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18481 [lbo-talk] no longer promoting from within -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 6, 2005 Slow Train Promotion Track Fades for Those Starting at Bottom Decline of In-House Training, Rise of Outsourcing Leave More Stuck in Menial Jobs Lessons From N.Y.'s Subways By JOEL MILLMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL June 6, 2005; Page A1 NEW YORK -- Unwed, unemployed and saddled with three young sons, Valerie Beatty hit bottom in 1989 when she was 25 years old. The daughter of a middle-class Harlem family, Ms. Beatty recalls she abandoned hope of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 6 06:43:57 PDT 2005

18482 [lbo-talk] WBAI details -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >In 1998, some faction decided to move to Wall Street, and the rent >went up tens of thousands of dollars. Obvious from the fundraiser, >WBAI could barely afford the old place, never mind these added >expenses. The new office is on Wall Street, and looks more like an >NPR station then a Pacifica station. I don't buy this at all. The old place, at 8th Av & 35th St, was a dump. It was depressing to go there. Stuff was broken, shabby, filthy. You felt like ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 21:06:48 PDT 2005

18483 [lbo-talk] WBAI details -- rank: 1000

[some details on WBAI's fundraising disaster] From: "James Ross" <jross252 at yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:09:28 -0000 Subject: [HelpFixWBAI] WBAI spring drive limps home WBAI's spring drive raised $700,000 in pledges in 25 days (5/11/05-6/4/05). The initial goal was $1.1 million in 18 days. That shortfall comes out to $250,000 or more in real money. One wonders where funds to cover the shortfall will come from. Over the last 12 days of the drive, about $231,000 was pledg ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 20:01:08 PDT 2005

18484 [lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Doug: > Calling something "elitism" isn't the same as calling it >wrong, is it?< > >to me it is. I see elitism as being self-deceptive and, in politics, >self-destructive (unless one wants to set one's self up as a political >elite, which I don't). One can be "excellent" (or rather, strive to be >so) without comparing one's excellence to that of others, saying that >one is better or more rational than others. So what's the poi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 15:52:25 PDT 2005

18485 [lbo-talk] Rocky Mtn. News series on Ward Churchill -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Chuck, get fisked Who coined this annyoing term? It's a right-wing meme, no? > on this blog devoted to WC, >http://www.pirateballerina.com/index.php Where we learn that Churchill wrong was on how many Iraqis sanctions killed. The Bolsheviks at Foreign Affairs say the following: >Foreign Affairs - May/June 1999 > >Sanctions of mass destruction >John Mueller; Karl Mueller > [...] >The destructive potential of economic sanctions can be seen m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 15:42:40 PDT 2005

18486 [lbo-talk] China must confront dark past, says Mao confidant -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Time to add the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and >Socialism, to the List of Enemies of the People! Have you been replaced by a bot? Forget this cold war shit. I'm sick of it. It really is like placing a flaming bag of dogshit on someone's doorstep and ringing the bell. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 14:55:17 PDT 2005

18487 [lbo-talk] KPFA madness -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >By the way, what happened with Robert Knight? The reason given for his firing was that he was pilfering files from the station manager's office - files that reportedly concerned him. But he'd been squabbling with station management for a while; according to one report several months ago, he was pulled off the morning show for playing "too much white music." Morale at WBAI is quite low, for this and many other reasons. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 14:25:46 PDT 2005

18488 [lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >I agree with Carrol: to presume that the populace isn't "rational" (in >the sense that you are or I am) is to put oneself above them, like >some sort of demigod. It's elitism. Calling something "elitism" isn't the same as calling it wrong, is it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 14:07:30 PDT 2005

18489 [lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >One cannot understand a population except on the premise that (with >demographically insignificant exceptions) that popoulace makes its >decisions on rational grounds. The appearance of irrationality is a >measure of the observer's ignorance of the conditions under which the >decisions are made. You don't know much about financial markets then, do you? To quote Joseph Stiglitz at the top of the dot.com boom, "Why do people buy those stocks?" Stiglitz, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 14:06:13 PDT 2005

18490 [lbo-talk] KPFA madness -- rank: 1000

[Meanwhile, WBAI just finished a fundraiser than went on nearly a month, a week longer than planned, that fell about 50% short of its goal.] East Bay Express - June 1, 2005 <http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2005-06-01/news/bottomfeeder.html> KPFA Mayhem Flying chairs, brain-dead protocol, abusive radio hosts -- and you thought the left of the dial was safe again By Will Harper There's a scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian that perfectly encapsulates the turmoil at KPFA, the listene ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 13:56:58 PDT 2005

18491 [lbo-talk] Hitch at work -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 5, 2005 WRITER COMES OUT SMOKIN' PUGNACIOUS Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens stood up for his right to smoke when he appeared the other day on a panel with his brother, British newspaper columnist Peter Hitchens - the first time they had talked in four years after they had a public quarrel over Stalinism. At the event at a British literary festival sponsored by The Guardian newspaper, Christopher - as prearranged with the organizers - smoked throughout t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 5 09:27:20 PDT 2005

18492 [lbo-talk] meow -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 3, 2005 YOU GOT IT, TED! CNN founder Ted Turner must have been off his medication in Atlanta the other day at the cable channel's 25th anniversary. Turner bemoaned the way CNN covers the "pervert of the day" (we're sure he didn't mean Michael Jackson) instead of international news and the environment. "I wanted to be the New York Times of the airwaves, not the New York Post," said Turner. Well, he's getting his wish. The Post is the fastest-gro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 3 14:12:05 PDT 2005

18493 [lbo-talk] Christina Aguilera & rest of cultural elite dig deep for Hillary -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - June 3, 2005 STYLE & CULTURE Hollywood rallies for Sen. Clinton By Anne-Marie O'Connor, Times Staff Writer Conservatives may strive to portray New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as a polarizing figure, but she unified Hollywood Democratic political donors at a series of fundraisers that netted an estimated $1 million in a single evening, hosts estimated Thursday. In an industry where Democrats still like to describe themselves as in recovery from the reelecti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 3 14:11:51 PDT 2005

18494 [lbo-talk] Looking for Color in the Anti-War Movement -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I've actually read most of her book. I think Martinez's points are >generally valid about the movements, but I have problems with the >inflammatory titles of these pieces. Perhaps she picked the titles >in order to be in the face of white activists, but I think that she >just shuts down dialogue. Yoshie's been in on the planning conversations of UFPJ, right? What are people saying there? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 3 14:00:12 PDT 2005

18495 [lbo-talk] Canada-US health care (was Vive La France!) -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: >I suspect from your tone ("insurance co. vampires") that you do think that >insurance companies are a (the?) main problem. I admit my perception is >clouded by the fact that insurance companies and even large purchasers of >insurance are relatively weak where I live. It is also hard not to listen to >stories like Doug's mom's $21,000 broken arm and not see that as the major >problem. I haven't looked at the literature in a long time, but as I re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 3 12:51:33 PDT 2005