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9031 [lbo-talk] troops overseas like Obama, Paul -- rank: 1000

<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/08/troops-deployed-abroad-give-61.html > Troops Deployed Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama Published by Luke Rosiak on August 14, 2008 9:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (13) During World War II, soldiers crouching in foxholes penned letters assuring their sweethearts that they'd be home soon. Now, between firefights in the Iraqi desert, some infantrymen have been sending a different kind of mail stateside: two or three hundred dollars -- or whatever they can ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 15 06:08:47 PDT 2008

9032 [lbo-talk] advances in micropolitics -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] DRIVING THE DAY: Senator CLINTON writes to the major airlines, the Air Transport Association of America, and the Pentagon, asking that the airlines waive any and all fees for service members who are traveling with excess bags. She is calling on the Pentagon to work with the airlines to facilitate direct billing of these fees to the Pentagon so that our troops are out of the billing loop, and don't have to incur any costs or outlay any money (even if only temporarily until ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 15 04:52:24 PDT 2008

9033 [lbo-talk] Durban CCS survives, testimonials still welcome, thanks -- rank: 1000

[I mentioned the other day that the institute that Patrick Bond directs, the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu- Natal, was under threat of closure by piggish university administrators. In a bit of excellent news, it looks like they've been spared. But, as Patrick says below, testimonials are still welcome; administrators are a devious and fickle lot. I've lopped off all the newspaper articles that Patrick sent along, which would have made this post enormously long; see ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 15 03:46:05 PDT 2008

9034 [lbo-talk] the Obama tax plan: more of that change thing -- rank: 1000

[cap gains rate lower than Reagan's! same as Bush proposed in 2001! revenue share of GDP at Reagan levels! if "Progressives for Obama" understood any of this stuff, they might be embarrassed] Wall Street Journal - August 14, 2008 he Obama Tax Plan By JASON FURMAN and AUSTAN GOOLSBEE Even as Barack Obama proposes fiscally responsible tax reform to strengthen our economy and restore the balance that has been lost in recent years, we hear the familiar protests and distortions from the ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 15 03:28:29 PDT 2008

9035 [lbo-talk] Chiang Ching, Call Your Office -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2008, boddi satva wrote: 13 posts in two hours, it was pointed out to me offlist. Enough!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 14 15:31:41 PDT 2008

9036 [lbo-talk] Image Restoration via Truthiness: American Media and Russia -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2008, at 3:33 PM, boddi satva wrote: > The problem with Bush is not what he CAN do - he can do PLENTY. The > problem with Bush is what that fucking idiot WILL do. I can't wait for the day when the distracting personality of GWB is gone. Yeah, he was an egregious case, but the imperial norm was pretty awful too.

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Date:	Thu Aug 14 12:42:12 PDT 2008

9037 [lbo-talk] Image Restoration via Truthiness: American Media and Russia -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2008, at 3:07 PM, boddi satva wrote: > So nothing. So he took a thuggish gambit and he's getting slaughtered > in the press. Why should he care what the American press says? George Bush is huffing and puffing too, but he can't really do a damn thing either. Meanwhile, the Russians are less likely to support the U.S. on Iran.

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Date:	Thu Aug 14 12:23:51 PDT 2008

9038 [lbo-talk] dumbass opinion roundup -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Eubulides wrote: > Charles Tilly, call your office....... He died a few months ago. I gotta say I don't see the point of these remarks. If you have a critique, please make it in a less cryptic way. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 14 10:09:20 PDT 2008

9039 [lbo-talk] dumbass opinion roundup -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > When Russia leaves Georgia, various American political figures and > yahoos will try to take credit for it, claiming it was because they > had talked tough. Meanwhile, the fever-prone Mike Whitney attributes it all to American imperial manipulations: <http://www.countercurrents.org/whitney120808.htm>. Well, maybe, but it hasn't worked out too well, has it? And Whitney can't resist concluding in characteristic mode: > Putin needs ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 14 05:55:45 PDT 2008

9040 [lbo-talk] dumbass opinion roundup -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] TOP STORY The (London) Times banners, 'Bush squares up to Putin,' and runs a commentary inside, 'Echo of Cold War as US flexes its muscles.' N.Y. Times lead story (2 cols., 3 lines, all caps): 'Bush, Sending Aid, Demands That Moscow Withdraw Forces': (written by Steven Lee Myers): 'President Bush sent American troops to Georgia on Wednesday to oversee a 'vigorous and ongoing' humanitarian mission, in a direct challenge to Russia's display of military dominance over the ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 14 05:17:16 PDT 2008

9041 [lbo-talk] Image Restoration via Truthiness: American Media and Russia -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2008, at 4:11 AM, boddi satva wrote: > He acted like a thug and now he's going to get hammered in the > American press. So?

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Date:	Thu Aug 14 04:02:43 PDT 2008

9042 [lbo-talk] 3rd party candidates getting zip -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> ....There is basically no support for third-party candidates in the >> U.S. this year, though you'd never know that by reading some left- >> wing forums... >> > Gallup admits its falsification--only using questions that cast no > doubt on the "horserace" propaganda of the MSM. As I wrote recently > (July 29): > > "Such polls are just ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 13 17:14:08 PDT 2008

9043 [lbo-talk] 3rd party candidates getting zip -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2008, at 4:03 AM, Tahir Wood wrote: >>>> <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> 08/13/08 8:57 AM >>> > McKinney [immeasurably small] > > Interesting concept. Does it mean less than one person? If not, how > could it not be measurable? And if around 2% equals zip, when does zip > become something? 3%? 4%? "Immeasurably small" was my crude way of saying "<0.5%." In a poll with about 1000 respondents, numbers that small ar ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 13 04:01:00 PDT 2008

9044 [lbo-talk] Putin's Pipeline -- rank: 1000

On Aug 12, 2008, at 1:42 PM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > Meanwhile oil prices are floating down, which to me is strange. Oil was a major bubble, which is now deflating. One trader alone held futures contracts on 460 million barrels, the equivalent of two months of Chinese consumption. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 12 18:18:09 PDT 2008

9045 [lbo-talk] Putin's Pipeline -- rank: 1000

On Aug 12, 2008, at 1:35 PM, boddi satva wrote: > Explain to me what is going on with the BP executive who can't get > into Russia any more, would you? Should I care? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 12 18:17:01 PDT 2008