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2371 [lbo-talk] My latest on Libya -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2011, at 7:39 PM, // ravi wrote: > tl;dr? I can t keep up with you kids and your terminology. Get on Instapaper, brah! Too long; didn't read.

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Date:	Tue Aug 16 17:31:50 PDT 2011

2372 [lbo-talk] Fwd: My latest on Libya -- rank: 1000

[from Gilbert Achcar - just forwarding - tl;dr for now...] Dear Friends, My latest piece on Libya has been posted today on http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2401/natos-conspiracy-against-the-libyan-revolution If you want to post it, please indicate the source. If you want to translate it, please let me know in order to avoid multiple translations. Best wishes, GA

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Date:	Tue Aug 16 15:09:32 PDT 2011

2373 [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 Freshly posted to my radio archive (actually the files have been there for a while, but the web gateway wasn't updated - if you subscribe to the podcast, you've gotten these already) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: August 13, 2011 Dacher Keltner of UC Berkeley on the psychology of class and social interactions David Graeber, author of Debt: T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 16 14:58:34 PDT 2011

2374 [lbo-talk] Krugman: How to Default in Your Own Currency -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > On 8/16/2011 10:36 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Michael Pollak quote Paul Krugman: >> >>> Now, I am not predicting hyperinflation for the US -- I am not Peter Schiff! >> >> Wow, everybody knows that guy. > > Not me. Who is he? A right-wing nut I debated on The Real News. Son of a tax protester who's doing something like 12 years in federal prison for repeated tax evasio ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 16 10:58:58 PDT 2011

2375 [lbo-talk] Krugman: How to Default in Your Own Currency -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Michael Pollak quote Paul Krugman: > Now, I am not predicting hyperinflation for the US -- I am not Peter Schiff! Wow, everybody knows that guy. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 16 08:36:30 PDT 2011

2376 [lbo-talk] London Riots anew -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2011, at 10:00 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > As for the good crowd/bad crowd thing re England. Why can't it be both? We're all grownups. We need to deal with gray; not just black and white. If revolutions attract opportunists, why not riots? Seems like the riots were perfectly understandable, but they probably won't accomplish much. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 15 19:04:52 PDT 2011

2377 [lbo-talk] Planet Bulgari, Age of 5-Star Restaurants -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Charles Turner wrote: > On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I wondered about that when I read the piece. What, if anything, does that mean? > > <http://www.runawaysquirrels.com/2011/08/london-riots-comes-to-the-ledbury/> > > "The kitchen staff at the Ledbury went beyond their call of duty by rushing up from the kitchen with rolling pins, fry baskets, and other dangerous kitchen tools and scared off the looters. The ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 15 11:28:45 PDT 2011

2378 [lbo-talk] Planet Bulgari, Age of 5-Star Restaurants -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Danny Kruger, ex-adviser to David Cameron observed that: The districts that took the brunt of the rioting on Monday night were not sink estates. Enfield, Ealing, Croydon, Clapham... these places have Tory MPs, for goodness sake. A mob attacked the Ledbury, the best restaurant in Notting Hill. I wondered about that when I read the piece. What, if anything, does that mean? Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 15 10:27:29 PDT 2011

2379 [lbo-talk] apply for WBAI program director! -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2011, at 11:40 AM, michael perelman wrote: > We can joke about the nonsense of the clowns that have hijacked the > network, but the decline of the network is far more destructive than > the election of a handful of tea party zealots. I wish more people agreed with you. Pacifica seems to have lost so many older listeners, and failed to replace them with new ones, that few people seem to care. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 15 08:47:29 PDT 2011

2380 [lbo-talk] apply for WBAI program director! -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2011, at 2:31 PM, socialismorbarbarism wrote: > "Pacifica Radio Network... is seeking a program director": > > "Must be willing to work in excess of 40 hours per week, in the > evenings and on some weekends. " Presumably at no extra pay? > > I mean, I know its typical, but the "progressive" folks didn't even > bother to hide it. Standard "movement" labor conditions. You're supposed to do it for the love. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 14 11:40:40 PDT 2011

2381 [lbo-talk] Wisconsin recall results -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > I would think that you more than anyone would want to pay special attention to these rules of conduct, since you must surely see this list as another venue for organizing, as someone who professes to be not interested in only interpreting the world in various ways but in changing it. Not everyone's an organizer. It's important work, but some people aren't good at it. There's a role for thinking, analysis, and criticism, too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 13 18:09:00 PDT 2011

2382 [lbo-talk] apply for WBAI program director! -- rank: 1000

Beats walking into a propeller, probably: WBAI Radio, 99.5 FM, NYC, a member of the Pacifica Radio Network, non- commercial, listener supported radio, is seeking a program director. See http://pacificafoundation.org/national/jobs/ and http://wbai.org

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 13 18:07:09 PDT 2011

2383 [lbo-talk] The criminalization of the poor -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Mark DeLucas wrote: > You might wish to avoid bicycling too, unless you have the internal > fortitude to stop and wait at every red light that you come to. Because I > don't (and because as a bike messenger I was spending 9-10 hours per riding > a bike), I received in 5 months 4 tickets, valued at $190 each -- a bit more > than a week's wages. Good. I'm tired of the way bicyclists ignore traffic laws. They're dangerous to pedestrians, drivers, and th ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 11 08:56:57 PDT 2011

2384 [lbo-talk] Wisconsin recall results -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Does not the former explain the latter? I honestly doubt that > any openly pro-union candidate would have a realistic chance of > winning elections in most jurisdictions. We don't know, do we?

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Date:	Thu Aug 11 07:55:35 PDT 2011

2385 [lbo-talk] Wisconsin recall results -- rank: 1000

On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Granted, results of recall elections may be > inconclusive. But then how do you explain the fact that conservative, > or even rabidly right wing politicians have been winning US elections > in numbers that center-left, let alone progressives (by which I mean > anything left of the center) can not even dream of. You've got a point about the predilections of the U.S. pop, but the Dem candidates never mentioned collective bargaining r ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 11 07:24:05 PDT 2011