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9046 [lbo-talk] Obama adviser compares Putin to Hitler -- rank: 1000

On Aug 12, 2008, at 4:33 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the national security adviser under > President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981, and is now advising the > Democratic candidate, said the Russian prime minister, Vladimir > Putin, was "following a course that is horrifyingly similar to that > taken by Stalin and Hitler in the 1930s" Man, ain't that some change we can believe in?

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Date:	Tue Aug 12 18:10:25 PDT 2008

9047 [lbo-talk] 3rd party candidates getting zip -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/109435/Support-ThirdParty-Candidates-Appears-Limited-Thus-Far.aspx > PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds only 2% of registered voters naming a third-party candidate when asked in an open-ended fashion whom they will vote for this fall. Obama 45 McCain 38 Barr 1 Nader 1 McKinney [immeasurably small]

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Date:	Tue Aug 12 18:07:43 PDT 2008

9048 [lbo-talk] the Georgian morality tale -- rank: 1000

<http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5568/> Georgia: the messy truth behind the morality tale The black-and-white reading of the horrific violence in South Ossetia overlooks the role of the war on terror in destabilising the region. [by Brendan O'Neill] It is remarkable how quickly other people s bloody tragedies can be transformed into simple morality tales by Western observers sitting in cushioned, air-conditioned offices. Almost as soon as the terrible violence bro ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 11 08:00:33 PDT 2008

9049 [lbo-talk] the sad history of state health insurance reform -- rank: 1000

[PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Aug. 11, 2008 Copy Massachusetts' health reform? Not so fast, researchers say Citing the failure of seven state-based health reforms over the past two decades - initiatives that bear a strong resemblance to the Massachusetts health reform of 2006 - a group of Massachusetts-based researchers cautions that early declarations of the latter's success may be premature. In an article titled "State Heath Reform Flatline ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 11 07:55:58 PDT 2008

9050 [lbo-talk] SEIU scandal -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2008, at 1:55 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > A quibble: how on earth is our union 'stalinist'? I think the phrase - and I didn't coin it - is "Stalinism without the ideology." I.e., a centralized cult of personality. But it's also been described as a cult of personality without the personality. The point of both is that it's an increasingly top-down antidemocratic structure.

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Date:	Mon Aug 11 06:38:12 PDT 2008

9051 [lbo-talk] ObamaKitsch update -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5035236/it-had-to-be-done-barack-roll>

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Date:	Sun Aug 10 13:55:04 PDT 2008

9052 [lbo-talk] South Ossetia -- rank: 1000

On Aug 10, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I am generally in favor of supporting actions that improve people's > lives, regardless of whether the actors involved are capitalists, > socialists, or Green Martians. Yeah, but capitalists are rarely interested in improving people's lives, and Green Martians are rarely heard from. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 10 13:40:17 PDT 2008

9053 [lbo-talk] South Ossetia -- rank: 1000

On Aug 10, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I actually doubt the US is involved. The U.S. has been supplying military aid to Georgia for years. And add to that the fact that McCain's top foreign policy advisor has been a paid lobbyist for Georgia, and you might think the Georgians thought they had at least a green light to go for it. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 10 13:35:14 PDT 2008

9054 [lbo-talk] Ivy League grads make more money than other people -- rank: 1000

On Aug 9, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > How much of this is due to the kinds of students that are > selected by the Ivy Leagues versus, say, the kinds of students > selected by the better public universities versus the prestige > benefits that might be conferred by receiving an Ivy League > degree? <http://www.nber.org/papers/w7322> Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables Stacy Berg ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 9 17:41:09 PDT 2008

9055 [lbo-talk] Olympics -- rank: 1000

On Aug 9, 2008, at 8:26 PM, John Thornton wrote: >> Their sense of superiority is frightening. Ours is just one of >> those funny quirks you just shrug off. >> >> Doug > > > I don't know. > I suspect more of the world is "frightened" by America's sense of > superiority than China's but maybe I'm wrong about that. I was joking. Americans' sense of superiority has done much more damage to the world than China's. Maybe China will have its turn, tho ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 9 17:38:53 PDT 2008

9056 [lbo-talk] Ivy League grads make more money than other people -- rank: 1000

<http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/aug2008/bw2008087_013640.htm > Which College Grads Earn the Most? A new study ranks the earning potential of graduates from the top colleges in the U.S. by Prashant Gopal It makes sense that graduating from a prestigious school with a strong network of well-positioned alumni can lay the foundation for a high- paying job. But how much does your potential to earn big bucks as a midcareer professional have to do with the name brand of that ba ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 9 13:38:19 PDT 2008

9057 [lbo-talk] South Ossetia -- rank: 1000

On Aug 9, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Eric wrote: > Should we take a mailing-list pool about when Yoshie resubs to tell > us that it our duty as leftists to support Russia and the dreamy > Putin in their heroic fight against U.S. imperialism disguised as > Saakashvili? Or will Lenin beat her to the punch? I won't say it's our duty to support Russia, but fuck the Georgians. Another illustration of how repulsive nationalisms can be. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 9 12:40:20 PDT 2008

9058 [lbo-talk] Olympics -- rank: 1000

On Aug 9, 2008, at 1:58 PM, John Thornton wrote: > I don't watch the Olympics but I've never found the Chinese streak > of superiority any stronger than that of Germans, Americans, or > Japanese. Their sense of superiority is frightening. Ours is just one of those funny quirks you just shrug off. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 9 12:37:59 PDT 2008

9059 [lbo-talk] Marxology question -- rank: 1000

On Aug 9, 2008, at 7:32 AM, negative potential wrote: > The manuscript that forms the basis for Vol. 3 is > actually the chronologically *oldest* of the > manuscripts for the three volumes. So in that sense, > it is theoretically not up to the level of the > monetary theory of value developed by Marx in chapter > one of Vol. 1. But it's not just a matter of chronology, but of scope. The credit system is a much larger-scale thing than simple commodity production and exchange. ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 9 12:12:07 PDT 2008

9060 [lbo-talk] SEIU scandal -- rank: 1000

[Tryone Freeman is a big pal of Andy Stern, it should be noted. As the person who forwarded this to me pointed out, this sort of corruption goes with the centralized Stalinist-without-ideology model.] Los Angeles Times - August 9, 2008 A TIMES INVESTIGATION Union, charity paid thousands to firms owned by official's relatives The video production and day care companies are owned by the wife and mother-in-law of the head of the SEIU local, which represents low-wage home healthcare workers. By ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 9 11:55:45 PDT 2008