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9496 [lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Yoshie can speak for herself, but I think her opinion > is the that best that contemporary Iran can > realistically do is its current government. Which may > or may not be true, I don't know. That's a pretty gloomy POV. We'll see what happens come 2009. Why are there no credible opinion polls in Iran? Doug ---- Financial Times - September 21, 2007 Khatami plots comeback By Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran Iran's reform-minded former preside ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 11:36:17 PDT 2007

9497 [lbo-talk] even more money for war -- rank: 1000

Bush may boost spending request for Iraq war 25 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration may increase the amount of money it is seeking for the Iraq war for the 2008 fiscal year that begins October 1, the White House said on Friday. The White House outlined a request for around $147 billion for fiscal 2008 for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the administration is reviewing those figures and is considering giving Congress an updated request. "I would expect it to ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 09:38:18 PDT 2007

9498 [lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwarmovement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I have never, in my 77+ years, met anyone, in person, in print, or in > cyberspace, so obsessed as is Doug I'm so proud to occupy a superlative place in such a long, rich life. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 07:51:29 PDT 2007

9499 [lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2007, at 2:23 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > To be fair, Doug, Yoshie did specify the sort of > liberalism she had in mind, the sort who invoke > "Liberty, Equality, Property, and Bentham" (to justify > capitalism?) But that's not really relevant to critics of capitalism, who aren't that kind of liberal. She's using "liberal" as an epithet, not as a category of analysis, and it's very tedious. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 20 11:36:33 PDT 2007

9500 [lbo-talk] Federal prosecutor caught in child sex sting -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > A sheriff's deputy posed as a mother who was interested in finding > someone to have sex with her children What kind of idiot would actually fall for that? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 20 11:22:32 PDT 2007

9501 [lbo-talk] Party turns on Ahmadinejad over attitude to inflation -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2007, at 1:32 PM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > Robert Tait in Tehran > Thursday September 20, 2007 > The Guardian > > Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has suffered an embarrassing > blow to > his prestige after his own party attacked him for adopting a > jocular tone > towards inflation at a time of rampant price rises. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2172852,00.html The rest of the piece is quite excellent: > The Islamic Revolution Devotee ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 20 10:53:41 PDT 2007

9502 [lbo-talk] was 9/11 Britney's fault? -- rank: 1000

[via Popbitch] Poor Britney. Enough is enough. Taking pot- shots at this troubled ex-Mousketeer has gone too far. This week she was attacked in the US media for not being able to close her pram properly. And now she's almost being blamed for 9/11. Leader of the Palestinian Popular Resistance, Muhammad Abdel-Al said, "If I meet these whores I will have the honour to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their Satanic culture against Isla ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 20 10:47:57 PDT 2007

9503 [lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > What's wrong with judging the capitalist mode of production by > standards, whether they are moral or political, religious or > aesthetic, that are other than the standard of liberalism Yawn. You've made your point, though you're very slippery on describing just who these "liberals" are and what their "liberalism" is. Could you move on to some other obsession? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:26:56 PDT 2007

9504 [lbo-talk] Sorry -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > I've been re-reading some of my belligerent, pro-war posts from > late '02 > this morning, while working on a new blog entry. Jesus, it's > painful and > embarrassing to read now. My sincere, retroactive apologies to > everyone I > slimed back then. What a dick I was (still am?). Nah, you're not a dick. One piece of evidence: you apologized. Dicks don't do that. They either ignore their mistakes, or insist they were righ ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:25:57 PDT 2007

9505 [lbo-talk] CBO on costs of an Iraq occupation -- rank: 1000

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE The following has been added to CBO's Web site (www.cbo.gov): The Possible Costs to the United States of Maintaining a Long-Term Military Presence in Iraq http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8641

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Date:	Thu Sep 20 08:06:11 PDT 2007

9506 [lbo-talk] Webster G. Tarpley's Toxic Waste is Polluting the Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Chip Berlet wrote: > Webster G. Tarpley's Toxic Waste is Polluting the Antiwar Movement Popular around WBAI, you might not be surprised to learn.

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 13:25:48 PDT 2007

9507 [lbo-talk] Human Freedom Index -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > The UNDP have made the claim that inequality has increased in NZ, > USA and UK following the end of the Cold War - can't look for teh > reference now. According to the Luxembourg Income Study's key figures spreadsheet: <http://www.lisproject.org/keyfigures/full_kf.xls> inequality increased in the UK after 1979 (gee, what happened that year?). In the U.S., it started about 5-10 years earlier. They don't have NZ in their datab ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 13:18:29 PDT 2007

9508 [lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I'd read that as a sign of socialization into a commodity culture. > Kids > that age are sociolinguistic sponges. It happened so quickly & forcefully. He almost never watches TV, and doesn't hear a lot of it from us. And if you're a "sociolinguistic sponge," you must be pretty receptive to new stuff. Yes, Ian's right about the old and familiar - repetition is the bane of a toddler parent's existence - but novelty is p ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 13:02:44 PDT 2007

9509 [lbo-talk] Panopticon Apotheosis -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Dwayne Monroe quoted: > Two little known companies in the Homeland Security > Complex announced they have landed a contract with an > unnamed major Asian country That would be China, no doubt. > Retentia > Xalted > Intelligentias It's hard to believe these names are real, but they seem to be. Life is a dystopic novel? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 12:19:55 PDT 2007

9510 [lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > things that are New! Lately I've been struck by how young Ivan, age 20.5 months, has taken up the word "New!" as a desirable attribute of commodities. I recently got him a new toothbrush and a new sippy cup, and both were identified with that word (and you could even hear the exclamation point!) for several days after. The capitalists are tapping into something fundamental and primitive with that appellation, that's for sure. D ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 11:58:41 PDT 2007