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3676 [lbo-talk] media today -- rank: 1000

Nick Denton revises the Gawker media compensation scheme to be even more brutally competitive: http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/gawker-media-moves-to-uniques-be-even-more-of-a-hustler-says-nick-denton

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 5 09:18:08 PST 2010

3677 [lbo-talk] My Ayn Randian, libertarian loving relatives....argh.. . !!! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:43 AM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > How would differ from the > kinds of kids who would > have joined the Party of > the Right at Yale back when > Doug joined? There were no more than 20 of us, though! We felt like we were part of a righteous but doomed movement.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 5 08:58:37 PST 2010

3678 [lbo-talk] Dennis Brutus memorial -- rank: 1000

Please distribute, post, forward, and announce Please join us for a Memorial for Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) South African poet, anti-apartheid fighter, and human-rights activist Sunday January 17, 2010 2 pm at The Brecht Forum 451 West Street, between Bank and Bethune Streets, NYC. For directions, visit: http://brechtforum.org/directions Sponsored by: Haymarket Books, Brecht Forum, Activist Poets' Roundtable, War Resisters League, Black Left Unity Network, Indypendent.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 5 08:09:46 PST 2010

3679 [lbo-talk] Obama killing Pakistani civilians at 8 times Bush's rate -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > If someone wants to kill his wife, and I give him a gun to do it > with since his kitchen knife is inefficient, who is responsible for > the murder? And do you hand over the gun while sitting in his living room and the wife is in the kitchen?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 4 18:19:42 PST 2010

3680 [lbo-talk] Obama killing Pakistani civilians at 8 times Bush's rate -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Percival Myers wrote: > Extending the comparison period back for drones only. You're fixated > on drones. Why? Do you think death by drone is more abominable than > death by other opposing-force causes? You're perseverating. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 4 14:49:05 PST 2010

3681 [lbo-talk] Obama killing Pakistani civilians at 8 times Bush's rate -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Percival Myers wrote: > It's an article about drones. Are you really fixated on drones? What > about the rest of the innocents killed by US actions in foreign lands > - and the US troops killed in those misadventures too. Yo dude, the subject heading was about Pakistani civilians - to which you'd initially responded. Now that I've come up with some data showing that extending the comparison period back earlier is no more favorable to Obama, you're changing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 4 13:05:06 PST 2010

3682 [lbo-talk] Obama killing Pakistani civilians at 8 times Bush's rate -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Percival Myers wrote: > If we are looking at the number of killed Pakistani innocents, what > does it matter who owns the drones? Aren't the rest of the numbers > from 2001 through the intervening years more important when the > received answer is the rate at which Obama kills them in 2009 versus > the 2006-2007 Bush rate - when we know Bush had already abandoned that > battlefield in favor of a different one? Spare St Barry from any embarrassing com ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 4 12:22:12 PST 2010

3683 [lbo-talk] Obama killing Pakistani civilians at 8 times Bush's rate -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Nah, Cox's incredible Americocentrism has led him to dupe himself > into thinking that all evil flows from the US, which is the > superawesome ZOMGruxxxors best country ever, only evil. Whose drones are they? Pashtun tribesmen's?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 4 11:40:48 PST 2010

3684 [lbo-talk] Obama killing Pakistani civilians at 8 times Bush's rate -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Think about this sentence a second: Most of the attacks were carried > out on the basis of human intelligence, reportedly provided by the > Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen, who are spying for the US-led allied > forces in Afghanistan. > > I.e. these people were killed by Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen > using the US as a weapon. Oh yes, the U.S., innocent dupe of the natives. Yeah, Chris, I agree left-wing cant can be annoying a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 4 10:54:59 PST 2010

3685 [lbo-talk] "Move Your Money" -- rank: 1000

On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Is there some serious political argument for this that I'm missing? > > http://moveyourmoney.info Of course not. Just watch the pretty Jimmy Stewart fantasy and forget politics. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 4 10:42:21 PST 2010

3686 [lbo-talk] Obama killing Pakistani civilians at 8 times Bush's rate -- rank: 1000

[700 in Obama's first year, vs. an average of 82 a year in 2006 & 2007. Not clear from these reports what the 2008 average was, but it's clearly lower.] <http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/18-over-700-killed-in-44-drone-strikes-in-2009-am-01 > Over 700 killed in 44 drone strikes in 2009 Saturday, 02 Jan, 2010 PESHAWAR: Of the 44 predator strikes carried out by US drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan over the past 12 months, only five were a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 4 09:40:21 PST 2010

3687 [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 now at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 3 18:26:56 PST 2010

3688 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

Fresh punditry on Iceland and the IMF's multiple standards, and year/ decade-turn observations: http://bit.ly/Nhkhr Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 242 Greene Ave - #1C Brooklyn, NY 11238-1398 USA <dhenwood at panix.com> <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com> "blog": <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> voice +1-347-599-2211 cell +1-917-865-2813 producer, Behind the News Thursdays, 5-6 PM, WBAI, New York 99.5 FM Saturdays, 10-11 AM, KPFA, Berkeley 94.1 FM <htt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 3 09:40:17 PST 2010

3689 [lbo-talk] My Ayn Randian, libertarian loving relatives....argh... !!! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > It basically holds that I get to do whatever I want, and everybody > else will do whatever they want, and things will work out best in > the long run for everyone. I'm not fully versed on my Randism, but I think they prefer the liberty argument to the efficiency one - selfishness is right and just, and Pareto optimality is just a fortunate byproduct, if that is the byproduct. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 2 14:37:34 PST 2010

3690 [lbo-talk] My Ayn Randian, libertarian loving relatives....argh... !!! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Atlas Hugged, when I use that - and it may be often - do I attribute > it to > you, Doug? Yes, please. Though it can't be original, can it? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 2 13:46:53 PST 2010