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76 [lbo-talk] Chomsky regards himself as a supporter of Israel -- rank: 1000

I think what Finkelstein says is quite correct on this subject. Bryan On 5/28/2010 7:49 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > On May 28, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > >> Chomsky regards himself as a supporter of Israel and brags about >> meeting Walid Jumblat. (Thanks Raed) >> >> PS It is an extremely disturbing interview (forget about the Israeli >> reporter here) but the reference to Israel "harming itself" as Chomsky >> put it, is telling e ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 14:02:14 PDT 2010

77 [lbo-talk] According to a McLaughlin Poll, A plurality of Jewish voters would consider someone else for President -- rank: 1000

On 24/05/2010 00:39, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I would say No to the first question. At the top right of their webpage: > > ``The Washington Times cites McLaughlin & Associates as one of the > best Republican 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-wing pollsters, but I couldn't find...I guess it was too obvious being at the top of their website to see.... Thanks... Bryan

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Date:	Mon May 24 01:22:06 PDT 2010

78 [lbo-talk] According to a McLaughlin Poll, A plurality of Jewish voters would consider someone else for President -- rank: 1000

First, does a McLaughlin Poll usually have veracity? If so, how does this jive with the Beinart article? "According to the 2008 exit polls, Barack Obama won 78% to 21% among Jewish voters. Now, in the second year of Obama s presidency, only 42% of voters would re-elect him, while the plurality (46%) would consider voting for someone else." [...] "The majority of voters (52%) disapproves of the Obama Administration supporting a plan to recognize a Palestinian state within two years ...

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Date:	Sat May 22 13:26:49 PDT 2010

79 [lbo-talk] My article on my family tragedy...Noam's Play for her b'day party... -- rank: 1000

Noam wrote a play when she was 5? What an amazing kid. Michael ------------------ Noam just dictated to me what to write and I wrote it, and then we painted a background and did the play with puppets: This is the story of Flower Fairy, the superhero. By: Noam Atinsky Sometimes people don't go to the museums. This is why they don't know so many important things... Once upon a time there was a superhero named Flower Fairy. The girls and boys liked her so much that they always looked out their win ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 00:06:56 PDT 2010

80 [lbo-talk] My article on my family tragedy and road culture in Israel that is supposed to go to Yideoth Ahronoth -- rank: 1000

Yideoth Ahronoth asked me at first to write a letter to my family, and I told them I will not write a sob story for their reader's pleasure, I said I am only interested in writing something that will have a potential to influence a change in driving culture in Israel..so this was the compromise. It is supposed to be translated to Hebrew and published in the weekend edition. I wonder how much they will keep. Maybe not the most appropriate thing for LBO-talk, but I felt like sending it around.. Br ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 16:57:33 PDT 2010

81 [lbo-talk] Engineers and Republican/libertarian bent -- rank: 1000

Hi all, I know of studies that relate engineering to extremist mindsets, but is there any statistics about the number/percentage of engineers voting republican/libertarian? Or is this an old-wives tale? Bryan

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 13:54:21 PDT 2010

82 [lbo-talk] Bryan Atinsky -- rank: 1000

Thanks to everyone, I am still devastated, and will be for a long time, but your kind words soften the blow a little. Bryan On 3/10/2010 3:36 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > As do I. > > > On 2010-03-10, at 4:24 PM, c b wrote: > > >> Ira Glazer >> >> To Bryan, my heartfelt condolences >> >> ^^^^ >> >> I say the same to Bryan. >> >> Charles Brown >> ___________________________________ >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mail ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 12 23:41:47 PST 2010

83 [lbo-talk] The Economy of the Occupation 25: Israel Owes Billions of Shekels to Palestinian Workers -- rank: 1000

To read the booklet, click here <http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2467:the-economy-of-the-occupation-25-israel-owes-billions-of-shekels-to-palestinian-workers&catid=172:economy-of-the-occupation&Itemid=930>. In this report we propose an approximate calculation of amounts that the Department of Payments deducted from the salaries of Palestinian workers from the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) who were employed in Israel, or w ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 23 05:40:46 PST 2010

84 [lbo-talk] Jobless future? -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: > Sandy Harris wrote: >> Sometimes, though, it is true. I was in the UK a few years back >> at a time when there was much moaning about unemployment. >> >> Talked to an Aussie lass who'd been in the country two weeks >> and had three part-time jobs. Granted, they were all badly >> paid & hard work, but she was making enough to live in some >> comfort & save for a summer in Greece. >> > Sounds like she should have ...

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85 [lbo-talk] Jobless future? -- rank: 1000

Sandy Harris wrote: > Sometimes, though, it is true. I was in the UK a few years back > at a time when there was much moaning about unemployment. > > Talked to an Aussie lass who'd been in the country two weeks > and had three part-time jobs. Granted, they were all badly > paid & hard work, but she was making enough to live in some > comfort & save for a summer in Greece. > Sounds like she should have been grateful then. The nerve of some people not to be satisfie ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 23 05:03:08 PST 2010

86 [lbo-talk] The Nation and brain death -- rank: 1000

Naomi Klein is a Canuck, no?... Canada as the 51st state? If this "'peculiar brand of "liberal radicalism" unique to the United States." James Heartfield wrote: > Bhaskar Sunkara writes about a 'peculiar brand of "liberal radicalism" unique to the United States. Specifically, I mean Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, and even Gore Vidal in his prime, Alexander Cockburn, et all (not sure if Cockburn belongs).' > > And wouldn't you go back to I.F. Stone, Lillian He ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 05:21:07 PST 2010

87 [lbo-talk] Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better -- rank: 1000

One of the charts in the article deals with that. Bryan Matthias Wasser wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > >> I wonder how much these results are driven by the U.S. If you did the rich >> OECD countries without the U.S., would the results be statistically >> significant? >> >> > > It might be interesting if you chopped up the US based on states, too. (The > EU has a whole has a higher Gi ...

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88 [lbo-talk] Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better -- rank: 1000

Let's talk about politics for once. It is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. In a quite fascinating book, /The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always do Better/ <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spirit-Level-Societies-Almost-Always/dp/1846140390>, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cps/index.php?page=2.0.0.40> and Kate Pickett <https://hsciweb.york.ac.uk/research/pub ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 18 07:46:06 PST 2010

89 [lbo-talk] Judging Stimulus by Job Data Reveals Success -- rank: 1000

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/business/economy/17leonhardt.html How would you assess this?: Imagine if, one year ago, Congress had passed a stimulus bill that really worked. Let s say this bill had started spending money within a matter of weeks and had rapidly helped the economy. Let s also imagine it was large enough to have had a huge impact on jobs employing something like two million people who would otherwise be unemployed right now. If that had happened, what would the economy look ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 17 09:20:20 PST 2010

90 [lbo-talk] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life -- rank: 1000

Barack Hussein Labama or Bernard-Henri Lévy Carrol Cox wrote: > Who is BHL? > > Carrol > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > > > Click here to report this message as SPAM: http://vsp.ateranetworks.com/ReportSpam.php?sid=4387988907fe9ccc5ee8c722dfb1d240_22507e472776acfced64a7f3f8729dcd > -- Powered by ATERA Networks -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > &g ...

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