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24241 [lbo-talk] religion -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: > > Love the people, hate the religion? >> >> Doug > >Hate? I'm sure you're being over the top, but I'm not sure how this >is accomplished. Yes, way over the top, but I still wish religion would just go away. I'm with Marx in that famous passage. I can't do any better than to quote it here: >Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real >distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh >of the oppr ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 10:53:06 PDT 2003

24242 [lbo-talk] real estate bubble? -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: >There is a physicist out there who has examined financial bubbles and >seems to have a pretty well-regarded mathematical test for them. He's found >that the majority of financial bubbles have a certain mathematical signature >which betrays the underlying cooperative "herding" behavior among investors. >Examining both the U.S. and U.K. real estate markets he finds evidence of a >bubble forming in the U.K. but not the U.S.. The housing market is dif ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 10:42:04 PDT 2003

24243 [lbo-talk] Fwd: ParEcon question: Defining the Coordinator Class -- rank: 1000

From: "Alex LoCascio" <alexlocascio at mail.com> To: dhenwood at panix.com Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:52:30 -0500 Subject: ParEcon question: Defining the Coordinator Class X-Originating-Ip: 217.235.7.180 X-Originating-Server: ws1-8.us4.outblaze.com Doug, The listserv won't allow me to join, because I am allegedly sending "spam" (presumably the obligatory admonition to "join mail.com" which comes at the end of every e-mail message). Would appreciate it if you c ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 09:41:51 PDT 2003

24244 [lbo-talk] real estate bubble? -- rank: 1000

Devine, James wrote: > >In California, Shiller and Case found, home prices rose 7.7 percent >annually from 1995 through the third quarter of 2002 while personal >income gained 4.5 percent per year. In Massachusetts, home prices >were up 9.1 percent during that period while income increased only >5.1 percent.< > >shouldn't they compare home prices to the incomes of those who can >afford houses, i.e., more up-scale folks? in addition to the growth >of per capita a ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 09:36:36 PDT 2003

24245 [lbo-talk] Dick Morris on Bush & his challengers -- rank: 1000

New York Post - September 23, 2003 WHY CLARK WILL FADE By DICK MORRIS THE shocking truth about the U.S. presidential race is that the sudden and headlong collapse of President Bush's popularity has created such a vacuum that a new candidate such as retired Gen. Wesley Clark has no difficulty soaring to the top of the polls based on one week's publicity. The most recent Newsweek survey documents both Bush's crash and Clark's rise. Bush is now down to a job-approval rating of only 51 percent. More ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 09:27:35 PDT 2003

24246 [lbo-talk] real estate bubble? -- rank: 1000

Real Estate Market May Show `Irrational Exuberance': John Wasik Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Is ``irrational exuberance'' inflating U.S. residential real estate markets? Robert Shiller, a Yale economist, says the current frenzy in real-estate prices is remarkably similar to previous market bubbles. Shiller critiqued the 1990s stock-market debacle with a book of the same title, referring to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's quip about the stock market of the late 1990s. ``Most people do not pe ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 16:06:50 PDT 2003

24247 [lbo-talk] religion -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >As for the "it's a religion" thing, first, you're wrong about the >Buddhist notion of faith. But more to the point, I'm wondering who >you think American Buddhists are? I mean, by and large, they >precisely the kind of people you will want for (and who now belong >to) global justice movements. What planet are you on that you think >it's interesting or useful just to dismiss them out of hand? Love the people, hate the religion? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 15:42:36 PDT 2003

24248 [lbo-talk] plate -- rank: 1000

A plate painted with a head made of.... well you have to see it to believe it <http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/news/news038.html>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 15:36:03 PDT 2003

24249 [lbo-talk] dalai lama in nyc -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I'm kind of surprised that Doug has such a shallow take on ANSWER. >ANSWER, like any other sectarian Left party, uses the attendance at >events they organize as an argument that they have grassroots >support. And who would believe such a ludicrous claim? Few people in the mainstream even knew about ANSWER's sponsorship of the Febraury demo in DC (despite the best efforts of David Corn). They picked a date and hired some busses and church ladies came in from Pennsylvani ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 15:03:58 PDT 2003

24250 [lbo-talk] Michael Albert arrives -- rank: 1000

Ok, comrades, Michael Albert has now subscribed, so the parecon discussion can begin. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 15:00:59 PDT 2003

24251 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Network Associates Webshield - e-mail Content Alert -- rank: 1000

Lovely. >Date: Mon Sep 22 17:22:27 2003 >To: <lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org> >From: Postmaster at ibi.com >Subject: Network Associates Webshield - e-mail Content Alert >Sender: lbo-talk-owner at lbo-talk.org >List-Id: <lbo-talk.lbo-talk.org> > >Network Associates WebShield SMTP V4.5 MR1a on ibixmaila intercepted >a mail from ><lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org> which caused a Content Filter On the >word "Sex" to be >triggered.

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 14:53:30 PDT 2003

24252 [lbo-talk] Clark, Republican wannabe -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] HOW CLARK ALMOST BECAME A BUSHIE HOWARD FINEMAN, NEWSWEEK After Al Qaeda attacked America, retired Gen. Wes Clark thought the Bush administration would invite him to join its team. After all, he'd been NATO commander, he knew how to build military coalitions and the investment firm he now worked for had strong Bush ties. But when GOP friends inquired, they were told: forget it. Word was that Karl Rove, the president's political mastermind, had blocked the ide ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 14:47:36 PDT 2003

24253 [lbo-talk] What Salam Palax thinks of the war/occupation -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>How do you know the resistance isn't indicative of the wishes of most Iraqis? >> >>Seth > >How? By the same reasoning that keeps the results of the polling in >Iraq by the State Department's intelligence branch classified and >unavailable to Americans: Gallup will be releasing results of their polling in Baghdad over the next several days. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 14:19:32 PDT 2003

24254 [lbo-talk] Chinese women's changing views on sex -- rank: 1000

Peoples Daily Online - September 20, 2003 Chinese women changing attitudes toward sexual life: survey Many high-income professional women remain single By PD Online Staff Liu Wei A survey in Beijing indicates that 50.2 percent of those women with a monthly salary of 5,000--15,000 yuan remain single. The survey shows that there are five reasons for this: firstly, 48.3 percent of them are economically independent and unnecessary to depend on men; secondly, 6.5 percent are busy with their work; thi ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 14:14:52 PDT 2003

24255 [lbo-talk] Participatory Economics and the Self-emancipation -- rank: 1000

Cliff Staples wrote: >Oh, this is rich, Doug. Where is Stanley Fish when you need him? Probably shopping for a new Jaguar, if not spending affirmative action money hiring a white guy. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 22 14:14:09 PDT 2003