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8236 [lbo-talk] Marxists in Iran -- rank: 1000

New York Times - January 20, 2008 Radical Left, Iran s Last Legal Dissidents, Until Now By NAZILA FATHI TEHRAN In early December, a surprising scene unfolded at Tehran University: 500 Marxist students held aloft portraits of Che Guevara to protest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s policies. Smaller groups of Marxist students held similar protests in several other cities. Political protest has been harshly suppressed under the current Iranian government, especially dissent linked to the West. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 20 06:15:05 PST 2008

8237 [lbo-talk] Goldman on election -- rank: 1000

[Goldman Sachs has an election model based on economic inputs. It's a little early for this sort of thing, but Wall Street is impatient. In any case, here's what they say.] Republican Nominee Faces Steep Uphill Battle Our forecast implies that the economy will be a substantial drag on the eventual Republican nominee. We now view a recession starting in the first half of 2008, perhaps already underway, as the most likely outcome—likely pulling 2008 growth down to just a 0.8% rate. Though we see ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 19 12:48:46 PST 2008

8238 [lbo-talk] Hillary, class warrior -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Here's one rhetorical battle that will live past the Strip: Clinton is attacking Obama for his comment that "the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there." Said Clinton on Friday: "That's not the way I remember the last ten to fifteen years. I don't think it's a better idea to privatize social security. I don't think it's a better idea to try to eliminate the minimum wage."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 19 10:04:03 PST 2008

8239 [lbo-talk] Robert Reich turns icky -- rank: 1000

[via Debate] From: "Sean Jacobs" <tintinyana at gmail.com> Date: January 18, 2008 4:17:36 PM EST To: debate at lists.kabissa.org The original review by Judt is here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/ 20853 Volume 55, Number 1 · January 17, 2008 'Supercapitalism': An Exchange By Robert B. Reich, Reply by Tony Judt In response to The Wrecking Ball of Innovation (December 6, 2007) To the Editors: There is considerable irony in Tony Judt's use of my book for his jeremiad against mode ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 15:27:00 PST 2008

8240 [lbo-talk] Patrick Bond responds to voices in his head -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Doug will say the Golden Age was special, but never > mind. Well it was. That's why it's called a Golden Age. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 18 10:48:45 PST 2008

8241 [lbo-talk] Patrick Bond responds on Chinese labor market -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: >> You're maddening to argue with. You say growth has declined >> successively, without specifying any time or region. > Doug, have I ever said 'growth declined'? No, not if GDP; I have > always > pointed out - including in a paper we were supposedly going to > coauthor > last year - that the *rate* of growth had declined, decade by decade > (over full business cycles), from the 1960s through 1990s, with the > 200 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 10:47:42 PST 2008

8242 [lbo-talk] Celine Dion brings world tour to Shanghai -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2008, at 11:34 AM, joseph noonan wrote: >> www.chinaview.cn 2008-01-17 >> >> BEIJING, Jan. 17 -- Canadian pop superstar Celine Dion is to >> perform on >> the Chinese mainland for the first time, with a concert at the >> 50,000-seat Shanghai Stadium on April 11. > > Oh jeezus! > > Isn't this a rather severe torture being perpetrated on the Chinese > with > whom neither the US not Canada is supposed to be at war? Don't worry. Since ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 08:32:09 PST 2008

8243 [lbo-talk] Scientology: the beliefs -- rank: 1000

Someone asked why Scientology was odd. A lot of Christians don't really believe in the literal truth of the Bible, which is a relief, considering some of the things in that strange text. But Scientologists are expected to believe a lot of stunning nonsense. Including: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology> In Dianetics, Hubbard proposed that the cause of "aberrations" in a human mind was an accumulation of pain and unconscious memories of traumatic incidents, some of wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 08:19:11 PST 2008

8244 [lbo-talk] Subprime crisis - overaccumulation? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > is Europe having a sub-prime crisis, > too ? Not the continent. The UK looks like it may have a housing bust though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 07:41:28 PST 2008

8245 [lbo-talk] Obama & Reagan & homeless & PATCO -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Although to be fair, by the fact that he elevates Kennedy and > Reagan as > the two greats above all others in the post-war run (?!?), it seems > that > what he really values above all other qualities is charisma, > regardless of > its content, as if great charisma halloweth any cause. As Adolph Reed put it in an email after watching that video, Obama is looking like a case of serious narcissism. (All pols have it, but w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 06:34:37 PST 2008

8246 [lbo-talk] Obama on Reagan -- rank: 1000

Has this come up here? I've been kinda distracted the last day or two. Obama's praise of Reagan for bringing back dynamism & entrepreneurship to a country tired of the excesses of the 60s & 70s. Bitch sent me this link offlist. Yuck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaoYD7iZG9w&e

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 17 19:17:24 PST 2008

8247 [lbo-talk] Scientologists threaten Gawker; Gawker flips 'em the bird -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5002319/church-of-scientology-claims-copyright- infringement>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 17 18:39:23 PST 2008

8248 [lbo-talk] so much for apathy -- rank: 1000

http://www.gallup.com/poll/103792/Americans-Tuned-Election-Year.aspx PRINCETON, NJ -- Almost two-thirds of Americans already report giving "quite a lot" of thought to the presidential election this year, the highest such number recorded Gallup has recorded in January of an election year, including 2004, 2000, and 1992. [share saying paying "quite a lot" of attention, January of.... 2008 64% 2004 48 2000 32 1992 30]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 17 10:57:53 PST 2008

8249 [lbo-talk] Neo-Lamarckianism???? Come on! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Good God, to what level of sophistry can > one descend? You're kidding, right?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 17 10:03:09 PST 2008

8250 [lbo-talk] the music of politics -- rank: 1000

On Jan 17, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > As a general rule, people don't pay attention to the lyrics in pop > music. My favorite example: the popularity of Police's "I'll be > watching you" as a wedding song. It's a creepy song about a stalker! And a joke about the pedigree of the "Brothers Copeland" - their father, Miles, was a big CIA dude. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 17 08:53:28 PST 2008