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25606 [lbo-talk] Mahathir's Party Hands Out Anti-Semitic Books -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I understand many lefties don't change their underwear every day too. >Aren't we all glad that we're not like them. I'm glad I'm not like you, that's for sure! Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 22 14:37:51 PDT 2003

25607 [lbo-talk] Lying shills for PHRMA -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: > >So I'm watching the tape of this Frontline I taped earlier >this week. Some flack named Majorie Powell says "just look >at what happens to industries that have government price >controls and regulation; there is no innovation". > >This is a bald faced lie. Please see ATT Bell Labs and >Western Electric pre-1984 for obvious counter evidence. > >These scumbag pharmas spend more on marketing than they do >on R&D, but it is R&D's b ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 22 09:33:11 PDT 2003

25608 [lbo-talk] Mahathir's Party Hands Out Anti-Semitic Books -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >Mahathir's Party Hands Out Anti-Semitic Books Oh, but he imposed capital controls! I keep saying this, and I'll say it again - nationalist development policies, which many lefties hold up as models, all too often come with a lot of ugly baggage, like this. I'd say it's almost inseparable from nationalism. Note that the book being circulated was Ford's The *International* Jew. Can't trust those rootless cosmopolitans, can you? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 22 09:32:30 PDT 2003

25609 [lbo-talk] Prada politics -- rank: 1000

[From a profile of Miuccia Prada in today's Financial Times] Talking with Prada, it's apparent how tough she is on herself as a designer and as someone with the potential power and influence to make her views more widely known. A political science graduate, she espoused the politics of the far left (which, for the Italian bourgeoisie, invariably translates as communism-lite). In 1971 she took on her grandfather's accessories company and, since then, she has kept a tight lid on her political conv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 21 12:22:45 PDT 2003

25610 [lbo-talk] more Wagner abuse -- rank: 1000

'Apocalypse Now' Music Fires Up U.S. Troops for Raid By Alistair Lyon BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops psyched up on a bizarre musical reprise from Vietnam war film "Apocalypse Now" before crashing into Iraqi homes to hunt gunmen on Saturday, as Shi'ite Muslims rallied against the U.S. occupation of Iraq (news - web sites). With the strains of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" still ringing in their ears and the clatter of helicopters overhead, soldiers rammed vehicles into met ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 21 12:12:59 PDT 2003

25611 [lbo-talk] Re:lbo-talk] GS: stronger growth -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Does WS even serve a useful role for the nation? <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0860916707/leftbusinessobseA/>. Quoting from the Library Journal review: >In this "down and dirty" diatribe about American finance, journalist >and New York radio personality Henwood makes no attempt at a >balanced portrayal of Wall Street. He aims to "embarrass official >wisdom" and expose the financial world's weaknesses, perhaps too >gloati ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 21 12:00:52 PDT 2003

25612 [lbo-talk] Galloway papers forgeries -- rank: 1000

The Christian Science Monitor reports that the papers found in Baghdad that purported to show that Iraq was bribing British MP George Galloway to promote its interests are "almost certainly" forged: <http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0620/p01s03-woiq.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 21 11:31:31 PDT 2003

25613 [lbo-talk] GS: stronger growth -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I'd be curious to read GS's analysis of the "termites" >long term significance. Trade deficit, overproduction >'crisis', etc, etc. The usual - current account, balance sheet, overcapacity. Most Wall Street people ignore that stuff. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 21 10:55:31 PDT 2003

25614 [lbo-talk] ECB -- rank: 1000

So Trichet, the incoming head of the European Central Bank, reportedly thinks that Europe needs tough medicine - a strong euro and whatever it takes to fight inflation. This is demented. Next to him Alan Greenspan is Wright Patman. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 20 15:15:28 PDT 2003

25615 [lbo-talk] Dean: hang 'em high! -- rank: 1000

Does the exchange of insults, which isn't always entertaining to outsiders, also have to come with 5k of quoted text? Doug Bill Bartlett wrote: >Yep, I've fulfilled your wildest dreams. Wouldn't want to leave you unhappy. > >Bill > >At 7:42 AM -0700 20/6/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > >>Like I was saying . . . . jks >> > >Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at enterprize.net.au> wrote: At 8:04 AM -0700 6/20/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote: >You're not even i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 20 15:09:19 PDT 2003

25616 [lbo-talk] The deal on Cynthia McKinney -- rank: 1000

ckromm at mindspring.com wrote: >Greg Palast is full of shit (as usual) I hope not when he said "Thank God for Doug Henwood!" for my radio fundraiser. We're going to use that on the book. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 20 15:01:44 PDT 2003

25617 [lbo-talk] GS: stronger growth -- rank: 1000

A bulletin from Goldman Sachs economics (which has been rightly pessimistic compared to its WS colleagues since the bubble burst - the recent shift in the consensus toward accelerating growth is pretty striking, with now even pessimists turning cheerier, while still worrying about the termites): >More Optimistic About Growth > >We have become more optimistic about the US economic outlook. Financial >conditions have become much more accommodative over the past few months. >For exa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 20 14:58:01 PDT 2003

25618 [lbo-talk] Black (and Asian) in the USSR -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > the U.S., where a third of the population has serious >> housing affordability problems? > >Where does that stat come from? I've read recently that 2/3rds of US >households are inhabited by people who own their house; so are you >saying that _all renters_ have _serious housing affordability problems_ >...? > >Or do some mortgage-payers also have this problem? Ooops, overstated it a bit. It's a third with affordability problems - and a s ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 20 14:03:09 PDT 2003

25619 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Media Silent on Clark's 9/11 Comments -- rank: 1000

FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism MEDIA ADVISORY: Media Silent on Clark's 9/11 Comments: Gen. says White House pushed Saddam link without evidence June 20, 2003 Sunday morning talk shows like ABC's This Week or Fox News Sunday often make news for days afterward. Since prominent government officials dominate the guest lists of the programs, it is not unusual for the Monday editions of major newspapers to report on interviews done by the Sunday cha ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 20 13:06:28 PDT 2003

25620 [lbo-talk] Hirst, RIP -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - June 20, 2003 Obituary Professor Paul Hirst Distinguished and energetic political thinker whose ideals provided the intellectual scaffolding for New Labour Ben Pimlott Professor Paul Hirst, who has died aged 57 following a stroke and brain haemorrhage, was one of the most inspiring political and social thinkers and teachers of his generation. Though he began as a Marxist, his ideas helped to provide the intellectual scaffolding for New Labour. His irreverent approach to conve ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 20 10:32:58 PDT 2003