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16681 [lbo-talk] Hugo Chavez speaks -- rank: 1000

[less an interview than a speech, but hey, he's pretty great] Democracy Interviews President Hugo Chavez: "If the Imperialist Government of the White House Dares to Invade Venezuela, the War of 100 Years Will be Unleashed in South America" Broadcast - 09/19/05 Listen to _Segment_ (http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005/sept/audio/dn20050919.ra&proto=rtsp&start=6:45) || Download _Show mp3_ (http://www.archive.org/download/dn2005-0919/dn2005-0919-1_64kb.mp3) _Watc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 20:33:53 PDT 2005

16682 [lbo-talk] white Americans think Kanye West is wrong -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup - they don't break out white opinion, but it looks like 67% of nonblacks think GWB cares about blacks, and 26% don't] Most Americans disagree with the controversial assertion -- made by rapper Kanye West during a telethon for hurricane victims -- that Bush doesn't care about black people. In the poll, 62% of Americans say he does care, and 31% say he does not. However, black Americans see things differently -- just 21% of blacks believe Bush cares about them, while 72% say he does n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 20:29:53 PDT 2005

16683 [lbo-talk] Americans "deeply pessimistic" about economy, will probably keep spending -- rank: 1000

September 19, 2005 Americans' Dour Economic Attitudes Little Affected by Katrina Americans very negative on economy both before and after hurricane by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- What has been the impact of Hurricane Katrina on consumer confidence in the United States economy? Gallup's first September update on Americans' views of the economy suggests that the hurricane may be having little effect at all. Confidence in the economy, which was low and dropping in August just ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 20:15:41 PDT 2005

16684 [lbo-talk] Gallup has Bush at 40 -- rank: 1000

[Gallup has historically run a few points in Bush's favor, so if they have him at 40, he's sinking. 59% now see the invasion of Iraq as a mistake.] Monday, September 19, 2005; Posted: 6:58 p.m. EDT (22:58 GMT) Bush approval rating at 40 percent Majority disapprove of the handling of Katrina, Iraq WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's vow to rebuild the Gulf Coast did little to help his standing with the public, only 40 percent of whom now approve of his performance in office, according to a CNN/U ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 16:39:23 PDT 2005

16685 [lbo-talk] Kozlowski sentenced -- rank: 1000

Wendy Lyon wrote: > >From John's article: > >"...an $18 million Manhattan apartment with a $6,000 shower curtain." > >The mind boggles. What on earth could a shower curtain possibly do to >be worth $6,000? Impress the hell out of visitors, just like the $13,000 umbrella stand. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 12:11:12 PDT 2005

16686 [lbo-talk] Contemporary forms of female self-objectification -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >It does not matter men will be attracted to women no matter >what. Which is just what Ariel Levy said. We've gone full circle. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 12:03:53 PDT 2005

16687 [lbo-talk] A non-housing program for the homeless -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >But that may tip the balance elsewhere, e.g. cause that fascist swine Trent >Lott lose his job. No, I think they'd like a lot of the "refugees" to stay in Texas, where their numbers would be swamped by all the white Republicans. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 10:33:34 PDT 2005

16688 [lbo-talk] German election: the markets won't like this -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >But if we think outside the box, unions are also big investors thanks to >their pension funds. Why not investing these money into creating >enterprises with social responsibility that do not race Western firms to the >bottom? That would probably be illegal in the U.S. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 10:16:03 PDT 2005

16689 [lbo-talk] Contemporary forms of female self-objectification -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What are stereotypical examples of Black men as puritans and sexless ? Are there any? Isn't it just the opposite? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 10:08:29 PDT 2005

16690 [lbo-talk] Rove, off the record -- rank: 1000

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/09/17/rove-off-the-record-on-ka_n_7513.html> Karl Rove, President Bush's top political advisor and deputy White House chief of staff, spoke at businessman Teddy Forstmann's annual off the record gathering in Aspen, Colorado this weekend. Here is what Rove had to say that the press wasn't allowed to report on. On Katrina: The only mistake we made with Katrina was not overriding the local government... On The Anti-War Movement: Cindy Sheehan is a clown. Th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 07:42:03 PDT 2005

16691 [lbo-talk] A non-housing program for the homeless -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >The Bush administration's priority, >though, is exactly that: to quickly sweep "them" out of public view by by >providing readily-available trailers and other cheap prefab housing, some >token rental and job-training allowances, and passing responsibility for the >homeless onto charitable institutions. And by all means, keep the black folks from returning to New Orleans, so that Louisiana will turn into a reliably Republican state. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 07:33:48 PDT 2005

16692 [lbo-talk] Afghanistan: 50% turnout -- rank: 1000

Fifty percent turnout estimated in key Afghan poll KABUL (AFP) - Early estimates showed a turnout of just over 50 percent in Afghanistan's first parliamentary polls in more than three decades, below that of last year's presidential vote. Militants from the ousted Taliban had warned voters to stay away from Sunday's vote, seen as a crucial step in the war-shattered country's progress towards democracy, but failed to carry out any major attacks. With closing reports in from around 35 percent of po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 06:36:55 PDT 2005

16693 [lbo-talk] Chavez' oil for the poor scheme -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - September 18, 2005 Chavez' Surprise for Bush Offering to Sell Cheap Oil to America's Poor by Juan Gonzalez Worried about the skyrocketing cost of gasoline and heating oil this winter? Well, Hugo Chavez, the firebrand president of oil-rich Venezuela, wants to help. Chavez, a former army officer twice elected president in huge landslides, has become a target of the Bush administration for his radical social policies. Last month, right-wing evangelist Pat Robertson openly urge ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 06:33:17 PDT 2005

16694 [lbo-talk] Contemporary forms of female self-objectification -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >So I read the snippet from the review first, and thought perhaps I should buy >this book, but then subsequent elaborations have suggested that it's another >highly selective over-reaching patronising polemic on 'girls today' >and frankly >I've read more than enough of those. So what do you make of what Levy calls the "raunch culture" - women flashing their tits for Girls Gone Wild, the popularization of porn stars and strippers as role models f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 19 06:13:13 PDT 2005

16695 [lbo-talk] Angry Arab on The Great Debate -- rank: 1000

[this could do with some paragraph breaks] <http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2005/09/hitchens-vs-galloway-big-debate-link.html> "Hitchens Vs Galloway: The big debate" (link of video here) I have just finished watching this debate. I will evaluate it as a debate first. I am no fan of either men: I wrote about Galloway before, and I find him to be quite demagogic in his approach and more than slightly buffoonish in style. I watched him once campaign on Edgeware Road in London, and was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 18 13:43:12 PDT 2005