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15061 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >A failure to equate enthusiasm for "government-run" with social democratic >aspirations makes little sense. Well who else is going to do it? The Ford Foundation? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 12:45:12 PST 2006

15062 [lbo-talk] FOMC statement -- rank: 1000

["may" replaces "likely," a semi-dovish sign - so will Big Ben have to tighten more than he might otherwise have to to prove his manliness?] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2006/20060131/default.htm> January 31, 2006 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 4-1/2 percent. Although recent economic data have been uneven, the expansion in economic activ ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 11:29:39 PST 2006

15063 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

www.leninology. blogspot.com quoted Molly Ivins: >The majority (65 percent) of the American people want single-payer >health care and are willing to pay more taxes to get it. I was going to say that all you had to do was insert the words "government-run" in place of "single-payer" and support would drop by 20 points. But I decided to look at an actual poll instead, and by god, my estimate was too low. >AGallup: > >Which of the following approaches for providing ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 11:23:25 PST 2006

15064 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: >> > polls on policy, there is a clear basis for a left-wing >>> populist political movement and party in the United States. >> >> >>Show me. > >Alright, here's a bit from Ivins' latest: > >"The majority of the American people (55 percent) think the war in >Iraq is a mistake and that we should get out. The majority (65 >percent) of the American people want single-payer health care and >are willing ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 11:13:05 PST 2006

15065 [lbo-talk] Amanpour: Iraq war a "disaster" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> [media pundits are likening this to the moment when Walter Cronkite >> turned against the Vietnam War, which helped turn public opinion >> against it - Bob & Doug are the ABC News anchor & technician wounded >> by a bomb the other day] > >Please note the number of media pundits and other who are predicting >that regardless of what happens in Iraq the U.S. will not give up its >military bases the ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 11:08:36 PST 2006

15066 [lbo-talk] eXile very annoyed over Frey -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 31, 2006 WHO SMOKED OUT FREY FIRST? MANIACAL Moscow-based newspaper The eXile is crying foul over the Smoking Gun Web site's scoop that unmasked former Oprah Winfrey pet James Frey as a literary laughingstock. The eXile - which longtime PAGE SIX readers will recall was behind a putrid prank that involved hitting New York Times Moscow bureau chief Michael Wines in the face with a pie filled with horse sperm - claims that Smoking Gun got the idea to launch its pr ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 09:25:03 PST 2006

15067 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: >If anyone cared to examine the polls on policy, there is a clear >basis for a left-wing populist political movement and party in the >United States. I spend a lot of time doing just that, and I gotta say you're overstating things here. Yes there's support for some things - a higher minimum wage most notably - but on other matters, like public health insurance and unions, the numbers are a lot more mixed, very dependent on wording and context. America ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 09:18:29 PST 2006

15068 [lbo-talk] SOTU is another word for yawn -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> ABC News' Polling Director Gary Langer also offers these two contextual points. 1. "Partisans watch these things; rather than torturing themselves, people who don't like the guy can just turn to another of their 100 channels. When we polled on the SOTU in 2003, we found that the president's approval rating among speech watchers was 70 percent, versus 47 percent among those who didn't watch. As we put it at the time: 'Simply put, ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 09:07:06 PST 2006

15069 [lbo-talk] Amanpour: Iraq war a "disaster" -- rank: 1000

[media pundits are likening this to the moment when Walter Cronkite turned against the Vietnam War, which helped turn public opinion against it - Bob & Doug are the ABC News anchor & technician wounded by a bomb the other day] <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/30/lkl.01.html> The war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster and journalists have paid for it, paid for the privilege of witnessing and reporting that and so have many, many other people who have been ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 08:54:56 PST 2006

15070 [lbo-talk] The Global Political Economy of Israel -- free online -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Nitzan wrote: >Pluto Press has kindly permitted us to post The Global Political >Economy of Israel on our web-site. The full text PDF version is 1.8 >MB. It could be freely downloaded from >http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/8/. The book remains in print and can be >purchased from Amazon and Pluto Press, among others. > >Jonathan >http://www.bnarchives.net This is an excellent book - one worth paying money for. Now that you can get it for free...well what are you waiting ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 08:28:24 PST 2006

15071 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Still, it's a bit amusing to see the online libs stumbling around, >picking up their teeth and rubbing their heads, wondering what hit >them. But as that research reported in yesterday's WashPost suggests, no doubt the pleasure centers in their brains will be lying to them within the hour. I'm dying to see the contortions they go through to sell Hillary "It Wasn't An Authorization for War" Clinton. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 31 08:22:29 PST 2006

15072 [lbo-talk] Mädchen in Uniform -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians > >Think blowing stuff up is just for guys? Think again. Women in the >Navy can become Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians (EOD techs). >EOD techs protect and save lives by rendering safe both foreign and >domestic explosives. Q: Why'd you join the army? GI Jane (Demi Moore): To blow shit up. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 30 09:19:53 PST 2006

15073 [lbo-talk] Hillary explains her Iraq vote -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nysun.com/article/26667> 'Deliberate' Neglect Laid to Bush In Policy on Katrina's Aftermath By JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun January 30, 2006 [...] A question about Mrs. Clinton's 2002 vote on the Iraq war, prompted the senator to launch into a nine-minute-long response. Mrs. Clinton never conceded that the pivotal vote was about going to war in Iraq, although the resolution in question was titled, "To authorize the use of United States armed forces against Ira ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 30 07:50:19 PST 2006

15074 [lbo-talk] testing the political unconscious -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 30, 2006 Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer Put a group of people together at a party and observe how they behave. Differently than when they are alone? Differently than when they are with family? What if they're in a stadium instead of at a party? What if they're all men? The field of social psychology has long been focused on how social environments affect the way people behave. But social psychologists are ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 30 07:48:41 PST 2006

15075 [lbo-talk] revolving door, medical-industrial branch -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=a1f3siSIvyWU> Medicare Revolving Door Fuels Congress Debate Over Ethics Rules By Jonathan D. Salant Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Fifteen lawmakers, congressional aides and Bush administration officials who pushed through the costliest Medicare overhaul in history began working for the health-care industry within a year of the measure's passage. As Congress considers new rules to restrict lobbying because of the Jack Abramoff scandal ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 30 07:42:24 PST 2006