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27181 [lbo-talk] Garner: beat your chests with pride Americans! -- rank: 1000

Garner: Americans Should Beat Chests with Pride Wed Apr 30, 8:01 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The retired general overseeing Iraq (news - web sites)'s postwar reconstruction said on Wednesday that his fellow Americans should beat their chests with pride at having toppled Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) without destroying the country's assets. "We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in a mirror and get proud and stick out our chests and suck in our bellies and say: 'Dam ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 14:22:24 PDT 2003

27182 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk] Awww...soo sad.... -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >Where is the evidence that Weimar/Nazi Germany is about to replicate >itself now in this country? In the German 1920s and 1930s, there were plenty of domestic radicals and the USSR abroad. In the US 2000s there's what - the Axis of Evil (now down to two members) and the Green Parties? Who needs fascism with that configuration of threats? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 13:37:35 PDT 2003

27183 [lbo-talk] Re: if the U.S. balloon should burst -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 09:55 AM 04/30/2003 -0700, you wrote: >>Wouldn't it make sense for governments to use some of these funds to buy >>up physical assets in United States rather than to hold relatively low >>yielding financial instruments? > >Apparently, according to Hudson, that would be considered "an act of war." Where does he say this? It seems a little overdone. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 12:13:04 PDT 2003

27184 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >You called it unusual, but I'd tune in for more of the "merely >cultural". Thanks. I'm interviewing a novelist this week (recorded it yesterday, will broadcast it on Thursday) - Nina Revoyr, author of Southland <http://akashicbooks.com/southland.htm>. We talked mostly about the social history of LA, and not much about fiction, but it's the first time I've ever interviewed an author about a novel. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 11:37:33 PDT 2003

27185 [lbo-talk] If the US$ balloon should burst... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Didn't the Japanese buy up an immense amount of u.s. real estate in the >'80s, so much that various 'nativists' were getting upset about a >Japanese 'plot' to control land etc in the u.s.? And didn't they have to >sell most of this land at a loss later on? Yup they did, and much else besides. Mostly to their regret, too. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 11:29:04 PDT 2003

27186 [lbo-talk] If the US$ balloon should burst... -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Wouldn't it make sense for governments to use some of these funds to buy >up physical assets in United States rather than to hold relatively low >yielding financial instruments? They could theoretically buy stocks, which are claims on real assets, but that's pretty risky, and who wants to gamble with the FX reserves? And physical assets have to be managed - who wants to do that? Ick. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 10:20:55 PDT 2003

27187 [lbo-talk] did Pearl know too much? -- rank: 1000

In new book, French writer says Pearl was murdered because he knew too much KIM HOUSEGO Canadian Press Tuesday, April 29, 2003 PARIS (AP) - Islamic extremists killed Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl because he had discovered dangerous secrets about their ties to the Pakistani intelligence community, according to an investigation by a respected French writer. In a 538-page book released this week, entitled Who Killed Daniel Pearl? philosopher and best-selling author Bernard-Henri Levy re ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 10:09:43 PDT 2003

27188 [lbo-talk] gun play -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 30, 2003 Scholarly Debate Over Guns and Crime Rekindles as States Debate Legalization By DAVID GLENN As state legislatures in Ohio and Missouri prepare to vote this month on legalizing the carrying of concealed weapons, an exceptionally heated scholarly debate has erupted over the relationship between crime rates and handgun laws. In the April issue of the Stanford Law Review, which was published on Friday, two law professors assert that a certai ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 09:54:12 PDT 2003

27189 [lbo-talk] If the US$ balloon should burst... -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Presumably central banks can exchange their surplus US currency on >currency markets for other currency. Yup, they could. But there's never been a significant Japanese T-bill market, so it's difficult to keep reserves in yen. And next to the U.S. Treasury market, the German and French government bond markets are tiny. Like I said, once an integrated euro market develops, everything will change. In fact, the weakening of the dollar vs. the euro <http://finance.yahoo ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 30 09:16:33 PDT 2003

27190 [lbo-talk] Pro-War Celebs -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Ron Silver Who was at a press breakfast on Syria at the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday, sitting at the same table as Mort Zuckerman. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 20:58:57 PDT 2003

27191 [lbo-talk] Re: Heresy -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >How does a person normally do that when he lives in a forgone >conclusion state? Voting here will do nothing at all to affect the >results. Bush is ahead in the latest NY polls. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 17:46:50 PDT 2003

27192 [lbo-talk] Duck, Duck, Goose: Financing the War, Financing the World -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Could someone explain to me, the non-economist, this relationship >between Treasury Bills and the Central Banks. What is a balance of >payment deficit in this case? Why would the surplus dollars be put >into Treasury Bonds? Dollar surplus abroad was created by what? US >Loans? To what the Central Banks? HELP! For decades, the U.S. has bought more abroad than it imports. (That includes military spending overseas.) That means dollars build up abroad. Locals ex ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 15:55:46 PDT 2003

27193 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 24, 2003 DH on economic news (jobs, confidence, Greenspan) * Anatol Lieven on postwar Iraq and the gang of American provincials running it * Ruy Teixeira, public opinion expert at The Century Foundation and co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority, on Bush's poll numbers It joins: April 17, 2003 Cultural theorist and philosopher Slavoj Zizek on the Iraq war, American imperialism, the role of fantasy ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 15:38:51 PDT 2003

27194 [lbo-talk] Re:Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >How many of us are there here? Three or four or five? I'm not ashamed to >say I really don't know enough to develop a treatise detailing exactly how >the Cuban regime should go about defending the gains of revolution. I can, >however, still point out particular acts of repression (e.g. the current >jailing of dissidents) that clearly don't contribute anything to the defense >of anything. So you feel free to sign a petition that could, however modestly, af ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 14:50:21 PDT 2003

27195 [lbo-talk] Re:Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Are you as sure as all that that arresting and even executing people >who engage in peaceful protest contributes significantly to the >defense of the Cuban revolution? Do you know that that's all they were doing? Do you completely doubt they were working with Cason? Did you read Castro's version of events <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/CastroApril25.html>? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 14:09:36 PDT 2003