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4651 [lbo-talk] overconsuming health -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Chuck Loucks wrote: > Was health care about 9% of GDP in 1960 in the US? A lot less: only about 3% (that's the household share). It's now over 11%.

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Date:	Wed Oct 7 08:54:26 PDT 2009

4652 [lbo-talk] words of The Wise -- rank: 1000

[from Tim Wise's blog, a piece that earned him a rebuke from a contributor to The Black Agenda Report <http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=node/10849 >] <http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise/this-how-fascism-comes-reflections-cost-silence > ... If fascism comes, it will be ushered in by tailgaters at the big football game, by Joe Six Pack, who, upon finishing his sixth beer and belching forth the stench of a mediocre life lived, will gladly announce its arrival, so long as it com ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 7 08:27:18 PDT 2009

4653 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2009, at 7:54 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Michaels thinks we live in an antiracist society. Really? That's news to me.

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Date:	Wed Oct 7 08:12:16 PDT 2009

4654 [lbo-talk] Trotskyite fetishization of the workplace -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > What is it with these types, anyway? I'm weak on Trotsky, but did he > ever say anything so silly as that all decisions concerning a > particular industry should be made exclusively by workers within that > industry? Or was this merely one Trotskyite's vulgar rendition? I am certainly no expert on Trotsky - and, by the way, "Trotsyite" is usually considered the pejorative version of "Trotskyist" - but my reading ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 18:37:01 PDT 2009

4655 [lbo-talk] overconsuming health -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:21 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I belive that Britain spends about half what the US spends on health. Almost - about 9% of GDP for the UK vs. 17% for the US. See graph at bottom of: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Consumption.html>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 13:32:03 PDT 2009

4656 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > No, and I can't figure it out, who knows if I'm an enemy is his eyes Of course not. Jesus Christ. I just got a comment on my blog, criticizing my polemic in the latest LBO for trying to tell black people that race doesn't matter. This bears little relation to anything I actually said, of course. This meconnaissance systematique de la realite, as the man said, is driving me batty.

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 12:31:32 PDT 2009

4657 [lbo-talk] Pacifica -- rank: 1000

<http://www.counterpunch.org/boal10062009.html> From Farce to Tragedy The New Crisis at Pacifica By IAIN BOAL On September 17 the Governance Committee of the Pacifica National Board passed a resolution expressly designed to find out whether Amy Goodman s Democracy Now! program is getting CIA funding through covert channels like the Ford Foundation for suppressing the truth about the 9/11 over-up The author of the resolution, Chris Condon, made it clear that he wrote a motion on fu ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 11:54:07 PDT 2009

4658 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Why didn't you tell us before that he was wrting about Pacifica > instead > of campus politics? You're overposting. Calm down.

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 11:43:43 PDT 2009

4659 [lbo-talk] Americans: war with Iran, hell yeah! -- rank: 1000

Americans Strongly Support War with Iran if Talks and Sanctions Fail The public, by a 61%-to-24% margin, feels it is more important to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons than to avoid conflict. But most also approve of direct negotiations and tougher economic sanctions. <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1366/public-support-military-action-against-iran-nuclear-weapons >

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 09:42:50 PDT 2009

4660 [lbo-talk] WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> As a partial explanation where I'm coming from, here's a taste of >> life around WBAI. >> >> Doug >> >> ---- >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> ---- To be forwarded to the list >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> Mr. Cohen, >> >> For anyone who is paying attention, the conclusion MUST be that >> your s ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 08:19:01 PDT 2009

4661 [lbo-talk] WBAI -- rank: 1000

As a partial explanation where I'm coming from, here's a taste of life around WBAI. Doug ---- Begin forwarded message: From: Russell Dale <russell_eliot_dale at yahoo.com> Date: October 6, 2009 7:51:05 AM EDT To: Bob Lederer <ledererbob at usa.net>, Lisa Davis <makemba007 at hotmail.com>, Tibby Brooks <freemumianow at hotmail.com>, Vajra Kilgour <nuralanwar at yahoo.com>, Vajra Kilgour <vajra33 at verizon.net>, Nia Bediako <nia.bediako at bnbcpa.com> ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 07:44:22 PDT 2009

4662 [lbo-talk] Republicans for health "reform" -- rank: 1000

[If Tommy Thompson likes it, it must be great, eh? Why, when you've got 60 votes in the Senate, do you need these GOP retreads? I know the answer to that, but still... From The Note.] Tommy Thompson, Mark McClellan, Mike Bloomberg, Bill Frist (perhaps), and lots of doctors like it. That plus 60 Senate votes equals a health care bill. At critical times in the health care debate, when the prospects looked bleak and the process looked stalled, the only thing that's kept things moving has been ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 07:20:49 PDT 2009

4663 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2009, at 9:56 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > so you approve of Michaels characterization of the work done by > folks like Laura Agustin on immigrant sex workers? That of David > Harvey in Potter Addition? They're just a bunch o f people who seek > to obtain respect for the poor and working class, right? Their > interest in 'agency' isn't to be taken seriously -- charachterized > in a sympathetic, internally critical way -- but is simply dismissed > out of hand as th ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 07:02:15 PDT 2009

4664 [lbo-talk] benn der, dun dat -- rank: 1000

On Oct 6, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > shag quotes: "The entire U.S. school system, from > pre-K up, is structured from >>> the very start to enable the rich to > outcompete the poor," > > Aside from shag's critique of this, it doesn't happen to be factually > correct. The passive hides who is doing the structuring, but the whole > implies a conscious planning of the "school system" -- and that very > nearly adds up to a conspircay th ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 6 06:27:59 PDT 2009

4665 [lbo-talk] London talks with John Holloway -- rank: 1000

[The Mute people asked me to post this.] Two London meetings with John Holloway, 24th & 26th October: (Please publicise widely, thanks!, and apologies for any cross-posting...) ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR/MUTE MAGAZINE DISCUSSION, 4-6pm, Saturday 24th October, London Capitalism s Present Crisis - How Will It End? The capitalist system is facing years of crisis and social instability. This raises two questions: 1) what caused the crisis? Was it greedy bankers , the natural tendencies of the capit ...

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