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11536 [lbo-talk] missing hegemon at the CFR -- rank: 1000

Eh? How do you figure that? The subtext was that the invasion of Iraq was in no small part responsible for the U.S.'s weakened political position and the widespread antagonism towards us. Fixing that situation, insofar as it can be fixed at all, requires making nice with the rest of the world. Doug On May 23, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > All of which suggests no speedy withdrawal from Iran or Afghanistan > and no reduction of the US military budget in the event the De ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 10:24:53 PDT 2007

11537 [lbo-talk] missing hegemon at the CFR -- rank: 1000

I was at one of those Council on Foreign Relations public events this morning - Larry Summers and Paul Volcker on a successor to the Bretton Woods system, moderated by James Grant. Coupla things: 1) Summers pronounced himself a "chastened prophet" for saying that the U.S. current account deficit was unsustainable since it has gone on for so long. Volcker agreed. Summers added that it's interesting that there were more people worried about the U.S. stock market when the Nasdaq was ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 09:48:47 PDT 2007

11538 [lbo-talk] Page Six, Rupert, and the Clintons -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - May 22, 2007 <http://www.observer.com/2007/did-page-six-kill-numerous-items-clintons> Did Page Six Kill 'Numerous' Items on the Clintons? by Michael Calderone, David Foxley and Felix Gillette Photo: Patrick McMullan Hillary Clinton and Rupert Murdoch. In the summer of 2005, Richard Johnson, the editor of the New York Post's feared Page Six column, was having trouble getting a new passport to fly out to a party being hosted by Sean (P. Diddy) Combs in Saint-Tropez. So ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 08:20:31 PDT 2007

11539 [lbo-talk] new covert action against Iran -- rank: 1000

[Nice sidebar to this - where are the principals of the Iran-Contra affair now? Answer, mostly either dead or in the Bush administration. Not a clickable link, since it's a Java popup.] <http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/bush_authorizes.html> Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran May 22, 2007 6:29 PM Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian governm ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 07:54:53 PDT 2007

11540 [lbo-talk] Wolfie dumped -- rank: 1000

[not sure if Wayne Madsen is the most reliable source...] New York Post [Page Six] - May 23, 2007 Wolfowitz And Gal Pal Split Up PAUL Wolfowitz has really had a bad couple of weeks. He not only lost his job, he lost his girlfriend, too. Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the Iraq war, was pushed out as president of the World Bank over a controversial pay and promotion package he arranged for his brunette girlfriend, Shaha Ali Riza. Sources say Riza, a brilliant feminist with a promising dipl ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 07:48:44 PDT 2007

11541 [lbo-talk] Hersh: U.S. supports militants under attack in Lebanon -- rank: 1000

<http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ Hersh_Bush_arranged_support_for_militants_0522.html> Hersh: Bush administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon David Edwards and Muriel Kane In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to crack down on a militant Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam, that it formerly supported. Last March, Hersh repo ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 07:43:33 PDT 2007

11542 [lbo-talk] A public square -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Chuck wrote: > This is just more confirmation of my take on American workers, that > they > are trained to be conservative at work and not take risks. It might have something to do with their likelihood of ending up on the sidewalk if they do. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 17:53:13 PDT 2007

11543 [lbo-talk] Pew polls American Muslims -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Of course no one has dropped bombs on them, overthrown their elected > governments, financed death-squads to terrorize them (the Israeli > Defense Force is clearly just an overgrown death squad), rampaged > through their streets, kicked in their doors, beat them up, raped > them, > etc. All these things probably have a lot more to do with Muslim > attitudes worldwide than any religious doctrine. Well yeah. And the ones that co ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 13:19:41 PDT 2007

11544 [lbo-talk] Pew polls American Muslims -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/483/muslim-americans> Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream May 22, 2007 The first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans finds them to be largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world. The Pew Research Center conducted more than 55,000 interviews to obtain a national sample of 1,050 Muslims living in the United States ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 12:31:22 PDT 2007

11545 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Chuck wrote: > Dwayne, I'm not trying to pick on you personally, but I read too much > hopeless talk on this list lately. We CAN do something about these > things, but those of us who are already doing something need more > comrades on the barricades. I'll bet the massive deployment of surveillance cameras would draw massive public support. In that case, who's the "we" you're talking about? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 12:00:53 PDT 2007

11546 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB; A weakness in your argument here is that it may be that orders of > magnitudes more people think of the U.S. government as an authority > figure/ > "role model"/legitimizer than think of gangsta rappers as the same. Right after the LA riots, which were just after the first Gulf War, Ted Koppel went into the streets and interviewed some gang members. Ted asked them, what about all those drive-bys? To which a gangbange ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 11:41:04 PDT 2007

11547 [lbo-talk] Yates: correction -- rank: 1000

Hmm, on second click it looks like Michael Yates might be on Tavis Smiley tonight: <http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/ 200705/20070522.html>. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 09:40:28 PDT 2007

11548 [lbo-talk] Michael Yates on Tavis Smiley -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates will be on the Tavis Smiley show later this week. Check the website <http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/> for exact time; right now he's listed as "coming soon." Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 09:36:03 PDT 2007

11549 [lbo-talk] Clinton supporter enables preying upon elderly -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nysun.com/article/54982> New York Sun - May 22, 2007 Clinton Backer's Firm Alleged to Aid Scammers By JOSH GERSTEIN Staff Reporter of the Sun A Nebraska entrepreneur facing allegations that his firm does business with scam artists targeting the elderly, Vinod Gupta, has directed more than $3 million in the past decade to political campaigns and projects connected with President Clinton and Senator Clinton. Mr. Gupta's company, infoUSA, Inc., repeatedly rented marketing dat ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 08:49:32 PDT 2007

11550 [lbo-talk] Edwards: $55,000 for a speech on poverty -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail? blogid=14&entry_id=16809> Edwards charges $55,000 to speak to UC Davis students about poverty [by Carla Marinucci] Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who as a Democratic presidential candidate recently proposed an educational policy that urged "every financial barrier" be removed for American kids who want to go to college, has been going to college himself -- as a high paid speaker, his financial records sh ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 08:39:11 PDT 2007