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17266 [lbo-talk] Novak loses it -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 22, 2005 The Reliable Source Fear the Turtle, Especially in First Class By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts Tuesday, November 22, 2005; 1:33 AM Don't mess with columnist Bob Novak when he's on his way to a Maryland basketball game. Novak, the enigmatic center of the CIA leak scandal, was headed to Hawaii Saturday morning to watch his beloved Terrapins play in the Maui Invitational tournament when he tangled with a fellow traveler. According to our unofficial mascot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 14:55:24 PST 2005

17267 [lbo-talk] US public opinion on Iraq: withdraw now or soon -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=NC&pubid46#iraq> The Iraq Situation Isn't As Bad As It Seems for the Bush Administration: It's Worse Here is a brief review of the public's current views on the Iraq situation. 1. The public overwhelmingly disapproves of the job Bush is doing handling the Iraq situation. His approval rating is now in the low-30 percent range in most polls, with well over 60 percent disapproving. In fact, one poll (Newsweek) had his rating was at exactly 30 percent, ind ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 14:33:40 PST 2005

17268 [lbo-talk] We can lose, or we can just lose later -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> No. They're trained killers who follow orders without question. Yeah, >> I know all about the pressures that make people join, but they are, >> in the final analysis, volunteers. And yeah, it's nasty risky work, >> but they signed on the dotted line. I don't owe them any gratitude. >> >> And, as we learned at Nuremburg, following orders is no excuse. > >I am certainly sympathetic to this line of reasoning, but I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 13:47:55 PST 2005

17269 [lbo-talk] We can lose, or we can just lose later -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >I hope we are not sliding back into the Vietnam era stupidity of >blaming soldiers. Once you are a soldier you lose your political >independence, you serve the government and you have to do hard, shitty >things that most people are unwilling to do - and do them at >significant personal risk. You better believe I never miss an >opportunity to thank people in uniform and I would suggest that, >particularly as a leftist, you start doing the same. No. They're ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 13:13:55 PST 2005

17270 [lbo-talk] GEORGE GALLOWAY PANDERS TO THE HOMOPHOBES -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/11/george_galloway.html > >GEORGE GALLOWAY PANDERS TO THE HOMOPHOBES (Updated) Yup. I'm extremely disappointed to hear this. I think I'll try to get a follow-up interview with him for next week's radio show to ask about this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 13:06:37 PST 2005

17271 [lbo-talk] more on Bush's 9/21 info -- rank: 1000

<http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1122nj1.htm> Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel By Murray Waas, special to National Journal Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005 Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 11:34:05 PST 2005

17272 [lbo-talk] No Business As Usual-National Day of Absence -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >There's a big coincidence here, in that Mother Rosa Parks died in the >interim of the initiative to celebrate her historical act, juicing up the >significance of the action considerably. See Carrol on contingency in >revolutionary processes. Go with the flow. What I'd like to see is the UAW striking Delphi on behalf of the whole US working class, and sparking a vast upsurge of radical support. That seems more likely than WW organizing a general strike, but it to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 09:28:54 PST 2005

17273 [lbo-talk] the NYT & the war -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nyobserver.com/media_offtherecord.asp> New York Observer - November 28, 2005 Times Confronted By Ms. Rice In 2002 But Held Ground Gabriel Sherman In late August of 2002, David Sanger, White House correspondent for The New York Times, found himself in the far west wing of the West Wing: at President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex. There, in what must have been a fairly routine meeting with then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, he was told in no uncertain term ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 09:25:58 PST 2005

17274 [lbo-talk] myth in Kansas -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >Well, I suppose that the primary justification for battling the >religious right on these matters is that the assholes won't stop with >intelligent design, or with outlawing abortion. If they prevail on ID, >they will then try to suppress formal instruction in evolutionary >theory; just as they won't stop with overruling Roe v. Wade: after Roe, >they'll go after Griswold and contraception. So it's something of a >"fight 'em now, or fight 'em later& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 09:11:32 PST 2005

17275 [lbo-talk] industrial democracy in Venezuela -- rank: 1000

[I followed a link to this old story from one about Venezuela providing cheap heating oil in Massachusetts.] <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4155936.stm> Chavez calls for democracy at work Iain Bruce In Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela Workers take decisions at Alcasa's aluminium plant The heat and the noise are almost unbearable in the casting room of Line 3 at Alcasa. This is one of two big aluminium plants in the south-eastern city of Puerto Ordaz, where most of Venezuela's basic industries ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 07:29:36 PST 2005

17276 [lbo-talk] No Business As Usual-National Day of Absence -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Wow, two months of prep and it's still this obscure? > >Doug > > >CB: All one can do is send a copy of the announcement to the list. Can't >make people read my posts :>) > >NYC, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland City Councils have supported it >with resos. That's not sectarian work. City Council members represent tens >of thousands of people. Definitively _not_ sectarian. > >It's not like the monopoly media is going to announce ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 07:24:29 PST 2005

17277 [lbo-talk] Bush told early on no Iraq-Qaeda ties -- rank: 1000

Bush informed in 2001 of lack of Iraq-Qaeda ties Wed Nov 23, 2:57 AM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush was informed 10 days after the September 11, 2001 attacks that US intelligence had no proof of links between Iraq and that act of terror, The National Journal reported. Citing government documents as well as past and present Bush administration officials, the magazine said the president was briefed on September 21, 2001 that evidence of cooperation between Iraq and the Al-Qaeda ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 07:21:53 PST 2005

17278 [lbo-talk] myth in Kansas -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 23, 2005 U. of Kansas Draws Media Frenzy With News That It Will Offer Course on Intelligent Design as Myth By THOMAS BARTLETT It's rare for the announcement of a new college course to spark a news-media frenzy. But that's exactly what happened on Tuesday, when word spread that the University of Kansas would be offering a course next spring titled "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism, and Other Religious Mythologies ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 07:09:12 PST 2005

17279 [lbo-talk] No Business As Usual-National Day of Absence -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >This is Workers World, no? Isn't this rather short notice? > >Doug > >^^^^^ >CB: Actually, I sent the notice of this to this list two months ago, or so. >This was planned _before_ Parks died. I got a notice about it in August or >September and happened to send it here. > >I sent the NYC City Council reso here too, a while ago. Wow, two months of prep and it's still this obscure? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 06:59:18 PST 2005

17280 [lbo-talk] a paean to male beauty -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2005/11/every_era_has_i.html> NOVEMBER 22, 2005 That Boy They Couldn't Forget Every era has its beauty- the sex symbol who takes lust and awe and squeezes just a little bit tighter than anyone else would have dared. Because beauty is so ephemeral, many of our most-admired sex symbols have only become "legends" through savvy marketing, rather than through their native merits. Take Bettie Page, for example- she was always extrao ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 06:43:09 PST 2005