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12061 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewPodcast?id=73801817> or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Newly posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: December 20, 2007 Charlie Komanoff on a radical reworking of Bloomberg's congestion pricin ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 11:22:25 PST 2007

12062 [lbo-talk] BBC 12/22/07: Tony Blair joins Catholic Church -- rank: 1000

1) I just posted something about this. Traffic is pretty heavy on the list, so it would be nice to avoid double-posting. 2) The formatting on this is horrible. Please clean stuff up before hitting send, ok? Doug On Dec 22, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Rick Kisséll wrote: > > > > Tony Blair joins Catholic Church > > > > Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has left the > Anglican Church to become a Roman Catholic. > > > His wife and children are alre ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 10:37:11 PST 2007

12063 [lbo-talk] Hillary's infrastructure -- rank: 1000

[from the LAT, as quoted by Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] Clinton gets lots of help from her friends: More than any other Democratic candidate, she's drawing support from outside organizations - money, direct mailings, even Google ads targeted to female voters in Iowa: Three organizations outside her campaign are lending a big helping hand with ... difficult and expensive tasks, pouring more than $2 million and an army of fresh troops into the last-minute push. The outside effort, much l ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 07:02:03 PST 2007

12064 [lbo-talk] has Blair been reading Eagleton? -- rank: 1000

Former British PM Blair converts to Catholicism LONDON (AFP) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair has converted to Roman Catholicism, his spokesman told AFP Saturday. Matthew Doyle confirmed British media reports that the 54-year-old politician converted during a ceremony in central London on Friday night but had no further details. Blair's conversion from Anglicanism to the faith of his wife, Cherie, and four children, had been widely expected. A report in The Tablet Catholic newspap ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 05:31:20 PST 2007

12065 [lbo-talk] Reality check, please -- rank: 1000

On Dec 22, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Colin Brace wrote: > Among other things, it appears that speculative capital, which has > forsaken the credit market, is now focusing on commodities. Speculative capital can never forsake the credit market - you can't get a good speculation going without borrowed money. That aside, though, speculation typically exaggerates underlying trends but it doesn't create them. The food problem is real, though traders are also trying to make money off it. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 05:26:44 PST 2007

12066 [lbo-talk] "the science" -- rank: 1000

...behind the global orgasm - it must be good, it's from Jersey!: <http://www.globalorgasm.org/> - click the "science" tab (no direct link) The Global Consciousness Project, located in Princeton, New Jersey, runs a network of Random Event Generators around the world which record changes in their randomness during global events. The results show that human consciousness can be measured to have a global effect on matter and energy during widely-watched events such as the coll ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 20:15:01 PST 2007

12067 [lbo-talk] come for peace -- rank: 1000

Apologies for the short notice, but in a little under two hours, everyone's supposed to have an orgasm to bring about world peace. That's 6:08 GMT, 1:08 AM eastern U.S. time. Details: <http://www.globalorgasm.org/> Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 20:12:53 PST 2007

12068 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Help Jim Keady Get Back to Indonesia -- rank: 1000

Dear EFJ Supporter, I hope that this email finds you well and enjoying the Holiday Season. It has been ten years since I first started advocating on behalf of workers that produce Nike's products in sweatshop conditions. Over the years, Nike has made claims that there has been significant progress and that consumers should feel good about how Nike's products are made. Should we take their word for it? Shouldn't we get the facts for ourselves? As I did in 2000, 2001, and 2002, I want to get the f ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 16:56:43 PST 2007

12069 [lbo-talk] Terry Eagleton and the Gospels -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2007, at 5:56 PM, John E. Norem wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/2z7onj Damn, maybe I should become a Catholic again. Sure would be a change. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 15:23:22 PST 2007

12070 [lbo-talk] and how was your year -- rank: 1000

[ah the rewards of betting against your clients!] 12/21/2007 5:47:28 PM ET Breaking News Bulletin: Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein to get $68 million bonus <http://marketwatch.com/r.asp?g=772DCD9EE4734A0D9317855DA001DEC6&d=bnb>

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 14:56:41 PST 2007

12071 [lbo-talk] Reality check, please -- rank: 1000

There are some real food price pressures out there - growing demand from "Chindia," not only in quantity but quality, combined with some serious yield problems that are at least in some part the result of climate change. Wall Street's habit of looking at core inflation - i.e., with food and energy stripped out - overlooks where the real price pressures are. Since there are no wage pressures, it's not surprising to see pretty tame core inflation. On Dec 21, 2007, at 12:25 PM, 123h ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 10:47:53 PST 2007

12072 [lbo-talk] Krugman -- rank: 1000

Joanna nominated for the next boom: > Technology. Yeah, but which one? It be nice to get an alt.energy bubble going - it might produce some useful, planet-sparing stuff amidst the froth. Which reminds me of an observation I've been meaning to make, in the spirit of Keynes. Leftists and other sourpusses love to go on about "bubbles," as if they're all bad, but they do have their benefits. The dot.com bubble really did help develop the Internet, and we're mostly grateful for that ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 21 10:45:52 PST 2007

12073 [lbo-talk] Huck cites divine protection -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] CBN's David 'Brody File' Brody rode with Gov. Mike Huckabee on his bus from Des Moines to Ames yesterday and got this Biblical shout- out: 'Ultimately what I sense is happening - people everywhere will come to me, look me in the eye and say, 'We are claiming Isaiah 54 for you' - that 'the weapons formed against you will not prosper'.' And you know I just have to deep down believe that there is just a hunger in this nation for truth. There is a hunger in ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 20 06:11:49 PST 2007

12074 [lbo-talk] Krugman -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > You seem to be saying that productivity gains are not so > impressive and widespread as to encourage a general upsurge in real > investment. Compared to what? Here's the latest data - 2004-6 - on the share of GDP devoted to gross fixed capital formation. China 40.7% India 33.4 S Korea 29.8 United States 19.2 Germany 17.2 Obviously, the "mature" economies are investing a lot less than ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 19 13:03:33 PST 2007

12075 [lbo-talk] Krugman -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Seth Ackerman wrote: > That's not what I was saying. Productivity improvements were > concentrated in a few sectors, but that's exactly what you would > expect > from a boom. Every boom is focused on particular sectors. The point is > that the upsurge in productivity was certainly not caused by > eliminating > low-productivity activities but rather by large and genuine > productivity > advances in major sectors of the economy. A footnote: a ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 19 11:46:41 PST 2007