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20446 [lbo-talk] me on Blackburn's pension scheme -- rank: 1000

I just posted the text of my comments on Robin Blackburn's Banking on Death, his 530-page program for transforming the public pension system, which I delivered at a New School conference last Saturday. It's at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/NSPensions.html>. Sorry, it's mainly text - a few links, minimal graphics. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 14:38:12 PDT 2004

20447 [lbo-talk] Re: Powerless religious right? -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Chuck0 writes: > >> They have failed to win any major battles in the culture wars. > >I guess a 71% victory in Missouri in the effort to discriminate >against queers is a minor skirmish then. Lessee, they've got a strong influence with the federal executive and legislative branches, several state governments, and the electorates of at least a third of the states. Maybe Chuck0 thinks the government isn't that important. But they've also got a formidable gr ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 10:57:34 PDT 2004

20448 [lbo-talk] Malkin too much for AU Reps, Bush admin -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 12, 2004 Reliable Source Richard Leiby Flame-throwing syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, whose latest book supports the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was all set to appear at American University tomorrow as the year's kickoff speaker for the College Republicans. But her topic proved too hot for them to handle. Abruptly canceling her speech last week, Mike Inganamort, president of the campus Republicans, told Malkin in an e-mail: "Our fi ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 10:14:17 PDT 2004

20449 [lbo-talk] biz reporters suffer from liberal bias too! -- rank: 1000

[wow, stunning nonsense - could it be that the unemployment news was more upbeat in Clinton's day because the number was falling towards multi-decade lows, while it's 1.3 points higher now than when W took office and it's stayed stubbornly high? - Hassett, of course, is the co-author of Dow 36,000 <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Dow36000.html>, a fact he omits from his bio on the AEI website <http://www.aei.org/scholars/filter.,scholarID.26/scholar.asp> (unless you click on &quo ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 09:51:01 PDT 2004

20450 [lbo-talk] Re: The Plutocrats Go Wild -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Do you ever argue from evidence, or just from what pops up in your head? >> > >are you quoting bohr to einstein? ;-) Is Brad Mayer the contemporary Einstein? My apologies, then. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:51:18 PDT 2004

20451 [lbo-talk] McLemee on Mann: democracy and mass murder -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - September 17, 2004 Delving Into Democracy's Shadows The sociologist Michael Mann took a detour from his epic study of power in human history. It led him straight to the horrors at the center of modern life. By SCOTT MCLEMEE Scholarly books often resemble the pyramids erected for minor officials in ancient Egypt. Impressive in their way -- and built to last -- they are, nonetheless, difficult to tell apart. By contrast, The Sources of Social Power, by Michael Mann, ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:42:03 PDT 2004

20452 [lbo-talk] Nation editor KvH on Putin & Chechnya etc -- rank: 1000

[Chris Doss, Peter Lavelle, any comments?] The Nation - September 27, 2004 Putin's War by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Beslan resulted in unfathomable human suffering. More than 300 children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome fifty-two-hour siege that began when heavily armed Chechens--and possibly other guerrillas from the Caucasus--stormed Middle School No. 1. This unconscionable slaughter of the innocents came just days after a bomber--most likely one ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:32:02 PDT 2004

20453 [lbo-talk] Re: The Plutocrats Go Wild -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >This is precisely a spector that would make any sensible Democrat >_not_ want to be President in 2004. Then add in the Middle East >mess. I wouldn't count on any sudden moves from the very >conservative leaders of N.E. Asia, who will instead do almost >anything to keep the status quo by propping up the USD. But there >is a big chance for a dollar crisis despite their efforts, which, >coming despite them, will hit them doubly hard. In fact, the next > ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:24:46 PDT 2004

20454 [lbo-talk] Woman fired for Kerry sticker on car -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Maybe I just don't know how the economy really works, but wouldn't other >good capitalists like this dude still invest in things like new hammer mills >and the like even in the absence of tax cuts, since they expect returns on >such investments? Of course, higher taxes=less available interest-free >capital, but one can always cut back on luxury spending or even go to a >bank... The evidence is that tax cuts have minimal effects on investment. Investment is ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:18:06 PDT 2004

20455 [lbo-talk] MER on KER -- rank: 1000

[from today's Merrill Lynch Morning Market Memo - not new news, really, but the source is interesting] The President's lead in the polls may be more ephemeral than meets the eye-the Economist reports that its YouGov poll shows Mr. Bush with just a 1 point lead right now and the latest Zogby poll has the President ahead by only two points. The YouGov poll has the largest sample size of all (2,300) and instead of by phone, it is done by email. See page 27 of this week's issue.

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Date:	Mon Sep 13 07:07:17 PDT 2004

20456 [lbo-talk] the right's stuff -- rank: 1000

[this was way too long, so I'm just forwarding the URL and the lead] From: "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> Reply-To: docile_body at yahoo.com Subject: The right's stuff <http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2004-09-09/feature.html> The Right's Stuff A Texas-based band of conservative warriors tackles the left on its own turf--the street BY ROBERT WILONSKY On a Friday afternoon in late August they've come to this street corner to raise their signs and voices to protest the v ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 12 20:20:36 PDT 2004

20457 [lbo-talk] Fiscalopolypse ? -- rank: 1000

ira glazer quoted: >Yet whoever wins the 2004 race will become the first U.S. president >to confront what sober-minded experts across the political spectrum >describe as an impending "fiscal catastrophe" lying right around the >corner. Not really. The 'crisis' isn't really a crisis, and even according to those who say it is, it's decades away. The austerity party is mobilizing again. The short-term problem is that the boy president cut taxes on rich people, and the economy ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 12 14:24:54 PDT 2004

20458 [lbo-talk] Democracy/End of This Discussion Too -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: We're up to eight now, Justin. Cool it.

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Date:	Sun Sep 12 12:54:07 PDT 2004

20459 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: Six posts so far today, two of them after I sent my reminder that the limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 12 12:48:06 PDT 2004

20460 [lbo-talk] a day in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Violence Sweeps Baghdad; U.S. Gunship Fires on Crowd By Ibon Villelabeitia BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. helicopter gunship fired at Iraqis milling around a burning U.S. vehicle in a Baghdad street Sunday during fierce battles in which witnesses and officials said 13 people had been killed and 61 wounded. Elsewhere in the city, at least seven car bombs and various outbreaks of violence killed nine Iraqis, and insurgents fired over a dozen mortar bombs or rockets around the U.S.-occupied Green Zone ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 12 11:13:56 PDT 2004