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13321 [lbo-talk] Iraq excess death study up -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > If we call the U.S. regime "Stalinists" instead of "fascists", Michael > will find reports on millions of Iraqis killed by them. Charles, why are you so obsessed with making the "fascist" label stick? Why can't you be satisfied with calling them lying, murderous, thieving imperialist fucks and be done with it? Doug

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13322 [lbo-talk] Iraq excess death study up -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2006, at 3:14 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: >> I await Michael Pugliese's effort to discredit this methodologically >> orthodox study, published in one of the world's leading medical >> journals. > > Didn't you see Bush's speech? The report isn't credible. General > Casey said so. The Iraqi government > said so. What else do you need to hear? I'm surprised at the wide coverage the study has gotten in the U.S., where the media usually like t ...

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13323 [lbo-talk] Iraq excess death study up -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Questions about this survey and the previous by Lancet, > http://www.slate.com/id/2108887/ > http://www.casi.org.uk/analysis/2004/msg00477.html > http://burkeophilia.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-report-on-deaths-in- > iraq-new-study.html > > Iraq Body Count vs. MediaLens, > http://www.iraqbodycount.org/editorial/defended/2.1.php > > Questions about economist Marc Herald's study of Afghan casualties, > http://ww ...

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13324 [lbo-talk] More on How Lamont Blew It -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2006, at 2:47 PM, ravi wrote: > Though if at the end of the day you cannot compare these numbers, then > that questions the very statistical validity of their results. No it doesn't. Questions are asked in different ways, and different techniques are used to inflate the sample into a representation of a full population. The NYT/CBS poll, for example, consistently gives Bush a lower approval rating than Gallup. Both move in tandem, but typically with a gap of 3-4 points. But ...

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13325 [lbo-talk] Iraq excess death study up -- rank: 1000

The Lancet has posted the study showing 650,000 excess deaths as a result of the U.S. invasion: <http://www.thelancet.com/journals/ lancet/article/PIIS0140673606694919/fulltext>. I await Michael Pugliese's effort to discredit this methodologically orthodox study, published in one of the world's leading medical journals. Doug

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13326 [lbo-talk] the nativists will go wild! -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=76> From 200 Million to 300 Million: The Numbers behind Population Growth Hispanics account for most of last 100 million Pew Hispanic Center October 10, 2006 The U.S. population will reach 300 million some time this month. This fact sheet presents an analysis, by race/ethnicity and nativity, of the 100 million people who were added to the population since 1966-67. In addition, the fact sheet breaks down the U.S. population, again by race/ethnici ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 11:19:32 PDT 2006

13327 [lbo-talk] threads -- rank: 1000

Please try not to begin a new thread by replying to an old message and changing the subject. The thread index stays the same, and those of us with mail programs that group items by thread find things get all mixed up. Two major practitioners of this dark craft: Mike Larkin & Chris Doss. Doug

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13328 [lbo-talk] South Park does 9/11 conspiracies -- rank: 1000

[get it before Google purges all the (C)'d material!] <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLbrn43TtsI>

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 10:36:37 PDT 2006

13329 [lbo-talk] GOP thinks "Muslim" is a race -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - October 11, 2006 <URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/41341> GOP Donors' Personal Data Disclosed in RNC Privacy Slip BY RUSSELL BERMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun In a breach of privacy, the Republican National Committee erroneously e-mailed a list that contained the names, races, and Social Security numbers of dozens of top Republican donors and that identified two of the contributors as Muslim to this reporter. In the course of preparing for a Washington fund-raiser o ...

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13330 [lbo-talk] More on How Lamont Blew It -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:45 PM, ravi wrote: > At around 11/10/06 9:33 pm, mike larkin wrote: >> http://nationaljournal.com/todd.htm => >> Lieberman seems to be framing the debate and >> appears to have the momentum. >> > > Zogby 09/25 => Joe 53, Ned 33 > Rasmussen 10/03 => Joe 51, Ned 40 > Uconn 10/04 => Joe 48, Ned 40 > SurveUSA 10/08 => Joe 53, Ned 40 > Courant 10/10 => Joe 48, Ned 40 > > This should fit right into o ...

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13331 [lbo-talk] Eleanor & Amelia, and other delights from Vidal's memoirs -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/460953p-387815c.html> [Rush & Molloy] Vidal: Amelia sent Eleanor's heart soaring Did First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt have the hots for aviatrix Amelia Earhart? Biographers have long speculated about Roosevelt's close friendship with reporter Lorena Hickock. Now comes author Gore Vidal to assert that FDR's wife lusted after Earhart. "Eleanor did like my father [Gene Vidal] because he was close to Amelia Earhart, for whom she had a Sapp ...

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13332 [lbo-talk] Re: Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2006, at 8:40 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > As for Bryan, the epitaph he probably desired is reflected in a song > written by bluegrass musician Charlie Oakes, which Kazin quotes in the > last chapter: > > He fought the evolutionists, and infidels and fools > Who were trying to ruin the minds of children in the schools > Three times he ran for president, but capitalists wouldn't let him win > Because he was a friend to the poor and to the working man. Or as tha ...

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13333 [lbo-talk] the decline of BW -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Michael Pug for this. I too have stopped reading BW, and now I know why. It used to be really good - never sparkling or hot, but solid, informative, and thoughtful, aside from the New Economy cheerleading from Michael Mandel in the late 90s. But now it sorta sucks, sorry to say.] <http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w061009&s=judis101106> Who reads BusinessWeek? Labor Shortage by John B. Judis Only at TNR Online | Post date 10.11.06 Ihave read BusinessWeek regularly for 30 ye ...

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13334 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading butNotfor the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > What was individualist about the subtreasury system? What was > individualist about the call for government ownership of the means of > communication and transportation? In other words, what was > individualist about the historical Populist movement? They were gov't schemes to preserve the small farmer.

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13335 [lbo-talk] more Judt -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - October 16, 2006 Judt at War N.Y.U. Historian With View on Israel Canceled Twice; Did Foxman Call? Wieseltier Attacks Highbrow Spam Suzy Hansen "I'm struck when I observe the Jewish community in the United States, especially in New York," said Tony Judt last Saturday, Oct. 7, sitting cross-legged in his Washington Square Park apartment, "that it's a community which is the most successful, the wealthiest, the most well-integrated, the most influential, the ...

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