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19606 [lbo-talk] Gonzales torn apart at CFR -- rank: 1000

Sorry I missed this one, but a friend who went to Alberto Gonzales's appearance before the Council in Foreign Relations the other day said that the men in gray suits went after him hard on torture - Pete Peterson (Nixon's Commerce Secretary, big cheese investment banker at Blackstone, whose name adorns the room the event probably took place in at the CFR) among them. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 7 06:46:40 PST 2005

19607 [lbo-talk] Max is bigger than DU phew -- rank: 1000

Bitch | Lab wrote: >http://www.truthlaidbear.com/ecosystem.php?start=mammal "Safari can't open the page "http://www.truthlaidbear.com/ecosystem.php?start=mammal" because it could not connect to the server "www.truthlaidbear.com"."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 7 06:40:30 PST 2005

19608 [lbo-talk] CodePink to dog Hillary -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >I just don't see how the U.S. ruling class and its politicians in either the >Democratic or Republican Parties will ever be convinced to abandon >what they've >gained in Iraq i.e. control over a *substantial* portion of the world's proven >and dwindling oil supplies. "Control" is a bit of an overstatement, no? The country is a mess. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 7 06:25:13 PST 2005

19609 [lbo-talk] Goldman on Greenspan & the US c/a deficit -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >Sorry about the over-post but Niall Ferguson and others make an >extremely persuasive case that military dominance has, througout >history, been a product of superior financial structures and not the >other way around. Oh please. What's a "superior financial structure" but a complex and successful system of bourgeois rule with labor effectively dominated by capital through the beauties of market competition? That whole system worldwide is ultimately enfo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 19:41:42 PST 2005

19610 [lbo-talk] Goldman on Greenspan & the US c/a deficit -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >First, deeper capital markets ... > >^^^^^^ >CB: What does it mean for a capital market to be deeper ? Bigger, more liquidity (which Joan Robinson defined as the capacity to touch your money) - you can buy or sell in huge volume and have little or no impact on prices. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 19:39:14 PST 2005

19611 [lbo-talk] WashPost loves Matt Taibbi -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 6, 2005 Fed Time for Gonzo at Rolling Stone Political Reporter Matt Taibbi Surrounds Capitol Hill With Barbed Ire By Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer Hunter S. Thompson is dead and P.J. O'Rourke is writing for the Atlantic and delivering after-dinner speeches to Republican fat cats. But that's okay because Rolling Stone magazine has a new political reporter with the gonzo spirit that made Thompson and O'Rourke so much fun. His name is Matt Taibbi and here's h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 13:32:15 PST 2005

19612 [lbo-talk] Honor Killing and Domestic Violence in Germany -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >David Harvey in _A >Brief History of Neoliberalism_ (a great book!) Yes, I agree. A very fine book, smart, readable, and pretty short. The chapter on China is a real standout. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 09:42:43 PST 2005

19613 [lbo-talk] Colin Robinson moves on, again -- rank: 1000

[Colin was my editor on Wall Street & After the New Economy, and he's a good friend whom I like & admire a lot. This is very sad news, as reported by Publishers Weekly.] Tuesday, December 6, 2005 Robinson to Leave New Press Citing differences over the editorial direction of the press, Colin Robinson, publisher and editor-in-chief of the New Press, is leaving the company at the end year. Known for publishing books on left wing and radical politics, Robinson joined the New Press in 2001 af ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 09:36:37 PST 2005

19614 [lbo-talk] CodePink to dog Hillary -- rank: 1000

[won't this raise her appeal in the heartland?] New York Daily News - December 6, 2005 Angry activists set to hound Hil WASHINGTON - Anti-war activists furious with Sen. Hillary Clinton are vowing to bird-dog her everywhere she goes, starting with a swanky Manhattan fund-raiser tonight. Clinton's letter last week clarifying her position on Iraq - which included rejecting a timetable for withdrawal - fanned the anger of some war opponents, who decided to launch a campaign against New York's junio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 09:36:52 PST 2005

19615 [lbo-talk] Toys for Dems Drive -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood: > >>the country that brought you abstinence education also has >>one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the world > >Aren't teen pregancy rates down? Kind of old (1996): <http://www.statcan.ca/english/kits/preg/preg3d.htm>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 07:37:24 PST 2005

19616 [lbo-talk] Toys for Dems Drive -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood: > >>the country that brought you abstinence education also has >>one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the world > >Aren't teen pregancy rates down? They are, but US rates are still quite high, as I recall. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 07:34:05 PST 2005

19617 [lbo-talk] Obama equivocates on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - December 6, 2005 Obama: Iraq war splits Democrats By Jeff Zeleny and Rick Pearson Tribune staff reporters Sen. Barack Obama said Monday that the Democratic Party was unlikely to reconcile its differences and reach a unified strategy for Iraq, conceding: "The politics and the policy of this may not match perfectly." As Democrats work to win control of Congress in the 2006 elections, Obama (D-Ill.) said a cacophony of views over the Iraq war threatens to divide the part ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 07:32:42 PST 2005

19618 [lbo-talk] Goldman on Greenspan & the US c/a deficit -- rank: 1000

DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 12/05/05 Goldman Sachs Economics *Chairman Greenspan attributes the gaping US current account deficit to three forces: (1) financial deepening, (2) reduced home bias among investors, and (3) stronger relative US productivity growth. His story implies that the US deficit might be sustainable for a long time, without necessarily putting much downward pressure on the dollar. *We agree with Greenspan's first two points. These developments have increased the dispersion ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 07:21:00 PST 2005

19619 [lbo-talk] unmasking a hero of the right -- rank: 1000

<http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/06/bradford> Web of Lies When several of his colleagues expressed doubts about whether they would eventually want to tenure him, William Bradford, an associate professor of law at Indiana University in Indianapolis, went public with his complaints. He posted on blogs, he talked on the radio, he talked to this Web site, he hit "The O'Reilly Factor." His message: Liberal faculty members were pushing him out because he is conservative, a war v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 07:00:31 PST 2005

19620 [lbo-talk] Toys for Dems Drive -- rank: 1000

Rotating Bitch wrote: >Touch yourself and you'll know I exist >http://blog.pulpculture.org/2005/12/05/touch-yourself/ Where you say: "and fucking sexiness or whatever Ariel Levy wants to use to uphold her own little Madonna/Whore complex." That's not really fair to her, though I'll concede she's not always clear about her underlying argument. But it is some variation on a critique of the American binary of purtitanism and prurience - the country that brought you abstinence educat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 6 06:44:02 PST 2005