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6316 [lbo-talk] papal logic -- rank: 1000

On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > This isn't particularly Papal. Nothing new under the sun. The point is that it's official Catholic doctrine, and it sucks.

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Date:	Mon Apr 20 11:31:43 PDT 2009

6317 [lbo-talk] the threat from the Big -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/117739/Big-Gov-Viewed-Greater-Threat-Big-Business.aspx > Big Gov't. Still Viewed as Greater Threat Than Big BusinessDemocrats views have changed, now view big business as greater threat by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's recent update of its long-standing trend question on whether big business, big labor, or big government will be the biggest threat to the country in the future finds Americans still viewing big government as the most serious thre ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 20 11:12:25 PDT 2009

6318 [lbo-talk] more... -- rank: 1000

more Rerum Novarum: > The great mistake made in regard to the matter now under > consideration is to take up with the notion that class is naturally > hostile to class, and that the wealthy and the working men are > intended by nature to live in mutual conflict. So irrational and so > false is this view that the direct contrary is the truth. Just as > the symmetry of the human frame is the result of the suitable > arrangement of the different parts of the body, so in a State ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 20 11:10:08 PDT 2009

6319 [lbo-talk] papal logic -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates mentions the encyclical Rerum Novarum in his Chavez review. What delightful reasoning. A sample: <http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum_en.html > Here, again, we have further proof that private ownership is in accordance with the law of nature. Truly, that which is required for the preservation of life, and for life's well-being, is produced in great abundance from the soil, but not until man has brought it i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 20 11:08:31 PDT 2009

6320 [lbo-talk] nationalizing the banks -- rank: 1000

On Apr 20, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Just posted the text of my talk at yesterday's Left Forum panel, >> "Nationalize the banks! What would that mean exactly?" >> >> <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/nationalize-the-banks/> > > Not to be greedy, but are you also going to post your talk on the > financial crisis from the afternoon? Sorry, did that from notes. No text.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 20 10:56:48 PDT 2009

6321 [lbo-talk] Yates on the UFW -- rank: 1000

Just posted to the LBO website: an excellent review by Michael Yates of Randy Shaw's hagiography of the United Farmworkers' Cesar Chavez, that exposes the seamy underside of the legend. <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/YatesOnUFW.html> Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 20 09:32:40 PDT 2009

6322 [lbo-talk] rage at the top -- rank: 1000

<http://nymag.com/news/businessfinance/56151/index1.html> No offense to Middle America, but if someone went to Columbia or Wharton, [even if] their company is a fumbling, mismanaged bank, why should they all of a sudden be paid the same as the guy down the block who delivers restaurant supplies for Sysco out of a huge, shiny truck? e-mails an irate Citigroup executive to a colleague.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 20 08:30:32 PDT 2009

6323 [lbo-talk] nationalizing the banks -- rank: 1000

Just posted the text of my talk at yesterday's Left Forum panel, "Nationalize the banks! What would that mean exactly?" <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/nationalize-the-banks/>

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Date:	Mon Apr 20 08:24:16 PDT 2009

6324 [lbo-talk] A good essay on Christopher Hitchens -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Mike Beggs wrote: > I had a bit of a browse around their site, and there's some good > stuff. I do think it would be great to see more focus on our own > societies on the part of the far left, and less emphasis on foreign > wars and what they call 'third worldism'. The panel I was on this morning at the Left Forum - along with David Harvey, Nomi Prins, Leo Panitch, and Fred Moseley - was condemned by a member of the audience, an RCP member, for insuffic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 19 16:14:26 PDT 2009

6325 [lbo-talk] timelines -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2009, at 3:02 PM, socialismorbarbarism wrote: > Doug: empires-fall-slowly... > > Ahistorical, dontcha think? Yeah. It was half a joke. The other half, though, is that things sometimes move slowly. Sometimes I think that our notion that things happen faster now may just be an illusion of living in the present. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 19 14:54:58 PDT 2009

6326 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > So this fucking up of the curriculum seems like an excess of > cretinization on top that isn't needed and is just gratuitously > stupid. Dunno. As craven as the bourgeoisie can be, I think it's usually a mistake to think they don't really know what they want.

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Date:	Sun Apr 19 10:43:27 PDT 2009

6327 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Mike Beggs wrote: > So yeah, even though I don't think qualitative work should be pushed > aside like it has, it was great to hear her not just complaining that > it shouldn't be about the numbers, but pointing out that even the > numbers are not on their side. Yup. It's nice when you can do both. Sadly, it has no political effect in the U.S., where Obama is likely to continue NCLB intact. It was interesting that she wouldn't go so far as to say the bou ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 19 05:22:05 PDT 2009

6328 [lbo-talk] timelines -- rank: 1000

<http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/empires-fall-slowly/> A friend pointed out the other day: people sometimes compare the U.S. empire to Rome s decline....

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Date:	Sat Apr 18 12:33:52 PDT 2009

6329 [lbo-talk] Alice Waters -- rank: 1000

<http://dcist.com/2009/01/chewing_the_fat_anthony_bourdain.php> [Anthony Bourdain:] Alice Waters annoys the living shit out of me. We're all in the middle of a recession, like we're all going to start buying expensive organic food and running to the green market. There's something very Khmer Rouge about Alice Waters that has become unrealistic. I mean I'm not crazy about our obsession with corn or ethanol and all that, but I'm a little uncomfortable with legislating good eating habit ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 18 10:46:35 PDT 2009

6330 [lbo-talk] Mark Halperin on why Obama's so good -- rank: 1000

[The uber-hack, Bush-worshipping Halperin, ex of The Note, is now fully in the tank.] <http://thepage.time.com/halperins-take-why-obama-is-exceptionally-good-at-his-job/ > HALPERIN'S TAKE: Why Obama is Exceptionally Good at His Job 1. On major decisions, almost without exception, he does what he thinks is right, rather then what might appear to be the politically expedient thing to do; in the end, doing what he thinks is right actually turns out to be better politics. 2. He-- and his v ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 17 15:53:25 PDT 2009