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5791 [lbo-talk] more Kovel -- rank: 1000
There's now a Facebook group in support of Joel Kovel, who's being dropped by Bard College. <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55757456435> If you've ever liked anything that Kovel said (like on my radio show) or wrote, then please give a piece of your mind to Bard pres Leon Botstein and Executive VP (what a title!) Dmitri Papadimitriou: president at bard.edu papadimitriou at bard.edu Doug
Document Size: 5009
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 20 09:41:53 PST 2009
5792 [lbo-talk] NYU erupts! -- rank: 1000
[harsh and unfair, but bracing] <http://gawker.com/5156815/let-us-consider-the-nyu-twerps> SCHOOL DAZE Let Us Consider The NYU Twerps By Pareene, 4:28 PM on Thu Feb 19 2009, 9,754 views What leads kids from urban-suburban/indie music settings to get their SDS on and "take over" a cafeteria with a list of demands? Should we mock them, or pity them? Well, we should mock them, yes. But we can acknowledge the important details: these poor kids mean well. NYU should do a good half ...
Document Size: 7915
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 19 18:24:03 PST 2009
5793 [lbo-talk] populist outrage! -- rank: 1000
On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On a related note, Is there a better quality version of this clip?: I > dunno if itīs my system but it looks as if itīs doing 0.5 frames per > second. Mine too. That happens with a lot of those Gawker clips.
Document Size: 4854
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 19 11:42:15 PST 2009
5794 [lbo-talk] Russia tanking -- rank: 1000
On Feb 19, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Mark Bennett wrote: > Contracting at *19% annually? * 1st quarter annualized, yes.
Document Size: 4528
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 19 10:43:31 PST 2009
5795 [lbo-talk] populist outrage! -- rank: 1000
[The clip is amazing. Santelli rants about subsidizing losers - the people who drink the water rather than carrying it.] http://gawker.com/5156577/drudge-report-showcases-the-least-sympathetic-populist-rage-ever Drudge Report Showcases the Least Sympathetic Populist Rage Ever By Pareene, 12:22 PM on Thu Feb 19 2009, 2,117 views Rick Santelli and a bunch of traders are furious! They are outraged at Barack Obama's crazy mortgage plan which will maybe stave off a couple foreclosures. "This ...
Document Size: 6049
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 19 10:26:08 PST 2009
5796 [lbo-talk] Sole cause of all this woe? -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: >> But wasn't the principal internal contradiction the decline of the >> rate of >> return on capital? --CGE > > > I was thinking more proximate causes: the development of the > Euromarkets and > hence increased capacity for money capital flows, combined with the > uneven > take-off of inflation in various countries putting pressure on fixed > exchange rates. There are arguments that rate-of-profit developm ...
Document Size: 5614
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 19 10:17:46 PST 2009
5797 [lbo-talk] Russia tanking -- rank: 1000
Nancy Lazar of ISI - Ed Hyman's consulting shop - has a report out today on Russia. Headline: "Russia in severe recession." GDP could be contracting at a near-19% annual rate, which is huge. With the EU sinking, much of Asia sinking, and now Russia sinking, Dennis Redmond may have to revise his worldview... Doug
Document Size: 4786
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 19 10:15:34 PST 2009
5798 [lbo-talk] Bard College terminates Joel Kovel -- rank: 1000
Please circulate Bard College terminates Joel Kovel Call for support and letter writing to the Bard administration. Joel Kovel has now issued a statement: http://www.joelkovel.org/ STATEMENT OF JOEL KOVEL REGARDING HIS TERMINATION BY BARD COLLEGE _Introduction_ In January, 1988, I was appointed to the Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies at Bard College. As this was a Presidential appointment outside the tenure system, I have served under a series of contracts. The last of these was half-time (on ...
Document Size: 15485
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 19 04:46:36 PST 2009
5799 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern's idea of density -- rank: 1000
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18997.html> SEIU head fights to merge labor unions By: Ben Smith February 18, 2009 01:00 PM EST It s a moment of great promise for the labor movement, with a friend in the White House and its biggest legislative goal seemingly within reach for the first time in a decade. But Andy Stern isn't exactly pausing to soak it all up. Instead, Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union and perhaps the labor movement's most promine ...
Document Size: 11890
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 18 11:23:01 PST 2009
5800 [lbo-talk] US prison question -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I was wondering if anybody has any idea of the mortality rates in US > prisons once they have been adjusted for general societal population > loss? I.e., how much more likely to die in a year in prison than in > a year on the outside, on average? Has anybody computed this? Thanks! <http://www.google.com/search?q=prison%20morbidity%20mortality>
Document Size: 4992
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 18 09:11:23 PST 2009
5801 [lbo-talk] mean bastards -- rank: 1000
[from the White House fact sheet on foreclosure mitigation, via Ed Hyman] "If the total expected cost of a modification for a lender taking into account the government payments is expected to be higher than the direct costs of putting the homeowner through foreclosure, that borrower will not be eligible." Nice.
Document Size: 4736
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 18 08:49:02 PST 2009
5802 [lbo-talk] Delonas outdoes himself -- rank: 1000
The NY Post's cartoonist Sean Delonas has a long history of producing racist crap, but he sorta outdoes himself with this one: <http://www.nypost.com/delonas/delonas.htm>
Document Size: 4680
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 18 08:36:59 PST 2009
5803 [lbo-talk] Greenspan: may be time for nationalization - what would Ayn say?!?!?! -- rank: 1000
Financial Times - February 18, 2009 Greenspan backs bank nationalisation By Krishna Guha and Edward Luce in Washington The US government may have to nationalise some banks on a temporary basis to fix the financial system and restore the flow of credit, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman has told the Financial Times. In an interview with the FT Mr Greenspan, who for decades was regarded as the high priest of laisser-faire capitalism, said nationalisation could be the least b ...
Document Size: 8222
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Feb 17 18:11:46 PST 2009
5804 [lbo-talk] 12,000 for Afg -- rank: 1000
President Barack Obama has approved sending roughly 12,000 troops to Afghanistan, 8,000 Marines and a 4,000-soldier Army brigade, plus support troops, Politico has learned. For more information...http://www.politico.com
Document Size: 4738
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Feb 17 13:49:02 PST 2009
5805 [lbo-talk] refuting the collapse of partisan differences (cont.) -- rank: 1000
[I keep saying that the standard left line that the difference between Dems and Reps in the U.S. has been narrowing over recent decades isn't borne out by actual evidence. More support for me here.] <http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/02/all_for_one.php> Feb 12 2009, 12:25 pm by Ronald Brownstein The Loyalists All the focus on the lockstep Congressional Republican opposition to President Obama's economic recovery has overshadowed an equally striking development: Congressional Democra ...
Document Size: 11562
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Feb 17 13:20:08 PST 2009
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