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10426 [lbo-talk] October Employment: Plus 166K or Minus 250K Jobs? (what thinketh doug ?) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:02 PM, ira wrote: > http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/224473/ > > Nouriel Roubini | Nov 02, 2007 > > The U.S. October employment report came better than expected. But the > details of this report are much weaker than the headline figure of > 166K > non-farm jobs created in October. > > First, the establishment survey says that 166K jobs were created in > October. But the household survey says that 250K jobs were lost in > October. Whi ...

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10427 [lbo-talk] doug henwood's interview ...in italian -- rank: 1000

On Nov 6, 2007, at 2:10 PM, B. wrote: > "The Conspiratorial Urban Legend of the Evil > NAFTA Superhighway," The John Birch Society sent me the latest issue of their propaganda rag, which is all about this and the North American Union plot. Who knew they were still around? (Actually I did, from an old Baffler article, but there is a time capsule quality to their name.) Doug

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10428 [lbo-talk] Alas, poor Citibank! -- rank: 1000

On Nov 6, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Citi and Merrill Lynch as the epicenter of perhaps the greatest > capital crisis the US has ever seen Oh please. Do you realize how many competitors there are for such a title? You have any idea what kind of speculative crap the USA pumped out in the last 30 years of the 19th century? In the 1920s? How different is this from the junk bonds and S&Ls of the 1980s? Securities fraud and financial crises are even more American than tarte ...

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10429 [lbo-talk] doug henwood's interview ...in italian -- rank: 1000

On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > But the falling USD creates favorable condition for domestic > producers > of export goods, no? That means a realignment of forces rather than > outright decline - Finanzkapital losing some of its influence in > favor of > the manufacturing sector. That is not necessarily a bad thing, and > may > create a movement toward the policies that Doug is talking about, no? I doubt it. If you need a devaluation to make you ...

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10430 [lbo-talk] doug henwood's interview ...in italian -- rank: 1000

I realize that this is posted mainly a pretext to launch a few thousand words of YoshieThought, but I don't recall saying anything like this to Marco d'Eramo. While I think a public works program would be just dandy - as would a large energy R&D program - it seems very very ambitious, given the politics of the U.S. It would take either a huge mobilization or an economic crisis - -or some combination of both - for it even to enter the realm of possibility. And I don't think I'd ever sa ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 6 10:23:02 PST 2007

10431 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul raises $3.5m -- rank: 1000

[this was written around 5:30, updated at 6:20 - as of 9:55 EST it's $3.5m] ---- <http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2007/11/05/ron-paul- gets-bombed.aspx> Ron Paul Gets Bombed Forget about Ron Paul's polling numbers, these days it's more fun to forecast his fund-raising numbers. In the past two weeks, he aired his first ads in New Hampshire, raised his national media profile, and, as of today, raised more money online in a single day than any other candidate this election ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 5 18:56:29 PST 2007

10432 [lbo-talk] Clinton not so hot anymore, says writer who has hots for him -- rank: 1000

<http://jezebel.com/gossip/pulsing-presidential-pheremones/bill- clinton-no-longer-fuckable-proclaims-elle-writer-who-totally-wants-to- do-him-319109.php> pulsing presidential pheremones Bill Clinton No Longer Fuckable, Proclaims ELLE Writer Who Totally Wants To Do Him Elle sent writer Rebecca Traister to Africa with Bill Clinton for its December issue, an assignment about which she tells the contributors' page: "I was beside myself during the trip." And if by "beside&quo ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 5 18:46:18 PST 2007

10433 [lbo-talk] gimps gone wild -- rank: 1000

<http://jezebel.com/gossip/it.s-hard-out-here-for-a-gimp/handicapped- porno-offensive-or-inclusive-319241.php> it's hard out here for a gimp Handicapped Porno: Offensive Or Inclusive? When you think of amputees, dwarves, people with Cerebral palsy, or wheelchair-bound individuals in sexualized situations, it seems wrong, doesn't it? Particularly when those situations are photographed or filmed for the enjoyment of others, right? Instinctively, people assume that anyone who could get of ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 5 18:29:18 PST 2007

10434 [lbo-talk] splendid gossip -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tmz.com/2007/11/05/copperfield-secret-document-how-to- pick-up-chicks/>

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Date:	Mon Nov 5 18:16:24 PST 2007

10435 [lbo-talk] NEWMAN!'s whereabouts -- rank: 1000

[the topic of Nathan Newman's whereabouts came up recently - seems he's maintaining his standards of countercultural wisdom!] <http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/nov/02/ condemning_porn_is_the_new_porn> Condemning Porn is the New Porn By Nathan Newman | bio You know the problem with porn? It's so common that it's lost the ability to shock, so Tom has to resort to condemning porn in order to start a fight at a liberal website. How dare he say such a thing? It's an insult to li ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 5 11:35:10 PST 2007

10436 [lbo-talk] Sexies debut -- rank: 1000

[you may recognize the names of some of the judges] <http://community.livejournal.com/sexposjawards/615.html> It's official! 2008 Sex-Positive Journalism Awards Now Seeking Entries Nationally known journalists and sex-positive advocates to judge "Sexies" For immediate release: Nov. 5, 2007 Contact: Susan Wright, 917-848-6544 or Miriam Axel-Lute, info at sexies.org For more details: www.sexies.org To hear some people tell it, all of "the media" is a degenerate, sex- dre ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 5 11:13:18 PST 2007

10437 [lbo-talk] time to invade Gisele Bundchen -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=20601087&sid=aCs.keWwNdiY&refer=home> Supermodel Bundchen Joins Hedge Funds Dumping Dollars (Update2) By Bo Nielsen and Adriana Brasileiro Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Gisele Bundchen wants to remain the world's richest model and is insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar. Like billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Bill Gross, the Brazilian supermodel, who Forbes magazine says earns more than anyone in her indus ...

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10438 [lbo-talk] Doris Lessing, Canopus in Argos: Archieves -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > As I'm recently feeling a tad burnt out on full-time > obsession with radical politics Merely a tad? Ah, well, you're young.

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Date:	Mon Nov 5 11:00:13 PST 2007

10439 [lbo-talk] public worldwide willing to pay up to prevent climate disaster -- rank: 1000

<http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/427.php? lb=hmpg1&pnt=427&nid=&id=> Most Would Pay Higher Energy Bills to Address Climate Change Says Global Poll November 05, 2007 Full Report (PDF) Questionnaire/Methodology (PDF) Most people say they are ready to make personal sacrifices including paying more for their energy to help address climate change, according to a new BBC World Service poll of 22,000 people in 21 countries. Substantial majorities in a ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 5 10:59:34 PST 2007

10440 [lbo-talk] get ready for Pres Clinton - again! -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > What about the other oil motive -- the desire to keep > oil transactions in dollars? I'm afraid the military solution won't work in that case. If there's much more dollar depreciation the magic of the marketplace will render that obsolete. Doug

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