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11581 [lbo-talk] Ilan Pappe in Amsterdam -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > I had the chance to hear Ilan Pappé speak this afternoon. He is in > Amsterdam for several days, partly to promote his new book, "The > Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", of which I bought a copy. As some of > you may know (Bryan?) he is a very engaging speaker and extremely > critical of Israel. > > Doug: you do telephone interviews, right? Someone for your radio show? Yes I do telephone interviews with people all ove ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 27 13:26:30 PST 2007

11582 [lbo-talk] Identity vs. class politics -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 1/27/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> On Jan 27, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> > Americans never had "a class-based politics" independent of white >> > supremacy, so they couldn't have taken flight from what they didn't >> > have. >> >> Never is a slight overstatement. There have been moments - some of >> the populists, ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 27 13:24:21 PST 2007

11583 [lbo-talk] road of excess, yeah, but where's the palace of wisdom? -- rank: 1000

[from today's Page Six] We Hear . . . THAT Barcelona-based chef/neuro- physiologist Miguel Sanchez Romera - who has never brought his "culinary constructionism" cuisine to America be fore - will cook a special $1,250-a-head din ner on March 30 at the James Beard House. Only 50 seats are available . . .

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Date:	Sat Jan 27 09:27:37 PST 2007

11584 [lbo-talk] Identity vs. class politics -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Americans never had "a class-based politics" independent of white > supremacy, so they couldn't have taken flight from what they didn't > have. Never is a slight overstatement. There have been moments - some of the populists, for example. Not all, for sure, but some. Recalling that is a nice antidote to hopelessness, which is always very tempting. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 27 09:05:52 PST 2007

11585 [lbo-talk] Identity vs. class politics -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > joanna wrote: >> C. G. Estabrook wrote: > >> I knew Walter Michaels at UC Berkeley. At the time he struck me as >> an intelligent opportunist. I suppose that probably describes 90% >> of the people in academia....so maybe it's not worth much to >> remark upon it. > > I know I'm just defending myself and my colleagues, but I must > contest this. Yeah. There are opportunists and hacks in every line of ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 27 09:03:16 PST 2007

11586 [lbo-talk] more Davos: Peres pisses 'em off -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.wsj.com/davos/2007/01/26/peress-message-to-gulf-leaders- misfires-badly/> January 26, 2007, 11:24 am Peres's Message To Gulf Leaders Misfires Badly It should have been one of those Davos moments, when divisions heal, common ground is found, and heads nods sagely in agreement over a grand vision. It didn't quite work out like that. Shimon Peres, Israel's former prime minister, arrived unexpectedly and late for a tight-knit lunch session entitled "The Gulf States As An ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 26 12:49:19 PST 2007

11587 [lbo-talk] Google @ Davos -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.wsj.com/davos/> January 26, 2007, 12:44 pm Searching for Google: Part 2 For journalists who wanted to spend an hour with Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the challenge was finding them. (See previous post.) But the payoff was catching a glimmer of optimism about the news business. After tracing a labyrinthine route to Google's meeting room, reporters heard the search giant's founders express just a hint of optimism about newspapers, which have struggled to hol ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 26 12:47:02 PST 2007

11588 [lbo-talk] SEIU candidate interviews -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] SEIU Gets a Crack at the Democratic '08ers: Over the next two days, the roughly 60 people who sit on the international executive board of the Service Employees International Union will get to question the Democratic presidential hopefuls at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. The presidential hopefuls participating today are Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), former Sen. John Edwards (D- NC), Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). On ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 26 07:57:07 PST 2007

11589 [lbo-talk] Is Sex Fun for Girls? --> Sociobiology, Sex, and History -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Including the typo: > >>> multipole men > > Which I think, out of context, is kind of funny. > > The retort, by Willy, Heh-heh, he said "Willy."

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Date:	Fri Jan 26 07:26:57 PST 2007

11590 [lbo-talk] subsidizing Big Pharma -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 26, 2007 SCIENCE JOURNAL By SHARON BEGLEY Why Nonprofits Fund For-Profit Companies Doing Drug Research Science has made paralyzed rats walk, cured mice of cancer and eliminated Alzheimer's in more lab rodents than you can count. Human patients? Not so much. "There's frustration that developments from academic labs don't get picked up by [drug and biotech] companies," says Dayton Coles. As a board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, he ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 26 05:36:32 PST 2007

11591 [lbo-talk] INS does more union-busting -- rank: 1000

New York Times - January 26, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/us/26immig.html> Immigration Raid Draws Protest From Labor Officials By JULIA PRESTON An immigration raid at a huge North Carolina pork-packing plant provoked protests yesterday from union officials, who said the company, Smithfield Foods, had collaborated with the authorities searching for illegal immigrants to discourage its workers from organizing. The dispute arose after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 26 05:33:20 PST 2007

11592 [lbo-talk] Rabbi objects to kosher porn -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tmz.com/2007/01/25/rabbi-yells-cut-on-assraelis-package/> Rabbi Yells "Cut!" Over Porn Flick Posted Jan 25th 2007 3:00PM by TMZ Staff Filed under: Wacky and Weird The producer of an all-Israeli porn flick is under attack from rabbis who say his use of a food-certification symbol ain't kosher. Yesterday, Tight Fit Productions of Van Nuys, Calif., the purveyors of "Assraelis," which was shot entirely in Israel with all-local talent, and in Hebrew (with, uh, ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 25 17:24:44 PST 2007

11593 [lbo-talk] Manhattan in our time -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/bar-martignetti/manhattan-twentysomething- douchebags-perfectly-encapsulated-231589.php> Manhattan Twentysomething Douchebags, Perfectly Encapsulated In a New Yorker review of Bar Martignetti (which we'd previously nominated as our inaugural Douchebag Restaurants Hall of Fame entrant), we couldn't help but notice how they'd perfectly encapsulated not just the restaurant, but all Manhattan twentysomething douchebags. "The venue is perfectly pitched to a late ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 25 16:20:12 PST 2007

11594 [lbo-talk] political models -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 25, 2007 Hugo Aversion AMERICANS aren't the only ones repulsed by bloviating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen was in Rio de Janeiro last Friday on the same day the Marxist strongman was in town for the Mercosur summit. According to Brazil's Glamurama magazine gossip Anderson Antunes, "Once Chavez learned that Gisele was in town, he told his people he would like to meet her, but Gisele declined." Apparently, ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 25 11:15:51 PST 2007

11595 [lbo-talk] John Edwards, investment adviser -- rank: 1000

[from today's NYT] For John Edwards, the Democratic presidential candidate, the 14 months he spent as a paid senior adviser at Fortress Investment, a $29.7 billion hedge fund and private equity firm, helped him to bond with the fund s liberal-leaning executives, several of whom have given money to Mr. Edwards. As to what Mr. Edwards, a trial lawyer with no previous financial markets experience, did at Fortress, an adviser to the candidate said that Mr. Edwards advised on where there might ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 25 09:48:12 PST 2007