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17401 [lbo-talk] the right wails -- rank: 1000

[Carrol Cox may think that Edwards' position is outrageously slimy and prowar, but the right disagrees] Washington Times - November 16, 2005 An incontinent Congress By Tony Blankley Little good comes when Congress grabs control of American foreign policy and war-fighting strategies from the hands of a scandal-weakened White House. Of course, it is always possible that there are 51 forward-leaning, shrewd, patriotic, non-partisan senators assembled to make the tough, unpopular call to push on for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 16 09:23:25 PST 2005

17402 [lbo-talk] great moments in statesmanship -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review - Grassley is a 5th-term Senator from Iowa] You know, what--what makes our economy grow is energy. And, and Americans are used to going to the gas tank (sic), and when they put that hose in their, uh, tank, and when I do it, I wanna get gas out of it. And when I turn the light switch on, I want the lights to go on, and I don't want somebody to tell me I gotta change my way of living to satisfy them. Because this is America, and this is something we've worked o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 16 09:05:36 PST 2005

17403 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

JC Helary wrote: >On 2005/11/16, at 1:04, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>By the way, I almost never listen to NPR. Too dull. > >The music or the rest ? News/public affairs. All Things Considered makes me want to scream. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 16 09:03:03 PST 2005

17404 [lbo-talk] Britpop -- rank: 1000

[bounced because HTML coding pushed it over the length limit - P L A I N T E X T P L E A S E ! !] From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: Britpap Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:08:11 -0000 THE SHAMING OF BRITPOP Brendan O'Neill on the Blairite conformism of Coldplay and other safe, smug middle-class bands. THE SPECTATOR, 15 October 2005 When Noel Gallagher of Oasis visited Downing Street in July 1997 to congratulate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 16 08:44:56 PST 2005

17405 [lbo-talk] Discontinuance of M3 -- rank: 1000

Nobidicus wrote: >I was wondering too. >This page, about the "M-3 massacre", is kind of entertaining in its >own overheated way. It's full of references to Corporatist Fascism, >the Plunge Protection Team and Elliot Wave theory: > > http://www.safehaven.com/article-4108.htm Wow. It's always refreshing to see there are right-wing lunatics too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 14:53:10 PST 2005

17406 [lbo-talk] Discontinuance of M3 -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >What does this mean, left business observers? > >http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/discm3.htm > >On March 23, 2006, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System >will cease publication of the M3 monetary aggregate. Not much. M3 is pretty useless. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 14:26:46 PST 2005

17407 [lbo-talk] Lapham retiring -- rank: 1000

New York Times - November 15, 2005 Editor of Harper's Magazine Will Retire By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Lewis H. Lapham, the editor of Harper's Magazine for nearly 30 years, said yesterday that he would retire as editor in the spring. Mr. Lapham, who is 70, said he would take on the title of editor emeritus and would continue to write his "Notebook" column on a regular basis. He is under contract to write a book about President William Howard Taft. He said in an interview that he might also ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 13:25:12 PST 2005

17408 [lbo-talk] GM Bankruptcy Fears Rising on Wall Street -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Typically, these sorts of stories are met with >statements about Japanese autos being better built >than American -- routinely offered as the primary >explanation for any US auto firm's difficulties. > >There's truth in that observation but it may take us >only so far. Although some automakers are doing better >than others in certain markets, I wonder if there are, >quite simply, too many vehicles chasing too few >consumers across the globe abl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 13:16:07 PST 2005

17409 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg's demographic profiling -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Doug: >> [If this business about race & class mattering >> less is really true, well, um, time for a >> rethink.] > >^^^^ >CB: Did the races and classes vote in a different pattern than usual in this >election ? Yes. There were no exit polls, but from the precinct patters, it looks like Bloomberg got lots of black and Latino votes. That's unusual because black people usually vote 90% Dem (Latinos vote Dem, but far less heavily), and b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 13:06:56 PST 2005

17410 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg's demographic profiling -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org> >> >>It sounds like somebody needs to write "What's the matter with New >>York City?" > >I think they should rename NYC "Bloomburg" and be done with it. NYC >has become as much a bland simulacrum of its former self as the New >York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The *real* NYC would >never have jumped up and down wagging its tail this way just because >it go ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 11:25:35 PST 2005

17411 [lbo-talk] Liz Smith on JFK -- rank: 1000

LIZ SMITH: Last Word Till 2017 November 15, 2005 -- 'AT LAST, the mysteries surrounding JFK's death are fully explained by the startling revelations in this book. Its fresh, groundbreaking research documents how the blow-back from the Kennedys' actions against the Mafia and Cuba led to the death of JFK."So writes former FBI agent William W. Turner of the hefty new book "Ultimate Sacrifice," which tells in excruciating detail how John and Robert Kennedy, along with the CIA, planne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 11:20:11 PST 2005

17412 [lbo-talk] NYC appearance: Parenti & Crawford -- rank: 1000

[Christian met John Crawford in Iraq, and put him together with an agent. Tonight, they're on a double bill. The Booze comment is Christian's, not Housing Works'.] The war comes home to Housing Works Tuesday, November 15 at 7PM Join us for a reading and discussion with Christian Parenti and John Crawford. Christian will read from and discuss his new book, "The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq." John will do the same for his bestselling memoir "The Last True S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 09:33:35 PST 2005

17413 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >What's wrong with bombast? Doug, are you going gween on us? Yuck, I hate bombast. Can't take Springsteen for similar reasons. I took a Wagner course in college - the prof (who was a real Wagner fetishist, reportedly dressed like him when he was at home) said once that with Wagner, you never got the feeling that he was giving it all. He always had more power in reserve. Bad composers, though, are the ones who sound like they've got it turned up to the max. That's the prob wi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 09:26:35 PST 2005

17414 [lbo-talk] MasterCard SpendingPulse -- rank: 1000

Ooops, sorry, misaddressed that. Doug PS: More like a 5-minute trader. Travis Fast wrote: >No doubt something a day trader would want? > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Damn, this is good. And no doubt very expensive: >><https://www.spendingpulse.com/spweb/Home.do>. >>___________________________________ >>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk >> > > >___________________________________ >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 09:21:49 PST 2005

17415 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

[from this week's Nation] RATTLE & HUMPH Medford, Mass. U2 "bombastic"? Compared to who? Liszt? Gilbert and Sullivan? Marilyn Manson? Gilbert O'Sullivan? Doug Henwood ["Bono Meets Dr. Shock," Oct. 31] should push the button on his radio--from NPR to music--occasionally. That way he'd know that U2 is "expansive" or "grandiose." You need two guitars to be "bombastic," man. C'mon. MICHAEL BARRY HENWOOD REPLIES New York City Bombastic, yes. Pompo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 08:04:18 PST 2005