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24286 [lbo-talk] IMF warns the US -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >anyone care to place a bet on how many warnings like this it's going to >take? From the IMF? As Stiglitz said, whenever the IMF reports on the U.S. came in to the White House, they just threw them away. And that was the Clinton admin. I bet most of the Bush admin hardly knows what the IMF is. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 19 07:30:48 PDT 2003

24287 [lbo-talk] The Road to Nanosocialism -- rank: 1000

dredmond at efn.org wrote: >The EU is finally acting like the superpower it is. Hmm. With 10 new members coming in, it's going to be even harder for the thing to act coherently. It looks to be tending towards a looser federal structure than a unified state. I just interviewed this Siedentop fellow on the radio. Doug ---- Financial Times - September 15, 2003 The future of Europe is Swedish By Larry Siedentop The contrast between the referendum results in Sweden and Estonia this weekend is rema ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 18 16:15:08 PDT 2003

24288 [lbo-talk] chaos in Iraq - an Israeli dream? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/6769302.htm< San Jose Mercury News - September 14, 2003 Ex-U.S. diplomat says White House is in full retreat from Iraq reality By Joseph Wilson [...] The truth is, the administration has never leveled with the American people on the war with Iraq. It is true that many people outside the administration, including me and many leading Democrats, thought Saddam had residual stocks of weapons of mass destruction; disarmament was a legitimat ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 18 15:52:44 PDT 2003

24289 [lbo-talk] Re: Why "Cookie" 2 -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Rap is another example or it can be, minus >the pussy this and bitch that.. Well there's always The Coup: "There's 5 million ways to kill a CEO..." Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 18 13:11:22 PDT 2003

24290 [lbo-talk] JetBlue services the Pentagon -- rank: 1000

JetBlue Shared Passenger Data By Ryan Singel Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,60489,00.html 02:00 AM Sep. 18, 2003 PT JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security -- with help from the Transportation Security Administration. The contractor, Torch Concepts, then augmented that data with Social Security number ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 18 12:30:45 PDT 2003

24291 [lbo-talk] "Good" Employment Report? -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >"Meanwhile, jobless claims came in a little better >than expected. The four-week average for first-time >claims for state unemployment benefits rose for a >fourth straight week, climbing by 2,000 to 410,750. >It's the highest reading since mid-July." > >http://biz.yahoo.com/cbsm-top/030918/ef3310c1062cb950fd9bbf6ea3d3f2d9_1.html The rise in the weekly numbers over the last month or so has been pretty sharp, so a little reversion to the mean was ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 18 10:38:49 PDT 2003

24292 [lbo-talk] Horowitz trashes Berlet for criticism on racism -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Horowitz trashes Berlet for criticism on racism Damn, I'm jealous. I wanna be attacked by Horowitz. We even have the same initials!! Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 17 15:46:51 PDT 2003

24293 Marx, Brenner, Technology (Was Re: [lbo-talk] preferences) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I view human nature as being pretty positive, but I maintain that >free humans aren't going to engage in the kinds of sacrifice to keep >post-industrial capitalism going like much of the left thinks they >will. And I suspect you'll find it impossible to find more than a small number of malcontents to sign on with your agenda. How do workers react when you talk like this? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 17 14:19:35 PDT 2003

24294 [lbo-talk] U.S. public on "war on terror" -- rank: 1000

[from Ruy Teixeira's Public Opinion Watch] The War on Terror, Two Years After Knowledge Networks poll of 1,217 adults for Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), released September 9, 2003 (conducted August 26-September 3, 2003) It's been two years since terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and killed thousands of Americans. It's an appropriate time to assess how Americans view the war on terror that has unfolded since then. Do they feel safer? Do they approve of ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 17 13:22:30 PDT 2003

24295 [lbo-talk] three cheers for technology -- rank: 1000

Jacob Conrad wrote: >Would a concrete example help to illuminate the technology discussion? Ah, but Stanley Aronowitz said in his piece in the notorious Science Wars issue of Social Text - the one containing the Sokal hoax - that medicine had done more harm than good in the 20th century! Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 17 09:03:38 PDT 2003

24296 [lbo-talk] Re:preferences -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Doug wrote: > > >"So you prefer living in caves and dying at 30? I hate to be so >reductionist and binarist and all, but it's kind of hard to figure >out what you're for, Chuck." > >I don't want to live in a cave and die at 30. But I do think it is >possible for us to make intelligent and thoughtful choices about the >kinds of lives we want to live and I am certain that part of the >"human burden" is to provide responsible ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 15:17:38 PDT 2003

24297 [lbo-talk] Overposting inconsistent with mutual cooperation. -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >The overposting issue has always interested me. On a list that is >allegedly leftist in nature and interested in mutual cooperation for >everyones benefit it is slightly disturbing that so many people >cannot even abide by so simple a "rule" as a three post limit. >Perhaps it's a stretch to see this as indicative of anything else >but I can't say it fills me with hope concerning the building of an >egalitarian society. Since this is my third p ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 15:04:51 PDT 2003

24298 [lbo-talk] preferences -- rank: 1000

Chuck0: >You prefer cheap nuclear energy that will involve shipping nuclear >waste all over the country just to fuel public transportation? >Public transit may be better than a world where everybody drives a >vehicle, but even public transit has its problems. In Washington, >DC, the Metro system has become a primary engine of gentrification, >as well as a system the reinforces existing class and race >differences. So you prefer living in caves and dying at 30? I hate to be s ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 14:22:50 PDT 2003

24299 [lbo-talk] Re: USA 2003 -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >Empowering? Frankly, literary theory strikes me as one of the most >_crippling_ things ever devised. I've rarely seen anyone with a >background in literary theory acquire power, or even demonstrate an >ability to deliver power to those who need it most. According to Slavoj Zizek in Tarrying with the Negative: >Prior to becoming a >revolutionary, Pol Pot was a professor at a French lycée in Phnom Penh, >known for his subtle readings of Rimbaud and Mallarmé ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 14:17:05 PDT 2003

24300 [lbo-talk] 10 Years since Yeltzin -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: An average of 6.75 posts for the last four days. If you overpost any time during the next week you're going into the approval queue. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 14:06:16 PDT 2003