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10006 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Ahmadinejad & Bollinger -- rank: 1000

["...the contankerous exchange between an irresponsible and sensationalist president of a beleaguered and increasingly illegitimate Islamic Republic and the racist president of an Ivy League university in the United States..." <http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/866/focus.htm> Of banality and burden Hamid Dabashi comments on a meeting of minds Let's, then, be clear at the beginning, Mr. President you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator . . . . I am only a profes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 11 15:56:48 PDT 2007

10007 [lbo-talk] most Americans still think house prices are going to go up -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/611/economic-pessimism> Economic Pessimism Grows as Nation's Real Estate Slump Hits Wealthy Areas Republicans Less Upbeat About Economy and Housing Markets October 11, 2007 Public assessments of the nation's economy have fallen to a two-year low, and the nation's economic outlook remains relatively gloomy. In particular, faced with a steady stream of negative news about the U.S. housing market, Americans are substantially less inclined than they were even ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 11 12:04:50 PDT 2007

10008 [lbo-talk] Venezuela -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> The professor quibbles over words "political supremacy" too much. In >> substance, I actually agree with the professor on both points, though >> the professor doesn't appear to realize that. > > > He's probably just too busy trying to build a radio so he can get off > that infernal island to give what you're saying the proper attention. Isn't that use of "the professor" wonderful? It's straig ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 11:54:56 PDT 2007

10009 [lbo-talk] "Suck Cock to Beat the Draft" vs. Equal Right to Serve (was An Empire of NGOs) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I don't get it. Why must ecstasy be sexual? Did you get some kind of brain implant at Catholic U?

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 11:34:59 PDT 2007

10010 [lbo-talk] First cooperative brothel, for 2010 Olympics, or going for the gold? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Am I the only person who really, really hates the word > "sex worker"? What's wrong with "prostitute"? Sex worker includes all kinds of people - porn actors, phone sex operators, strippers, etc. Politicized sex workers are perfectly fine with the word prostitute when it refers to one. Also whore and hooker. This does remind me of when an old pal heard a speaker at a rally referred to "culture workers." He sai ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 11:04:35 PDT 2007

10011 [lbo-talk] Iranian sexual regime -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > Of the suicides attempted, how many have been defined away That's a very good question. The WHO stats for Iran are almost implausibly low: <http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/> Iran's are less than 2% the unweighted global average. In a country where suicide is deeply frowned upon, the temptations to misclass them must be enormous. Other predominantly Muslim countries are higher, but still implausibly l ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 10:00:18 PDT 2007

10012 [lbo-talk] An Empire of NGOs -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Some teens of all sexual orientations commit suicide. However, > most teens of all sexual orientations don't commit suicide. Some black Americans are desperately poor. However, most black American aren't desperately poor. So...racialized poverty is nothing to worry about? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 09:23:26 PDT 2007

10013 [lbo-talk] more on Edwards' squeeze -- rank: 1000

Ex of Jay McInerney, inspiration for narrator of Story of My Life! Born again into New Agery!! <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/10/scrubbed-edwards- filmmak_n_67868.html>

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 09:06:22 PDT 2007

10014 [lbo-talk] John Edwards having an affair!?!? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_cheating_scandal/ celebrity/64271> PRESIDENTIAL CHEATING SCANDAL! ALLEGED AFFAIR COULD WRECK JOHN EDWARDS' CAMPAIGN BID Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught in a shocking mistress scandal that could wreck his campaign, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. Sources have come forward to charge that the "other woman" previously worked on Edwards' campaign and followed the 54-year-old candidate on trips across the U ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 08:59:41 PDT 2007

10015 [lbo-talk] "Suck Cock to Beat the Draft" vs. Equal Right to Serve (was An Empire of NGOs) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > Catholicism has always been sexy -- well, since the > Counter-Reformation, anyway. Caravaggio! Bernini! I agree about the, um, subtext. But let's make it explicit XXX!

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 08:46:26 PDT 2007

10016 [lbo-talk] "Suck Cock to Beat the Draft" vs. Equal Right to Serve (was An Empire of NGOs) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 9:52 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Who asked "us" to make "such a religion" out of Islam? > Why is that "our" job? Maybe I should make a sexy religion out of Catholicism. The exquisite pains of the Stations of the Cross, the way those Jesuits drink fine booze and fuck each other in their posh retreats....

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 07:22:42 PDT 2007

10017 [lbo-talk] Recent articles by James Heartfield -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 5:05 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > On the history of the New Left Review > > http://www.metamute.org/en/New-Left-Old-Pessimism James, you write: "But on the essential question of the working class challenge to the survival of capitalism, the NLR's intellectual heritage summarises the left's failure to act." How should they have acted? Either NLR or the working class. You sound as if you know the answer but aren't telling. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 07:03:09 PDT 2007

10018 [lbo-talk] First cooperative brothel, for 2010 Olympics, or going for the gold? -- rank: 1000

Sex Workers Plan Brothel in 2010 Olympics City By Wency Leung - WeNews correspondent VANCOUVER, Canada (WOMENSENEWS)--Susan Davis considers herself one of the lucky ones. In her 21 years as a sex worker, Davis, 39, has known countless peers who have died of suicide, murder, AIDS or drug overdose in Vancouver's gritty Downtown Eastside. She herself has experienced four heart attacks from smoking crack cocaine and survived several assaults by violent clients while working on the streets. &quo ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 06:47:40 PDT 2007

10019 [lbo-talk] new spirit of something -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2007, at 8:57 PM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > What I am very concerned about is the reifying of gay international > and > Muslim immigrant community and pitting them against another, the > agents of > Empire versus the anti liberal patriarchs. Good point. It's not much of a resistance that essentially accepts the terms offered by the dominant power and simply switches the signs. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 10 18:06:15 PDT 2007

10020 [lbo-talk] An Empire of NGOs -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Man, lots of teenagers commit suicide for reasons > ranging from "oh, the knowledge of the emptiness of > the universe has ravaged my soul" to "that guy in PE > doesn't like me, it's the end of the world." Man, that's callous & trivializing. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 10 16:25:36 PDT 2007