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8956 [lbo-talk] Gallup.Com: Obama National Security Picks Get High Marks -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Public opinion on imperialism may be exactly as you say - at least, > I think > the underlying assumptions of US supremacy remain intact. However, > both the > wars on Afghanistan and Iraq are deeply unpopular. In addition, I > detect no > enthusiasm for an attack on Iran. To that extent, the approval of > Obama's > hawkish cabinet probably doesn't reflect a positive feeling about > the hawks' > policies. Not s ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 14:40:42 PST 2008

8957 [lbo-talk] Jezebel does Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Her sole purpose appears to be to oppose things > from her mother's manner of dress to the bailout plan to other > activists without any introspection about what she does want, or > how > she plans to get it. > > ^^^ > CB: I'm not saying this is a wrong criticism, but it is in one of the > "classical" forms that criticism took when an older person > criticizing > a young, sixties ,student radical. ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 14:02:56 PST 2008

8958 [lbo-talk] Jezebel does Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

<http://jezebel.com/5100602/naomi-klein-prefers-complaining-to-changing> BITCHIN' Naomi Klein Prefers Complaining To Changing By Megan, 3:20 PM on Tue Dec 2 2008, 2,171 views This week's issue of The New Yorker contains a long profile of activist and author Naomi Klein by Larissa MacFarquhar that goes all the way back to her grandparents' Communist organizing roots in order to prove... something. But between anecdotes of her parents running away to Canada and trips to their summer home ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 13:30:44 PST 2008

8959 [lbo-talk] Gallup.Com: Obama National Security Picks Get High Marks -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > I doubt this signifies uncomplicated approval of the picks. I > suspect that > people voted for the 'lesser evil' - not because they necessarily > like it, > but because it was the best option they had in a narrow electoral > spectrum - > and that's what they're getting. I'm afraid you have an excessively generous evaluation of the American collective political mind. Imperialism isn't all that unpopular, as long as it's re ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 12:58:16 PST 2008

8960 [lbo-talk] Gallup.Com: Obama National Security Picks Get High Marks -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/112804/Obama-National-Security-Picks-Get-High-Marks.aspx > Sixty-nine percent of Americans favor Barack Obama s choice of Hillary Clinton for secretary of state and 80% approve of his decision to keep Robert Gates on as secretary of defense. More generally, 78% approve of the way Obama is handling his transition, a better rating than Bill Clinton or George W. Bush received.

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 12:33:29 PST 2008

8961 [lbo-talk] the creativity of the publicist -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > Part of the famous Bozell family? Wow, excellent call, Michael! <http://www.nndb.com/people/298/000108971/> Daughter.

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 11:51:41 PST 2008

8962 [lbo-talk] the creativity of the publicist -- rank: 1000

From: Caitlin Bozell<cbozell at crcpublicrelations.com> Date: December 2, 2008 2:30:34 PM EST To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Obama’s Job Creation Goal – Guest? Reply-To: cbozell at crcpublicrelations.com Dear Doug, President-elect Obama says he intends to create 2.5 million jobs in the next two years. Facilitating deals such as the replacement of the Air Force s KC-135 refueling tanker will quickly help him to achieve this goal. If the next administration says yes to Northrop Grum ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 11:26:46 PST 2008

8963 [lbo-talk] Goolsbee: subprime was pretty groovy (in 2007) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> Stop patronizing me and I might answer you. > > Right. Apologies Accepted.

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 10:47:28 PST 2008

8964 [lbo-talk] Goolsbee: subprime was pretty groovy (in 2007) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > You're STILL not reading Louis P's FAQs? > Read Das K > These are quite basic aspects of Marxian poli econ that I hope you > can become more acquainted with, comrade. Seriously. Stop patronizing me and I might answer you. Doug

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8965 [lbo-talk] Michael Wolff on MySpace -- rank: 1000

<http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/michael-wolff-myspace-and-its-braindead-users-are-going-to-zero > MW: I don t think that s true. I think it is--if you re on MySpace now, you re a [expletive] cretin. And you re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people. J[on] F[ine]: [unsuccessfully stifling laughter] I don t mean to get all Murdoch s-kids on you [an obscure reference to an earlier ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 10:09:31 PST 2008

8966 [lbo-talk] Goolsbee: subprime was pretty groovy (in 2007) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:24 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > >> You lads haven't run across the underlying evil below all this > financial froth? (Overaccumulation of capital.) > > Patrick, you always offer that as the one-size-fits-all > explanation of the last four decades of economic history. > > Doug, a 'one size fits all explanation' doesn't belong in political > economy. What does belong i ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 2 09:30:06 PST 2008

8967 [lbo-talk] US public opinion on unions: not so wonderful -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/112717/Americans-Remain-Broadly-Supportive-Labor-Unions.aspx > Americans Remain Broadly Supportive of Labor Unions Public divided as to whether their influence should increase, decrease, or stay the same by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans remain broadly supportive of labor unions, as they have been over the past seven decades, including a 59% approval rating for unions in Gallup's most recent update from August. Organized labor unions played an im ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 1 17:46:04 PST 2008

8968 [lbo-talk] Day Without Gay -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: >> Boycott everything on 12/10: <http://www.daywithoutagay.org/> > > LBO Talk, too? Heck, no, just bomb it with gayness.

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Date:	Mon Dec 1 16:13:24 PST 2008

8969 [lbo-talk] Day Without Gay -- rank: 1000

Boycott everything on 12/10: <http://www.daywithoutagay.org/>

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Date:	Mon Dec 1 13:27:26 PST 2008

8970 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Sheldon Baker wrote: > Thanks for the listing. I had actually gotten tired of trying to > type up a > key of shows in a word pad file to go along with the mp3 files I have > collected of your shows. If it is convenient for you to post the > entire > multiple year listing, feel free! It's all on the radio archive page. Doug Henwood Producer, Behind the News Thursdays, 5-6 PM, WBAI, New York 99.5 FM Saturdays, 10-11 AM, KPFA, Berkeley 94.1 FM "b ...

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