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4606 [lbo-talk] Dollar slide accelerating -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2009, at 7:28 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Foreign companies and officials are starting to say their economies > are > getting hurt because of the dollar s weakness. Yeah, for the U.S., a moderately weaker dollar is not a problem. We're back in Connally-land: it may be our currency, but it's their problem. As long as the U.S. is able to sell its bonds at nonpunitive rates, a weak dollar is a plus. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 13 04:35:04 PDT 2009

4607 [lbo-talk] changeiness (cont.) -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28222.html> Dem leaders brush off the left By: John Bresnahan and Manu Raju October 13, 2009 04:51 AM EST Some of the progressives who helped put Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in power are demanding that they come down hard on House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel and any Senate committee chairmen who stray from the flock on health care reform. Don t hold your breath. While three Democratic insiders say leaders have privately dis ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 13 04:08:42 PDT 2009

4608 [lbo-talk] what the Nobel laureate is up to -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101203142.html > Support Troops Swelling U.S. Force in Afghanistan Additional Deployments Not Announced and Rarely Noted By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 13, 2009 President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized -- and the Pentagon is deploying -- at least 13,000 troops b ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 13 04:05:36 PDT 2009

4609 [lbo-talk] authoritarianism -- rank: 1000

The authoritarian personality revisited: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/10/authoritarianism-in-american-politics.html .

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 12 11:48:06 PDT 2009

4610 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: >> >> I'm sure, without the interview, most all of us would have ignored >>> Michaels. >>> >> >> But with the interview, he was worth, what, 20,000 words? Pretty >> hefty for >> someone so allegedly insignificant. >> >> > ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 12 10:17:24 PDT 2009

4611 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > I'm sure, without the interview, most all of us would have ignored > Michaels. But with the interview, he was worth, what, 20,000 words? Pretty hefty for someone so allegedly insignificant. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 12 08:56:13 PDT 2009

4612 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > My mother > was a Michigan fruit farmer's daugher. Before the war their main labor > force was white migrant southerners (always called "Arkies"). In a > conversation with her once I discovered she believed that she could > tell > "southerners" by their appearance. She had in fact "racialized" white > southerners. What's specifically capitalist about this? Haven't yokels always been suspicious o ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 11 19:30:19 PDT 2009

4613 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2009, at 4:59 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > I'm still looking forwards to the article. I might point out that subscribers got it a couple of weeks ago (and new subscribers get it almost immediately). Nonsubscribers will have to wait a little longer. 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 ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 11 15:15:55 PDT 2009

4614 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2009, at 3:30 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > capitalism doesn't need racism, but it does need _racialization_ Why? I'm just not convinced. You could just as easily argue that the tendency of capitalism is to treat us all as interchangeable parts.

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Date:	Sun Oct 11 15:05:19 PDT 2009

4615 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Focus on individuals fucks up political discussion, almost always. I gotta agree with you on this. Michaels' original point - that big capital has entirely assimilated the diversity agenda, a point to which the entire Obama phenomenon is related, and how a lot of the received wisdom about how capitalism "needs" racism is badly in need of updating - has been lost in all this effort to prove him an asshole, or to search his book fo ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 11 11:52:48 PDT 2009

4616 [lbo-talk] Cornel West keeps his eyes on Obama's prize -- rank: 1000

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/10/cornel-west-comments-on-o_n_316476.html > It's gonna be hard to be a war president with a peace prize. Gonna be difficult. Very, very difficult. And so I think he knows that and we as fellow citizens have to, um, as brother Tavis [Smiley] would say in his wonderful book Accountability, keep him accountable and loving and self critical, not self-righteous way. I think it's very difficult for any head of an empire to be under the pressure of pea ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 11 10:48:43 PDT 2009

4617 [lbo-talk] Soros aims to invest $1 bln in green tech -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > "The Hungarian-born U.S. investor also announced he would form and > fund a new climate policy initiative with* $10 million a year for 10 > years*." > > $10M a year x 10 years = 100M in my book.... how does that turn into > $1B??!?!?! > > Soros aims to invest $1 bln in green tech | U.S. | Reuters > http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5992BJ20091010 He's going to invest the $1b, presumably for pro ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 11 10:29:14 PDT 2009

4618 [lbo-talk] a reminder -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > I dispute the one idea that some list members might agree with, the > idea > that the Soviets sought imperialist plunder in Afghanistan I don't think Cockburn really believed it either (nor do I). My pal Dan Lazare once described Ace as an "ironic Stalinist." Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 11 10:09:36 PDT 2009

4619 [lbo-talk] a reminder -- rank: 1000

[with Afghanistan in the news again, it's always bracing to revisit this observation from almost 30 years ago - posted by Dennis Perrin] http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2001/2001-September/017976.html From the January 21, 1980 Press Clips column in the Village Voice. "We all have to go one day, but pray God let it not be over Afghanistan. An unspeakable country filled with unspeakable people, sheepshaggers and smugglers, who have furnished in their leisure hours some of the worst arts and c ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 11 06:43:16 PDT 2009

4620 [lbo-talk] Rupert: Philistine age is over -- rank: 1000

<http://www.businessinsider.com/the-philistine-phase-of-the-digital-age-is-almost-over-2009-10 > The Philistine phase of the digital age is almost over. The aggregators and the plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content. But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid-for content, it will be the content creators, the people in this hall, who will pay the ultimate price and the content kleptomaniacs will triumph.

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Date:	Sat Oct 10 18:00:17 PDT 2009