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11971 [lbo-talk] Hillary unbeatable? -- rank: 1000

[Sometimes it's so hard to keep up with the conventional wisdom. Only yesterday, it seemed, she was unelectable.] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2654.html> GOP Views Clinton As Virtually Unbeatable By: Carrie Sheffield and Jim VandeHei February 7, 2007 09:56 AM EST What many conservatives regard as the nightmare scenario -- President Hillary Rodham Clinton -- is increasingly seen by veteran Republican politicians and strategists as a virtual inevitability. In GOP circles, th ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 08:01:46 PST 2007

11972 [lbo-talk] US Imperialism -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:16 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > One thing that I always wondered about Doug's curious notion of US > imperialism is that he seems to think it's a good deal for Japan and > Europe but a bad enough deal for a wing of the US ruling class to > create a "major division" among the US ruling class. No part of the US ruling class is opposed to imperialism. I think, or hope, that there's a wing of the US ruling class that thinks we should get out of Iraq and ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 6 23:09:16 PST 2007

11973 [lbo-talk] language query -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The main price that Japan pays is renunciation of ever having its own > foreign policy. Don't most Japanese think that's not so bad? All in all, Japan gets a good deal from imperialism. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 6 21:19:16 PST 2007

11974 [lbo-talk] The Soviet Anthem Unplugged -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2007, at 10:34 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > And here I thought that these reforms were due to the large popular > countersystemic movements within the United States. If anything, the > subservience of the CPUSA to the USSR was more of a hindrance to > popular > movements, rather than a benefit, leading the organization to make > decisions that were not in the interests of pushing forwards a radical > agenda within the U.S. Oh no. What inclined the U.S. bourgeoi ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 6 21:04:53 PST 2007

11975 [lbo-talk] Jobs: dump DRM -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com - February 6, 2007 Urges Music Labels To Drop Antipiracy Software By NICK WINGFIELD and ETHAN SMITH February 6, 2007 3:58 p.m. Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs called on major music companies to stop requiring Apple and other companies to sell songs over the Internet with antipiracy software, calling the technology ineffective at deterring illicit copying of music. Such a move, if embraced by music companies, could eliminate one of the biggest criticisms of Apple's current hold on the digit ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 6 13:07:37 PST 2007

11976 [lbo-talk] language query -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > I call them "poor countries" -- as opposed to rich ones. Yeah, but there's Mexico (per capita income, PPP, $10,209; life expectancy, 75 years), and Bolivia ($2,856, 65), and Haiti ($1,846, 52). Next to Haiti, Mexico's rich. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 6 11:43:50 PST 2007

11977 [lbo-talk] Taki on the state of the right -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - Febuary 6, 2007 Back For More TAKI Theodoracopulos obviously isn't losing enough money backing The American Conservative magazine, which he co-founded with Patrick Buchanan to counterbalance all the hawkish neocons who were cheerleading the war in Iraq. Today, he launches a Web site, takimag.com, that's to be updated five days a week with his own elitist world view, as well as those of other libertarian thinkers. "I want to shake up the stodgy world of so-ca ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 6 10:55:11 PST 2007

11978 [lbo-talk] language query -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > One way to think about the "North" is to think of it as an exclusive > membership club: older members (America and Europe) have seen the > values of their memberships appreciate, as newer members (Japan and > the Gulf states) and applicants to the club (China) pay big-time to > acquire and maintain memberships. The Gulf states aren't like the other Northern countries - they have almost no industry to speak of. They'r ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 6 07:03:23 PST 2007

11979 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [kenslist] FW: Sheepish -- rank: 1000

The New Yorker - February 12, 2007 SHEEPISH by Paul Rudnick Charles Roselli set out to discover what makes some sheep gay. Then the news media and the blogosphere got hold of the story. The Times. Enough already. I'm Troy, a gay sheep, and I'll tell you the truth. Although I'm conflicted about calling myself a gay sheep, because I don't like to think that my sexuality defines me; let's just say that I'm a sheep who happens to be gay. Being gay is just a simple biological fact, like having ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 5 14:59:01 PST 2007

11980 [lbo-talk] Hillary gets biz $ -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=washingtonstory&sid=aG8zOsDYmRVA> Hillary Wins Support From Businesses, Ex-Foes, Aiding 2008 Bid By Kristin Jensen and Jonathan D. Salant Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Buried in the campaign filings for Hillary Clinton's 2006 re-election were $3,000 in donations from America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group. That may seem like no big deal for the New York senator, who raised $51 million as she coasted to victory in November. What's surprising ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 5 08:27:07 PST 2007

11981 [lbo-talk] Windows Vista as Neoliberal Instrument -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Willy Greenfields wrote: >> Looks like the stock market thinks so. > > Doug, are you outing yourself as an efficient markets > guy? In the sense that stock prices reflect all available information, yeah, more or less. In the sense that that information = wisdom, no. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 5 07:27:23 PST 2007

11982 [lbo-talk] BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ at MoMA in New York City -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2007, at 11:52 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Given the positive comments, I looked this up on the Internet Movie > Database. It's 15 and 1/2 hours?! It was originally a TV series - it's mostly one-hour segments. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 5 04:58:49 PST 2007

11983 [lbo-talk] Nader film -- rank: 1000

More than a little weird! As did his definition of personal loyalty, when he was defending his attack on Joan Claybrook when she was in the Carter admin. Loyalty for Ralph is all constructed around the issue, and when there's disagreement on the issue, then all all claims to loyalty are off. He could have said that he had to disagree but it was emotionally difficult for him, but whole portions of the human sensibility seem to be missing in Nader. Doug On Feb 4, 2007, at 11:44 PM, Auguste B ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 5 04:23:22 PST 2007

11984 [lbo-talk] Windows Vista as Neoliberal Instrument -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > Isn't the growth in Apple Ipod? A lot, yes, but they're moving a lot of computers too. The "halo effect," as they say. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 3 10:22:16 PST 2007

11985 [lbo-talk] What's the matter with Bean Town? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > It would have to be pre-'78 to give jj ownership of this particular > piece > of intellectual property. It might well have been pre-78. Her website bio says her relationship with the VV "had all but dissolved" by the late 70s. > Here's the RB column abstract from the NYT > archive (btw, I believe jj ripped off her lower-casedness from > Archy the > cockroach.) It was presented as a blow against hierarchy. Why should ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 4 14:44:10 PST 2007