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3301 [lbo-talk] Garry Wills does nice short summary of RS article -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:26 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > He cannot admit the real reason for this seemingly senseless war: > the control of Mideast energy resources. Define "control," please?

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3302 [lbo-talk] Garry Wills does nice short summary of RS article -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:26 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Obama is conducting an even more brutal war than Bush did, but he > explains it only with Bushisms: "I want the American people to > understand that we have a clear and focused goal - to disrupt, > dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to > prevent their return to either country in the future. That s the > goal that must be achieved. These are not "Bushishms." They're concise, grammat ...

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3303 [lbo-talk] Sign Up For Reason's First-Ever Cruise, Feb. 2011! -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:39 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Not really, but I read Reason's online offerings with some > frequency, and > they usually strike me as sane, at the very least. There are things I like about Reason, and I even know and like several people who work there, but at least a touch of lunacy is never far from the surface. Doug

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3304 [lbo-talk] Sign Up For Reason's First-Ever Cruise, Feb. 2011! -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2010, at 7:21 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > My first thought was that this promised to be more fun than its > Nation and > National Review forbears, until I saw that Reason had adopted The > Seasteading Institute as its "cruise partner." Pack of weirdos. Did you ever spend any time on the right? The left has nothing on the right when it comes to weirdness. Only difference is that they have money.

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3305 [lbo-talk] Sign Up For Reason's First-Ever Cruise, Feb. 2011! -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2010, at 7:21 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > "Regular readers of this site and subscribers to the print edition > of Reason > already know that we're shoving off on our first-ever cruise in > February > 2011." > > http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/24/sign > > My first thought was that this promised to be more fun than its > Nation and > National Review forbears, until I saw that Reason had adopted The > Seasteading Institute as its "cruise p ...

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3306 [lbo-talk] BHO begins Afghanistan climbdown -- rank: 1000

POLITICO Breaking News: ----------------------------------------------------- President Barack Obama said Thursday that he did not foresee an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in July 2011, the date he has set for the start of the drawdown of U.S. forces. "We didn t say we d be switching off the lights and closing the door behind us. We said we d begin a transition phase that would allow the Afghan government to take more and more responsibility," he said at th ...

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3307 [lbo-talk] Scope of "Ruling Class" was Murdoch, Mayor Bloomberg Lobby For Immigration Reform, -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I have argued before that the "ruling class" Domhoff et al describe is > only a layer of the ruling class. That that class as a whole probably > includes arund 5% of the population (which has been the case in most > societies). Hence it includes a rather large number of non-"superrich" > people. This article suggests that there is or may be a serious split > between the "corporate elite" on the one ...

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3308 [lbo-talk] Judith Butler hammers the homonationalists -- rank: 1000

[Video at link.] <http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/judith-butler-1-homonationalism-0/ > Judith Butler 1 Homonationalism 0 June 21, 2010 Posted by Tavia in Current Affairs, Political Rants and Raves. Tags: judith butler, CSD, gay pride, homonationalism, berlin, anti- racism, immigrant rights, commercialism trackback By Tavia Nyong o Ironically, the very reasons I gave Berlin Pride a pass this year rampant commercialism, body fascism, and apolitical torpor are the reason ...

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3309 [lbo-talk] Working-Class Fragmentation -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Catherine Driscoll wrote: > She's pretty reticent by comparison about the significance of being > the first woman in the job and in fact I do feel oddly satisfied by > the fact that the first woman governor-general just swore in the > first woman PM. But the class story she prefers is making me feel > uncomfortable and yearn for some honesty about "working-class > fragmentation". Either that or I'd like to hear more discussion > about ...

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3310 [lbo-talk] Working-Class Fragmentation -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > robably quite a few > leftists have 'taken' it in; what is lacking is not their fault: there > is no mass movement within which larger circles can be 'educated.' My complaint is about intellectuals, not the masses.

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3311 [lbo-talk] Ravitch Warns Obama on Education Policy: 'Change CourseBefore it is Too Late' -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > If you think I'm calling for the destruction of the educational system > and a return to our true natures, I've communicated badly. Please clarify then.

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3312 [lbo-talk] Ravitch Warns Obama on Education Policy: 'Change CourseBefore it is Too Late' -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:46 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > >> One outcome of this could be a grass-roots education movement (a la >> Freire) >> that redefines what it means to be educated and distinguishes the >> meaning of >> an education vs the meaning of a degree. > > I agree with this. The destruction of traditional education could be > seen as an opportunity. It doesn't make much sens ...

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3313 [lbo-talk] Working-Class Fragmentation -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2010, at 2:10 PM, turbulo at aol.com quoted: > At the pinnacle is the financial sphere and its major players, but > all that is quite abstract. You can t demonstrate against an > abstraction, explains the sociologist Alain Mergier. It's complex in the details, but not in the power relations: the financial system is about the construction and exercise of ownership and control by a possessing class. The left does no one any favors when it speaks of finance as detached, oth ...

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3314 [lbo-talk] Krugman: The Zombies Who Ate Alan Simpson's Brain -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Since there is in fact no separate stock of private sector assets, > isn't the > thrust of the Keynes point exactly the way the system works now? Yes, aside from the surplus going to the pre-funding. And it should work that way forever. Doug

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3315 [lbo-talk] Krugman: The Zombies Who Ate Alan Simpson's Brain -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > But it can manage the redemption schedule to ensure that the cash > will be there when needed. So what you're saying is that the Treasury will have to do fresh borrowing sometime in the future to make good on the claims that were supposedly made good on in advance. Which is exactly my point. Doug

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