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15031 [lbo-talk] Is This So? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2006, at 6:32 PM, RE wrote: > What got my attention in Cockburn's column was this: > > "The Bank for International Settlements is no circus-tent Cassandra > shrieking about the onrush of Doom. Bankers don't shriek. But > here's the > BIS, trembling before its crystal ball and talking, in its most recent > annual report, about "planning for the worst. Consider first a > discrete > event which, if it occurred, would disrupt financial markets. What > ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 5 15:44:50 PDT 2006

15032 [lbo-talk] Is This So? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Fair enough. Cockburn is no economist and clearly this is just > stopped-clock crisis mongering. If there is a serious downturn, > you don't get any credit for predicting it if that's all you ever > predict twice a year for decades. > > But just on the theoretical side, aren't there at least two > reasonably substantial reasons why a large increase in the > complexity and novelty of financial instruments increases the ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 5 11:59:12 PDT 2006

15033 [lbo-talk] Mistah Lay -- he dead. -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > Kenneth L. Lay, Ex-Chairman of Enron, Dies "I believe in God and I believe in free markets," said Lay back in 2001. Guess he's doing some field research now. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 5 11:06:32 PDT 2006

15034 [lbo-talk] Hillary really is electable -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - July 2, 2006 The Power of Hillary By James Carville and Mark J. Penn "Hillary Clinton really is one of the weakest . . . nominees with whom the Democrats could be saddled." "Democrats are worried sick about her chances." "Just give someone else a chance, so we in the Democratic Party can elect a Democrat." "She cannot possibly, possibly win." Yada, yada, yada. We've heard all this "Hillary can't win stuff" before. In fact, the ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 5 08:48:48 PDT 2006

15035 [lbo-talk] Ian McKellen tops EuroPride "Pink List" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2006, at 7:18 AM, John Adams wrote: >> From: "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> > >> The British actor has topped the 'Pink List - an >> annual ranking of gay men and women > > Women? What women? As Archie Bunker once pointed out, England is a fag country. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 5 10:17:59 PDT 2006

15036 [lbo-talk] language -- rank: 1000

[the culture can't be in total decline when there's still language this vivid in circulation - the pic is pretty cool too] <http://www.nypost.com/seven/07042006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm> BEASTLY BEHAVIOR IN CHELSEA SUPERMODEL Tyson Beckford nearly punched out a gossip columnist who interrupted his attempted seduction of Nick Lachey's new girlfriend, Vanessa Minnillo, at a Chelsea club the other night. Beckford was grinding against the "Entertainment Tonight" eye candy on th ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 5 10:03:25 PDT 2006

15037 [lbo-talk] Henry Kravis doing the funky chicken -- rank: 1000

[from page six] MAYBE HE'S SHY RUDY Giuliani confided at the dinner dance Washington Post heiress Lally Weymouth threw in Southampton Saturday night that he'll run for president if he can raise enough campaign funds. But witnesses say the former mayor hurts his chances because he doesn't acknowledge people he's known for years. While his wife, Judith, is outgoing and charming, Rudy is standoffish. One well-connected guest was overheard telling another, "Can you believe it? Rudy snubbe ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 5 09:52:24 PDT 2006

15038 [lbo-talk] Joe Lieberman, the love candidate -- rank: 1000

On Jul 4, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Speaking to reporters at the end of the parade route, Mr. Lieberman > decried what he saw as too much hatred in politics. Except for going to war, which is just fine with him. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 4 20:42:19 PDT 2006

15039 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Unions Endorsing HR 676, Single Payer Health Care -- rank: 1000

On Jul 4, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > The thinking of people like Stern is that such laws will make the > costs (rising as they always are) increasingly annoying for > employers like W-M, and that in what may be one of the strangest > cases of bedfellowism ever, they will lobby for national health > insurance out of economic self-interest. As the article says (and as Adolph Reed pointed out when I talked with him the other day), it's not likely to be a single-payer ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 4 16:51:13 PDT 2006

15040 [lbo-talk] The Nation's celebrity readership -- rank: 1000

[from today's Page Six] WE HEAR . . . THAT Dave Matthews just agreed to be photographed for an ad campaign plugging lefty political mag The Nation. The rock giant will join Larry David, Mario Cuomo, Moby, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jesse Jackson and "Crash" director Paul Haggis.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 16:04:38 PDT 2006

15041 [lbo-talk] our legislators at work -- rank: 1000

[from my college class listserv - the audio is remarkable] Senator Ted Stevens, Republican from Alaska & never the sharpest knife in the drawer to begin with, heads the Commerce Committee which is supposed to be writing the law which will effect net neutrality. Yet he thinks the internet is a series of "tubes".... Here's an excerpt from an incomprehensible speech he gave explaining his vote against a basic net neutrality provision which the committee tied on 11 to 11: "T ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 4 10:37:42 PDT 2006

15042 [lbo-talk] Churchill was a Texan -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060710fa_fact> [...] The Iranian regime's calculations about its survival also depend on internal political factors. The nuclear program is popular with the Iranian people, including those-the young and the secular-who are most hostile to the religious leadership. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, has effectively used the program to rally the nation behind him, and against Washington. Ahmadinejad and the ruling clerics have sa ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 4 10:13:51 PDT 2006

15043 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Unions Endorsing HR 676, Single Payer Health Care -- rank: 1000

Union Support for HR 676 National Single Payer Health Care is Growing More unions are joining the push for national single payer health care by endorsing HR 676, Congressman John Conyers' national health insurance act. The list of HR 676 endorsers includes two state AFL- CIO Federations (KY and PA), 28 Central Labor Councils, and 3 Area Labor Federations among the 154 union supporters. The full list and a sample resolution are available from nursenpo at aol.com. Kay Tillow All Unions Commi ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 4 10:02:45 PDT 2006

15044 [lbo-talk] Is This So? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 3, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > From Cockburn's C-Punch column: > > "Could America desire any more potent evocation of virtuous > capitalism at work? Surely not. And is this not a good time to > evoke such virtues? It surely is, because it's clear, as we head > into the summer of 2006, that the world capitalist system is out of > control. Literally so. In the older order of things, international > bodies such as the International Monetary Fund, th ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 3 08:05:52 PDT 2006

15045 [lbo-talk] Agatha in the rain -- rank: 1000

Agatha In The Rain Uri Avnery 1.7.06 GUSH SHALOM "ISRAEL HAS declared war on the Palestinian people! The Palestinian people will answer in kind! The Palestinian rebellion will go on! The Palestinian fighters are steadfast in the service of the nation! Down with the Nazi-Zionist occupation! Out with the unclean infidels from the Holy Land! Destroyed Rafah - we shall build you anew! Long live the Palestinian revolution! Long live the State of Palestine!" A Hamas leaflet of last week ...

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