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19666 American English (was Re: [lbo-talk] five pundits in the dock) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.firstofthemonth.org/archives/2005/07/with_friends_li.html >>...Navasky, though doesn't seem to recognize he's revealed the worst >about some of his magazine's "best friends." His no regrets pose and >narrow focus on process (legal and otherwise) make you wonder about >his ethics. But this isn't personal. The deals at the heart of A >Matter of Opinion are everyone's business. If you want to help stop >the bleeding from the War ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 2 12:09:12 PST 2005

19667 [lbo-talk] The Working-Poor Draft -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Has mp informed us that the man who organized workers _against_ the >pogroms in Odessa was one J.V.Stalin? No kidding. He sounds better to me all the time! Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 2 10:18:49 PST 2005

19668 [lbo-talk] The Working-Poor Draft -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Noam didn't dispute that he said >only 49 were killed in the worst of the pogroms in tsarist russia. >http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/20051031.htm That's pretty different from your earlier statement: > > > Why only 49 Jews died in pogroms, Noam said so in > > > The Guardian. Brockes exact quote: [the pogroms were] "not very bad, by contemporary standards. In the worst of the major massacres, I think about 49 people were killed." ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 2 09:25:24 PST 2005

19669 [lbo-talk] army to the left? or to the right? -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >I was asking a knowledgeable friend about how to account for the >Venezuelan army's swing to the left, when the military of so many >other Latin American countries swung in the other direction, and he >guessed that it had something to do with the fact that the officer >corps in Venezuela is not drawn from the elites but from the >aspiring lower classes of the countryside and the cities. Richard Gott has some good stuff on this in his book on Chavez. He points out ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 2 07:38:55 PST 2005

19670 American English (was Re: [lbo-talk] five pundits in the dock) -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >At around 1/12/05 1:14 pm, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> After Packer's talk, I politely asked him if he regretted his support >> for the war. He did. "I wish I would have had more information at the >> time," he told me. >> > >"Would have had" -- what's that called in grammar: past continuous? >Shouldn't that be "I wish I had had more information" or simply "I wish >I had more information at that time&qu ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 13:08:36 PST 2005

19671 [lbo-talk] The Working-Poor Draft -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Doug, when he says something ridiculous like that can't you say >that is wacky? > Or when his sidekick Edward Herman says only 199 were killed in >Srbrenica, instead of 7,700+, I know you know that is rubbish but Noam >can't tell Edward, STFU? > No, Noam isn't a professional liar, JEESH. Just really hardheaded >about admitting errors out of ideological biases. It's more than that - it's like you go out of your way to find them, and repeat th ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 12:20:39 PST 2005

19672 [lbo-talk] The Working-Poor Draft -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Why only 49 Jews died in pogroms, Noam said so in The Guardian. Yeah, and Noam is a professional liar, right? What is this, a tic? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 11:19:34 PST 2005

19673 [lbo-talk] five pundits in the dock -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newtimesbpb.com/Issues/2005-12-01/news/norman.html> Spreading the Plame It's time more journalists were called on the carpet for bad judgment By Bob Norman It's time to come to the defense of Judith Miller. Yes, the former New York Times reporter served as a mouthpiece for the Bush administration during the buildup to the Iraq War. And she certainly had a dubious role in the Plamegate scandal. But the way her colleagues have been going after her, you'd think Miller was the only ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 10:14:51 PST 2005

19674 [lbo-talk] decadence -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Chris Doss wrote: >> >> Am I the only person in the world who thinks this >> woman looks like a hideous mutant? > >Most humans look like humans to me. I can't think of any exceptions off >the top of my head. You've obviously never been to an event at The Brecht Forum. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 10:08:06 PST 2005

19675 [lbo-talk] Judy apologizes, sorta -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4486750.stm> Last Updated: Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 20:22 GMT Miller 'sorry' for WMD inaccuracies Despite apologising Ms Miller insisted she was right to publish Judith Miller, the US journalist at the heart of the CIA leak probe, has apologised to her readers because her stories about WMD and Iraq turned out to be wrong. The US journalist, who spent 85 days in prison over the summer before agreeing to give evidence to a grand jury inves ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 10:01:14 PST 2005

19676 [lbo-talk] Hillary's Iraq problem -- rank: 1000

New York Post - December 1, 2005 WAR PLACES HILL IN A POLITICAL NO-MAN'S-LAND By DEBORAH ORIN December 1, 2005 -- SEN. Hillary Clinton is sud denly getting scrunched in a squeeze play of her own making on Iraq - because it's an issue where her husband's old grab-the-center strategy just doesn't work. For much of 2005, pundits hailed Sen. Clinton's smarts for edging to the center on issues like abortion and supporting the Iraq war, saying she was setting herself up as a more moderate figure who c ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 07:36:57 PST 2005

19677 [lbo-talk] morning humor -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/daily-show/jon-stewarts-hilarious-funny-gay-jokes-140255.php> Jon Stewart's Hilarious 'Funny Gay Jokes' READ MORE: DAILY SHOW, GAYS, NEW JERSEY Not to step on Fishbowl's toes too much here, but did you catch The Daily Show last night? The middle-of-show taped bit was a Jason Jones segment on New Jersey's recent search for a new state motto. ("We'll win you over," for which a marketing firm charged $280,000, was deemed unacceptable.) Correspondent Jones ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 07:28:09 PST 2005

19678 [lbo-talk] decadence -- rank: 1000

Page Six reports that the new Paris Hilton watch (for Tourneau) costs $100,000.

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 07:12:18 PST 2005

19679 [lbo-talk] Venezuela's Disloyal Opposition -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Venezuela, great full-page ad in today's NYT from Citgo/PDVSA touting their cheap heating oil for Massachusetts program. Heavy on the charity not politics line, and flattering towards American generosity (they're just returning the favor), but also some good stuff about how oil money is being used to promote social development in Venez and across LatAm. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 06:46:32 PST 2005

19680 [lbo-talk] Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >someone already sent this one? > >http://www.wonkette.com/politics/ap/index.php#finding-versus-looting-123124 "Loot" is from AP. "Find" is from AFP, which is, you know, French.

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