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10471 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg to call for U.S. carbon tax -- rank: 1000

Charlie Komanoff writes it up: <vhttp://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2007/11/02/bloomberg-to-urge- carbon-tax/> And the original report on the NYT website, including the text of Bloomberg's speech: <http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/bloomberg-calls-for-tax- on-carbon-emissions/>.\ Bloomberg takes the correct line on a carbon tax vs. the more popular cap-and-trade schemes: > To raise the cost of carbon, we can take either an indirect > approach creating a cap-an ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 09:07:30 PDT 2007

10472 [lbo-talk] Americans pissed, sez Greenberg -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:45 AM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > Passion is more arresting than > passionlessness (NPR) but that doesn't mean there's a sector of the > general public that > is angry, it only means there's a sector that will listen to > someone who acts > angry. Yes, and it's been shown that the audience for the frothing stuff is to the right of the general pop, and the callers further to the right than the listeners. There are a lot of right-wing maniacs out there ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 08:23:17 PDT 2007

10473 [lbo-talk] Americans pissed, sez Greenberg -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2007, at 4:40 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> The highest estimate I've seen for people who >> might face mortgage default is 20 million. That's not >> enough to register on the poll. > > Um, there's only ~67M owner-occupied households. I think your 20M > number is bad. Yeah. 2 million is the number that I keep hearing. > Here's something I haven't seen: how many of the defaults were > speculators? I would think that speculators would be a big part > of ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 06:41:31 PDT 2007

10474 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on how Amazon's tax subsidy > its profit -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2007, at 1:17 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > No they don't, the retailer has to pay sales tax. In the US, the consumer pays sales tax. The retailer collects it and passes it along to the state and local govs. We don't have a VAT in the US, which would be paid by the retailer. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 2 05:02:35 PDT 2007

10475 [lbo-talk] Americans pissed, sez Greenberg -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2007, at 6:06 PM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > I think it's worth exploring Carrol's contention that this 'anger' is > manufactured. Greenberg's polling and focus groups find a lot of anger. But the far right in America - maybe 15-20% of the pop - is full of anger & hatred. E.g., LGF. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 1 21:16:56 PDT 2007

10476 [lbo-talk] Pop Psychology and Politics -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It may > be personally satisfying to sneer at the dumb or the fearful Who said one sneered at the fearful? That's what you've brought to the party. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 1 21:15:06 PDT 2007

10477 [lbo-talk] Anal Cunt, Sex Pistols & Ron Paul (was "Re: 'American kids, dumber than dirt') -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2007, at 3:06 PM, B. wrote: > Also, anyone see Ron Paul shaking the Sex Pistols' > hands on Jay Leno Monday night, after Paul spoke about > his love of Austrian economists? GOP Presidential > candidate shaking the Sex Pistols' hands, after they > sang "Anarchy in the UK." And with a big smile on his > face, too. And theirs. Times have changed. :) Well they're both anti-abortion, no? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 1 12:39:11 PDT 2007

10478 [lbo-talk] Respect -- rank: 1000

[Ok, so I interviewed Galloway once for about an hour and developed something of a celebrity crush on him. I found him very smart and charming, and capable of projecting radical politics into something like the mainstream. Maybe I was bamboozled. But this split in Respect looks pretty troubling, LT's assertions to the contrary. Here's Lou Proyect's take.] The fight that has broken out in Respect should be of interest to anybody who is interested in building broad left-wing political parti ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 1 12:01:36 PDT 2007

10479 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > There's a new London band called Selfish Cunt. I can't imagine > that here. Maybe not, but Massachusetts has given us Anal Cunt: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_Cunt>. Seems to be that the word has lost some of its sting. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, if you were any kind of feminist, you didn't use the word. I don't think that's true anymore. And then there's Inge Muscio's book: <http://tinyurl.com/2tqtro>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 1 11:40:15 PDT 2007

10480 [lbo-talk] Americans pissed, sez Greenberg -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2007, at 2:05 PM, joanna wrote: > What puzzles me is why this sudden demand for statistical research. I > mean you make plenty of pronouncements not backed by anything at all > except spleen and melancholy. Nicely put. > As for fear, are you kidding me? Most people in this country are one > paycheck away from the sidewalk, and they're not scared? Two paychecks, according to Greenberg's research! <http://www.democracycorps.com/reports/analyses/ Democracy_Corps_October_ ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 1 11:17:05 PDT 2007

10481 [lbo-talk] Greenberg: unmarried women key to all -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gqrr.com/index.php?ID=2092> A New America: Unmarrieds Drive Political and Social Change Stan Greenberg, Andrew Baumann, and Dave Walker Greenberg Quinlan Rosner November 01, 2007 from US Politics > Key Groups: Gender Executive Summary In 2006, unmarried women voted for change in dramatically large numbers. On the eve of the election, more than two-thirds of unmarried women believed the country was on the wrong track, less than one-third approved of the job Congress was do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 1 11:00:02 PDT 2007

10482 [lbo-talk] Political-biological determininsm ( US fascism awareness week) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > This could be the basis for some future US fascist ideologizing. > Watson's comments could be such a basis, as well. Sorry to sound like a broken record (does anyone know what that means these days?), but this sort of shit is as American as apple pie. Eugenics has been around in this country for a century, and Hitler took inspiration from our Indian reservations. Why future? Why fascist? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 1 08:38:34 PDT 2007

10483 [lbo-talk] Naomi, meet Hugo -- rank: 1000

Naomi Campbell meets Hugo Chavez! Pic at <http://reason.com/blog/show/123261.html>. Another at <http://www.ndtvmovies.com/newstory.asp? section=Movies&id=ENTEN20070031474>. What can you say?

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Date:	Thu Nov 1 06:37:20 PDT 2007

10484 [lbo-talk] get ready for Pres Clinton - again! -- rank: 1000

[so just like we've got Bush 41 and 43, will we have Clinton 42 and 44?] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6644.html> Clinton would cream Giuliani, poll finds By: David Paul Kuhn Oct 31, 2007 04:40 PM EST Updated: November 1, 2007 09:03 AM EST Republican popularity at its lowest level in a generation, huge study by Pew reveals. One year before voters go to the polls to select the next president, the Republican Party is as weak as it has been in a generation, a detailed new poll ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 1 06:17:21 PDT 2007

10485 [lbo-talk] FT on Israel boycott -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 31, 2007 Boycotting Israel Gesture politics are rarely edifying. At times, though, they are downright stupid. Yesterday's decision by Britain's University and College Union (UCU) of academics, to boycott their counterparts in Israel because of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, is a good example. No reader of these columns would be in any doubt about the Financial Times' view of the occupation and the continuing and expanding colonisation of Palestinian land: il ...

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Date:	Thu May 31 15:41:44 PDT 2007