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9931 [lbo-talk] more on Dems raking in the biz bucks -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Why should all Republicans be worried? Here's another reason (not related to Sen. Larry Craig): "More than a third of the top fundraisers who helped elect George W. Bush president remain on the sidelines in 2008, contributing to a gaping financial disparity between the GOP candidates and their Democratic counterparts," Chris Cillizza and Matthew Mosk write in The Washington Post. "A sizable number still have a wait-and-see attitude, despite the fact that the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 07:30:47 PDT 2007

9932 [lbo-talk] Armenian genocide? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2007, at 9:11 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > "Why is there a Holocaust museum in DC and no slavery museum?" > > For the same reason that the Foreign Office agitated against the > colour bar > in the US forces stationed in Britain while defending it in the > colonies. Yup of course. But I was surprised when I visited Munich five or six years ago that there's a memorial to the victims of National Socialism pretty much at the spot the early Nazi party had its ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 06:22:15 PDT 2007

9933 [lbo-talk] biz abandons GOP for Dems -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > "In the first nine months of 2003, the top 25 > financial services political action committees donated > $6.8 million to members of Congress. Of that, 38 > percent went to Democrats and 62 percent to > Republicans." > > I'm always impressed at how little it costs, in > relation to the benefits, to buy Congress. Isn't it amazing? Even a presidential campaign would be a fraction of the Goldman Sachs bonus pool. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 05:49:32 PDT 2007

9934 [lbo-talk] Armenian genocide? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2007, at 7:21 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > What are thoughts here on the Armenian genocide resolution? I wish our Congress would pass a resolution condemning our genocide of the Indians. It's a body that played no small role in it, too. But we love to get on our moral high horse about other people's crimes. Why is there a Holocaust museum in DC and no slavery museum? Why is there a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto in Riverside Park about 1/4 mile from where I sit and nothing abo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 17 05:31:39 PDT 2007

9935 [lbo-talk] neo-Nazis like Ron Paul -- rank: 1000

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/15/to-his-dismay-ron-paul- b_n_68575.html> Thomas B. Edsall The Huffington Post To His Dismay, Ron Paul Becoming Magnet For White Supremacists October 15, 2007 09:30 PM Through no fault of his own, Rep. Ron Paul's anti-globalist, anti- government campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has become a magnet in neo-Nazi networks, pulling in activists and supporters from the fringe white nationalist community where anti- Semitism, anti-black ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 12:30:16 PDT 2007

9936 [lbo-talk] Dumbing Down (was Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > In Ephesians 4:29, Paul admonishes us to watch the way we talk. Just like Leon Trotsky! Who knew? Eddie Milliband told me way back when he was a Nation intern that his father, Ralph, would never say anything stronger than "drat." He cited Trotsky as the inspiration. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 16 12:13:17 PDT 2007

9937 [lbo-talk] Putin in Iran -- rank: 1000

[What are European leftists doing to stop this? If the sanctions are tightened, I'll hold Cde Tomb responsible!] FT.com - October 16, 2007 EU seeks to step up pressure on Tehran By James Blitz in London and Fidelius Schmid in Brussels The European Union last night began to examine the possibility of beefing up sanctions by EU states on Iran, seeking to put renewed pressure on Tehran to suspend key aspects of its nuclear programme. EU foreign ministers instructed experts to study further possi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 11:46:56 PDT 2007

9938 [lbo-talk] foreign investors shun US$ -- rank: 1000

FT.com - October 16, 2007 Foreign investors slash holdings of US securities By Michael Mackenzie in New York Foreign investors have slashed their holdings of US securities by a record amount as the credit squeeze has intensified, according to the latest Treasury figures. The Treasury International Capital report - known as the TIC - for August will be closely watched because it appears amid growing concerns about the weakness of the US dollar, which hit a record low recently against a baske ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 11:44:15 PDT 2007

9939 [lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Yoshie writes: > >> On 10/16/07, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote: >>> Americans won't oppose a war as a result of greater public >>> understanding of the Islamic regime. >> >> It's not a major war against Iran that is on the US agenda today, for >> which the US power elite lack the means and the US public have little >> appetite. It is economic sanctions, covert ac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 10:54:37 PDT 2007

9940 [lbo-talk] biz abandons GOP for Dems -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6359.html> Business abandons GOP for Democrats By: Jeanne Cummings October 16, 2007 12:20 AM EST Lag, lag, lag. That s all you hear these days regarding Republican fundraising compared with the Democrats . Now we can add a new word: abandoned. The business community that celebrated the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 by spending millions to prop it up for more than a decade is in full retreat. All 10 of the top-giving industries tracked ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 10:25:34 PDT 2007

9941 [lbo-talk] Billy Bragg: How the Queen charmed the pants off me -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > "Last week, I shook hands with the Queen. It was a Tuesday evening, at > the Royal Festival Hall. I was there with my family for the Royal Gala > to open the refurbished hall, and to see a performance of Beethoven's > exhilarating Ninth Symphony, which was sung with my lyrics." > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html? > in_article_id=487796&in_page_id=1770 And he was charmed by the Q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 16 10:05:56 PDT 2007

9942 [lbo-talk] Big Green blasts Dingell's carbon tax -- rank: 1000

<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/15/83513/824> Killing me loudly Big Green savages Dingell's carbon tax Posted by Charles Komanoff at 12:46 PM on 15 Oct 2007 Read more about: John Dingell | politics | climate | energy | legislation Tools: print | email | + digg | + del.icio.us | + reddit | + stumbleupon "Man always kills the thing he loves," wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold in the environmentalist bible, A Sand County Almanac. Leopold was referring to Americans' destruct ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 15 17:50:55 PDT 2007

9943 [lbo-talk] Krauthammer semi-endorses HRC, can be counted on to know the better and do the worse -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:30 PM, andie nachgeborenen quoted Der Krauthammer: > The Post editorial noted "a perverse kind of good > news" in Clinton's free-trade revisionism: "There's > little chance that her position reflects any deeply > held principle." And there lies the beauty not just of > Clinton on free trade but of the Clinton candidacy > itself: She has no principles. Her liberalism is > redeemed by her ambition; her ideology subordinate to > her ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 15 13:41:49 PDT 2007

9944 [lbo-talk] Che: the New Yorker's view -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >>> Drinks were provided by Christiania vodka "ironically, the >>> name of an anarchist encampment in Copenhagen," said >>> Doug Henwood, the editor of the Left Business Observer, >>> sipping a vodka-and-soda. > > Such a schmoozer! Ha. I'm not going to forego an opportunity to chat up at Talk writer for the New Yorker. > Cow-a-bunga, dude! > > http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details. ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 15 13:28:23 PDT 2007

9945 [lbo-talk] Che: the New Yorker's view -- rank: 1000

Sting's a dick, but this is more energetic than Bono: > If as you say the average fascist scumbag > wouldn't be in the least offended by my work, > then how come it got up your nose so successfully > you dipshit fascist simpleton?

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Date:	Mon Oct 15 13:13:29 PDT 2007