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4216 [lbo-talk] Daryl Gates, spymaster -- rank: 1000

The excellent David Cay Johnston on that recently departed creep Daryl Gates: http://www.laobserved.com/visiting/2010/04/daryl_gates_secret_legacy.php

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 18:05:54 PDT 2010

4217 [lbo-talk] Game Time! (was: another TP poll: still whiter, righter, more) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:54 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > OK. Game time! Name the first album/disc you ever had. The worser > the better. Herman's Hermits' first.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 17:57:06 PDT 2010

4218 [lbo-talk] Fwd: John Gray, Thatcher -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Richard Seymour wrote: > On 16/04/2010 20:58, Doug Henwood wrote: >> I think I have taken you up on it. I don't agree. I like change. > > Surely it is pointless to enthuse about 'change' in the abstract. The > invasion of Iraq was change. Pinochet was change. Katrina was > change. > Repossession is change. No child left behind was change. This small > sample of capitalism's celerity is probably more representative of the > general s ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 15:43:44 PDT 2010

4219 [lbo-talk] TPers & The Fed -- rank: 1000

[from the WSJ's Real Time Economics] One Tea Partier Wants More Discussion of the Fed As tea-party members staged rallies across the country yesterday, one supporter hit the streets of Manhattan in hopes of adding the Federal Reserve to the party's growing list of targets. Carmine Priolo, a bartender in Staten Island, NY, went to a tea-party rally at New York's Farley Post Office in a black "End the Fed" T-shirt and holding a foam board sign emblazoned with a hand-drawn picture of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 15:09:20 PDT 2010

4220 [lbo-talk] another TP poll: still whiter, righter, more -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I haven't followed this thread closely though so maybe I'm being > redundant > by saying this. Nope. It can't be said too often. And in your particular case, say more. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 13:58:03 PDT 2010

4221 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 15, 2010 Robert Scott of the Economic Policy Institute on how China s currency manipulation kills American jobs (paper here) Matt Taibbi on how Wall Stree ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 13:16:22 PDT 2010

4222 [lbo-talk] Fwd: John Gray, Thatcher -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Though I don't believe anyone ever took me up on it (supportive or in > oppsosition), I believe that I have a number of times on this list > indicated my belief that change (of any kind) is on the whole > negative. I think I have taken you up on it. I don't agree. I like change. I wish the revolutionary energy of capitalism could be harness toward improving human life rather than making money. I'm disturbed by the conservative tenor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 12:58:28 PDT 2010

4223 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - April 16, 2010 Republicans are in the White House Published: April 16 2010 03:00 | Last updated: April 16 2010 03:00 From Mr Doug Henwood. Sir, Clive Crook's call (April 12) for a revival of an old-style GOP opposition is a little strange, since Barack Obama himself is a liberal Republican. Or maybe not so liberal a Republican. Consider the healthcare bill. The individual mandate has its origins in the Nixon administration's response to Teddy Kennedy's single-payer bill in ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 12:44:07 PDT 2010

4224 [lbo-talk] Fwd: John Gray, Thatcher -- rank: 1000

[My point wasn't that Thatcher was somehow pro-gay - she wasn't - but that capitalist market relations, which many of us don't like, can lead to an undoing of traditional sexual morality, a development that many of us do like. Or, the bourgeoisie often has a more appealing sexual morality, which is troublesome to partisans of the working class.] Begin forwarded message: > From: gareth dale <dalegareth at hotmail.com> > Date: April 16, 2010 2:29:12 PM EDT > To: <dhenwood at ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 11:37:43 PDT 2010

4225 [lbo-talk] Thatcherism -- rank: 1000

[Interesting point from John Gray. Maybe troublesome for those of us who like fluidity and sexual radicalism as well as socialist political economy?] <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n08/john-gray/thatcher-thatcher-thatcher> It is usually a mistake to suppose that politicians are much influenced by the thinkers they are fond of quoting: though Thatcher cited The Road to Serfdom more than once it is unclear whether she had read anything of Hayek. Yet she fully shared Hayek s view that free m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 08:36:05 PDT 2010

4226 [lbo-talk] Gang of Four updates -- rank: 1000

[The Gang of Four is trying to raise some money for some charities - Amnesty International and Plan International (which promotes "child rights," whatever that means) - via the release of its new album. If you pledge, you get periodic updates. Here's the latest, which is more interesting than most.] Hello from Pledge Music here in London, Gang Of Four has posted 4 new updates for "New Album - 'Content'": "A Love Like Anthrax original lyrics" from Jon (4): [ You ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 07:12:54 PDT 2010

4227 [lbo-talk] On Witchcraft -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Lukacs' magic real devil descrying powers don't seem to have helped > him much with Stalin. Stalin can always do in a pinch as a stand-in for Satan, eh? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 16 06:07:30 PDT 2010

4228 [lbo-talk] On Witchcraft -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > The Devil is not an object of consciousness, so actually it couldn't. What is the Devil then?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 16 05:23:13 PDT 2010

4229 [lbo-talk] another TP poll: still whiter, righter, more -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2010, at 3:01 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > As Doug said, fat chance. Excuse me, that was fat *fucking* chance! Please. By the way, I won't retract my statement that Sarah Palin is an idiot. I'm sure the rank and file TPers fall all over the bell curve, but she's an idiot. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 13:05:16 PDT 2010

4230 [lbo-talk] Code Pink reaches out to TP -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:05 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > Tea baggers who are furious at government spending and soaring > deficits should take a hard look at what is the biggest sinkhole of > our tax dollars: military spending. Fat fucking chance.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 15 10:39:30 PDT 2010