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13306 [lbo-talk] Re: Iraq excess death study up -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > I don't think Doug Henwood is engaging in invective. > Maybe he is a bit sharp and polemical, but he is not > vicious or insulting. Nice to know, but please refrain from characterizing list members in such detail. It's bad for the ecology. Doug

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13307 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti on the return of the Taliban -- rank: 1000

The Nation - October 30, 2006 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061030/parenti> Taliban Rising by CHRISTIAN PARENTI Afghanistan Twenty minutes south of Kabul, along one of Afghanistan's few newly paved roads, lies Logar Province. In another country Logar's desert villages and accessible mountains might be a place city dwellers would use for quick rustication. But in Logar the Taliban are back, coming out at night to burn schools, assassinate liberal imams, launch rocket attacks on gover ...

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13308 [lbo-talk] Re: Iraq excess death study up -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > It is undeniable that at least a couple hundred thousand have > been killed. > 600K+ does seem high to me. > Based on what? It just doesn't "feel" right? That's more credible than an actual survey done by peer-reviewed researchers? Doug

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13309 [lbo-talk] Air America files Chapter 11 -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2006, at 12:39 PM, ravi wrote: > Any thoughts on the cause of this? I had switched from listening to > WBAI > to AAR (no worries, Doug: I have the DougCast on the iPod, along with > Democracy Now) since WBAI's programming is often puzzlingly irrelevant > (to left/progressive issues), when its not (I am afraid) boring. I > just > renewed my WBAI membership since I still believe its a worthy medium. > Anyway, back to my story: I listened to AAR 1010AM for a while ...

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13310 [lbo-talk] Re: Iraq excess death study up -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Michael Pugliese quoted: > I think that there is a humanitarian disaster continuing in Iraq but > this paper is ultimately flawed and worse it is actually misleading if > not downright dishonest > Posted by mettaculture at October 12, 2006 01:48 PM Why the fuck do you feel the need to forward this crap? To stir shit up, or because you really think that not that many people are dying in Iraq? Do you think the researchers cooked the results? Or does all ...

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13311 [lbo-talk] Reps lose edge on terrorism -- rank: 1000

[Gallup now lets you read the sub-only stuff if you sit through an ad.] <http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=24961> October 13, 2006 Democratic Edge on Issues Extends to Terrorism, Morality Corruption, Iraq, terrorism rated most important issues by voters by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- The strong Democratic tide sweeping the nation is evident in the latest USA Today/Gallup pre-election poll. Not only do Democrats enjoy a strong lead in likely voters' congressi ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 09:34:18 PDT 2006

13312 [lbo-talk] KPFA & The Amnesia Express -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2006, at 11:41 PM, Joseph Wanzala wrote: > KPFA and the Amnesia Express - By Regina Carey, Joe Wanzala & Steve > Zeltzer I don't know anything about the substance of this. But Joe, the HTML coding on this pushed its length over 25k. WHY CAN'T PEOPLE CONVERT STUFF TO PLAIN TEXT? WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? Doug

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13313 [lbo-talk] another fine piece from Corey Robin - on repression, queers, security, etc. -- rank: 1000

<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n20/robi02_.html> Was he? Had he? Corey Robin The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David Johnson · Chicago, 277 pp, £13.00 Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security by David Cole and James Dempsey · New Press, 320 pp, £10.99 General Ashcroft: Attorney at War by Nancy Baker · Kansas, 320 pp, £26.50 State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 09:22:51 PDT 2006

13314 [lbo-talk] Bushies in private: our base is nuts -- rank: 1000

New York Times - October 13, 2006 Book Says Bush Aides Dismissed Christian Allies By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 A former deputy director of the White House office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is charging that many members of the Bush administration privately dismiss its conservative Christian allies as "boorish" and "nuts." The former deputy director, David Kuo, an evangelical Christian conservative, makes the accusations in a newly published m ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 09:12:56 PDT 2006

13315 [lbo-talk] Teamsters lose their crush on GOP -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 13, 2006 WASHINGTON WIRE Labor's Enthusiasm For Republicans Fades By JOHN HARWOOD LABOR CURBS outreach to Republicans as Democratic prospects brighten. Teamsters and FireFighters, among others, had vowed to ramp up Republican support to increase their clout while Bush's party held power. But enthusiasm has faded, a Teamsters official explains, because "Republicans went too far. We need a leadership change." Some local unions continue offering volunteer ...

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13316 [lbo-talk] Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank win Nobel Peace Prize -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2006, at 7:20 AM, Ira Glazer wrote: > [fwiw, an acquaintance of mine worked with one of these Grameen- > type banks in Uganda, and said that the repayment rate is much > lower than what is advertised; she said there's a lot of hot air > about how effective they really are] I haven't looked into this in years, but Gina Neff did a piece on microfinance for LBO in 1996 and found lots of hype and little results: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Micro.html>. Doug

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13317 [lbo-talk] Air America files Chapter 11 -- rank: 1000

[they denied this a month ago - of course going bankrupt doesn't mean it's the end of the line - a lot depends on whether they can get financing to get them out of bankruptcy, or if the creditors will just pull the plug] Air America Radio files Chapter 11 POSTED: 11:12 a.m. EDT, October 13, 2006 NEW YORK (AP) -- Air America Radio, a liberal talk and news radio network that features the comedian Al Franken, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a network official told The AP. The n ...

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13318 [lbo-talk] Iraq excess death study up -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > People need to understand that the war in Iraq is not > an aberration of an otherwise nice system. I think most of us understand that; it is, to use a definition of "accident" once cited by Alexander Cockburn, the normal raised to a higher level of intensity. Doug

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13319 [lbo-talk] Iraq excess death study up -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > Are the methods used in the study described in detail on-line > anywhere? > > Are criticism of the kinds of methods used in this study on-line? Yeah, they're in the full study on The Lancet site, a link to which I posted earlier: <http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/ PIIS0140673606694919/fulltext>. Pug cited Fred Kaplan's critique, but it doesn't really hold water - this is pretty standard stuff in epidemiology a ...

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13320 [lbo-talk] More on How Lamont Blew It -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:54 PM, ravi wrote: > I notice you don't say anything about the Joementum meme (the main > point > of my post), though! No, I don't think Joe's got a positive first, much less second, derivative. He's just solidly ahead. Doug

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