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12646 [lbo-talk] what Americans know, or don't know -- rank: 1000

<http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319> Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions What Americans Know: 1989-2007 Released: April 15, 2007 Since the late 1980s, the emergence of 24-hour cable news as a dominant news source and the explosive growth of the internet have led to major changes in the American public's news habits. But a new nationwide survey finds that the coaxial and digital revolutions and attendant changes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 13:33:33 PDT 2007

12647 [lbo-talk] most debasedly opportunistic press release of the day -- rank: 1000

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, online social networks are proving to be crucial outlets for grief and support among students across the nation. Anastasia Goodstein, youth culture expert, creator of Ypulse.com and author of TOTALLY WIRED: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online is prepared to speak about the following: The outpouring of messages that have flooded websites like Facebook in the hours since the shootings How these sites provide a virtual gathering spot for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 13:28:33 PDT 2007

12648 [lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Similar > incidents happened in other countries, like the UK or Germany that > have much > stricter gun laws. eh? with comparable frequency and degree of carnage? <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKN1631515020070416> FACTBOX-Shootings at schools around the world Here is a list of some from recent years: * December 6, 1989 - CANADA - Marc Lepine, 25, stormed Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, killing 14 women. Four men and e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 11:20:47 PDT 2007

12649 [lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre -- rank: 1000

aha, here it is <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1999/1999-July/012346.html> "One of the pleasures of talking to Larry Pratt, executive director of the Gun Owners of America, is hearing Charlton Heston denounced as a chardonnay-swilling Hollywood sellout.... Pratt's solution to the schoolyard killings: Let the teachers bear arms, just like they do in South Africa, where on instructor recently gunned down a bellicose student...."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 11:13:53 PDT 2007

12650 [lbo-talk] the virginina university massacre -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > I understand how this question appears logical, but you have to > understand the peculiar psyche of the American gun owner and his Rifle > Association: this isn't evidence of the need for gun control. In > fact, it is evidence that everyone should be required to carry guns > such that this individual would not have had a chance to get off more > than a couple of shots before his classmates took him out. Yup. Alexander Cockburn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 11:10:29 PDT 2007

12651 [lbo-talk] B. DeLong weeps over victimization of R. Rubin -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Curious how Bob Kuttner knows more than I do, or indeed than Alan > Greenspan does, about why Alan Greenspan believed (correctly) in > the 1990s that he could keep interest rates low without generating > higher inflation. Greenspan says that he kept interest rates low > because (a) the deficit was smaller, (b) because higher investment > made possible by lower deficits was increasing the rate of growth > of potential GDP, an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 08:53:01 PDT 2007

12652 [lbo-talk] IWW piece on Iranian labor situation -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:31 AM, B. wrote: > Western exoticization/fetishization of the "Orient" Speaking of which, inspired by some polemics on another list, I came across this excellent analysis of the appeal of that old list favorite Arundhati Roy the other day. I was very impressed, and am looking for a pretext to have the author on the radio sometime soon. Doug ---- SOAS Literary Review (2) - July 2000 <http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/issue2/TOOR.PDF> INDO-CHIC: THE CULTURA ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 08:38:04 PDT 2007

12653 [lbo-talk] The "New Rules" (Bill Maher on Monica Goodling and other things), Pat Robertson, and Regents LS -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:09 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Speaking of Yale, I didn't know Pat Robertson has a > Yale law degree: > > http://www.patrobertson.com/Biography/index.asp Yeah, and his daddy was a senator. All of which has long made me wonder whether this guy is a total phony. He looks like one when he closes his eyes and prays for favorable weather developments on TV, but maybe I just don't understand prayer. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 17 08:32:27 PDT 2007

12654 [lbo-talk] IWW piece on Iranian labor situation -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:25 AM, B. wrote: > Not sure why it's "very funny" since all the piece did > was say US workers should be opposed to an ivasion of > Iran, not that US workers were "better" than Iranian > ones in anyway whatsoever. I don't see anything wrong > with that (afaik, you even agree with this yourself!) > > But whatever, Yoshie. Yoshie has clearly embraced a "Maoist" view of the US working class as hopelessly deracinated and react ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 06:41:16 PDT 2007

12655 [lbo-talk] go Gloria! -- rank: 1000

[best thing I've ever heard about friend of Langley Gloria Steinem - from Page Six] GLORIA Steinem refusing to take her black stiletto boots off at the Farm Sanctuary fund-raiser at the Jivamukti Yoga studio, despite pleas to the contrary . . .

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 05:54:36 PDT 2007

12656 [lbo-talk] SEIU -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > That sfweekly article seemed relatively good, but haven't got to > read it > yet. How can you say whether it's good or bad if you haven't read it yet? > Yeah, but all that said---- winning organizing rights being a > 'muzzling of > workers'? Give me a break. Its that kind of nonsense that makes > me glad > seiu practices such extreme chain of command leninist message control. > People who are off program like that jer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 20:46:29 PDT 2007

12657 [lbo-talk] Police brutality -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > eradicate the deviant subcultures and social networks That sounds chilling. Don't you ever scare yourself? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 16:26:26 PDT 2007

12658 [lbo-talk] Police brutality -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: His 8th post of the day. That followed 4 yesterday and 4 the day before. The limit is 3. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 16:25:53 PDT 2007

12659 [lbo-talk] Police brutality -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2007, at 5:14 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: I would argue that it is precisely the difference in crime > rates among > the two that can be attributed to racism. The Black crime rate is > _higher_ > because of the institutional and general impact of racism. No argument from me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 14:47:57 PDT 2007

12660 [lbo-talk] Cheap point (was: Imus -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> A quoted search on Google yields ... > > ... quite a bit less than the actual total. > > For various reasons, Google's coverage of the lbo-talk archives > sits at > around ~30% of the total pages. As always, the best palce to search > from is the archives themselves :-) > > http://search.lbo-talk.org/ Ah. Didn't realize you could do quoted searches in the l-t archives. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 16 14:46:51 PDT 2007