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18136 [lbo-talk] neocon schism! -- rank: 1000

<http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/03/is_the_neocons_.html> March 15, 2005 IS THE NEO-CONS' STAR FADING? THE MEANING OF THE SPLIT AT "THE NATIONAL INTEREST" Sunday's New York Times carried a report of a split in the hitherto neo-con journal The National Interest, with a mass resignation of the neo-cons from its editorial board. What does this split portend for the future of American neo-conservatism? We asked our friend, the distinguished scholar Norman Birnbaum -- who ha ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 15 12:35:56 PST 2005

18137 [lbo-talk] chuckO for pres -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >"Professional?" I thought you were an anarchist. Hey, what's the contradiction? Anarchist isn't a synonym for hack or slob. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 15 12:29:24 PST 2005

18138 [lbo-talk] Chavez: From Third Way to Socialism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This is interesting for the explanation by Chavez in the final paragraph >of the change in his perspective since he first came into office. > >================================================ > >http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/618/618p15.htm > >President agitates for socialist revolution Prompting the predictable reaction up north... Financial Times - March 14, 2005 WASHINGTON CRAFTS POLICY TO CONTAIN CHAVEZ 'SUBVERSION' By Andy Webb-Vidal Senior ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 15 12:07:49 PST 2005

18139 [lbo-talk] India 8th in billionaire club -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >To steal a line from somebody on list (Justin?), vulgar Marxism >explains about 90% of what's going on in the world. That was Bob Fitch. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 15 11:45:11 PST 2005

18140 [lbo-talk] defections in the biz campaign for SS privatization -- rank: 1000

[lots of links in original] <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id6238> Social Security: the politics: The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman turns in another look at the new Post-ABC/ABC-Post poll, leading with the mere 35 percent who approve of President Bush's handling of the issue - and offers a great explanation of the conundrum middle-aged workers face in having to wait before being able to contribute the maximum amount to their personal accounts. LINK But Bloomberg's Jeff ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 15 10:52:10 PST 2005

18141 [lbo-talk] Soc Sec poll numbers strongly against Bush -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=579917> Poll: Bush's Social Security Plan Is Tough Sell President's Job Approval Steady, But Most Americans Don't Like His Social Security Plans Analysis by GARY LANGER Mar. 14, 2005 - President Bush's Social Security road show is playing to a tough audience: Not only do most Americans oppose his effort to revamp the retirement system, but nearly six in 10 in a new poll also say that the more they hear about it, the less they like it. In the midst o ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 15 10:49:21 PST 2005

18142 [lbo-talk] Sticking it to The Man -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[It seems that the US is not the land of the pusillanimous after >all. Sure, Americans are willing to put up with illegal wars, >gutted social programs, a rotting economy and regressive taxation, >but there *is* a limit to the amount of shit they will eat! Get a >load of the bold, subversive action described here.] > >March 15, 2005 >A Few Tips to Cope With Life's Annoyances >By IAN URBINA Wasn't that a remarkably stupid story? Though it's hard to ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 15 10:42:03 PST 2005

18143 [lbo-talk] Evidence -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >I know it's trite to notice in our circle, but has anybody seen better >evidence of the almost total power of propaganda over this society? > >"We cannot allow rogue states that violate their commitments and defy the >international community to undermine the N.P.T.'s fundamental role in >strengthening international security." Bush 43 re: Iran Interesting piece in today's NYT reporting that while Iran is within its rights under the NPT to enrich ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 15 10:00:03 PST 2005

18144 [lbo-talk] Goldman on MEW -- rank: 1000

[these numbers are truly fucking amazing, to use the technical jargon] DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 3/14/04 Goldman Sachs Economics * The Fed's flow-of-funds tables show a further pickup in mortgage equity withdrawal (MEW) to a record $640 billion, or 7.4% of personal disposable income, in 2004. Although cash- out refinancing was down somewhat, this was more than offset by a near-doubling of home equity borrowing as well as further strength in housing turnover. We believe MEW has been one ke ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 14 14:29:02 PST 2005

18145 [lbo-talk] Re: Letters o'credit -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >PS: The fact that 75% of Americans haven't heard of blogs is yet another >testament to the sound common sense of the plain man. I guess Nathan hasn't reached your level of disillusionment yet. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 14 13:20:49 PST 2005

18146 [lbo-talk] blogs? huh? -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - March 11, 2005 Gallup Probes Blogs, Finds Most Americans Have Never Heard of Them NEW YORK Media and political types are currently obsessed with the newfound influe nce of blogs, but is the trend being overhyped? According to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, relatively few Americans are generally familiar with the phenomenon of blogging. Three-quarters of the U.S. public uses the Internet at work, school, or home, but only one in four Americans are either very familiar o ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 14 10:04:31 PST 2005

18147 [lbo-talk] dishing Sontag -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 14, 2005 MEOW, MEOW CERTAIN members of the cognoscenti are buzzing about Terry Castle's recent essay in the London Review of Books ridiculing her former friend, the late Susan Sontag. Castle cattily portrays her 10-year friendship with the skunk- maned intellectual as a tedious affair in which she was reduced to being a "sidekick" to the pompous, self-important scribe who treated her like a chauffeur and personal assistant. Castle relays some embarassin ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 14 09:58:32 PST 2005

18148 [lbo-talk] maniliness & class -- rank: 1000

[the quote of the day from Tom Heald's Pridelets] "There are not fewer faggots in the working class, there are only more closets there. Manliness is really a mark of class oppression, and the lower class you are, the more manly you are expected to be -- both by your peers and the society in general." -- Charles Shively, 1974's "Indiscriminate Promiscuity as an Act of Revolution"

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Date:	Mon Mar 14 09:44:15 PST 2005

18149 [lbo-talk] Gun-totin', God-fearin' US -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Yeah, great idea, let everyone carry concealed guns. That will make us safer. Now you're thinking like an American! Guns don't kill people - the lack of guns kills people! Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 14 07:08:36 PST 2005

18150 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: Destroying Fallujah to save it -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >http://www.juancole.com/2005/03/fallujah-tent-city-awaits-compensation.html > >Sunday, March 13, 2005 > > Fallujah, Tent City, Awaits Compensation > > <snip> > > Readers often write in for an update on Fallujah. I am sorry to > say that there is no Fallujah to update. The city appears to be in > ruins and perhaps uninhabitable in the near future. Of 300,000 > residents, only about 8 or 9,000 seem to have returned, ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 14 06:56:31 PST 2005