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24181 [lbo-talk] Iraqi public opinion -- rank: 1000

A post to the AAPOR list: >The Washington Post article provided by Jan Werner looking more closely >at poll results in Iraq is useful. There is also one methodological >issue that needs careful consideration when surveys are done in places >like Iraq and indeed in other countries where perceptions of sponsorship >may well affect answers. In a 1990 survey-based experiment in >Nicaragua, whether interviewers were perceived to come from the >government or from the opposition ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 29 09:25:22 PDT 2003

24182 [lbo-talk] anti war vs. anti-capitalism? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The accounts I've read about Cancun indicated that it was pretty >"hot." The buzz on the street here in the US is that Miami is going >to be "hot" too. I'm seeing lots of sings of increasing activity in >the anti-capitalist and anti-globalization movements. What's the message of these movements now? Trade is bad? Farm subsidies are good? I could understand an initial reticence about agendas, but almost four years after Seattle, it's getting to be a ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 29 08:43:08 PDT 2003

24183 [lbo-talk] more Iraqi public opinion -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 29, 2003 Data Reveal Inaccuracies in Portrayal of Iraqis By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Top Bush administration officials in the past weeks have been citing a pair of public opinion polls to demonstrate that Iraqis have a positive view of the U.S. occupation. But an examination of those polls indicates Iraqis have a less enthusiastic view than the administration has portrayed. For example, in testimony before Congress, L. Paul Bremer III, the U.S. admin ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 29 06:51:25 PDT 2003

24184 [lbo-talk] Said - responsible for 9/11? -- rank: 1000

[going Brad DeLong one better] Wall Street Journal - September 29, 2003 Orientalism By IBN WARRAQ Late in life, Edward Said made a rare conciliatory gesture. In 1998, he accused the Arab world of hypocrisy for defending a Holocaust denier on grounds of free speech. After all, free speech "scarcely exists in our own societies." The history of the modern Arab world was one of "political failures," "human rights abuses," "stunning military incompetences," &qu ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 29 06:35:56 PDT 2003

24185 [lbo-talk] political gossip -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Is it true Rivera endorsed Pataki last race? Yup. Pataki had thrown his members some good deals, but Pataki moved right after the election. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 28 19:45:58 PDT 2003

24186 [lbo-talk] Brazil accepts GM products -- rank: 1000

[Anyone know more about the landless using GM seeds?] New York Times - September 28, 2003 Hard Realities: Brazil Drops Resistance to Genetically Altered Crops By LARRY ROHTER RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 27 - In barely 36 hours, Brazil's left-leaning government first announced that it would allow farmers to plant genetically altered soybean seeds, then reversed course, before changing yet again, late on Thursday. The result is that Brazil, a bastion of global opposition to genetically modified organism ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 28 16:10:13 PDT 2003

24187 [lbo-talk] Nuking Tel-Aviv was: Edward Said... -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Let's hope. (Looking out over the Sears Tower and >downtown Chicago . . . )jks Relax. We New Yorkers will go first. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 28 15:21:56 PDT 2003

24188 [lbo-talk] political gossip -- rank: 1000

NYC hospital workers union president and political heavyweight Dennis Rivera held a fundraiser for Howard Dean the other night. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 28 15:10:50 PDT 2003

24189 [lbo-talk] Sen Miller? -- rank: 1000

[From a distance it looks like Calif is becoming completely unhinged. Does it look different up close?] Los Angeles Times - September 28, 2003 Republican Party seeks to draft Miller into politics By Joe Mathews Arnold Schwarzenegger may be the latest celebrity to transform himself into a candidate for high California office. But if some Republican political operatives have their way, he will not be the last. The comedian Dennis Miller is being talked about, apparently seriously, as a Republican ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 28 14:59:02 PDT 2003

24190 [lbo-talk] Nuking Tel-Aviv was: Edward Said... -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >What makes you think non-state actors will ever get nuclear bombs? Are all those tales of suitcase bombs on the black market just fictions? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 28 11:25:37 PDT 2003

24191 [lbo-talk] Hitchens on Said -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >But guess what? Malaysia's New Straits Times saw fit to re-print >Berstein's NYT obit! Dumbness? Yes. But it is also a symptom of the >contradictions of the Mahathirist establishment, something >apparently not much appreciated in progressive international NGO >circles. Could you talk a bit more about this? I've been distressed to hear pwoggies pwaising Mahathir, who seems like a bigot and hypernationalist from a distance. What are these contradiction ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 28 11:18:54 PDT 2003

24192 [lbo-talk] Said links -- rank: 1000

To: <shobak_news at yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:45 AM Subject: [shobak_news] OBIT:Edward Said-- 8 Obits,53 Essays,17 Books Shobak_News joins the rest of the world in mourning the passing of Edward Said-- iconoclast, intellectual, campaigner, professor, musician and activist. Here is a collection of only a few items by and about Professor Said. -Naeem A.EDWARD SAID OBITS 1.Barghouti on Said:Shining Light <http://palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20030925152906 ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 28 10:56:20 PDT 2003

24193 [lbo-talk] Your letter to Amy Goodman -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Stalin murdered more loyal Communists <yawn>

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Date:	Sun Sep 28 10:11:24 PDT 2003

24194 [lbo-talk] Alterman on Said -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Pitch-perfect. Alterman? This must be the first time that that modifer has been attached to that proper noun. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 26 15:14:47 PDT 2003

24195 [lbo-talk] Gallup in Baghdad: what kind of gov? -- rank: 1000

{Gallup sez: "Feel free to share these data with your colleagues, but remember to tell them you read it first in the Tuesday Briefing."] September 26, 2003 What Form of Government for Iraq? by Lydia Saad, Senior Gallup Poll Editor With Saddam Hussein's dictatorship gone, the residents of Iraq are living in something of a political limbo. But if all goes according to plan, the Coalition Provisional Authority currently administering Iraq will eventually yield to self-government under a n ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 26 14:21:14 PDT 2003