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9466 [lbo-talk] Merrill Lynch on the GM strike -- rank: 1000

[by Chief Economist David Rosenberg - mostly data geekery, interestingly - no class struggle angle] Contract talks between the UAW and GM have broken down and a nationwide strike is now at hand, the first since the 1970s. If the strike lasts a month or longer, it could take 1 percentage point off of real GDP in 4Q, or more, even if activity ramps back up in December. Lost income can also have a negative impact on consumer outlays in the months after the strike resolution since the income ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 16:48:24 PDT 2007

9467 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Jena Ignites a Movement: Report from Yesterday's Demonstration in Jena, Louisiana] -- rank: 1000

On Sep 24, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > You're missing the most crucial distinction: the ruling class stands > to lose nothing from the Jena 6 movement. Which ruling class? The local/regional ruling class probably does. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 24 16:42:43 PDT 2007

9468 [lbo-talk] cracks in the Manhattan r.e. market? -- rank: 1000

Manhattan Multifamily Portfolio Offered for $157.5Mln Monday, September 24, 2007 By John Covaleski, Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Writer YL Developers of New York is marketing for sale a 224-unit Manhattan multifamily portfolio at an asking price of $157.5 million. Eastern Consolidated Properties has the listing for the portfolio, which is commonly referred to as Clearwater. It is comprised of 10 buildings in the eastern part of Greenwich Village with six of the buildings on Second Ave ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 12:41:26 PDT 2007

9469 [lbo-talk] the really important question about Ahmadinejad -- rank: 1000

Is he hot? <http://jezebel.com/gossip/polls/so-is-ahmadinejad-kind-of- hot-303082.php>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 12:19:42 PDT 2007

9470 [lbo-talk] Bar & Al -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nypost.com/seven/09232007/business/ listen_to_shiller__not_the_tv_.htm> Even Barbara Walters poked fun at her old boyfriend, scoffing at Al [an Greenspan]'s real estate record on "The View" this week. Walters recounted how Greenspan convinced her not to buy a Fifth Avenue apartment in the mid-'70s because it was a "bad investment."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 11:39:45 PDT 2007

9471 [lbo-talk] the pool boy on the Bushes -- rank: 1000

[via Wonkette] <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/g/a/2007/09/24/ onthejob.DTL> ON THE JOB The former president's pool boy By Chris Colin, Special to SF Gate Monday, September 24, 2007 Pool boys are supposed to conduct torrid affairs with lonely pool owners. James Razsa has passionate feelings about his client, but not the kind likely to turn romantic. Razsa cleans former President George H.W. Bush's pool, in Kennebunkport, Maine. An enduring American figure, the pool boy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 10:13:42 PDT 2007

9472 [lbo-talk] Israel "seized nuclear material before Syria air strike" -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - September 23, 2007 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/906334.html Report: IDF raid seized nuclear material before Syria air strike By Haaretz Service Israel Defense Forces commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a raid on a secret military site in Syria before the Israel Air Force allegedly bombed it this month, British newspaper The Sunday Times reported Sunday. The report, based on what the newspaper called "informed sources in Washington and Jerusa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 09:00:30 PDT 2007

9473 [lbo-talk] GM strike -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Sept. 24, 2007 UAW workers walked off the job after a union-set deadline passed without an announced breakthrough in contract talks with General Motors. GM has pushed hard for the creation of a voluntary employees' beneficiary association, or VEBA, as a replacement for an open-ended guarantee of benefits for UAW retirees. For more information, see: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119061578440137140.html?mod=djemalert

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 08:37:32 PDT 2007

9474 [lbo-talk] Dilbert on Ahmadinejad -- rank: 1000

On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Carl Remick quoted: > And I was happy that Columbia > University is rescinding the offer to let him speak. They did? I don't see that on the Columbia website.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 08:36:55 PDT 2007

9475 [lbo-talk] Post Marxist Era -- rank: 1000

On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > In everything he wrote after about 1896. According to Freud, each > of us > has an unconscious mind distinct from the conscious mind, and the > unconscious mind has a strong impact on conscious belief and action. > For instance, Freud's psychohistory of DaVinci posits that his great > works of art are a sublimation of the homosexual desires in his > unconscious mind. This is an incredibly mechanistic view of Freud's uncon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 08:34:20 PDT 2007

9476 [lbo-talk] My Secret, Ephemeral Life As An Islamist. -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I think the claim is just wrong. I see no evidence > that consumer culture is going to take down Islam, or > any other religion for that matter. Religion is going > strong in the US. Yeah, no kidding. Religion is just another consumer good for a lot of people. When they move, they shop around for a new church. Preachers market themselves to maximize viewership and revenue. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 04:10:22 PDT 2007

9477 [lbo-talk] Post Marxist Era -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Freud's claims about a coherent psychological entity > called the "unconscious" Where did Freud make these claims? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 23 21:00:18 PDT 2007

9478 [lbo-talk] Post Marxist Era -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > tha "An Unconscious" as an entity that can be formed, can > determine, etc > exists. Is that your understanding of Freud's unconscious? Like some puppetmaster working offstage? And not the precipitate of one's life history? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 23 20:58:27 PDT 2007

9479 [lbo-talk] post-Marxism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2007, at 2:57 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > And I am not sure that Marx's account of the rising organic > composition of > capital is a particularly good description of today's low investment China's been investing 40% of GDP. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 23 06:44:23 PDT 2007

9480 [lbo-talk] Post-Marxist Era (Was Re: Keynes: Marx and the Koran) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2007, at 7:20 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > The Marxist left is no longer a force. Well no kidding. I don't see why this point has to be made over & over. If someone kept saying the sky was blue over & over, you'd think that maybe they had a screw loose. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 22 16:36:10 PDT 2007