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24331 [lbo-talk] some of the places all that money is going -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 13, 2003 Wearing Out and Adding Up By Jonathan Weisman and Renae Merle If lawmakers and citizens wonder how much of the Iraq war's eventual cost will be covered by President Bush's $87 billion emergency spending request, they need look no further than a Bradley Fighting Vehicle's track. Normally, a Bradley gets new treads just once a year, after about 800 miles. But for the U.S. Army, these are anything but normal times, and the 600-odd Bradleys in Iraq are trudging 1 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 13 14:08:22 PDT 2003

24332 [lbo-talk] tax refund question -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >So, did everyone get a tax refund except me? Is there some income >level above which you dont' get it? Do you have a dependent child? You need one to get a check. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 13 13:16:28 PDT 2003

24333 [lbo-talk] fresh radio product -- rank: 1000

Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: September 11, 2003 9/11 show, sorta: Ruy Teixeira on George Bush's poll numbers two years after the WTC went down * Nicole Speulda of the Pew Center on foreign attitudes towards the U.S. * Leslie Kauffman of UFPJ on Cancun and the state of activism today September 4, 2003 Yale prof Michael Denning on the strike against the university (ignore promise of Laura Smith at beginning of show - she didn't answer her ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 12 16:12:42 PDT 2003

24334 [lbo-talk] Why ya wanna play me like that, Doug? -- rank: 1000

I'm not playing you - it seems like a stupid chart of a stupid concept.

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Date:	Fri Sep 12 15:14:06 PDT 2003

24335 [lbo-talk] Fwd: IFG Statement from WTO Cancun -- rank: 1000

[and now we learn that the WTO causes suicide] User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:53:02 -0700 Subject: IFG Statement from WTO Cancun From: Antonia Juhasz <ajuhasz at ifg.org> To: <ajuhasz at ifg.org> International Forum on Globalization 1009 General Kennedy Ave. #2 San Francisco, CA 94129 U.S. 001.415.561.3490 Press Release September 12, 2003 Contacts: Debi Barker-001 415 867 1765 Antonia Juh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 12 15:11:01 PDT 2003

24336 [lbo-talk] RE: What the heck is this guy talking about? - no, seriously, Max -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: > Seriously, though, what is this guy's second chart actually showing us? That he's an idiot?

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Date:	Fri Sep 12 14:51:33 PDT 2003

24337 [lbo-talk] globalization & war -- rank: 1000

[This is the text of a flyer distributed by UFPJ <http://www.unitedforpeace.org/downloads/Globalization_and_War.pdf>. I can't say I'm convinced. Most of the 30 wars raging around the world today are in neighborhoods mostly excluded from trade and capital flows. And there were plenty of wars during the "pre-globalization" era of the 1960s and 1970s. What do other people think?] UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE <http://www.unitedforpeace.org> | 212-603-3700 How Globalization Pr ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 12 14:27:27 PDT 2003

24338 [lbo-talk] The Cancun Delusion -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: >Eventually, agricultural producers will link into communes across >national boundaries (it's already happened) but under any economic regime, >the small family farm is a thing of the past and rightly so. It's an >unreasonably tough way to make a living in a modern world. There's nothing >good about small-scale, low-tech farming. Speaking of which, meant to post this when it first appeared. Is the connection between Poujade and Bove really like the obit writer ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 12 13:09:12 PDT 2003

24339 [lbo-talk] Re: Randians -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Doug quoted: > >"Dear Editor: > >The Jerusalem Post's editorial calling for killing--not >expelling--Arafat is right on target, even if years too late." > >Why, oh why, oh why do we need to get reminded that the Randians are >imbeciles? Honestly Doug, what IS it with you and the Randians? A fascination with politicopathology, I guess. An antistatist calling for state murder is kind of fascinating to me. They're not as fun as Jude Wanniski ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 12 10:28:48 PDT 2003

24340 [lbo-talk] Fwd: "They have decided upon cold-blooded murder" -- rank: 1000

GUSH SHALOM pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 www.gush-shalom.org = == = = == = = == = = == = = == = = == = = "They have decided upon cold-blooded murder" = == = = == = = == = = == = = == = = == = = Gush Shalom press release, 12/9/2003 "The government of Israel has tonight resolved to committ a cold- blooded murder, with the implementation deferred - the cold blooded murder of the elected president of the Palestinians. Let there be no mistake about it. Let no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 12 08:59:17 PDT 2003

24341 [lbo-talk] Randians: Kill--Don't Expel--Arafat -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >That's what I love about the Libertarians. They're all for keeping >the State out of people's "private lives," but an awful lot of them >are really fond of giving the State the authority over life and >death. Enemies of freedom must be killed! See, liberty is the natural state of Man, and only obstacles prevent its flowering. So if the obstacles are removed then freedom can bloom! That's what Hellfire missiles are for. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 12 08:55:23 PDT 2003

24342 [lbo-talk] Query -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Have LBO activists gotten the electricity turned on in Iraq yet? Those >of us loafing on the sidelines want to have regular reports. > >When is the first million person rally to "Get the Water turned on!" >scheduled? And your point is...?

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Date:	Fri Sep 12 08:06:25 PDT 2003

24343 [lbo-talk] how rich are you? -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Gag. Doesn't PPP count for anything? A Muscovite who earns $12,000 a >year has more buying power than a New Yorker who earns $75,000. The underlying stats are from Branko Milanovic of the World Bank, who did use PPP. Milanovic isn't some standard-issue WB hack either - he's somewhere left of center, though I'm not sure how far left. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 12 07:55:10 PDT 2003

24344 [lbo-talk] Randians: Kill--Don't Expel--Arafat -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:37:09 -0500 From: "David Holcberg, The Ayn Rand Institute" <media at aynrand.org> To: dhenwood at panix.com Dear Editor: The Jerusalem Post's editorial calling for killing--not expelling--Arafat is right on target, even if years too late. Arafat has been a terrorist murderer for decades and deserves exactly the same fate as bin Laden deserves. While there has been no shortage of excuses and rationalizations to leave Arafat alone, the fact remains that no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 12 06:45:22 PDT 2003

24345 [lbo-talk] Unemployment at 13-year low in Australia -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >Briefly --- thanks in part to the structurally asymmetrical labour market, >up until the 1970s the Australian labour movement had a long and unique >history of political strength, which had resulted --- inter alia --- in very >high wage levels and the "arbitration system" of centralised, judicial wage >fixing and dispute resolution, at both the federal and state levels. This >obstruction for capital was solved in a unique way: unlike most countries, ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 11 16:30:33 PDT 2003