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106 [lbo-talk] getting back to criticism -- rank: 1000

How is Elephant 6 a New York thing? It's an Athens, Georgia thing if anything. As to how NMH became such a cult hit, I don't know, but though it is simple and not mind blowing, it's pretty good, has an interesting ethereal aesthetics. What's the problem with it? Bryan On Dec 10, 2010, at 14:37, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote: > At 12:22 PM 12/10/2010, Alan Rudy wrote: > > >> Can anyone explain some of why it is that people love Neutral Milk Hotel's CD, In ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 10 16:14:38 PST 2010

107 [lbo-talk] Billy Joel -- rank: 1000

Have you noticed that there is an inverse relationship between the quality of music people are listening to and how loud they play it in their car and/or iPod so that everyone around can hear it? Bryan Sent from my iPad What gets me is "partial music" or rather high pitch > chirping noise blasted by people listening to their ipods of mobiles on a > full blast. Or alternatively, the bass "booms" emitted by car stereo > systems. > > Wojtek > >

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108 [lbo-talk] Billy Joel -- rank: 1000

> > If I'm stuck in a waiting room and it's playing that awful genre of whiny 90s guitar-based guy-rock (what is that called?), it's almost too painful to endure. > When I am stuck in a waiting room, I can just about guarantee that the music played, whatever genre it is, will make me want to poke my eardrums out with the tip of a compass. That is why I bring headphones everywhere I go...so I don't have to be tortured by piped in music... Bryan

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109 [lbo-talk] Capacity or Audacity: Comments on Israel s Report to the Ad Hoc Liason Committee -- rank: 1000

*Capacity or Audacity: Comments on Israel s Report to the Ad Hoc Liason Committee * /Shir Hever, Alternative Information Center (AIC) / In June 2009, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a document called /Supporting Palestinian Capacity Building: Israel s Effort in Supporting the Palestinian Economy, Security Reforms and Civil Affairs. /This document was presented to donor states in September, and distributed at the UN summit on 23 September. The report is a political document pres ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 29 11:19:20 PDT 2009

110 [lbo-talk] Endless Universe -- rank: 1000

Totally off topic.... but... That quote of Herakleitos reminds me, I recently read what I thought was an interesting book, not only for the topic of the book itself, but also the behind the scenes glimpse into the process of how theoretical physics is done, in "real time." http://endlessuniverse.net/ Bryan Chris Doss wrote: > Just keep adding more epicycles. > >>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it >>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting ...

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111 [lbo-talk] The Institute for Counter-Terrorism replies to B'Tselem report .... -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: > > I'm sure plenty of us are reading it. > Good to know, I just wasn't sure, and didn't want to bore people by publishing something that may be interesting to me, but not others... > The one thing that strikes me about the debate though is that it is > all based on the premise that the attack on Gaza was in the nature of > a war between states. [...] But Gaza isn't a separate state, it is for > all intents and purposes part of lsrael [...] It follows th ...

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112 [lbo-talk] The Institute for Counter-Terrorism replies to B'Tselem report .... -- rank: 1000

Hi all, Not sure if anyone is reading this thread, as there was no discussion around it, but since my friend (who is a professor of international law in Europe and works in International and human rights law) made some comments on what Don Radlauer of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism was arguing in the other emails in this thread, I thought to offer it up to those who are interested. Bryan --------------------- In general, you have raised pretty much of the relevant issues, so I just want to ...

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113 [lbo-talk] The Institute for Counter-Terrorism replies to B'Tselem report on Palestinian casualties during Operation Cast Lead: Any military age Palestinian man is a legitimate target during ongoing military operations... -- rank: 1000

Interestingly, Don Radlauer, the head researcher at the The Institute for Counter-Terrorism that I commented on, somehow came upon my lbo-talk email and answered me, so in all fairness I attach his reply below (and then after it, my reply to his reply...which he hasn't answered yet). Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Bryan - Your note ( ...

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114 [lbo-talk] The Institute for Counter-Terrorism replies to B'Tselem report on Palestinian casualties during Operation Cast Lead: Any military age Palestinian man is a legitimate target during ongoing military operations... -- rank: 1000

B'Tselem came out today with a new study of the list of Palestinian fatalities during Operation Cast Lead. http://www.alternativenews.org/english/2145-btselem-most-palestinians-killed-in-gaza-war-were-civilians.html Ynet had an article about it http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3774217,00.html , and in the last section of the article, they quoted from a counter study of the fatalities done by The Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center I quote from this a ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 9 21:47:02 PDT 2009

115 [lbo-talk] Academic Boycott and the Complicity of Israeli Academic Institutions in Occupation of Palestinian Territories -- rank: 1000

To read the research, click here <http://www.alternativenews.org/the-economy-of-the-occupation/2223-the-economy-of-the-occupation-23-24-academic-boycott-of-israel.html>. To hear an interview with researcher, click here <http://www.alternativenews.org/news-from-within-palestine-israel-podcasts/2222-news-from-within-podcast-academic-boycott-of-israel.html>. Through this report, we aim to inform and empower the debate on an academic boycott by giving information not on Israeli violence ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 20 15:49:10 PDT 2009

116 [lbo-talk] The Economy of the Occupation 21-22: Cast Lead, Israel Attacks Gaza -- rank: 1000

To read the whole bulletin, click here <http://www.alternativenews.org/images/stories/downloads/Economy_of_the_occupation_21-22.pdf>. *Introduction* The Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip, lasting from December 27th 2008 to January 18th, 2009, caused massive devastation in the Gaza Strip and threw the region into a state of confusion. The levels of violence shocked and amazed people all over the world. Although the Israeli army has been conducting ongoing operations against Palestin ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 15 11:11:04 PDT 2009

117 [lbo-talk] 2 fascinating talks by Prof. Shlomo Sand, (Tel Aviv U.) Thursday and Friday in NYC -- rank: 1000

Yah, any of you New Yorkers who can should go, he is interesting... Someone wanna record it? Bryan Mitchel Cohen wrote: > > > You are invited: > > TWO TALKS BY > > PROFESSOR SHLOMO SAND, > > > DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF TEL AVIV, > ON HIS NEWLY TRANSLATED BOOK, > "THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE" > > "This may be the most important and most surprising book on Zionism, > Israel and Judaism written in the l ...

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118 [lbo-talk] Israel's short lived love affair with Israeli Nobel Prize for chemistry laureate Professor Ada Yonath -- rank: 1000

Israel's short lived love affair with Israeli Nobel Prize for chemistry laureate Professor Ada Yonath Bryan http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120041.html Israeli Nobel Prize for chemistry laureate Professor Ada Yonath on Saturday said all Hamas prisoners held in Israel should be released in order to bring Gilad Shalit home. "I don't understand why we incarcerate them in Israel in the first place," the professor told Army Radio Saturday. She added that "all prisoners should be r ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 10 16:34:17 PDT 2009

119 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad a Yid -- rank: 1000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam aft ...

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120 [lbo-talk] Ehud Barak is in good company....with Pinochet -- rank: 1000

"Ehud Barak was yesterday saved from arrest after the Foreign Office upgraded his visit from private to special status giving him diplomatic immunity from charges of war crimes. He was represented by Pinochet s attorney Clare Montgomery QC, who previously acted for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to fend off a request for his extradition to Spain in 1998." http://www.palestinecampaign.org/Index7b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=2&l2_id=14&Content_ID=862

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