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13561 [lbo-talk] worst of housing bust is over - it's official! -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2006 The worst of the housing bust is over, economists said by nearly 2- to-1 in a WSJ.com survey. But they have wildly different views on where home prices are heading. For more information, see: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116370236302025327.html?mod=djemalert

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 20 11:20:00 PST 2006

13562 [lbo-talk] Re: Rangel Is An Idiot -- rank: 1000

Do we know what Rangel's motives are? Is he really serious, or is he just trying to smoke out the inevitable objections to make a political point? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 20 09:27:05 PST 2006

13563 [lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > It looks to me that it's a case of avoiding _only_ our > own responsibility This is so ludicrous I have a hard time believing you're serious. Someone suggested to me offlist yesterday that you don't write to convince people anymore, just to shock. He may be right. At least Ann Coulter attacks her ideological enemies, though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 20 09:25:18 PST 2006

13564 [lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > an intellectual embarassment > juvenile, > about as profound as the solemn proposition > Any reasonably intelligent high-school sophomore > Grow up, Doug. You keep getting funnier. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 20 09:22:21 PST 2006

13565 [lbo-talk] Whom to Blame? Try the Iraqis (was "you and I, are indirectly responsible") -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > As the US occupation of Iraq is now undeniably in a quagmire, no > longer denied even by the Right, a blame game has begun. Whom do > Americans blame for the quagmire? Themselves? No! It's the Iraqis' > fault! Really. I'm surprised you just noticed this. The Dems have been saying things like this for months. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 20 09:06:57 PST 2006

13566 [lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Isn't that because Washington has outsourced the work of occupation to > Iraqis, fomented sectarianism through the sectarian elections, and > failed to control Iraq's borders, so Iraq has become a magnet for > international jihadists (Saddam Hussein would never have allowed > _that_)? Well, yeah. So? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 20 07:36:43 PST 2006

13567 [lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > Anyway, I can't imagine that things would get any worse at all if > the US/GB were out of the country. I'm not sure of that - things can always get worse - but still, the US & UK must get out. And of course none of this would be happening had Iraq not been invaded. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 20 07:34:23 PST 2006

13568 [lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2006, at 1:28 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > Wasn't it Tariq Ali in your own interview who was saying that such > fanatic tactics were way too much represented in the western media > while the actual resistance was totally downplayed ? He did. But compare the death tolls. The resistance, or the sectarian militias, or freelancers, whoever have killed many times more Iraqis than it/they have killed US soldiers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 20 05:02:46 PST 2006

13569 [lbo-talk] Uncle Miltie, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Mike Ballard wrote: > Do any of the the money measurements: M 1, M 2, and so on tell a > person the amount of use values (good and services) produced in any > given time frame? No. That's roughly what GDP is - the total value of goods and services produced within a nation during a year (or quarter, typically expressed at an annual rate). I say roughly because it includes some things, like missiles and jail construction, you might not think of as a use v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 20 04:59:58 PST 2006

13570 [lbo-talk] Anti-War Activists Plan "Global Orgasm For Peace" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2006, at 11:05 PM, mike larkin wrote: > The Global Orgasm for Peace was conceived by Donna Sheehan, 76 Since I'm a couple of weeks away from turning 54, that's encouraging. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 19 20:31:56 PST 2006

13571 [lbo-talk] that's Dr Oink to you! -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 19, 2006 Pay of top university heads hits $1m By Rebecca Knight in Boston E. Gordon Gee, chancellor of Vanderbilt, a top-tier university in Nashville, Tennessee, has an enviable distinction: he is the only US university head who earns more than $1m a year. Last year, Mr Gee earned a salary of $905,296 plus $265,915 in benefits and a sizeable expense account. While his pay far outstrips that of most college leaders, salaries of university presidents of both public ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 19 15:58:21 PST 2006

13572 [lbo-talk] Contest between Chinese, U.S. marines -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2006, at 5:13 PM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > Contest between Chinese, U.S. marines > http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200611/19/eng20061119_323125.html So who won? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 19 14:22:12 PST 2006

13573 [lbo-talk] Mexico: more symptoms of social decomposition -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > The economic disaster that devastated my state worsened in the 1980s > and 1990s. Its seeds were sown in the 1960s and 1970s, with the > crisis of rural Mexico. What happened to cause the initial crisis? How much did NAFTA contribute? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 19 13:51:24 PST 2006

13574 [lbo-talk] "you and I, are indirectly responsible" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote: > On 11/19/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> After Christian Parenti met a bunch of them, he said many were >> nihilists with no political program. Others said they'd rather >> destroy their country than let the U.S. have it; I wonder how many >> Iraqis would share that POV. When I first quoted him saying these >> things, Yoshie & Co. disagreed strongly, but it sure seems like > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 19 12:09:36 PST 2006

13575 [lbo-talk] "you and I, are indirectly responsible" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2006, at 1:58 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I do not think it is good news that the variety of paramilitary > actors operating in Iraq are so emboldened. They do not seem to be > a democratic movement to establish a free Iraq to me. They seem to > be various shades of anti-democratic terrorism, dedicated to short- > circuiting the difficult business of winning over the mass of > people to their side with violent actions. > > I blame the Coalition for their asce ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 19 11:12:08 PST 2006