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14581 [lbo-talk] pure cynicism... -- rank: 1000

...from The Note (doncha love the cap-S on Surprise?): > There will be moments between now and this November in which scary > national security developments will occur, and no one should be > Surprised if some of these moments occur in October. As in: LATE > October.

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Date:	Fri Jun 23 07:19:09 PDT 2006

14582 Re: [lbo-talk] López Obrador web site hacked -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > A big chunk of the index page is blackened and has this I-was-here > type of cyber-graffiti: > > "Hacked by Hinx3 and Red-Point" > > http://www.amlo.org.mx/ You'll be able to hear Julio Huato talking about the economics of immigration and the Mexican presidential campaign when I post last night's radio show to my archive this afternoon. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 23 06:41:38 PDT 2006

14583 [lbo-talk] CIA and Feminism (was Alex Cockburn going the Hitchensway?) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Realism wasn't the term mentioned here. It's been said that the CIA > employees who have desk jobs are liberal, honest, progressive, etc. -- > all based on such solid evidence as a few acquaintances here and > there. No, it's also based on an understanding of its history. Have you ever read any histories of the CIA? They are - or were - "liberal" in the way that Truman and JFK were - dedicated agents of empire who a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 22 11:21:05 PDT 2006

14584 [lbo-talk] Noonan: the party pros hate their bases -- rank: 1000

[apologies to Ravi for top-quoting] You'd think, but she's onto something, isn't she? Something I've learned about the US economy & US politics - the operation of Stein's law (when something is unsustainable, it can't be sustained) can be suspended almost indefinitely, or so it seems. Doug On Jun 22, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > > Isn't this untenable over the medium and long term? SR > > Off Base > > Washington Democrats think their core voters are bar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 22 09:13:12 PDT 2006

14585 [lbo-talk] Noonan: the party pros hate their bases -- rank: 1000

<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110008547> PEGGY NOONAN Off Base Washington Democrats think their core voters are barking mad. Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT It has occurred to me that both parties increasingly dislike their bases, but for different reasons and to different degrees. By both parties I mean the leaders and representatives of the Democrats and Republicans in Washington. I believe I correctly observe that they feel an increasing intellectual e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 22 07:41:50 PDT 2006

14586 [lbo-talk] the Edwards poverty agenda -- rank: 1000

[looks like scratching the surface - from The Note] An Edwards aide tells The Note that the North Carolinian plans to "lay out a comprehensive agenda to achieve this goal, including: radically overhauling HUD, creating 1 million stepping stone jobs in the next five years, raising the minimum wage, strengthening our educational system, calling for 'second-chance schools' focused on helping dropouts, helping Americans save for the future, and cutting taxes for low-income workers and fam ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 22 07:23:24 PDT 2006

14587 [lbo-talk] like father, like daughter? -- rank: 1000

[this appears the same day as Bob Herbert's NYT column touting John Edwards as a friend of the poor] <http://www.gawker.com/news/vanity-fair/cate-edwards-political-scion- vf-assistant-and-adorable-urbanista-182574.php> Cate Edwards: Political Scion, VF Assistant, and Adorable Urbanista READ MORE: VANITY FAIR, CATE EDWARDS, SHOPPING Today in heartwarming internet upstart stories: meet Urbanista, an online shopping rolodex designed to help the well-heeled girlies of New York hunt down t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 22 06:49:25 PDT 2006

14588 [lbo-talk] What Was Missing At YearlyKos -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2006, at 2:20 PM, ravi wrote: > Isn't it true that what the Democrats really need from Labour is the > votes, which they (Labour) have got pretty poor at delivering in the > last few cycles? (IIRC, only 60% or so?). According to the exit polls, union households went 61% for Kerry, vs. 48% for non-union. That's not a trivial difference. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 12:02:29 PDT 2006

14589 [lbo-talk] CIA and Feminism (was Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way?) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The problem is that a sizable number of people -- on this mailing > list, too -- appear to have begun to think that way again: the CIA as > a bastion of liberalism and reasonableness, in comparison to Bush, > Cheney, neo-cons, etc. Who "on this mailing list" actually holds that position? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 09:55:37 PDT 2006

14590 [lbo-talk] Dems experiment with "ideas" -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - June 21, 2006 The Democrats Reassess Effort to Win Battle of Ideas Includes New Web Site and Journal By Dan Balz This is idea week for the Democratic Party. On Monday, three veteran party strategists -- William Galston, Stan Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira -- launched a Web site ( http:// www.thedemocraticstrategist.org ) with the goal of generating fact- based, empirically tested theories that might help Democrats resolve their policy differences and win more elections. Yesterday ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 08:05:10 PDT 2006

14591 [lbo-talk] slow-motion crash, or self-immolation, or something -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> So we only gingerly enter into the waiting minefield as we write: the outcome of the 2006 midterm election is likely being determined in the next 48 hours not so much on the floor of the Senate as in how the two parties spin, shape, and echo what happens on that floor. Democrats can deny it all they want (and not all do. . .), but they are on the precipice of self-immolating over the issue that has most crippled the Bush presi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 07:51:36 PDT 2006

14592 [lbo-talk] What Was Missing At YearlyKos -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Colin Brace quoted: > In a post on DailyKos after the convention, labor expert Nathan Newman > wrote, "The labor movement actually took YearlyKos very seriously, > contributing money to help subsidize costs and sending top leaders to > attend the sessions. I know that the labor leaders were a bit > frustrated that their interest in the blogosphere was not > reciprocated." Ah Nathan. You could say something pretty similar about labor's r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 21 06:26:55 PDT 2006

14593 [lbo-talk] advice to muggers: wear tight pants -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 20, 2006 Perpetrator Problem: It's Hard to Run Away In Falling Trousers Cops Say Loose, Baggy Jeans Trip Up Many a Thief; 'Hey, Dude, Buy a Belt' By SERENA NG One sunny afternoon in January, Vicki Chandler, a 55-year-old underwriting associate at Cigna HealthCare in Chattanooga, Tenn., was walking to her car when a teenager in loose khaki pants approached her, pointed to her pocketbook and said, "I need that." As she recounts the incident, he snatched the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 14:06:45 PDT 2006

14594 [lbo-talk] crises -- rank: 1000

[I've just finished reading, about 30 years too late, C Wright Mills Power Elite. This passage really jumped out at me as a perfect description of Enron, Iraq, etc. - all those "crises" without any real political consequences. Hard to believe the book was pub'd 50 years ago.] What element of the higher circles - what would-be element - has such immorality not touched? Perhaps all those cases that come briefly to public attention are but marginal - or, at any rate, those that were ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 13:30:05 PDT 2006

14595 Spooks (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way?) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > This is from a Nation review of a biography of Spook/Reverend > William Sloane Coffin: > > > When the Korean War broke out, however, Coffin took the CIA up on > its offer, and in 1951 was stationed in Munich, where he recruited > and trained Soviet émigrés to infiltrate Russia as spies. Years > later he reasoned (or rationalized) that leaving seminary for the > CIA was "not as schizophrenic as it might superfici ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 12:33:07 PDT 2006