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4366 [lbo-talk] Signs of the times -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2009, at 6:03 PM, RicardoStarkey at aol.com wrote: > This conversation reminded me of an apropos quote that I decided to > look > up. Here it is: > > "Scholasticism, doctrinairism and dogmatism have always been > shackles on > any genuine addition to knowledge. They lead to stagnation of > thought, and > put a solid wall around science, keeping it away from life and > inhibiting > its development. Truth is not acquired by declarations and &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 26 15:36:29 PDT 2009

4367 [lbo-talk] The State (Was: Ralph loves the nice plutocrats) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > the classical Marxist regimes of the 20th century They were classically Marxist? How?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 26 10:52:56 PDT 2009

4368 [lbo-talk] David Broder luvs Obama's war cabinet -- rank: 1000

[Another nail in the coffin of the pwoggies' Obama dream. Via Mike Allen] THE BIG IDEA -- David S. Broder's Sunday WashPost column, 'Obama's A- Team: Remarkable Cohesion on National Security': 'Official Washington is starting to realize that in addition to his personal skills, Obama has assembled a highly professional and effective national security team that serves him and the nation very well. There was no guarantee that this would be the case. Before he was elected, Obama had never face ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 26 10:49:50 PDT 2009

4369 [lbo-talk] labor lieutenants of capital (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[From Maria Bartiromo's interview with Andy Stern in Business Week's September 28 issue. This is a sidebar, and not in the full transcript on the BW website, which follows.] Q Has the recession led you to rethink the way you operate your union? What is the SEIU doing to prepare for a recovery? A Well, it's made us appreciate that we have to be better partners with our state governments and employers in terms of efficiency. It makes us appreciate that our pension funds are tied to the succes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 26 10:31:34 PDT 2009

4370 [lbo-talk] much atwit about twitter -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2009, at 9:13 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > is twit another one of those sites that doesn't support itself > through ad revs? They're supposed to start selling ads by the middle of next year. Right now, their income is about $0. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 25 18:29:45 PDT 2009

4371 [lbo-talk] LBO 121 -- rank: 1000

I've been reticent about promoting LBO, the newsletter, on lbo-talk, the listserv, but why should I? Anyway, emailed to electronic subscribers and on press for the crushed- tree kind, #121, the third issue in three months, includes: Obama and the duelling caricatures Adolph Reed on how racism is like the Easter bunny How this recession stacks up vs. its ancestors Life after crises The media bloodletting Rupert celebrates For more of a taste, see: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 25 12:39:55 PDT 2009

4372 [lbo-talk] fighting over a gag order -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> I oppose the admin's plan. It should fail. Cutting Medicare >> Advantage as a >> way of subsidizing the purchase of private insurance is one of the >> many >> reasons it stinks. > > Sure, but Medicare Advantage already is the subsidized purchase of > private insurance. Yes. But the politics of taking away som ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 25 11:02:07 PDT 2009

4373 [lbo-talk] fighting over a gag order -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > I don't get this. Here you're implicitly supporting the > administration's incrementalist approach to healthcare reform (i.e. > can't replace the employer-based system because the > commercially-insured would revolt), in as much as single payer / > Medicare For All would all would represent benefit cuts for many of > those with commercial insurance (e.g. Medicare's copays are far higher > than my union healthcare plan). I ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 25 10:06:35 PDT 2009

4374 [lbo-talk] fighting over a gag order -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Sure, some seniors > would lose access to vision, dental, gym memberships, etc. whatever > the inscos throw in to sweeten the pot over traditional Medicare. I'm > all for adding those benefits to back to traditional Medicare, as well > expanding coverage for those who don't have it. Which isn't going to happen. So you're for cutting benefits for seniors. Why not travel to Florida and try to sell that?

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Date:	Fri Sep 25 09:19:12 PDT 2009

4375 [lbo-talk] fighting over a gag order -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > Medicare Advantage is about as blatant an example of corporate > welfare as > could be designed. It's certainly nice for (its) enrollees, too, > yes. It's a > bad policy and there are much better, more soluble ways to ensure > seniors > stay out of poverty. Yeah, but that's not going to happen with Baucus running the show. You think the gov is going to replace the vision and dental part of Medicare Advantage?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 25 09:18:12 PDT 2009

4376 [lbo-talk] fighting over a gag order -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> [This is interesting - it looks like the Reps are doing the right >> thing for >> the wrong reason. Obviously the admin doesn't want the inscos to >> talk about >> it because their health scheming involves serious cuts to Medicare. >> From The >> Note...] > > Cutting Medicare Advantage isn't a good ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 25 08:36:43 PDT 2009

4377 [lbo-talk] "challenging allies" -- rank: 1000

[Anything but challenge Wall Street! Also from The Note...] Unions Criticize Obama's School Proposals as 'Bush III': "To the surprise of many educators who campaigned last year for change in the White House, the Obama administration's first recipe for school reform relies heavily on Bush-era ingredients and adds others that make unions gag," reports the Washington Post. "It looks like the only strategies they have are charter schools and measurement," said Randi Weingarte ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 25 08:01:05 PDT 2009

4378 [lbo-talk] fighting over a gag order -- rank: 1000

[This is interesting - it looks like the Reps are doing the right thing for the wrong reason. Obviously the admin doesn't want the inscos to talk about it because their health scheming involves serious cuts to Medicare. From The Note...] The Senate's top Republicans are vowing to block President Obama from filling health posts until his administration stops barring insurers from telling seniors how they could be impacted by cuts to Medicare Advantage. Here is how this maneuver would work: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 25 08:00:00 PDT 2009

4379 [lbo-talk] We Live in Public -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Joanna wrote: > No, there is a diff. The public life of a small village also > contains intimate and actual human relationships, as opposed to web > relationships, which take place in a virtual and far more mental > space. Except that we've met and hung out many times, which probably wouldn't have happened in a pre-internet world. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 25 04:21:33 PDT 2009

4380 [lbo-talk] CFP -- rank: 1000

Please circulate widely, apologies for cross posting. Materializing Queer Space: toward a radical pragmatics: Queer theory has, since its inception in the late 1980s/ early 1990s, stretched the boundaries of sex, sexuality and gender; particularly in the ways these relate to queer bodies and the multiple possibilities in which sexuality and gender are/can be deployed. As queer theory has come into its own as a set of academic discourses, its methodological potentials to interrogate not only ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 24 10:23:14 PDT 2009