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10846 [lbo-talk] China -- rank: 1000

Looking over the stats for my radio archive, I see that 15% of the bandwidth is going to China, far more than any other foreign country. Just 2.5% going to US .edu domains, and 2% to .ca. Chinese search engines are among the biggest referrers.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 14:10:32 PDT 2007

10847 [lbo-talk] Liza Featherstone on the anti-vaccination crowd -- rank: 1000

<http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/dispatches/ featherstone/shotdown/> Shot Down by Liza Featherstone Baby-proofed and bathed in natural light, the apartment had a lovely view of the Hudson River. The playgroup hostess had thoughtfully provided a packet of organic applesauce for each baby. The talk quickly turned, as it often does with new parents in the same neighborhood, to pediatricians. One mom had found one she liked not easy in this era of managed care and brus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 13:43:18 PDT 2007

10848 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern explains the SEIU / Wal-Mart healthcare deal -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: >> From an interview with Ezra Klein: > > http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww? > section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12587 > ___________________________________ Just getting around to reading this. "And certainly if we were laying out specific principles, we would probably disagree. But here's the real life facts: If you put Wal- Mart and ourselves and AARP and a bunch of Democrats and Republicans in a room, I thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 13:07:35 PDT 2007

10849 [lbo-talk] homeownershp again -- rank: 1000

[an archive reader writes...] I was just browsing the lbo-talk archives when I noticed the thread on home ownership rates and correlations with income and unemployment. I once worked for the social housing section of a Canadian provincial government and we noticed the same phenomenon. Home ownership rates were high in poor, rural areas because people there didn't have a choice between owning and renting. Rental housing was either minimal or non-existent. To me, low rental rates reflec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 10:47:08 PDT 2007

10850 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > That is a non-sequitur. Religion doesn't lead you to socialism, but > this doesn't follow that the two can in no way be coextensive. Given > the political polyvalence of most religious beliefs, and given that > huge numbers of socialists have had religious beliefs, there is no > reason to assume that one can't engage with religious people simply > because their faith doesn't automatically incline them in that way. That is a s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 26 05:03:43 PDT 2007

10851 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 25, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > How many secular leftists are actually involved in struggle for a > higher minimum wage and things like that and how many religious > organizations and religious members in secular organizations like > unions are involved in struggle for them? "Alliance" suggests a false > impression of being on an equal footing, as if there were many secular > leftists and secular organizations with no or few religious members, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 25 08:28:51 PDT 2007

10852 [lbo-talk] Between Actions (was Character) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Chuck wrote: > Doug is already pointing out in his responses that the situation in > the > Midwest is different than it was a century ago. But the Midwest is not > exactly this bastion of "red states" that the fucking chattering > pundits > on the coasts make it out to be. There are plenty of people living out > here who are from the coasts. The politics in Midwest cities are more > liberal than you think. I keep trying to point out ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 25 06:40:51 PDT 2007

10853 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > I don't think this is Yoshie's point, but there is another way to go > about it, which is to terminate this ressentiment toward religion, and > try to engage with the religious rather than writing them off. Anyone involved in left politics in the U.S. has not choice but to do that - it's not even a question. I don't think non-Americans fully appreciated how religion-saturated this society is. It made the news here when one - one! - m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 25 06:32:37 PDT 2007

10854 [lbo-talk] Between Actions (was Character) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2007, at 6:08 PM, jrdavis wrote: > When socialism was at its height, it was Kansas not New York which > produced the largest circulating left papers. > > Rural areas might appear right but that is because they have been > neglected. I And they account for 25% of the U.S. population, and vote heavily Republican. it's not the early 20th century anymore, you know. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 15:48:27 PDT 2007

10855 [lbo-talk] Between Actions (was Character) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Indeed. And I think in many cases (in _all_ the cases with which I am > personally acquainted) "What happens to them there" is that they get > burnt out and leave the movement. But if they were deployed to Dubuque, they'd be energized into lifelong activism? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 15:47:42 PDT 2007

10856 [lbo-talk] Between Actions (was Character) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Her 15th post of the day. That follows 13 yesterday. The limit is 3. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 15:32:47 PDT 2007

10857 [lbo-talk] Between Actions (was Character) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2007, at 4:47 PM, jrdavis wrote: > I would suggest that left groups close down their coast offices and > move inland. To areas with no left activity or very little. Get > back to the real people... This makes no sense to me. If the left groups, whoever they are, have had so little success organizing the more-or-less like-minded in coastal cities, then why should they have any better prospects in thinly populated regions that lean fairly far to the right? This trope of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 14:34:37 PDT 2007

10858 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Looking at the activity levels of religiously active Americans gives > you an idea of concrete medium-term goals we can aim for, before > aspiring to an actual majority. Creating local and national > institutions that get 15% of the US population to spend 2 hours per > weekend is a reasonable medium-term goal, a level necessary to begin > to change US politics. So all we have to do is promise the faithful eternal happiness ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 14:28:27 PDT 2007

10859 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > an secular leftists create political institutions on the Left that > involve about 4.1% of the Americans every weekday, 15.2% of them every > weekend, each of the participants spending 1.21 hours every weekday > and 1.97 hours every weekend, and that get them to pay for the > institutions' operational expenses, missions at home and abroad, and > services to members and others? If we can, we can rival religious > organiz ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 12:55:17 PDT 2007

10860 [lbo-talk] more time use -- rank: 1000

And check out table 3 <ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/atus.txt>: leisure hours decline with educational attainment. The working class has more time on its hands than the professional-managerial class. Then there's table 9 - people spend only a couple of minutes a day talking with their kids. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 24 11:29:27 PDT 2007