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9586 [lbo-talk] Question for Bryan Atinsky (or anybody else) -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky quoted: > Israeli Industry, Trade, and Labor Minister Eli Yishai of the Shas > (Mizrahi Orthodox) Party stated: "These people are not fit to be > called > people. They are a cancer." Does it ever creep anyone in Israel out to hear language like this? It's right out of Mein Kampf. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 15:51:11 PDT 2007

9587 [lbo-talk] Rudy's braintrust -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > First of all, I'd say being an arbitrage and OTC honcho is ipso facto > evidence of criminality. More so than being Donald Regan, Nicholas Brady, or Henry "Hank" Paulson? The little guys get handcuffs; the big guys get to be Treasury Secretary.

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 14:20:32 PDT 2007

9588 [lbo-talk] Rudy's braintrust -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > This will probably seem like a "perverse" attitude to you, but: > given that government is going to be repressive and semi-fascist > if not rather more than semi-, would you prefer it to be efficient > or inefficient? I don't think Bloomberg makes much difference for how the NYPD operates. Instructions for the RNC 2004 almost certainly came down from the White House, and I doubt things would have gone much differently u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 14 14:02:45 PDT 2007

9589 [lbo-talk] military going Dem? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.capitaleye.org/inside.asp?ID=300> The Other Iraq Surge A sharp increase in contributions from the military to Democrats suggests the Republican commander-in-chief and his party are losing the troops' support. By Lindsay Renick Mayer September 13, 2007 | Assessed favorably this week by the war's lead general, the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq appears to be causing a surge of another sort and one that's not positive for President Bush or the Republican Party. Since the sta ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 13:13:54 PDT 2007

9590 [lbo-talk] Iraq & the Dems -- rank: 1000

<http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=3105288&page=1> Consider this stubborn fact: "There will actually be 7,000 more troops in Iraq next summer than there were before Bush deployed additional forces to Iraq in January as part of a troop surge plan to quell sectarian violence," ABC's Martha Raddatz and Jennifer Parker report. That's hardly the scorecard Democrats wanted to be able to point to when they took control of Congress eight months ago. "It ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 14 13:06:18 PDT 2007

9591 [lbo-talk] Oprah: $30m for her dogs -- rank: 1000

[at least back in the Gilded Age Mrs Stuyvesant Fish only held a dinner party for her friends' dogs] <http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2007/09/ is_oprah_leaving_millions_to_h.php> Is Oprah Leaving Millions to Her Dogs? Posted by ExtraTV Staff on September 14, 2007 7:18 AM Is Oprah Winfrey s wealth going to the dogs? The billionaire media mogul is reportedly leaving $30 million to her four beloved canines. A new report says Oprah, 53, has set up a trust fund for her pooches should anything ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 12:42:17 PDT 2007

9592 [lbo-talk] Regimes and Governments -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Perhaps you genuinely don't understand what I am saying, or perhaps > you are setting up a straw man as usual I'm so glad I'm not paying for the list's bandwidth anymore. Thanks Jordan! (who's in Paris, the poor guy). Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 11:51:46 PDT 2007

9593 [lbo-talk] Iraqis: surge ain't working, things really suck -- rank: 1000

[details available at original - most want the U.S. out, but they're not happy with their neighbor Iran either] <http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3571504> Iraqis' Own Surge Assessment: Few See Security Gains ABC News/BBC/NHK National Survey of Iraq Finds Worsening Public Attitudes ANALYSIS By GARY LANGER Sept. 10, 2007 Barely a quarter of Iraqis say their security has improved in the past six months, a negative assessment of the surge in U.S. forces that reflects worsening public attitud ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 10:51:12 PDT 2007

9594 [lbo-talk] Rudy's braintrust -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:50 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >> And on a day-to-day >> level, the city government has never been so efficient and non- >> corrupt; stuff actually works, and no one's been hauled off to jail. > > RNC 2004? I mean in the administration, not the public.

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 10:43:05 PDT 2007

9595 [lbo-talk] Rudy's braintrust -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Full disclosure: I briefly admired Giuliani when, in 1987 as a US > Attorney, Rudy had a couple of Wall Street execs hauled off to jail > in handcuffs to face insider trading charges (later dismissed, I > believe); one of these execs was photographed crying his eyes out > -- a sight that I must say warmed my heart. Unfortunately once he > got into office Rudy switched from pummeling the powerful to > pummeling the poor. Not ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 10:42:43 PDT 2007

9596 [lbo-talk] Gallup on Muslim opinion -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallupworldpoll.com/content/?CI=28678> September 11, 2007 Framing the War on Terror by Dalia Mogahed GALLUP NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the world witnesses the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the U.S.-led "war on terror" begins its seventh year, hard questions must be asked about the core assumptions that are guiding policy in this battle. Are they leading to actions that help eliminate or inadvertently increase extremism? Often U.S ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 10:27:35 PDT 2007

9597 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 12:05 PM, boddi satva wrote: > I have to say that the more I've read in Islam, the more I think it is > irreconcilable with democracy - certainly not without a massive > theological revision. They could treat is all as metaphor, just like the pwogwessive Christians treat the Bible. And I'm sure Michael Lerner doesn't buy all that crazy shit in the Old Testament, either. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 10:12:48 PDT 2007

9598 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > Because when Islam and democracy are "re-conciliated" in Muslim OPEC > countries it will be harder for the US to bomb away the whole Middle > East. Iran is more democratic than Saudi Arabia or Egypt - and which is the U.S. more likely to bomb? Venezuela is highly democratic and the U.S. would love nothing more than to shoot Chavez and reverse his policies. Etc. The U.S. doesn't give a damn about democracy if the ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 08:56:37 PDT 2007

9599 [lbo-talk] Rudy's braintrust -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:22 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> It is. I don't think anyone who didn't live through the Rudy years in >> NYC understands how awful he is. > > Agreed. Serious, non-rhetorical question, though -- do you feel > that the Bloomberg years have been much of an improvement? Yes. Not so much in budget, land use, labor relations, and other material policies - but a Dem mayor would have been little ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 08:50:26 PDT 2007

9600 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> You'll like how Ervand Abrahamian says that Ahmadinejad has a lot in >> common with Cheney. What we call neocons in the U.S. are "principled >> conservatives" or "principalists" in Iran, says he. > > If there is one thing that Cheney and Ahmadinejad have in common, it's > that they both know what they want, which we can't say about leftists. > Other than that, their social bases are not the ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 14 08:30:57 PDT 2007