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15766 [lbo-talk] FT: Anatol Lieven on Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Dec 18, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Colin Brace wrote: On 12/17/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: On Dec 17, 2006, at 1:48 AM, joanna wrote: > Why wouldn't the U.S. want a regional war in the Middle Eas?. Apres > nous, le deluge?.....which could serve as a bottomless sink for > arms/supplies, keep oil prices up Most sectors of US capital are hurt by high oil prices, so there's no generalized interest in that. Besides, a broad ME war would threaten oil supplies - not even Ex ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 18 06:46:08 PST 2006

15767 [lbo-talk] Happy 100th Birthday... -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Asked whether they would like to return to the > Brezhnev times, 42 per cent said no, and 36 per cent > said yes. Wow, that's hardly a landslide. The Golden Age of the Soviet working class! Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 17 13:10:40 PST 2006

15768 [lbo-talk] Chossudovsky's rag on those Bolshevik Bankers -- rank: 1000

Was Chossudovsky always this crazy? I remember some of his "economic" stuff being pretty overheated in the crisis-mongering sense, but this is around-the-bend stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 17 10:27:08 PST 2006

15769 It's Greek To Me (Was Re: [lbo-talk] slavery and technology) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:36 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > (After four years of college I > got a diploma in a language I could barely recall bits > of from my Catholic school years. . . .) Mine too. But that was 1975. My sister-in-law graduated from Harvard in June, and her degree was in English. Maybe the uber-Ivies have gone demotic, finally. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 17 09:28:14 PST 2006

15770 [lbo-talk] FT: Anatol Lieven on Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2006, at 1:48 AM, joanna wrote: > Why wouldn't the U.S. want a regional war in the Middle Eas?. Apres > nous, le deluge?.....which could serve as a bottomless sink for > arms/supplies, keep oil prices up Most sectors of US capital are hurt by high oil prices, so there's no generalized interest in that. Besides, a broad ME war would threaten oil supplies - not even ExxonMobil would like it if oil were at $200 a barrel because no one could get any. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 17 08:59:02 PST 2006

15771 [lbo-talk] Rafsanjani Back in Charge? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2006, at 2:06 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Rafsanjani back in charge? Shit. -- Yoshie With a heavy turnout too! Maybe Iranians like divided government - or maybe they tired of Adhmadinejad's posturing and failure to deliver on his economic promises (which, as Hamid Dabashi said on my radio show the other night - to be posted to the web archive tomorrow - he lacks both the resources and political power to make good on). Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 17 08:56:39 PST 2006

15772 [lbo-talk] Poor underpaid CEOs -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:13 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Morgan Stanley CEO gets $40M 2006 bonus By JOE BEL Chump. Word is the Goldman CEO got $50m. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 18:37:55 PST 2006

15773 [lbo-talk] Epstein on Po-210 smuggling -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> You suppose he's been talking to James Jesus >> Angleton via Ouija board? >> > > Who???? Angleton was a crazy CIA counterespionage specialist (who loved to quote Eliot's line about the wilderness of mirrors). He trusted no one, and thought everyone was a double or a triple agent. He was purged from the CIA during the Carter years, and thought Gorbachev ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 18:36:09 PST 2006

15774 [lbo-talk] rating the professions -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2006, at 5:17 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Physicians aside there seems to be a roughly inverse > relationship between respect for integrity and pay. > Hmm. What does that tell us, nice guys finish last? Journalists rank below chiropractors! If I were feeling less lazy, I'd do a rank correlation with pay to test this hypothesis. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 14:38:22 PST 2006

15775 [lbo-talk] Epstein on Po-210 smuggling -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > > [I can't vouch for him as a source, but his ruminations sound very > sound if you accept his original premise (which has somehow been > edited out of this Slate version of his blog musings). That > premise is that the radiation from the Po-210 in Litvinenko's body > wouldn't be strong enough to contaminate all these other people who > were near him. Therefore there must have been a source outside his > body which wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 16 14:33:59 PST 2006

15776 [lbo-talk] Yale-New Haven -- rank: 1000

[from a 2003 WSJ article] Tough Tactic The legal tactic of arresting a debtor who fails to appear for a court hearing -- known in some areas as "body attachment" -- is so extreme that some of the country's biggest commercial creditors say they never use it. For instance, Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Ford Motor Credit Co., the finance arm of Ford Motor Co., say they expressly prohibit their collections agents from asking judges to issue arrest warrants against no-show debtors. In ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 16 12:42:41 PST 2006

15777 [lbo-talk] Yale New Haven Hospital breaks labor law -- rank: 1000

On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > New Haven Independent.org > 13 Dec. 2006 > Union Election Off; Arbitrator Says Hospital Broke Law > Paul Bass > > An arbitrator agreed with postponing next week's long-awaited union > election among Yale-New Haven Hospital's 1,800 blue-collar workers > because the hospital engaged in "serious violations of federal law" by > pressuring workers to vote no. Mayor John DeStefano, steamed, called > for a camp ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 12:37:43 PST 2006

15778 [lbo-talk] Americans [heart] gridlock -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gqrr.com/articles/1842/2592_pollcharts.pdf> Six in ten voters prefer a divided federal government. "As you may know, starting in January, the Democrats will controlthe U.S. Congress and President Bush is a Republican. Do you think the government in Washington... is better when different parties control the Congress and the Presidency ...or... is better when one party controls the Congress and the Presidency?" Different Parties 60% One Party 25 ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 12:35:38 PST 2006

15779 [lbo-talk] rating the professions -- rank: 1000

[just in from Gallup...] Nurses Top List of Most Honest and Ethical Professions Integrity of most medical professionals also highly rated by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Someone seeking a job that commands high respect need look no further than nursing. For the eighth consecutive year, nurses top Gallup's annual list of occupations rated for their honesty and ethical standards, earning high marks from more than four in five Americans. A combined 84% of Americans describe n ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 12:24:06 PST 2006

15780 [lbo-talk] give to MR! -- rank: 1000

[posted to Marxmail, but not here - hey, Michael, don't forget us!] Monthly Review has been in continuous publication, eleven issues a year, since May 1949. It is certainly one of the most important publications on the left worldwide. Monthly Review Press has, since the early 1950s, published a very large number of radical classics. In July 2005, we began a webzine, mrzine, and it has steadily gained readership and a diverse group of authors. Monthly Review has always been generous in terms ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 10:03:44 PST 2006