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11356 [lbo-talk] Dems now more trusted on national security -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Someone years ago pointed out that even in the worse "meltdowns" it is > only the 'top' of the party that gets wiped out -- the local party > organizations remain strong, since the "two-party" system is, for the > most part, a one-party system in most localities. Here in NYC, which used to be a near-100% Democratic city, we're now in our 13th year of non-Dem rule. First 8 years of Republican Rudy, and now 5 of Dem ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 25 13:08:52 PDT 2007

11357 [lbo-talk] Dems now more trusted on national security -- rank: 1000

[The GOP seems to be in meltdown, though these things come & go in American politics, given the low level of ideological & organizational development behind the parties.] <http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/ trust_on_issues> Trust on Issues Wednesday, July 25, 2007 When it comes to National Security, Democrats are now trusted more by 42% of likely voters, Republicans by 40%. This means that Democrats now enjoy at least a nominal edge on all ten issues regul ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 25 12:43:52 PDT 2007

11358 [lbo-talk] The Long March From Yenan to Barclays -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 3:07 PM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > US consumes more than exports, has balance of payment problems. > Borrows to > finance the deficit, and Chinese investors in effect convert US > debts into > US financial assets. > > But you say the Chinese can't or are not going convert these > financial > assets into purchases or licsening of pharmaceutics, aircraft, > software, > speciality and logic chips, medical equipment, etc from American &g ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 25 12:38:02 PDT 2007

11359 [lbo-talk] young Murdoch no zionist, wingnuts alarmed -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - July 25, 2007 <http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=59052&v=3580935811> Murdoch, Son Differ Sharply Over Israel BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun The pro-Israel outlook of the Wall Street Journal and many News Corp. outlets could waver if one of Rupert Murdoch's sons, James Murdoch, takes the helm of the publishing and broadcasting company, a new book suggests. The just-published diaries of a communications director for Prime Minister Blair, Alastair Campbell, i ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 25 12:17:53 PDT 2007

11360 [lbo-talk] hipster update: now, a musical! -- rank: 1000

<http://williamsburgthemusical.com/> Williamsburg! The Musical is a hilarious pop/rock parody of Brooklyn s over-hyped hipster hood. A suicidal Trust-Funder encounters a disenchanted Hasidic Jew in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge. On their potholed road to love, they battle a greedy real estate agent whose diabolical plan to overtake the neighborhood spawns an army of zombie-like hipsters. Will the unlikely heroes of Williamsburg band together to save the sub- borough? Or will ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 25 11:48:48 PDT 2007

11361 [lbo-talk] The long march from Yenan to Barclays -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Have workers in the u.s. benefitted as much from cheap commodities > imprted from China et al as they have suffered in their wages and > working conditions from that same fact? Insofar as we can trust the price indexes - and for their flaws, they're a lot better than guesswork - the answer is barely if at all. Aside from a few years in the late 1990s, real wages have been flat to down for more than 30 years. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 25 11:38:42 PDT 2007

11362 [lbo-talk] The Long March From Yenan to Barclays -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 1:11 PM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > Thus this question: will this export of capital prove a transient, > periodic phenomenon to be interrupted sooner or later and replaced > by the > import of US goods as part of an even bigger domestic Chinese > investment > boom? What goods? Aside from aircraft, what capital equipment would the U.S. export to China? Most of China's capital goods imports come from Japan and other Asian countries. > If not, th ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 25 11:36:43 PDT 2007

11363 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill -- rank: 1000

[I'm not WC's biggest fan, but it's an outrage he's been fired. "First they came for Churchill, but because I was not an incendiary hack..."] WARD CHURCHILL SUPPORT: http://wardchurchill.net/ U OF COLORADO PRESIDENT HANK BROWN: Ofc of Pres: (303) 860-5600 Fax: (303) 860-5610 Media inquiries: (303) 860-5627 Email: OfficeOfThePresident at cu.edu U OF COLORADO CHAIR, BD OF REGENTS PATRICIA HAYES Patricia.Hayes at cu.edu Ward Churchill Case - Press Release - CU Regents Dismiss Ward Churc ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 25 10:06:59 PDT 2007

11364 [lbo-talk] FT: Sanctions Fail to Fuel Dissent on Iran's Streets + Iran Joins Iraq Security Committee -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > my dear Islamic Republic of Iran At 3 in the morning, no less.

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11365 [lbo-talk] Savran on Turkey -- rank: 1000

<http://www.iscimucadelesi.net/english/sit_turkey06.htm> [...] The inner contradictions of the bourgeoisie Behind this seemingly institutional conflict between the AKP government and the army lies a contradiction in the very bosom of the bourgeoisie in Turkey. Ever since the foundation of the republic in 1923 under Kemal Atatürk, the mainstream bourgeoisie has turned its face to the West and tried to integrate economically, politically, militarily and culturally with imperialism, Euro ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 24 19:28:42 PDT 2007

11366 [lbo-talk] Bono, humanitarian, speaking to mortgage bankers -- rank: 1000

On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:15 PM, ravi wrote: > On 24 Jul, 2007, at 19:54 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Bono will be the keynote speaker at the Mortgage Bankers Association >> conference in Boston in October. THe people who brought you the >> subprime debacle addressed by the second most sensitive person in the >> world after Samantha Power! > > > I am afraid sarcasm does not suit you well. You should leave it to > those with less interesting things to say. Not th ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 24 19:24:15 PDT 2007

11367 [lbo-talk] Marx and Justice -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: > That's what this is called in "Avoiding Politics" a book by Nina > Eliasoph that came out a few years ago. Bitch probably knows this > one. I think I heard about it from her to begin with. I had Eliasoph on the radio shortly after that book came out - and before there was a web archive. I'd learned about it from Jane Slaughter's review you quoted. You can learn a lot from Jane Slaughter! I also learned about Susie Bright's political history from a ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 24 17:03:03 PDT 2007

11368 [lbo-talk] Bono, humanitarian, speaking to mortgage bankers -- rank: 1000

Bono will be the keynote speaker at the Mortgage Bankers Association conference in Boston in October. THe people who brought you the subprime debacle addressed by the second most sensitive person in the world after Samantha Power!

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Date:	Tue Jul 24 16:54:18 PDT 2007

11369 [lbo-talk] will they tithe their cap gains? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.observer.com/2007/communists-capitalize-village-sale- get-1-87-m-loft> Communists Capitalize on Village Sale Get $1.87 M. for Loft by Max Abelson If bow-tied, cigar-mouthed Republicans can have nice seven-digit, six- room co-ops, don't a few old Manhattan communists deserve multi- million-dollar real estate, too? A two-bedroom loft at 380 West 12th Street, a 109-year-old building on a cobblestone block by the Hudson River, was sold by American socialist leaders Jack Barnes an ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 24 16:02:13 PDT 2007

11370 [lbo-talk] the depressing thing that is American politics... -- rank: 1000

...Hillary triangulates Obama! <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105455&page=1> The "latte liberal" line-of-attack is in full force! Hillary Clinton's decision to call Barack Obama's approach to rogue dictators "irresponsible and frankly naïve" on Tuesday is best understood as part of a broader effort to paint the freshman senator, who has captured the imagination of many upscale Democrats, as the latest in a long line of latte liberals. Think of ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 24 15:31:56 PDT 2007