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3016 [lbo-talk] Russia moves Westward -- rank: 1000

On May 12, 2010, at 10:39 AM, John Gulick wrote: > DR says: > >> Hilarious. This is less about any actual shift in Russia's >> commitment to > multipolarity -- there has been none >--and more about Obama telling > the > US mainstream media to stop smearing Russia. > > For once, I agree unequivocally w/DR. So this is "reporting"? > Reading and regurgitating embassy press releases? It was a memo from the Russian Foreign Minister to the President. Ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 07:48:29 PDT 2010

3017 [lbo-talk] Chase demo -- rank: 1000

A bunch of good orgs, including the excellent NEDAP, are planning a demonstration against JPMorgan Chase, for all the usual reasons, at their shareholders' meeting. If you can, please come and be righteous: Tuesday, May 18, 9 AM 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, Pine St side NYC

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 06:41:14 PDT 2010

3018 [lbo-talk] publishing notes -- rank: 1000

Pre-order your copy today! From The Note: > "Sarah Palin's new book has a title, 'America By Heart: Reflections > on Family, Faith and Flag,' and a release date, Nov. 23, publisher > HarperCollins announced Tuesday," the AP's Hillel Italie reports. > "It will include 'selections from classic and contemporary readings > that have moved her,' according to HarperCollins, along with 'the > nation's founding documents to great speeches, sermons, letters, > literatu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 12 06:14:44 PDT 2010

3019 [lbo-talk] immigrants crash a Tea Party -- rank: 1000

[Can't find a link for this, so I'm posting the whole thing. It's pretty wonderful.] SB 1070: Battle at the Grassroots By Joel Olson In the struggle over the notorious anti-immigrant, anti-Latino, anti-working class law SB 1070, a person might be tempted to see this as a conflict that plays out among the elites of Arizona politics: legislators, governors, sheriffs, newspaper editors, judges, lawyers, and nonprofits. This view would be understandable, but wrong. The real battle is at the grassroo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 17:43:14 PDT 2010

3020 [lbo-talk] Russia moves Westward -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 12, 2010 In Secret Report, Russia Shifts Westward By GREGORY L. WHITE MOSCOW—In a confidential report, Russia outlined a shift toward a more pragmatic foreign policy aimed at building closer ties with the U.S. and Europe to help modernize its outdated industries. The program detailed a shift away from the more confrontational line the Kremlin had taken in past years. It singled out the Obama administration for praise for its more cooperative approach to Moscow. A Russia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 17:35:12 PDT 2010

3021 [lbo-talk] Obama to move SC to the right -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2010, at 1:22 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > Apparently, she follows the pattern > of many SCOTUS nominees of the past > twenty years of leaving behind a > very minimal paper trail by which people > could discern her views on important > legal and constitutional issues. She takes it to a new level, as they say, having started to cover her tracks around age 25 - assuming she has any tracks at all. Maybe she's as empty as the guy who nominated her. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 11 11:15:26 PDT 2010

3022 [lbo-talk] Obama to move SC to the right -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2010, at 12:52 PM, c b wrote: > Kagan's one big public > political action seems to be standing up to the military on > "don't-ask-don't-tell", which would seem to make her a good candidate > to be an LBO-talk leftist. Man, it's a funny old world when David Brooks makes more sense than a CPUSA fellow-traveller: > Kagan s sole display of passion came during her defense of her > decision to reinstate a policy that banned the military from using > Harvard ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 10:13:54 PDT 2010

3023 [lbo-talk] National Journal: Do 'Family Values' Weaken Families? -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2010, at 6:20 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > this was brought up here during elections wasn't it? the argument > was that it was, in part, that family dissolution in red states was > connected to the fact that poverty and job instability correlates > with higher family dissolution. Garance France-Ruta put it nicely a couple of years ago, when she said that "family values" are aspirational. Stable families are a feature of the better-off, so the worse-off members ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 08:29:23 PDT 2010

3024 [lbo-talk] EU gets serious -- rank: 1000

On May 11, 2010, at 11:14 AM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 10:50 pm, Wendy Lyon wrote: > >> But still, I'm impressed by your unfailing ability to put a positive >> spin on everything the EU leaders do. > > If you let Greece and the Mediterranean countries default, Europe goes > into a 1931-style meltdown, and we already know how that movie ended. If today's NYT is to be believed, it took some arm twisting from Obama to get the Euros to agree to a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 08:27:01 PDT 2010

3025 [lbo-talk] McCain becomes completely disgusting -- rank: 1000

Complete the danged fence! http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/john-mccain-in-favor-of-building-wall-to-prevent-his-remaining-dignity-from-entering-country

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 18:12:48 PDT 2010

3026 [lbo-talk] more back-asswards perceptions -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2010, at 7:09 PM, SA wrote: > Daniel Kahneman wrote a great paper where he looked at subjective > well-being -- which is typically measured by self-evaluated life > satisfaction -- in the US and France. The US has famously high SWB; > in France it's famously low. The difference is very large: half a > standard deviation, the same size as the difference between an > American employed person and unemployed person. DK asked whether > this finding is credible and hypo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 17:50:27 PDT 2010

3027 [lbo-talk] Analysis of Tea Party -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Gail Brock wrote: > Adam Curtis, in his 4-part BBC documentary, "The Century of the > Self" (http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyoftheSelf_0) > does a good job on tracing the rise of this self-congratulating > individuality. Briefly, in the early years of the 20th c., Freud's > nephew Edward Bernays adapted the techniques of psychoanalysis to > consumerism, to create desires for purchasing. Eventually, people > came to defin ...

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Date:	Mon May 10 15:25:25 PDT 2010

3028 [lbo-talk] Obama to move SC to the right -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > What EXACTLY does that mean? The Supreme Court is arguably more of a > political institution than a judicial one. In the past, most - if > not all - Supreme What does moving it to the right mean? Is that your question? Well it seems she's more in favor of unlimited executive power than Stevens, for one. I mostly don't follow this shit. I hate the Supreme Court. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 12:33:24 PDT 2010

3029 [lbo-talk] more back-asswards perceptions -- rank: 1000

[from ABC's top pollster, Gary Langer] Here s a surprise, at least for pastoralists: Well-being in the United States is highest for residents of large cities, and lowest for residents of small towns and rural areas. Or try another: The metro area with the nation s worst access to basic necessities also has the highest optimism about becoming a better place to live. Welcome to McAllen, Edinburg and Mission, Texas. See The Numbers blog here. http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2010/05/grand-ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 12:15:07 PDT 2010

3030 [lbo-talk] Obama to move SC to the right -- rank: 1000

[From The Nation, of all places. Via Mike Allen.] The Nation's Ari Melber e-mails: 'As a lawyer, I think there is no doubt that: 1. Kagan is supremely qualified and merits confirmation by any standard 2. Replacing Stevens with Kagan moves the Court to the Right. Ergo 3. The sum consequence of Obama's first term appointments will be to advance qualified nominees through a respectable selection process that ultimately tilts the Court a bit more to the Right. Not the end of the world, but not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 12:12:16 PDT 2010