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3571 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > My only minor suggestion > would be more of a focus on the Clinton and Bush years and their > involvement in Haitian politics. There was quite a bit of that in the 2004 interviews. http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio_1.html#040401 http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio_1.html#040311 > I certainly share Fatton's hopes, that somehow, this time will be > different. But my head also tells me that this could be a second > ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 17:56:21 PST 2010

3572 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2010, at 7:46 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > Me: I've heard that before. Why is it true this time but wasn't in > the > 1970s, 1980s, early 1990s, and after 9-11? Maybe it's been true all along. It's a slow and irregular process that we're living through and it's hard to see sometimes. Doug

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3573 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

[Note: files are often posted well ahead of their announcement here or on the web archive page - so for the latest, subscribe to the podcast version.] BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries at: &l ...

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3574 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

Fresh punditry: stumbling recovery, Obama takes on the fat cats, living in imperial decline: http://bit.ly/Nhkhr

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3575 [lbo-talk] "Russian armed forces" behind quake-weapons report -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > "According to /Russia Today/, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías > evoked the possibility that the United States are behind the series > of earthquakes that struck the Caribben region last week, including > the one that devastated Haiti. However, according to /Vive Tv/, the > allegation originated with the Russian armed forces." One of the TV reports on Chavez's claim also said that Georgia has accused Russia of ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 12:18:42 PST 2010

3576 [lbo-talk] Here, the article that prompted Chavez' comment wrt Haiti and the quake -- rank: 1000

Why on earth would the U.S. want to destroy Haiti? To provoke more boat people? To lower the minimum wage, now $3 a day? Chavez has enough to worry about without embracing nonsense like this. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 11:51:04 PST 2010

3577 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO's Massachusetts post-mortem -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: >> By most accounts, Gore is fairly likable in person. But so what? Why >> should likability matter? We're not drinking beer with them, we're >> giving >> them state power. >> > > Spoken like a true economist! I think the implicit assumption that > human > beings are - or should be - rational machines breaks down even more > quickly > in political science. Hey, I'm the first to say that. I've long s ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 11:47:52 PST 2010

3578 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO's Massachusetts post-mortem -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:05:40 -0500 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> They liked Bush better than >> Gore too. > > This isn't surprising. Who could like Gore at all? He's > surely the polar object of unlikableness. Take the most > likable person you know, reverse the signs of all the > relevant dimensional coefficients, and you've got Gore. By most accounts, Gore is fairly likable in per ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 10:36:56 PST 2010

3579 [lbo-talk] This just in ... -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:19 PM, martin wrote: > On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > >> I expect crazy shit from Pat Robertson, but Hugo Chavez? >> >> http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116688&sectionid=351020704 >> >> Chavez says US 'weapon' caused Haiti quake > > Why do you think the US moved nuclear testing underground? No, why do you think that?

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3580 [lbo-talk] HB, J -- rank: 1000

Happy birthday to Jordan, who makes this list possible! And many other good things besides. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 09:10:25 PST 2010

3581 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO's Massachusetts post-mortem -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2010, at 3:36 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > A poll conducted on behalf of the AFL-CIO found that 49% of > Massachusetts union households supported Mr. Brown in Tuesday's > voting, while 46% supported Democrat Martha Coakley. The poll > conducted by Hart Research Associates surveyed 810 voters. Interesting that the AFL-CIO didn't disclose this in their own press release.

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 09:06:21 PST 2010

3582 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO's Massachusetts post-mortem -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:33 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Probably the best analysis and the most useful poll numbers I've yet > seen: > > http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/upload/mass_elections.pdf > From which we learn: * Brown voters are mad that Obama hasn't delivered "change" - a largely contentless thing, since the change he would deliver is very different from the fantasies that many Obama voters had about the change he would deliver. * They liked Brown better t ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 09:05:40 PST 2010

3583 [lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institution inone day -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Hatred of the filibuster is not inherently anticapitalist. It's > anti-gridlock. Effective government is normally considered a good > thing by the RC. Not sure about that. A lot of Wall Street loves gridlock (as does Alex Cockburn). Prevents the gov from doing anything, which is almost always the better alternative.

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Date:	Sat Jan 23 09:00:56 PST 2010

3584 [lbo-talk] ciao, newspapers -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:55 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > The poets often get there first. This is from Tom Stoppard's "Night > and Day" (1978): > > Milne: No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free > press everything is correctable, and without it everything is > concealable. > Ruth: I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't > stand. Right. The 20 mins I just spent reading the first section of the NYT were a total waste. Learn ...

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3585 [lbo-talk] This just in ... -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I expect crazy shit from Pat Robertson, but Hugo Chavez? Yeah. This is sad. I'm afraid the Chavez experiment is entering the flameout phase. Doug

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