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5506 [lbo-talk] weird list -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Wed Jan 28 08:47:33 PST 2009

5507 [lbo-talk] Obama needs an enemy -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a4BqmFZUAtsk> Obama Needs a Few Good Enemies to Help Him Shape His Presidency By Hans Nichols Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Every superhero needs an archenemy. President Barack Obama has yet to find one. "It's always helpful to have a villain," said Joe Gaylord, a Republican strategist who helped fashion the rise of Newt Gingrich in the 1990s. "If you don't have one, you should create one." Enemies can be useful and a ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 28 08:38:19 PST 2009

5508 [lbo-talk] the price of Republican votes: billions wasted -- rank: 1000

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/stimulus-features-tax-cut_n_161170.html > Stimulus Includes Tax Cuts That Obama Economists Panned As Ineffective Thomas B. Edsall January 27, 2009 08:46 AM At least $23.8 billion in corporate tax breaks have been included in the $825 billion economic recovery package in order to win backing from key business groups and their Congressional allies, even though the team that put the legislation together believes the breaks have little value in sti ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 28 08:36:05 PST 2009

5509 [lbo-talk] union membership up -- rank: 1000

Two years in a row, under a Republican admin! <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.htm> Union Membership (Annual) News Release Technical information: (202) 691-6378 USDL 09-0095 http://www.bls.gov/cps/ For release: 10:00 A.M. (EST) Media contact: (202) 691-5902 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 UNION MEMBERS IN 2008 In 2008, union members accounted for 12.4 percent of employed wage and salary workers, up from 12.1 percent a year earlier, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bu ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 28 08:22:07 PST 2009

5510 [lbo-talk] amazing pics of a departing W -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5140721/a-deflated-president>

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Date:	Wed Jan 28 08:12:00 PST 2009

5511 [lbo-talk] Obama on Bush: too much development, not enough war in Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

[Missed this yesterday. Thanks to Lou Proyect for posting it to Marxmail.] New York Times - January 27, 2009 Aides Say Obama's Afghan Aims Elevate War By HELENE COOPER and THOM SHANKER WASHINGTON President Obama intends to adopt a tougher line toward Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, as part of a new American approach to Afghanistan that will put more emphasis on waging war than on development, senior administration officials said Tuesday. Mr. Karzai is now seen as a potential impediment ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 28 08:02:37 PST 2009

5512 [lbo-talk] going to hell -- rank: 1000

The U.S. infrastructure, that is: <http://www.asce.org/reportcard/2009/index.html>

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Date:	Wed Jan 28 07:46:22 PST 2009

5513 [lbo-talk] 60 Minutes/West Bank -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:27 PM, turbulo at aol.com wrote: > Have I acquired a hitherto uncharacteristic penchant for wishful > thinking, or did Bob Simon's "60 Minutes" segment on West Bank > settlements this past Sunday night represent another breakthrough > (in addition to Jon Stewart) in American media coverage of Israel/ > Palestine? The segment did nothing more than relate a truth known to > just about everyone otside the US: that the steady growth of West > Bank ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 13:37:08 PST 2009

5514 [lbo-talk] so much for post-partisanship -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Maybe this unity talk has more guile in it than it's been given > credit for. Or, like I said yesterday: "If I were an Obama apologist, which I'm not, I might say that maybe the crafty one is waxing all bipartisan now, fully expecting that the Reps won't play along. Then he could say, I tried, I really tried, but these obstructionist dolts with bad hair just wouldn't play along."

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 12:27:50 PST 2009

5515 [lbo-talk] John Updike, RIP -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:02 PM, farmelantj at juno.com quoted AP: > the postwar prime of the American empire AP? The American empire? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 12:24:18 PST 2009

5516 [lbo-talk] Sarah Palin wants to be pres -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sarahpac.com/>

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 10:26:08 PST 2009

5517 [lbo-talk] the march of changeiness -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=6737829> Officials: Family Planning Money May Be Dropped Officials say family planning money may be dropped out of Obama's stimulus plan By DAVID ESPO The Associated Press WASHINGTON House Democrats are likely to jettison family planning funds for the low-income from an $825 billion economic stimulus bill, officials said late Monday, following a personal appeal from President Barack Obama at a time the administration is courting Republican c ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 09:57:32 PST 2009

5518 [lbo-talk] so much for post-partisanship -- rank: 1000

[Wonder if BHO will keep wooing these folks....] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18024.html> Boehner to GOP: Vote against stimulus By: Patrick O'Connor and Jonathan Martin January 27, 2009 11:46 AM EST President Barack Obama is coming to the Capitol this afternoon to curry favor with congressional Republicans. But it appears GOP leaders have already made up their minds to oppose his $825 billion stimulus plan. House Republican Leader John A. Boehner and his No. 2, Whip Eric ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 08:57:14 PST 2009

5519 [lbo-talk] how Israel spawned Hamas -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 24, 2009 How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas By ANDREW HIGGINS Moshav Tekuma, Israel Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile's trajectory back to an "enormous, stupid mistake" made 30 years ago. "Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious af ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 26 19:19:56 PST 2009

5520 [lbo-talk] Waterboarding etc. -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > The US wasn't hegemonic in 1960 or 1970 or 1980. There was the USSR > right there. Hell the US wasn't even hegemonic over Gaullist France. That's an original position. Yeah, there was the USSR. But the US was the unchallenged hegemon of the capitalist world. It had troops occupying Germany and Japan, the dollar was as good as gold only run through Washington and New York, and Hollywood was filling heads everywhere. Doug

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