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18061 [lbo-talk] modest, self-effacing Tom DeLay -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/politics/22cong.html> [...] "'One thing that God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo, to help elevate the visibility of what is going on in America,' Mr. DeLay told a conference organized by the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. A recording of the event was provided by the advocacy organization Americans United for Separation of Church and State.'" LINK "'This is exactly the issue that is going on in America, of attac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 22 06:45:20 PST 2005

18062 [lbo-talk] SRI: socially responsible investing -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >i bet this has been asked before (i remember a round of investment >questions from joanna), but i cannot find (admittedly from a quick >search) relevant info... what's the consensus on SRI (socially >responsible investing)? while many of the funds do not seem to >invest in the outright bad guys (haliburton, etc) there's nothing >too radical about their top holdings. many of them, surprisingly, >are doing quite well. It's mostly a crock. The stuff that does some ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 22 06:14:03 PST 2005

18063 [lbo-talk] W gloats; Clinton cheerleads -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >-Probably not, but we should be honest about this. Clinton was on his >-way to a privatization, until it was derailed by Monica. And it >-wouldn't surprise me at all that a Pres Hillary would do the job. We >-should be grateful Bush proposed it, because it's getting opposition >-it might not otherwise get. > >Doug, this is ridiculous. Clinton specifically ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 22 05:39:55 PST 2005

18064 [lbo-talk] Bugs at it again! -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >The Death of the Dollar I've got a piece coming in next week's Nation on the dollar. Given that Greider's piece on deflation in that mag marked the end of the deflation scare, I'm wondering if it's time to go long the dollar? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 21 13:08:55 PST 2005

18065 [lbo-talk] Sweeney out! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.emergingdemocraticmajority.com/pow/powmarch_16_2005.cfm> The Labor Movement: What Is To Be Done? [Ruy Teixeira] The thrust of John Judis' new article on the crisis of the labor movement in the New Republic is that, above all, the labor movement needs to replace John Sweeney as head of the AFL-CIO. Recently, the labor movement has been embroiled in an acrimonious debate about whether and how much to reform the AFL-CIO's approach to organizing and collective bargaining. On one si ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 21 12:08:05 PST 2005

18066 [lbo-talk] they're back! Operation Rescue revives -- rank: 1000

Miami Herald - March 20, 2005 ADVOCATES High-profile antiabortion protesters reunited The protests to save the life of Terri Schiavo have reunited members of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue -- and drawn a newer incarnation of the group itself. BY NOAH BIERMAN PINELLAS PARK - The debate over Terri Schiavo has reunited members of a protest movement many Americans hadn't heard from in more than a decade: Operation Rescue. Operation Rescue radicalized antiabortion politics in the summer of 1 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 21 11:56:55 PST 2005

18067 [lbo-talk] Village People not a gay group -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 21, 2005 VILLAGE PEOPLE: GAY? NOT US THE Village People need a "straight guy for the queer group" makeover to change its carefully wardrobed image, which its handlers now think is too gay. Despite their famous campy get-ups, such as a "leather man," policeman, construction worker, cowboy and an American Indian - and their odes to masculine joys in "Macho Man," "Hot Cop," "I'm a Cruiser" and "In the Navy" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 21 06:31:16 PST 2005

18068 [lbo-talk] Schiavo: big majority against the Reps -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS POLL: TERRI SCHIAVO - 3/20/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 7 a.m. Monday, March 21, 2005 Federal Intervention in Schiavo Case Prompts Broad Public Disapproval Americans broadly and strongly disapprove of federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, with sizable majorities saying Congress is overstepping its bounds for political gain. The public, by 63-28 percent, supports the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, and by a 25-point margin opposes a law mandating federal review of her ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 21 06:28:04 PST 2005

18069 [lbo-talk] Bush, conscious of his legacy, takes English lessons -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 21, 2005 The Election Past, President's Message Gets a New Accent His Speech Gains Precision, Even French References; Trying to 'Turn the Page' By JOHN D. MCKINNON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- At a late-afternoon Paris news conference in May 2002, a jet-lagged President Bush rushed through sentences, mangled some words and teased an American journalist for asking President Jacques Chirac a question in French. Asked about street demonstration ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 21 06:18:02 PST 2005

18070 [lbo-talk] WMT plays the race card -- rank: 1000

The Nation - March 28, 2005 Race to the Bottom by LIZA FEATHERSTONE "Wal-Mart is working for everyone," read the newspaper ad, which ran in January in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. "Some of our critics are working only for themselves." The same day, the company launched walmartfacts.com, a website to counter criticism of the kind you may have read in this magazine. Along with some misleading information intended ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 20 21:17:32 PST 2005

18071 [lbo-talk] M19 in New York City -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >two people who have never done a fucking thing By the way, Carrol, I've met you in person twice, and you were a very likeable person I'd be happy to spend hours talking politic or whatever with. You came to Liza's reading in Normal a few months ago and you were very friendly to her too. So why are you such an asshole on e-lists? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 20 11:44:42 PST 2005

18072 [lbo-talk] M19 in New York City -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And just where do you think those million-member marches come from? Do >they drop from heaven out of an obscure article on the peace movement >from two people who have never done a fucking thing for it except >kibbitz from the sidelines? Right, nothing at all, especially next to your great achievements. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 20 11:38:31 PST 2005

18073 [lbo-talk] M19 in New York City -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Whether it would work >is a debateable question, but there is no articulated strategy of any kind >on how putting even a million people in the streets would change a damn >thing that the Bush administration would do. Putting a million people in the streets changes the way people think about the balance of power - or could. Putting a few thousand only confirms the balance of power. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 20 10:59:25 PST 2005

18074 [lbo-talk] sarinniversary -- rank: 1000

[Today's the 10th anniversary of the sarin attack in the Tokyo subway by the Aum cult. Yesterday's Financial Times had a long piece by their Tokoyo reporter, David Pilling, on the cult and the identity crisis it (and the Kobe earthquake) provoked in Japan - 1995 seen as the year that Japanese started thinking in a big way that something had gone seriously wrong in their country. A couple of excerpts.] The liquid was sarin, a lethal nerve gas invented by German scientists in the 1930s. Aum had le ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 20 10:58:33 PST 2005

18075 [lbo-talk] Oil touches $57 per barrel, many OPEC members at or above capacity -- rank: 1000

Joe Barrera wrote: >How can you be "above capacity"? Producing more than you can sustainably over the long term without damaging the system. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 20 10:43:29 PST 2005