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6886 [lbo-talk] from New Deals to New Beginnings -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5100141/theyre-not-bailouts-theyre-new-beginnings> BRANDING They're Not Bailouts, They're 'New Beginnings' By Ryan Tate, 6:11 PM on Sun Nov 30 2008, 1,171 views Did you happen to catch Barack Obama's weekly camboy YouTube this Thanksgiving? Earnest and adorable as ever, the Office of the President Elect was unsubtle in its marketing; the word "new" appeared seven times in its 600-word speech on the economy, including two prominent instances of what appears ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 30 18:54:50 PST 2008

6887 [lbo-talk] Goolsbee: subprime was pretty groovy (in 2007) -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to S.T. for pointing this out. At the elite level, there is no penalty for failure in this society.] New York Times - March 29, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29scene.html> ECONOMIC SCENE Irresponsible Mortgages Have Opened Doors to Many of the Excluded By AUSTAN GOOLSBEE We are sitting on a time bomb, the mortgage analyst said a huge increase in unconventional home loans like balloon mortgages taken out by consumers who cannot qualify for regular mortgage ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 30 18:38:48 PST 2008

6888 [lbo-talk] Thought's on Doug's interview with Ayers -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > lmost _all_ criticisms of education and/or the schools, past and > present, share a fundamental error: they implicitly treat education as > an independent facotor, with causation running from it to the > society at > large. C'mon, Carrol, you spent decades as a teacher at a public institution. Isn't it worth talking about what you did, how you could have done things differently, what you learned, what other people can do within t ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 30 18:32:59 PST 2008

6889 [lbo-talk] the Bush style of clemency: love your gun -- rank: 1000

On Nov 30, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> It'd be a lost cause to try to defend oneself against the USG > > (How's that working out in Iraq?) Depends on whom you ask. The Lancet study counted 1 million excess deaths in, what, 2006 - it must be twice that by now. That aside, I was thinking of smallish domestic groups, a la the Branch Davidians. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 30 06:33:22 PST 2008

6890 [lbo-talk] peaceniks silent as Obama assembles team of hawks -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:19:17 -0500 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> But that's not what she said. Did you read the rest? > > "She"? I may have cut through a switchback on > this particular mountain trail. My response was > to the original question you posed -- that *was* > you, right? I'll excise the long quote from the NYT on Karzai's "get out!" sympathies. > So I st ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 19:01:58 PST 2008

6891 [lbo-talk] the Bush style of clemency: love your gun -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Louis Kontos wrote: > None of this (Little Bighorn or Warsaw) has anything to do with the > Second Amendment. What's the argument here? My friend Dan Lazare wrote a piece for Harper's some years ago, arguing that the latest Constitutional scholarship - for what it's worth, I don't put much stock in The Intent of the Founders (nor does Dan - he was tweaking liberal gun prohibitionists who are usually consitutional fetishists) - supports the gun fanatics' pos ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 18:57:59 PST 2008

6892 [lbo-talk] Thought's on Doug's interview with Ayers -- rank: 1000

Interview with Ayers, along with an excellent one with Richard "Lenin's Tomb" Seymour, to be posted Monday. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 18:22:40 PST 2008

6893 [lbo-talk] peaceniks silent as Obama assembles team of hawks -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Michael Smith wrote: >>> >>> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >>> So I started wondering how the Obama fans would justify an >>> escalation in Afghanistan > > Oh, that's easy. They'll say, Would you rather have Bush But that's not what she said. Did you read the rest? Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 18:19:17 PST 2008

6894 [lbo-talk] the Bush style of clemency: love your gun -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Louis Kontos <lkontos at mac.com> wrote: > > The Second Amendment, in my reading, has nothing to do with the > weird (in a >> bad way) idea of people protecting themselves against their own >> government. >> > > Was it bad, for those doing the defending, at Little Bighorn or in > Warsaw? It'd be a lost cause to try to defend oneself against the USG, but as a principl ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 14:04:40 PST 2008

6895 [lbo-talk] SEIU's Andy Stern throws former protege to the wolves -- rank: 1000

I wonder if Intrade would open a contract on the likelihood of Tyrone Freeman dropping a dime on Andy Stern?

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 14:01:41 PST 2008

6896 [lbo-talk] 15% chance of depression -- rank: 1000

Intrade has a "will the U.S. go into depression?" contract now. Latest price: 14.9.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 29 13:52:03 PST 2008

6897 [lbo-talk] Goldman on deflation -- rank: 1000

[from Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs] The fear of deflation has burst onto the radar screen of the financial markets in recent weeks. It showed up in the TIPS market in September, and it became more pervasive following last week's report on the October CPI, which featured a sharp drop in the index for all items and the first drop in the core index since 1982. From a purely technical standpoint, it is easy to chart a path to deflation. Although a sustained drop in core price indexes is not likel ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 12:53:10 PST 2008

6898 [lbo-talk] SEIU's Andy Stern throws former protege to the wolves -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2008, at 2:15 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Labor Notes > > http://www.labornotes.org/contact > > a leading source of information, inspiration, and organization for > rank and file union militants who are a thorn in the side of biz > union bureaucracies in bed with management. > > If Doug will perme to place this ad. Disclosure: I am pretty close > to the Labor Notes folks and have been for decades/ Reason is, > they're really good. I'm all for prom ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 11:28:34 PST 2008

6899 [lbo-talk] peaceniks silent as Obama assembles team of hawks -- rank: 1000

So I started wondering how the Obama fans would justify an escalation in Afghanistan when Karzai's been saying he wants us out. E.g.: <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/world/asia/27afghan.html>. > President Hamid Karzai bluntly rebuked NATO on Wednesday for its > faltering campaign against the Taliban and Al Qaeda and demanded a > timetable for the seven-year war here to end. > > ... > > In recent months he has adopted, at least in public, an increasingly > advers ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 11:26:41 PST 2008

6900 [lbo-talk] our media future -- rank: 1000

<http://io9.com/5099901/short-fiction-about-the-future-of-gawker-media-gets-it-right > WEEKEND READING Short Fiction About the Future of Gawker Media Gets It Right By Annalee Newitz, 3:00 PM on Fri Nov 28 2008, 2,486 views Paolo Bacigalupi's smart, worldly writing has made him the new darling of the literary scifi scene, and now you can read his latest story online - it's a very plausible tale about blogger newsrooms of the future, including Gawker. In "The Gambler," our hero ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 29 11:18:42 PST 2008