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10486 [lbo-talk] U.S. support for Israel "rarely wavers"; white evangelicals in the lead -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/491/six-day-war> A Six-Day War: Its Aftermath in American Public Opinion For 40 years, public opinion has consistently favored Israel over the Palestinians by Robert Ruby, Senior Editor, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life May 30, 2007 For six days, beginning June 5, 1967, Israel battled Egypt, Jordan and Syria. As a result of the fighting, Israel won control of the Sinai desert, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights. For a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 30 14:15:42 PDT 2007

10487 [lbo-talk] Lou Dobbs fact-checked -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/business/30leonhardt.html? _r=2&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin> New York Times - May 30, 2007 Economix Truth, Fiction and Lou Dobbs By DAVID LEONHARDT The whole controversy involving Lou Dobbs and leprosy started with a 60 Minutes segment a few weeks ago. The segment was a profile of Mr. Dobbs, and while doing background research for it, a 60 Minutes producer came across a 2005 news report from Mr. Dobbs s CNN program on contagi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 30 09:48:40 PDT 2007

10488 [lbo-talk] Trump to O'Reilly: Rosie is a "loser...a terrible human being" -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 30 09:45:05 PDT 2007

10489 [lbo-talk] dev'ts in world economy and foreign ownership -- rank: 1000

On May 30, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Since many self-identified leftists such as yourself couldn't believe > what Chiracs and Sarkozys were telling you based on history > Since even many self-identified leftists thought that an immediate end > to the occupation was inadvisable, it's no surprise that the White > House and Congress have kept it up You've crossed the border into either the delusional or dishonest, I don't know which. Maybe you don't either. But I'm ...

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Date:	Wed May 30 09:39:13 PDT 2007

10490 [lbo-talk] Christian right has it out for Rudy -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/166521.aspx> The Brody File David Brody CBN News Senior National Correspondent Some GOP Actvisits Out to Get Giuliani May 29, 2007 It's no secret that there are some conservatives who want no part of a Rudy Giuliani Presidency. The Brody File has been digging around and has found a growing network of activists who are starting to take pro-active steps to shoot down a Giuliani nomination. Case in point: Every Wednesday (while Congress is in session), Paul Wey ...

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Date:	Wed May 30 09:31:00 PDT 2007

10491 [lbo-talk] it's Zoellick -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2007 President Bush intends to nominate Robert Zoellick, the former U.S. Trade Representative who helped launch the Doha Round of global trade talks, as the new president for the World Bank. Now a vice chairman at Goldman Sachs Group, Mr. Zoellick built up a strong reputation with many developing countries as the lead U.S. trade negotiator during President Bush's first term. FOR MORE INFORMATION, see: http://wsj.com/article/SB11804499502691719 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 29 13:57:36 PDT 2007

10492 [lbo-talk] Christian Domestic Discipline -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 29 12:23:39 PDT 2007

10493 [lbo-talk] dev'ts in world economy and foreign ownership -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I'm not interested in the opinion of "someone who wrote you off the > list." Of course not. Self-awareness and self-righteousness don't live comfortably together. > As for "people who'd been to Iraq and talked to actual > Iraqis," why couldn't they see what Chirac, and even Sarkozy, could > foresee _before_ the US invasion of Iraq began? Some people see only > what they want to see and talk to only t ...

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Date:	Tue May 29 11:52:51 PDT 2007

10494 [lbo-talk] what the financial markets are concerned with today... -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2007, at 2:25 PM, John Adams wrote: > On May 29, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> A friend writes: "the most read article on Bloomberg today concerns >> Brazilian breast implants and butt lifts." > > Is that classified as surplus value or commodity fetishism? Excellent question. I would assume that cosmetic surgery is a form of unproductive labor, except maybe for models and actors.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 29 11:35:09 PDT 2007

10495 [lbo-talk] 80% of US indie publishing now belongs to Perseus -- rank: 1000

<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-ca- indybooks27may27,0,3696417.story> Publishing gets a little less indie There s soul searching among the industry s little guys as Perseus closes two recently acquired imprints. By Josh Getlin, Times Staff Writer If you've stepped into a bookstore recently, you may have noticed some intriguing smaller books along with new titles by the Chabons and Isaacsons of the publishing world: an anthology of essays about African American movies; Hollywood s ...

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Date:	Tue May 29 11:34:06 PDT 2007

10496 [lbo-talk] India too expensive? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/07/05/29/riya-wage- inflation-sinks_1.html> Wage inflation sinks offshoring for one startup Riya.com's decision to pull up stakes in India shows that for aspiring startups, offshoring isn't all its cracked up to be By Carmen Nobel May 29, 2007 The outsourcing and offshoring of software development work has become such an ingrained part of the technology industry in the U.S. that stories about it no longer rouse the public's interest as they d ...

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Date:	Tue May 29 11:26:19 PDT 2007

10497 [lbo-talk] Memorial Day -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2007, at 1:50 PM, BklynMagus wrote: >> You'd have to take the "left" out of "LBO" if you prohibit people > from advocating violence. > > Why? Is advocating violence an essential component of that which is > left? It always helps when you haven't convinced a lot of people of the righteousness of your cause, and don't really think that that's important anyway. Chuck0 signed off, by the way. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 29 11:20:41 PDT 2007

10498 [lbo-talk] dev'ts in world economy and foreign ownership -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I have no way of knowing lurkers' opinions, but for a longest time a > majority of people on this mailing list kept saying that Washington > couldn't and shouldn't just withdraw US troops, we must arrange for > substitute peace-keepers first (as if anyone wanted to go in!), we > must reconstruct Iraq first (as if we ever would!), we must support > Sistani, et al.'s call for elections first (God only knows why anyone > t ...

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Date:	Tue May 29 11:17:18 PDT 2007

10499 [lbo-talk] what the financial markets are concerned with today... -- rank: 1000

A friend writes: "the most read article on Bloomberg today concerns Brazilian breast implants and butt lifts."

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Date:	Tue May 29 11:11:44 PDT 2007

10500 [lbo-talk] dev'ts in world economy and foreign ownership -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: >> But you forgot all their warnings once the US troops went in, much > like most Americans, and you didn't change your mind and come out for > US withdrawal until it became clear that Washington couldn't pacify > Iraq. > > Yoshie, are you really saying this to Doug? Or to a majority on > this list? I missed this the first time around because reading every word of Yoshie's would be unproductively time-consuming. But this bit ...

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Date:	Tue May 29 09:42:27 PDT 2007