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2566 [lbo-talk] Citigroup feels violated -- rank: 1000

On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It's not "Doug's" blog; it's their blog. It is, though I do pay the fuckers a little money. But my complaint isn't so much against WP - it's against the DMCA and Citi. What I posted was sent to me and of legitimate news interest, since it showed that Citi thought the Treasury position was quite bank-friendly. It wasn't a trading recommendation or based on proprietary data collection, so it has no real monetary value. It's also a yea ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 24 10:57:32 PDT 2010

2567 [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 many opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive (and apologies for the delay) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: September 23, 2010 Eric Garris, founder of Antiwar.com, on the antiwar movement, the libertarian perspective on it, and the effor ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 24 10:28:23 PDT 2010

2568 [lbo-talk] Citigroup feels violated -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/09/24/citigroup-feels-violated/ This morning, WordPress informed me that they d received a valid DMCA notice as in Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice about a Citigroup research report I posted here in February 2009. Until the issue could be resolved meaning I acknowledged this grave offense against intellectual property I couldn t post anything to this blog. Once I said Yes, Sir, my posting privileges were restored. The document was, of course, deleted. The re ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 24 09:17:53 PDT 2010

2569 [lbo-talk] On the virtues of print -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2010, at 6:45 PM, bhaskar sunkara wrote: > I know we've visited this topic before (PDFs vs. print-outs, Ebook readers vs. bounded books), but I'm curious to hear list member's thoughts on the importance-- as /opposed/ to the viability --of print magazines. It seems that web stuff has a lifespan of about 10 minutes, if that. For the people who still read print, it has a much more staying power. "Distracted from distraction by distraction." - T.S. Eliot

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Date:	Thu Sep 23 17:34:00 PDT 2010

2570 [lbo-talk] Evaluating the Obama administration -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > And so created the blood libel of deicide, the emotional basis for the Holocaust and all the pogroms down the millennia that adumbrated it. Wow, man.

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 19:31:49 PDT 2010

2571 [lbo-talk] Evaluating the Obama administration -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:27 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Glenn Greenwald put it well on Democracy Now! on Tuesday: > > "...if you ... just turned on television news and watched, you would think that > Christine O'Donnell was by far the most powerful person in the world, because, > especially on stations devoted to maintaining Democratic power, like MSNBC and > other cable shows, it's twenty-four hours nonstop about Christine O'Donnell http://twitter.com/KatrinaNation

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 18:34:39 PDT 2010

2572 [lbo-talk] Evaluating the Obama administration -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > The historical fact is that "Jesus" and "Bar Abbas" were one and the same person. You have some curious obsessions.

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 14:27:56 PDT 2010

2573 [lbo-talk] sex and art and the city -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > So the problem, if you think it's a problem Of course it's a problem! Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 14:23:48 PDT 2010

2574 [lbo-talk] Evaluating the Obama administration -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2010, at 2:08 PM, c b wrote: > It has a majority Black population unlike the US That's changing, or so I read in The New Republic, in an edit they had anguishing over Fenty's likely loss. They say that Chocolate City is becoming Vanilla Village. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 11:15:44 PDT 2010

2575 [lbo-talk] Israelis moving to Germany! -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2010, at 1:56 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > So, I'll reiterate my former proposal that one way to solve Israeli intransigence is to offer each and every one of them U.S. citizenship. Though, I suppose, given the state of our economy and social service, they might want to look for a better offer. There are lots of Israelis in New York. In the Bay Area? Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 10:59:54 PDT 2010

2576 [lbo-talk] Israelis moving to Germany! -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3953354,00.html Young Israelis moving to Berlin in droves City from which Hitler unleashed genocide of six million Jews now attracting small but growing community of Jews from Israel for whom it embodies freedom, tolerance, anything-goes spirit Associated Press Nirit Bialer, granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, welcomes listeners in Hebrew to a one-hour radio show of music, talk and interviews. The setting isn't her native Israel but a ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 10:12:03 PDT 2010

2577 [lbo-talk] pwog donors lock checkbooks -- rank: 1000

Dems suffer as disappointed "progressives" give up on giving (except unions): http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42521.html

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 07:01:50 PDT 2010

2578 [lbo-talk] Znet writes -- rank: 1000

Damn, for a bunch of post-capitalist practical utopians, these people are obnoxious. I've never given these guys a dime - Michael Albert has reprinted enough of my pieces without bothering to ask that I feel like I've contributed plenty. I've gotten more polite overdue notices from American Express - and in that case, I actually did owe them money. Doug ---- > Hello Doug Henwood, > > This is Chris Spannos of ZNet writing > > You are receiving this email because your sustainer dona ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 08:23:46 PDT 2010

2579 [lbo-talk] Twitter: Sarah Palin more important than The Situation -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] @daveweigel: Sarah Palin has 257,873 followers. Mike 'The Situation' has 252,796....

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 07:01:14 PDT 2010

2580 [lbo-talk] European welfare state -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:24 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Germany has a lower gini coefficient because it has high growth rates, higher wages (and also can spend more on welfare). No. Germany's per capita GDP grew less than 5% between 2000 and 2009 (not annual, but total). The UK, 10%. US, 6%. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 17:30:19 PDT 2010