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24736 [lbo-talk] indian software...article address -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >If the link below is not active or is partially hyperlinked, copy the entire >link and paste the URL into the Address/Location box on your browser. > >Uneven and Combined Development: Understanding India's Software Exports, >World Development, Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 211-226 (January 2003) >Anthony P. D'Costa >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_uoikey=B6VC6-47DM6DN-6&_origin=EMFR&_version=1& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 10:49:26 PDT 2003

24737 [lbo-talk] stupid filters -- rank: 1000

More idiotic filtration: >Date: Mon Oct 06 13:34:56 2003 >To: <lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org> >From: Postmaster at ibi.com >Subject: Network Associates Webshield - e-mail Content Alert >Sender: lbo-talk-owner at lbo-talk.org >List-Id: <lbo-talk.lbo-talk.org> > >Network Associates WebShield SMTP V4.5 MR1a on ibixmaila intercepted >a mail from ><lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org> which caused a Content Filter On The >Word "RAPE" to be > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 10:47:47 PDT 2003

24738 [lbo-talk] watch Fox, believe lies -- rank: 1000

Baltimore Sun - October 4, 2003 Study hits war views held by Fox fans By David Folkenflik Sun Staff Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who rely on National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting System, according to a study released this week by a research center affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs. "When evidence surfaces that a significant po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 09:14:59 PDT 2003

24739 [lbo-talk] Bush & the "Nascar dads" -- rank: 1000

<> Let Them Eat War By Arlie Hochschild George W. Bush is sinking in the polls, but a few beats on the war drum could reverse that trend and re-elect him in 2004. Ironically, the sector of American society now poised to keep him in the White House is the one which stands to lose the most from virtually all of his policies -- blue-collar men. A full 49% of them and 38% percent of blue-collar women told a January 2003 Roper poll they would vote for Bush in 2004. (1) In fact, blue-collar work ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 08:58:50 PDT 2003

24740 [lbo-talk] dixor -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There has been quibble over the term "community" several times on this >list, but as hard (even impossible) as it is to write a satisfactory >abstract definition of "black community" or "gblt community," conscious >members of those communities go on using the terms very effectively for >their purposes, and I think questionins of those terms simply aren't in >good faith. And the use of those terms is always in good faith? They're ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 08:49:49 PDT 2003

24741 [lbo-talk] Re: Queer Eye -- rank: 1000

Chris Brooke wrote: >promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of >homosexuality as a pretended family relationship. Inspiring a great Mekons lyric... Empire Of The Senseless no one's making any noise now, sshhh, we've been waiting for so long, they took away our films and tapes and notebooks but it's ok 'cos we've self-censored this song. but these lines are all individuals and there's no such thing as a song and even the silent are now guilty in the empire of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 5 12:07:15 PDT 2003

24742 [lbo-talk] Re: Januzzi -- rank: 1000

We don't really need any metacommentary of this sort.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 5 09:47:36 PDT 2003

24743 [lbo-talk] Re: Unequivocal statements by Friedrich Engels (Homophobia from German maoist loons) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Speaking of queer TV: I'm ansolutely hooked on Queer Eye for the >Straight Guy. Go figure that one of my vices is a contradiction of >my anti-capitalist activism. Chuck, wouldn't people want to look good in your utopia? Or would we give up shaving and wear rough clothes? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 4 16:30:24 PDT 2003

24744 [lbo-talk] Re: Unequivocal statements by Friedrich Engels (Homophobia from German maoist loons) -- rank: 1000

Brian Charles Dauth wrote: >My question is whether heteronormativity is essential to Marxist thought or >whether it can be excised. It seems that there is an assumption that the >proletariat is completely het-sexed. Well that's a wacko assumption, isn't it? Why would heteronormativity be essential to Marxist thought? I don't see any relation with class, value production, or any Marxist essentials. Given the importance of bourgeois marriage to property relations (and that stuff about fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 4 16:21:58 PDT 2003

24745 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Nicholas Feldman wrote: > >>PS. In the January S.F. war protests, it almost symbolized a >>mockery because the activists used there cell phones and drtove >>away in there nice fancy cars >> > >Hey Doug, did this person just subscribe? This is the first post >from this person and they are already peddling disinformation about >activists. > >Something smells very fishy... Recently sub'd. The whole post was pretty icky. Let's hope Comra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 4 15:51:30 PDT 2003

24746 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 1000

Nicholas Feldman wrote: >PS. In the January S.F. war protests, it almost symbolized a mockery >because the activists used there cell phones and drtove away in >there nice fancy cars Oh really? What brought you here? And I see your email address is <daretodream94704 at yahoo.com> - what are you dreaming of? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 4 15:50:40 PDT 2003

24747 [lbo-talk] more Arnie news -- rank: 1000

>...Karen Pomer, a Southern California rape-victims activist once >interviewed for NBC Dateline by Maria Shriver. After the interview, >Pomer claims, Shriver told her that if she was ever raped, >Schwarzenegger would leave their marriage because she would be >damaged goods.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 4 15:47:36 PDT 2003

24748 [lbo-talk] Chretien to potentially toke -- rank: 1000

In Canada, they ease the laws and the chief exec thinks of toking up; in the U.S., the chief exec snorts, quits, gets born again, and then tries to jail people who still snort. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 4 15:39:46 PDT 2003

24749 [lbo-talk] Money printing -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: >She reminds me of a question I have meant to take to the list for a >while. What do we think has been the short-term positive effect of the new >"Bush Keynesianism". Please don't take this as an endorsement for Bush >policies. I just mean to ask where would we be without the massive deficit >spending increases and huge boost in liquidity. There seems to be some >statistical evidence that, a little less than a year ago, the market was >jogged ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 4 15:37:33 PDT 2003

24750 [lbo-talk] tech jobs abound - in India -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >What is so misanthropic about being glad that some the opportunities >enjoyed by the first world inhabitants stat trickling down to the third >world dwellers? You certainly do not subscribe to the "those damn >foreigners taking OUR jobs" spiel by some reactionary elements in the US >labor. Not at all. But I take no pleasure in U.S. techies losing their jobs either. It's a complicated situation - how to defend U.S. workers without making foreign ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 4 15:19:39 PDT 2003