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9061 [lbo-talk] market logic: dollar rallies because rest of world circling drain -- rank: 1000

On Aug 8, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Doug wrote: > >> market logic: dollar rallies because rest of world circling drain > > Is it the "rest of the world" or the rest of the *Western world*? No. Japan may well be in recession, Korea may not be far behind, and the Chinese economy is giving serious signs of slowing down. Doug

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9062 [lbo-talk] market logic: dollar rallies because rest of world circling drain -- rank: 1000

[from FT.com] Dollar surges against euro and pound By Peter Garnham Published: August 8 2008 11:28 | Last updated: August 8 2008 11:28 The dollar surged higher on Friday, hitting a five-month high against the euro and a seventeen-month peak against sterling amid a growing conviction that the effects of the credit crisis were spreading across the globe.

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Date:	Fri Aug 8 05:48:42 PDT 2008

9063 [lbo-talk] No borders!!!! (was some other nationalist crap) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Tahir Wood wrote: > The best place to start is to destroy the > fucking anti-imperialist fraud within the marxist movement and then we > will be rid of the nats and then we can start talking about communism > again. Right now it's a non-starter. Who's the "we" that would have this new conversation? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 7 08:03:20 PDT 2008

9064 [lbo-talk] bad news from South Africa -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Tahir Wood wrote: > Nationalism stinks and african nationalism is no better than > any other variant of it. SA is getting more and more deeply mired in > this shit and the more these stupid nats prove themselves incapable of > running a country and its institutions, the more Mugabe-like they > become. The ANC was always fairly nationalist, wasn't it? So this is less a departure than a realization? Doug

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9065 [lbo-talk] Oprah: worth 1 million votes -- rank: 1000

[of course, economists say it, so who knows if it's true?] <http://www.econ.umd.edu/~garthwaite/celebrityendorsements_garthwaitemoore.pdf > The Role of Celebrity Endorsements in Politics: Oprah, Obama, and the 2008 Democratic Primary Craig Garthwaite Department of Economics University of Maryland Tim Moore Department of Economics University of Maryland Abstract Candidates in major political contests are commonly endorsed by other politicians, interest groups and celebrities. Prior to the ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 7 05:07:02 PDT 2008

9066 [lbo-talk] Anti Semitism in East Europe and Russia -- rank: 1000

Ok, we get your point. On Aug 7, 2008, at 6:07 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > > How did you survive the Middle Passage? > > --- On Wed, 8/6/08, 123hop at comcast.net <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Yeah. That's basically how my family got out of >> Romania. But now it gets interesting. > > > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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9067 [lbo-talk] Good news from the ranting hate-filled village fascist -- rank: 1000

On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Ubergruppenfuhrer Andie's village hatred of the people that stole > his grandpappy's cow Ok, this one's gone on long enough. Doug

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9068 [lbo-talk] LF on high food prices -- rank: 1000

<http://www.slate.com/id/2196909/> Harming Farming LOW FOOD PRICES USED TO HURT THE WORLD'S POOR NOW HIGH PRICES DO. WHAT GIVES? By Liza Featherstone Posted Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008, at 5:45 PM ET Last week, the Doha Development Round of global trade negotiations collapsed. Some of the stickiest points involved agricultural trade: Third World governments refused to open their markets further to exports from the European Union and the United States, citing the need to protect small farm ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 6 15:49:08 PDT 2008

9069 [lbo-talk] migration & "submission" -- rank: 1000

[Laura Agustin was on my radio show last November talking about her book on "trafficking" <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#071115 >. Here's something she just sent along.] Here's a piece I just published in the Guardian. I don't mention sex workers or trafficking, but I refer in the discussion of radical feminism to the group Ni Putes Ni Soumises. Here a migrant woman was judged to be 'in total submission' to the men around her, in the same logic that so many ...

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9070 [lbo-talk] Zsa Zsa and Paris -- rank: 1000

On Aug 6, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > But there was only one Zsa Zsa. And her speech patterns sound oddly like those of George Soros. Must be a Hungarian thing.

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Date:	Wed Aug 6 14:51:26 PDT 2008

9071 [lbo-talk] John Edwards' love child: the photo -- rank: 1000

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/exclusive_john_edwards_love_child_photos/celebrity/65258

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Date:	Wed Aug 6 11:53:46 PDT 2008

9072 [lbo-talk] Peruvian opinion -- rank: 1000

On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > the support of the majority has > been required by all successful revolutionary, national liberation, > and > reform movements Has it really? And what do you mean by "support"? I'm guessing that even in revolutionary situations, much - maybe most - of the pop is just standing aside trying to get by. Revos would have a hard time surviving the intense opposition of the majority, but silent assent is all you need. Doug

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9073 [lbo-talk] bad news from South Africa -- rank: 1000

The Centre for Civil Society, headed by listmember Patrick Bond, was recently told by the authorities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal that it will close at year end. See <http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/> for more. I'm awaiting instructions from Patrick on what we all should do, but the goal is to make this an international incident - and keep the CCS open. Doug

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9074 [lbo-talk] Peruvian opinion -- rank: 1000

The URL says it all: <http://www.gallup.com/poll/109297/More-Peruvians-Favor-Socialism-Than-Capitalism.aspx >

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Date:	Wed Aug 6 06:17:07 PDT 2008

9075 [lbo-talk] Anti-Slav Racism -- rank: 1000

On Aug 5, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Anyway, "andie" is now in my trash filter. Declaring people filtered is bad form. Listmom

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