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10741 [lbo-talk] Social Liberal Origin of "Islamofascism" -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2007, at 3:42 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > There is thus no significant ideological brake inside the North on the > so-called War on Terror. Except exhaustion with war, perhaps? I'm never sure what your point is in these denunciations of "social liberals" and "secular elitists." We should embrace social conservatives? They're a hell of a lot more likely to support the GWOT than are your current targets. If you're going to play political etymology, the ter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 8 06:03:15 PDT 2007

10742 [lbo-talk] the star of the show was money -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2007/05/03/the-72-million-party/> The $72 Million Party A week after being pilloried for their billion-dollar salaries, hedge funders came out in droves last night to try to shore up their reputations as philanthropists. More than 4,000 people attended the annual fundraising bash for the Robin Hood Foundation, the charity founded by Tudor Investment Corp. founder Paul Tudor Jones II. The bash was held in the cavernous Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan not ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 16:06:25 PDT 2007

10743 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 5:39 PM, joanna wrote: > What I didn't get was S's support in the working class AND immigrant > population. hey, it's all those *other* workers & immigrants who are causing the problem, and they need to be repressed

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Date:	Mon May 7 15:12:55 PDT 2007

10744 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 4:21 PM, tfast wrote: > Problem is the Anglos may just be well into sewers by then > and we may all get to watch the spectacle of the French and German's > performing a rearguard defence of neoliberalism. Fortress America > versus > Liberal Europe. Get the popcorn. By the way, this view appears to be spreading on Wall Street - Euroland is finally taking off, and perhaps sustainably, reaping the benefits of the single currency and liberalization, as the U.S. ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 13:30:12 PDT 2007

10745 [lbo-talk] the cultural elitists view of Flyover Land -- rank: 1000

<http://www.prosebeforehos.com/word-of-the-day/05/06/thoughts-of-the- average-american-2/> Thoughts of the Average American Written by Word Of The Day on May 6th, 2007 | Trackback URI | "The violent deaths of untold thousands of anonymous brown people disturbs me, but I have a televised sing and dance competition to watch." "The role of ideologically-driven shadow groups dictating public policy does not bother me" "That non-threatening colored person running for ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 13:25:29 PDT 2007

10746 [lbo-talk] the back benches are restless -- rank: 1000

[from the revamped Note, now minus the wiseguy style of Mark Halperin] They're starting as whispers, throwaway lines that are easy to miss amid broad promises of party unity. But at the very moment that both the White House and congressional Democrats need members of their parties to fall in line, the rank-and-file is growing restless. There was House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) yesterday, pleading for patience with the "troop surge" but then setting a deadline of his ow ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 13:02:41 PDT 2007

10747 [lbo-talk] Save the Planet: Kill Yourself -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 3:20 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Andy writes of his chapter of the Voluntary Human Extinction movement: > > "I have to emphasize that our activities are for now strictly > voluntary, and that we try to convince people of their essential > worthlessness through gentle persuasion and reasoned argument." > > You could always try leading by example, I suppose. > > Does the 'for now' suggest that the more militant wing is straining > at the ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 12:28:45 PDT 2007

10748 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 1000

Did France elect Mitterrand in 1983 when the rest of the world was moving right? Is France a lagging indicator? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 7 11:42:31 PDT 2007

10749 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 12:30 PM, ravi wrote: > In either case, I would be surprised as much > by a lack of such as by its dominating ("full of imagery") the > literature. Is Western culture/literature any different when it comes > to emasculation, anal penetration, etc? For instance, check out the > recent HRW report on prison rape in the United States. Eh? Prisons are not unlike colonies. We even call them penal colonies sometimes. I surprised even myself by how many hits ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 11:31:12 PDT 2007

10750 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I do not think so, upper classes are generally portrayed as strong > and > powerful, both physically and mentally, and only occasionally > benevolent. > The sissification is merely a populist caricature of the upper > classes. Well, yeah. You may have noticed that populism has deep roots in the U.S. Even our president, progeny of the Yankee elite, pretends he's a yahoo. There was a hilarious article in the NYT over the w ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 11:19:46 PDT 2007

10751 [lbo-talk] no-knock raids: a map -- rank: 1000

[as a friend points out, these are the domestic equivalent of death squads] http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

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Date:	Mon May 7 10:59:07 PDT 2007

10752 [lbo-talk] what kind of info consumer are you? -- rank: 1000

[PEW CENTER] A Typology of Technology Users The advent of Web 2.0 invites users to participate in the commons of cyberspace. Yet little is known about which segments of the population are inclined to make robust use of the new technologies and which aren't. Using data from a new survey, the Pew Internet & American Life project has developed a typology that shows the relationship that different kinds of technology users have with their devices. Read more <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/ ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 10:40:59 PDT 2007

10753 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Do you see honor as a way for > colonized people to maintain some sense of worth? Yeah. It was purely speculative, but I was wondering if a hypersensitivity about honor on a personal level is a compensation for external humiliations. Purely on the basis of received stereotypes, it seems that Latin American and Middle Eastern cultures are very honor-centric. Isn't the anticolonial literature full of imagery about how being colonized ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 08:57:32 PDT 2007

10754 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > What is more, machismo is not a "north -south" or even race > or ethnicity issue - but it seems to be related to class. In the U.S., and maybe elsewhere, there's a long tradition of sissifying the upper class - most recently, and absurdly, Bush did it to Kerry in 2004. Teddy Roosevelt spent much of his life trying to change that image. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 7 07:33:58 PDT 2007

10755 [lbo-talk] the re-making of bogota -- rank: 1000

[Someone sent me this out of the blue - don't know anything else about this but it sounds interesting.] <http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Seg/PB2ch11_ss7.htm> Cities for People The world's cities are in trouble. In Mexico City, Tehran, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the quality of daily life is deteriorating. Breathing the air in some cities is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day. In the U.S., the number of hours commuters spend sitting in traffic ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 05:02:07 PDT 2007