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15301 [lbo-talk] Capitalism's new markets -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Here is another article, this one from the Economist, illustrating how >untethered from their countries of origin the largest multinationals are >becoming as the result of rapid technological change in transportation and >communications. Though in the German case, it's more exports than foreign operations of MNCs that are doing so well. Domestic demand in Germany is weak because consumers won't spend. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 08:27:51 PST 2006

15302 [lbo-talk] Malcolm Gladwell puts his faith in healthcare 'market innovations' -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >Posting this is kinda unfair, because the debate took place six years >ago, and Gladwell announced on his blog this past weekend that he had >changed his mind That's good news. He still seems like a hack and a turd though. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 08:22:09 PST 2006

15303 [lbo-talk] Malcolm Gladwell puts his faith in healthcare 'market innovations' -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe quoted: >Malcolm Gladwell Why is this guy so popular? He seems like a hack and a bit of a turd to me. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 08:20:47 PST 2006

15304 [lbo-talk] Arnie on Arabs -- rank: 1000

[The Note quotes a SF Chron story quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger] He also made this curious statement: ". . . we have villainized the Arab world also so much that now Arab country - or company taking over our ports and maybe have some influence in our security, it freaks everyone out, and rightfully so."

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 08:09:32 PST 2006

15305 [lbo-talk] Neocons on the wane (...and that matters?) -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >"For decades, the United States has worshipped at the altar of a >unified Iraqi state. Allowing all three communities within that >false state to emerge at least as self-governing regions would be >both difficult and dangerous. Washington would have to be very >hard-headed and hard-hearted, to engineer this breakup. But such a >course is manageable, even necessary, because it would allow us to >find Iraq's future in its denied but natural past." ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 07:58:43 PST 2006

15306 [lbo-talk] Andrew Young to Head Pro - Wal-Mart Group -- rank: 1000

February 27, 2006 Andrew Young to Head Pro - Wal - Mart Group By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Former United Nations ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young will be the public spokesman for a group organized with backing from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that defends the world's largest retailer against mounting attacks from its critics. Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group of community leaders from across the country, was set to announce Monday that Young will be the chairman of its 16 member steering commi ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 07:28:13 PST 2006

15307 [lbo-talk] Renters Getting Screwed - or Why Eminent Domain is a Distraction -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What perplexes me about the debate over eminent domain is that it is such a >minor issue effecting those who already are rich enough to own property. > >Yet orders of magnitude more renters get evicted from their homes as >redevelopment hits their communities, and there are no flurries of state >legislation across the country protecting them from eviction. C'mon, this is absurd. Why is this an either-or thing? Why is ED a "distraction" from the r ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 27 07:05:34 PST 2006

15308 [lbo-talk] the greatness of the web... -- rank: 1000

...means that you can see 1970s commercial actor Joe Hamer reprise his great moments, advertising deodorant, Pierre Cardin ties, and bug spray: <http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=joehamer227&page=2>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 26 21:10:22 PST 2006

15309 [lbo-talk] hoteliers in Harlem -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What I'm trying to figure out is whether Doug thinks it's a horrible thing >that Harlem is actually getting some economic help? This is a sleazy rhetorical technique. Because I think it's odious that the state is pushing to gentrify Harlem, thereby causing the displacement of scores of thousands of poor people, I'm against "economic help" for the neighborhood; because I think people who object to using eminent domain to enrich private developers, I'm in favo ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 26 12:29:22 PST 2006

15310 [lbo-talk] hoteliers in Harlem -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What I'm trying to figure out is whether Doug thinks it's a horrible thing >that Harlem is actually getting some economic help? The piece of land called Harlem is getting economic "help": upscaling is being subsidized and otherwise promoted by the city and state governments. The people Harlem, well, a lot of them will have to move elsewhere. As the column in the old Guardian used to say, That's Capitalism! It's either poverty or gentrification, with little i ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 26 12:21:07 PST 2006

15311 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And you make restoring the (non-profit) Apollo >Theater sound like an ominous plot, rather than Harlem getting a fair share >of development dollars that usually just go to for-profit rich folks. It was a plot - whether it was ominous or not is for readers to decide. But the point was to get white people used to going to Harlem, which would then be followed by their moving there. I'm not making this up. Read Neil Smith's essay. And the people who made money on the A ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 26 12:19:18 PST 2006

15312 [lbo-talk] hoteliers in Harlem -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newyorkbiz.com/nycida/idanewsrel10.04.html> For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 13, 2004 Contact: Michael Sherman / Janel Patterson (212) 312-3523 New Harlem Hotel and Office Complex To Create 1,500 Jobs With Aid From NYC Industrial Development Agency (10/13/2004) Project to Create First New Hotel in Harlem in 40 Years New York City Industrial Development Agency (IDA) approved financing assistance for a developer to build Harlem Park, a 549,000-square-foot building at 125th ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 26 11:43:05 PST 2006

15313 [lbo-talk] the West Harlem plan -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/about/pr102102b.shtml> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2002 No. 274 CONTACT: Edward Skyler / Jennifer Falk (212) 788-2958 Robert Hinckley (Governor's Office) (518) 474-8418 Michael Sherman / Janel Patterson (EDC) (212) 788-3523 MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG AND GOVERNOR GEORGE E. PATAKI ANNOUNCE MASTER PLAN TO REVITALIZE WEST HARLEM Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Governor George E. Pataki today unveiled the West Harlem Master Plan, an in-depth study that in ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 26 11:41:08 PST 2006

15314 [lbo-talk] eminent domain -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >My neighborhood on 123rd St. is pretty much typical-- most of the street >were abandoned brownstones which are all in rapid process of being converted >over to three-unit buildings selling for almost $2 million, across the >street is a low-income high-rise apartment owned by a local church which >will be levelling some smaller buildings and parking lot to make way for >high-rise apartments selling closer to market rate, and 125th St around the >corner w ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 26 11:27:44 PST 2006

15315 [lbo-talk] planning New York -- rank: 1000

Speaking of how planning works in NYC... The 1987 city plan talked about expanding the central business district across the East River into western Queens. That meant kicking out existing light manufacturing and working-class residents, of course. Trying to take advantage of this scheme, Lazard Realty, an arm of Lazard Freres, developed some office properties in LIC. Sadly, they were completed as the 80s boom was falling apart, so no tenants were to be found. Not to worry. Lazard was the employe ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 26 11:22:26 PST 2006