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19966 [lbo-talk] Re:the governator -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >the honeymoon seems over, but it was as groundless as the original >idiotic campaign against him - don't talk about his wretched >economic politics, since they "resonate" with so many ruling >liberals, just charge him with sexism, rape, nazism, etc.... Those things aren't important? And aren't relevant to his thoughts on closing the border? >for instance re the immigration-minuteman issue, he mistakenly said >"close the borders" when he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 16:04:26 PDT 2005

19967 [lbo-talk] the dollar -- rank: 1000

Mark S wrote: >I've occasionally wondered whether or not the industrial decline has >a class dimension. Does the managerial class hate to get their >hands dirty in factories? Do the most talented managers prefer to >live in Manhattan and work in finance instead at a factory head >office in Pittsburgh? Oh yeah. The closer you are to production, the lower the prestige. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 16:00:41 PDT 2005

19968 [lbo-talk] Fwd: new radio product -- rank: 1000

DJust added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 28, 2005 Rahul Mahajan, author and blogger, on the U.S. empire * Stephanie Thayer and Ward Dennis on Brooklyn redevelopment (with an introductory piece produced by LBO reporter/researcher Laura Starecheski) it joins -------- April 14, 2005 Tariq Ali (latest book: a set of interviews done by David Barsamian) on empire, U.S. power, Israel, and the bellicose, pious, and ill-read Tony Blair * Matt Taibbi, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 15:19:42 PDT 2005

19969 [lbo-talk] WOODPECKER RETURN INSPIRES JOY, STOKES LAND OWNER WORRIES -- rank: 1000

[most ridiculous press release of the day] COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Christine Hall, 202.230.4937 Woodpecker Return Inspires Joy, Stokes Land Owner Worries Rare Bird Species Revives Concerns over ESA Enforcement Washington, D.C., April 29, 2005-Reports this week that a bird thought to be extinct for the last 60 years has been spotted in Arkansas caused bird lovers around the nation to rejoice and highlighted the need for reforming the Endangered ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 14:41:07 PDT 2005

19970 [lbo-talk] WMT stomps on parody site -- rank: 1000

[For the moment, the parody is up at <http://walmart-foundation.org/wmstore/goodworks/scripts/index.jsp>.] <http://walmart-foundation.org/> Wal-Mart attempts to censor parody website For several days in April, this address, www.walmart-foundation.org, hosted a parody of the Wal-Mart Foundation's website. I created a derivative work by changing all of the text and several of the images from the original site. The goal was to make the site look like it could be a real site from a compa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 13:33:30 PDT 2005

19971 [lbo-talk] a new blog on Wall Street and law -- rank: 1000

[a friend of a friend has a new blog, making it, what, 8,000,001?] <http://www.sleepingshark.com> About Sleeping Shark Sleeping Shark is the weblog of Wendy Fried, a humble lawyer turned freelance journalist. Wendy has done time as a corporate and securities lawyer, including in the belly of the beast: in-house on Wall Street. She also worked for an organization that lobbies for the securities industry, which believe you me she did not view as a higher calling. She even put in a brief stin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 13:26:36 PDT 2005

19972 [lbo-talk] Reply to Marvin Gandall (Formerly, Suicide of New Left Review) -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >My political barometer is my apolitical friends, neighbours, and >relatives. They help me assess the popular mood. I can't imagine them simply >rolling over if they lose their jobs and homes and sense of physical >security - the essential characteristics, it seems to me of a systemic >crisis - or that they will move to the right rather than the left when they >discover the need for political action. You're speaking of Canadians, right? It's not hard to im ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 13:12:38 PDT 2005

19973 [lbo-talk] alien gov supports border vigilantes -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - April 29, 2005 Governor endorses Minutemen on border He parts with Bush on armed volunteers stopping illegal immigrants in Arizona Carla Marinucci, Mark Martin Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, just a week after apologizing for suggesting California should "close the borders,'' warmly praised the Minutemen project -- an armed citizens group -- on Thursday for doing a terrific job of stopping illegal immigration from Mexico. Although President Bush has criticized the grou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 12:15:34 PDT 2005

19974 [lbo-talk] Arnie -- rank: 1000

Californians - how's Arnie doing? I've read a few things lately about how he's in political trouble, his poll numbers slipping and unable to get his agenda through the legislature. Is this the way it looks up close? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 11:34:50 PDT 2005

19975 [lbo-talk] the dollar -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On the basis of the report below, it seems that if one counts exports of >US corporations operating overseas as part of US exports, But the production isn't here, and the wages and profits aren't booked here either. So they're not exports in any meaningful sense. > then the trade >deficit declines significantly. Since they're not exports, it doesn't - and the increase in U.S. indebtedness is real. > US companies make money exporting from >China; Walma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 09:26:47 PDT 2005

19976 [lbo-talk] rats deserting ship? -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - April 29, 2005 Many of Bush's allies retreating on private accounts Support lacking, conservatives say By Nina J. Easton, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- The Weekly Standard, an influential conservative magazine, this week published an ''exit strategy" for the president's Social Security plan. Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer says the White House plan for private accounts, the heart of his reforms, is on life support. Free-market activist Stephen Moore, who in January f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 07:35:14 PDT 2005

19977 [lbo-talk] Rap and Detroit CORRECTION -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Carrol: >> At a time (quite a few years ago) when I still thought Wojtek was simply >> ignornat of u.s. history I (and others) tried to explain to him the > >Perhaps you were not such a good teacher. If you could not convince someone >from your side of the fence, how do you expect to appeal to those who stand >on the other side? Carrol has said many times that he doesn't care about convincing anyone on the other side. He prefers insults to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 07:27:34 PDT 2005

19978 [lbo-talk] the dollar -- rank: 1000

The Nation - May 16, 2005 The Dollar's Doldrums by Doug Henwood Pity t he once-mighty greenback. Back during the Clinton years, treasury secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers ceaselessly intoned the mantra "A strong dollar is in our national interest," and the markets cooperated by driving its value against the major foreign currencies steadily higher. That momentum continued through the first year of the Bush Administration. But for the past three years, the film has been runn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 07:25:57 PDT 2005

19979 [lbo-talk] Wall Street -- rank: 1000

Steven Gotzler wrote: >Does this mean that all those traders who get the big bonuses and >then spend them by bidding up NYC area real estate prices will be >gone? Or is it that there really aren't that many of them that will >be effected. > >What's it mean for the city is what I am getting at. Depends. It may mean further dispersion of finance out of New York, but more in a marginal than a profound way. To use the old jargon, the guys "upstairs" (at trading desks in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 28 15:48:40 PDT 2005

19980 [lbo-talk] the sickness of the American political/media scene... -- rank: 1000

...courtesy of ABC's The Note <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> - smugness of knife-cuttable thickness: The President's 8:30 pm ET press conference tonight is the sixth since he's was re-elected; the fourth prime-time event of his presidency; and the 17th full-blown presser since he became 43. [Courtesy of ABC News' can-do Crawford veteran Karen Travers.] We expect a 10-to-12-minute statement from him on energy policy and Social Security before he opens the floor to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 28 11:34:22 PDT 2005