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23986 [lbo-talk] Wow -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >http://makeashorterlink.com/?D26F44418 > >AP photo of the year? Chuck0, what would you say to this youth? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 18:43:40 PDT 2004

23987 [lbo-talk] Dick Morris: Why the New Polls Are Actually Bad News For Bush -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Looks like Mr. Landslide is backpedaling. > ><http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/22968.htm>http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/22968.htm >After all, Kerry is, in fact, way too liberal for the average American voter. Can someone forward Morris the URL for the lbo-talk archives? Evidently he hasn't been informed that Kerry is really a Republican. >The genders see the War on Terror in totally different terms. >Rasmussen reports ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 16:09:06 PDT 2004

23988 [lbo-talk] Pew study of poll accuracy -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >This is basically the same mechanism that is operating in Israel and >Palestine -- if your side gets hit badly (your military but even >more so your civilians, and there are quite a few U.S. "civilians" >-- actually substitute soldiers working for private contractors -- >getting killed in Iraq these days), the gut reaction of most people >in any country will be to hit back even harder. I don't know why >people are so puzzled that Americans are ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 16:02:59 PDT 2004

23989 [lbo-talk] title -- rank: 1000

[This is the richest title I've seen since, hmm, the Barbra Streisand chair in women's studies at USC, or the Donald T. Regan chair in English at Penn...] Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy Studies Contact: 212-434-9548 or wmead at cfr.org. Bio: http://www.cfr.org/bio.php?id=3495 For Mead's new book, "Power, Terror, Peace & War," go to: http://www.cfr.org/pub6951/walter_russell_mead/power_terror_peace_and_war.php

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 14:57:27 PDT 2004

23990 [lbo-talk] 10 years in Iraq? -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - April 20, 2004 British troops 'may have to stay 10 years to keep order' By Paul Kelbie, Scotland Correspondent British troops might have to stay in Iraq for up to 10 years to help local forces maintain security after the proposed hand-over of power to the Iraqi government on 30 June, the commanding officer of UK forces in Basra has warned. Brigadier Nick Carter said it could take British troops between two and 10 years to restore long-term stability, under the authority of ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 14:47:17 PDT 2004

23991 [lbo-talk] Sadr calls for UN force -- rank: 1000

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >And since it appears to me that Carrol sees Doug as an important >bearer of what he is, above, describing as "moralism" it is not >surprising that both Carrol and Yoshie have made it a point to >single out Doug as a target of this campaign. :) Wow, and to think these were my test results on that "moralizing" test you posted the link to the other day: >Results > >Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.00. > >Your Inter ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 14:41:15 PDT 2004

23992 [lbo-talk] First-ever shareholder resolution on Israel in a US corporation -- rank: 1000

From: "Liat Weingart" <liat at jewishvoiceforpeace.org> To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Article submission -- first-ever shareholder resolution on Israel in a US corporation Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:07:53 -0700 Dear Doug: Jewish Voice for Peace recently teamed up with two orders of Catholic nuns to file the first ever shareholder resolution on Israel in a US corporation. Despite overwhelming odds, we succeeded in getting 4% of the vote, which means that we can re-fil ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 14:33:57 PDT 2004

23993 [lbo-talk] Pew study of poll accuracy -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Surely one reason must be that growing numbers of US respondents >communicate only by grunts and gestures. I base that on the level >of public intellect shown in the Gallup poll findings you posted >just prior to this, e.g.: "In response to a separate question, >almost 6 in 10 Americans (58%) agree that the recent attacks against >U.S. soldiers and civilians in Iraq show that the United States must >intensify its military efforts." Isn't that ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 13:49:08 PDT 2004

23994 [lbo-talk] Pew study of poll accuracy -- rank: 1000

Polls Face Growing Resistance, But Still Representative Survey Experiment Shows Public opinion polls have become harder to conduct than just a few years ago. Yet a new survey experiment shows that carefully designed and implemented polls continue to obtain representative samples of the public and provide accurate data about the opinions and experiences of Americans. The study by the Pew Research Center found that the typical five-day survey, using standard techniques, now reaches just 27% of sam ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 13:15:57 PDT 2004

23995 [lbo-talk] the American mind last week -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup's Tuesday Briefing] [...] Data from our weekend's April 16-18 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll suggest that we can reject the hypothesis that Bush's positioning has been weakened in the minds of Americans because of last week's events. The president's overall job approval and favorability ratings have remained virtually unchanged, and he has moved to a slightly larger lead than in recent weeks when pitted against presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry in a trial heat ballot. Bush's job ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 13:08:31 PDT 2004

23996 [lbo-talk] Mike Davis on the Pentagon's urban war planning -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Perhaps you've seen this. > >Pentagon vs. capitalisms' slums: Where the rubber meets the road, as the >system literally must combat the results of its own contradictions: > >http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=1386 > >"The Marine Corps Urban Warfighting Laboratory also staged realistic war >games ("Urban Warrior") in Oakland and Chicago, while the Army's Special >Operations Command "invaded" ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 12:46:25 PDT 2004

23997 [lbo-talk] Aspect ofIndia'sEconReport:TheRealStateofIndia'sEconomy -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >> >> >> (though now they're curiously appealing to the >> non-U.S. elements to >> >> demand a Magna Carta). > >Look, it's not clear that they are "APPEALING" to the >non-US elements to demand a Magna Carta. That is one >possible reading of the text, and at first I thought >that they were making such an appeal. However, ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 12:43:04 PDT 2004

23998 [lbo-talk] Sadr calls for UN force -- rank: 1000

JW Mason wrote: >So? > >Carrol quotes Rudyard Kipling. To argue that anyone who thinks there's a role for the UN in Iraq is a patronizing white imperialist. Even if that someone is the Communist Workers Party of Iraq, apparently. Ok, so Carrol gets on my nerves sometimes. He embodies a cantankerousness, certainty, rigidity, and hostility to introspection and subjectivity that are characteristic of a lot of the older left. It's a style of thought and a temperament that haven't served us ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 11:26:04 PDT 2004

23999 [lbo-talk] Err America -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Kelley for the forward and the subject heading] Los Angeles Times - April 19, 2004 David Shaw: Media Matters All-left radio is lacking the right stuff for success The first time I turned on Air America, the new liberal radio network, I heard a commentator arguing that Republicans did not initiate impeachment proceedings against President Clinton because of Monica Lewinsky, Whitewater, lying or obstruction of justice. No, the man said, Republicans knew Clinton had committed no impeacha ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 20 11:13:18 PDT 2004

24000 [lbo-talk] Aspect ofIndia'sEconReport:TheRealStateofIndia'sEconomy -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I think one reason many leftists >> can't stop bashing Hardt & Negri is that they tried to rethink the >> imperial system as a more collegial, dispersed, decentered structure >> (though now they're curiously appealing to the non-U.S. elements to >> demand a Magna Carta). You can't very well say "Empire out of >> Everywhere!" if Empire is more or less everywhere. > >Why call it &qu ...

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