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10156 [lbo-talk] Obama on Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/WireStory?id=3677868&page=2> Analysis: Obama Prescient on Iraq, but 'Courageous Leader' Tag May Be a Stretch By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press WASHINGTON Nobody can dispute that Barack Obama opposed the Iraq war from the start and, with striking prescience, predicted U.S. troops would be mired in a costly conflict that fanned "the flames of the Middle East." But nobody should accept at face value the Illinois senator's claim that he was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 2 07:18:41 PDT 2007

10157 [lbo-talk] high U.S. health costs: because we're too fat? -- rank: 1000

[Health Affairs article is at <http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/ content/full/hlthaff.26.6.w678/DC1>.] Obesity may push U.S. health costs above Europe: study WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly twice as many U.S. adults are obese compared to European, a key factor leading Americans to suffer more often from cancer, diabetes and other chronic ailments, a study released on Tuesday found. Treatment of these and other chronic diseases adds between $100 billion and $150 billion to the annual ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 2 07:08:17 PDT 2007

10158 [lbo-talk] The Idea of the Third World (was Re: Iran and LatinAmerica) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The Iranians paid dearly for their independence, and they will not > give it up and submit themselves to the domination of the US-led > multinational empire easily. Iran is nothing if not flexible. --------------- Financial Times - October 1, 2007 Iran 'ready to help' US with Iraq stability By Roula Khalaf and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran Iran is ready to help the US stabilise Iraq if Washington were to present a timetable for withdr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 2 07:02:49 PDT 2007

10159 [lbo-talk] the politics of style -- rank: 1000

<http://www.observer.com/2007/look-new-york-suns-style-guide> A Look at The New York Sun's Style Guide by Heidi Bruggink Published: October 1, 2007 We recently got a look at the in-house style guide of The New York Sun. Like many such documents (The New York Times actually publishes its own in book form) it can be taken to offer some insight into the editorial positioning of the publication. We found, among the many entries, the following: "aliya, not aliyah. Jewish immigration to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 2 06:07:47 PDT 2007

10160 [lbo-talk] Reps losing business class -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 2, 2007 GOP Is Losing Grip On Core Business Vote Deficit Hawks Defect As Social Issues Prevail; 'The Party Left Me' By JACKIE CALMES WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party, known since the late 19th century as the party of business, is losing its lock on that title. New evidence suggests a potentially historic shift in the Republican Party's identity -- what strategists call its "brand." The votes of many disgruntled fiscal conservatives and other lapsed Re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 2 05:13:15 PDT 2007

10161 [lbo-talk] a rare outburst of reason -- rank: 1000

Health Spending Trumps in Guns vs. Butter Debate Americans overwhelmingly support increased funding for children's health insurance, and just as broadly oppose an additional $190 billion for the war in Iraq -- a guns-and-butter battle that's helping to keep George W. Bush at his career-low job approval rating. Seventy-two percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll support a $35 billion increase in the federally funded State Children's Health Insurance Program, rejecting the preside ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 17:48:39 PDT 2007

10162 [lbo-talk] Hillary, ever so flexible -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1007/ Clinton_back_left_on_Iran.html> Clinton back left on Iran Hillary, who found herself the only Democratic candidate voting in favor of the confrontational Kyl-Liberman resolution on Iran last week, is making clear that she doesn't support military action against the country. Taylor Marsh reports that she's signed on co-sponsor a new bill from Jim Webb's bill, which will explicitly require that the president seek congressional authorization ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 17:39:07 PDT 2007

10163 [lbo-talk] Ecuadorean election -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7022623.stm> Ecuador's Correa celebrates 'win' Official results are slowly being tallied in Ecuador where President Rafael Correa is celebrating victory in constituent assembly elections. A final outcome could take days to determine given the complexity of the vote but unofficial results give Mr Correa's party a strong majority. He hopes the 130-member body will dissolve the national Congress, which he says is corrupt and inept. But critics say the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 11:39:18 PDT 2007

10164 [lbo-talk] Bello: The Post-Washington Dissensus -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2007, at 1:57 PM, John Gulick wrote: [something very badly formatted which is fixed in a re-post]

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Date:	Mon Oct 1 11:18:20 PDT 2007

10165 [lbo-talk] The Idea of the Third World (was Re: Iran and Latin America) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > It is very possible that the "Third World" never existed during the > heyday of the ideology of Third-Worldism, for most of the > "Third-World" nations in practice tilted to either the "East" or the > "West." Perhaps the only authentically Third-World nation was the > Islamic Republic of Iran: neither East nor West, in the sense of > neither of the capitalist bloc nor of the socialist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 1 06:36:51 PDT 2007

10166 [lbo-talk] really bad writing -- rank: 1000

[speaking of really bad writing...via Nettime] Small Incident at the Entrance to the Space Nikuko: I couldn't wait for Him to come. I was Caught in the Traipsing of Desire. His magic Touch saved me from Incipient Void. Travis: I was walking by. I had nothing to do. Suddenly this Avatar appeared before Me. She was Desperate. She was a Lost Hungry Ghost. I felt great Compassion. In the Midst of Emptiness, I reached out to Her. I pulled her back from the Brink of Samsara. Nikuko: Now I can enter ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 30 17:03:18 PST 2007

10167 [lbo-talk] Tatu! back!! -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] >> All new Tatu << >> They're back, and pissing on Girls Aloud Russia's finest sometime-lesbo pop princesses are back. In the last four years Julia Volkova has had a baby with a karate champion, dated the pantheon of Russian male pop stars, started singing again with Lena Katina and is now pregnant again, while original svengali, and tabloid paedo hate-figure, Ivan Shapovalov has disappeared. New single, Beliy Plaschik, is awesome, and has a startling video with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 30 13:19:54 PST 2007

10168 [lbo-talk] "NAFTA Superhighway" question makes it to YouTube/CNN GOP debate; no healthcare questions -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2007, at 3:27 PM, B. wrote: > conspiracy theory regarding the Council of > Foreign Relations I went to a little party at the CFR last year to celebrate the relaunch of their website. I got a tote bag and a mousepad. I feel cheated. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 30 12:50:48 PST 2007

10169 [lbo-talk] most Americans satisfied with their health plans -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > > ``I'd be curious how many...had to collect on anything substantial.'' > > --------- > > Exactly. The 57% satisfied represent the people who have nothing wrong > with them. True enough, but that 57% is pretty stable. So as older people get sick and get fucked, young healthy people take their place, thinking they're immortal. It makes the job of serious health care reform very hard. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 30 10:13:52 PST 2007

10170 [lbo-talk] more Stern/SEIU dirt -- rank: 1000

The Stern Gang and the SEIU Washington Babylon <http://harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001793> Ken Silverstein November 29, 2007 No labor leader in America gets better press than Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which according to its website is the fastest-growing union in North America, with 1.9 million members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Stern is routinely portrayed as a progressive union leader who is fighting for th ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 30 09:51:09 PST 2007