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4831 [lbo-talk] health care: the problem in a few numbers -- rank: 1000

[for once, these numbers aren't easy to argue with] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/ssi/wpc/postpoll_111609.html> 13. Just your best guess, if the health care system is changed, do you think the quality of [ITEM] will get (better), get (worse), or remain about the same? 11/15/09 - Summary Table Better Worse Same No opinion a. your health care 19 37 42 2 b. health care for most people 34 38 26 2 Trend: a. your health ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 17 09:08:49 PST 2009

4832 [lbo-talk] classy joint -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] STATE DINNER IN BEIJING, at the Great Hall of the People -- President Hu sat between President Obama and Secretary Clinton. MENU: Chicken Soup with Bean Curd, Chinese Style Beef Steak, Stir-fried Wild Rice Stem and Asparagus, Roast Grouper, Pastries, Fruit Ice Cream, Red Wine Great Wall 2002, Hebei China, White Wine Great Wall 2002, Hebei China. MUSIC PROGRAMME, performed by the Military Band of the Chinese People's Liberation Army: 'America the Beautiful,' 'We Are the Wo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 17 08:49:16 PST 2009

4833 [lbo-talk] funeral fund -- rank: 1000

[Posted to Lou Proyect's Marxmail by Sebastian Budgen. Apologies for the character set oddities.] De : c.barker at mmu.ac.uk Date : 16 novembre 2009 18:38:03 HNEC À : "funeral fund" <c.barker at mmu.ac.uk> Objet : Chris Harman Dear comrades, You will, I am sure, have been shocked and saddened by Chris Harman?s death. As you know, Chris died in Egypt. This has created a difficult material problem for his family. In order to get Chris?s body home to England for the funeral, and to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 16 15:03:54 PST 2009

4834 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

After a hiatus of several weeks, fresh punditry now at http://bit.ly/Nhkhr

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Date:	Sun Nov 15 12:27:21 PST 2009

4835 [lbo-talk] Politics of food -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2009, at 2:39 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > Shag wrote: >> heh. well, I can certainly see why you are an ardent fan of Walter >> Benn >> Michaels. This is a position he'd thoroughly support. History is >> bunk and >> culture is bunk eliciting a big fat yawn. > > I don't think you could characterize my position as one of being an > 'ardent > fan of Walter Benn Michaels'. For some reason, she likes to do that. She thinks it's as much fun as twis ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 15 11:52:35 PST 2009

4836 [lbo-talk] Politics of food -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > But > all it did really was confirm what I thought I knew about people. It > validated my prejudices, which is exactly the opposite of what > politics should do, methinks. Sometimes you need to fact-check your assumptions. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 14 11:13:52 PST 2009

4837 [lbo-talk] more politics of food -- rank: 1000

[via The Awl] <http://walmartstores.com/FactsNews/NewsRoom/9497.aspx> A turkey dinner for eight as low as $20 According to a survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation, last year s average cost of a turkey was roughly $1.19 per pound. Beginning today, select Grade A turkeys are available for 40 cents per pound at Walmart.* These gobblers are part of Walmart s $20 Thanksgiving menu guaranteeing family favorites will be on the dinner table this holiday season. Walmart s $20 Thanksgiv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 13 18:38:03 PST 2009

4838 [lbo-talk] the politics of food -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2009, at 8:27 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Eric Beck wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Matthias Wasser >> <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote: >>> I think the question we've been avoiding is: what does the >>> revolutionary >>> vanguard eat? > > One problem in stating it that way is that I don't believe there is > anyone on this list who holds to the concept of "the revolutionary > vanguard." That is ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 13 17:53:12 PST 2009

4839 [lbo-talk] Politics of food -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > If I was going to break down Doug's differentiation, I'd say that the > "older, denser suburbs" are those built by, say, 1970, where middle > and > upper middle income and professional classes could still raise their > kids - > at least until 1982/84 or so - in a manner that primarily focused on > achieving natural growth. Suburbs and ex-urbs built since 1980 are > infinitely more likely to be gated communities, o ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 13 10:39:07 PST 2009

4840 [lbo-talk] Politics of food -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > Let's talk about the production end: the folks you will meet in the > restaurant industry are weird, weird people. I'm fascinated by bar/restaurant work cultures. All I know is from watching them, and reading Anthony Bourdain, but they're intriguing. They do seem to attract some misfits, some appealing, some not. Lots of sex, drugs, and rock & roll, no? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 13 09:59:29 PST 2009

4841 [lbo-talk] Politics of food -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2009, at 6:43 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > That's not what annoys me. What annoys me is when it seems that the > left gives up on trying to convince the suburbs, small towns and > exurbs, as it often does, suggesting that suburbanites are natural > voting fodder for the right. That is why we have a Tory > administration in London now - because Boris Johnson used the > 'doughnut' strategy of campaigning in the suburbs while Labour's Ken > Livingstone tried to rall ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 13 09:57:53 PST 2009

4842 [lbo-talk] Politics of food -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:48 AM, brad bauerly wrote: > I still don't understand the > interest in consumption side analysis. Because food tastes good and is fun to talk about. Like celebrities, only more quotidian. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 13 08:59:06 PST 2009

4843 [lbo-talk] The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > http://seekingalpha.com/article/172797-the-global-oil-scam-50-times-bigger-than-madoff?source=email > > $2.5 Trillion - That s the size of the global oil scam. It s a > number so large that, to put it in perspective, we will now begin > measuring the damage done to the global economy in "Madoff > Units" ($50Bn rip-offs). That s right - $2.5Tn is 50 TIMES the > amount of money that Bernie Madoff scammed from invest ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 13 08:11:05 PST 2009

4844 [lbo-talk] WBAI slates -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > So I've finally gotten my ballot, and now I've gotten a couple of > recommendations in the mail, one from Take Forward WBAI and one from > ACE/WBAI. Both are anti-JUC, which is the starting point; one of > them has a big picture of Doug, which is always a plus. You just got the ballot? What a nightmare. They used the wrong mailing list and sent it bulk mail. Apparently they did the same with the replacement - is it first class or ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 13 04:48:01 PST 2009

4845 [lbo-talk] "Bedlamite economics" and the EMH -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Eubulides wrote: > The formalized version of that last sentence being: > > http://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/aecrev/v70y1980i3p393-408.html > > On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets > Grossman, Sanford J > Stiglitz, Joseph E From the bibliography for a book called Wall Street (1997): Grossman, Sanford J., and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1980). On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets, American Economic Review 70, pp. ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 12 21:10:58 PST 2009