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3976 [lbo-talk] blog post: those who dare to tell the truth -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:01 PM, SA wrote: > On 12/6/2010 3:59 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I just happened to re-read Stuart Hall's classic, "The Great Moving Right Show," written in 1979 during the early days of Thatcherism, yesterday. He writes of the use of "national interest" against the working class: >>> The expression of this representative relationship of class-to-party, in the present period, has depended decisively on the extensive set of bargains n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 08:06:27 PST 2010

3977 [lbo-talk] Billy Joel -- rank: 1000

Thank god Tumblr is back from its long outage: http://wondertonic.tumblr.com/post/2110360098/all-of-billy-joels-greatest-hits-played-at-once

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 7 07:07:34 PST 2010

3978 [lbo-talk] Sarah Palin, fake hunter -- rank: 1000

http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/sarah-palin-the-tv-star-exposes-sarah-palin-the-fake-hunter

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 13:43:38 PST 2010

3979 [lbo-talk] blog post: those who dare to tell the truth -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:46 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Andy Stern, former president of our largest union and a member of President Obama s thoroughly anti-working class deficit reduction commission, tells us that he won t be beholden to labor when he decides which of the odious commission recommendations he will support. He will, instead, act in the national interest. I just happened to re-read Stuart Hall's classic, "The Great Moving Right Show," written in 1979 during the early days o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 6 12:59:59 PST 2010

3980 [lbo-talk] RIP Elaine -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2010, at 7:10 AM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 21:08:24 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > writes: >> The one time I went, the food truly sucked. > > But your name isn't Woody Allen, so why would > you get the good stuff? We were with a serious regular, though. But I don't think there was any good food available - the cuisine seemed like it was out of 1972. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 4 07:22:00 PST 2010

3981 [lbo-talk] Goolsbee, Bonesman -- rank: 1000

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/blog/?p=6362

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 3 18:56:56 PST 2010

3982 [lbo-talk] RIP Elaine -- rank: 1000

The one time I went, the food truly sucked. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/famed_restaurateur_elaine_kaufman_PgECgjphIh5HMITFO9cQNM

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 3 18:08:24 PST 2010

3983 [lbo-talk] those credit card cash-back offers -- rank: 1000

http://chicagofed.org/webpages/publications/working_papers/2010/wp_19.cfm Why Do Banks Reward Their Customers to Use Their Credit Cards? Sumit Agarwal, Sujit Chakravorti, Anna Lunn Using a unique administrative level dataset from a large and diverse U.S. financial institution, we test the impact of rewards on credit card spending and debt. Specifically, we study the impact of cash-back rewards on individuals before and during their enrollment in the program. We find that with an average cash-bac ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 3 12:14:30 PST 2010

3984 [lbo-talk] Kentucky building LEED-certified ark replica -- rank: 1000

http://www.governor.ky.gov/pressrelease.htm?PostingGUID={415A07EF-4E0F-488A-AC63-62B43F44385F} Governor Steve Beshear's Communications Office Governor Beshear, Ark Encounter Announce Plans to Build a Full-Scale Noah s Ark Press Release Date: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 Contact Information: Kerri Richardson Jill Midkiff 502-564-2611 Ark Encounter to employ 900, expected to draw 1.6 million visitors in first year FRANKFORT, Ky. Governor Steve Beshear today joined the Ark Encounter LLC to announ ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 2 15:12:59 PST 2010

3985 [lbo-talk] Ravitch v. Gates -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Bill Gates merely parrots the > collective 'wisdom" of the US establishment (which seems to be his modus > operandi anyway.) No, he's actually helping to lead it these days, not parroting it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 2 13:06:27 PST 2010

3986 [lbo-talk] INSTANT POPULISM: A short history of populism old and new -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > Marxism has problems dealing with low wage service industry workers It does? Howzzat? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 2 12:32:11 PST 2010

3987 [lbo-talk] Bill Gates, business genius? -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/12/02/bill-gates-business-genius/ Reading Diane Ravtich s excellent takedown of (private school grad and college dropout) Bill Gates for all his intervention in public education reminded me that the only reason people listen to him is that he s thought to be some sort of business genius. If he s that rich, he must be smart, eh? But he s really not such a business genius....

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Date:	Thu Dec 2 07:38:54 PST 2010

3988 [lbo-talk] INSTANT POPULISM: A short history of populism old and new -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2010, at 8:03 PM, SA wrote: > So Marxists and populists each have their respective blurry areas - small business owners on the one hand, highly paid skilled workers on the other. Maybe Marxists are more self-aware about their contradictions, but there are still contradictions on both sides. Don't know where the highly paid skilled workers came into it. My point is that there's some real sociological and economic precision to the Marxist definition of class - one's relation to proper ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 1 17:42:54 PST 2010

3989 [lbo-talk] INSTANT POPULISM: A short history of populism old and new -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: >> The word is kind of useless - you can plug just about anything into it. The basic mechanism is dividing society into good guys and bad guys - producers and parasites, industry and finance, the People and elites, whatever. >> >> Doug > > Yet somehow you never seem to see modes of thought or movements that > employ the terms "capitalist" and "worker" derided as populist No, because there's a lot more ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 1 15:46:59 PST 2010

3990 [lbo-talk] Wikisurfing -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:40 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > Replace the word "Putin" with "Gandhi" and "siloviki" with "Congress > Party" I'm not one with the demonization of Putin, but really, he's no Ghandi. Nor were Congress a bunch of gangsters. Really, Dennis. Doug

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