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11491 [lbo-talk] Developments in the world economy and the concept of foreign ownership -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > I have a question or, rather, one big one and a series of related > ones. Coupla reponses. > If GM, Ford, and other American carmakers relocate the bulk of their > production from Detroit to Shanghai, We're a long way from that. There's a lot more production in Canada and Mexico than there is in China, and that's not likely to change imminently. We'll see what Cerberus does with Chrysler though, won't we? Remember, China is stil ...

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Date:	Sun May 27 11:59:19 PDT 2007

11492 [lbo-talk] US objects to G8 climate lanugage -- rank: 1000

<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25554305.htm> U.S. rejects German climate position - G8 draft By Jeremy Lovell LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - The United States has rejected Germany's bid to get the Group of Eight to agree to tough cuts in climate warming carbon emissions, according to a draft of the communique to be presented to next month's meeting. The blunt language of the rejection sets the scene for a showdown at the summit to be held at the German resort of Heiligendamm fr ...

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Date:	Sat May 26 11:01:40 PDT 2007

11493 [lbo-talk] Biblical truth -- rank: 1000

Someone on the AAPOR list suggested that those who profess belief in the literal truth of the Bible be asked what they make of this passage from Deuteronomy 21: > 18: If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not > obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, > when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: > 19: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring > him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate ...

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Date:	Sat May 26 10:53:22 PDT 2007

11494 [lbo-talk] flat world starting to tilt -- rank: 1000

[speaking of imperial reversals...] "Flat" world is starting to tilt By Brian Moss Sat May 26, 12:00 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Antoine van Agtmael was ahead of the curve in 1981, when he saw the potential rewards of investing in the Third World countries. He also was clever enough to rename those places "emerging markets." In his new book, "The Emerging Markets Century" (Free Press, $28), van Agtmael predicts companies from emerging markets will replace famili ...

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Date:	Sat May 26 08:09:43 PDT 2007

11495 [lbo-talk] "Sovereign wealth funds" -- rank: 1000

On May 26, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > The export of capital from the developing nations to the advanced > capitalist > countries was unforeseen (so far as I'm aware) by the classical > theorists of > imperialism, although Western finance capital still stands to > benefit hugely > from its management of these surpluses. Sure, and I don't doubt the City of London made money off Britain's transition from creditor to debtor. A lot of leftists want to see growin ...

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Date:	Sat May 26 07:57:03 PDT 2007

11496 [lbo-talk] thirty-something -- rank: 1000

The original study is at <http://www.economicmobility.org/assets/pdfs/ EMP%20American%20Dream%20Report.pdf> Doug

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Date:	Sat May 26 06:19:02 PDT 2007

11497 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Bad girls? She works hard for the money? "I Feel Love," in collaboration with Giorgio Moroder. Wikipedia writes: > Before "I Feel Love", most disco recordings were backed up by > acoustic orchestras. [1] Although the likes of Kraftwerk had > earlier pioneered all-electronic music, it has been said that it is > the first disco-style song recorded with an entirely synthesized > backing track, and has been en ...

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Date:	Fri May 25 20:06:06 PDT 2007

11498 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2007, at 6:08 PM, BklynMagus wrote: >> I always thought that sentimentality was the cover > needed when one was no longer able to feel love. > > I like that. > > In addition, one could argue that a reactionary is > a person who is no longer able to feel love. Should we cue Donna Summer for background music going into the (U.S.) holiday weekend? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 25 15:20:31 PDT 2007

11499 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2007, at 5:59 PM, joanna wrote: > I always thought that sentimentality was the cover needed when one was > no longer able to feel love. Doesn't Joyce have Stephen Dedalus say that the sentimentalist wants the emotion without paying the price? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 25 15:08:23 PDT 2007

11500 [lbo-talk] omigod, Rosie quit! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18868354/> Rosie O'Donnell won't return to 'The View' Rosie O'Donnell has fought her last fight at "The View." ABC said Friday she asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract at the daytime chatfest following her angry confrontation with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday. She was due to leave in mid-June. It ended a colorful eight-month tenure for O'Donnell that lifted the show's ratings but no doubt caused heartburn for show ...

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Date:	Fri May 25 14:45:39 PDT 2007

11501 [lbo-talk] 1/3 of Americans believe Bible is literally true -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2007, at 3:25 PM, ravi wrote: > I think this sort of thing reflects more than anything else the > [necessarily] narrow 'excluded middle' approach of those collecting > and analysing data. The were given three choices - literal truth, inspired word of God, collection of fables. I'm not sure what's excluded by that trio; it covers all the bases I can think of. > The inverse correlation between education (by which I am sure is > implied formal education) Not implied, exp ...

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Date:	Fri May 25 12:36:33 PDT 2007

11502 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> you can't get much more reactionary than Merle Haggard's "Fightin' >> Side of Me" or "Okie From Muskogee." > > > Okie from Muskogee was a joke song. As Haggard has said about the > "we don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee" line... "Muskogee is the only > place I don't smoke it." Haggard smokes dope all the time. Weren't they high when they wrote the song? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 25 11:44:59 PDT 2007

11503 [lbo-talk] 1/3 of Americans believe Bible is literally true -- rank: 1000

<http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27682> May 25, 2007 One-Third of Americans Believe the Bible is Literally True High inverse correlation between education and belief in a literal Bible by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- About one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word for word. This percentage is slightly lower than several decades ago. The majority of those Americans who don't belie ...

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Date:	Fri May 25 11:40:58 PDT 2007

11504 [lbo-talk] Socialista! -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] Socialista, Armin Amiri's new lounge in the West Village, doesn't have even one 300-pound legbreaker manning the door. Instead, a dwarf named Anthony keeps the riff-raff from storming in to buy $19 drinks . . .

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Date:	Fri May 25 05:51:37 PDT 2007

11505 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

So the labor geeks and intellectuals don't get it, the working class doesn't get it, the labor misleaders sometimes get it - and only professional organizers really get it? What is the "it" to be gotten? Doug On May 25, 2007, at 5:42 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > Why, in the gritty, hard-bitten rock-solid real world; that is, the > place > where 911 changed the world, we're better off 'fighting the > terrorists over > there than fighting them here', GW Bush is a real down to ...

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Date:	Fri May 25 05:17:01 PDT 2007