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19891 [lbo-talk] what makes America great: no success like failure -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - August 9, 2005 MILKING FAILURE JUST when everyone was about to forget Ashlee Simpson's embarrassing "Saturday Night Live" appearance last October, Jessica's punky sister has two tracks on her latest album, "Beautifully Broken" and "Who Will Help Me When I Fall," about being caught lip-synching. Her manager/preacher/father, Joe, is milking the incident to promote Ashlee's second CD, "In Another Life." "There's no way to run a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 9 06:16:01 PDT 2005

19892 [lbo-talk] LaRouche & Lane -- rank: 1000

I just found out that Ambrose Lane, now interim chair of Pacifica, gave a real softball interview to Lyndon LaRouche on WPFW (the Pacifica outlet in DC) on October 1, 2004. Lyndon liked it so much he put it up on his website: <http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/interviews_files/2004/0401002_lyn_ambrose_lane_wpfw.htm>. It includes listener calls like this: >TONY; Thank you very much. Ambrose, you do such a great job. And >thank goodness for a station like PSW, and thank goodness for > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 9 05:43:18 PDT 2005

19893 [lbo-talk] Unofficial de-Baathification process in Iraq Continues -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: Four posts yesterday, and four today. That's a bit closer to non-sinning behavior, but not quite. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 8 15:31:33 PDT 2005

19894 [lbo-talk] US let ObL slip away -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853000/site/newsweek/> Newsweek - August 15, 2005 Exclusive: CIA Commander: U.S. Let bin Laden Slip Away During the 2004 presidential campaign, George W. Bush and John Kerry battled about whether Osama bin Laden had escaped from Tora Bora in the final days of the war in Afghanistan. Bush, Kerry charged, "didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down and kill" the leader of Al Qaeda. The president called his opponent's allegation "the worst k ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 8 14:43:48 PDT 2005

19895 [lbo-talk] Ace in India -- rank: 1000

Alexander Cockburn has a very good piece on India in Counterpunch <http://counterpunch.org/cockburn08062005.html> - best thing I've seen from him in ages. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 8 11:05:18 PDT 2005

19896 [lbo-talk] Judy & Scooter -- rank: 1000

<http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10077> The Meeting Scooter Libby and Judy Miller met on July 8, 2003, two days after Joe Wilson published his column. And Patrick Fitzgerald is very interested. By Murray Waas Web Exclusive: 08.06.05 I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, has told federal investigators that he met with New York Times reporter Judith Miller on July 8, 2003, and discussed CIA operat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 8 08:46:13 PDT 2005

19897 [lbo-talk] Mises Institute defends bribery -- rank: 1000

In Defense of Bribery by Pierre Lemieux <http://www.mises.org/story/1884> [Posted on Monday, August 08, 2005] The Wall Street Journal of August 5 reports that the U.S. Department of Justice is pursuing a criminal investigation of the Mercedes unit of German car manufacturer DaimlerChrysler, suspected of having paid bribes in many countries, especially in Latin America and Africa. As a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, DaimlerChrysler is subject to the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Prac ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 8 08:43:25 PDT 2005

19898 [lbo-talk] Unofficial de-Baathification process in Iraq Continues -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Leigh:>>> NeoCons... Why is everyone afraid to say they're JEWISH.<<< > >me: >> many of them aren't. and there are a lot of non-NeoCons who are.<< > >Leigh:>50%+- ? Way out of proportion to the general population of the US.< > >I dunno. If you find almost any group of intellectuals in the US -- >say, URPE -- I would think that a high proportion (50%+?) would be >Jewish. This is because Jewish folks value education ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 8 08:39:58 PDT 2005

19899 [lbo-talk] Unofficial de-Baathification process in Iraq Continues -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >One undefined variable that allows it to go on unassailed... >The definition of neocon. There is no standard. Sure there is. There's the old-style neocon, like Irving Kristol. Mostly cultured former anti-communist leftists, they turned right on issues around race, crime, and welfare. They're not anti-statists; they often believe in state enforcement of morality and order. Not terribly interested in economic issues. And then there are the neo-cons around Bush - assertiv ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 8 07:04:06 PDT 2005

19900 [lbo-talk] Bush's Iraq approval below 40% -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8849936/site/newsweek> Newsweek Poll: Bush's Battle More Americans are questioning U.S. strategy in Iraq. WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek Updated: 12:13 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2005 Aug. 6, 2005 - As U.S. troops endured a deadly week in Iraq, 61 percent of Americans polled say they disapprove of the way President George W. Bush is handling the war in Iraq, according to a new NEWSWEEK poll. Thirty four percent say they approve. This is Bush's lowest rating on Iraq and the first ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 8 06:33:28 PDT 2005

19901 [lbo-talk] URPE Summer Conference: ALTERNATIVES! Aug. 20-23 -- rank: 1000

UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS (URPE) SUMMER CONFERENCE: ALTERNATIVES! Camp Chinqueka, Bantam, Connecticut Saturday, August 20 - Tuesday, August 23, 2005 For several years now, people have asked for a Summer Workshop/Retreat focused on alternatives - what can we do in the face of this brutal hegemonic world social-political-economic order? This year's workshop will be focused on this (with lots of other topics addressed in the workshops as well). It promises to be very interesting, and g ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 8 06:10:07 PDT 2005

19902 [lbo-talk] Galloway gets U.S. book deal -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Industry Web site Publishers Marketplace, which issues >a closely watched daily report on U.S. book deals, >said Galloway signed a "nice deal" -- the Web site's >term for one worth between $1 and $49,000 -- with >not-for-profit U.S. publisher The New Press. As a New Press author, I can speculate with some authority that it's closer to the low end. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 8 05:39:44 PDT 2005

19903 [lbo-talk] rich liberals to fund thinktanks -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 7, 2005 Rich Liberals Vow to Fund Think Tanks Aim Is to Compete With Conservatives By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute $1 million or more apiece to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades. The money will be channeled through a new partnership called the Democracy Alliance, which was founded last spring ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 7 07:59:16 PDT 2005

19904 [lbo-talk] Top 10 dot-com flops acccording to CNET.com -- rank: 1000

10th anniversary of the Netscape IPO just 3 days away...

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Date:	Sun Aug 7 07:46:11 PDT 2005

19905 [lbo-talk] Ecuador -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - August 6, 2005 Ecuador finance minister quits over loan dispute By Hal Weitzman in Quito Ecuador's finance minister has been forced out of office after a dispute with the country's president over a $300m (£168.7m, ¤242.5m) loan from Venezuela. Rafael Correa said on Thursday night his relationship with President Alfredo Palacio had "become untenable in recent weeks" and he had come under undue pressure not to proceed with the Venezuelan loan proposal. But many analysts ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 7 07:15:59 PDT 2005