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5596 [lbo-talk] Gaza and anti Semitism -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2009, at 4:06 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > And right on cue, here are the anti-capitalists lauding the > firebombing of a "zionist owned premises" [except Starbucks is not > "zionist owned", it is a publicly listed company] I think that firebombings like this are nutty and pointless, but Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks who recently returned as its CEO, is a bigtime Zionist. But really, James, how much does this matter? I see this is an obsessi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 16 13:46:02 PST 2009

5597 [lbo-talk] putting the politics back into political economy -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Sitting down with The Washington Post: President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to shape a new Social Security and Medicare bargain with the American people, saying that the nation's long-term economic recovery cannot be attained unless the government finally gets control over its most costly entitlement programs, the Post s Michael Shear reports. He said his administration will begin confronting the issues of entitlement reform and long-term budget deficits soo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 16 09:00:45 PST 2009

5598 [lbo-talk] Reaching the Bottom? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:59 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > They may be right. The trillion euro bailouts are flying fast and > furious, > and interest rates are going from zip to ZIRP ("zero interest rate > policy"). And of course it's a no-brainer to invest in the Chinese, > Vietnamese, Russian or Venezuelan developmental states. What Fels > doesn't > say, of course, is that the next liquidity cycle will be driven > primarily > by the governments of the new m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 16 11:45:47 PST 2009

5599 [lbo-talk] Berman exposed! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.examiner.com/x-2071-DC-Special-Interests-Examiner~y2009m1d16-CREW-launches-BermanExposedorg-shining-light-on-notorious-union-buster-Richard-Berman > CREW launches BermanExposed.org shining light on notorious union buster Richard Berman January 16, 10:15 AM by Ron Moore, DC Special Interests Examiner Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has launched BermanExposed.org, a site dedicated to exposing lobbyist Richard Berman s activities, his myriad front gr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 16 09:41:23 PST 2009

5600 [lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Thw comment I was responding to was this: > > "If one likes the poems of right-wingers, one might want to do a > little introspection. Most "deep" thoughts, even "personal" ones, > impinge on politics and ideology." That's pretty different from the way you'd interpreted it: > If I refused to enjoy the products of people with views alien and/or > repugnant to my own, this would close of all of huma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 16 08:53:09 PST 2009

5601 [lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > And, by the way, just what does Andie find "truely [d]readful" in > that supreme masterpiece Parsifal? I love Wagner, but Parsifal is pure tedium. It does contain my favorite stage direction of all time: "Eight years later, at the same crossroad..." The subjective experience of time while sitting through Parsifal almost makes you feel that duration in your bones. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 08:41:55 PST 2009

5602 [lbo-talk] Huffington Post: "take on" Social Security -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Mark Rickling quoted the WP: > The president-elect also gave his support for legislation that would > make it easier for workers to unionize, but he said there may be other > ways to achieve the same goal without angering businesses. Ha. That's funny. Does he really believe this shit? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 16 08:36:51 PST 2009

5603 [lbo-talk] WP luvs BHO -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5132827/washingtons-top-reporters-soil-themselves-in-glee-at-obama-visit > Washington's Top Reporters Soil Themselves in Glee at Obama Visit By Hamilton Nolan, 9:42 AM on Fri Jan 16 2009, 1,465 views Barack Obama paid a visit to the Washington Post newsroom yesterday, and our capital's toughest reporters collectively swore to never wash that hand again. Crush on Barry! Nothing wrong with that, says Howard Kurtz: Kurtz's job is to explain why nothing any reporter at th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 16 08:31:51 PST 2009

5604 [lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > If I refused to enjoy the products of people with views alien and/or > repugnant to my own, this would close of all of human artistic > production created before around 1800. Bad Dante! Bad Homer! Evil > Voltaire! Down with Shakespeare! Who exactly believes that? Or is it that straw fellow making another appearance? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 05:30:44 PST 2009

5605 [lbo-talk] Gaza and anti semitism -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:12 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Its understandable that passions are high when Israel is > slaughtering people in their hundreds (now thousands) and in anger > some are tempted to short-cut the argument by lashing out at the > Jews. There was a time when left-wing criticisms of Israel were > largely inspired by anti-imperialism, on the understanding that the > Zionist state was a cats-paw of the US. But with most demonstrators > today calling on the 'I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 15 10:45:09 PST 2009

5606 [lbo-talk] the stimulus: details -- rank: 1000

<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123202946622485595.html> Democrats Unveil $825 Billion Stimulus Measure By COREY BOLES WASHINGTON -- House lawmakers revealed details of the spending aspects of the $825 billion stimulus bill, which includes funding for infrastructure, investments in clean energy, increased aid to state governments and $275 billion in tax breaks for businesses and individuals. The detailed spending provisions were made public by the House Appropriations Committee. A se ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 10:29:35 PST 2009

5607 [lbo-talk] Taibbi on Friedman -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nypress.com/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html> Flat N All That MATT TAIBBI takes on porn-stached New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman s greenish ways. By Matt Taibbi When some time ago a friend of mine told me that Thomas Friedman s new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, was going to be a kind of environmentalist clarion call against American consumerism, I almost died laughing. Beautiful, I thought. Just when you begin to lose faith in America s ability to fall for absolu ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 09:45:26 PST 2009

5608 [lbo-talk] The reds buy Shelley (Was Re: How Politics Ruined My Life: -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Indeed. I always thought Byron was a shallow fop until I read Don > Juan. Incredible. How come no one seems to take him seriously? Because he was funny and sexy?

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Date:	Thu Jan 15 09:25:38 PST 2009

5609 [lbo-talk] Gaza and anti-Semitism -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Because of course there is no way that anti-Semites would be > interested in defying a Jewish state. In fact, anti-Semitism doesn't > really exist at all! It's all an Israeli provocation. In his NYPL debate with BHL, Zizek makes the point that anti-Semites can love Israel, because it collects all the Jews in a single place, far away, and because - and this is of course more provocative - creating a militarized Jewish state undoes so m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 15 08:58:59 PST 2009

5610 [lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >>> There's something in Orwell that's so resolutely common sense and >> ordinary that it's really annoying. > > I can't miss an opportunity to agree totally with Doug on something. > Orwell is annoying. Simply annoying, with very few compensatory > virtues. Hey, I felt the same way with you on Byron.

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