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11731 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > The general pattern is consistent with Nisbett and Cohen's culture of > honor hypothesis. --Interesting aside, I know Carl will love this: in > one study, N & C exposed college students to an abusive insult (a > person > bumped the student in a hallway and called him "asshole"). > Immediately > afterwards, students who grew up in the South were more > physiologically > aroused, had higher cortisol and tes ...

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Date:	Sun May 6 17:46:21 PDT 2007

11732 [lbo-talk] Wacko/Sherman (was Re: Brit general says . . . .) -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I'm trying to figure out the closest thing to "fuck you" > that won't get me thrown off the list. A matter of policy clarification: a mere "fuck you" won't get you thrown off. Repeated "fuck you's" might, especially if they're not accompanied by anything else intelligent or amusing. But that doesn't apply in your case, so a "fuck you" would have been entirely acceptable. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 5 12:40:33 PDT 2007

11733 [lbo-talk] Iran before Ahmadinejad (was capital punishment in Iran) -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2007, at 1:58 PM, ravi wrote: > Even if that's what Yoshie is suggesting, it's not disingenuous: > "third world" nationalism is indeed preferable over colonialist (etc) > nationalism because of the same reason that affirmative action (not a > principle but a tactic) for black people is preferable to affirmative > action for white people. I'd certainly agree that the nationalism of the powerful is a lot different from the nationalism of the powerless; one is an ...

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Date:	Sat May 5 12:32:50 PDT 2007

11734 [lbo-talk] price of climate action: 3% of GDP -- rank: 1000

Price of climate action 3% of GDP By Fiona Harvey and Gernot Wagner in London The world has until 2020 to reverse the trend of rising greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change, the world s top climate scientists warned on Friday. Achieving this would reduce the world s annual gross domestic product by 3 per cent in 2030, the UN expert panel concluded. Emissions have been rising for the past 150 years. Charles Kolstad, professor of environmental economics ...

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Date:	Sat May 5 09:31:31 PDT 2007

11735 [lbo-talk] Iran before Ahmadinejad (was capital punishment in Iran) -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2007, at 10:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The criticism of Iran currently being expressed on this list has no > relevance to Iran; in fact it is not about Iran but about what fine > people the critics themselves are. And you, modest Sir, don't think yourself superior for holding this bold and unpopular view? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 4 21:47:37 PDT 2007

11736 [lbo-talk] Hedge Fund/Bankrupt nations question -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > In Harvey's Late Imperialism, the other DH writes: "... just as the > hedge > funds, armed with trillions of dollars of leveraged money, could force > Indonesia and even Korea into bankruptcy, no matter what the > strength of > their underlying economies." > > How might this occur? By pumping a lot of money into Korean or Indonesian assets for a long while, feeding a domestic credit boom, and then suddenly pu ...

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Date:	Fri May 4 18:54:38 PDT 2007

11737 [lbo-talk] Brit general says US/UK should "admit defeat" in Iraq -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > I didn't think such a thing was possible -- a military man with a > brain! Zinni seems not stupid, as does that guy who wrote the "the army is broken" story I posted here last week.

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Date:	Fri May 4 13:47:28 PDT 2007

11738 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewPodcast?id=73801817> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: May 3, 2007 JOEL SCHALIT on Israeli politics and the (weakening?) hold of the Zionists in the U.S. * FIONA HARVEY, environment c ...

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Date:	Fri May 4 13:07:36 PDT 2007

11739 [lbo-talk] Facebook is a CIA plot! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/ t34949.html> Big Brothers, Big Facebook: Your Orwellian Community A few days ago I stumbled across a couple articles mentioning TheFacebook, and a little start-up capital they happened to get in the sum of $13 million. The number intrigued me, so I did a little more research, a little more stumbling, and found something that even I still have a hard time accepting. So, here's what I came up with: (p.s. - I'm hoping t ...

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Date:	Fri May 4 11:33:34 PDT 2007

11740 [lbo-talk] wankathon in SF! -- rank: 1000

http://avn.com/index.php? Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=288553 7th Annual Masturbate-A-Thon Comes to SF By: Mike Albo, AVN, 5-3-2007 SAN FRANCISCO - Grab your lube and head west, young men (and women)! The 7th annual Masturbate-a-thon arrives just in time to cap off National Masturbation Month...which, oddly, has more days devoted to it than does Black History Month. And where better to host this stroke-fest than that city by the bay, San Francisco? The e ...

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Date:	Fri May 4 10:12:29 PDT 2007

11741 [lbo-talk] market rationality -- rank: 1000

[This is from Briefing.com, reporting on bond market movements this morning after a modest and unsuprising jobs report.] Rumor Mills : The initial fall-off in treasuries on the jobs print has been rumored to have been the result a bad print (188K) seen in foreign exchange land ("London fx types") who had then "sold them til their hands bled," but the actual number quickly reversed things. Take 2: just a straight buy/sell error out of a large fund. Take 3: "the ru ...

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Date:	Fri May 4 09:16:58 PDT 2007

11742 [lbo-talk] [resend] [Fwd: The revolution is calling.] -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Dmytri Kleiner wrote: > looks like the attachment didn't make it through Mailman is doing its work. Attachments streng verboten. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 4 05:22:35 PDT 2007

11743 [lbo-talk] the AFA names it all for you -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > better yet, the Thompson guy from "Law and Order" is leading all the > republicans- He's the right's big hope now. The Xtians don't trust Romney (he's a Mormon!), and some of the movement cons don't trust him because he seems like a latecomer. Now you see why Bruce Bartlett thinks Hillary looks good. Doug

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11744 [lbo-talk] Abortion in the Irish courts again -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I have trouble with the idea of jesusland states. Take away Los > Angeles and San Francisco and California is a jesusland state. Not > to mention that TBN, the most watched christian tv station, is > headquartered in southern California. I think the split is more > urban/rural and that goes for the difference between Austin and the > rest of Texas just like it does for the Bay Area and the Central > Valley. Yup, this is ...

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Date:	Thu May 3 10:28:59 PDT 2007

11745 [lbo-talk] transition -- rank: 1000

A lot of the black people around WBAI say "transitioned" or "made his transition" to say "died." Is this in wide use? Where's it come from? Doug

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