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15796 [lbo-talk] Gallup poll on Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2006-12-11-iraq- poll.htm> 11. Just your best guess, how much longer do you think the U.S. will have a significant number of troops in Iraq less than six months, six months to a year, one to two years, or longer than two years? Less than six months 2 Six months to a year 16 One to two years 38 Longer than two years 42 No opinion 1 12. How much longer do you think the U.S. should have a sig ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 12 14:00:44 PST 2006

15797 [lbo-talk] Ahamadinejad predicts Israel's demise -- rank: 1000

Ahmadinejad predicts Israel will disappear 'like USSR' by Farhad Pouladi Tue Dec 12, 1:35 PM ET TEHRAN (AFP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted Israel would suffer the same fate as the USSR, as Iran faced a barrage of condemnation for hosting a conference casting doubt on the Holocaust. A host of "revisionist" historians, including a former Ku Klux Klan leader, attended the conference that wrapped up Tuesday, giving papers claiming to show that mass slaughter of six million ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 12 13:45:19 PST 2006

15798 [lbo-talk] how not to run an occupation -- rank: 1000

Just recorded my interview with Patrick Cockburn on his new book on The Occupation. He says: "There are 1000 people in the US embassy in the Green Zone in Baghdad, and six of them are fluent Arabic speakers."

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Date:	Tue Dec 12 13:41:32 PST 2006

15799 [lbo-talk] MSFT exec: I'd buy a Mac -- rank: 1000

[ok, so the quote is three years old...] <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005926&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8> Microsoft's Allchin on Mac praise: I was ranting to change Vista process He says he was 'purposefully dramatic' in 2004 e-mail to Ballmer, Gates Eric Lai December 12, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Outgoing Windows development chief James Allchin says he was being "purposefully dramatic" in a three-year-old e-mail to Mic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 12 13:40:41 PST 2006

15800 [lbo-talk] Was Primitive Accumulation -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:55 PM, tfast wrote: > Does for example Shaikh's work which transforms > national account data into Marxist aggregates reveal something > interesting > even though it implicitly relies on the basic Marxian view that > output and > thereby profit ultimately originates in labour? Well yeah, good question, does it? I remember finishing the Shaikh/ Tonak book and asking, So what? What have they proved? What does their method reveal that can't be revealed with ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 12 13:02:28 PST 2006

15801 [lbo-talk] FOMC -- rank: 1000

[sounds slightly on the hawkish side, though not strongly so - that Lacker won't give up!] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2006/20061212/> December 12, 2006 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 5-1/4 percent. Economic growth has slowed over the course of the year, partly reflecting a substantial cooling of the housing market. Although recent indicators have been mixed, the economy ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 12 11:41:01 PST 2006

15802 [lbo-talk] Brad The Pig -- rank: 1000

On Dec 12, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > "Let me express my condolences to her two surviving sons John Evron > and Stuart Alan Kirkpatrick, whom she loved beyond all measure. > "She was a good friend to my grandfather Earl. She was an American > and a world patriot: her counsel--even at its most boneheaded--was > always devoted to advancing the security of the United States and > the cause of liberty and prosperity around the world." > > <http ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 12 11:15:39 PST 2006

15803 [lbo-talk] Rushdies: babe magnets -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 12, 2006 The Rushdies: Babe Magnets? LOCK up your daughters when Salman Rushdie and his son hit the party circuit. The acclaimed author and his offspring are talking each other up as powerful chick magnets no woman can resist - with Zafar Rushdie, 27, even confessing he's used his 59-year-old father's prowess to score. "Most people who go to a party with their parents try to run away from them. Not me. If I want to meet girls, I just stand near him,&q ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 12 07:39:15 PST 2006

15804 [lbo-talk] Iran in the news -- rank: 1000

[via Fleshbot] · Naked News is looking for new anchors, so if you like to read things while people stare at your boobs, this might be your big chance. Bonus points if you can correctly pronounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without laughing. (xbiz.com)

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 20:34:28 PST 2006

15805 [lbo-talk] sororial love -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/showbiz/showbiz5.shtml#>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 11 20:31:41 PST 2006

15806 [lbo-talk] on the radio... -- rank: 1000

On my radio show this week: Patrick Cockburn on The Occupation and Hamid Dabashi on Iran. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 11 20:19:52 PST 2006

15807 [lbo-talk] Primitive accumulation - Harvey on Marx -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 9:05 PM, tfast wrote: > Don't bother Justin goes through this every 18 months with no > regard to present literature So what do you like in the present literature? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 18:15:10 PST 2006

15808 [lbo-talk] another homo preacher! -- rank: 1000

http://exchristian.net/2/2006/12/megachurch-pastor-confesses-to- being.html ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The founding pastor of the 2,100-member Grace Chapel has resigned after he said he had sexual relations with other men. Paul Barnes, who led the church for 28 years, told his congregation Sunday in a videotaped message that church leaders allowed The Denver Post to view. He and his wife have two adult daughters.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 11 17:25:27 PST 2006

15809 [lbo-talk] Greenspan plays with language -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 7:07 PM, tfast wrote: > corporations just pass taxes on to consumers If they could, then why do they spend all that time and money lobbying for tax breaks? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 16:47:28 PST 2006

15810 [lbo-talk] a holiday greeting (via S.J. Perelman, 1935) -- rank: 1000

From: "Doug Ireland" Date: December 11, 2006 6:53:05 PM EST Dear Friends, The following was written in 1935 by the noted humorist for The New Yorker S.J. Perelman (who, you may remember, also wrote scripts for the Marx Brothers, like "Horse Feathers" and "Monkey Business") -- and I thought sending you this forgotten gem of Perelman's an appropriate way for one old atheist to mark the annual celebrations by the goyim of the birth of the foot-fetishist from Naza ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 11 16:00:57 PST 2006