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19981 [lbo-talk] Wall Street -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >How about an explanation of what's going on with NYSE/Archipelago/Goldman >Sachs, Doug? --CGE I confess I haven't been following it that closely, but the fundamental issue is the obsolescence of the NYSE trading structure. Now, much of the order flow through the exchange goes through "specialists," who are brokers who make markets in specific stocks. They keep the books on orders to buy and sell. Being a specialist has been a license to print money; not on ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 28 11:27:04 PDT 2005

19982 [lbo-talk] help wanted -- rank: 1000

Steven Gotzler wrote: >It probably won't be quite as thankless if the new executive >director did not refuse to allow the board of directors to see the >financial books of corporation. It has been something like 18 >months since the "request" was made. Not just the books of the corp - members of the WBAI local board have been blocked from inspecting the station's books. You've got to wonder what's lurking inside these mysterious docs. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 28 11:11:44 PDT 2005

19983 [lbo-talk] pomo cultural lefties who valorize the poor -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >You are fond of Catherine's, "I'm not done with a paper until I have >the questions to ask my answers." IT appears that you are asking >questions without making manifest your answers. I don't have any answers. The questions are that - questions. Some days I feel as gloomy as Adorno; other days - even other hours within the same day - I feel as optimistic as a 22-year old. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 28 11:10:32 PDT 2005

19984 [lbo-talk] get rid of that lefty baggage! -- rank: 1000

[City Limits "lefty baggage" had shrunk to the point that it could easily fit under the seat in front of you, but apparently even that was too bulky...] New York Sun - April 28, 2005 Staff Clash Over Political Destiny of City Limits By Jacob Gershman, Staff Reporter of the Sun City Limits, a left-leaning magazine on urban policy, was thrown into turmoil after tentative plans by the publisher to fire the editorial staff and change the publication's political direction were leaked to emp ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 28 10:49:24 PDT 2005

19985 [lbo-talk] Why CPB Hid Polls -- rank: 1000

<http://www.democraticmedia.org/news/washingtonwatch/CPBsurveys.h> Washington Watch CPB's "Secrets and Lies": Why the CPB Board Hid its Polls Revealing Broad Public Support for PBS and NPR Poll Data Show No "Bias" Problem 27 April 2005 The far-right-wing majority directors at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have a secret they don't want to tell the American public. CPB board Chair Ken Tomlinson and his cronies have kept the results of two "National Public ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 28 10:13:35 PDT 2005

19986 [lbo-talk] help wanted -- rank: 1000

[here's a thankless job! save Pacifica and get pelted with rotten fruit!!] Interim Executive Director Posting Description Pacifica is the oldest network of noncommercial community-based radio stations in the United States. The Pacifica Foundation is committed to peace and social justice, and seeks to involve in its governance and operations individuals committed to these principles. The Executive Director is charged with the responsibility for all day-to-day management activities of the Pacifica ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 28 10:12:05 PDT 2005

19987 [lbo-talk] pomo cultural lefties who valorize the poor -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >My only point is that working class people are full citizens of a democracy >that is working very, very poorly. They should stand up and fix it, and >those of us who believe that should avoid calling them names for their >"instrumentality" but also not give them a pass from honest analysis. Rather than "blaming" the masses, I think the uncomfortable truth some of us are dancing around is that the masses are more or less content with things ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 28 10:11:01 PDT 2005

19988 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO: spending (and borrowing) money like crazy -- rank: 1000

[from Jonathan Tasini's blog] <http://workinglife.typepad.com/daily_blog/2005/04/aflcio_finances_1.html> April 28, 2005 AFL-CIO Finances: Betting the Farm? Right after my previous report on the AFL-CIO's finances <http://workinglife.typepad.com/daily_blog/2005/04/aflcio_finances.html>, I got a call from Joe Hill (uh, yeah, a pseudonym), an AFL-CIO insider who told me "it's quite worse than what you wrote." Hill pointed out that when John Sweeney took over, the AFL-CIO had n ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 28 06:16:52 PDT 2005

19989 [lbo-talk] crime & American Indians -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > > High victimization rates are usually swept under the rug by the populist >> relativists claiming that any sub-culture is as good as any other. In this >> case, such practices are particularly disingenuous since victimization >> cannot be blamed on "external factors" as most tribes are self-governed. >> >> Wojtek > >Self-governed? That's a good one. Know any more jokes as good as this? Yeah, Woj's comme ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 21:22:30 PDT 2005

19990 [lbo-talk] Re: The Suicide of New Left Review -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >But I'd love to be persuaded >that it was still worth it, despite the outcome. What else could they have done? They had to act in the moment, and had no way of knowing how history would turn out in 1989. In many ways it was an excellent attempt; they industrialized the USSR, brought its social indicators up to near-Western levels - and as Putin said, its collapse was a great catastrophe. Much of the fSU outside Moscow is worse off than it was 16 years ago. And what w ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 20:38:30 PDT 2005

19991 [lbo-talk] pomo cultural lefties who valorize the poor -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >>At 02:59 PM 4/27/2005, Doug Henwood wrote: > >One wonders what grad Prof Cox would have given this essay... > ><http://www.wsws.org/arts/1995/nov1995/conroy.shtml> >----- > >this isn't apples and oranges; it's apples and lug nuts. I think you >two are seriously talking past one another. > >I'm curious, cause this essay says that the Stalinist dropped the >prole writer bent and shunted this guy aside. Apparently, it wasn't >even su ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 15:14:48 PDT 2005

19992 [lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I agree. That's why I condemn such slovenly rhetoric as "some x is y" as >vigorously in a fellow leftist as I would in a freshman theme. It is >extremely important for the left not to encourage such disregard for >minimal intellectual standards. One wonders what grad Prof Cox would have given this essay... <http://www.wsws.org/arts/1995/nov1995/conroy.shtml> Worker-Writer in America Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 18 ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 11:59:36 PDT 2005

19993 [lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It is >extremely important for the left not to encourage such disregard for >minimal intellectual standards. What the hell, I haven't quoted this in over 18 months: >...listen: I know Matthew Arnold is not > >far off: he's going to come roaring out of the woods, deeply >offended by the briars and limber limbs, and mount up on a >high stone chair and declaim to the woods: he's going to > >reinaugurate the distinctions and subordinations that make & ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 11:34:41 PDT 2005

19994 [lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > a tendency among some leftists > >There you go again. Some X is Y. Big deal. Thanks. I was expecting that. By the way, shouldn't it be "some X is A"? Set variable = constant? With some X = Y, it seems like there are too many mirrors for variability, to paraphrase Stevens. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 09:45:16 PDT 2005

19995 [lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks" -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >There is however, one problem. If the life styles of the underclass are so >finger licking good, why are we wasting our time to get rid of capitalism >and create a better society? I wouldn't use the word underclass - way too ugly and stigmatizing for me. But there is a tendency among some leftists to idealize the actually existing working class - and the poor on a global scale. I'd love to hear an answer to this question. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 08:01:45 PDT 2005