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20266 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >nativist populists on this list Like who? Our openness to immigrants, at least pre-9/11, was one of the things to be happier about. Doug

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20267 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? (was:stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Seriously, if I see one more quantitative argument about the >superiority of the US I am going to hit the data bases and get the >goods. I wasn't claiming superiority - I'm trying to refute these preposterous claims that we're unusually dumb. Doug

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20268 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> How come Americans get all those patents and Nobels? >> > >do you really believe that patents reflect real technical output? for >example, some agribusiness in texas tried to patent "basmati" rice (a >type of rice that has been produced in india for 100s of years). >amazon.com patented "one click shopping". etc. etc. if you are willing >to spot a few thousand dollars for each, i can help you write ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 14:14:53 PDT 2004

20269 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? (was:stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Americans are exposed to education the way they're exposed to cosmic >rays, and the rays have a much bigger impact on them. This vast but >vapid aura of educational attainment reflects sheer credentialism -- >simply another way that Americans try to con the rest of the world >into thinking that we know what we're doing. How come Americans get all those patents and Nobels? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 13:35:11 PDT 2004

20270 [lbo-talk] Pew: Bush widens lead -- rank: 1000

Bush Margin Widens Again, Despite Vulnerabilities George W. Bush has reopened a significant lead over challenger John Kerry over the past week, even as voters express less confidence in the president on Iraq and he continues to trail Kerry on the economy. Two successive nationwide surveys of nearly 1,000 registered voters each show Bush's margin over Kerry growing steadily since mid-September (Sept. 11-14), when the two men were tied at 46%-46%. Bush's slight 45%-42% advantage in the Sept. 17-21 ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 13:15:46 PDT 2004

20271 [lbo-talk] Fwd: <nettime> A hacker manifesto 007-020 -- rank: 1000

[more comedy from Squawk, via nettime] From: "McKenzie Wark" <mckenziewark at hotmail.com> Subject: <nettime> A hacker manifesto 007-020 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:40:04 -0400 Schmoo writes: >in ref to the Hua Hsu quote: >if the World was 'ours', what would we do with it? That's one of two questions that the book tries to answer. The other question is: why is this world not ours? What is the new ruling class that seeks to concentrate the onwership and control of all in ...

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20272 [lbo-talk] Simonas freed -- rank: 1000

[wonder how this fits into the CIA-did-it theory?] Two Italian Hostages Freed in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Two Italian and two Iraqi aid workers kidnapped this month in Iraq were freed Tuesday after three weeks in captivity, Italy's prime minister said. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told Parliament that the four were handed over to the Red Cross in Iraq. He said the Italians were expected to return in Italy soon, possibly Tuesday evening. "Finally a moment of joy," Berlusconi said. ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 10:06:12 PDT 2004

20273 [lbo-talk] 'Burbs as health hazard -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >US scientists warn of out-of-town health hazard Thank god the working class is enjoying all those use values from their car-centered lifestyles! Doug

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20274 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The beauty of statements such as "Many X's believe P" is that it can't >possibly be false, so it can't be worth a damn as well. As far as I can tell, the tenets of Cox Thought are: 1) The world is just a series of endless particularities; generalizations are impossible. That makes theory impossible, too. 2) History just happens; we can't predict events or explain them after they occur. 3) Revolutions and other political earthquakes just happen, too; there's no ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 07:57:33 PDT 2004

20275 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Such statements are a form of unsuccessful intellectual masturbation. Could you teach us how to masturbate properly? You seem to be quite the adept! Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 07:43:54 PDT 2004

20276 [lbo-talk] Kink, Ick & the Left /sexual / -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >This is one of the comparisons I am saying is politically incorrect to >make. Heterosexuals' relationship to homosexuals is not of the same type as >white people's relationship to Indians, Black people, Mexican Americans, >etc. Why not? Doug

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20277 [lbo-talk] more on Miranda Nixon -- rank: 1000

[someone recently berated me offlist for indulging in too much gossip - so shoot me - pix at the original sites] <http://www.gawker.com/topic/gossip-roundup-cynthia-nixons-girlfriend-is-a-lesbian-too-022194.php> Gossip Roundup: Cynthia Nixon's Girlfriend Is A Lesbian, Too! # Recently-bedyked actress Cynthia Nixon's girlfriend has been revealed as Christine Marinoni. We're a little disappointed to see that Christine is exactly as we expected: a sweater vest-wearing education activist. Those ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 07:24:50 PDT 2004

20278 [lbo-talk] The Nation & the CIA -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >The Nation prints this sort of CIA-driven disinfo quite often Right. The Nation is practically edited out of Langley! You forgot to mention Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel's membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, and her father William vanden Heuvel's work with Bill Donovan and a bunch of CIA fronts <http://www.namebase.org/main4/William-J-Vanden-heuvel.html>. As anyone can tell by reading the mag, it's an apologist for empire, and confuses all its li ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 07:11:53 PDT 2004

20279 [lbo-talk] RE: 'Gay unions 'like virus' in Spain' -- rank: 1000

paul childs wrote: >The Catholic Church shows once again why it's a dangerously >anachronistic entity: > >http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/27/spain.gays.ap/index.html > >And we all know what we do with viruses don't we? Nice of the church >to use the same language used by those who commit genocide to >describe their victims. But it's okay '... the church had nothing >against homosexuals....', it just doesn't want them treated as human >beings with equal r ...

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20280 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >My experience is that many Western leftists will >believe almost anything they hear about the >non-Western world, as long as it is negative (e.g. >families of 20 in India live together in packing >crates, 1/6 of Russians have tuberculosis, maybe in >Thailand people live in abandoned gopher holes), >unless the country in question is non-capitalist. But you also get the opposite - that traditional societies are healthy and peaceful and un-alienated, and that ...

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