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2551 [lbo-talk] European cities hit by anti-austerity protests (correction) -- rank: 1000
On Sep 29, 2010, at 2:29 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > This is probably because they have been convinced that further stimulus will lead to hyperinflation. There's also a weird moral revulsion against debt.
Document Size: 5143
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 29 11:35:15 PDT 2010
2552 [lbo-talk] FBI looking into Andy Stern -- rank: 1000
On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > SEIU, Stern Deny Federal Investigation Hmm, a friend with very good SEIU sources tells me that reporters have seen a no-show employment contract with Stephens signed by Stern. Guess we'll see who's right, won't we? Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 29 09:06:06 PDT 2010
2553 [lbo-talk] Obama: D.C. schools don't measure up to his daughters' private school -- rank: 1000
On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/27/AR2010092701766_2.html?sid=ST2010092701898 > > [WS:] The following caught my attention > " Jimmy Carter's daughter, Amy, was the last White House student to > attend a D.C. public school. " > > Autres temps, autres moeurs. Oh, but she only got into *Brown*. If you want to get into Harvard, it's Sidwell Friends. The WP's education blogger, Valerie Strauss, ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 28 15:25:33 PDT 2010
2554 [lbo-talk] Peretz Plastered -- rank: 1000
On Sep 28, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I had the distinct urge to throw an egg at Michael Walzer, aimed at the podium so it slithered down the front. I loved the way you could see the camera shaking because the guy holding it couldn't control his laughter at Walzer. Like there could be some equivalence between some obscure footnote and Peretz' entire odious career. Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 28 13:05:39 PDT 2010
2555 [lbo-talk] Peretz Plastered -- rank: 1000
On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Scene from one of the panels during Harvard's Social Studies jamboree. > > Y'all will like this. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqiMKEWUAeM&feature=player_embedded#! Man, that's terrific. Proved beyond a reasonable doubt: Michael Walzer is a scumbag (which is probably unfair to condoms, which are useful even if they diminish pleasure). Doug
Document Size: 4996
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 28 11:20:57 PDT 2010
2556 [lbo-talk] FBI looking into Andy Stern -- rank: 1000
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100928/D9IGVB000.html FBI investigates prominent labor leader Andy Stern Sep 28, 10:02 AM (ET) By SAM HANANEL WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI and the U.S. Labor Department are investigating prominent labor leader Andy Stern in their probe of corruption at the Service Employees International Union, according to two people who have been interviewed by federal agents. The two organized labor officials met with federal agents this summer to answer questions about a six-fi ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 28 10:57:50 PDT 2010
2557 [lbo-talk] religious knowledge -- rank: 1000
Ha. Interesting in the light of Terry Eagleton's complaint that the irreligious know nothing about theology. In the USA, atheists and agnostics know more about religion than the faithful: http://pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 28 09:15:13 PDT 2010
2558 [lbo-talk] Is Chomsky Right (b) ? Most Americans want wealth distribution similar to Sweden -- rank: 1000
On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Well, the study also notes that people massively underestimate the existing concentration of income and wealth, so they don't perceive that things are way out of alignment with their ideals. This may be one of those things where the misunderestimation is one of those bedrock fantasies that resist empirical corrrection. Doug
Document Size: 5462
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 27 13:14:50 PDT 2010
2559 [lbo-talk] Is Chomsky Right (b) ? Most Americans want wealth distribution similar to Sweden -- rank: 1000
On Sep 27, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Ira Glazer wrote: > http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/poll-wealth-distribution-similar-sweden/ > > 92 percent prefer Swedish model to US model when given a choice > > Americans generally underestimate the degree of income inequality in > the United States, and if given a choice, would distribute wealth in a > similar way to the social democracies of Scandinavia, a new study > finds. Then why do people who advocate anything like these policies ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 27 12:20:31 PDT 2010
2560 [lbo-talk] who's worse, Marty Peretz or Michael Walzer? -- rank: 1000
[This is all worth reading, including Wolff's quoting of Marx at the Harvard swells, but a couple of choice excerpts on that creep Walzer. Via Lou Proyect.] <http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2010/09/harvard-and-peretz.html> The absolute low point of the day, for me, was Michael Walzer's defense of his old friend. Walzer began by telling the audience that in 1969, when Harvard students seized the administration building in an anti-war protest, he and Marty formed a committee to defend th ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 27 11:31:47 PDT 2010
2561 [lbo-talk] Millennialism -- rank: 1000
<http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/millennials-they-took-society-and-now-they-have-a-magazine> Millennials: They Took Our Society and Now They Have a Magazine @11:00 AM [Choire Sicha] Millennials Magazine is live. If you think the children are terrifying, this will cement the deal. If you can handle young people talking about their feelings and their world views and publications that actually print IM chats and also the sentence "I was in eighth grade when the pilot episode of The O.C. a ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 27 10:54:41 PDT 2010
2562 [lbo-talk] Obama admin at war with FRSO -- rank: 1000
[Did Bush ever do anything like this?] <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/us/politics/25search.html> New York Times - September 24, 2010 F.B.I. Searches Antiwar Activists Homes By COLIN MOYNIHAN F.B.I. agents executed search warrants Friday in Minneapolis and Chicago in connection to an investigation of support of terror organizations. The searches in Minneapolis took place early in the morning at the homes of people who have helped organize demonstrations against the war in Iraq and prot ...
Document Size: 7783
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Sep 25 13:34:34 PDT 2010
2563 [lbo-talk] former Nation intern makes good -- rank: 1000
On Sep 25, 2010, at 1:27 PM, SA wrote: > Wait, I thought Nick Clegg was the former Nation intern. He already made good. Miliband too? Yup. I got to know him a bit then - it was around 1990. Really likable guy. Sad that he ended up like this! Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Sep 25 10:38:00 PDT 2010
2564 [lbo-talk] former Nation intern makes good -- rank: 1000
[from the FT] Ed Miliband wins Labour leadership by wafer-thin margin Ed Miliband was announced as the new leader of Labour by the narrowest of margins on Saturday afternoon at the conclusion of a tense race between two brothers which has exposed significant differences of opinion over the future of the party. Ed won 50.65 per cent of votes against his older brother David s 49.4 per cent after the votes of the eliminated candidates had been redistributed. The race, which began in May, began with ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Sep 25 10:12:50 PDT 2010
2565 [lbo-talk] Citigroup feels violated -- rank: 1000
On Sep 24, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> Of course, they're within their rights under the DMCA ... > > I guess the status of the memo isn't clear to me: was it an internal memo? Or was it a piece of client collateral? Standard research note.
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Sep 24 11:44:16 PDT 2010
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