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7171 [lbo-talk] Condi Rice joins Kiss Army -- rank: 1000

[also via Mike Allen] 'Condi Rice enlists in Kiss Army': 'STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In a departure from her normally staid diplomatic duties, Rice met the legendary glam rock quartet when they happened to share a hotel in the Swedish capital. Rice was in Stockholm on Thursday for an international conference on Iraq. Kiss had a sold-out gig to play on Friday. 'I was thrilled,' Rice said of her late-n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 30 07:30:45 PDT 2008

7172 [lbo-talk] good news for McCain: Obama sweeps Europe -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] The Daily Telegraph of London: 'Barack Obama beats John McCain in European vote,' by David Blair, Diplomatic Editor: 'Senator Barack Obama emerged as Europe's favorite candidate for America's presidency today when a poll conducted for Telegraph.co.uk gave him 52 per cent support across five of the world's richest nations, including Britain. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, received only 15 per cent of the vote in unprecedented survey covering Britain, France, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 30 07:20:07 PDT 2008

7173 [lbo-talk] The Party Travels at Mach Speed: Iron Man, Real and Imagined -- rank: 1000

On May 30, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Ted Winslow wrote: > The implicit assumption here is that peasant individuality can be > significantly altered in a positive way by "speak bitterness" sessions > created not by peasants themselves but by others with the despotic > power required to change conditions in this and other ways e.g. to > impose "collectivization." > > What evidence is there that this assumption is true? The subsequent history of China suggests that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 30 05:57:13 PDT 2008

7174 [lbo-talk] Marxist agitprop! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/ 2008/06/09/080609crci_cinema_lane?currentPage=all> [Anthony Lane] ....It s true that Samantha finally disposes of one paramour, but only with a view to landing another, and her parting shot is a beauty: I love you, but I love me more. I have a terrible feeling that Sex and the City expects us not to disapprove of that line, or even to laugh at it, but to exclaim in unison, You go, girl. I walked into the theatre hoping for a nice ev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 30 05:41:54 PDT 2008

7175 [lbo-talk] Murdoch gushes over Obama -- rank: 1000

Last night on Fox, the idiotic Greta van Susteren was going on and on about Obama's latest preacher scandal - a white priest who dared to suggest that there's such a thing as white privilege, independent of whether white folks in question harbor racist attitudes themselves. Evidently Rupe hasn't yet laid down the law at the network. Watch him gush over the greatness of Obama here: <http://gawker.com/tag/journalismism/?i=5011783&t=murdoch-on- ridiculous-journal-editing-and-obama>. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 30 05:35:51 PDT 2008

7176 [lbo-talk] The Party Travels at Mach Speed: Iron Man, Real and Imagined -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Louis Kontos wrote: > Carrol has a point with regard to the logic of 'crisis' -- > Rockefeller et al are not in crisis mode. Oh, by the way - are the Rockefellers the ruling class? I keep forgetting. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 29 16:37:01 PDT 2008

7177 [lbo-talk] The Party Travels at Mach Speed: Iron Man, Real and Imagined -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2008, at 6:35 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > If something were > even remotely close to really remiss at the center Rockefellers et all > would have better things to do than sdquabble over marginal policy at > Exxon. Trying to get ExxonMobil to move beyond oil isn't exactly marginal, though it's probably fanciful. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 29 16:36:28 PDT 2008

7178 [lbo-talk] The Nation does CNA-SEIU -- rank: 1000

The Nation June 16, 2008 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080616/kaplan> Labor's Growing Pains by ESTHER KAPLAN The biggest union feud since the AFL-CIO split three years ago, some would say, began in Ohio. The way Dave Regan tells it, the Service Employees union (SEIU) first began its effort to organize Catholic hospitals there in the small city of Lorain, just west of Cleveland, in 1999. Regan is president of a union that spans Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, one of SEIU's newly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 29 15:19:08 PDT 2008

7179 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Dem race now tied -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes: > >> On May 29, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >> >>> Mrs. Clinton would not be using disguisting tricks if >>> they did not work. >> >> Except she lost. > > I don't consider her bungling of the job to be a repudiation of these > dirty tactics. Even in imperial America during wartime, their own war > heroes have been bran ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 29 09:51:53 PDT 2008

7180 [lbo-talk] Rupe: Dem landslide likely -- rank: 1000

Rupert Murdoch predicts landslide for Democrats By Eric Auchard CARLSBAD, California (Reuters) - News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday predicted a Democratic landslide in the U.S. presidential election against a gloomy economic backdrop over the next 18 months. Murdoch has yet to endorse a U.S. presidential candidate but considers Barack Obama very promising, the media magnate said in an interview by two Wall Street Journal reporters at an annual conference for high-tech in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 29 07:41:02 PDT 2008

7181 [lbo-talk] Obama's domestic policy: what is it? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 29, 2008 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/ AR2008052803493_pf.html> On Policy, Obama Breaks Little New Ground By Perry Bacon Jr. Already famous for his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama entered the Senate with more than the usual aspirations about the impact he could have. So in 2005, he had his office arrange informal seminars so that experts on health care, the economy, energy and education could brief ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 29 07:17:43 PDT 2008

7182 [lbo-talk] turnabout -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Trent Duffy, McClellan's former understudy, tells The Washington Post: "Tomorrow maybe we're going to learn he's rooting for the Oklahoma Sooners. . . . Here's a man who owes his whole career to George W. Bush, and here he's stabbing him in the back and no one knows why. . . . He appears to be dancing on his political grave for cash." If you recognize this playbook (Paul O'Neill, Richard Clarke, David Kuo, John DiIulio . . . ) that may be because McClellan used to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 29 06:45:54 PDT 2008

7183 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Dem race now tied -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Mrs. Clinton would not be using disguisting tricks if > they did not work. Except she lost. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 29 06:36:10 PDT 2008

7184 [lbo-talk] "Theory's Empire," an anti-"Theory" anthology -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Marxism-Leninism-MaoTHOUGHT Could you please explain what you find valuable in "MaoTHOUGHT"? It's long struck me as juvenile, but I'd appreciate hearing an argument to the contrary. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 28 20:12:37 PDT 2008

7185 [lbo-talk] Goldman Sachs on immigration -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2008, at 5:19 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> Immigration and the North >> American Economy >> >> * Immigration to the United States has surged over the past decade, >> with most of the increase outside legal channels. Immigrants >> boosted US labor force growth by about half a percentage point per >> year over the past decade. > > Population we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 28 06:43:09 PDT 2008