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4081 [lbo-talk] Rundle on the Australian election -- rank: 1000

On Aug 10, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > There's a group of excitable people talking about the > inevitable housing crash, as they have been for years. It happened in the U.S. and UK, with very damaging effects, so why not in Oz? Doug

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4082 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 1000

On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:57 PM, SA wrote: > I do think the Lobby's influence is real and that its existence and development go a long way in explaining why US Mideast policy is the way it is. But I don't believe it's a fifth column or that the policymakers associated with it are mere proxies for Israel. What I'm trying to say is that the ideas and interests and personnel of the "Lobby" are partly constitutive *of* America. Then I don't really get why you use the term "lobby" ...

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4083 [lbo-talk] Rundle on the Australian election -- rank: 1000

On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:18 AM, Mike Beggs wrote: > One of the key signs of just how alienated politics has become is how > just about everyone now approaches politics as a pundit - it's not > just for journalists anymore. Journalists talking to their proverbial > taxi driver find he reports a conversation at the pub with another > taxi driver whose wife heard the feeling on talkback was that the > swing voters of Penrith would find Swan's spin on mortgage rates > unconvincing. ...

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4084 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 1000

On Aug 8, 2010, at 1:34 AM, SA wrote: > By this standard, much of the foreign policy establishment is made of Lobby opponents. What's your evidence for this? I don't see much visible evidence of this sort of critique or debate going on via the usual outlets - journals, op-ed pages, think tank agendas, breakfast meetings at the Council on Foreign Relations, etc. Where do you get this sense from? Doug

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4085 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2010, at 11:14 AM, SA wrote: > So given that the pillars of the US foreign-policy establishment are themselves divided over whether Israel is a strategic asset Really? THe not-an-asset side seems very small. How do you see the balance of forces? Doug

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4086 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 1000

On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:35 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 21:02:49 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> it >> strangely implies or assumes that the rest of U.S. foreign policy is >> benign, and support of Israel an exception to the rule. > > I'm not entirely sure what, in concrete terms, the antecedent of > 'it' is here. Eric's reference to "the anti-Lobby focus," which I quoted, but you didn't. > It's hardly ...

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4087 [lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine -- rank: 1000

On Aug 6, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Well done. I can't shake the feeling that at bottom, the anti-Lobby > focus is racist, with the belief that Jews are controlling Our > political process, etc. It certainly partakes of the classic tropes of anti-Semitism - manipulative cabals controlling forces behind the scenes, etc. And it strangely implies or assumes that the rest of U.S. foreign policy is benign, and support of Israel an exception to the rule. Doug

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4088 [lbo-talk] Astronomy -- rank: 1000

On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > Just to point out that the "dark matter" is not observed, merely a computer-generated artefact reflecting an arbitrary mathematical construction to which nothing in physical reality corresponds. Unlike, say, the organic composition of capital? Doug

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4089 [lbo-talk] times change -- rank: 1000

[from a press release by the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association announcing the new members of its hall of fame] Lisa Ben, pseudonym for the editor of the first lesbian publication. From June 1947 to February 1948, a lesbian who used the pseudonym Lisa Ben wrote a small newsletter in Los Angeles called Vice Versa. She relied on a laborious process at her office at the RKO Movie Studios where she would type one original with four carbon copies, then reload her typewriter, and r ...

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4090 [lbo-talk] Beinart on ADL & chickens coming home to roost -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:03 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > arch-Zionist Leon Wieseltier A man who, according to someone who knew him in college, was tickled to have Henry Kissinger blurb his first book. Doug

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4091 [lbo-talk] Beinart on ADL & chickens coming home to roost -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:39 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > There seems to be a lot of that going around. Andrew Sullivan sounds > positively decent these days, too. > > http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/how-is-this-not-apartheid.html Wow. Another Peretz alum goes bad!

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4092 [lbo-talk] Beinart on ADL & chickens coming home to roost -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Michael Pollak quoted Peter Beinart: > the Jewish state also perpetrated a great deal of bigotry and violence itself, especially after 1967, when it made itself occupier of millions of Palestinians to whom it denied the vote This guy used to work for Marty Peretz? Did he change, or did he just keep to himself? Doug

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4093 [lbo-talk] end of civilization (cont.) -- rank: 1000

You may be right, but I was drawing attention to the fact that she announced this to the world via Twitter. On Aug 4, 2010, at 7:36 PM, brad wrote: > This and the Arizona thingy prove that the Dems would be fine if we > had an election every month or so. > > Brad > -------------------------------------------------------- > Doug wrote: > The House will be back in session next week to clear a $26 billion > jobs bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the news in a tweet: > ...

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4094 [lbo-talk] the terrible bicycle conspiracy -- rank: 1000

[Sometimes it seems too easy to make fun of right-wing yahoos, but really, they make it hard to resist. Via Gawker] Denver Post - August 4, 2010 <http://www.denverpost.com/election2010/ci_15673894> Bike agenda spins cities toward U.N. control, Maes warns By Christopher N. Osher Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are "converting Denver into a United Nations communit ...

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4095 [lbo-talk] end of civilization (cont.) -- rank: 1000

POLITICO Breaking News: ----------------------------------------------------- The House will be back in session next week to clear a $26 billion jobs bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the news in a tweet: @SpeakerPelosi: I will be calling the House back into session early next week to save teachers' jobs and help seniors & children.

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