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1 executive pay -- rank: 1000

Today's Financial Times has an article by reporter Tony Jackson, "The fat cats keep getting fatter," on the worldwide boom in executvie pay. It's decorated by a chart of the ratio to CEO to average manufacturing worker pay as estimated by the consulting firm Towers Perrin. Looking at the chart (numbers below), Jackson generalizes: "The countries at the top of the scale tend to be comparatively poor, while those at the bottom are mostly rich.... Scramingly high inequality in pay, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 1 09:39:15 PDT 1998

2 [lbo-talk] [pen-l] Presidential pardons -- rank: 1000

> On Nov 9, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Eugene Coyle <e.coyle at me.com> wrote: > > Obama can pardon Chelsea Manning. A thumb in the eye to Trump. He s more likely to pardon Hillary.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 9 07:45:53 PST 2016

3 [lbo-talk] "Why I no longer hate Trans Exclusionary Feminists (TERFs )" -- rank: 1000

> On May 26, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Why I no longer hate TERFs Take this horseshit somewhere else please.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 26 08:36:27 PDT 2016

4 [lbo-talk] Silver : Clinton landslide over Trump -- rank: 1000

"You continue to mistake me for someone who gives much of a shit about politics!" - Nate Silver, March 2013 > On Mar 27, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > http://leftwingnation.org/nate-silver-predicts-a-massive-clinton-win-against-trump/ > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l at lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 27 13:41:57 PDT 2016

5 [lbo-talk] Astra Taylor: Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds With Schools Attached -- rank: 1000

> On Mar 9, 2016, at 4:37 PM, William Dobbs <duchamp at mindspring.com> wrote: > > Have you heard the latest wisecrack about Harvard? People are calling it a > hedge fund with a university attached. Not to be proprietary or anything, but I made that joke about Yale years ago.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 9 13:56:28 PST 2016

6 [lbo-talk] A Romney coup in Cleveland? -- rank: 1000

Mittens, proven winner.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 4 04:41:01 PST 2016

7 [lbo-talk] Two Cheers for Brexit -- rank: 1000

> On Jun 25, 2016, at 4:16 AM, Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote: > > Speaking as someone who has always identified with the Eurosceptic left, I > cannot see anything good coming out of this for the English and Welsh > working class. Me either. It was sad to see people like Tariq Ali celebrating Leave's victory. The campaign was, from the start, dominated by a xenophobic right. Sure, a lot of the supporters are marginalized people in the sticks, much like Trump supp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 25 10:29:01 PDT 2016

8 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] The Sanders campaign -- rank: 1000

> On Jan 25, 2016, at 3:03 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > > In other words, when you are talking about popular interest, elections by themselves are pointless without a strong non-electoral movement to enforce what the nice-guy president wants to do but won't do unless he/she is forced to do it. You do know that Sanders is saying exactly that, right?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 25 12:06:17 PST 2016

9 [lbo-talk] Cold War Liberalism and Vietnam -- rank: 1000

I'm reading Halberstam's Best & Brightest now and yes, a bunch of them really believed this shit - and refused to believe reports from the field that it was all a wreck. > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:02 PM, Nick Manley <chessanarch at gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been reading a collection of speeches and whatnot on the Vietnam War > as it relates to American foreign policy. I was especially struck by the > speeches of Kennedy esque Cold War liberals. They give the impression of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 25 07:23:56 PST 2016

10 [lbo-talk] Slogans Demands etc -- rank: 1000

> On Jan 23, 2016, at 5:52 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > Land, Peace, Bread! That has obvious appeal. Ending prisons is a rare taste.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 23 18:07:24 PST 2016

11 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis on Prisons & Police -- rank: 1000

> On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > > Some years ago when I proposed the slogan, Abolish the Prison System, among > the 'rebuttals' was one citing Davis as proposing reforms rather than > abolishing. > > Well. She spoke here tonight, and her first word on prisons was that they > could not be reformed; we had to demand their abolition. > > Ditto for Police. That sounds very militant. Did she have any more to say about how it ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 08:37:26 PST 2016

12 [lbo-talk] CNN Money: Under Sanders, income and jobs would soar, economist says -- rank: 1000

I read a draft of this paper a few weeks ago. I was not impressed by its quality. > On Feb 8, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote: > > Median income would soar by more than $22,000. Nearly 26 million jobs would > be created. The unemployment rate would fall to 3.8%. > > Those are just a few of the things that would happen if Bernie Sanders > became president and his ambitious economic program were put into effect, > according to a ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 18:32:24 PST 2016

13 [lbo-talk] guaranteed income question -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 6, 2016, at 1:21 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > Under capitalism, wouldn't a guaranteed income have a tendency to inflate prices? No but it might cause the working class to develop an attitude problem.

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Date:	Sat Feb 6 10:58:53 PST 2016

14 [lbo-talk] Why gender changers are solopsits -- rank: 1000

Hillary probably wouldn't approve. > On Apr 10, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Solipsism is subjective idealism. The notion that an individual can determine their own gender is substituting subjective determination for objective determination. > > Social rules are just as much an objective reality for individuals (subjects ) as the physical world is . To claim that one can as an individual change the customs and culture , objective r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 10 09:39:24 PDT 2016

15 [lbo-talk] Larry Summers channeling Sweezy? -- rank: 1000

> On Apr 2, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > Has Summer's read those people but is too embarrassed to mention them, or has he arrived at these positions independently of them? I really doubt Summers read the MR school. Interesting that his argument doesn't focus on the capital-labor relation, i.e., the mighty strength of capital and the deep weakness of labor. It's all about relations between capitalists. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 2 09:32:40 PDT 2016