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271 [lbo-talk] Circumspection -- rank: 1000

Is there an antecedent to this? On Sep 3, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > > I recommend it. > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 3 18:46:57 PDT 2012

272 [lbo-talk] Gold, populism, right wing politics -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2012, at 12:03 PM, andie_nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote: > I re-read the FX chapter of Wall Street that you posted. Lovely piece of work, as I remembered, but I have a minor query. Why do you say, in a reversal of 19th century populism's anti-gold, pro-silver attitudes, today's far right wingers tend to be gold bugs, or vice versa? I paraphrase. I don't disagree about the modern link between gold buggery and lunatic right wing politics. But why the impl ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 2 15:17:49 PDT 2012

273 [lbo-talk] on circumcision -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2012, at 2:33 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > The penis does not live alone but finds its way into orifices where it brings much joy and, sometimes, trouble. That's a marvelous sentence.

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Date:	Sun Sep 2 15:09:19 PDT 2012

274 [lbo-talk] Inequality: The silly tales economists like to tell -- rank: 1000

So about 1/4 of U.S. docs are foreign-born and -trained. And in one study, their patients showed lower mortality rates than the patients of native-born and -trained docs.

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Date:	Wed Oct 31 12:38:58 PDT 2012

275 [lbo-talk] Inequality: The silly tales economists like to tell -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2012, at 12:15 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > My anecdotal experience is many more md.s from other countries > than lawyers. True. NYC hospitals are full of docs from India, Indonesia, etc.

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Date:	Wed Oct 31 09:34:04 PDT 2012

276 [lbo-talk] Inequality: The silly tales economists like to tell -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Why did not the professional occupations other than lawyers and > doctors that saw influx of foreign-born employees experience a > relative decline in wages as non-professional occupations did? Don't know about detailed measures, but the college premium plateaued some time ago and has been flat since. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 31 07:28:40 PDT 2012

277 [lbo-talk] Inequality: The silly tales economists like to tell -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > I do not think that foreign origin is the key here. Power is. > > The US is relatively open to foreigners, both professionals and day > laborers. But it is not foreign/domestic origin that decides power > relations inside the US. It is social class and the technostructure > class in particular. Dean was making some sort of general statement, when he was actually characterizing two professions with a l ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 31 06:15:58 PDT 2012

278 [lbo-talk] Inequality: The silly tales economists like to tell -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/2012102915021526447.html > > "The reason why the manufacturing workers, construction workers, and > restaurant workers lose their jobs to low-paid workers from the > developing world, and doctors and lawyers don't, is that doctors and > lawyers use their political power to limit the extent to which they > are exposed to competition from their low- ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 31 05:49:16 PDT 2012

279 [lbo-talk] ....as for the storm -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2012, at 4:09 PM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > Maybe a table will open up at Eleven Madison Park? Babbo tweeted a little while ago that they've got openings for tonight.

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Date:	Sun Oct 28 13:18:16 PDT 2012

280 [lbo-talk] ....as for the storm -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:59 PM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > I understand you write out of genuine concern and I appreciate that, but no, I have no plans of taking this seriously. In particular, I have no plans of joining the masses hoarding up on gasoline, duct tape, and whatever shit they find still available on store shelves. I don't have much choice. Subway shutting down in <3 hrs. No school tomorrow.

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Date:	Sun Oct 28 13:11:59 PDT 2012

281 [lbo-talk] ....as for the storm -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Eleutherios <eleutherios.rizooto at gmail.com> wrote: > Bloomberg was irresponsible to delay Delay what? They're shutting down the subway and evacuating the coastal zones tonight.

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Date:	Sun Oct 28 12:50:45 PDT 2012

282 [lbo-talk] ....as for the storm -- rank: 1000

thanks this fucking sucks

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Date:	Sun Oct 28 12:01:49 PDT 2012

283 [lbo-talk] More health care horrors -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: >> Well, when you're talking about a profession which enjoys a starting > salary of >> $100,000.00 (and virtually guaranteed to rise exponentially in each > succeeding >> year), the employer ((HMO, hospital, etc.) has to recoup those outrageous > costs >> somehow! (lol) > > This isn't just wrong; it exhibits an incredible stupidity as to what has > been happening in health care. I ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 07:11:46 PDT 2012

284 [lbo-talk] responding to The Nation -- rank: 1000

The Nation graciously asked me to respond to their passel of Obama endorsements. Here it is (though that's not my title): http://www.thenation.com/article/170650/why-should-left-support-obama

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Date:	Thu Oct 18 07:23:08 PDT 2012

285 [lbo-talk] Pol Pot: Not Such A Bad Guy -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2012, at 4:25 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Something like this has always seemed to me fairly obvious. Mostly because > the voluminous "criticism" of these regimes has never, once, led to anything > useful, except perhaps to the moral self-satisfaction of the critic. Actually, Vietnam staged one of the only admirable and successful humanitarian interventions in history and deposed Pol Pot - over U.S. opposition. So this glorious her ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 16 13:37:30 PDT 2012