Well at the very least I commend the Japanese for not >being two things my fellow Americans are: (1) armed and (2) >dangerous. They are armed. According to the CDI <http://www.cdi.org/budget/2004/world-military-spending.cfm>, Japan has the world's fourth-largest military budget, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 10:16:40 PDT 2004

23949 [lbo-talk] Re: the terminator -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Chuck writes: > >"So now what? Pretend that mostly white, mostly middle america is just >some uninformed but benign force? Personally I am through arguing. >They are the enemy. Slowly that will dawn on more and more people. And >at some point, a threshold will have been quietly reached and passed." > >But, unless I'm missing something major here, "mostly white, mostly >middle America" is who is being hurt by the new work comp la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 25 10:03:08 PDT 2004

23950 [lbo-talk] This is Bush -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >They put a sign on a dead donkey saying: "This is Bush." But he's not a dead ass, he's a live asshole!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 24 11:20:18 PDT 2004

23951 [lbo-talk] Re: JCP, etc. -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Unfortunately, after decades of being panicked into an atomized support >for the Democratic Party, the progressive left milieu has simply >forgotten this as political practice. I know you thrive on a self-image of being a lone warrior against confusion and compromise, but really, quite a lot of the "progressive left milieu" thinks about this all the time. How else do you explain the Greens, the Labor Party, Naderism, Working Families Party, etc. Fact is it's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 24 11:17:48 PDT 2004

23952 [lbo-talk] Lockdown NYC -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Gandhi is overrated I've got to admire the chutzpah of this remark. What's the current line on Gandhi's contribution to Indian independence? Is it as decisive as the popular version has it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 24 09:39:42 PDT 2004

23953 [lbo-talk] electoral maps -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] FORGET THE RED AND BLUE EVEN YOUR EDITOR fell for the red and blue state maps that showed Bush winning the better part of America, leaving Gore with a string of outposts along the coasts. What was forgotten in this impressive display is what Sara Irina Frabrikant, a self-described spatially aware professional and mapematician in the geography department of UC at Santa Barbara ,points out with a series of fascinating maps: "A per ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 23 14:57:36 PDT 2004

23954 [lbo-talk] work kills more people than wars -- rank: 1000

[this is from the ILO] 28 April : World Day for Safety and Health at Work Two million work deaths a year Carnage is preventable, ILO says One death every fifteen seconds. Six thousand a day. Work kills more people than wars. And it injures and mutilates, too. Almost 270 million accidents are recorded each year, of which 350,000 are fatal. Many of these tragedies could be prevented, the International Labour Organization believes. And yet, twenty years after the Bhopal disaster, which killed 2,500 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 23 11:22:50 PDT 2004

23955 [lbo-talk] ASEAN and Australia in surprise FTA talks -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee quoted: >The unexpected approach by the 10-member Association of South-East Asian >Nations comes just six months after Australia's arch-enemy in the region, >former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, stepped down from >politics. Dr Mahathir twice vetoed negotiations, in 1995 and 2000, when >Australia and New Zealand sought to join ASEAN's free trade area. Why was Mahathir so down on Australia? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 23 08:10:07 PDT 2004