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16096 [lbo-talk] anniversary -- rank: 1000

On this day in 1982, sometime in the mid-afternoon I think, the U.S. stock market hit a low and turned around. The next day, August 13, 1982, it exploded to the upside, beginning the long bull market which changed everything. Celebrate appropriately, depending on your class position. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 10:27:20 PDT 2006

16097 [lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2006, at 1:40 AM, info at pulpculture.org wrote: > It is truly the height of insult to have to read you guys ruining > around claiming that you happen to know that women just don't > really try to exercise and eat less. As if somehow they just > haven't figured that out. > > The people who actually study this stuff point out this: people > don't like to count. So the diet schemes are ways for them not to > have to count calories. It's a psychological thing. Tha ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 12 07:19:07 PDT 2006

16098 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 16:04:40 PDT 2006

16099 [lbo-talk] Internationale -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > Plus a fairly recent film, showing the song being sung in different > countries, in different languages etc. I've seen it, but offhand I > wouldn't > know how to locate it. Lou Proyect writes: <http://www.willowpondfilms.com/internationale.html> Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 15:38:09 PDT 2006

16100 [lbo-talk] Internationale -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: > Extensive recordings at: > http://www.hymn.ru/internationale/index-en.html > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk Wow, thanks, I just increased my collection by 56%!

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 15:06:35 PDT 2006

16101 [lbo-talk] full Gallup report on US attitudes towards Muslims -- rank: 1000

[full q & a and more at orig, though you'll either have to pay or sit through an ad: <http://poll.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=24073>] August 10, 2006 Anti-Muslim Sentiments Fairly Commonplace Four in ten Americans admit feeling prejudice against Muslims by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Substantial minorities of Americans admit to having negative feelings or prejudices against people of the Muslim faith, and favor using heightened security measures with Musli ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 13:53:51 PDT 2006

16102 [lbo-talk] Americans' problem with McCain - too wishy-washy -- rank: 1000

[you can now view Gallup content without paying by sitting through an ad - more at orig] <http://poll.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=24058&pg=1> August 09, 2006 A Closer Look at Americans' Views of John McCain His issue positions are more of a negative than a positive for Republicans by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- John McCain is considered by many to be the front- runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. He is rated positively by a majori ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 13:50:30 PDT 2006

16103 [lbo-talk] Liberate Doug from Old Fogeyism! - was/ videogames -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2006, at 4:26 PM, B. wrote: > Every moment I sit playing a video game I feel like > I'm probably wasting my time and should be reading > something. Maybe that's just me. All right, I'll be honest - I think more people should think that. Call me an old fart. We hope young Ivan doesn't take to them, but we don't want to glamorize the things through taboo. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 13:45:17 PDT 2006

16104 [lbo-talk] native (mis)informants -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because (horrendous) html formatting pushed it way over the length limit, and even when converted to plain text it's 43k - I've said it a thousand times before, and I'll say it again: PLEASE CONVERT STUFF TO PLAIN TEXT BEFORE FORWARDING - if you don't know how, please find out - and if it's over 20k, please just provide a URL and a few paragraphs] From: sepideh koosha <sepidehkpfalsb at yahoo.com> Date: August 11, 2006 3:23:52 PM EDT To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 13:24:18 PDT 2006

16105 [lbo-talk] sex in S Korea -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > I'm saying that a visit to Cheju is just a visit to > Cheju and not a comprehensive guide to "Asian sex > life". > > > That's just crazy magazine talk. Oh yeah. And how is a sex theme park proof of liberation? Makes it nicely compartmentalized, kinda like Las Vegas, except with more sculptures of genitals. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 13:21:26 PDT 2006

16106 [lbo-talk] sex in S Korea -- rank: 1000

[oops forgot the URL in all the excitement] But if you really want to learn about the Asian sex life, "Love Land" in South Korea is the place to visit. [text & pix: <http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/ 0,1518,431224,00.html>]

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 12:19:17 PDT 2006

16107 [lbo-talk] sex in S Korea -- rank: 1000

But if you really want to learn about the Asian sex life, "Love Land" in South Korea is the place to visit. [text & pix: <>]

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 12:18:45 PDT 2006

16108 [lbo-talk] Muslims in America -- rank: 1000

USA Today - August 10, 2006 USA's Muslims under a cloud By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY Motaz Elshafi, 28, a software engineer, casually opened an internal e- mail at work last month. The message began, "Dear Terrorist." The note from a co-worker was sent to Muslims working at Cisco Systems in Research Triangle Park, N.C., a few days after train bombings in India that killed 207. The e-mail warned that such violent acts wouldn't intimidate people, but only make them stronger. "I wa ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 12:04:31 PDT 2006

16109 [lbo-talk] Boycott Japan and China -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > You're not suggesting, are you, that the Bush administration would > be better > advised, from the standpoint of US imperialism, to revert to > unilateralism > and reliance on its high-tech armed forces - the (ideological) view > which > governed its first three years in office? The view of the world you're responding to doesn't allow much for agency - "US imperialism" does things, not actual people holding of ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 09:30:27 PDT 2006

16110 [lbo-talk] chutzpah -- rank: 1000

Headline in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: > Santorum accuses Dems of politicizing terror war

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Date:	Fri Aug 11 09:20:28 PDT 2006