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10021 [lbo-talk] it really was a long as a coffee break! -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2007 The UAW and Chrysler reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, and the union called off the strike that sent thousands of workers to the picket lines at 11 a.m. Eastern. Details of the deal weren't disclosed. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119202109228954636.html?mod=djemalert

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 14:50:50 PDT 2007

10022 [lbo-talk] Better or worse? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > I just plotted data from pollingreport.com on the question: > > "Right now, do you think that economic conditions in the country as a > whole are getting better or getting worse?" > > http://pollingreport.com/consumer2.htm > > from 1/31/1997 to 9/14/2007. That includes four of the fabulous > 1990s. Still, the (linear) average changes are -.13 for "Better" and > .16 for "Worse," respect ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 14:20:05 PDT 2007

10023 [lbo-talk] Venezuela -- rank: 1000

I forwarded Yoshie's characterization: > "In Venezuela, a petit-bourgeois populist leader has political > supremacy..." to a friend who's a professor of Latin American history and knows Venezuela quite well. His comment: > Well, aside from being an accusation rather than an analysis, I'd > say it was completely wrong and does nothing to explain the > dynamics of Chavismo nor recent Venezuelan history, not to mention > that it would hard pressed to find much of a peti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 11:31:20 PDT 2007

10024 [lbo-talk] Obama hires Blackstone lobbyist after attacking PE lobbyists -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - October 10, 2007 <http://www.nysun.com/article/64267> Obama Assails Tax Lobbyists - and Hires One By RUSSELL BERMAN Staff Reporter of the Sun WASHINGTON Senator Obama of Illinois is blaming Washington lobbyists for stalling a proposed tax hike on private equity firms, but he can look no further than his own campaign team for one of the culprits. The Democratic presidential candidate recently hired a top executive at the lobbying firm retained by the Blackstone Group to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 09:09:27 PDT 2007

10025 [lbo-talk] Hillary on the war: take your pick -- rank: 1000

<http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/10/ the_fine_print_in_hillarys_pro_1.html> The Fine Print in Hillary's Promise to 'End the War' "If this president does not get us out of Iraq, when I am president, I will." --Hillary Clinton, Democratic debate, South Carolina, April 26, 2007 "I will immediately move to begin bringing our troops home when I am inaugurated...[But there] may be a continuing counter-terrorism mission, which, if it still exists, will be aimed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 09:07:16 PDT 2007

10026 [lbo-talk] Pelosi, yuck -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=3> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is pushing back at the perception that Democrats are caving to President Bush on a new wiretapping law. "This isn't about Democrats being concerned about the next election," she told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor lunch, per ABC News. "This is about Democrats saying: The law needs to be followed, and we will collect whatever information -- intelligence - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 09:04:06 PDT 2007

10027 [lbo-talk] In which I exponentially accelerate my deductive exercise -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I think I > would connect with the anxiety of many always to show that they are > above this or that musician or writer; _they_ wouldn't be caught dead > listening to Springsteen. Have you heard the new Britney Spears song? It's pretty good! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 08:48:05 PDT 2007

10028 [lbo-talk] Bulletin: Chrysler workers begin walking of job as talks continue -- rank: 1000

[The FT's Lex columnist said of the GM walkout, "as strikes go, this one was more of a coffee break." We'll see how long this one lasts.] Breaking News Bulletin: Chrysler workers begin walking of job as talks continue <http://marketwatch.com/r.asp?g=B575F0E6FFA747758BA6CF0E4D91069C&d=bnb>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 08:22:14 PDT 2007

10029 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 10:59 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > To be fair, I agree that Doug ought to just ignore Yoshie's chum -- > because > that's what often goes on is baiting and taunting. But let's see it > work on > both side, hmmm? Yoshie never lets anyone else have the last word. There must *always* be a response. I'm going to be high-minded and let her have the last word. Nothing more from me on Iran for a long time. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 10 08:11:22 PDT 2007

10030 [lbo-talk] China's billionaires -- rank: 1000

[China's been experiencing a major stock market bubble, so some of these billionaires may no longer be billionaires in a year. But still, something is going on there...] China No.2 in billionaires as assets boom SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has more billionaires than any country except the United States, as soaring stock and property prices helped to boost wealth among the country's super-rich, researcher Rupert Hoogewerf said on Wednesday. The number of Chinese worth $1 billion or more jumpe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 08:05:45 PDT 2007

10031 [lbo-talk] WBAI makes the NYT! -- rank: 1000

[WBAI is almost never mentioned in the NYT. Yet they did a news story on this on Oct 6 and did this editorial on Monday. We must, of course, be careful of any alliance with the treacherous liberals on this or any other issue.] New York Times (editorial) - October 8, 2007 A Muse Unplugged At the height of his bardic powers, Allen Ginsberg could terrify the authorities with the mere utterance of the syllable "om" as he led street throngs of citizens protesting the Vietnam War. Ginsb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 08:04:28 PDT 2007

10032 [lbo-talk] Wealth Psychologists -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Mr. WD wrote: > If more Americans realized how much money just a handful of people in > the U.S. had -- you know, so much they need a shrink to handle it -- I > suspect there'd be a lot more support for policies aimed at the > redistribution of wealth. I think you're an optimist. There's no shortage of publicity about the very rich. There's a voyeuristic, almost pornographic interest in how much they have and how grandly they live. But the lust to expr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 07:54:39 PDT 2007

10033 [lbo-talk] Yalie to poor: drop dead -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2007/10/ yale_to_poor_people_drop_deadliterally.html#more> Yale To Poor People: Drop Dead...Literally Xiaochen Su (Yale '10), following the lead of misanthropic YDN contributor Jun Teresa Ding, has written an op/ed so ill-conceived, insensitive, and fundamentally absurd that you have to wonder if we aren't being treated to some elaborate hoax. It reads like an SAT-II writing exercise, as taken by Thomas Malthus in a bad mood. Su is alarmed by America's, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 10 05:44:48 PDT 2007

10034 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > OF COURSE THEY STRENGTHENED CAPITALISM, as all the > gains of the working class for 200+ years have done. You remind me of that old R. Crumb cover, with the hopeless person sitting in an armchair under a word balloon: "Why bother?"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 9 21:26:55 PDT 2007

10035 [lbo-talk] self-ministry -- rank: 1000

A Baptist minister who died in an autoerotic asphyxiation mishap, was hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits when his body was discovered by Alabama cops. And that wasn't even the freakiest detail disclosed in the late Rev. Gary Aldridge's autopsy report, which you'll find here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1008072scuba1.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 9 15:17:56 PDT 2007