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15151 [lbo-talk] spying on students -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - January 19, 2006 Antiwar Protests on 8 Campuses Appear on Pentagon List of 'Threats' to National Security By KELLY FIELD Washington Antiwar protests at eight colleges have made a Pentagon watch list of "suspicious incidents." The 400-page list, which was obtained by NBC News, includes information on 1,500 "threats" to national security that occurred over a recent 10-month period, and characterizes them as either "credible" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 19 07:18:52 PST 2006

15152 [lbo-talk] Fitch reviewed -- rank: 1000

Kirkus Reviews Fitch, Robert SOLIDARITY FOR SALE: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise PublicAffairs (432 pp.) $28.50 Feb. 1, 2006 ISBN: 1-891620-72-X An angry, disturbing look at American labor unions that examines the reasons they have so often failed their members and society generally. Why have America's unions lost so many members, not kept labor standards from declining and been unable to exercise real political influence in recent decades? Fitch, hi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 15:39:54 PST 2006

15153 [lbo-talk] no money down! -- rank: 1000

USA Today - January 17, 2005 43% of first-time home buyers put no money down By Noelle Knox, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - As housing prices soared last year, an eye-popping 43% of first-time home buyers purchased their homes with no-money-down loans, according to a study released Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors. The trend is potentially ominous. The real estate market is cooling in some areas, and rates on adjustable-rate loans are creeping up. As a result, some no-money-down buyers co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 13:52:52 PST 2006

15154 [lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I don't buy it-- business loves large chunks of the public sector-- roads, >universities, and of course the defense sector. Have you looked at the funding of public universities lately? Diminishing shares come from public funds, and they're under constant pressure to commercialize. I suppose you're trying to argue that it's in capital's interest to have a vigorous public sector, but if that were true, why are our politics so anti-public-sector? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 13:40:05 PST 2006

15155 [lbo-talk] Time of the great freeze -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >Wow! It is cold here What's happening, global warming missing you? It was 56F/13C in NYC earlier today, one reason that natural gas prices are falling off a cliff. I love the financial markets - get a warm day in January, and they sell energy. Never mind what might happen next week, or what's happening halfway around the world! Reminds me of Keynes's example of how the stock of ice companies was higher in summer than winter, which shouldn't happen if the markets really ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 12:11:19 PST 2006

15156 [lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But even by that definition, a worker in a Medicaid hospital who provides >health care for a Wal-Mart worker is helping the company make money by >keeping the workforce functioning just as much as a for-profit hospital >worker does. > >A government researcher whose work ends up in a pharmaceutical product makes >money for the boss as well. > >The capitalist system depends on the public sector in a range of ways to >keep its profits going, so ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 12:07:52 PST 2006

15157 [lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >This is a bizarre definition of "productive" to begin with. I've always wondered if this usage was an instance of Marx's irony - taking the classical distinction between productive & unproductive, and turning it into a critique of both capitalism and its economics. It doesn't matter what kind of "crappy shit" (as he put it in the Grundrisse) you make, just as long as you make a buck for the boss. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 10:58:57 PST 2006

15158 [lbo-talk] Susie B on Andrea D -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/01/my_introduction.html> JANUARY 17, 2006 After Andrea My introduction to this year's Best American Erotica 2006 is a memorial piece, titled "After Andrea." I'm referring, of course, to Andrea Dworkin, who died last year, leaving many mixed feelings behind her. I'll be reading from Dworkin's work- yes, you read that right! - on Jan. 28th, at the San Francisco Public Library, at an event in homage to writers who died the pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 10:46:44 PST 2006

15159 [lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA -- rank: 1000

There's a right-wing stock trader that CNBC has on regularly just after the monthly US employment reports are released - Jack Bourudgian, or something like that. Larry Kudlow, also an employment morning regular, often describes Jack as "a great American." One morning a few months ago, when the BLS reported a decline in public sector jobs, the Great American cheered that as good news. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 08:38:32 PST 2006

15160 [lbo-talk] Oprah in Auschwitz -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - January 18, 2005 Oprah's new mess By Adam Shatz AMONG THOSE reeling from the flap around James Frey's memoir, "A Million Little Pieces" - which has been exposed as an embellishment, when not outright fabrication, of the author's life - is America's most powerful literary critic, Oprah Winfrey. "A Million Little Pieces" was an Oprah Book Club selection, and Winfrey has defended her choice, insisting that the "underlying message" counts more than s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 08:00:50 PST 2006

15161 [lbo-talk] The Argumentative Indian -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Well, ravi lives in New Jersey, which would make anyone miss their >mother country. Hey, I was born in Joisey & spent my first 17 years there. I'm not eager to return, but to be fair: 1) it's now one of the most "progressive" states in the country, and one of the most gay-friendly, and 2) it's one of the funniest states in the country. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 07:51:53 PST 2006

15162 [lbo-talk] let there be wi-fi -- rank: 1000

[bounced for excessive length - here's just the URL & lead] Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:16:56 +0100 From: Colin Brace <cwb at lim.nl> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org <http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0601.podesta.html> Let There Be Wi-Fi Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century-and much of America is being left in the dark. By Robert McChesney and John Podesta Two decades ago, the chattering classes fretted about economic upheaval rising from Japan and the Asian ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 18 07:30:18 PST 2006

15163 [lbo-talk] so Ms has come to this... -- rank: 1000

Bitch | Lab wrote: >At 06:40 PM 1/17/2006, Doug Henwood wrote: >>Gawker points to an uncanny precursor to the current cover of Ms: >><http://www.gawker.com/news/ms-magazine/anything-you-can-do-she-can-do-better-identically-149110.php>. >> > >I honestly don't see what the big deal is. Who cares? Isn't the >point that it's ok to dress like that and hold a dog if you want to? >That is, I don't have to dress like some edgy thing (or not get >married) to be a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 17 17:16:25 PST 2006

15164 [lbo-talk] so Ms has come to this... -- rank: 1000

Gawker points to an uncanny precursor to the current cover of Ms: <http://www.gawker.com/news/ms-magazine/anything-you-can-do-she-can-do-better-identically-149110.php>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 17 15:40:25 PST 2006

15165 [lbo-talk] the movies are so queer! -- rank: 1000

[this is from an outfit called Special Guests, a PR firm that pushes right-wing guests for radio talk shows] GOLDEN GLOBES GO GAY ALL THE WAY Special Guest Dr. Ted Baehr is conducting talk show interviews, calling this year's Golden Globes awards, including best picture winner "Brokeback Mountain", "out of touch" with mainstream America. The vast majority of winners this year had principle themes of sexual perversity, including homosexuality and transgenderism. Said Dr. Baehr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 17 15:04:09 PST 2006