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26986 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On my radio show this afternoon, Thursday, 5-6 PM eastern US time, WBAI, 99.5 FM New York and <http://www.wbai.org>: * Michael Albert talking about his new Verso book Parecon (participatory economics) - <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=185984698X/leftbusinessobseA/>. * Christian Parenti, recently back from Iraq, talking about the occupation and the Iraqi Communist Party. Albert will also join this list early next week to discuss his book and his scheme. Aside from the book (wh ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 28 07:20:29 PDT 2003

26987 [lbo-talk] more money for Bechtel -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 28, 2003 U.S. to Boost Bechtel's Funding To Rebuild Iraqi Electricity Grid By Neil King Jr. in Washington and Simeon Kerr in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Faced with escalating costs and continued instability in Iraq, U.S. officials in Baghdad have decided to boost Bechtel Group Inc.'s postwar reconstruction contract by $350 million, or more than 50%. The decision to steer additional funds to Bechtel is the latest sign that the Bush administration has seriously underes ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 28 07:01:20 PDT 2003

26988 [lbo-talk] Stomping Out the Reds -- rank: 1000

Guilherme wrote: >"Bayonets bright gleaming, panzers forward streaming, >Hear the Commies screaming, underneath our treads! >Scorn their masses teeming, and their traitors' scheming, >We're the West redeeming, stomping out the Reds!" > >wow. panzers???!!! what a hoot! i don't know much about this song, >whats the fascism connection here? As they say at the top of the lyric sheet <http://www.msu.edu/~repubs/stomping.htm>, "a favorite of the P.O.R.,&quo ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 13:48:52 PDT 2003

26989 [lbo-talk] the rhyme in the unreason -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >But hatred? What's that about? Here's one: >Please do not use the terrible interview with Slavoj Zizek in Issue >105 as fillers as they detract from your otherwise >excellent economics publication. If you do not have enough for an >issue, wait. There is always lots of information >that needs to be publicized, such as: What follows is a list of factoids with URLs - which exactly misses the point of the interview and my front-page polemic. Facts aren't en ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 12:30:15 PDT 2003

26990 [lbo-talk] school uniforms (was: Ehrenreich responds to BDL) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That is how the problem of choice looks from a consumer perspective, but >there are other perspectives as well. One can chose to spend society's >resources on trivia, such as fashion, dumb tee-vee shows, or life style >drugs - instead of putting them to alternative, and I dare to say, more >productive uses. From a strictly consumerist perspective this can be >reduced to the sum of individual choices, but that is also a reductio ad >absurdum, as th ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 12:25:47 PDT 2003

26991 [lbo-talk] Re: Uniforms/Fashion -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >_Popular Culture_: I suppose on your pop culture list this has been >discussed thoroughly, but just to give some preliminary focus, let me >suggest that the _core_ of popular american culture _at this time_ is >the belief that the invasion of Iraq is a legitimate and necessary part >of the war on terrorism. > >Now it seems to me that, in fact, your quote from Marx also explains >that. and explains it far better than do the moralistic diatribes of >Do ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 09:59:59 PDT 2003

26992 [lbo-talk] Re: Uniforms/Fashion -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: > >>_Popular Culture_: I suppose on your pop culture list this has been >>discussed thoroughly, but just to give some preliminary focus, let me >>suggest that the _core_ of popular american culture _at this time_ is >>the belief that the invasion of Iraq is a legitimate and necessary part >>of the war on terrorism. >> >Let me be the first to disagree with this postulate, then. I don't >think that such a stateme ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 09:53:32 PDT 2003

26993 [lbo-talk] school uniforms -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >I wrote: > >> >I agree that the lifestyle you describe is a relative paradise, but it's >> >probably beyond the means of the average American (median income for a >> >family of four is around $35,000). > >Kelley wrote: > >> just a point of order: the median four person family income is $63,278 > > http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104583.html > >Weird. I'd remembered this data from some time ago: >http://www.c ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 09:51:58 PDT 2003

26994 [lbo-talk] The Most Hellish Hell Of All? (was, school uniforms) -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > > You have some evidence for this extravagant claim, which you've made >> many times? >> >> Doug > >He must be thinking that the US is less likely to bring about its own >collapse than Nazi Germany. Or perhaps he's simply delusional. I'm not asking about the actual dangers posed by the U.S. vs. Nazi Germany. I'm asking about how people abroad view the U.S. I suspect it's far more ambivalent (meaning decent helpings of positive feelings) t ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 08:08:03 PDT 2003

26995 [lbo-talk] the rhyme in the unreason -- rank: 1000

steve philion wrote: >Re: speculation about the bluster from W today, maybe the 'chaos' is just >what the Bush gang needs to maintain the permanent "war on terror"? if >anything they've gone from ignoring it to almost embracing it. maybe he >actually meant it when he said bring it on, since it could benefit his >reelection chances as the permanent warrior? Quoting from my interview with Slavoj Zizek in LBO #105 (which, by the way, has generated lots of extreme responses, ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 07:59:01 PDT 2003

26996 [lbo-talk] Re: Uniforms/Fashion -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >For the same reason they shun religion - it is the opium of the people. You've got some problems here, Woj. Opium is fun. People take it because it makes them feel good. It may cause problems later, but that's another story. Ditto religion. Marx said in that famous quote that it was the heart of a heartless world - there's also an attraction there. You can't take the Nancy Reagan approach - "just say no" - to either. And so with pop culture - it's fun and i ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 07:43:26 PDT 2003

26997 [lbo-talk] the webcam strategy for budget balance -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - August 27, 2003 PORN STAR OFFERS FISCAL FIX PORN star and California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey knows how to fix the state's colossal financial woes. "I'd have a Webcam in the governor's mansion and charge people $20 a month to see what I'm doing all the time," the "New Wave Hookers" star tells PAGE SIX's Ian Spiegelman. "People seem pretty liberal about nudity and they could see what their tax money is doing." Carey, who just turn ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 07:34:10 PDT 2003

26998 [lbo-talk] Stratfor.com & Putin (was Iraq-WMDs-Rumors) -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >Judging by their last note, now they are mis-reading both Putin and >the oligarchs. So what's the proper reading? Doug

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26999 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: Seven messages so far today. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 27 07:15:49 PDT 2003

27000 [lbo-talk] W: disaster = progress -- rank: 1000

[via Reuters] "Terrorists are gathering in Iraq to undermine the advance of freedom. And the more progress we make in Iraq, the more desperate the terrorists will become," Bush said...

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