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5971 [lbo-talk] Telling the U.S. left what to do -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2009, at 7:21 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > Which is doubly ironic, considering that those toys otherwise known as > videogames have spawned one of the most subversive, Leftwing mass > media in > history. And an utterly passive population. A new take on repressive desublimation? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 21 17:18:34 PST 2009

5972 [lbo-talk] Sachs: on climate law, Obama has done more damage than Bush -- rank: 1000

[This guy continues to do penance for his earlier evil deeds.] <http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sachs161> Obama as Climate Change Villain Jeffrey D. Sachs New York Two years of climate change negotiations have now ended in a farce in Copenhagen. Rather than grappling with complex issues, President Barack Obama decided instead to declare victory with a vague statement of principles agreed with four other countries. The remaining 187 were handed a fait accompli , which some ...

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5973 [lbo-talk] Telling the U.S. left what to do -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Left-Wing Wacko wrote: > But why not > consider the possibility of promoting Bernie Sanders, who has the > advantage > of being an independent. Yet who voted for the crap health care bill. Why? Fear of being perceived as obstructionist? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 21 13:42:54 PST 2009

5974 [lbo-talk] The NY Post's front pages of the decade -- rank: 1000

Cast your vote! http://www.nypost.com/promos/covers.htm

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Date:	Mon Dec 21 12:15:51 PST 2009

5975 [lbo-talk] 5-38 on health insurance stock rise -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Left-Wing Wacko wrote: > http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/insurance-stocks-rise-on-news-of-health.html >> From the conclusion: > > "The bottom line is that, by the stock market's estimation, the > private > health care industry appears as though it will benefit if the Senate > enacts > its plan. But the benefit -- about $16 billion in discounted > cashflows -- is > small as compared to the total magnitude of the program, an ...

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5976 [lbo-talk] Cockburn on AGW? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Which, to a certain extent, he's right to do. Less than a third of > US CO2 > emissions come from road transportation, with under 20% caused by > consumer-style vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks). > Unfortunately I > don't have an individual/company use breakdown on hand ( > http://www.iacdctransportation.com/research/vmtdrivinganalysis.pdf). > Hell, > as Derrick Jensen recently noted, even if every last Ameri ...

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5977 [lbo-talk] Afghan stories -- rank: 1000

Yeah, reading stuff might complicate easy opinionating! On Dec 21, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Nope! :) > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> > > > And you haven't read the Nation article I linked to, right?

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Date:	Mon Dec 21 08:09:07 PST 2009

5978 [lbo-talk] Cockburn on AGW? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > The tragedy of Cockburn's denials re: AGW is that he's taken the > hair-shirters' eco-romantic doom saying to heart: the only way out > must be via reverting to the 19th (or maybe even 12th) centuries. It > seems obvious to me that this is what his contrariness is really > responding to (because, what sane person could be against carbon > output reduction on principle?). Don't forget that he's also trying to tweak Nation libe ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 21 08:08:33 PST 2009

5979 [lbo-talk] Cockburn on AGW? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Andy wrote: > Cockburn, I suppose as part of his project of universal contrarianism, > has dismissed AGW for about a decade now. The guy also loves big old cars. And he prefers to blame corporations, rather than things like a fondness for driving, for our ecological problems. Doug

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5980 [lbo-talk] Video of My Colloquium Lecture -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Doug's program is also here, for those like me who seem to have the > wrong `codex' to use. This works with just a browser and audio card: > > http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/57092 It's also here, in higher fidelity, playable by anyone who can handle MP3s, downloadable or streaming: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#091217 Links to Gar's stuff also there. Doug

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5981 [lbo-talk] NUHW in decisive election win, SEIU tries to postpone defeat -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Steven Robinson quoted: > Workers capped a six year campaign to organize Santa Rosa Memorial > Hospital tonight, with 283 voting to join the National Union of > Healthcare Workers (NUHW) against 263 votes for "no union." No union did pretty well, eh? After six years? What's up with that? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 19 17:53:32 PST 2009

5982 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

[Note: files are often posted well ahead of their announcement here or on the web archive page - so for the latest, subscribe to the podcast version.] BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 19 14:32:15 PST 2009

5983 [lbo-talk] Fw: Concerning your submission to *Science & Society* -- rank: 1000

On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:20 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Sure. I was thinking of some leftoids skewing things in the other > direction ("capitalism is falling apart! we're all gonna die!") > every time there's a recession. Not worth talking about, really. That's more an impulse than an ideology, anyway. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 18 18:34:17 PST 2009

5984 [lbo-talk] Fw: Concerning your submission to *Science & Society* -- rank: 1000

On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Bourgeois ideology isn't the only kind. No, of course not, but it dominates economics. Doug

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5985 [lbo-talk] Fw: Concerning your submission to *Science & Society* -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>: > A statement, which as far as these things go, > is pretty much a common place in the philosophy > of science. There are certainly plenty of > examples in the history of science of > theories continuing to be widely accepted > by scientists despite their inconsistencies > with empirical data because at the time > there were no good alternative theories > to replace them. So I think Laibman > does have a point here, Yo ...

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