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25741 [lbo-talk] no dissent, we're Americans! -- rank: 1000

[Peter Beinart's statement is even worse than I could have imagined.] Guardian (London) - June 2, 2003 Gary Younge Some of you, many of you, are not going to like what you hear tonight," said Ted Koppel, the senior American news anchor as he introduced Arundhati Roy, the Indian novelist, activist and critic of US foreign policy, to his show shortly after September 11. "You don't have to listen. But if you do, you should know that dissent sometimes comes in strange packages..." The ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 2 07:57:26 PDT 2003

25742 [lbo-talk] Response to Criticisms of ParEcon (Relayed from the LBO Listserv) -- rank: 1000

cuito61 at onebox.com wrote: >If Nancy has said this, she has, to my knowledge, not published it. She said it to me personally, at an URPE meeting long ago. One of the Catskill years. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 14:42:13 PDT 2003

25743 [lbo-talk] MN: Repugs beginning to worry Iraq will be bad for them -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >as the body bags return home to the US It may be a bad idea to use that phrase. It could happen, but it could well not, at least in quantity, so you run a high risk of looking like the cliched alarmist. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 14:19:49 PDT 2003

25744 [lbo-talk] MN: Repugs beginning to worry Iraq will be bad for them -- rank: 1000

By the way, speaking of the potential for bourgeois troubles for Bush, my window into upper middle class thinking, the Yale class of 1975 listserv, is showing considerable fear & alarm at the Bush admin. Upstanding professionals are throwing around words and phrases like "disaster," "fascism," "ruin of the U.S.," "climate of fear," and "emigration." One federal employee, who works for a very important (and underfunded) agency (which I won't i ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 14:18:35 PDT 2003

25745 [lbo-talk] MN: Repugs beginning to worry Iraq will be bad for them -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >Point being that the media is not going to challenge the Repugs and >risk being labeled disloyal. Unless the big bourgeoisie starts thinking that W isn't serving their interests - that unilateralism and fiscal ruin are bad strategies for capital, and that the legitimacy of their rule is in question. Could happen. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 14:10:30 PDT 2003

25746 [lbo-talk] Re: consensus-direct-representative democracy etc -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >>Why can't a neighborhood group using consensus send a delegate to >>a city-wide group using consensus which then sends a delegate to a >>regional group that uses consensus? > >Imagine this process in New York city - lets say ending up with >forty delegates. Forty New Yorkers meet in a room to represent New >York - in all of its' diversity of people and opinions. If forty New >Yorkers, truly representing NYC, reach a consensus about anything - ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 13:50:32 PDT 2003

25747 [lbo-talk] Condi Rice's Latest Imperial Tantrum -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Are the blabbermouths in Washington so >convinced of American supremacy that they think this >childish effort to humiliate other governments will >produce positive results? Of course. Why would you think otherwise? And what would they be up to if they didn't doubt their all-mightiness? Gott Mit Uns, man! Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 13:39:17 PDT 2003

25748 [lbo-talk] Blair: too busy to find WMD -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - May 31, 2003 Angry Blair says: 'We are too busy to find weapons of mass destruction' INDEPENDENT (London) May 31 By Andy McSmith in Warsaw Tony Blair rounded angrily on his tormentors yesterday, telling them that the British authorities in Iraq had more urgent priorities than finding weapons of mass destruction. As question marks continued to hang over the evidence that Iraq had illegal weapons, which was used to justify the war, Mr Blair dismissed as "completely absu ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 09:32:07 PDT 2003

25749 [lbo-talk] Bush Buries Treasury Dept.Tax Report -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >This study and generational accounts are ca-ca. Just another way >of saying the sky is falling because of Social Security, Medicare, >and deficits. Anyone looked at this study? As I recall, Kotlikoff & Gokhale play some ridiculous statistical games, like assuming a long-term risk-free real interest rate of 6% to make the numbers look horrifyingly large. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 09:29:37 PDT 2003

25750 [lbo-talk] Nitzan/Bichler paper -- rank: 1000

[Haven't read this yet, but considering the source, worth checking out.] Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:07:21 -0400 From: nitzan at yorku.ca Reply-To: nitzan at yorku.ca Subject: Dominant Capital and the New Wars To: PEN-L list <PEN-L at SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Just to let you know that Shimshon Bichler and I have posted our new paper, "Dominant Capital and the New Wars." To download the paper in PDF from: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/politics/nitzan/bnarchives/mimeographs/pdf/Dominant_Ca pital ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 09:24:17 PDT 2003

25751 [lbo-talk] CBS: First there wasn't a bunker. Second we didn't hit it. -- rank: 1000

R wrote, mostly invisibly: ><x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" >charset=""><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 >Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> ><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffff ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 09:23:00 PDT 2003

25752 [lbo-talk] Bush: time to move beyond WMD -- rank: 1000

Bush Plays Down Iraq WMD Hunt Sun Jun 1, 7:28 AM ET ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) said Sunday that progress had been made in the hunt for alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (news - web sites) and that nations should now focus on rebuilding the country. "We've discovered a weapons system -- biological labs that Iraq denied she had and labs that were prohibited under the U.N. resolutions," Bush told reporters after talks with Russian Presid ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 1 08:58:16 PDT 2003

25753 [lbo-talk] Poll: Bush's Summer Doldrums Are About Over -- rank: 1000

dredmond at efn.org wrote: >The US net international investment position continues to >fall down a mine shaft, and those debts will have to be repaid, >sooner or later. Why? When are debts ever repaid in full, esp by sovereigns? And who's going to collect from the U.S.? Will the ECB drop paratroopers on the Fed? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 31 16:38:33 PDT 2003

25754 [lbo-talk] Tooth fairy for dummies WAS Re: Markets and the tooth fairy -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Not sure what you mean by this, but certainly bankrupt stocks (i.e., >stocks whose "value" is presumed to be zero) Speaking of which, in looking up TheGlobe.com's price history in order to make fun of market wisdom, I discovered it's had a nice run-up in recent months <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TGLO.OB&d=c&t=5y&l=on&z=b&q=l>. It's like the cartoon in a recent issue of Grant's Interest Rate Observer - man sitting beside the bed tel ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 31 16:13:32 PDT 2003

25755 [lbo-talk] Varian defends terror futures -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Brad DeLong wrote: >> >>>Wouldn't you have rather had CIA analysts betting small sums >>>setting publicly-available odds that Iraq had tried to buy uranium >>>from Niger, rather than having Cheney announce that it was >>>definitely true? >> >>Are those the only two choices? How about an open representative >>government with an uncorruptd legislature and a lively press? >> >>Doug > >UTOPIAN!!! ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 31 16:08:00 PDT 2003