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26836 [lbo-talk] less booze at holiday parties -- rank: 1000

[CGC is the headhunting firm famous for counting layoff announcements] DATE December 10, 2003 For Release Upon Receipt Employers Acknowledge Sobering View HOLIDAY PARTY MAY BE FREE-FLOWING BUT NOT ALCOHOL: SURVEY NEW YORK -- Some employers may be returning to pre-recession budgets when it comes to office holiday parties but in many cases that will not mean a revival of free-flowing liquor for party-going workers. The issue of alcohol at holiday parties is taking on new significance a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 10 06:47:10 PST 2003

26837 [lbo-talk] Re: Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Doug writes: > >"Oh, the U.S. can't be brutal on its own - it needs Israeli help. >Just ask Brad Mayer." > >Well, you're right that we can be brutal on our own, but in point of >fact, the U.S. _has_ asked the Israelis for help in developing and >carrying out targeted assassinations. This will not be perceived in >a neutral way in the middle east and throughout the world. > >I mean, it used to be that we unoficially contracted with t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 10 06:45:24 PST 2003

26838 [lbo-talk] Thurs. Dec. 11: Doug Henwood & Robert Pollin at Brecht Forum -- rank: 1000

Thursday, December 11 7:30 pm Brecht Forum 122 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 - info at brechtforum.org Suggested donation: $6/$8/$10 BOOK PARTY/FORUM Post-mortems on the Boom Doug Henwood & Robert Pollin During the 1990s boom, we heard constantly about the "New Economy"--a technological and organizational revolution that precipitated an unprecedented era of rapid productivity growth and rendered recessions as obsolete as rotary-dial phones. Mass participation in the stock ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 10 06:35:11 PST 2003

26839 [lbo-talk] Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >think the US would have won the Vietnam war with these guys "advising"? Oh, the U.S. can't be brutal on its own - it needs Israeli help. Just ask Brad Mayer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 21:18:35 PST 2003

26840 [lbo-talk] one day in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Suicide Bomb Injures 58 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq By Seb Walker TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber wounded 58 U.S. soldiers and three Iraqis Tuesday when he charged the gates of an American military base and blew up his explosives-packed vehicle as troops opened fire. In Baghdad, a blast hit a Sunni mosque after morning prayers, killing three Iraqis and raising the specter of further sectarian tension adding to instability in Iraq (news - web sites). Near the flashpoint town of Falluja ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 16:09:06 PST 2003

26841 [lbo-talk] SchutzStaffel Story Won't Go Away -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Keeps popping up in variations on the same theme. When in need, >call in the Israeli SS. With full media celebration of the new >heroes. I'll say it again - there's something really creepy about your obsession with Israel. What, the U.S. can't kill enough people on its own? And the Nazi allusions are cheap shots. As Bryan Atinsky said, the apartheid ones are more accurate and more effective. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 14:36:12 PST 2003

26842 [lbo-talk] with friends like these... -- rank: 1000

The Age (Melbourne) - December 10, 2003 Latham wins support for 'dangerous Bush' attack By Tim Colebatch Canberra Almost half the Australian public agree with Mark Latham that US President George Bush is "incompetent and dangerous", according to a poll. An ACNielsen AgePoll of 1363 people taken last weekend found that 45 per cent of Australians agree with the blistering attack by the new Opposition Leader on the head of Australia's most important ally, while 52 per cent disagree. Mr La ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 14:10:44 PST 2003

26843 [lbo-talk] Billy Kristol: Dean could beat Bush -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >As for changes, I'd say both Powell and the neo-cons >could go, if my theory is right that Bush plans to >bug out of Iraq next year. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld >are not neo-cons. Daalder & Lindsay distinguish between the real revolutionaries like Wolfowitz and the pragmatic assertive nationalists like Cheney. Bush is with the latter. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 13:56:46 PST 2003

26844 [lbo-talk] Re: "master's tools" (was po-mo prince) -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >The way the >master's house quote is used in feminist groups is usually to cool >out something just >as it's getting interesting or effective, usually to promote some kind of >absolute nonviolence line or to keep a heated debate from breaking out and >clarifying things. Interesting. The use to which the out-of-context quote seems at least as important as restoring the original context. > I was never sure why we'd want to dismantle the master's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 13:54:16 PST 2003

26845 [lbo-talk] posting -- rank: 1000

Average posts per day for the six days ending yesterday for those exceeding the three-a-day limit: Yoshie Furuhashi 7.7 Michael Pugliese 5.7 Chris Doss 3.7 joanna bujes 3.5 uvj at vsnl.com 3.2 Please exercise some self-control please. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 12:39:31 PST 2003

26846 [lbo-talk] Re: the postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Hmm, a different context. Getting along in academia means sucking >>up to The Man, when instead all The Excluded should be sticking >>together (not that they necessarily have much in common other than >>being excluded). So does this mean that black lesbian academics >>should't strive for tenure? I'm confused. >> >>Doug > >Audre Lorde wasn't giving a workshop on academic career advancement >when she delivered her talk &q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 12:26:46 PST 2003

26847 [lbo-talk] FOMC -- rank: 1000

[No change in policy, and the kept the reassuring phrase, "for a considerable period." But there was a shift in the wording on the balance of risks between inflation and deflation ("an unwelcome fall in inflation" in Fedspeak) - now they're equal. That sounds like they're beginning to prepare the markets for a policy shift, i.e., tightening, but slowly. The "considerable period" wording may disappear in the next release, though. Time to watch public statements of Fe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 11:31:48 PST 2003

26848 [lbo-talk] "master's tools" (was po-mo prince) -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Even in context, it's still a stupid metaphor, at several levels. As it >applies to capitalism, "the master's tools" is a much wider set of things >than just propaganda about race and gender and class. As it applies to >slavery, the metaphor is simply wrong. The master's tools are the best and >only way of leveling his house. It's a failed attempt at poetic >rabble-rousing. This gun shoots backwards. The master's lies hold us down, &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 10:49:23 PST 2003

26849 [lbo-talk] "master's tools" (was po-mo prince) -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=audre+lorde+%22master%27s+tools%22 > >first hit. Damn. I did "audre lorde master's house," no quotes. Quirky thing, google. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 9 10:38:30 PST 2003

26850 [lbo-talk] Re: the postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >I, too, find this quote endlessly annoying. One useful thing about a class >analysis is that it allows us to see that in different hands and used for >different purposes, the outcomes can be quite different, in short, >the master's >tools aren't. We don't have to smash the looms, as it turns out. But if I >recall correctly--it's been a long time and I'm away from my books, >too--Lorde is >talking more about the structure of academia and al ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 9 10:35:52 PST 2003