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13276 [lbo-talk] repulsive heds in Post -- rank: 1000

Some NY Post headlines on the Lynne Stewart verdict <http:// www.gawker.com/news/new-york-post/so-which-is-it-post-208202.php>: JOKE'S ON US: LAUGHING TRAITOR GETS A PASS WRIST SLAP FOR SMIRK JERK TERROR ATTORNEY Thank god for the web so I don't have to pay them money to read Page Six. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 13:50:06 PDT 2006

13277 [lbo-talk] does TV cause autism -- rank: 1000

[Gregg Easterbrook wrote this up on Slate today, but here's the original] <http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/Waldman/AUTISM- WALDMAN-NICHOLSON-ADILOV.pdf> ABSTRACT Autism is currently estimated to affect approximately one in every 166 children, yet the cause or causes of the condition are not well understood. One of the current theories concerning the condition is that among a set of children vulnerable to developing the condition because of their underlying genetics, th ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 13:15:09 PDT 2006

13278 [lbo-talk] Hitchens re-affirms that Iraq has driven him mental -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:48 PM, boddi satva wrote: > Oh, yeah, but Hitchens - he reaches down into the muck and comes up > with the claim even American movement conservatives won't use in a > direct way: > > "And it's been noticed that Dr. Richard Horton, the editor of the > magazine, is a full-throated speaker at rallies of the > Islamist-Leftist alliance that makes up the British Stop the War > Coalition" I just read the New Yorker profile of Hitchens. Yuck. An e ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 13:00:25 PDT 2006

13279 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading butNotfor the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > there was and is no truth to the idea of H and of so many others > that popular movements are necessarily fascist I'm still waiting for the textual evidence for this claim. An hour earlier, Jesse wrote: > continuing the discussion of Hofstadter, the point of > Rogin et al is that the orgins of "McCarthyism" (note the quotation > marks) > were not with what you call the "toiling masses." This offers the > ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 12:56:10 PDT 2006

13280 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading but Notfor the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > Among those preparing was Hofstadter, who called for te AHA Council to > "organize a counter-revolution." Yes, that's what he said. Put that > in your > pipe, along with his address at Grayson Kirk's 1968 counter- > commencement. > But let's not forget: as has been posted here, his office door was > always > open and he was sos kind to his graduate students. "Counter- > revolution" > indeed. Ser ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 12:30:23 PDT 2006

13281 [lbo-talk] People like what they're used to, was Let's Build -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2006, at 1:16 AM, joanna wrote: > In the U.S.A happiness seems to be defined in how far away you can > get from others, except for the few brief special occasions when > you want to be around them, mostly in order for them to admire and > recognize your achievements. It's utterly pathetic and miserable. And population density correlates with voting patterns: the thinner the population, the more Republican. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 06:14:14 PDT 2006

13282 [lbo-talk] Republicans talking black -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - October 17, 2006 <http://www.nysun.com/article/41648> Republican Group Chides Democrats With Abortion Ads Aim Is To Win Minority Voters, But Democrats Cry Foul BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun A little-known Republican group that claims to have swayed the 2004 presidential election with provocative radio advertising aimed at black and Hispanic audiences is spending nearly $1 million this year to boost the GOP's chances of holding on to a majority in Congress. ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 11:22:27 PDT 2006

13283 [lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Chris Doss wrote: his sixth post of the day the limit is, and has always been, three

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 11:07:49 PDT 2006

13284 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading but Not for the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > This article touches on American "populism" and its current > significance. > > http://www.blackcommentator.com/ > 201/201_cover_race_dems_fletcher_ed_bd.html# > As always, an interesting piece from Fletcher - he impresses me as a serious radical who lives on planet earth. He and the rest of the Black Commentator crew really should be much better known. This part seems really promising: > This must be a project ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 10:57:13 PDT 2006

13285 [lbo-talk] once a spook... -- rank: 1000

Watch Jane Fonda & Gloria Steinem bake an apple pie with Stephen Colbert, and hear Steinem explain how feminism "can keep the revolution away": <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyDSXiEfns&eurl=>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 10:48:40 PDT 2006

13286 [lbo-talk] que(e)rying Islamophobia - NYC event -- rank: 1000

http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/calendar.htm Thursday, October 19 Graduate Center, Room 9206/7, 6-9pm Que(e)rying Islamophobia: Race, Sexuality and Imperialism Discourses of race, gender and sexuality have always served an important ideological function within imperialist projects and the current phase of American imperialism, characterized by the War on Terror, is no exception. Given contemporary geo-political context, this contemporary imperialist project requires the deployment of increasin ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 08:52:37 PDT 2006

13287 [lbo-talk] Why can't I cheer? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > Even more so now some forty or fifty years after Mills wrote > this. Fifty. I only say this because 2006 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Power Elite, and I don't see many thumbsuckers in the press about the Golden Anniversary of this classic. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 15:49:57 PDT 2006

13288 [lbo-talk] Project Pompous ;-) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2006, at 2:15 PM, ravi wrote: > ho needs Google when you have: > > http://www.projectposner.org/ > > The font alone is enough to despise the guy ;-). Cue Justin to tell us how smart he is! Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 12:25:11 PDT 2006

13289 [lbo-talk] The Conspiracy Industry -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Michael Pugliese quoted Prison Planet: > This shows how > the globalists are all tied together in this gross conspiracy against > the United States of America. It's amazing how timeless this shit is, from 19th century populism (yeah, sorry) through McCarthyism, and ever onwards. It's always external elite threats, or American elites allied with dastardly foreign elites, against a virginally innocent USA, or idea of the USA. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 12:15:36 PDT 2006

13290 [lbo-talk] The Conspiracy Industry -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > How's that relevant to the issue? > > Doug > > ^^^^^ > CB: What's the issue ? The ongoing disorder of conspiracism, and its specific application to 9/11. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 12:13:09 PDT 2006