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15391 [lbo-talk] thank god for Hillary! -- rank: 1000

<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/bfcfde96-a3e4-11da-83cc-0000779e2340.html> Notebook By Jonathan Guthrie Jeepers! That was close. Without the timely warnings of US politicians such as Hillary Clinton, those sneaky Arabs would have gotten away with it, too. Dubai Ports World would have bought P&O. And the next thing anyone knew, Iraqi insurgents would have overrun the blue crab eateries of Baltimore. They would have swarmed ashore in droves once the port was in the hands of fellow Arabs. Like ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 13:08:47 PST 2006

15392 [lbo-talk] WSJ: how to sound like a hawk without being one -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >You really don't see any difference between an argument for security based >on actual defensive measures -- like checking cargo coming into the >country -- and insane warmongering based on "preemptive wars"? Checking cargo is fine, as is securing chemical plants, but this is about the ownership of a management firm by those crafty, devious Arabs. Curiously, as the article below shows, the US can't run a proper port anymore. >The issue in this case is n ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 13:05:32 PST 2006

15393 [lbo-talk] WSJ: how to sound like a hawk without being one -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Nathan Newman wrote: >>So isn't it better to sound like a hawk than to be one? Wouldn't you >>rather Dems score points by bashing UAE emirs than advocating killing more >>Iraqi civilians? > >-No. I'd rather they'd drop sounding like hawks. This is idiotic >-posturing of a low but all-too-typical sort. > >And your purity on opposin ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 12:21:06 PST 2006

15394 [lbo-talk] WSJ: how to sound like a hawk without being one -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So isn't it better to sound like a hawk than to be one? Wouldn't you >rather Dems score points by bashing UAE emirs than advocating killing more >Iraqi civilians? No. I'd rather they'd drop sounding like hawks. This is idiotic posturing of a low but all-too-typical sort. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 12:08:07 PST 2006

15395 [lbo-talk] Gore - the new Nixon? -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - February 27, 2006 Nixon's '68 Comeback Offers Clues for Gore Roger J. Stone Jr. Several weeks ago, former Vice President Al Gore told the Associated Press that he "had no plans to seek the Presidency in 2008." His words were eerily reminiscent of a quote from another former Vice President, Richard Nixon, who told the same Associated Press in November of 1965 that he "had no plans to seek the Presidency in 1968." Many years later, in 1992, I chatted with Ni ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 10:17:42 PST 2006

15396 [lbo-talk] WSJ: how to sound like a hawk without being one -- rank: 1000

[every once in a while these loons have a point - in the print edition they use "how to sound like a hawk without being one" as a pull quote, but it's not in the text of the rant] Wall Street Journal [editorial page] - February 22, 2006 Ports of Politics Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is the latest Republican to broadcast his "independence" from President Bush on homeland security, yesterday joining Senator Lindsey Graham, Representative Peter King and numerous state polit ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 10:05:46 PST 2006

15397 [lbo-talk] Socialim [was: Cheery thought for the next 300 years -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Aren't anarchists against organization? Is that a trick question? Because the answer is no, right? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 09:59:19 PST 2006

15398 [lbo-talk] Socialim [was: Cheery thought for the next 300 years -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >>If you want to explain to your kids the virtues of socialism, you first need >>to make them first-hand experience the notion of society and social >>solidarity, as opposed to private exclusionary clubs and gangs that are the >>dominant form of social organization in the US, if we take the federal >>government out of the equation. Have them live abroad for a year or two - >>Europe, Latin America, Israel - where ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 08:23:45 PST 2006

15399 [lbo-talk] yellowcake: the Italian angle -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 22, 2006 The Italian Job: How Fake Iraq Memos Tripped Up Ex-Spy Rocco Martino Goes Silent As FBI Probes the Origin Of 'Yellowcake' Scandal By JAY SOLOMON and GABRIEL KAHN For much of the past decade, Rocco Martino floated in obscurity on the margins of the global spy game. The silver-haired Italian worked briefly for his country's military-intelligence service, was kicked out but continued to freelance with SISMI, as it is known. He scraped together a living sellin ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 07:15:34 PST 2006

15400 [lbo-talk] Summers out! -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Is it any wonder that the Right hates academia? Academia is the >only industry in the USA where workers can force out the CEO. Well at Harvard, and maybe Yale. (The Yale propaganda I was fed long ago claimed that at Harvard, the president rules, while at Yale, the faculty rules. Dunno.) But at Ohio State, you think the same could happen? Meanwhile, Dershowitz blames the far-leftists in the humanities (see below)! Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - February 22, 2006 C ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 22 06:57:43 PST 2006

15401 [lbo-talk] Lee's Garage -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >while dj khm1 distinguishes variety of classes and class factions, >and he makes note of various agents of production, he consistently >calls attention - above all - to relations of production between >capital and labor... mh Yeah, but that's not necessarily the way people perceive the world. "And what we think changes how we act..."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 21 16:43:47 PST 2006

15402 [lbo-talk] 50-year-olds have more fun! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1631873,0047.htm> Men at 50 have better sex lives! Asian News International London, February 21, 2006 What do men in their 50s have in common with men in their 20s? Well, according to a new survey, it happens to be their sex lives, for it found that when it comes to levels of sexual satisfaction, men in their fifties recorded similar levels to 20-29 year-olds. The survey, by a team of experts from Norway and the USA, was conducted on 1,185 men aged b ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 21 16:08:12 PST 2006

15403 [lbo-talk] politics getting politicized! bear market signal!!!! -- rank: 1000

[from having read their stuff in the past I assume that this polarization & anger are symptoms of a bear market of world-historical proportions - but they don't tell you that in this teaser - in any case, an amusing piece of market wisdom here] <http://www.elliottwave.com/features/default.aspx?cat=mw*aid=2244*time=pm> Anger INTO Politics, Not Vice-Versa 2/21/2006 6:03:35 PM The stock market closed lower on Tuesday (Feb. 21). ***** A relative indifference toward politics usually charact ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 21 15:30:13 PST 2006

15404 [lbo-talk] 40th anniversary -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >this year makes 41, actually. but i don't remember much hoopla last >year, either. Oops, sorry. Forgot the year for a sec. Must get more sleep. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 21 15:13:05 PST 2006

15405 [lbo-talk] 40th anniversary -- rank: 1000

Malcolm X was killed 40 years ago today. I'm a little surprised there hasn't been more of a media spasm about this. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 21 14:49:33 PST 2006