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9601 [lbo-talk] Rudy's braintrust -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 9:13 AM, 3.3.3. wrote: > [it would be really horrible if Rudy became president] > > No matter how different ways there is to write that, it's always an > understatement isn't it? It is. I don't think anyone who didn't live through the Rudy years in NYC understands how awful he is. And unlike Bush, his admin would probably be more competent, which makes him scarier. Doug

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9602 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > On 14 sept. 07, at 23:43, Robert Wrubel wrote: > >> attract Japan into its orbit. The US today seems >> capable of lashing out militarily against anyone who >> threatens its last toehold on power, oil. > > Which is one of the reasons why it is important to find someting "for > intellectual reconciliation of Islam and democracy". I don't get that at all. Why? Doug

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9603 [lbo-talk] Ha'aretz dude: Israel is an apartheid state -- rank: 1000

[I said the other day to our libertarian friend that you could comb the U.S. press for anything as remotely critical of Israel as you see in Ha'aretz. Here's a nice example from our friends across the sea.] <http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/ 20070831rubinsteinapartheid.html> British Zionist group cancels Ha'aretz columnist after 'apartheid' comment By Dinah A. Spritzer Published: 08/31/2007 PRAGUE (JTA) -- The British Zionist Federation canceled a London appearance by Ha'are ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 13 19:10:37 PDT 2007

9604 [lbo-talk] Rudy wants MoveOn's Times deal -- rank: 1000

<http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/giuliani-demands-moveons-new- york-times-ad-rate-2007-09-13.html> Giuliani demands MoveOn s New York Times ad rate By Sam Youngman September 13, 2007 Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) said Thursday that he is asking The New York Times for the same heavily discounted rate they gave MoveOn.org for his campaign to run an ad in Friday s paper. Giuliani, calling MoveOn.org s controversial General Betray Us ad abominable, said his campaign ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 13 18:42:12 PDT 2007

9605 [lbo-talk] Rudy's braintrust -- rank: 1000

[it would be really horrible if Rudy became president] <http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90001048> Pipes Joins Up With Giuliani Washington Babylon Ken Silverstein August 28, 2007 Add another neoconservative adviser on the Middle East to an already impressive roster Daniel Pipes signed on with Rudy Giuliani s campaign today. I d heard Pipes was advising Giuliani and asked him about it yesterday. He told me by e-mail that he had close relations with several people in the campa ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 13 18:33:58 PDT 2007

9606 [lbo-talk] a nation of haves & have-nots? Americans equally divided... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I get the joke, but identifying as neither "have" nor "have not" is an > understandable response, given the sloppy terminology used in the > poll. The public opinion gods say you should always offer an odd number of choices. That allows respondents to choose a middle. Doug

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9607 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Modernists, moreover, blame post-modernism for the way Michel Foucault > saw the Iranian Revolution Hamid Dabashi blames his guides. > To conclude, post-modernism, especially of the Foucauldian sort, given > its criticism of the ideology of Progress, is indeed likely to be a > better philosophy than modernism for intellectual reconciliation of > Islam and democracy. Yes, that's the first thing I look for when I'm out shoppi ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 13 16:38:17 PDT 2007

9608 [lbo-talk] a nation of haves & have-nots? Americans equally divided... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Seth Ackerman wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> the number of Americans who see themselves among >> the "have-nots" of society has doubled over the past two decades, >> from 17% in 1988 to 34% today. In 1988, far more Americans said that, >> if they had to choose, they probably were among the "haves" (59%) >> than the "have-nots" (17%). Today, this gap is far narrower (45% >> "haves" vs ...

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9609 [lbo-talk] a nation of haves & have-nots? Americans equallydivided... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Andy F wrote: > On 9/13/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> But don't forget the split-the-difference imperative. When asked to >> choose between A and not-A, Americans often want to be in the middle. > > You note this often. How have you compared to other populations? Nope, haven't. But I'll bet we're outliers on that one. Most other cultures are a lot more "partisan" - as "Bitch" says, Americans t ...

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9610 [lbo-talk] a nation of haves & have-nots? Americans equallydivided... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2007, at 3:35 PM, J. Tyler wrote: > 24% of people in 1988 who *had* to choose believed they neither had > nor had > not while 21% of people in 2007 believe they neither have nor have > not. A > paradox worthy of Zeno. Is it progress that 3% less people in 2007 > than in > 1988 place themselves firmly in logical impossibilities? More > evidence in > support of the Flynn effect? What's the Flynn effect? But don't forget the split-the-difference imperative. ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 13 13:10:34 PDT 2007

9611 [lbo-talk] Targeting Empire? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: Isn't taking a strategic view of the truth a postmod principle ? No.

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9612 [lbo-talk] Petraeus an ass-kissing little chickenshit -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] U.S.-IRAQ: Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of the U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting. Fallon told Petrae ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 13 12:30:23 PDT 2007

9613 [lbo-talk] a nation of haves & have-nots? Americans equally divided... -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/593/haves-have-nots> A Nation of "Haves" and "Have-Nots"? Far More Americans Now See Their Country as Sharply Divided Along Economic Lines by Jodie T. Allen, Senior Editor, Pew Research Center and Michael Dimock, Associate Director for Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press September 13, 2007 Over the past two decades, a growing share of the public has come to the view that American society is divided into two group ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 13 10:58:05 PDT 2007

9614 [lbo-talk] Thinking Big (was re: Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwar movement) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Mr. WD wrote: > Agreed. But my point is that it's important to think big. The > question is, 'is the movement at a place where it's time to start > thinking about coordinating major acts of civil disobedience?' As I > said, the Independence, Mo. idea isn't feasible right now, but > something less ambitious might be. Yes. Recruiting offices would be a great target. Or maybe some phony recruiters, a la Billionaires for Bush, who tell the truth about ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 13 10:51:08 PDT 2007

9615 [lbo-talk] 9/11? wazzat? -- rank: 1000

L.A. club kids remember 9/11: <http://gawker.com/news/never-forget/a-weary-nation-has-moved- on-299153.php> Actually they don't remember. Doug

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