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10516 [lbo-talk] Developments in the world economy and the concept offoreign ownership -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2007, at 10:34 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > A lot of politicians, especially those who capture the highest > offices, are themselves members of the ruling class, first of all. Jimmy Carter? Richard Nixon? Bill Clinton? They weren't members of the ruling class by social or institutional ties that preceded their attainment of office. > If the ruling class are > pacific, why do they exclude pacifists? I explicitly said that the ruling class isn't pacific. And you've yet t ...

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Date:	Mon May 28 06:54:16 PDT 2007

10517 [lbo-talk] Condescension (Was Re: labor bitchiness) -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Why focus on organizing people who already have "the righteous truth," > or something like it? My Congresswoman, Nydia Velázquez, is further > left on some issues than I am. If you want to reorient the > conversation along "political terms," what benefit could possibly > accrue from organizing the bluest regions of the country? Honestly, > Doug, I can't imagine what you're trying to argue here. I was th ...

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10518 [lbo-talk] dev'ts in world economy and foreign ownership -- rank: 1000

I don't think capital is always pacific. The European colonization of Asia, Latin America, and Africa had a lot to do with the pursuit of profit. Capital was behind the long war against the USSR, the overthrow of any number of nationalists and socialists in the Third World, the 1980s proxy wars in LatAm, etc. The war against Communism was a high-risk enterprise, but it was for high stakes. The overthrows & proxy wars were important, but much lower risk. But, to talk like an agency theo ...

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10519 [lbo-talk] Condescension (Was Re: labor bitchiness) -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > But you know what, > Miles? I spent the past two years working for a union of hospital > workers > in nevada, and spent much of that time in a small, rural town > called Elko. Isn't this the downside of your heartland strategy? Places like Elko have the reputation of being echt American, but in fact they're not very representative of our population. The working classes of LA, Chicago, and New York are less Republican and a lot m ...

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10520 [lbo-talk] Developments in the world economy and the concept offoreign ownership -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Why don't business people stop the White House from using military > methods, then? Stopping them is a different thing from starting them. I think a lot of business types defer to the state except on things that matter to them directly. As for the rest of what I said - the City opposed British entry into WW I, New York capitalists wanted to appease the South in the 1850s, there's little evidence the oil industry pushed for the inva ...

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10521 [lbo-talk] Developments in the world economy and the concept of foreign ownership -- rank: 1000

On May 27, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > You'll make more money if you say the same thing for the Cato > Institute. You think? Could you write me a letter of recommendation? Doug

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10522 [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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10523 [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

10524 [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

10525 [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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10526 [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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10527 [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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10528 [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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10529 [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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10530 [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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