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16741 [lbo-talk] America's road to hell -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote, > >>...even in the fat days. > >You're suggesting that the fat days are gone? Yeah. That's pretty non-controversial, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 15 08:37:26 PDT 2005

16742 [lbo-talk] Katrina: the supply-side approach -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 15, 2005 After Katrina, Republicans Back a Sea of Conservative Ideas By JOHN R. WILKE and BRODY MULLINS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Congressional Republicans, backed by the White House, say they are using relief measures for the hurricane-ravaged Gulf coast to achieve a broad range of conservative economic and social policies, both in the storm zone and beyond. Some new measures are already taking shape. In the past week, the Bush administration has ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 15 08:16:23 PDT 2005

16743 [lbo-talk] Katrina undermining support for Iraq war -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 15, 2005 Katrina Erodes Support In U.S. for Iraq War Bush's Rating as Crisis Manager Declines in Poll as Pessimism About the Economy Grows By JOHN HARWOOD Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Hurricane Katrina has accelerated the erosion in public support for the Iraq war as President Bush's core of supporters dwindles and economic pessimism turns Americans' attention inward. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll1 shows that cutting spending o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 15 08:13:30 PDT 2005

16744 [lbo-talk] Re:democratic-people's budgeting -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >really tough process wherever progressives have raised the subject, >here...but what about the city in brazil, where the first social >forum took place?... wasn't budgeting for the city an open process, >participated in by far more than the usual suspects? Yup, though some say the really significant stuff was decided by the authorities, and the people were left allocating the crumbs. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 15 08:07:18 PDT 2005

16745 [lbo-talk] America's road to hell -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >P.S. Somewhere recently -- one one of these lists? -- I saw reference to >the inability of u.s. troops in europe to defeat the germans except >through overwhelming numerical superiority. Whenever they were in equal >numbers, the Germans beat them. If so, the Road to Hell has deep >origins. And then there's the argument from the economic historian, Gavin What's-His-Name, that US economic dominance was not the result of particular cleverness but of the availabilit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 15 08:02:03 PDT 2005

16746 [lbo-talk] Northwest bankruptcy filing -- rank: 1000

[html coding doubled the length of this to 35k - please please please plain text please!] From: "Steven L. Robinson" <srobin21 at comcast.net> Subject: Fw: Northwest Airlines Files For Chapter 11 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:22:40 -0400 ----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:salazarbiddle at earthlink.net>Jennifer Salazar Biddle Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:19 PM Subject: Northwest Airlines Files For Chapter 11 AMFA COMMENTS ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES BANKRUPTCY FILING ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 15 07:43:41 PDT 2005

16747 [lbo-talk] failure -- rank: 1000

Don't know how long this will last, but Google "failure" and check out the first hit. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 15 07:36:37 PDT 2005

16748 [lbo-talk] America's road to hell -- rank: 1000

Le Figaro - September 12, 2005 Emmanuel Todd: The Specter of a Soviet-Style Crisis By Marie-Laure Germon and Alexis Lacroix Le Figaro According to this demographer, Hurricane Katrina has revealed the decline of the American system. Le Figaro. - What is the first moral and political lesson we can learn from the catastrophe Katrina provoked? The necessity for a "global" change in our relationship with nature? Emmanuel Todd . - Let us be wary of over-interpretation. Let's not lose sight o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 14 12:55:06 PDT 2005

16749 [lbo-talk] alternation -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >Catherine Driscoll > >Don't you think a lot of people are going to buy the Dick Morris line >that criticising now is merely partisan failure to help? > > >Probably, but it is the most specious canard imaginable. It is >analogous to the "We oppose the war, but we must support the troops" >line of horseshit. Hey, that kind of horseshit is SOP in American politics. That's more an argument for it working than against. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 14 11:34:41 PDT 2005

16750 [lbo-talk] alternation -- rank: 1000

I alternate between thinking that the Bush admin's scheming to use vouchers and other right-wing faves in NO reconstruction is proof that they're lost in a bubble, dreaming, and that it's the liberals who are the ones lost in the bubble, dreaming, that the right has taken a fatal blow from Katrina. Which is it? Neither? Both? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 14 07:54:42 PDT 2005

16751 [lbo-talk] Bush admin plan to cut more wages, and other dastardly schemes -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 14, 2005 Bush Takes Responsibility For Failures Of Response By Jim VandeHei and Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writers President Bush yesterday said he takes personal responsibility for the federal government's stumbling response to Hurricane Katrina, as his White House worked on several fronts to move beyond the improvisation of the first days of the crisis and set a long-term course on a problem that aides now believe will shadow the balance of Bush's second ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 14 07:47:22 PDT 2005

16752 [lbo-talk] Dick Morris: this too shall pass -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DickMorris/091405.html > Hurricane Katrina, Act II - starring George Bush Dick Morris Politicians in Washington are often like motorists who drive only by consulting their rearview mirrors and never look out of their windshields to see what is going on right now. Our national political/journalistic complex is obsessed with blaming President Bush for failing to respond quickly to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. After weeks ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 14 07:43:57 PDT 2005

16753 [lbo-talk] NDoP -- rank: 1000

Friday is a "National Day of Prayer"? What the hell is wrong with this nuthouse?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 14 07:38:22 PDT 2005

16754 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: RE: [Marxism] Poll shows Blacks are much more aware of class-racialcharacter of govt role in flood] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox quoted: >This isn't surprising. However, the polls are structured in such a way >as to emphasize race and frame the difference racially. The polls do this? Damn, I thought several centuries of American society have done that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 13 20:56:43 PDT 2005

16755 [lbo-talk] unmatched black vote -- rank: 1000

Grandma Gertie wrote: > a serious case of unmatched >blacks. Because there's 40 different shades of black So many fortresses and ways to attack So why you complaining? ta!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 13 19:26:10 PDT 2005