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12916 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad Will Not Speak at CU -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2006, at 8:20 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > --- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Campus Zionism in action! -- Yoshie > > > Refusing a platform to Holocaust deniers is standard > Antifascist praxis. He's not just anyone - he's the president of an important country. The Council on Foreign Relations invited Ahmadinejad to speak the other day, and faced protests from the Israeli ambassador, and the unbearable Elie Wiesel, who ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 23 20:38:23 PDT 2006

12917 [lbo-talk] manipulation -- rank: 1000

Seems churlish to dissent from someone who'd just cited my work favorably, but Michael Donnelly writes in Counterpunch <http:// www.counterpunch.org/donnelly09222006.html>: > Continuing its usual election year pattern when Republicans control > the White House, the Federal Reserve Board hasn't raised interest > rates since the end of June, when the Fed set the rate at 5.25%. > (The rate was raised to 6.5% for 2000's stolen election. Quickly, > it was dropped to a mere 1.75% ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 23 08:55:08 PDT 2006

12918 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood on Gas Prices and Bush's Popularity -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:53 PM, Chuck wrote: > Doug Henwood on Gas Prices and Bush's Popularity > http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2006henwood_gasprices Hey, I even got a few secs on CNN <http://transcripts.cnn.com/ TRANSCRIPTS/0609/22/pzn.01.html> DOUG HENWOOD, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, "LEFT BUSINESS OBSERVER": Certainly, there is a strong statistical relation between Bush's approval rating and the price of gas. Nine-eleven, approval spike... VELSHI: Doug Henwo ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 23 06:20:18 PDT 2006

12919 [lbo-talk] Chomsky now at No. 1 on Amazon, No. 2 at Barnes & Nobl -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Chuck wrote: > No, certainly not Americans, who see the U.N. as the joke that it is. Actually, Americans profess to like the UN, or at least the idea of it. They say it's doing a bad job in recent years - which is hard to argue with - but think it should play a big role in world affairs. 26% said a "leading role," and 42% a "major role" in a Feb 2006 Gallup poll. Just 1% said it should not exist. Even 2/3 of those who say it's doing a bad ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 22 15:00:30 PDT 2006

12920 [lbo-talk] muddiness on Iraq -- rank: 1000

September 22, 2006 Most Americans Say Democrats Lack Clear Plan on Iraq Even though public says Democrats would better handle the issue than Republicans by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- By almost any polling measure, Iraq is the top issue in this year's midterm elections. Given the close association between Iraq and the Republican administration, Democrats have the potential to capitalize on public dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq. But Gallup polling shows their ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 22 10:56:56 PDT 2006

12921 [lbo-talk] Republic of Fear: the sequel -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Colin Brace wrote: > Human rights groups say torture is practised in prisons run by the US > as well as those run by the Interior and Defence ministries and the > numerous Sunni and Shia militias. Lenin, if you're reading... You've argued that this is at least in part the work of US-sponsored death squads. You think that's where most of it's coming from? Or just part? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 22 09:23:13 PDT 2006

12922 [lbo-talk] The Chavez Bounce: Chomsky No. 5 On Amazon -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2006, at 8:37 AM, sean.andrews wrote: > Point taken, but, anecdotally, because Amazon may not get the stock > to fill them, as has > happened to me on several occasions. I buy, they sell, tell me it > will be here in 3 weeks; 2 months go by, they delay it a few > times. Then they cancel. So, on the day that I buy "Debating > Empire," the sales rating shoots up (because no one else was buying > it), even though it was never sent to me (and, strangely, ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 22 05:52:56 PDT 2006

12923 [lbo-talk] The Chavez Bounce: Chomsky No. 5 On Amazon -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:19 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > How is this possible? I thought the way Amazon was able to maintain > such a broad selection was that it didn't have much inventory on hand? > Do these numbers count for orders made even if there isn't stock to > fill it? When they first started, they kept no inventory, and ordered on a just-in-time basis from distributors. Now they keep inventory of best sellers, and rely on JIT for backlist. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 22 05:51:22 PDT 2006

12924 [lbo-talk] Chomsky now at No. 1 on Amazon, No. 2 at Barnes & Nobl -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:15 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > How does bin Laden or > Chavez come across the book and why do they think it will add > legitimacy to their argument? Tariq Ali told me that Chavez had read some of his novels. Joe Stiglitz, whom I had a chat with shortly after he met Chavez, was impressed with the guy's intellectual curiosity, too. Incidentally, Stiglitz is promoting his latest book, and on the Lopate show in NYC and also at the book launch party in NYC the other n ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 22 05:50:02 PDT 2006

12925 Re: [lbo-talk] Dems attack Chávez -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Gotta love our "opposition" party. Oh Nathan -- where are you to > spin this favorably? Don't you remember that Nathan criticized Chavez for being "anti-union"? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 21:25:58 PDT 2006

12926 [lbo-talk] Angelina Shrugged -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug] <http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2006/09/21/1873119-ca.html> Jolie to star in Rand adaptation By JAM! Movies Angelina Jolie has signed on to star in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's ambitious novel "Atlas Shrugged," Variety reports. Jolie will play the role of railroad executive Dagney Taggart, the most powerful female character in any of Rand's books. The adaptation has been in the works for several years, with actors such as Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 20:48:40 PDT 2006

12927 [lbo-talk] Re: Poor Pope's Service to Rabid Capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > As one who has sued the RC church and other "faith based" > insitutions before - and will never willfully do so again - I can > say that no plaintiff's lawyer in their right mind will do so > except in the most egregious of cases {i.e., priest child > molestation cases], as they tend to be very vigorous litigators, > have numerous exemptions from liability [in California, for > instance, they are exempt from ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 16:50:27 PDT 2006

12928 [lbo-talk] Re: Poor Pope's Service to Rabid Capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2006, at 4:58 PM, John Mage wrote: > Doug wrote: >>> Poor Pope has got to prove his usefulness to capitalism/imperialism >> Why? This pope is an agent of reaction, but why is the papacy >> structurally obligated to do this? The Catholic Church is rich >> and powerful - doesn't it have a degree of autonomy from >> capitalism/ imperialism? What's the mechanism of enforcement? > > plaintiffs' lawyers? > Well I know I'd like to sue all the dam ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 16:48:51 PDT 2006

12929 [lbo-talk] chair -- rank: 1000

[this is one of those great titles for a chair - beats Paul Fussell's Donald T Regan Professor of English at Penn, and the Barbra Streisand chair in women's studies at USC by a long shot] WALTER RUSSELL MEAD Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations.

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 12:08:46 PDT 2006

12930 [lbo-talk] Re: Poor Pope's Service to Rabid Capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2006, at 11:48 AM, EverYoung Global Intellectual Enterprises wrote: > Poor Pope has got to prove his usefulness to capitalism/imperialism Why? This pope is an agent of reaction, but why is the papacy structurally obligated to do this? The Catholic Church is rich and powerful - doesn't it have a degree of autonomy from capitalism/ imperialism? What's the mechanism of enforcement? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 21 11:07:21 PDT 2006