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2866 [lbo-talk] contrasts at the liberal weeklies -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/blog/155934/nancy-pelosi-minority-leader> Nancy Pelosi for Minority Leader Katrina vanden Heuvel I like fighters. I especially like intelligent, women fighters and Nancy Pelosi certainly fits that bill. The savvy, gutsy House speaker has announced her intention to run for Minority Leader in the next Congress, and I hope the Dems get their act together and elect her. Pelosi knew exactly what she wanted to accomplish as speaker and she laid that agenda out clearly w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 9 12:37:59 PST 2010

2867 [lbo-talk] any irish lbo-talkers out there? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> So what ideas do you have on the eurocrisis? > > You're the expert. I'll leave the solutions to you. Just so I'm clear on this: you can make fun of everyone else's ideas, but don't have any of your own? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 9 11:41:14 PST 2010

2868 [lbo-talk] any irish lbo-talkers out there? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:22 AM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> It seems to me that Ireland, like most of the peripheral countries, has no >> real way out except to exit the euro. (I read yesterday's article by >> whassisname, Morgan Kelley, your Dr. Doom?) If Ireland had the possibility >> of running its own monetary policy and devaluing, there would be more space >> for even center-left parties to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 9 11:20:40 PST 2010

2869 [lbo-talk] Varoufakis on ending the eurocrisis -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > What strange times we live in. Pro-market Tea Partiers are intent on > destroying capitalism, and socialists can only offer technocratic > solutions for saving it. Bizarro world. What's your idea for the eurocrisis? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 9 07:05:38 PST 2010

2870 [lbo-talk] Varoufakis on ending the eurocrisis -- rank: 1000

A Modest Proposal for Overcoming the Euro Crisis by Yanis Varoufakis http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/varoufakis051110.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 9 06:08:00 PST 2010

2871 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Now, after this point, Krugman tries to say it wasn't just fear of political and bond market opposition -- that it was unwarranted optimism too. But I don't see any sign of that in that passage. It looks to me like fear of opposition accounts for all of it. Yup. So much for change... Funny that Krugman said: "I have no insight into Christy Romer's departure from the administration." She's the one who told the CFR - entirely on h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 9 05:49:03 PST 2010

2872 [lbo-talk] KPFA morning show, and staff, canned -- rank: 1000

[links in original - lbo-talk alum, and leading maniac and 9/11 truther, Joe Wanzala was crucial to the evolution of this idiocy] <http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/08/kpfa-morning-show-off/> KPFA morning show: off The idiots and maniacs who are now running Pacifica have decided to lay off the entire staff of the excellent KPFA Morning Show and to take it off the air: BREAKING: Pacifica management lays off entire staff of Morning Show | KPFA Worker. The show is the station s most popular, and it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 8 17:55:24 PST 2010

2873 [lbo-talk] great tweets of our time -- rank: 1000

Tristan Taormino Today I'm editing my new movie, writing about masturbation, and reading erotica.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 8 11:10:08 PST 2010

2874 [lbo-talk] radio archive -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2010, at 10:30 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > This is probably an obvious question, but are you still after folks to put > pressure on the station? Not sure. I hear reports that station management is willing to talk, but I am so burned out on that hellhole I'm not sure I want to play. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 8 10:14:19 PST 2010

2875 [lbo-talk] Jacobin contest -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > http://jacobinmag.com/blog/?p=54 > > Three responses already, only one's amusing ... I missed the subscription call. I just subscribed. Everyone should! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 8 08:44:38 PST 2010

2876 [lbo-talk] Neoliberal Europe vs. Keynesian USA -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2010, at 12:27 PM, autonomia at lavabit.com wrote: > monetarism I'm not sure what you mean by "monetarism." The doctrine that MV=PT? Or a general regime of austerity imposed through credit policy? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 7 18:25:01 PST 2010

2877 [lbo-talk] radio archive -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Andy wrote: > Is the Behind the News archive staying up? I haven't yet read every > single book referenced in it. Oh yes, for sure. BtN may go on too - not sure yet.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 7 17:57:47 PST 2010

2878 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 1000

On Nov 6, 2010, at 11:53 AM, knowknot at mindspring.com wrote: > Do any of the Savants here know how/where can one probably find polling and also actual voting data There's a lot in the Pew and Greenberg analyses, whose links I've posted here. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 6 13:55:05 PDT 2010

2879 [lbo-talk] Open letters from Stefano Kourkoulakos and LeoPanitch -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Shane Mage wrote: >> How is it to be measured? > in hours I just don't buy that. It's all ultimately about money: > Money is therefore not only an object, but is the object of greed. It is essentially auri sacra fames. Greed as such, as a particular form of the drive, i.e. as distinct from the craving for a particular kind of wealth, e.g. for clothes, weapons, jewels, women, wine etc., is possible only when general wealth, wealth as such, has become indiv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 6 05:07:42 PDT 2010

2880 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > Shane: How stupid can you get? The Dumbos were trashed be their 2008 voters by *not voting*. > > Somebody: Both you and Alan seem to subscribe to the view that there's a vast reserve army of nonvoters silently waiting to be mobilized by a true left-wing leader. I wish that this were true, but I prefer to stick to the empirical data rather than to what's ideologically comfortable. This year's voters were whiter, righter, and older t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 5 19:21:46 PDT 2010