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13381 [lbo-talk] Our terrorist -- rank: 1000

On Oct 8, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18739 >> ...They carried off among the first airplane hijackings in history. > In the last months of 1958 members of Castro's movement hijacked > three different Cubana airliners at gunpoint. The last one was a > flight from Miami to Varadero that was diverted at gunpoint to > rebel-held territory in Cuba's eastern Oriente province. Despite the > pilot's frantic ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 8 14:37:13 PDT 2006

13382 [lbo-talk] good night, Ned -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> public opinion on Iraq has moved a lot since 2004, and there's no >> movement at all to show for it. > > Is it possible that we just have an obsolete picture of what > constitutes a movement -- i.e., people marching in the street and > at rallies? We have a set of feelings about Iraq, but no mechanism to force politicians to listen. The Dems are running from it as an is ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 7 11:24:58 PDT 2006

13383 [lbo-talk] Call for Iran to act on inflation -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > Here's the manufacturing share of value added for some interesting > countries (from the World Bank, most recent year available, mostly > 2003-4): > > Chile 17.62 > Iran, Islamic Rep. 10.38 > Korea, Rep. 28.74 > Low & middle income 17.04 > South Africa 19.05 > United States 14.93 Should have included these: Saudi Arabia 10.12 Venezuela 18.09 And I should ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 7 10:49:39 PDT 2006

13384 [lbo-talk] Schumer as bagman -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 4, 2006 Schumer sweats his Wall Street ties to fill war chest By Stephanie Kirchgaessner It is often said in Washington that the most dangerous place to stand is between Senator Chuck Schumer and a microphone. But it is an adage that does not seem to ring true these days. In fact, for Republicans battling to hold on to their majority in the Congress, this election cycle has proved that the New York Democrat's sharp tongue and insatiable appetite for media attention ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 7 08:50:27 PDT 2006

13385 [lbo-talk] Gasoline price manipulation? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Who knows? Goldman Sachs was a) either speculating that energy > prices would > fall because of geopolitical, cyclical, and seasonal reasons or b) it > genuinely fears the Democrats more than the Republicans. Chuck Schumer has been raising buckets of money from Wall Street for the Dems this election cycle. As is often the case, WS sees the handwriting on the wall and wants to back a potential winner. In any case, there's not muc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 7 08:41:00 PDT 2006

13386 [lbo-talk] Call for Iran to act on inflation -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Whether it's 10.5% or 16%, overall inflation doesn't seem to me to be > a big concern. Easy for you to say - you don't have to pay the rising prices. High inflation can do serious political damage to a populist regime, because it usually masks declining real incomes. It's a symptom of a weakness of a lot of populist economics, using subsidies to band-aid some problems, while not really addressing the deep structure of class and pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 7 08:36:57 PDT 2006

13387 [lbo-talk] good night, Ned -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > made it impossible any how to build much of an anti-war movement, > but the desertion of so many to ABB made the death of the movement > certain Yo, buddy, the election was two years ago! You got a more contemporary explanation than this? I realize its attraction for you - you get to promote your hobby-horse and absolve the movement for any of its problems - but public opinion on Iraq has moved a lot since 2004, and there's no movemen ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 7 07:27:28 PDT 2006

13388 [lbo-talk] Dems & the proletariat -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Michael Hoover wrote: > dixiecrats said to jfk: you got a choice, > tax bill or civil rights bill Supply-siders often claim JFK as their own - they love his tax cut. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 7 06:19:26 PDT 2006

13389 [lbo-talk] Dems & the proletariat -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> As I've pointed out many times before, by almost any measure >> (employment, wages, GDP, stock market), the economy has done better >> under Dem presidents than Rep ones since WW2. The only exception is >> that Reps are better for disinflation and the bond market. > > What if we compared them since the mid-1970s? After all, 1945-1973 > and 1974-Present belong to different eras of accumulation. How do > D ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 14:32:46 PDT 2006

13390 [lbo-talk] 60 Mins gets a look at the no-fly list -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/05/60minutes/main2066624.shtml> Unlikely Terrorists On No-Fly List Steve Kroft Reports List Includes President Of Bolivia, Dead 9/11 Hijackers Oct. 5, 2006 60 Minutes, in collaboration with the National Security News Service, has obtained the secret list used to screen airline passengers for terrorists and discovered it includes names of people not likely to cause terror, including the president of Bolivia, people who are dead and names so commo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 6 13:57:04 PDT 2006

13391 [lbo-talk] Dems & the proletariat -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:38 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I have a feeling that business alarmists say these things without > really believing them, just to make the proletariat think that > elections, no matter how sorry elections, are the most important > political activity, and at the same time to send a message to the > electoral party which has a larger working-class base than the > alternatives: don't you dare do any of these things. The second part may be true, but the first ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 6 13:50:45 PDT 2006

13392 [lbo-talk] gays in (US) government -- rank: 1000

<http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=2531627> A Brief History Of Gays In Government By JAKE TAPPER 1778 -- General George Washington approves the court martial of Lt. Gotthold Frederick Enslin for attempted sodomy. 1921 -- U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee issues "Report on Alleged Immoral Conditions and Practices at the Naval Training Station, Newport, RI" accusing officers under the command of Franklin D. Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the US Navy, of or ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 13:21:34 PDT 2006

13393 [lbo-talk] Dems & the proletariat -- rank: 1000

[Carrol Cox, better get this guy on the phone! He doesn't get how bad the Dems are - imagine, policies favoring the proletariat!! This is from David Rosenberg, Merrill Lynch's chief economist.] We are not sure if the equity markets are fully aware of this (or maybe they don't care), but the Democrats now, according to the USA Today, not only have an excellent shot at taking the House, but the chances that they could capture the Senate moved to 50-50 based on polls taken in six key states ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 6 13:08:33 PDT 2006

13394 [lbo-talk] good night, Ned -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Eric wrote: > This sounds like you are saying that the antiwar movement's > fortunes rise and fall with the fortunes of candidates for elected > office. It's this that I disagree with. Do you think the antiwar movement's fortunes are tied to the reactions by elected officials (i.e., a bigger, louder, meaner movement might change they way they vote)? Or would it work through some extraparliamentary magic? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 6 09:22:59 PDT 2006

13395 [lbo-talk] good night, Ned -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Marvin Gandall wrote: >> >> those activists who would not support even the most progressive >> Democrat "on principle" > > Name one person who has given this reason or anything approximating > this > reason for refusing to support the DP! > > This love some people have for strawmen becomes very tedious. You're the dude who said that 1 Wellstone was worse than 20 Liebermans, remember? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 5 19:54:02 PDT 2006