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1501 [lbo-talk] Paul Street on Libya -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > Who cares why states do what they do? Oh, I don't know, maybe because they run the world? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 08:09:43 PDT 2011

1502 [lbo-talk] the top 1% -- rank: 1000

Oh yes, a footnote to yesterday's conversation about that WSJ piece on the risks of taxing the rich: one reason that state revenues are more exposed to what's going on at the top is that the top has greatly increased its share of income. In New York, one of the states listed, the richest 1% get 35% of all income, up from 10% in 1980. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 07:36:45 PDT 2011

1503 [lbo-talk] Paul Street on Libya -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] http://www.zcommunications.org/libya-the-left-and-losing-our-way-reflections-on-empire-inequality-and-operation-odyssey-dawn-by-paul-street Libya, the Left, and Losing Our Way; Reflections on Empire, Inequality, and Operation Odyssey Dawn By Paul Street Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Iowa City, IA, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Beneath the often vituperative intra-left debate over whether or not to support any aspect of the Obama administration s intervention in Libya and what the conse ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 07:24:34 PDT 2011

1504 [lbo-talk] CBO on TARP -- rank: 1000

A follow-up to our little thread about Dean Baker's odd piece on the cost of TARP: http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12118 SUMMARY In October 2008, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (Division A of Public Law 110-343) established the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to enable the Department of the Treasury to promote stability in financial markets through the purchase and guarantee of "troubled assets." Section 202 of that legislation requires the Office of Management ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 06:12:33 PDT 2011

1505 [lbo-talk] Just wondering... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Actually, music is not even > needed for dance -- drums will do, or even group handclapping. And then there's the case of Merce Cunningham, whose electronic scores don't really relate in any rhythmic way with his dances (which are one of the wonders of the world, as I was reminded just the other night). Calling Balanchine sterile leaves me speechless. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 05:42:09 PDT 2011

1506 [lbo-talk] Just wondering... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:45 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Forget Balanchine. What a bankrupt he was. Huh?

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 21:49:50 PDT 2011

1507 [lbo-talk] Fidel: I told you so! -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> NATO is not going >> to occupy Libya. > > How do we know that? I'm not claiming any superior > knowledge, one way or the other; the future is > quite dark to me; so I'm correspondingly impressed > by those among us (and their name is legion) to > whom the future is apparently an open book. Iraq turned out so well, didn't it? You think they want to do tha ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 21:47:28 PDT 2011

1508 [lbo-talk] Just wondering... -- rank: 1000

Why is it important to dance to music? Balanchine said he couldn't choreograph to Beethoven because he was too complete. But that's the greatest music ever written. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 18:12:52 PDT 2011

1509 [lbo-talk] Fidel: I told you so! -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > NATO's Fascist War: > > http://en.cubadebate.cu/reflections-fidel/2011/03/29/natos-fascist-war/ Julio, that doesn't look like a coherent argument. NATO is not going to occupy Libya. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 18:10:30 PDT 2011

1510 [lbo-talk] "purity," "authentic," "genuineness" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Charles Turner wrote: > Hammond, the Café, Folkways records were all fellow cultural travelers to the CP's brand of social realism So what were Trots listening to back in the day? Schoenberg? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 13:18:28 PDT 2011

1511 [lbo-talk] what money will buy you -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 3:09 PM, // ravi wrote: > why isn t Jodi Dean working to unite the left blogistan? Because the very form prevents it - which you'd know had you read the book. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 12:31:01 PDT 2011

1512 [lbo-talk] what money will buy you -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > The whole thesis is silly, even sillier coming from someone who runs a > very popular blog. Blogs don't exist as individual things any more > than people. Have you read Dean's book? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 11:44:25 PDT 2011

1513 [lbo-talk] what money will buy you -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > But you did not answer my argument - that right wingers were able to > overcome the stifling effect of nonprofit culture and legal constraint > son advocacy to a much greater degree than left wingers. It is > difficult to blame the nonprofit culture for that difference - it must > have something to do with left wingers themselves. Ravi had an > excellent point that some of it is linked to the culture of > individualism and cel ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 11:22:35 PDT 2011

1514 [lbo-talk] what money will buy you -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > The point I am arguing is very much different - that foundation money > can be turned around to support radical causes. The fact that 501c3 > cannot engage in advocacy does not prevent them from spinning out > 501c4 which can. This is quite common strategy in fact. An > organization has a "charitable" arm (eligible for tax exemptions, > public support etc.) registered as 501c3, and then an advocacy arm > registered ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 10:37:26 PDT 2011

1515 [lbo-talk] what money will buy you -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 1:14 PM, // ravi wrote: > Jodi Dean I think was her name, who is an academic and also writes a blog. She talked about the trouble of individualism in the Left, and archipelago s of blogs, so on. But somehow, all this analysis occurred without any acknowledgement (or awareness?) that she too was writing on her own, individual blog. Yes, Jodi Dean. She acknowledges all that in her book, which everyone should read. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 10:35:29 PDT 2011