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14401 [lbo-talk] UFPJ -- rank: 1000

What's the impression of list members about what United For Peace & Justice has been up to for the last few years? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 12:43:22 PST 2006

14402 [lbo-talk] Bartels on Frank, etc. -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >On 3/8/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> I think the official line on this is more or less correct - that >>poorer people bought lots of houses in the 1990s and early 2000s, >>despite high and rising prices. The reason: very low downpayments >>and innovative" mortgages (less than interest-only, for example). < > >Didn't the Clinton administration make a big effort to encourage home >ownership and congratulate ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 12:17:34 PST 2006

14403 [lbo-talk] Bartels on Frank, etc. -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >home-purchasing (misnomer to call it ownership in most cases) rates >increased from low 60% range to high 60% range during same >period, while general assumption seems to be that rise reflects those >towards lower end of income scale being able 'to get into' a house, i >wonder how much of it is relatively young, relatively affluent types >who did well during 90 buying their first homes, ain't too many >'starter' homes being built in orblando area, and ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:58:07 PST 2006

14404 [lbo-talk] John Y. Christopher -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That is too Freudian to my taste. My take on it is that all that drippy New >Age stuff - and for that matter over the counter pacifism in general - means >jack shit, since aggression arises mainly from social interaction rather >than from psychological or mental predispositions. What kind of bogus distinction is that? Aggressive dispositions can arise in large part from early social interactions, and are either reinforced or discouraged by later social inte ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 07:49:52 PST 2006

14405 [lbo-talk] John Y. Christopher -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >MANALAPAN, FL, United States (UPI) -- Flamboyant New Age keyboardist >Yanni has been arrested for alleged domestic battery in the wealthy >coastal town of Manalapan, Fla. Ha! Further proof that all that drippy New Age stuff is a reaction-formation against aggression! Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 06:30:57 PST 2006

14406 [lbo-talk] query: Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Chris wrote: > >>Yeah, right, there are no leftist social climbers. > > >Writing a novel doesn't put you on the fast track to success, 99.99% >of the time. (That's regardless of your ideology.) If you doubt >it, try it yourself and see how far you get. I'm no fan of Roy's political writings, but if she were looking for fame & fortune (aside from having achieved it with her novel), writing anti-imperialist essays for a western audience isn ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 06:25:38 PST 2006

14407 [lbo-talk] No Interest? -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >There are many things that I don't know about this world, and one of >those things is that Muslims don't believe in charging interest. >Does anyone have further info or relevant background on this? Someone just launched a sharia-compliant hedge fund. This stuff is all over - google "Islamic finance" for about 16 million hits. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 06:20:42 PST 2006

14408 [lbo-talk] Unions: Resuscitate or pull the plug? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I always find these discussions kind of bizarre-- unions not only directly >have $5-6 billion annually in income, but they indirectly control or >influence trillions of dollars in private and public pension fund monies. Except that the law severely limits what they can do with that cash - and sometimes leads unions to make alliances with shareholder rights types whose interests are fundamentally anti-working class. >We can all debate how the unions can more effe ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 05:47:25 PST 2006

14409 [lbo-talk] Stern to oppose Dems? -- rank: 1000

[and what, support Republicans? or run independent candidates? and by all means, more American Idol in politics!!] <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=av_ObEh7LbRA> Service Union's Stern Will Seek Candidates to Oppose Democrats By Roger Simon March 7 (Bloomberg) -- Organized labor, a former pillar of the Democratic Party, is showing some cracks. Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, who pulled his union out of the AFL-CIO labor federation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 19:10:48 PST 2006

14410 [lbo-talk] query: Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >Jim Devine wrote: >> >> It was really horrible that the Taliban was restricting >> our supply of heroin. It is much better now that it's >> easier to get H. > >God, it must be nice to live in New York City. Jim lives in LA. It's not easy to get heroin in post-Giuliani NYC. Time was you could buy it on the street (nearest spot to where I sit: 107 & Amsterdam). No longer. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 6 18:50:17 PST 2006

14411 [lbo-talk] Bush in deep doo-doo over Iraq; Dems not doing so good either -- rank: 1000

[Another poll showing "strongly disapprove" beating total approve regardless of intensity - but the Dems offer no clear alternative.] ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: WAR AND POLITICS - 3/5/06 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Monday, March 6, 2006 More Skepticism Confronts Bush From Iraq to the Ports and Beyond A fresh wave of public skepticism confronts the Bush administration across current issues from the unrest in Iraq to the ports deal and privacy rights at home. And when it comes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:42:03 PST 2006

14412 [lbo-talk] query: Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >It's complete waste of time to discuss Roy's "radical" rhetoric ! :) I'm trying hard to be constructive and not "snarky": why is it a waste of time? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:34:09 PST 2006

14413 [lbo-talk] George Will: poverty caused by lack of hygiene... -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Poverty in the new/old paradigm is the fault of the >poor rather than the inevitable result of the workings >of a capitalist economy. Yup, it's an ancient trope. The Census Bureau has an interesting history of the poverty line and related concepts at <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/povmeas/papers/orshansky.html>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:33:17 PST 2006

14414 [lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >union-bashing This is really getting annoying. Organized labor in the US is deeply deeply fucked, and on the verge of disappearing as a meaningful thing in a matter of years. This has already had, and will continue to have, terrible effects on the living standards of American workers and the kind of politics that prevail in this country. It's a matter of great urgency to figure out why this is and what can be done. It does no one - except maybe a bunch of overpaid union of ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 6 13:13:00 PST 2006

14415 [lbo-talk] query: Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >>Afg today is a total mess. > >yeah, it was much nicer five years ago. ah, the golden age! It might have been, actually.

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Date:	Mon Mar 6 12:57:06 PST 2006