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61 [lbo-talk] Helen Thomas retires -- rank: 379

... ve not seen the context, video or [heard the]audio)? A On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Dennis ... of Thomas, who will be 90 in August. > > Thomas told a rabbi at a White House event last week that Jews should "get > the ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Mon Jun 7 10:50:10 PDT 2010

62 [lbo-talk] Helen Thomas retires -- rank: 367

... of Thomas, who will be 90 in August. Thomas told a rabbi at a White House event last week that Jews should "get the ... were caught on videotape and widely distributed. The remarks caused a furor even though she immediately apologized. Her invitation to speak at a local graduation was rescinded. Jewish groups called her remarks ignorant and insensitive and said her ... week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians," Thomas said in a statement. "They do not reflect

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Jun 7 10:18:08 PDT 2010

63 [lbo-talk] According to a McLaughlin Poll, A plurality of Jewish voters would consider someone else for President -- rank: 749

... polling firms.'' > > You can't have it both ways. Be a party hack or be a trustworthy > pollster. Yah, that is what I remembered, being right ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Mon May 24 01:22:06 PDT 2010

64 [lbo-talk] According to a McLaughlin Poll, A plurality of Jewish voters would consider someone else for President -- rank: 780

First, does a McLaughlin Poll usually have veracity? If so, how does this ... polling firms.'' You can't have it both ways. Be a party hack or be a trustworthy pollster. I've become really suspicious of opinion polls ... focus group discussion, so Luntz could probe opinion and got a more nuanced view. McL & A used very loaded and baiting sorts of question and a small sample of 600 o

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun May 23 14:39:06 PDT 2010

65 [lbo-talk] According to a McLaughlin Poll, A plurality of Jewish voters would consider someone else for President -- rank: 799

First, does a McLaughlin Poll usually have veracity? If so, how does this ... 2008 exit polls, Barack Obama won 78% to 21% among Jewish voters. Now, in the second year of Obama s presidency ... majority of voters (52%) disapproves of the Obama Administration supporting a plan to recognize a Palestinian state within two years. The majority of voters (64 ... campaign of terror to destroy Israel if they were given a Palestinian state, while only 19% say they would live peacefully ...

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Author:	bryan atinsky
Date:	Sat May 22 13:26:49 PDT 2010

66 [lbo-talk] Post-secondary education, neoliberal style -- rank: 620

... www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/05/11/brown Confessions of a Tenured Professor May 11, 2010 By Peter D.G. Brown ... I must confess right off that I did not become a contingent labor activist until I turned 60, a mere six years ago. Until then, I was a fairly typical senior professor, passionately involved in teaching my students and interacting with my tenured colleagues on a variety of faculty governance committees. I have also pursued a fairly active research agenda. In addition to publishing my ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Tue May 11 16:14:35 PDT 2010

67 [lbo-talk] FT: Israel knows apartheid has no future -- rank: 435

... comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for ... happens, the state of Israel is finished. More recently, making a similar point, Ehud Barak, Israel s defence minister, said as ... entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic ... If the Palestinians vote in elections, it is a bi-national state, and if they don

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Sat Apr 10 18:20:29 PDT 2010

68 [lbo-talk] Philip Weiss: "AIPAC confronts its worst fear: daylight" -- rank: 685

... would like to believe that AIPAC will never recover from a brutal spring that has exposed its real interests to the American public. Even supporters of the Jewish state have criticized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for ... cultivate "relationships" with the powerful. Yes, Sen. Chuck Schumer gave a bloodcurdling yowl, Am

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 05:48:41 PDT 2010

69 [lbo-talk] The Palestinian UDI as bargaining chip -- rank: 645

... Henry Siegman is worth reading. Siegman says that "prospects for a two-state accord (are) dead in the water" and that ... disappearance of the two-state solution is...turning Israel from a democracy into an apartheid state". Labelling Israel as an "incipient" apartheid state in a respected organ of bourgeois opinion is damning enough in itself ... is that it is linked to Siegman's encouragement of a UN-recognized Palestinian declaration of statehood within it's pre-1967 borders. It's apparent from a close reading of the article that Seigman doesn't really ... that it can only be revived by the threat of a Palestinian UDI which induces the the Israelis to negotiate ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Thu Mar 4 07:11:26 PST 2010

70 [lbo-talk] "Norma Rae" hated Bruce Raynor -- rank: 546

... the late labor hero fictionalized as "Norma Rae," bitterly criticized a prominent labor leader who made his name organizing her North Carolina textile mill, according to an interview in a new book on labor organizing. Sutton, who died last fall ... P. Stephens' Roanoke Rapids plant, and was fired for backing a union. Bruce Raynor, now the president of the SEIU affiliate Workers United, was then a top organizer at the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union ... the battle to organize the plant and hired Sutton as a full-time staffer. Sutton as "Norma Rae" and a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 1 12:58:37 PST 2010

71 [lbo-talk] diversity: the bureaucrats weigh in -- rank: 589

... ANGELES -- When Jordan Peimer booked an Argentine band that fuses Jewish Klezmer music with tango, he thought he had the perfect ... Skirball Cultural Center here. The event was designed to attract a Jewish audience and the city's burgeoning Hispanic community. That was ... U.S., the agency ruled, because it didn't satisfy a "culturally unique" requirement for a performer visa called P-3. "The evidence repeatedly suggests the group performs a hybrid or fusion style of music...[which] cannot be consi

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 08:15:20 PST 2009

72 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad a Yid -- rank: 376

... 17 PM, Bryan Atinsky <bryan at alt-info.org> wrote: > >> A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during >> elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. > > Yeah, but would Iranians, or anyone else outside Europe ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Sat Oct 3 20:14:06 PDT 2009

73 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad a Yid -- rank: 416

... 17 PM, Bryan Atinsky <bryan at alt-info.org> wrote: > A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during > elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. Yeah, but would Iranians, or anyone else outside Europe ... don't think Muslim Iranians get so worked up over Jewish Iranians. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/opinion/23cohen ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Sat Oct 3 19:53:41 PDT 2009

74 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad a Yid -- rank: 496

It must be a great comfort to him to know that if things get ... news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html > >A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card >during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish >roots. > >A close-up of the document reveals he was previously ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Sat Oct 3 19:38:09 PDT 2009

75 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad a Yid -- rank: 490

... news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. The short note scrawled ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sat Oct 3 19:17:09 PDT 2009