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5191 [lbo-talk] Obama channels Cheney -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal [editorial page] - March 9, 2009 Obama Channels Cheney Obama adopts Bush view on the powers of the presidency. The Obama Administration this week released its predecessor's post-9/11 legal memoranda in the name of "transparency," producing another round of feel-good Bush criticism. Anyone interested in President Obama's actual executive-power policies, however, should look at his position on warrantless wiretapping. Dick Cheney must be smiling. In a federal law ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 9 09:31:00 PDT 2009

5192 [lbo-talk] it's over - now the destruction really begins -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2009, at 12:18 PM, SA wrote: > Chris Doss wrote: > >> I wish I had a handy ideology that explained everything. > > I don't know about that. That constant background feeling of > cognitive dissonance? It would be like having a tuning fork always > humming inside your brain Really? Isn't the key to hold a one-size-fits-all ideology the ability to tune out that hum? And the suppression of that impulse, to quote Catherine Driscoll, to find questions to ask your an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 9 09:26:02 PDT 2009

5193 [lbo-talk] it's over - now the destruction really begins -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Second, you really should come around for a visit to Southern > Africa, comrade, because in that last clause you're simply > discounting the devalorization of 'human capital' (on the scale of > what hit the East Bloc a century later). If this region teaches > political economists anything, it's that Northern capital can fly in > - thanks to overaccumulation abroad - and in search of 'stimulating > growth', set up a system (e. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 9 09:19:20 PDT 2009

5194 [lbo-talk] further evidence that Christers dwindling -- rank: 1000

USA Today - March 9, 2009 <http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-american-religion-ARIS_N.htm > Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY When it comes to religion, the USA is now land of the freelancers. The percentage. of people who call themselves in some way Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation. The faithful have scattered out of their traditional bases: The Bible Belt is less Baptist. The Rust Belt is les ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 9 09:10:46 PDT 2009

5195 [lbo-talk] it's over - now the destruction really begins -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> With war, you basically have a sample size of 1: the Great >> Depression leading to WWII. Otherwise, we've had devalorizations >> with nothing like world war. In the late 19th century U.S., we had >> deflation coexisting with huge industrial investment. > > Ah, then you would have missed late 19th century European colonialism. Those were nothing like World War II. They were horrible and bru ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 9 04:50:12 PDT 2009

5196 [lbo-talk] it's over - now the destruction really begins -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > That process does indeed 'push war', as one group of territorial > elites generates coalitions aimed at pushing the devalorization onto > a different group of territorial elites, as well as onto their own > subordinate classes (the point you make next). The elites of Africa > were the easiest to push devalorization onto since the early 1980s, > along with some of the Latin American, East European and Rustbelt > elites (and A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 8 20:55:27 PDT 2009

5197 [lbo-talk] Evangelicals at a crossroads as Dobson resigns -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Dwindling influence? They just led a successful effort to ban same sex > marriage in one of the most liberal states in the country, California. Compare the margin this time with the last time. In a few years, they're toast. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 8 20:49:13 PDT 2009

5198 [lbo-talk] it's over - now the destruction really begins -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2009, at 11:06 PM, SA wrote: > Are you saying WWII started because the British/Germans/Japanese/ > Americans wanted to destroy a lot of fixed capital? Ha, well we sure showed those British/Germans/Japanese, eh? The system emerged from the 15-year afflictions of depression and world war stronger than ever. And that was when the USSR presented a credible alternative. If that didn't do the thing in, what could? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 8 20:48:41 PDT 2009

5199 [lbo-talk] it's over -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2009, at 9:13 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:51:11 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> quoted an interesting > piece from one of the many Daily Diaries Of The Speculative > Dream: > >> Financial Times - March 8, 2009 >> <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c6c5bd36-0c0c-11de-b87d-0000779fd2ac.html> > >> Governments bad; deregulated markets good : how can this faith >> escape >> unscathed after Alan Greenspan, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 8 18:26:17 PDT 2009

5200 [lbo-talk] it's over -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 8, 2009 <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c6c5bd36-0c0c-11de-b87d-0000779fd2ac.html> Seeds of its own destruction By Martin Wolf Another ideological god has failed. The assumptions that ruled policy and politics over three decades suddenly look as outdated as revolutionary socialism. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I m from the government and I m here to help. Thus quipped Ronald Reagan, hero of US conservatism. The remark seems ancient h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 8 17:51:11 PDT 2009

5201 [lbo-talk] Geithner gone by June -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Steve Palmer wrote: > And he saddled himself with Larry Summers The guy who, don't forget, told the endowment to leverage up when he was president of Harvard, leaving the university scrambling to meet margin calls and borrowing to pay operating expenses. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 8 12:22:05 PDT 2009

5202 [lbo-talk] Obama-Soros plot to impose Euro-style socialism in U.S.! or worse!! -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 13:28:49 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> [an ad circulated by the nuts at Human Events] > > Doug! Really! What's next -- you're gonna start > beating up on flat-earthers? I find the delusions of the American right to be weirdly amusing. Maybe it's because I used to be one. But I can't resist. If only they were correct about this. Ah, for high-speed trains and a welfare s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 8 12:17:19 PDT 2009

5203 [lbo-talk] Obama-Soros plot to impose Euro-style socialism in U.S.! or worse!! -- rank: 1000

[an ad circulated by the nuts at Human Events] Is our present economic crisis nothing more than a cruel "October Surprise" ... a George Soros inspired plot that was specifically designed to put Barack Hussein Obama into the White House and plunge the United States deep into the abyss of Socialism? Back in August when the Dow Jones Industrial (DJI) Average was hovering between 11,500-12,000, we made the following startling prediction in the ground-breaking book Obama Unmasked: &quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 8 10:28:49 PDT 2009

5204 [lbo-talk] Ed Anger comments on the state of the right -- rank: 1000

<http://weeklyworldnews.com/opinion/ed-anger/6709/ed-anger-says-gop-gang-of-pansies/ > ED ANGER SAYS: GOP = GANG OF PANSIES! Posted on Friday, March 6th, 2009 By Ed Anger I m as fed up as Rosie O Donnell at an all-you-can-eat buffet about what s happening to the Republicans! Every since their big get-together last week, everybody s fighting about the future of conservatives. Namby pamby Beltway big shots tell us to dump Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber, and get more classy and intell ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 7 18:53:45 PST 2009

5205 [lbo-talk] Evangelicals at a crossroads as Dobson resigns -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Is Focus on the Family really a "Sinking Ship" or is it just going > through > economic pains due to the current crisis? According to the stats in the article, their problems go back several years. Why is it hard to believe their sort of crap is a dying breed? It's clearly an aging demographic, with dwindling influence on national politics. I gotta say, they do piss me off. What is this "family" they focus on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 7 13:20:59 PST 2009