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25201 [lbo-talk] Ashleigh update -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 1, 2003 ASHLEIGH Banfield's harsh critique of TV news might not have been as self-destructive as it sounded. Banfield - reamed out by NBC head Neal Shapiro for criticizing coverage of Iraq's liberation in a speech at Kansas State University - is trying to set herself up for another job. "Ashleigh's contract is up this year," said a spy. "There is no way MSNBC or NBC is going to renew her, so she is trying to get a job with CNN by pulling the 'real ne ...

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Date:	Thu May 1 16:50:36 PDT 2003

25202 [lbo-talk] outsourcing BS production -- rank: 1000

Wall Street to ship research jobs overseas By Jake Keaveny NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - Wall Street research analysts have suffered rounds of layoffs, big pay cuts, and accusations that they routinely lied to the investing public. Now there's a new worry -- that their jobs are being shipped overseas. Investment banks like Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MWD - News), Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS - News) and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C - News) are mulling the benefits of shipping research jobs to countries like In ...

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Date:	Thu May 1 15:58:44 PDT 2003

25203 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Letter: No Human Rights in Cuba -- rank: 1000

>Dear Editor: > >The re-election of Cuba to the U.N. Human Rights Commission--chaired by >terrorist-sponsoring Libya--demonstrates the total moral bankruptcy of >the United Nations. > >Cuba, which has recently jailed 75 political dissidents and has a long >record of human rights violations, is a brutal communist dictatorship >founded on the principle that individuals have *no* rights. As the >recent executions of three men who hijacked a ferryboat to flee Cuba >d ...

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Date:	Thu May 1 12:39:05 PDT 2003

25204 [lbo-talk] Gay Bar -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >Loved it. I wish I could go there. Get the heck out of Alabama, comrade! Doug

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Date:	Thu May 1 08:00:39 PDT 2003

25205 [lbo-talk] WMT = ENE? -- rank: 1000

Newsday - May 1, 2003 Meet the Enron of Workers' Rights By Liza Featherstone Liza Featherstone, a writer in New York City, is working on a forthcoming book about Dukes v. Wal- Mart. Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer and the richest company in the world, may just be the new Enron. The mass merchandiser has been widely celebrated as a paragon of business success, just as Enron once was. It tops the Fortune 500, and was listed this year as one of Fortune's "Most Admired Companies ...

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Date:	Thu May 1 06:17:24 PDT 2003

25206 new radio stuff -- rank: 1000

I've just added three shows to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: * March 27, 2003 DH on politics and economics of war * contributors to Implicating Empire, on war, globalization, fundamentalism, and legitimacy: Heather Gautney (co-editor), Pete Bratsis, Michael Hardt, Ellen Willis * March 13, 2003 DH on why a show mostly not about war * Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer, authors of Dead Heat, on global warming * Mickey Z, editor of The Murdering of My Years, on ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 15:58:34 PST 2003

25207 Why Oil Is Not A Strategic Good -- rank: 1000

Paul_A wrote: >Hasn't the petroleum industry been very very careful not to let >prices stay too high on a sustained basis or substitutes and >conservation will develop? Yup, which is one of the ingredients in the equation I was imagining that generated an ideal political and economic price for oil. I'm entirely willing to believe there's a sectoral/geographical interest in taking over Iraqi oil - the personnel roster of the Bush admin is a walking illustration of the point. But I don't ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 15:30:49 PST 2003

25208 Australian war poll -- rank: 1000

[any non-psychological explanations of why support should be strongestt among "upper blue collar workers" - and, I'm pretty sure, within that group among males?] Sydney Morning Herald - April 1, 2003 Support for the fight growing By Mark Riley, Political Correspondent Support for the war in Iraq has grown substantially more than a week after the bombing began, but the largest proportion of Australians still oppose the conflict, a new poll has found. A national Herald-ACNielsen survey c ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 15:27:00 PST 2003

25209 Daschle eats his words, and then some -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Ah yes, replies without substance are quite useful in discussion. >But then that's typical of these debates on Democrats since actually >discussing the substance of how Congress works is just so boring and >irrelevant to discussing power. Ok, let's discuss how Congress works. Some Congressional Dems offer tepid criticisms of the thrust toward war. Then the war starts and all agree the time for debate is over - as if the matter hadn't become more urgent when pote ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 14:48:00 PST 2003

25210 US atrocities in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >[The Sunday TImes is a very authoritative right of centre UK paper. >This story was on their front page.] > >"The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy," said Corporal >Ryan Dupre. "I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of >a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him." > >http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-628258,00.html Thanks for forwarding - I wasn't up to paying G ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 14:37:52 PST 2003

25211 Iraq War: Not About Oil, but Euros vs. Dollars -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >I'm very surprised that we have yet to see a major attack on the USD. >How far do you think events need to spiral downward before we will >witness the tipping point for the USD? If I knew the answer, I'd be busy setting up a futures position, and I wouldn't tell anyone else. But I don't, so I'm not. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 13:57:03 PST 2003

25212 Pro-wars envy anti-wars' "deep pockets" -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >I ran into this all the time, esp in debates with AIM and MRC (two far right >media groups). These people truly believe that the mass media, the corp >press, whatever you want to call it, is left wing and that it promotes >socialism. And no amount of evidence to the contrary ever sways them. They're like this about everything. I remember having a chat with some dude from the MRC in the late 1980s and mentioning that income inequality had increased in the U.S. du ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 13:54:13 PST 2003

25213 Explananda Re: Psycho-sexual explanation -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > Using >psychological, individual factors to explain social structure is >a basic category error. It surprises me that Justin is so >bewitched by common-sense thinking here that he doesn't see the >problem. > >I wasn't doing that. Look over what I said. And who said all psychological factors are purely individual? Symbolic structures circulate socially; American children aren't born knowing all the cliches about race that permeate our societ ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 13:34:58 PST 2003

25214 Iraq War: Not About Oil, but Euros vs. Dollars -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I found this article to be very interesting and would >like to hear list members comments. -Thomas > >http://www.pubtheo.com/page.asp?PID=1181 It sounds too much like single bullet theory to me. Perle & Co. have been plotting war on Iraq since 1991, when the euro was only a gleam in a eurocrat's eye. And if the U.S. ends up seriously alienating our creditors, that'll do more damage to the dollar than Saddam ever could. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 12:51:41 PST 2003

25215 "Bad" Mothers: The Politics of Blame Re: Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Despite the popularity of Freud in the broader academic and >popular culture, many actual psychologists who do research and >develop theories pretty much ignore his work, for two simple >reasons: (1) many psychodynamic ideas cannot be adequately tested >and (2) when people have systematically tested psychodynamic >ideas, they are often inconsistent with data (e.g., the idea >of catharsis). Catharsis? Are you saying that's an important part of psa? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 12:47:48 PST 2003