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9871 [lbo-talk] mobilization -- rank: 1000

One of the roots of the recent financial market turmoil is that Wall Street financed a lot of long-term mortgage lending by borrowing short-term in the commercial paper market; that meant that they had to refinance every few weeks to support a loan with a term of decades. Thanks to a Google alert on myself, I just learned that a blogger quoted me in Wall Street quoting Joseph Schumpeter: "It is one of the most characteristic features of the financial side of capitalist evolution so t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 08:08:30 PDT 2007

9872 [lbo-talk] Why I Skip Anti-Globalization Protests -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Doug wrote: > >> Gotta love Teddy (and, by the way, his string > quartets > are pretty good!). > > Which recording have you heard? I have the Leipzig > String Quartet version, which was first recorded in > GDR days, or directly after the Wende. That's the one I have too - is there any other? It sounds very good, though I don't have anything to compare it to. He wrote them when he was like 17 or 18 right? > I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 08:02:37 PDT 2007

9873 [lbo-talk] "Islamofascism Awareness Week" (was Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:37 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Even suggesting anything else is defamation. It is > vile. You owe me a public and unqualified apology, no > hedges, no ifs and or buts, just, I'm really sorry and > I was wrong to suggest anything else. I am waiting for > you to come forward with it. Ha. Good luck. You will wait an eternity. Yoshie thrives on pissing people off, which is almost inevitable (except for a few sad fellow travelers). It's her oxygen. It makes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 06:55:47 PDT 2007

9874 [lbo-talk] Why I Skip Anti-Globalization Protests -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > "Particularly today, because decisive activity is cut > off, and because on the other hand, for reasons which > I have suggested often enough, thought itself is > paralyzed, powerless and random praxis quite easily > becomes a substitute for that which does not occur. > And the deeper one knows that it isn't actually true > praxis, all the more bitterly and passionately does > consciousness adhere to such a praxis.& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 06:50:53 PDT 2007

9875 [lbo-talk] the Colbert factor -- rank: 1000

[This was all worth it just to see Tim Russert holding a Bert doll.] <http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/10/the_colbert_effect.html> Poll Tries to Measure Colbert Effect You don't need The Fix to state the obvious: Stephen Colbert is everywhere right now. [Chris Cillizza] Following the announcement of his presidential ambitions last week, Colbert has chalked up quite a run of political coverage, capping the week with an appearance on ultimate establishment Washington TV show: & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 06:02:56 PDT 2007

9876 [lbo-talk] Idealists and Materialists (was fight within Respect) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 23, 2007, at 12:32 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Islam is the only medium of effective internationalism that can resist > the empire on the front line of the Great Game of the 21st century Yeah, sure. There are few forces in this world stronger than oil companies bearing checkbooks. After reading, or at least being exposed to, several gigabytes of declarations like this, I'm still not clear on what you mean by "Islam." It's not like the Catholic Church, where there's an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 05:49:48 PDT 2007

9877 [lbo-talk] jail terms for student activists -- rank: 1000

New York Times - October 23, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/world/middleeast/23iran.html?_r=1> Students in Iran Protest Sentences for 3 Activists By NAZILA FATHI TEHRAN, Oct. 22 Students at one of the most politically active universities in Tehran demonstrated Monday amid high security to protest jail terms for three student activists, an Iranian student news agency reported. Students from different universities gathered at Amir Kabir University to protest sentences of up to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 23 04:56:15 PDT 2007

9878 [lbo-talk] corrupt NYPD -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 22, 2007 <http://www.nypost.com/seven/10222007/news/columnists/ crooked_cop_cases_surge.htm?page=0> CROOKED-COP CASES SURGE NYPD'S TOP-SECRET CORRUPTION REPORT OFFERS A LOOK INSIDE THE RANK AND VILE SHOCK: NYPD recruit Kabeer Din is busted for putting a hit on his girlfriend. October 22, 2007 -- THE number of NYPD cops using drugs, stealing property - even from the dead - and committing other acts of corruption, including extorting sex from female suspects, spik ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 18:41:25 PDT 2007

9879 [lbo-talk] Vogue India debuts -- rank: 1000

<http://jezebel.com/gossip/emerging-markets/> emerging markets Vogue India Debuts With Australian Blonde On Front, Bleeding Heart Inside? The inaugural issue of Vogue India supposedly hit newsstands today -- though no one told our newsstand -- and thank the Lords for colonialism because it's in English. Reads the announcement on the Vogue UK: "Is there anywhere chicer to be than part of the Vogue family?" (Is there anything more obnoxious than that sentence?) Anyway, Gemma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 18:34:56 PDT 2007

9880 [lbo-talk] the Mortimers -- rank: 1000

If you're at all interested in life at the top in NYC, the USA, and the world today, this piece on Tinsley and Topper Mortimer is quite a study. Read this and you might conclude our society suffers serious morbidity. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/fashion/21topper.html? pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=fashion> Topper, old money with a pedigree going back to John Jay, sounds appalled by his wife, the socialite handbag designer who is the daughter of a Virginia carpet maker. I don't k ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 18:28:07 PDT 2007

9881 [lbo-talk] ML's Rosenberg on 80s parallels -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch chief econ David Rosenberg] A backdrop highly reminiscent of the late 1980s We have been on the same page as our colleague, Richard Bernstein, on his view that the current backdrop is highly reminiscent of the late-1980s cycle. Of course, no two cycles are ever quite the same, but some very similar patterns have emerged. The late 1980s was a cycle characterized by a synchronized global expansion, but in the context of a fatigued US economy and strength back then in Europ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 18:12:14 PDT 2007

9882 [lbo-talk] job opp't'y: Heidi Fleiss's stud farm -- rank: 1000

<http://www.heidistudfarm.com/appform/forms/form1.html> Thank you for inquiring about Heidi's stud farm in Crystal Nevada. Heidi's Stud Farm will be a new structure and has NO connection to the defunct Cherry Patch Brothel or its owner. This is a brief overview of what to expect. This establishment will hire men to service women. There will be no male to male sexual services offered. We will hire 20 men and 10 on stand-by. Lady customers will be charged $250.00 an hour that will be spli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 17:41:17 PDT 2007

9883 [lbo-talk] Counterpunch jumps the shark -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > ``Through all this, Horowitz is playing off and seeking to exacerbate > as situation where increasingly, humanity is being confronted with two > intolerable choices: Bush's crusade for empire or a reactionary > Islamic fundamentalist reponse. The Bush regime has committed crimes > on a far greater scale and is by far the greater danger to humanity, > but both are complete nightmares Both reinforce and feed off each > ot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 13:25:45 PDT 2007

9884 [lbo-talk] Counterpunch jumps the shark -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Chuck wrote: > Today they have this unintentionally hilarious piece by Revolutionary > Communist Party/World Can't Wait (for liberal donations) flack Sunsar > Taylor. Smack dab in the middle of her article on David Horowitz, > "David > Horowitz Can't Handle the Truth", she stops to sing the praises of > Chairman Bob Avakian Wow, and she uses the word "polemicizing." That usage is almost pathognomonic of sectarianism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 11:40:36 PDT 2007

9885 [lbo-talk] Why I Skip Anti-Globalization Protests -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Mr. WD wrote: > But it's so much cooler > to throw a brick at a stupid mall chain store... Yeah, that's going to mobilize the masses. Who work and shop at those chain stores. Chuck, I really don't understand what the strategy is behind that sort of thing. It seems more about self-expression than mobilizing or educating anyone. It will appeal to appx 0.01% of the population, if that. Correct me if I'm wrong. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 22 11:16:24 PDT 2007