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11146 [lbo-talk] Capitalism and Religious Fundamentalism -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2007, at 5:53 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Was it Quayle who wanted to learn Latin so he could > speak to people in Latin America? That's apocryphal. It originated in a joke that people took seriously. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 15:31:19 PDT 2007

11147 [lbo-talk] Capitalism and Religious Fundamentalism -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2007, at 2:48 PM, tfast wrote: > I do think *stopping* the lazy habit of referring to Africa as an > undifferentiated whole is a good *first* step in de-colonizing the > European > mind. "They're all different countries down there." - Ronald Reagan on Latin America

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11148 [lbo-talk] Israel's Roaring Economy (correct link) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Jonathan Nitzan wrote: > Assuming we accept the Keynesian rationale, why should the multiplier > for industrial goods be higher than for services? According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the multipliers for manufacturing are considerably higher than services. And within manufacturing, the multipliers are higher for some of the old- fashioned stuff than the new-fangled. E.g.: manufacturing 2.43 motor vehicles ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 11:27:27 PDT 2007

11149 [lbo-talk] Hitchens book a surprise hit -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 22, 2007 Hitchens Book Debunking The Deity Is Surprise Hit By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG Summer beach-reading season is just beginning, and already several books have broken out from the pack, such as Walter Isaacson's biography of Albert Einstein, and Conn and Hal Iggulden's "The Dangerous Book for Boys." But the biggest surprise is a blazing attack on God and religion that is flying off bookshelves, even in the Bible Belt. "God is Not Great: How Reli ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 09:11:44 PDT 2007

11150 [lbo-talk] Israel's Roaring Economy (correct link) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Nitzan wrote: > The relationship between U.S. military spending as a share of GDP and > U.S. GDP growth is shown here: > http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/specials/image0608big/cwfig1_large_html Maybe this is a short-term observation - an occupational hazard of covering Wall Street - but the relation seems to have broken down after 1990. The military share fell during the Clinton years and growth rose; the reverse has been true in the Bush years. I ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 08:21:05 PDT 2007

11151 [lbo-talk] Edwards' poverty front -- rank: 1000

New York Times - June 22, 2007 In Aiding Poor, Edwards Built Bridge to 2008 By LESLIE WAYNE John Edwards ended 2004 with a problem: how to keep alive his public profile without the benefit of a presidential campaign that could finance his travels and pay for his political staff. Mr. Edwards, who reported this year that he had assets of nearly $30 million, came up with a novel solution, creating a nonprofit organization with the stated mission of fighting poverty. The organization, the Cente ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 06:37:38 PDT 2007

11152 [lbo-talk] Israel's Roaring Economy -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Russell Grinker wrote: > Although late SWP (UK) theoretician Michael Kidron invented the > spurious > theory of the Permanent Arms Economy as an explanation for the > period of > capitalist expansion that followed the Second World War, I think a > more > orthodox Marxist explanation would see war production and armaments > spending > as a fiscal burden and a drain on profitability for capital in general > (while of course hugely benefiti ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 06:22:35 PDT 2007

11153 [lbo-talk] the WSWS does The Nation -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > This is what WSWS does best. Think the Nation might run a condensed > version > of this? Not likely. I hadn't realized how reactionary The Nation was in the 19th century. Sven Beckert quotes it a lot in The Monied Metropolis. Its editor in the 1870s and 1880s, E.L. Godkin, was the New York bourgeoisie's "organic intellectual," as Beckert put it; he helped them formulate their Gilded Age social philosophy, which boiled dow ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 22 05:42:58 PDT 2007

11154 [lbo-talk] Michael Smith on the Dem debate -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 18:26 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Michael J. Smith writes up the Flanders-Aronowitz debate on the Dems >> for Counterpunch <http://www.counterpunch.com/smith06212007.html>. >> The last thing I want to do is rekindle a debate about the relative >> vices and virtues of the Dem party, but I must take exception to >> this: "the late (and by me, unlamented) Ellen Willis." Micha ...

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11155 [lbo-talk] Capitalism and Religious Fundamentalism -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2007, at 5:27 PM, joanna wrote: > C'mon Woj. You know full well that the choice given in the grand > bazaar > is not the choice you get at WalMart. And WalMartm, or its equivalent, > is the choice most people get in the U.S. There are a lot of things wrong with the U.S., but a lack of choice among consumer goods wouldn't rank very high on my list. I lost count at 30,000 items in a typical supermarket. For anyone above the Wal- Mart level of income - and they really do sk ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 16:23:44 PDT 2007

11156 [lbo-talk] Michael Smith on the Dem debate -- rank: 1000

Michael J. Smith writes up the Flanders-Aronowitz debate on the Dems for Counterpunch <http://www.counterpunch.com/smith06212007.html>. The last thing I want to do is rekindle a debate about the relative vices and virtues of the Dem party, but I must take exception to this: "the late (and by me, unlamented) Ellen Willis." Michael, you must say ten Hail Marys and an Act of Contrition for expressing this evil sentiment. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 15:26:42 PDT 2007

11157 [lbo-talk] Sun beams from billionaire's behind -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Doug wrote: >> >> I know that "the Dems have moved to the right" is a standard line, >> but relative to what? Political scientists who code these things find >> more differences between the two parties now than they were several >> decades ago. > ========================= > I think the problem is that one part of the left is focused on the > Democratic leadership and the other part is more i ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 11:07:48 PDT 2007

11158 [lbo-talk] stupid press release of the day -- rank: 1000

[from the folks who brought you Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:J. Abarbanel World Ahead Media Phone: (310) 961-4170 E-Mail: marketing at worldahead.com Thursday, June 21, 2007 Sean Hannity Inspires Character in New Children's Book Radio personality Jill Vitale pens heartwarming story as a witty tribute to media great Sean Hannity Torrance, CA- Fans of Sean Hannity's nationally syndicated radio show have long known Jill Vitale, a.k.a. "Flirty F ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 06:47:37 PDT 2007

11159 [lbo-talk] Dersh & the (alleged) pervy billionaire -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 21, 2007 Blame Game DID legal eagle Alan Dershowitz and alleged pervy billionaire Jeffrey Epstein use their clout to get a speech canceled at Harvard? That's the belief of Rutgers University biologist Robert Trivers, whose talk at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) was axed after he called Dershowitz a "Nazi-like apologist" for his "rationalization of Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians." Trivers told the Harvard Crimson ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 06:14:10 PDT 2007

11160 [lbo-talk] Israel's Roaring Economy -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2007, at 10:34 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Compare the paltry ten-year average Israeli per capita growth rate of > just 1% for 1996-2006 and the respectable 2004-2006 average of 5%, and > we can see that Hamas's unilateral 18-month ceasefire and entry into > electoral politics has done wonders for Israeli economy (in stark > contrast with the declining economy of the Al Aqsa Intifada years that > is shown in your graph Not sure if there's really a cause-effect here ...

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