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9076 [lbo-talk] wording the question -- rank: 1000

Opinion on withdrawal from Iraq depends heavily on how the question is worded: <http://www.gallup.com/poll/109294/Exploring-Iraq-Timetable-Issue.aspx>

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 13:39:42 PDT 2008

9077 [lbo-talk] Obama: I'd guarantee $4 billion to retool auto industry -- rank: 1000

On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > This "foreign oil" rhetoric really gets on my nerves - it diverts > public attention from land use and energy policy to foreigner bashing. While we're at it, I think we need to get over our dependence on foreign coffee and allspice. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 5 12:59:12 PDT 2008

9078 [lbo-talk] FOMC -- rank: 1000

[About as expected, though god knows what the bond mavens will think. Only one dissent, though; Plosser didn't join Fisher. Cf. earlier statement: "elevated energy prices" replaces "the rise in energy prices." And they dropped the "diminshed somewhat" describing the "downside risks to growth." So basically they're hoping that a slow economy reduces the inflation threat, and they may be right.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 5 11:31:40 PDT 2008

9079 [lbo-talk] Obama: I'd guarantee $4 billion to retool auto industry -- rank: 1000

On Aug 5, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Obama: I'd guarantee $4 billion to retool auto industry That's very nice of him, but GM has lost $47 billion over the last year; Ford, $12 billion. So $4 billion would cover about three and a half weeks of their losses. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 5 10:47:47 PDT 2008

9080 [lbo-talk] playing politics -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] Politico's Martin Kady II and Patrick O'Connor Pelosi privately urges at-risk Dems to back drilling: '[W]hat looks like intraparty tension ... is part of an intentional strategy in which Pelosi takes the heat on energy policy, while behind the scenes she's encouraging vulnerable Democrats to express their independence if it helps them politically, according to Democratic aides on and off Capitol Hill. Pelosi's gambit rests on one big assumption: that Democrats will own ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 5 10:39:28 PDT 2008

9081 [lbo-talk] Anti-Semitism in Russia, and Britain -- rank: 1000

On Aug 5, 2008, at 1:14 PM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > Speaking of Borat .. . (I laughed, I'm guilty.) > > . . . >> it is just that it is an element of west Europe's anti-Slavic racism >> that east Europeans must be portrayed as endemically backward. And they've got some of the world's worst cuisine (outside the British Isles). Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 10:32:48 PDT 2008

9082 [lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 -- rank: 1000

On Aug 5, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Wendy Lyon wrote: > That's not entirely accurate, Chris. It's true that very few people in > Ireland - although there are some - accept the diaspora's image of the > famine as an intentional genocide. But nearly everybody accepts that > the death rate was as high as it was because of Britain's utterly > inadequate response to the blight. Didn't Ireland continue to export food to Britain during the famine? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 08:45:10 PDT 2008

9083 [lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 -- rank: 1000

On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:08 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Anyway, I will make a few comments about Diaspora Disease, sometimes > known as Plastic Paddy syndrome -- be it Irish, Ukrainian, White > Russian, Jewish or what-have-you. Isn't there also an Expats' Syndrome, where the adopted country can do no wrong? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 03:32:55 PDT 2008

9084 [lbo-talk] LabourStart: August - a good month for crushing a labour movement -- rank: 1000

August is a time when many of you (particularly those living in the northern hemisphere) are on vacation. Thousands of you won't even see this message until you come back to work. If I were the leader of a country intent on crushing an independent trade union movement, this would be a good time to do so. The outcry around the world will be limited. After all, it's August. About ten days ago, the South Korean government issued arrest warrants for the leaders of the country's trade union movement. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 4 14:15:33 PDT 2008

9085 [lbo-talk] scumbag companies cheating workers -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 4, 2008 Companies Tap Pension Plans To Fund Executive Benefits Little-Known Move Uses Tax Break Meant For Rank and File By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and THEO FRANCIS At a time when scores of companies are freezing pensions for their workers, some are quietly converting their pension plans into resources to finance their executives' retirement benefits and pay. In recent years, companies from Intel Corp. to CenturyTel Inc. collectively have moved hundreds of millions of dol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 4 12:54:01 PDT 2008

9086 [lbo-talk] irony, Jesus style -- rank: 1000

My god, there's a Christian Onion! <http://larknews.com/september1_2003/secondary.php?page=4> Christian man unapologetic about having a beer now and then <http://www.larknews.com/august_2008/index.php> MySpace gives pastor prophetic edge

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Date:	Mon Aug 4 12:40:12 PDT 2008

9087 [lbo-talk] Mother of Paris comments... -- rank: 1000

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/03/kathy-hilton-calls-mccain_n_116625.html > Today Kathy Hilton weighed in on thecontroversial John McCain ad featuring her daughter Paris, as well as the singer Britney Spears, in a blog on the Huffington Post. Mrs. Hilton called the ad "frivolous" and a waste of "money" and the "country's time": I've been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses. ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 4 10:52:44 PDT 2008

9088 [lbo-talk] agents provocateurs -- rank: 1000

[I'm not including the full text, in the hope that people will click through and get Scott's pageviews up.] <http://insidehighered.com/views/2008/07/30/mclemee> Lucy in Disguise By Scott McLemee An auto worker in Detroit during the 1940s and 50s, Martin Glaberman later became a professor emeritus in interdisciplinary studies at Wayne State University, in part on the strength of his book Wartime Strikes: The Struggles Against the No-Strike Pledge in the UAW during World War Two. He ha ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 3 10:52:37 PDT 2008

9089 [lbo-talk] Obama: not the anti-Christ, but sorta like Him -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=71144> How Obama prepped world for the Antichrist Posted: August 01, 2008 1:00 am Eastern Obama's World Tour was planned as the high point of his campaign, with the candidate retracing the footsteps of great presidents of the past, hobnobbing with world leaders and as one pundit put it, "making the Europeans love us again." Obama drew huge crowds in Berlin where he addressed them, oddly enough, as "fellow citizens of the world." ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 3 07:14:48 PDT 2008

9090 [lbo-talk] race, polls, and lying -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 2, 2008 When Voters Lie It's a given that people fib in surveys, and this election season is especially tricky with race looming as an issue. How pollsters are trying to uncover the truth. By ELLEN GAMERMAN Please respond to the following statement: People lie on polls: Strongly agree Agree somewhat Neither agree nor disagree Disagree somewhat Strongly disagree One of the toughest questions on any poll is whether people are telling the truth. It is a conundrum tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 2 06:17:20 PDT 2008