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24451 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Re: Researchers help define what makes a political conservative -- rank: 1000

[a bit belatedly...] Washington Post - August 28, 2003 Political Opinion, Not Pathology By Arie W. Kruglanski and John T. Jost In the May issue of Psychological Bulletin, we published a review that statistically summarizes dozens of studies conducted over 50 years dealing with psychological differences associated with left- vs. right-wing thinking. Based on this literature, we found that the likelihood of adopting conservative rather than liberal political opinions is significantly correlated, a ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 12:30:41 PDT 2003

24452 [lbo-talk] happy American workers -- rank: 1000

[tables and graphs omitted] Government & Public Affairs September 2, 2003 America's Employees Rate the Workplace by Joseph Carroll, Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing Correspondent As America's employees return to work after Labor Day celebrations, Gallup's annual survey on the workplace finds that most of them are generally satisfied with their jobs and with most aspects of their jobs. The poll, conducted Aug. 4-6, finds employed adults most satisfied with the physical safety conditions at work, ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 11:47:40 PDT 2003

24453 [lbo-talk] Al-Jazeera in English -- rank: 1000

<npchilds at connect.ab.ca> wrote: >Apologies if this was posted earlier: it came through four times - is there a problem at your end, or somewhere else?

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 11:39:55 PDT 2003

24454 [lbo-talk] Al-Jazeera in English -- rank: 1000

<npchilds at connect.ab.ca> wrote: >Apologies if this was posted earlier: > >http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage > >The site has been revived after GWII. Some wonky spelling but not bad >looking pages and a different view of things. Al-Jazeera Launches English Web Site Mon Sep 1,10:18 AM ET By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera launched an English-language Web site Monday, five months after hackers ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 11:31:20 PDT 2003

24455 [lbo-talk] Howard Dean Formula Re: Chomsky on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Since so many folks on LBO-talk are into plain speaking, I may come >up with more plain-and-simple, easy-to-memorize formulae. Here's >one for Howard Dean. > >LBJ - "Great Society" - a Southern accent = Howard Dean you're missing a term: - welfare state expansion

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 09:23:35 PDT 2003

24456 [lbo-talk] war & politics -- rank: 1000

["'I think the war right now is a total negative for anyone who was for it,' says a senior strategist for one of the Democrats who backed Bush." !!!] Los Angeles Times - September 1, 2003 Ronald Brownstein Dean's Antiwar Stance Creates a Force to Be Reckoned With Austin, Texas Joseph Seringer, a mortgage company manager here, is calm, rational and well-spoken. But he's also furious at President Bush for instigating a war in Iraq that Seringer believes was based on lies and deceit. He's ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 09:12:17 PDT 2003

24457 [lbo-talk] steal billions, pay thousands, keep details out of the papers -- rank: 1000

FERC documents in Calif trading case to be secret Tuesday September 2, 11:51 am ET By Chris Baltimore WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - An administrative law judge said Tuesday she would keep secret the responses of some 43 companies to a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) order to justify profits gained from Enron-style trading tactics during the California energy crisis. The documents will be temporarily kept private under an agency order issued on Friday to "try to encourage settle ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 09:02:57 PDT 2003

24458 [lbo-talk] Re: Chomsky on Foucault -- rank: 1000

bradhatch wrote: >Also, Doug, do you think that theory really makes our message to the >carpenter next store that more understandable? I wonder, because my >exeperience with people is that they have an aversion to theory and tend to >gravitate to concrete nuts and bolts thinking. That's often the problem - people understand things in either excessively immediate ways (the boss, some co-worker, the black family down the street who becomes a stand-in for all black people) or excessivel ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 06:42:27 PDT 2003

24459 [lbo-talk] Re: Baghdad: 35 Murders A Day -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >By that logic, the United States government, or any other government >with a powerful military for that matter, can destroy any functional >state, create a mess, become a belligerent occupier, and continue >the occupation on the pretext that now there is no functional state >because it destroyed it. The question was how to extricate Iraq from the mess it's in now, and minimize the suffering of Iraqis, something you don't seem to address much other than to ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 06:36:56 PDT 2003

24460 [lbo-talk] Re: Chomsky on Foucault -- rank: 1000

dredmond at efn.org wrote: >Chomsky has no theory of the subject -- i.e. why millions of Americans >desperately want to believe that Saddam Hussein = Osama bin Laden, despite >mountains of evidence to the contrary. Foucault, by contrast, spends lots of >time tracing out how power works *within* subjects, i.e. why it is that so >many people end up extolling their oppressors and identifying with their >conditions of captivity. That's very far from Plato's cave, which assumes the ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 06:26:47 PDT 2003

24461 [lbo-talk] re: Chomsky on Focal -- rank: 1000

N P Childs wrote: >I dunno, he makes sense to me, but he seems to take a very long time >to get there. A few years ago, Yoshie said that theory was erotica for intellectuals. There's a lot of pleasure in Foucault, which is part of what that long time is about. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 1 19:56:33 PDT 2003

24462 [lbo-talk] fresh radio product -- rank: 1000

Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: August 28, 2003 return after vacation, blackout, and fundraising pre-emptions: Michael Albert on Parecon (participatory economics) * Christian Parenti on his visit to Iraq it joins -------- July 31, 2003 Ken Sherrill of the Hunter College poli sci department, on the perils of nonpartisan elections * nurse-practitioner Helen Ruddy-Brachman on the perils of Medicare reform July 24, 2003 labor law professor Marc ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 1 15:39:49 PDT 2003

24463 [lbo-talk] research after 9/11 -- rank: 1000

<http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20030812221737540> Secret Saudi History Tuesday, August 12 2003 @ 10:17 PM GMT "I smiled at my own joke, but the clerk's smile disappeared. 'Ask again,' he hissed, 'and I will call security to remove you from the building and have you barred as a security risk ..'" By Sarah Whalen* "I'm sorry," the clerk at the U.S. National Archives says: "You can't see the Saudi Arabian documents." I'm surprised. All the Natio ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 1 13:31:32 PDT 2003

24464 [lbo-talk] Fisk on Iraq and WITBD, Was Re: ...35 Murders A Day -- rank: 1000

By the way, Fisk wrote of the "neoconservatives," meaning the Bush admin and its pet intellectuals. Many lefter-than-thou types think Bush has nothing to do with it - it's all the falling rate of profit or the euro or the deep inner needs of American capitalism driving policy in the Mideast. Fisk seems not to agree. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 1 13:28:59 PDT 2003

24465 [lbo-talk] Fisk on Iraq and WITBD, Was Re: ...35 Murders A Day -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And in our discussions should we assume that we (leftists) can have a >near-future impact on the decision makers in Washington? I think not. I >would be interested in having someone explain to me how we might have >such an impact. IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I think I know how we might have an >impact over a period of half a decade or so, but I really don't have the >slightest idea how anything we think or say or do could make a >difference in the next year. Those ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 1 13:27:00 PDT 2003