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4741 [lbo-talk] Seattle, 10 years ago -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 30 12:02:48 PST 2009

4742 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Sun Nov 29 18:18:45 PST 2009

4743 [lbo-talk] What's the matter with... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2009, at 4:50 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > But the welfare state is not good for poor people. It keeps them poor. The U.S. has the weakest welfare state in the First World, and the most poor people (and our poor are quite poor, compared with the median). Sweden has probably the strongest, and the fewest (and their poor are less poor, compared with the median). Aside from that, James, I see your point. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 29 05:39:10 PST 2009

4744 [lbo-talk] playlist -- rank: 1000

The beauty of randomness, courtesy of the iTunes DJ: Cantata BWV 72 - Alles nur nach Gottes Willen J.S. Bach The Walk (Live/London) Cure Bemerkungen zu Hegel - Jargon der Eigentlichkeit Theodore W. Adorno Kids Today Dwarves

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 28 20:35:21 PST 2009

4745 [lbo-talk] what's the matter with... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2009, at 9:03 PM, SA wrote: > So, the NYT has a big story about the rise in food stamp use in the > recession. It focuses on localities where food stamp use is > particularly high, and mentions Owsley County, Kentucky, where half > of the 4600 residents receive food stamps. I decided to find out how > Owsley County voted in the last election. > > As I was searching, I discovered that Owsley is actually part of a > large cluster of extremely poor Eastern Kentuck ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 28 18:21:29 PST 2009

4746 [lbo-talk] class struggle in Mexico -- rank: 1000

[bounced for excessive length - here's the lede, as they used to say when there was a newspaper business] From: Joanne Landy <joanne.landy at igc.org> Date: November 28, 2009 5:57:42 PM EST To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Mexico: Rebirth of Class Struggle [part 1 of 2] http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/279.php Mexico: The Murder of a Union and the Rebirth of Class Struggle Part 1: The New AssaultRichard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui Brothers, companeros, comrades: we must conve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 28 15:07:26 PST 2009

4747 [lbo-talk] Berube -- rank: 1000

The name of MIchael Berube came up here recently. This just in from Lou Proyect: > Skimming through Michael Berube s newly published Eustonesque > manifesto The Left at War , I stumbled across a reference to yours > truly in chapter one. The good professor grouped me with 9/11 > truthers and Bob Avakian, as people not worth his while to attack. > The book, you see, was going after bigger game, like Noam Chomsky, > Edward Herman and other enemies of humane, liberal values. It ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 27 17:58:12 PST 2009

4748 [lbo-talk] From another thread -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I hope Doug is still ignoring you. Yup!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 27 10:01:02 PST 2009

4749 [lbo-talk] From another thread -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I read one of Marx's kids saying she could recite from Shakespeare > when she was six because her father placed such an emphasis on its > importance. I don't think Marx read him only to find his thoughts on > money or the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Damn that Marx, reading Shakespeare and Pindar. Shouldn't he have been out organizing demonstrations? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 27 09:06:08 PST 2009

4750 [lbo-talk] Another LBO 123 question -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I got it from the "SIGTARP" audit. > > Fair enough -- can't get a more reputable source for criticizing the > Fed than that. So then it's their logic I don't quite get. Rescuing AIG meant, in large part, paying off the holders of its credit insurance. The Fed could have said, hey, your hair's too long, it'd look nice a little shorter. Instead, because Goldman et a ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 27 08:38:59 PST 2009

4751 [lbo-talk] Another LBO 123 question -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Okay, here's my question about one tiny thing in passing. You > chastise Treasury for not making AIG's counterparties take > haircuts. But I'm not sure how this would have been possible since > default insurance is essentially haircut insurance. If we made > Goldman accept 65%, then we, as AIG, would have to give them 35% > more in insurance. (Which is pretty much exactly what happened; > it's adding the 2 sides togeth ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 27 08:06:10 PST 2009

4752 [lbo-talk] LBO 123 question -- rank: 1000

On Nov 26, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Don't credit unions already play this "co-op" role in the banking > system? Or are you thinking of something else? They're a start, but they could be "scaled up," as they say in the biz lit. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 26 17:21:50 PST 2009

4753 [lbo-talk] Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't -- rank: 1000

On Nov 26, 2009, at 3:45 AM, SA wrote: > They had some bitter disputes with Cold Warriors about this, but > while many different arguments appeared in these disputes, one > argument never heard was: "Are you crazy? How will we defend the > capitalist system if a small country is allowed to create a model of > successful autonomous socialist development?" Well yeah, but the U.S. pummeled Indochina. Was that just an accident? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 26 05:31:39 PST 2009

4754 [lbo-talk] Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't -- rank: 1000

On Nov 25, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > You're part of the conspiracy, so of course you'd say that. Stop! Next one goes on moderation!!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 25 13:02:44 PST 2009

4755 [lbo-talk] Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't -- rank: 1000

No meta-commentary about conspiracies, either. That way lies madness.

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Date:	Wed Nov 25 12:48:51 PST 2009