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27106 [lbo-talk] FOMC leaves things alone -- rank: 1000

[still friendly sounds - worry about "an unwelcome fall in inflation," i.e., deflation - but the deflation worry seems to be passing, and it's probably only a coincidence that The Nation did a cover story on it just as the worry was about to fade - but the fact that the Fed is still saying this is their way of saying "We won't be raising rates for ages."] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2003/20030812/> Release Date: August 12, 2003 For immediate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 12 11:36:48 PDT 2003

27107 [lbo-talk] revealed! -- rank: 1000

The homosexual agenda: <http://www.bettybowers.com/homoagenda.html>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 12 10:58:16 PDT 2003

27108 [lbo-talk] Servant culture -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >You mean Barbara Bergmann employs cleaners, nannies, and other >servants or that she has statistical evidence that confirms that >feminism caused a larger proportion of American families to hire >cleaners, nannies, and other servants than before? Bergmann proudly said she'd been using maids for 40 years. She's quite explicitly, and often amusingly, bourgeois and proud of it. She doesn't like it when feminists get too wrapped up in class. She actually criticiz ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 12 10:43:48 PDT 2003

27109 [lbo-talk] Servant culture -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Just what is the proportion of American families who are rich enough >to hire cleaners and _nannies_? More importantly, what does the >topic have to do with feminism? In her Harper's and In These Times articles on the subject, Ehrenreich argued that the domestic labor debate had disappeared from feminism in large part because feminist intellectuals solved the problem by contracting out for toilet-swabbing. Subscribers to femecon found this quickly confirmed by ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 12 08:07:16 PDT 2003

27110 [lbo-talk] Jerry sez... -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >so why does he want to run for Attorney Gereral. Because he loves running for office far more than holding it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 18:47:17 PDT 2003

27111 [lbo-talk] CNN vote -- rank: 1000

[these are b.s. as science, but not as propaganda] Subject: CNN Poll Subject: RE: Need your help - 2 seconds CNN is trying to prove President Bush is wrong on his anti-gay-marriage stand. If this concerns you, go to the site below ... and VOTE. Then forward it on to all your friends, because this poll will be used by CNN to show how "out of date" the President is in his beliefs. The CNN Poll asks: Should marriage be legally defined as only a union between a man and a woman? http://www. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 17:43:39 PDT 2003

27112 [lbo-talk] Re: therapy vs drugs -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Both lweiger & Doug here are playing fast and loose with the verb >"depend." Do you really think you can say much about the most complex >topic in the universe in one sentence jabs? Gosh, never thought of that. Thanks! Hope you're having a lovely summer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 17:26:39 PDT 2003

27113 [lbo-talk] California's Glorious Recall -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Single payer initiatives has gone down twice in the last three >electoral cycles. > I'll either vote for Arianna or vote again for Camejo, but, the >dope I smoke isn't so http://www.hallucinogenic.com/ >as to make me think either will win. > The first poll to be taken after the deadline will be announced @ >6:30 PST, a NBC sponsored one. I don't expect eith Kucinich or >Camejo is gonna storm the winter palace anytime soon. Where does >th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 17:25:46 PDT 2003

27114 [lbo-talk] California's Glorious Recall -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >It seems a simple fact. When have the Greens had a better chance than >Camejo's? --CGE If you're saying they have a 3 in 100 chance instead of a 1 in 100 chance, I suppose you're right. But otherwise it's pipe-dreaming. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 15:14:30 PDT 2003

27115 [lbo-talk] California's Glorious Recall -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >But there's a sound Green candidate in the form of Peter Camejo, and >surely the recall ballot, with some hundreds of candidates crowding >in before next weekend's cut-off, represents the best Green shot at >ever capturing any significant slot, with normal voting blocs >possibly fracturing.... Wow, is Ace consuming Humboldt County's leading cash crop now? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 14:25:30 PDT 2003

27116 [lbo-talk] Re: therapy vs drugs -- rank: 1000

lweiger at umich.edu wrote: >It might well be that _all_ mental states depend on brain chemistry. And how do you know that brain chemistry doesn't depend on mental states? Repeated stresses/insults/disappointments/injuries could change the biochemistry, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 14:24:03 PDT 2003

27117 [lbo-talk] more outsourcing -- rank: 1000

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc., the world's largest financial institution, and HSBC Holdings Plc, the no. 2 bank by market value, have turned to India for years for cheap labor to fill back-office jobs, such as positions in call centers. Now J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley are doing it with a twist, hiring a handful of junior analysts in Mumbai. ``The thinking is basically, `Why pay London salaries and incur London costs for number-crunching when you can do it elsewhere at m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 14:06:14 PDT 2003

27118 [lbo-talk] Fwd: The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press Update -- rank: 1000

As President Bush shows increasing political vulnerability, the Democratic presidential field is slowly coming into focus. Bush's approval rating has declined to 53% and his lead in a match-up with a hypothetical Democrat has narrowed to five points (43%-38%), from ten points last month. A growing number of Americans (57%) now rate the economy -- not the war on terrorism -- as the more important presidential priority. The latest Pew Research Center national survey, conducted July 14-Aug. 5, find ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 13:43:33 PDT 2003

27119 [lbo-talk] Caldwell on Dean -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >This description is just mindless by Caldwell. Many of those $1 million >checks represent hundreds of thousands of union members paying a few bucks >each into union political warchests. On the other hand, "small" $250 checks >come overwhelmingly from the upper middle class and even wealthy. Labor's only a smallish part of the Dem whole. It's exceeded by finance and communications, and given a run for its money by lawyers/lobbyists. See <http://www ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 13:11:01 PDT 2003

27120 [lbo-talk] more on the Iraq deception -- rank: 1000

[I've been away for a few days and am only catching up, so I don't know if this made it here. At least as important as the content is the fact that the Post chose to put this 5,000-word story on the front page.] IRAQ'S NUCLEAR FILE : Inside the Prewar Debate Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence By Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, August 10, 2003; Page A01 His name was Joe, from the U.S. government. He carried 40 classified slides and a message fro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 11 08:30:03 PDT 2003