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10096 [lbo-talk] Pew: globo's pretty popular, Americans very religious -- rank: 1000

[further proof that protectionism has little popular support anywhere - and good stuff on American exceptionalism] <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/607/global-trade-immigration> World Publics Welcome Global Trade -- But Not Immigration October 4, 2007 Complete Report Trend Topline: Includes current results as well as trends from previous surveys The publics of the world broadly embrace key tenets of economic globalization but fear the disruptions and downsides of participating in the globa ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 5 05:07:50 PDT 2007

10097 [lbo-talk] who likes Hillary -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I am similarly bewildered by working class white Repubs who > willingly support leaders who screw them over. We've been here before, but 1) they get a kick out of racism, 2) they get a kick out of imperial war, as long as it's painless to them, and 3) many of the Protestant dispensation like The Market, as an impersonal tool of punishment and reward that keeps us fallen humans in line. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 5 04:50:21 PDT 2007

10098 [lbo-talk] who likes Hillary -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 9:33 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > People! Please oh please stop expecting black > Americans to be super human, to be immune from the > myth of America, to carry inoculation against > propaganda, to be steely-eyed double agents of the > Left, waiting for their main chance to change the > world. I don't know who expects blacks to be superhuman. My guess is that they feel the variations in state policy, which to whiter people can sometime seem distant, more acut ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 19:20:33 PDT 2007

10099 [lbo-talk] Randians celebrate Rand -- rank: 1000

Dear Editor, Please consider this Op-Ed submission from the Ayn Rand Institute. The Influence of Atlas Shrugged By Yaron Brook On the 50th anniversary of its publication, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's epic about a group of businessmen who rebel against a society that shackles and condemns them, is everywhere. Hardly a day goes by without a mention of the novel in the media or by some prominent celebrity or businessman as the most significant book he's read. Meanwhile, Ayn Rand's novels, includ ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 17:26:44 PDT 2007

10100 [lbo-talk] Left - Right 30 Year Itch -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: More like the swing to the right started in 1978-1980. Yup. I was a right-winger in 1971-2, and man was it ever lonely. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 16:04:58 PDT 2007

10101 [lbo-talk] Engelhardt: Dems accept 10+ years in Iraq and counting -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Thinking of it as the Iraq War and linking it to the Bush > Administration > blurs one's analysis. It is the War for the Middle East & the Persian > Gulf. Why does Madeleine Albright - an imperialist in good standing - call the invasion of Iraq the biggest foreign policy mistake in U.S. history? Do you prefer the night in which all cows are black to something better lit? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 11:34:24 PDT 2007

10102 [lbo-talk] who likes Hillary -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Seth Ackerman wrote: > This is madness. 80% of the white working class supports HRC or > politicians to her right. Do they know something we don't know? 90% of > Americans, black and white, believe in angels. Maybe they're on to > something! Have you ever considered that people might be gullible or > poorly informed? I can see the basis of a winning campaign already: hey, let me save you, you gullible ignoramuses!

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 11:01:26 PDT 2007

10103 [lbo-talk] Islamist, Socialist Revolutions Don't Mix -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The "leftist student activist from Amir Kabir University" and others > like her might first clarify what they think of domestic aspects of > socialism and populism in Latin America, of which Cuba and Venezuela > are the most obvious examples, and how many Iranians think like them. > Then, Castro, Chavez, Ortega, etc. can duly evaluate what their > relations to them should be. That's your reaction to the news that ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 10:42:34 PDT 2007

10104 [lbo-talk] who likes Hillary -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Chuck wrote: > I picked Clinton to win a few months ago. I don't think a scandal can > even dislodge her at this point. The economic situation will be much > worse a year from now and people will be disposed towards a change. If > Giuliani gets nominated and focuses on terrorism, this will cinch the > win for Hillary. A Bush attack on Iran will also cinch a win for > Hillary. People out here in the Midwest are really pissed off about > the war. H ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 10:09:40 PDT 2007

10105 [lbo-talk] Left - Right 30 Year Itch -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > anyway, a student came to me after class and said that he had > attended a lecture by some bloke who suggested that we may be > heading for/be at the end of a 30 year swing to the right.... the > point was this: 1968 was when the swing to the right started, and > what uncle george, uncle dick and auntie connie have done is > precipitate a swing (back) to the left. i found this quite an > intriguing thesis, suggested tha ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 10:07:46 PDT 2007

10106 [lbo-talk] trans in Iran -- rank: 1000

[I noticed that Yoshie's touting a book by Afsaneh Najmabadi, so I thought I'd take a look at some of her writing. Turns out it's three- dimensional!] <http://www.iranian.com/Najmabadi/2005/January/Sex/index.html> Truth of sex While trans-sexuality in Iran is made legitimate, homosexuality is insistently reiterated as abnormal [by Afsaneh Najmabadi] January 12, 2005 The recent BBC Newsnight program [Frances Harrison, "Iran's sex- change operation," January 5, 2005,] follows a n ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 10:04:40 PDT 2007

10107 [lbo-talk] Islamist, Socialist Revolutions Don't Mix -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > That doesn't mean that Islamic leftists of Iran have or will become > Marxists or Latin socialists have or will convert to Islam. Nor > should it. Indeed. From the article in question: > ''President Ahmadinejad s promotion of closer ties with certain > Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia > called for some kind of identification of his brand of Islamist > militant ideas with those of the leftist ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 09:50:20 PDT 2007

10108 [lbo-talk] chronicles of excess (cont.) -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/the-riches/you-know-what-your-house-needs-an- observatory-duh-306899.php> the riches You Know What Your House Needs? An Observatory, Duh! "Dr. Motta and his wife, Joyce, are among a growing number of Americans incorporating observatories into new or existing homes," says the Times. (A growing number, you say!) For those paying attention at home, the order of trends is: Buying a second or third house in the city, drunken renovation parties, luxury subma ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 09:48:07 PDT 2007

10109 [lbo-talk] What if Dobson splits? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Mr. WD wrote: > I know it's probably wishful thinking, but couldn't this could open > the door for a four-way race between a Christofascist, Rudy, Hillary > and a real anti-war candidate, perhaps? I'm skeptical Dobson, et al. > will bolt the GOP in the first place, but if they do then shouldn't > that open up new electoral possibilities? Could. I'm wondering if the Republican leadership is going to take the same attitude as the Dems towards their pop ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 08:42:58 PDT 2007

10110 [lbo-talk] who likes Hillary -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > she will win, anyway, but I suspect she will be more conservative > than bill was. i'm willing to wager a bet on the latter!!! Yup. Who was it, Nancy Friday? Gail Sheehy? One of them wrote a book on Hillary that claimed that she pulled him to the right, going back to their days in Arkansas. Doug

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