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3076 [lbo-talk] Michal Kalecki -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > Worth reading? If so, where to start? Yes. Can't beat the short essay, Political Aspects of Full Employment. Why you can't have it under capitalism. A scanned version is here: http://www.cfeps.org/ss2006/readings/Courvisanos_c.pdf . Doug

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3077 [lbo-talk] More Times fearmongering -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > If the U.S. tax share of GDP is among the lowest in the OECD, how > could the U.S. be "close to the point" of an untenable deficit? Hey, it sounds good, doesn't it?

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Date:	Wed Mar 31 15:30:07 PDT 2010

3078 [lbo-talk] Let's All Argue About Nuclear Power! -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Are you, like me, down with thorium reactor research? Or do you think > it's wind, solar, hydro or bust? I'm not opposed in principle.

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3079 [lbo-talk] Yay -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > James isn't much of an environmentalist, and Chris isn't very fond > of James. Yeah, all well established, and not worth hammering at.

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3080 [lbo-talk] Yay -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Cue comment about how the Nazis were environmentalists. Not sure what the point of this remark was. Not sure I want clarification, either.

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3081 [lbo-talk] Census returns -- rank: 1000

How's your neighborhood doing at returning census forms? Mine kinda sucks: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/

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Date:	Wed Mar 31 12:15:16 PDT 2010

3082 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > So what is he doing? Beating off?

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3083 [lbo-talk] yay! -- rank: 1000

That socialist Obama on his decision to open up the coast to oil drilling: "Ultimately, we need to move beyond the tired debates between right and left, between business leaders and environmentalists, between those who would claim drilling is a cure all and those who would claim it has no place. Because this issue is just too important to allow our progress to languish while we fight the same old battles over and over again." Yup. Let's give up on conservation & alt.energy re ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 31 09:13:13 PDT 2010

3084 [lbo-talk] the communitarian case for drones -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:42 PM, ken hanly wrote: > Obviously what is good for terrorists should be good for ordinary > criminals. From now on the onus will be on criminals not to take > hostages and if anyone takes hostages we will simply take out both > the criminals and their hostages. The blame is upon the criminals Hey, that's kind of communitarian, isn't it?

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Date:	Tue Mar 30 17:58:54 PDT 2010

3085 [lbo-talk] the communitarian case for drones -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2010, at 7:52 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Where's the full text w/ links of Etzioni's piece? http://www.ndu.edu/press/jfq_pages/editions/i57/etzioni.pdf

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3086 [lbo-talk] the communitarian case for drones -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [I always hated this communitarian shit, but this takes the cake. >> For some reason this asshole added me to his email list.] > > Oy. But you can't blame this on his communitarianism. It's a > function rather of his being Israeli, where this is the mainstream > position. There are many Israelis who are better than that. So that's no excuse. But that aside there's s ...

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3087 [lbo-talk] More Times fearmongering -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Unfortunately universityu faculty in Illinois are by no means as clear > on it as are Doug and Max, and the tactic is working beautifully to > create confusion. It amazes me how innumerate otherwise educated people can be. It's so easy to bamboozle. It makes me wonder though - do economists really believe this shit, or are they conscious bamboozlers? Doug

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3088 [lbo-talk] the communitarian case for drones -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > This guy is apparently at my university, but I've never heard of him > and it > reads like he wrote the entirety of his Wikipedia page himself: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitai_Etzioni Oh he was pretty prominent back in the 90s, when that whole communitarian thing was a fad. I always thought it was repulsive reactionary shit, but it usually came off softer than cheering for remote-controlled killing. Doug

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3089 [lbo-talk] the communitarian case for drones -- rank: 1000

[I always hated this communitarian shit, but this takes the cake. For some reason this asshole added me to his email list.] From: Amitai Etzioni <icps at GWU.EDU> Date: March 30, 2010 5:03:51 PM EDT To: COMNET at HERMES.GWU.EDU Subject: The case for drones. Comments please. Reply-To: Amitai Etzioni <icps at GWU.EDU> Jane Mayer made the liberal case against drones in The New Yorker (October 26, 2009). We provide a blow by blow response here and discuss the issue on Talk of the Nati ...

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3090 [lbo-talk] More Times fearmongering -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Pension benefits are future obligations, no less than bonds. My pet > peeve about this is that indebtedness is counted as the present value, > or maybe just the total amount of future payments in one big scary > number, whereas the proper perspective is commitments, year by year, > compared to a state's ability to meet them, say its yearly GDP or tax > revenue. The whole strategy of doing a present value analysis of pension ob ...

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