Search LBO-Talk Archives

14491 [lbo-talk] boomtime for foreclosure technidians -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 1, 2006 For This Industry, Rising Foreclosures Are Good for Business Obscure Profession Gears Up On Signs Housing Sector Could Be Cooling Down By JAMES R. HAGERTY UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - Chuck Seabrease steered his pickup truck into the driveway of a two-story house on a cul-de-sac in this suburb of Washington. He was carrying a drill and tools for picking locks. But Mr. Seabrease found on this recent chilly morning that someone else already had kicked the door open, sh ...

Document Size:	11814
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 07:02:29 PST 2006

14492 [lbo-talk] Dubya does Delhi: will the chimps make rude noises? -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace quoted Arundhati Roy: >It is not in our power stop Bush's visit. It is in our power to >protest it, and we will. The government, the police and the corporate >press will do everything they can to minimise the extent of our >outrage. Nothing the Happy-news Papers say can change the fact that >all over India, from the biggest cities to the smallest villages, in >public places and private homes, George W Bush, incumbent president of >the United States of America, wo ...

Document Size:	12691
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 06:57:24 PST 2006

14493 [lbo-talk] the conservative mind -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >well, this is the thing i don't get. how is will allowed to get away >this? if we say it enough times, loud enough, it will be true? is it >just that everyone wants to believe it? or is it precisely because >the focus is on profits? are profits during this expansion better >than the clinton-era boom? are they even comparable? according to >what measures? Profitability (profits/value of the capital stock) was higher at the peak of the 1990s boom; it peaked ...

Document Size:	5682
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 06:38:42 PST 2006

14494 [lbo-talk] TNR lectures Jon Stewart -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >What are the qualifications to be the television critic for TNR? A warm pulse? Adam Shatz has done wonders with the back of The Nation, but for some inscrutable reason he hired Siegel to be a book reviewer at large or some such stupid title. Don't get it. Doug

Document Size:	4845
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 06:17:52 PST 2006

14495 [lbo-talk] magic bullets -- rank: 1000

[this says it all, really - the "magic bullet" that will usher in the New Age - if only...] <http://www.mwsocialforum.org/node/589> Peace 9/11: What Happened, Why, and What can be Done about it? Themes: Peace | US Foreign Policy Description Jim Fetzer will provide a critical overview of evidence suggesting that the official story of 9/11 is untrue, and that the worst terrorist incident in American history appears to have been an inside job or "false-flag" attack design ...

Document Size:	5692
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 15:39:37 PDT 2006

14496 Diminished Expectations (Re: [lbo-talk] plea from gay Iranian) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Not "exactly true," but true enough to be important to keep in mind. > What would the 1890s have been if confined to the native born? And the > movement was loud and vigorous but rather thin in the '60s. Scared the bejeesus out of the bourgeoisie, though. Somewhere in the McCracken report on inflation published by the OECD was the observation that "inflation" didn't mean only rising prices - it also meant people in ...

Document Size:	5899
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 14:36:50 PDT 2006

14497 [lbo-talk] death to spammers! -- rank: 1000

[I think I now support the death penalty for spammers.] <http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3617711> Image-based Spam on the Rise By Sean Michael Kerner Have you noticed more spam in your inbox lately? You're not alone. Among the lead culprits in the spam overflow is a new take on an old technique called image-based spam. By definition, image-based spam contains its unwanted content inside of graphics, making it difficult for some spam filters to identify. According to a new st ...

Document Size:	7522
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 13:55:37 PDT 2006

14498 [lbo-talk] TNR: Bloomberg for President -- rank: 1000

The New Republic - July 10, 2006 BLOOMBERG FOR PRESIDENT. Third Way Out by Ben Smith On June 11, the shoe designer Stuart Weitzman held a $1,000-per-plate fund-raiser for the local Republican representative, Chris Shays, in the garden behind his Greenwich, Connecticut, home. The main attraction was Michael Bloomberg, the charisma-free media mogul who has emerged as a surprisingly popular mayor of New York; he strolled in with his girlfriend, Diana Taylor, who apologized smilingly that she ...

Document Size:	13983
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 12:46:54 PDT 2006

14499 [lbo-talk] Fwd: lbo-talk post from andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com requires approval -- rank: 1000

[from andie - bounced because HTML coding and an attached photo pushed it over the length limit - PLAIN TEXT PLEASE! - I spoke at one of the White Dog table talk events about 10 years ago - Wicks is a very likeable person - but there does seem to be an elitism to this sustainable business model - it relies entirely on the generosity of the employer and doesn't really challenge social hierarchy at all] <http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006-06-15/cover.shtml> City Paper (Philadelphia) ...

Document Size:	33885
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 12:26:05 PDT 2006

14500 Diminished Expectations (Re: [lbo-talk] plea from gay Iranian) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> > >> I'm not suggesting abandonment at all. I was trying to explain why >> people were excited about Chavez and not making more radical demands. >> The old ideas have lost some of their popular appeal, don't you >> think? > > Since the "old ideas" never had much "popular appeal" in the U.S. > it is > a bit strange to say that they have lost an appeal they ne ...

Document Size:	5608
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 12:11:33 PDT 2006

14501 [lbo-talk] Lil Kim getting out! -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] A FREE 'BEE' THE "Queen Bee" will celebrate Independence Day before everyone else next week. Lil' Kim will end her stint at the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center on Monday, her publicist said last night. The rapper had been on ice for 10 months following her perjury conviction for lying about a 2001 shooting outside Hot 97. She will next spend 30 days under house arrest . W

Document Size:	4979
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 06:52:02 PDT 2006

14502 Diminished Expectations (Re: [lbo-talk] plea from gay Iranian) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2006, at 5:44 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > It seems that four years ago, Argentina was in all the > discussions, and the books by Hardt & Negri and John > Holloway were part of the general intellectual fashion > on the left. I think the globalization movement and > the dynamics of that movement inspired a belief that > we were entering a period of self-activity and > emancipatory social movements. > > Some of the worst accusations made against the > mo ...

Document Size:	6523
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 06:18:10 PDT 2006

14503 [lbo-talk] In complicity with Europe and the United States, Israel Overthrows the Palestinian Authority -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > On Thursday 29 June 2006 18:34, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Is the state of war too much a part of Israeli identity >> to stop? > > Do we need to wonder about "identity" -- isn't it just > a matter of political purpose? Identity in the sense of national political coherence, and avoiding some kind of civil war. As i recall, Joel Schalit made that argument on my radio show. Doug

Document Size:	5704
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 29 21:05:28 PDT 2006

14504 Diminished Expectations (Re: [lbo-talk] plea from gay Iranian) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2006, at 8:22 PM, B. wrote: > Hope you're not suggesting that because the workers' movement (or > lack thereof) in the US has been sclerotic for the past 25-30 > years, that ideals of radical economic, workplace, etc., democracy > should be abandoned. (Actually, I dunno if you even embrace those > ideals to begin with, but those are ones I hold.) > > A fine essay you sent to the list by George Orwell on power- > worship complained about folks who saw current ...

Document Size:	5907
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 29 21:03:27 PDT 2006

14505 [lbo-talk] In complicity with Europe and the United States, Israel Overthrows the Palestinian Authority -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > The second reason (and I am sure there are others, but these > come to mind), relates to the agreement that was being solidified > between the Hamas and Fatah over the prisoner s document. Among other > elements, this would include the formation of a Palestinian unity > government and an agreement to limit resistance to the Israeli > occupation to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) (the > territories occupied by Is ...

Document Size:	6216
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 29 15:34:11 PDT 2006