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8401 [lbo-talk] Annalee Newitz gets a new job -- rank: 1000

All you Bad Subjects alums out there, Gawker headman Nick Denton reported earlier today: And the one last bullet point to this company press release: Annalee Newitz, a contributor to Wired among many other publications, is helming Gawker's new science fiction and futurist culture site, io9, which launches today. <http://io9.com/>

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8402 [lbo-talk] Europe versus America (Was NYT hires a new hack) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > EU may not be a perfect political organization, but it > stands second to none in guranteeing its citizens a > wide range of civil and political rights and powers. The EU does this? Or its national states do? Doug

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8403 [lbo-talk] Europe versus America (Was NYT hires a new hack) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > What benefit did the French and German elite get from > the war in Iraq? It's not necessarily the details of any particular campaign - there's just no point in Europe's challenging the U.S. on this sort of thing. They occupy a comfy subordinate role, so why rock the boat? The same doesn't apply to Russia or China.

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8404 [lbo-talk] more on that UFO -- rank: 1000

[So The Note says the reason DK endorsed Obama rather than Edwards is that Edwards tried to exclude him from the debates.] Wall Street Journal - January 2, 2008 What Kucinich Saw: Witnesses Describe His Close Encounter Candidate's Pals Recall Three Throbbing UFOs; Outed by Shirley MacLaine By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS The 2008 presidential race has raised many questions about the candidates' personal histories. Will Barack Obama's past drug use preclude a White House future? Will Christian conserva ...

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8405 [lbo-talk] Europe versus America (Was NYT hires a new hack) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > The EU's failure to derail War Plan Iraq is not evidence of Europe's > inability to "do what it wants". It's an example of Washington's > refusal to listen to counsel. These are two different things. It could be that, despite all their occasional huffing and puffing, that the European elite is happy to stand aside and have the U.S. act as the world's tough guy. They get the global hierarchy enforced, yet get the opportuni ...

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8406 [lbo-talk] Europe versus America (Was NYT hires a new hack) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:33 AM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > The EU isn't a country. It's the world's first -- but hardly last -- > multinational democracy. What democratic control is there over the Eurocrats in Brussels? What real power does the European Parliament have? What share of the European pop thinks of itself as European before they think of themselves as French or Polish? Doug

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8407 [lbo-talk] more on Iowa & NH -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2008/01/ia-and-nh-a-qui.html> IA and NH: A Quizzical Homage to Firstness [Gary Langer] January 02, 2008 9:00 AM The turning of the New Year is a dandy time for us to pay quizzical homage to the upcoming Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries. Herein, a data-based effort to make some small sense of this quadrennial brouhaha. Fair warning: It might not work. It once seemed clear why New Hampshire mattered: Starting with Dwight Eisenhower, no one wh ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 2 06:06:24 PST 2008

8408 [lbo-talk] Allen, racism, fascism and beyond -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Seth Ackerman wrote: > since each state has the right to control when its primary > happens Yeah, but the parties threatened states that tried to jump the line by saying they wouldn't recognize their delegates at the convention. Doug

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8409 [lbo-talk] US real wage stagnation? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 6:10 PM, John Blazek wrote: > In the past few years I have read in a number of places that real > wages in > the US have basically been stagnant since the 1970's, but these > assertions > are often not very solidly referenced. > > Can anyone point me to the best-sourced discussions of real wage > trends, > over both the longer term and since 2000? Here's the average U.S. hourly wage deflated by the consumer price index. Doug ---- 1964 17.07 1965 17. ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 18:16:28 PST 2008

8410 [lbo-talk] Europe versus America (Was NYT hires a new hack) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Happy Birthday, Ivan! If he could, Ivan would thank you. Doug

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8411 [lbo-talk] Europe versus America (Was NYT hires a new hack) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 5:10 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > Eurostat Yearbook 2006, Table 6.2, page 153, GDP for 2005 at market > exchange rates: > > EU-27 10.82 trillion EUR > US 10.04 trillion EUR Dennis, the 27 are not one country. They're enormously different places that don't all even use the same currency. They don't have a coherent state, a common foreign policy, a common language, or anything really other than a legal convention with limited popular legitimacy. You'r ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 15:02:20 PST 2008

8412 [lbo-talk] second odd endorsement of the day -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/ Kucinich_sorta_endorses_Obama.html> January 01, 2008 Kucinich sorta endorses Obama An unexpected twist from the Kucinich camp: Kucinich Urges Supporters to Back Obama on Second Iowa Ballot For Immediate Release - Tuesday, January 01, 2008 DES MOINES, IA - Democratic Presidential candidate and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich opened the New Year by publicly asking his Iowa supporters to vote for him in the caucuses this Thursday, and suggesti ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 14:00:55 PST 2008

8413 [lbo-talk] Nader endorses Edwards -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Why this obsession with _Nader_ rather than with the people all > over the > u.s. who USED Nader. Equally untrue. The Green Party is mostly a joke. Most people on the left are so obsessed with 1/20/09 that third party and extra- parliamentary organization is barely measurable, a fraction of the energy that went into the pointless Ned Lamont campaign. The antiwar movement - where'd it go? What are you talking about? Doug

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8414 [lbo-talk] Allen, racism, fascism and beyond -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Seth Ackerman wrote: > I don't think this is actually *why* the primaries start in Iowa > and New > Hampshire. No, I don't think anyone sat down and planned this. But the fact that it's turned out this way is curious, isn't it? I think it has something to do with the sense that they're the "real America." See that WashPost piece I posted this morning about how the criterion that Iowans measure candidates by is how "real" they are. To s ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 11:48:27 PST 2008

8415 [lbo-talk] Nader endorses Edwards -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > For those of us who believe that the only chance for changing the > drift > to the right in the u.s. is a mass popular movement _outside_ > electoral > politics, Nader was the ONLY candidate in 2004 who had a chance to > influence the future. And as messed up as the Green campaign was (with > Cobb's "safe state" strategy and other Democratic sabotage), Nader's > campaign _did_ enlarge the outreach of local leftist ...

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