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1126 [lbo-talk] Taking the Pulse of Elite Response to OWS -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Thomas Volscho wrote: > the Brooks Brothers at the corner of Trinity Place and Liberty Street Ivan, our 5-year-old, found that place terribly boring, in contrast to the Soho Bloomie's, which was "fun." It's where I bought the pink oxford button-down I wore to the Bluestockings event last Friday. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 19:15:52 PDT 2011

1127 [lbo-talk] Jobs in heaven -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:41:26 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> It's just Chairman Bill, speaking through my former self. > > I doubt strongly that Chairman Bill and your former > self have a language in common. > > I know a guy who works for the Gates Foundation > (that *is* the Bill you have in mind, right?) Of course not. But you knew that.

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1128 [lbo-talk] Jobs in heaven -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:20:45 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Don't immanentize the eschaton. > > For Heaven's sake, why not? The best > eschata are the immanent ones. Or better > yet, the imminent ones. It's just Chairman Bill, speaking through my former self. Doug

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1129 [lbo-talk] Jobs in heaven -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:04:48 -0700 > michael perelman <michael.perelman3 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I misread the subject. I thought Obama had a new plan for the unemployed. > > Wrong location too. Don't immanentize the eschaton. Doug

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1130 [lbo-talk] me, in Truthdig: Our Delusions of Grandeur Will Save the World -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > We have no discernible gifts or achievements to our > name, but our parents tell us that we re going to be just great. We use the > like button on Facebook to tell one another the same thing. Narcissists to > the core, we believe the hype. Elsewhere, the story of your generation: http://nymag.com/news/features/my-generation-2011-10/

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1131 [lbo-talk] The guy who 'blocked' John Lewis -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Thomas Volscho wrote: > In a June 2007 meeting at a Washington, D.C. "power lunch" spot, Johnny's Half Shell, the heads of Lehman, Merrill Lynch, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and a former Federal Reserve Chair, Paul Volcker, were all beaming with joy. They were meeting with a young charismatic freshman Senator from Illinois. While Hillary Clinton may have been supported by a handful of other Wall Street power players, the great fear of the W ...

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1132 [lbo-talk] query: from anarchist to marxist??? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2011, at 3:48 AM, SA wrote: > I feel like I've recently encountered, by random chance, a series of people who've said they were once anarchists but gradually "grew out of" anarchism and moved in a more Marxist direction. I grew out of libertarianism, but that's different, right? Doug

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1133 [lbo-talk] Obama: MLK would want us not to demonize WS -- rank: 1000

Politico's Morning Money By Ben White (bwhite at politico.com; Twitter: @morningmoneyben) WALL STREET STRIKES BACK - A top financial industry insider offered M.M. a blistering response to reports that the Obama 2012 campaign will make attacks on Wall Street a centerpiece of the reelection strategy: "Hard to tell if the Obama Administration's vilify Wall Street strategy is inspired or insane. The Obama Administration was the top recipient of Wall Street cash last election and the list of Wal ...

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1134 [lbo-talk] Ron Paulites infiltrated at their own game -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Why is there fluoride in the water? > Hitler put flouride in the water. It's carcinogenic! > Every vaccine contains either a sterilization agent, neurotoxin or a carcinogen. > Why is there so much autism in Amerika? > Chemtrails? Why? > Does the Illuminati want us dead? > Who are they? Bilderberger > Ted Turner -- CNN Obama > Bill Gates Sounds like WBAI. Doug

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1135 [lbo-talk] Infrastructure -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > I did not argue that FRBSF did a clumsy job. I argued that the > national accounting system, when done properly, obscures as much as it > reveals. This is not a particularly novel idea. Gosh, turns out they'd already thought of this. http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2011/el2011-25.html > Not all goods and services imported into the United States are directly sold to households. Many are used in the production of goods ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 16 15:00:24 PDT 2011

1136 [lbo-talk] Susan Abulhawa on WITBD for Palestine (rights vs.statehood -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Statehood is not a social bond > anyone believes in or can fight for That will be news to any number of fighters of anti-colonial struggles. I'm fine with a critique of nationalism, but this strikes me as something with no basis in historical fact. Doug

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1137 [lbo-talk] Infrastructure -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > My > suspicion is that most "made in China" stuff is counted as > intermediate consumption. Better tell the FRBSF. I'm sure they didn't think of this either. Doug

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1138 [lbo-talk] Doug: lecture at OWS tonight at 6? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2011, at 1:59 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Just wanted to confirm: you're lecturing tonight (Sunday 10/16) on The Fed and Why Ron Paul is the enemy of everything good and true? Going to reschedule. Too many things to do today. Just recorded an interview with Taryn Hart. She's good. I'll let you know when it's up. Doug

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1139 [lbo-talk] OWS takes a walk uptown -- rank: 1000

Report, analysis, pix: http://lbo-news.com/2011/10/15/ows-takes-a-walk-uptown/

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1140 [lbo-talk] Infrastructure -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > What is "made in USA" exactly?. I once had an Acer LCD "Made in USA". > When it died I opened it and its main component (the LCD display) was > manufactured by CHIMEI, one of the world´s largest LCD manufacturers > with HQ in Taiwan. Gosh, someone tell the SF Fed. I bet they never had this experience! Doug

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