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7681 [lbo-talk] reading The Secret in Tehran -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 30, 2008 Positive Thinking in Tehran: Youth Embrace Self-Help Movement New Age Devotees, Chanting 'Yes, I Can,' Flock to Unlikely Guru; 'The Secret' in Farsi By FARNAZ FASSIHI TEHRAN, Iran -- When Hassan Bakhtiar couldn't find a job last year, his mother told him to pray and read the Quran. Instead, the 25-year-old aerospace engineer dropped in on a packed appearance by Alireza Azmandian, Iran's most famous motivational speaker and self-help guru. Now, he meditates ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 30 06:01:06 PDT 2008

7682 [lbo-talk] Swift Boating McCain? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11429.html> Some on left target McCain's war record By BEN SMITH | 6/30/08 4:54 AM EST The highest voltage third rail of this presidential campaign may not be race, sex, or age, but Senator John McCain's military service. McCain's campaign Sunday issued a pair of outraged statements after retired general and Barack Obama supporter Wesley Clark said he didn't think that McCain s service as a fighter pilot and prisoner of war was relevant to run ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 30 05:45:30 PDT 2008

7683 [lbo-talk] Nader: anybody better than the Republicans -- rank: 1000

<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/highlights-of-the- sunday-shows/> Mr. Nader, who drew headlines recently by suggesting that Obama was trying to talk white, quoted with seeming approval a comment from a black political scientist, Adolph Reed Jr., that Senator Obama seemed to be a vacuous opportunist. Mr. Nader portrayed Mr. Obama as changeable and too close to corporate America. He s backed off on so many things, Mr. Nader said on ABC s This Week. He accused Mr. ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 30 05:41:32 PDT 2008

7684 [lbo-talk] fun & games in Iraq -- rank: 1000

[why did some army people build stocks in Iraq?] http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2792126200085202035hLOkNs [maybe it was all part of a kinky sex ring] http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2193776540085202035cywXkr

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 29 18:21:15 PDT 2008

7685 [lbo-talk] crazy saturday morning -- rank: 1000

And re: Verizon - I already pay premium prices for Panix, which I'm willing to do because they're so great, and I was trying to avoid doing that twice. You do get what you pay for.

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Date:	Sun Jun 29 18:16:06 PDT 2008

7686 [lbo-talk] crazy saturday morning -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Why did your office get Verizon DSL in the first place? Because they > had the competitive price? They had a good price, but they're fucking Verizon. They make a lot of phones work. I know that's a regulated business, but you'd think they'd have a techie who could find a crossed wire. Isn't that Telephony 101? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 29 18:14:47 PDT 2008

7687 [lbo-talk] crazy saturday morning -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I got caught out when North > Point crashed and burned. They were a big commercial provider that > I think > Earthlink used, here and NP went belly up about ten years ago. Yeah Panix used NP too. Then some other service that failed. Finally they settled on Covad, which is still around. Actually a few of the dot.com names live on. Someone should do a survivorship study of some of the dot.com indexes - I think TheStreet.com had one. ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 29 18:06:56 PDT 2008

7688 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Eric wrote: > why is it > essential to know trivia about the judicial branch when you are > rejecting it? The name of the Chief Justice isn't exactly trivia. But "rejecting" the judicial branch? That reminds me of a comment I once heard attributed to Trotsky - dunno if it's an accurate attribution: "You may not care about politics, but politics cares about you." Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 29 06:30:11 PDT 2008

7689 [lbo-talk] crazy saturday morning -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Chuck Grimes wrote: > >> Rule #1024: never get up early Saturday morning vowing to `do >> something' about the computer system. > > Somebody should tell Paul Krugman to join lbo-talk and heed Chuck's > advice: > > http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/verizon-the-destroyer/ Verizon sucks. My office DSL was flaky for a couple of years - kept dropping out. Verizon tech support kept telling me to check the ca ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 29 06:26:11 PDT 2008

7690 [lbo-talk] those SEIU call centers -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On the call center issue, we got the idea from Australia -- and I > don't understand this well at all -- when unions in that country were > forced to related to their members after the loss of agency shop (dues > checkoff?) under labor law reform a few years ago. In SEIU it's seen > (by some -- not all of course) as a way to provide increased services > to members given the amount of resources -- 50% -- we devote to new > o ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 14:30:28 PDT 2008

7691 [lbo-talk] those SEIU call centers -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 2:39 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > The chapter in their book titled "Change to Win," is subtitled "A > Return to > Gompers?" Return? When did he ever go away? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 28 13:06:25 PDT 2008

7692 [lbo-talk] Power (Waiting for Foucault) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Since others may be (like myself for the most part) deleting Tahir's > posts without reading them, It's always charming when you say this. I know a few people who have you on autotrash, too. > I wanted to salvage what seems to me an > important paragraph in his post on this subject. > > > *****Tahir: This captures the problem nicely that I have with the > notion > of power that is under discussion. The trouble with it i ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 13:01:54 PDT 2008

7693 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > In concrete historical circumstances where every inch of progress is > disputed fiercely, where evil and good are shades in a continuum, > isn't the "lesser evil" basically another name for the "greater good"? In the USA? Where unpaid family leave is a great social advance? Where the "peace" candidate wants to increase the size of the armed forces? I'll stick with lesser evil, thanks. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 10:46:51 PDT 2008

7694 [lbo-talk] those SEIU call centers -- rank: 1000

[my offlist SEIU informant passed this along, from a dissident leader] From: Dan Mariscal <dmariscal1 at sbcglobal.net> Subject: RE: [fightfor347] Am I alone on this? To: fightfor347 at yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 6:01 AM I would like to say that your cynicism and paranoia are unfounded and everything will work itself out in the end.......but I can't. I've just come from a "tour" of the new Membership Resource Center (MRC) and I have some good news and some ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 09:18:00 PDT 2008

7695 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Is admiration of Butler merely a literary preference, not entering > into > thought and/or practice in any area not specifically covered by > Butler? > Surely "well-ifnormed" requires a deconstuctive analysis. By the way, if that was a tendentious and pointlessly roundabout way of asking whether I think ill-informedness is produced or innate, I'm almost insulted to have to repeat this: creating such a large, detached, ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 09:12:19 PDT 2008