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15016 [lbo-talk] Was: advances in political science -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:28 PM, joanna wrote: > There is absolutely nothing in our culture that offers the > "fraternity of species-being" -- not work, not the disintegrating > family, not the nonexistent community. There is nothing but abyss, > from which one is protected by material goods on the material side > and by religion on the psychological side. Well, in the words of the Miss Kittin song, "Drugs Work." Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 7 09:38:18 PDT 2006

15017 [lbo-talk] Mitofsky on the Mexican election -- rank: 1000

[the normally voluble, self-confident Warren Mitofsky went strangely silent after the 2004 election - now here he is holding forth about Mexico] <http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=36> Mitofsky on Mexico's Standoff Pew Research Center July 6, 2006 In an exclusive interview, Warren Mitofsky, creator of the exit poll in 1967 at CBS News and now president of Mitofsky International, explains why and how his firm's exit poll in this week's Mexican presidential election accurately mirr ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 15:55:30 PDT 2006

15018 [lbo-talk] Open Letter to Monthly Review Editors -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Yoshie unsubbed? Did she say why? I may have missed it. She didn't say why, but my guess is that she was getting too much grief about Iran. Doug

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15019 [lbo-talk] Liza on coffee -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > Starf*cks burns their beans in order to increase the caffeine content > -- and then uses milk to cover the resulting bitterness. Peets or > Coffee Bean would be a better example here. Still, Starbucks raised the standard for coffee in the U.S. I'd rather go somewhere else, but it's a lot better than the crap you can get at diners, which was the pre-Starbucks American standard. I'd say something similar about Barnes & Noble. Yes it's ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 15:30:25 PDT 2006

15020 [lbo-talk] the Persian prince -- rank: 1000

[bounced because it was prepended to the full post with html coding added, pushing it to over 30k] From: "Auguste Blanqui" <blanquist at gmail.com> Date: July 6, 2006 3:45:17 PM EDT To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Open Letter to Monthly Review Editors Her blog is even worse, with references to her "Persian Prince," among others. On 7/6/06, Doug Henwood < dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: [Before she signed off this list, Yoshie Furuhashi was spe ...

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15021 [lbo-talk] Liza on coffee -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=99562#comment> BLOG | Posted 07/06/2006 @ 1:54pm In Search of a Damn Fine Cup of (Fair Trade) Coffee LIZA FEATHERSTONE One of the most promising mini-trends is the growing popularity of Fair Trade coffee (now you can even buy it at Wal-Mart!). That label means that the coffee was grown under fair labor conditions, and that the small Third World growers received a decent price for it. I just ordered some through Global Exchange, from the Cloudf ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 12:44:31 PDT 2006

15022 [lbo-talk] BEA Digital Library - for data geeks -- rank: 1000

Take a step into BEA's past and see the documents that helped shape its future... The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has launched the BEA Digital Library, which provides access to seminal documents related to the history of the U.S. national economic accounts. The Digital Library can be found at http://library.bea.gov. At present, the library includes the following, which highlight the first Department of Commerce estimates of national income and product: Key Survey of Current Business ar ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 11:51:13 PDT 2006

15023 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Statement by Howard Dean on the New York Court of Appeals Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage -- rank: 1000

[I'm a little surprised] For Immediate Release July 6, 2006 Contact: Damien LaVera 202-863-8148 Statement by Howard Dean on the New York Court of Appeals Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage Washington, DC Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement in response to the decision by the New York Court of Appeals that the state constitution does not guarantee the right to marriage for same-sex couples, but that the state legislature could provide this: As ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 11:06:35 PDT 2006

15024 [lbo-talk] Lay's last laugh -- rank: 1000

Great headline in the NY Post today <http://www.nypost.com/>: Before they put Cheato Lay's coffin in the grave CHECK TO SEE HE'S IN IT ...illustrated with a headshot of Kenny Boy and a coffin

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 11:05:41 PDT 2006

15025 [lbo-talk] advances in political science -- rank: 1000

<http://www.overthrow.com/lsn/news.asp?articleID=8269> Whites Have Bigger Cocks Than Blacks Scientific Study Proves It Science -- A scientific study has proven that white men have bigger cocks than blacks, despite lies about black sexuality perpetrated in Jewish mass media and pornography. According to the study, published in a Canadian scientific journal, white men's average cock length is 6.4", two tenths of an inch longer than black cocks, which are an average of 6.2" long ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 10:13:45 PDT 2006

15026 [lbo-talk] Re: WSJ editpage: "fair share" a flop -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > I think the WSJ overstates its case a little. Shocking, I know. It's > not surprising that other states, which might be perfectly delighted > to have such a law, would figure that they might as well hang back a > bit and see what happens with the legal wrangle over the Maryland law. > It's quite possible that Wal-mart will win in court with the legal > argument that this is pre-empted by federal law. Sweeney could be > faul ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 09:58:07 PDT 2006

15027 [lbo-talk] Open Letter to Monthly Review Editors -- rank: 1000

[Before she signed off this list, Yoshie Furuhashi was speaking highly of Ahmadinejad's government. Here's a response to a piece she ran on the MRZine site. She's welcome to come back and respond.] Via Yassamine Mather- Center for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements- Glasgow University, UK. Concerning, http:// mrzine.monthlyreview.org/pourzal180606.html Open Letter to Monthly Review Editors Dear friends, In a recent posting on your web site, Rostam Pourzal uses an anonymous email by ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 09:56:55 PDT 2006

15028 [lbo-talk] WSJ editpage: "fair share" a flop -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 6, 2006 Wal-Mart Tax Fizzle For anyone keeping score, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney has been striking out in a surprising number of state capitals. Mr. Sweeney launched a campaign in 33 states several months ago to force Wal-Mart and other retailers either to spend more on health care or pay more in taxes. His legislation was intended as a first step in mandating employer-provided health care, and his campaign began as Maryland enacted the first "Wal-Mart t ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 07:19:44 PDT 2006

15029 [lbo-talk] Is This So? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2006, at 5:38 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Given that the CounterPunch editors often post pieces with which > they don't entirely agree, what do you make of the following bit of > CP-omics (the other CP, of course)? --CGE > > ============ > > July 5, 2006 > The Veep's Curious Investment Portfolio > Is Cheney Betting On Economic Collapse? Saw that somewhere else. Two comments: 1) Cheney is not supposed to have influence over his investment portfolio so alloc ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 6 06:21:19 PDT 2006

15030 [lbo-talk] Anna The Snitch -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newtimesbpb.com/Issues/2006-06-22/news/tailpipe.html> Anna the Medic Have Wire, Will Travel Listen, my children, to the story of Anna the Medic, who travels the land, bringing the harsh scrutiny of federal law enforcement to Americans engaged in political protest. In the past two years, Anna, whose real name may be Anna Davies or Anna Davidson, has turned up at rallies and marches from South Florida to Northern California, with a lot of stops in between. She has demonstrat ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 5 18:57:22 PDT 2006