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36286 Casey at bat -- rank: 1000

Leo Casey wrote: >How characteristically Kelley. How characteristically Casey. Leo, instead of kvetching, why not perform a useful service and explain why Rudy Giuliani is being such a prick with the teachers' union (demanding givebacks, making fun of them, etc.). Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 8 06:48:30 PST 2000

36287 byte size -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I just noticed that the last two messages I sent out are saved in my file >copy folder as 2,388 and 2,969 bytes, but by the time they arrived in my >lbo-talk folder they had grown to 3,466 and 4,095 bytes respectively. I >assume a kilobyte is too small to house an evil growth. But just out of >curiousity, where does it come from? When I mail the same messages to >myself, I don't get the same growth. Headers, man. Eudora suppresses a lot of the headers ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 7 04:23:18 PST 2000

36288 Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>CB: I think it was use of force and violence externally that made >>primitive accumulation on a global scale possible. Would have been >>difficult to accumulate globally by only doing things internal to >>Europe. > >Enclosure + chattel slavery = primitive accumulation = the origin of >capitalism. The rise & development of the dominance of instrumental >reason (the Benthamite part of "Freedom, Equality, Property, & >Be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 6 18:44:59 PST 2000

36289 Abelson on Liscio -- rank: 1000

[My friend - and friend of LBO, as well as occasional radio guest - John Liscio died last week after a long struggle with a failing liver. Here's what Alan Abelson had to say about him in this week's Barron's. - Doug] John Liscio died last week. John was our colleague at Barron's for roughly a half-dozen years in the late 'Eighties and early 'Nineties, and not a day went by that he didn't light up the place. He was vibrant and funny, outrageous and irreverent, extraordinarily intelligent. He was ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 16:42:22 PST 2000

36290 Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And incidentally, I fail to see any remote connection between a >proposition on the source of the destructive rationality of >capitalism and one's view, one way or the other, of the impact >of prevailing winds on history. It's been a few years since I read the Colonizer's Model, but as I remember it, Blaut was so intent to prove that there was nothing unique about developments within European society that he reached to the winds for an explanation of imperialism. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 6 15:37:54 PST 2000

36291 profound risk of profound tedium -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >So what shall we say about the planning that you advocate? Shall we >ask some Ukrainian peasants? --jks > >>The "market" that Hayek pushes has killed more people than AIDS. >> >>CB Please, unless someone has something fresh (i.e., "not stale," not "rude") to say, let's not get into this again. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 14:18:59 PST 2000

36292 Disarming the Struggle AgaiAIDS: Anti-Science Obscurantism, Conpsiracy Theories -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >The "market" that Hayek pushes has killed more people than AIDS. If you mean "capitalism," then it's also lengthened average life expectancies by many years. Yours in contradiction, Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 14:11:44 PST 2000

36293 "Dumbass 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'" Policy -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > >>> dhenwood at panix.com 12/06/00 01:59PM >>> > >Clinton's well-accomplished at apologizing. Did he apologize to >Rickey Ray Rector, several hundred thousand Iraqis, and the folks he >kicked off welfare too? > >((((((((((( > >CB: Time to start criticizing Bush ( he's the winner), like the >Peoples Weekly World. Clinton is a lame duck. Or do you like Bush or >something ? Oh right, history's bunk. Or as Bush Sr used to say ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 14:01:52 PST 2000

36294 campus news -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ON CAMPUS KAREN BRADY BUFFALO NEWS: A peaceful protest against the private prison industry turned not-so-peaceful as more than 40 local college students and community activists attempted to force their way into the administration offices at Buffalo State College. "We wanted to see the president," Buffalo State senior Edward T. Ellis said of college President Muriel A. Howard. The students and others, Ellis explained, wanted to present Howard a peti ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 12:39:56 PST 2000

36295 Science -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Christopher B. Hajib-Niles wrote: > >> then it won't hurt to go and check out the website i provided earlier >> (www.virusmyth.com) and find out why so many prestigious, nobel prize >> winning scientist who are not fag bashers or right wingers don't >> agree... > >Look, trolling websites is not a criterion of truth. I can rustle up a >pile of scientists who think global warming is a crock, but the >overwhe ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 11:10:17 PST 2000

36296 "Dumbass 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'" Policy -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Clinton defending what happened on the gays in the military policy, says in >ROLLING STONE this week that it was only after the Senate voted by a >veto-proof margin to attack the policy that "it was only then that I worked >out with Colin Powell this dumbass 'don't ask, don't tell' thing." And he >argues the original policy was the right one. > >Clinton also specifically mentions support for a bill in Congress to restore >the right to vote ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 10:59:32 PST 2000

36297 Phatic Language, was Re: Race Math & Language -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Consider the huge number of list posts (despite universal >condemnation of the practice) which consist merely of >quoting someone else's post and adding "I agree" or something >to that effect. Purely phatic. So your periodic eruptions where you denounce someone as "silly" or announce that you've assiduosly been ignoring someone you've obviously been paying some attention to - are these phatic too? Phatic utterances with a negative sign in front ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 10:50:29 PST 2000

36298 Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It is anachronistic & culturalist to make capitalist rationality -- >racialized into "European rationality" by Weber & Co. -- the cause >of capitalism. So do you buy Blaut's "prevailing winds" theory of the rise of European imperialism? Or did something happen internally in Europe that made primitive accumulation on a global scale possible? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 10:48:27 PST 2000

36299 Daniel Singer's death -- rank: 1000

[Very bad news, though this is probably not the first that most people are hearing of it. A fine man with fine politics. This notice from his widow is making the rounds.] >Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:09:44 +0100 > >Jeanne Singer (née Kérel) >sa famille, ses amis >font part du décès de > > Daniel SINGER >Journaliste, écrivain, socialiste-luxemburgiste > survenu le 2 décembre 2000 > > L’inhumation aura lieu le samedi 9 décembre, > au cimet ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 10:33:28 PST 2000

36300 Turkey gets $10b from IMF -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service - has Turkey been de-falcated now?] IMF HANDS TURKEY $10 BILLION. Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said Wednesday that agreement had been reached with the IMF on more than $10 billion in aid to help the country weather a crisis in its banking sector and financial markets, reports Reuters and CNNfn. IMF and Turkish officials said $7.5 billion would come from a new supplemental reserve facility (SRF) and another $2.9 billion from Turkey's year-old $4 billi ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 10:27:09 PST 2000