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12376 [lbo-talk] Dollar assets key part of China's reserves:Xinhua -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Mike Ballard wrote: > So, the private banks issue > these bonds and the a central bank buys them with freshly printed > paper? No, they're bonds issued by other entities, particularly the U.S. Treasury, that banks are holding. For, example, U.S. banks have about $8.6 trillion in assets, of which $1.2 trillion are U.S. Treasury and agency securities. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 15:58:52 PDT 2007

12377 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise] -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Doug wrote: > >> If you mean people with something >> like social democratic and antiwar >> politics, then you're probably >> talking about 10-15% of the U.S. >> pop. That number most certainly >> is large enough to affect primary >> elections, given their low turnout. > > How do you back up this estimate of 10-15%, Doug? When I typed that, I was dimly recalling the Pew Center's political ty ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 15:56:01 PDT 2007

12378 [lbo-talk] the John Birch Society hits my inbox -- rank: 1000

From: "Bill Hahn" <bhahn at jbs.org> Date: August 16, 2007 5:42:40 PM EDT To: "Bill Hahn" <bhahn at jbs.org> Subject: What's happening at the closed SPP meeting? In light of President Bush's Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) meeting this weekend in Montebello, Quebec, The John Birch Society (JBS) offers an opportunity to interview John McManus, President of JBS. He'll help listeners understand the North American Union (NAU) and the SPP connection. John wi ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 15:54:56 PDT 2007

12379 [lbo-talk] Muslim punk in NYC -- rank: 1000

[from Autonomedia] 3. Taqwatour You may have read about the fictional Muslim Punk bands that preceded these groups in the pages of Mike Knight s novel THE TAQWACORES (http://autonomedia.org/taqwacores). Now, the real Muslim Punk movement is on tour, and is playing in the following New York-area venues: Friday, August 17, 2007 @ The Mean Fiddler, 266 W. 47th Street (at 8th Avenue), New York, NY 11 pm, http://www.themeanfiddlernyc.com Sunday, August 19, 2007 @ Galapagos Art Space, 70 N. 6th Stree ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 13:23:55 PDT 2007

12380 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise] -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > I'm willing to > settle for people who don't burn down Turkish bistros, > or attempt to win the votes of those who do. Well, our billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg would qualify then. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 13:16:23 PDT 2007

12381 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise] -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I do agree that leftists can achieve > nothing, even more minor reforms, by working in or with the DP. If > minor > reforms are to be gained through the DP, those reforms will be gained > without any participation of leftists, who are too few to effect > either > general or primary elections. Depends on what you mean by leftists. If you mean people who can parse Theories of Surplus Value, there ain't too many of them. If you ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 12:19:08 PDT 2007

12382 [lbo-talk] consuming the news -- rank: 1000

[Note the professed lack of interest in celebrity news. Either people are lying, or the media market isn't working very well.] <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/566/two-decades-of-american-news- preferences> Two Decades of American News Preferences By Michael J. Robinson, special to the Pew Research Center August 15, 2007 Download the complete commentary Summary Although the size and scope of the American news media have changed dramatically since the 1980s, audience news interests and prefer ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 12:15:15 PDT 2007

12383 [lbo-talk] what Zionist lobby? -- rank: 1000

New York Times - August 16, 2007 Backlash Over Book on Policy for Israel By Patricia Cohen "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" is not even in bookstores, but already anxieties have surfaced about the backlash it is stirring, with several institutions backing away from holding events with the authors. John J. Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, wer ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 09:48:25 PDT 2007

12384 [lbo-talk] stage-managing Petraeus -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 16, 2007 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/15/ AR2007081501281.html> An Early Clash Over Iraq Report Specifics at Issue as September Nears By Jonathan Weisman and Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writers Senior congressional aides said yesterday that the White House has proposed limiting the much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill next month of Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker to a private congressional bri ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 07:46:52 PDT 2007

12385 [lbo-talk] Client State: Japan in the American Embrace -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > In Japan, as well as in many countries, it is the Right that sets the > terms of debate. Should Japan revise the Constitution and expand its > armed forces? That's the question the Right asks. The Left merely > says no to that. But the Left should be asking, What's the point of > revising the Constitution and expanding the armed forces if Japan does > not have a foreign policy of its own independent of Washington's? Wh ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 07:14:55 PDT 2007

12386 [lbo-talk] Bearzilla! -- Putins Economy Eight Years On -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2007, at 1:18 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Go to any store in Russia and walk around. :) > > Well, any non-electronics store, that doesn't sell > software. That stuff is imports. Cars are about 60% > imports IIRC. Anyway, who really cares? Only > right-wingers say "poo, Chavez is only able to do what > he's doing because of high oil prices!" I say that and I'm not a right-winger. Oil allows Chavez to do things almost no other leader could do. Oil means plent ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 05:59:19 PDT 2007

12387 [lbo-talk] suburbia kills -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2007, at 8:42 PM, Andy F wrote: > Wasn't there some study about ten years ago where if you lumped > together homicides with car deaths, the 'burbs came out no better than > high crime areas of cities. It was sort of gee-whiz, but telling too. Dunno about that, but a friend of Dan Lazare's did a comparison in the early 1990s between NYC and suburban Jersey, and it was more dangerous to be a teen in NJ than NYC. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 15 18:02:00 PDT 2007

12388 [lbo-talk] suburbia kills -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On 08/15/07 05:15:00 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Death rates for 1- >> to-24-year-old males are 60 per 100,000 in cities, versus 80 in rural >> areas. > > That's gotta be mostly driving deaths, don't you think? Yup, a lot of it. A while back I did a quickie comparison of driving death rates for a few states. New York was relatively low and Alabama, high. And rural Alabama was far higher than urban Alabama. So it's n ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 15 14:40:12 PDT 2007

12389 [lbo-talk] suburbia kills -- rank: 1000

[more from Clive Thompson's article on why NYers live longer] A trio of New York based urban-health academics Nicholas Freudenberg, David Vlahov, and Sandro Galea, professors at Hunter College and the New York Academy of Medicine began to wonder if the urban health penalty still made sense. As they examined the most recent data about health in cities versus health in rural and suburban areas, they noticed that the cities were, contrary to theory, pulling ahead. This wasn t merely because ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 15 14:15:00 PDT 2007

12390 [lbo-talk] NYers living longer than other Americans - who knew? -- rank: 1000

<http://nymag.com/news/features/35815/?ftr-promo> Why New Yorkers Last Longer This city, once known as a capital of vice and self-destruction, is now a capital of longevity. What happened? By Clive Thompson Last winter, the New York City Department of Health released figures that told a surprising story: New Yorkers are living longer than ever, and longer than most people in the country. A New Yorker born in 2004 can now expect to live 78.6 years, nine months longer than the average A ...

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