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12586 [lbo-talk] the noble savages of the left: country folk. -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Doug, have you never heard of rent regulation? Yeah, I'm a beneficiary. In New York, it was a product of, in part, Communist organizing in the 1930s. It's now being phased out through vacancy decontrol. Opposition to the phaseout was totally ineffectual. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 11:28:36 PDT 2007

12587 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Andy F wrote: > The comparison to Chicago (which has a reputation even among Mass-ians > as being more "down-to-earth") is that neighborhoods seem more > economically integrated around Boston, and have a higher "granularity" > than in Chicago, where you have relatively huge swaths that seem one > or the other. That is, there is more geographical isolation of > culture there. Racially/ethnically, Chicago is more segregated than B ...

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12588 [lbo-talk] gender & work time -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 2:31 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > thanks! and it's a laff-a-minute, too, with paragraphs like this: > > 5.1 One Norm for All, NoWithin-Gender Heterogeneity > Imagine that, in the absence of a social norm, consumers maximize the > linear-quadratic utility function > C - (1/2.)(1 - L)2 (1) > subject to constraints > C = + wH, (2) > H + L = 1, (3) > where C and L denote consumption and leisure, w is the wage > rate, represents non-labo ...

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12589 [lbo-talk] the noble savages of the left: country folk. -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > If one does not believe that it is a problem of the left that it > largely > exists in a navel-gazing isolated bubble, then, well, I confess I > do not > know how to move one on that question. My evidence is the left. Our > milleu, all around us. Yes, there are working people in Berkeley > and poor > people in Boston. There are poor people about three blocks from where I sit. The nonsense you see when walking around Be ...

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12590 [lbo-talk] how the media came to sell the Iraq war -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - April 19, 2007 <http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1003574260> 'Devastating' Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq Coming By Greg Mitchell NEW YORK (Commentary) The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq will appear next Wednesday, a 90-minute PBS broadcast called "Buying the War," which marks the return of "Bill Moyers Journal." E&P ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 09:52:31 PDT 2007

12591 [lbo-talk] Sandbox Politics -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > In playing farm or war or politics in a sandbox, the pieces are > distinct > & move willingly to obey the orders of the player. Posters on > maillists > seem often to regard the real world as a sandbox, with all the players > definite and fixed units as in a sandbox but differing from a literal > sandbox in that these fixed pieces simply aren't following orders. > > Consider the following phrase: "The left in t ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 09:30:57 PDT 2007

12592 [lbo-talk] the noble savages of the left: country folk. bah fuckin' humbug (was rethinking liberalism crappola) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > So the raps on puppets and lattes and people's > supposedly odd and 'unreal' lifestyles when compared > to some mythologized salt of the earthers has gotten > as old and dusty as the the Giza pyramid complex. And to blow Jim Straub's cover completely, when we had lunch with him in NYC a couple of weeks ago, he confessed to envy of those of us who live here. Doug

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12593 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 19, 2007 NICHOLAS STERN, lead author of the 700-page Stern Review, talks more concisely about the economics of climate change (highlights from a panel held at Columbia University, April 11, 2007, organized by the Committee on Global Thought) it joins -------- April 12, 2007 ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 07:47:05 PDT 2007

12594 [lbo-talk] it's ok to kill an unmarried couple walking together -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Every thinking person in the world knows that, notwithstanding > selective outrage against this or that crime outside the West that > they display on cue, most people of the West not only do not despise > but tolerate, even vote for, a filthy primitive social system that has > its soldiers invade many countries, supports brutal client states, > employs death squads, etc., raping, mutilating, and killing untold > numbers ...

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12595 [lbo-talk] exporting GHG to China -- rank: 1000

I asked Elizabeth Economy what share of Chinese greenhouse gases come from U.S. demand. Here's her answer: > Can't even begin to calculate...most GHG from burning coal... > industries such as electricity, steel, building materials, etc. Are > 40 percent more energy intensive in China than in other > countries...they contribute to build factories that export to US, > but hardly likely that this is a significant part of the problem. > China's urbanization push, inability to cont ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 07:26:32 PDT 2007

12596 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > 1. Forced deportation of 50% of leftists from college towns and hip > metropoles. > 2. Stringent rules on how much time of the day leftists are allowed > to talk > to each other. > 3. Internal culture that prioritizes outreach, organizing, results, > gains, > base-building, moving individuals on issues, at the expense of > theory and > fantasism. > 4. Moratorium on discourses only relevant to or existent in left & ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 07:25:18 PDT 2007

12597 [lbo-talk] gender & work time -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 3:52 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Sorry, maybe I bumped into this thread half way through, but what in > particular did you have in mind as the things that some people know > but are > not true? Aside from this particular issue, here's an example. Americans believe that we have the largest middle class in the world and that we're a uniquely mobile society. In fact, neither is true; we have the smallest middle-income stratum in the First World, and an unremark ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 06:58:07 PDT 2007

12598 [lbo-talk] climate change: China's contribution -- rank: 1000

On Apr 21, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Andy F wrote: > In short, I'm curious how much CO2 emissions the US effectively > exports to China. That may not be a unique situation, but my > impression is that the US/Chinese relationship is particularly > lopsided in this respect. Is that quantifiably justifiable? Good question - I'll ask Eliz Economy that next week. Doug

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12599 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:18 PM, Brian Charles Dauth wrote: > I do not think that there has to be complete agreement, but homophobia > does seem to be something that most leftists would want to distance > themselves from. YMMV. Yeah and it's not that marginal a view. American society has become a lot less homophobic over the last 40 years, and is going to get more so as old people die. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 20 19:33:02 PDT 2007

12600 [lbo-talk] climate change: China's contribution -- rank: 1000

[She'll be on my radio show next week along with the guest editor of The Nation's climate issue, Christian Parenti.] The Nation - May 7, 2007 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070507/economy> China vs. Earth Elizabeth Economy The message is clear: Shanghai under water, Tibetan glaciers disappearing, crop yields in precipitous decline, epidemics flaring. These are just some of the dire consequences that Chinese scientists predict for their country this century if current climate change is ...

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