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3691 [lbo-talk] My Ayn Randian, libertarian loving relatives....argh... !!! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > But some of those people who don't outgrow it, > besides sinking into idiotic navel gazing, > wind up becoming chairman of the United States Federal > Reserve Board. Where they use state power to bail out capitalists! Atlas Hugged...

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Date:	Sat Jan 2 04:17:37 PST 2010

3692 [lbo-talk] My Ayn Randian, libertarian loving relatives....argh... !!! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2010, at 9:39 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > It's one thing to be a libt and just take advantage of public > institutions you oppose on principle, > but to advocate Zionism entails supporting in principle a government > that is way up the arse > of a subject population. There could be no Jewish homeland of the > sort that prevails in the > mideast without a Jewish state. The loons at the Ayn Rand Institute are constantly advocating bombing the savages. Their rationa ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 1 19:33:07 PST 2010

3693 [lbo-talk] Van Jones, in comeback, courts GOP, becomes colleague of MHL -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33654.html> Van Jones returns, sends Glenn Beck love By DIANNA HEITZ | 2/28/10 4:33 PM EST ... His return to the public stage began Wednesday, when the founder of the advocacy group Green for All was named a senior fellow at the Green Opportunity Initiative at the progressive Center for American Progress, and separately appointed as a fellow at Princeton University, teaching environmental and economic policy. Jones also took to the airwaves, v ...

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3694 [lbo-talk] Capitalism on Derivatives? (Was: Responsibilities) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:10 PM, SA wrote: > I wonder if the appearance of this new form of circulating money > that's only used to buy financial assets, never consumer goods, is > part of the reason why the past 25 years has seen so much asset- > price inflation and so little consumer-price inflation. Well, there was also the war on the working class, which lowered wages and therefore reduced price pressures at the same time it increased profitability, which justified higher valuation ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 28 18:21:43 PST 2010

3695 [lbo-talk] Responsibilities -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > Dick Bryan happens to be my thesis supervisor, so I might jump in > here. Yes, one of their concerns is to dispute the line that > derivatives and other financial innovations of the last few decades > are a great manifestation of irrationality, froth and/or waste. Or at > least to 'bend the stick' against that conception and to say there is > much else interesting about them. I'm a bit short of time now, but I do want to say some ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 18:39:37 PST 2010

3696 [lbo-talk] UCSC Professor Robert Meister on the UC system's budget crisis -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2010, at 6:34 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > Here is a link to a talk by Robert Meister (who was interviewed on > Doug's > show a few months back) offering a pretty good framework to > understand the > current UC budget crisis. The material is divided into seven > sections. > http://www.youtube.com/user/ucilecture You can see me at the > beginning, > when I inform folks about organizing efforts for March 4th, and try > to get > them to sign on for mo ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 15:41:33 PST 2010

3697 [lbo-talk] LA Times: Most 'tea party' followers are baby boomers reliving the '60s -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> Generational cliches make me want to scream. > > Forget the cite, but think it's safe to say nothing approaching a > majority of college students in the 60s participated in political > activism. No, and as Rick Perlstein argued, the 60s were also the time when the New Right laid the foundation for its revival in the 1970s. Didn' ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 10:49:10 PST 2010

3698 [lbo-talk] LA Times: Most 'tea party' followers are baby boomers reliving the '60s -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > "Oceans of ink, terabytes of blog space and an eternity of > television time > have been devoted to the latest object of media fascination, the > 'tea party' > movement. Now (finally!), a poll conducted by CNN gives us some hard > data on > the Tea Party Nation." > > http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ellis25-2010feb25,0,5318715.story Hmm, the authors: "Jim Spencer and Curtis Ellis are Democratic ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 10:26:57 PST 2010

3699 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Without arguing strongly against this corrective, I'm not sure > opposition to > the TARP was primarily rooted in supporting "small" business... my > sense was > that it was primarily tied to hating deficits, government spending > and big > gov't. Big biz can live with deficits if they're intended to save their asses. Wall Street mostly supported the StimPak, at least the saner people at the name-brand institutions ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 10:02:09 PST 2010

3700 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > My sense is that this is largely an ideological and legitimating > assertion > made by Rep[ugs in direct contrast to the policies they have actually > implemented... it certainly doesn't seem to me that policy programs > that > have served the interests of huge financial interests; massive energy, > extractive, agrichemical and food processing industries; gargantuan > retailers, and military-industrial suppliers is oriented ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 09:22:49 PST 2010

3701 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:36 AM, brad bauerly wrote: > The small business owner is a key political base of the Reps yet > Doug claims > that small business is not that important for the economy (if I > remember > correctly). Wouldn't this make the Reps a rather ineffectual > capitalist > ruling party? Or to look at it from another angle, why do the small > business owners have greater clout in US politics then their > economic power > alone would designate? Numbers, f ...

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3702 [lbo-talk] Responsibilities -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > Have you read Arrighi's Long Twentieth Century? I've just started, but > basically he claims that financialization has always accompanied the > transition of geopolitical leadership. Always? Doesn't n=3?

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 09:17:14 PST 2010

3703 [lbo-talk] Responsibilities -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:16 AM, brad bauerly wrote: > Are they really all that different on 'economic' issues? Depends on what you mean by "all that different." It's far from impossible that a Dem admin and Congress, present or future, would raise taxes on the top 1-2% modestly. A Rep admin and Congress would cut them. There's obviously a major difference on health care and climate change, with the Dems supporting mostly awful corp-friendly things like Obamacare and cap & trad ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 09:16:43 PST 2010

3704 [lbo-talk] Responsibilities -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > One of the reasons that htere is no left in the united states is > that so > many potential leftists believe this -- that Democrats are different, > and that when they act like Obama they are Republicrats or soemthing. Carrol, I agree with you up to a point, but the two parties aren't identical. The Dems get a lot of mileage out of subtle differences which are amplified in the minds of their supporters. The mechanisms of that differ ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 25 17:28:55 PST 2010

3705 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Are freelancers petite bourgeoisie, or are they working class or > middle class? From here, you look more like a freelancer than a > business owner. I guess for you, though, the things required to run > LBO are not insignificant and separate you in some way from most > freelancers. I'm not really a freelancer. I write the occasional article, but I actually run a small business. Doug

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