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14386 [lbo-talk] Older Americans leaving labor force sooner -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Okay, so is AP right or wrong? My first thought on >seeing this was, "Cool, I don't blame them [for >leaving the work force sooner]. That seems to >implicitly acknowledge how unpleasant it all is." But >my 2nd thought was more in accord with Joanna's: "How >the heck are they doing this and supporting >themselves?" For most age groups, employment/population ratios and labor force participation rates are below their boom peaks; the only exception ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 15:46:39 PST 2006

14387 [lbo-talk] An Indirect Admission... -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Isn't this an indirect admission that we've armed one >side of a potential (if not burgeoning) civil war-to-be? Did you read any of that CFR stuff? Or is that too boring? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 15:36:55 PST 2006

14388 [lbo-talk] CFR on civil war in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Well, I got to the WBAI studio to discover I was pre-empted for 2 days of International Women's Day programming. It was yesterday, but for some reason they have to do 48 hours of it. And I don't recall getting a pre-emption notice. Which is all by way of explaining that I didn't get a chance to ask Christian about civil war. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 15:33:43 PST 2006

14389 [lbo-talk] CFR on civil war in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >You are probably right. A deliberate aim at civil war (or "chaos") seems >unlikely -- but only unlikely, not inconceivable. The outcome of such >chaos might be the Balkanization of Iraq, which would be preferable, I >presume, to a unified state under an anti-u.s. government. It would be, but the risks of promoting chaos are extremely high - wider regional war and a huge spike in oil prices. They don't give a fuck what happens to Afghanistan, but I'm prett ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 9 13:12:58 PST 2006

14390 [lbo-talk] Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Hofstadter, what is his reputation these days? It's amazing how fresh so much of the paranoid style seems today. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 12:45:52 PST 2006

14391 [lbo-talk] quote du jour -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Google's quote du jour is ""A liberal is a person whose interests >aren't at stake at the moment." -- Willis Player > >so what is a conservative? I was just reading Hofstadter's 1954 essay on the "pseudo-conservative revolt." His example of a pseudo-conservative was a woman who remarked on Eisenhower's victory in 1952: "Eight more years of socialism!" Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 12:45:16 PST 2006

14392 [lbo-talk] CFR on civil war in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't try to read the minds of those in power, but here's what >Christian Parenti was saying in August 2003. > >==== >oug Henwood Fri Aug 29 07:27:29 PDT 2003 > >Paul wrote: Clearly the occupation's failures point to deeper social and >political problems with U.S. policy than just "security". > >Christian Parenti also said that he's talked to people who surmise that >at least a faction of the Bush admin wants Iraq in chaos, as does ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 12:42:24 PST 2006

14393 [lbo-talk] Older Americans leaving labor force sooner -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >So, this is saying that 80% of people over 65 can afford to retire... According to the BLS, 12% of over-65s were employed in 1996; 15% are today. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 12:35:03 PST 2006

14394 [lbo-talk] Parenti in Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

[Christian will be on my radio show this evening talking about this.] The Nation - March 27, 2006 Afghanistan: The Other War by CHRISTIAN PARENTI Our Humvee jolts and sways against another cold dirt track in Parwan Province, an hour north of Kabul. On the road thin shadows from barren winter orchards lie like dark lacework and flicker across the Humvee's hood and windshield. A landscape of adobe-walled villages, empty fields, horse carts and dramatic sharp mountains slides by. Inside the armored ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 11:28:47 PST 2006

14395 [lbo-talk] leaking bubble -- rank: 1000

The Nation - March 27, 2006 Leaking Bubble DOUG HENWOOD "Housing inflation is the American national religion," as the late market pundit Ed Hart of the late Financial News Network used to say. And as everyone knows, we've been going through a particularly pious phase for the past few years. But it's looking like the housing religion is on the verge of a crisis of faith. By just about any metric, the past several years have seen the most extraordinary boom in the US housing market in hi ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 11:18:28 PST 2006

14396 [lbo-talk] French school teacher goes postal -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >My Spanish mother-in-law used to say these kinds of things only >happen in America: Indeed, an Italian journalist once told me that when a story like this comes in over the wire, the editor says, "We've got an Americanata here!" (in Italian, of course). Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 11:02:42 PST 2006

14397 [lbo-talk] Congressional travel -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Majority Leader Boehner: The Campaign for a Cleaner Congress says House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has taken more golf outings, lobbyist-funded trips, and fund-raising excursions than he has trips to his congressional district over the past six years. The congressional watchdog group says Boehner went back to the district 149 times between January 1999 and September 2005, compared with 180 trips outside his district, includi ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 9 08:53:24 PST 2006

14398 [lbo-talk] smoke an infidel for Jesus -- rank: 1000

[from our old friends at Special Guests] LATEST RAGE: VIOLENT <i>CHRISTIAN</i> VIDEO GAMES "Violence Reminiscent of Grand Theft Auto" "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" --Newsweek Newsweek is reporting in its March 6, 2006 issue that a violent Christian video game based upon the hugely popular Left Behind books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins (Tyndale House Publishers) will be released by Left Behind Games with "a level of violence reminiscent of Grand ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 8 21:16:17 PST 2006

14399 [lbo-talk] UFPJ -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > What's the impression of list members about what United For Peace & > > Justice has been up to for the last few years? > >Gakh! But it's all we've got, so what can one say. Could you expand upon "gakh"? I'm guessing it means "not much," but I don't want to leap to conclusions. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 13:14:11 PST 2006

14400 [lbo-talk] conspiracy mega-text! -- rank: 1000

[just got this headnote to a story about the proposed euro-denominated Tehran oil bourse - wow, it's all here!] The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse [Editor's Note: Here's a quick review: The Illuminati is intent on destroying the United States as a military, political, and economic power to clear the decks for a One World government. They have installed their agents into the highest reaches of the three branches of government so that the citizen/voter can no longer effect meaningful political change ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 13:10:11 PST 2006