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3211 [lbo-talk] more on who the TPers are -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Open Borders. > > No Troops ouside the U.S. > > No foreign aid or arms sales abroad. > > \ Legalized drugs. > > Abolish the prison system. > > Those are minimal. But these demands offer nothing in the way of income support, jobs programs, health care, free schooling, or any other kinds of social democratic programs that might have some mass appeal. Chris Doss is right - this list would appeal more to libertarian ...

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3212 [lbo-talk] Americans' class self-ID -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:42 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > Doesn't this poll counter what many here have tried to say about the > teaparty poll results: namely that those that self represented as > teaparty > activists were upper-middle class or part of the bourgeoisie (majority > making less than $75,000)? Dunno who said that. What I said was that I suspected that the TPers are small businesspeople and/or independent professionals of some sort - and not classical working class in the s ...

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3213 [lbo-talk] Max Blumenthal on the Finkelstein movie -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > MB is pretty hard-assed about Israel. I don't > remember anything like that from his father, though they share a > facility for the knife. You know how the young Jews are - their hearts just don't beat for Israel the way the oldsters' do. Doug

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3214 [lbo-talk] more on who the TPers are -- rank: 1000

[those leftists who think that the Tea Partiers are somehow reachable by us - whatever reachable means, and whoever us is - take a gander at this] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34363_Page3.html> That ideological rigidity bore itself out when respondents were asked their rationale for ranking the conservative figures included in POLITICO s survey or for determining their top three most disappointing Republicans. Not only did respondents blast McCain for his support of stri ...

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3215 [lbo-talk] Max Blumenthal on the Finkelstein movie -- rank: 1000

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11134.shtml

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3216 [lbo-talk] the new world order -- rank: 1000

[from a front-page story in today's WSJ] Mr. Wen's forthright comments reflect a new dynamic in what is arguably the most important bilateral relationship in the world. As the only major economy still growing strongly, and the U.S.'s largest creditor, China is behaving with new assertiveness. Beijing has emerged from the global recession with a fresh confidence about its state-led economy, which has delivered stimulus projects from high- speed railways to highways and bridges with remarkabl ...

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3217 [lbo-talk] Americans' class self-ID -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Chris Maisano wrote: > Is it just me, or is the poll's definition of middle class as > houshold income ranging from $35,000 - $100,000 absurdly broad? > Isn't median US household income something like $52,000 per year? > $35,000 as the starting point of the lower middle class seems about > right, but household making $70 or $75,000 per year and up would > seem to be solidly in the upper reaches of the income distribution, > no? $100,000 is about ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 11:02:15 PDT 2010

3218 [lbo-talk] Americans' class self-ID -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Richard Seymour wrote: > Very interesting, and quite surprising that (as many as) 39% of > Americans say they are working class, given the cues built into the > poll > which would encourage respondents to interpret class as status. According to the full report on the poll, they asked the self-ID question first, and the stuff question afterwards. I've posted a piece to this list on class ID I wrote for The Baffler long ago. Here's a graf on the history o ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 10:59:40 PDT 2010

3219 [lbo-talk] Americans' class self-ID -- rank: 1000

[The hed that ABC gives this report on the PDF is "class and struggle."] <http://abcnews.go.com/WN/abc-world-news-poll-us-middle-class-concerns/story?id=10088470 > The Comeback: New Poll Shows Concerns of American Middle Class Four in 10 Middle-Class Americans Say They're Struggling in Tough Economy ANALYSIS by GARY LANGER March 15, 2010 A bit fewer than half of Americans count themselves as middle class -- but many of them aren't sure how long it will last: Among people who s ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 08:29:48 PDT 2010

3220 [lbo-talk] The Art of Political Lying -- rank: 1000

Ah yes, the Hitchens piece was about Chomsky! It mysteriously (ha) disappeared from the archive kept by his towel boy Peter Kilander after 9/11. But here it is: http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/1985----.htm The Chorus and Cassandra Christopher Hitchens Grand Street, Autumn, 1985 In his imperishable Treatise on the Art of Political Lying, published in 1714, Dr. John Arbuthnot laid down a standard for falsifiers and calumniators that has yet to be excelled: Detractory or defamatory lies shoul ...

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3221 [lbo-talk] The Art of Political Lying -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2010, at 9:41 PM, michael perelman wrote: > In 1712, John Arbuthnot, chiefly known as a satirist, considered > second only to Jonathan Swift, was also the Queen Anne's doctor and > a Fellow of the Royal Society, proposed the publication of a book > with two volumes, titled, The Art of Political Lying. Sadly, the > book never appeared although it would be more relevant than ever > today. Arbuthnot praised, "the noble and useful art of political > lying, which ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 14 19:05:23 PDT 2010

3222 [lbo-talk] LF meetup -- rank: 1000

When's the lbo-talk Left Forum meetup? I'm on a panel on Saturday from 3-5. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 13 16:59:41 PST 2010

3223 [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 opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: March 13, 2010 Yves Smith, keeper of the Naked Capitalism blog and author of Econned, on the contribution of the dismal science to the financial crisis, and how W ...

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3224 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

Fresh punditry: recovery, austerity, liberal devolution: http://bit.ly/b4d0Qw Doug

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3225 [lbo-talk] showdown over piece of crap -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > If you demand "all or nothing" then you have to be prepared to go > away empty handed sometimes Who demanded all exactly? Doug

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