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3346 [lbo-talk] new blog post: A Coda on Solidarity: Iran, the Left and Noble Savages | The Activist -- rank: 1000

On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Joseph Catron cited: > http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/MideastRes.pdf Wow, that's rather distressingly "even-handed," in a situation where one side has about 95% of the guns. Doug

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3347 [lbo-talk] XML files -- rank: 1000

Any computer geeks out there know how to use XML files? The Fed has started doing its quarterly flow of funds releases in large (275 mb) XML files, and I've never used 'em. On a Mac, if that matters. Please contact offlist. Doug

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3348 [lbo-talk] Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > And who > are you to decide what price the Iranian people should pay for the > abstract goal of checking American hegemony? Someone not having to live under a theocratic regime that would put him in jail for complaining. Doug

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3349 [lbo-talk] Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Peter Ward wrote: > The way Westerners talk of Iranian dissent today reminds me of the > same talking of Soviet and Eastern European dissent in the day. > Internal political conflict is being exploited by the West so it can > weaken the country to conquer it. For this reason, the price of > religious fundamentalism for resisting US conquest may be the best > that can be hoped for in the present situation. And those serious > about Iran's future ...

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3350 [lbo-talk] new blog post: A Coda on Solidarity: Iran, the Left and Noble Savages | The Activist -- rank: 1000

On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > http://theactivist.org/blog/a-coda-on-solidarity-iran-the-left-and-noble-savages > > It doesn t take a tremendous appreciation of the dialectic to grasp > this contradiction: some of the groups with the most stridently > revolutionary and anti-imperialist politics are, in practice, > reactionary and orientalist. Nice essay. I see you mentioned MRZine only in passing, with a link to this dreadful piece of work: http://m ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 14 08:39:59 PDT 2010

3351 [lbo-talk] American exceptionalism -- rank: 1000

Soccer is just un-American, like socialism: http://gawker.com/5560461/conservatives-explain-inherent-socialism-anti+americanism-of-soccer

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 18:56:38 PDT 2010

3352 [lbo-talk] dance music -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2010, at 6:59 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Suggestions for something more up-to-date. Simian Mobile Disco! Justice!!

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 17:57:04 PDT 2010

3353 [lbo-talk] a collage of lies -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Isn't it about time to close this thread down? Very close. That's what I meant by treading an awful lot of thin ice awful close into shore.

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3354 [lbo-talk] news from Newman! -- rank: 1000

[this just in, from the indefatigable Newman!, as Max Sawicky dubbed him] Amicus brief Defend Health Reform: Join Legislator Amicus Brief in Support of Federal Health Reform Law Dear , I am writing you today to ask you to join with other legislators around the country in support of an amicus brief defending the federal health reform law. We need to submit the brief next week, June 16th, so please join us today in this effort. And please pass this email onto colleagues who you think would b ...

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3355 [lbo-talk] a collage of lies -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Victor Friedlander wrote: > It has no choice. Did Israel "have a choice" when it decided to bomb Gaza for three weeks at the end of 2008/beginning of 2009, killing 1400 and destroying schools and hospitals? Did a lack of choice also extend to the use of white phosphorous? Doug

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3356 [lbo-talk] capitalist ideology revamped -- rank: 1000

NEW YORK, NY A new book by Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital a leading global alternative investment firm with $5.6 billion in assets under management, "It is up to us to approach life with the right attitude and positively react, not letting changes diminish our spirit or initiative, or damage our personal reputation," Scaramucci writes in his new book Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to find your fortune without losing your soul, from John Wiley and Sons, May 31, ...

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3357 [lbo-talk] Kagan luvs Scalia -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:07:13 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> 'One night, at an >> intimate dinner, Elena Kagan lavished such praise on Justice Antonin >> Scalia that he almost teared up. > > Golly. Who was mixing the Pimm's Cup? > > Kagan looks a lot like Scalia, actually. Separated At Birth? As many circuits of the block as I've made, I'm still surprised by how awful Dems ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 07:31:46 PDT 2010

3358 [lbo-talk] Kagan luvs Scalia -- rank: 1000

[from a Wash Post profile, via Mike Allen] 'Kagan has many achievements, but her world has been relatively narrow,' by Ann Gerhart and Philip Rucker: 'One night, at an intimate dinner, Elena Kagan lavished such praise on Justice Antonin Scalia that he almost teared up. The next afternoon ... she lauded him some more, nearly choking up herself. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/09/AR2010060906240_pf.html

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3359 [lbo-talk] a collage of lies -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Victor Friedlander wrote: > What occupation? Israel handed administrative control of Gaza to the > Palestinian authority in 1994 and evacuated all security forces (as > well as > Jewish civilians ) in 2005. There is an on-going debate as to whether > Israel's control of Gaza airspace and territorial waters constitutes > occupation. As my high school history teacher, a man with a troubled relationship with thought and language, used to say, you're t ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 04:38:34 PDT 2010

3360 [lbo-talk] U.S. in Israel's corner; IS is US -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > I cannot count the posts I've abandoned because my writing habits -- > relatively slow and very fond of edits for readability and style -- > have made my pace too glacial to keep up with a thread's evolution. But, man, you're worth it. Abandon not!

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