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7156 [lbo-talk] Socialist meme gives way to fascist meme -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2008, at 12:22 PM, shag wrote: > oh! that's normal. socialist already == fascist. that is why any > conservative mushroom worth his salt will trot out the name of the > nazi > party as proof positive that a supposed distinction between the two > is a > fiction. Yup. Both are authoritarian and statist. If more of them knew about Keynes's foreword to the German edition of The General Theory, in which he says the following, they might do something with it. <http://t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 4 09:57:53 PST 2008

7157 [lbo-talk] turnout -- rank: 1000

Just voted. What a scene. The neighborhood, Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, is about 70-80% black, and the lines were around the corner - over an hour's wait at 10 AM. One poll worker said that she's been doing it for 40 years and has never seen anything remotely like it. Didn't see anyone give up, either. It looks like every black person in the USA is going to vote. Except it's pretty much the same in white neighborhoods, isn't it? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 4 08:13:30 PST 2008

7158 [lbo-talk] What an Obama victory would mean? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:40 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Wouldn't it mean that white guilt was a stronger sentiment in the US > than white supremacy? Are those the only two options? In the last polls, McCain was about 5 or 6 points ahead among whites, the smallest advantage of any recent Rep candidate. As Andy said, a lot of it is anti-Republican sentiment, for sure - but maybe some whites aren't as wrapped up in the old racial paradigm as they used to be. Race isn't going away in America ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 4 04:47:48 PST 2008

7159 [lbo-talk] Top Obama Adviser has long links to neo-cons -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:36 AM, ken hanly wrote: > Perhaps this explains Obama's hawkishness on Afghanistan and > Pakistan among other positions he has taken. Explains his policy? Or his policy preferences explain the hire? On foreign policy, Obama would mean the return to a normal imperialism from a mad dog imperialism. That's a marginal improvement, but no one with his or her head screwed on straight expects anything more. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 3 08:50:34 PST 2008

7160 [lbo-talk] Gallup.Com: Final Presidential Estimate: Obama 55%, McCain 44% -- rank: 1000

The final USA Today/Gallup 2008 pre-election poll predicts Barack Obama will be elected the 44th president of the United States, as he holds a 55% to 44% advantage over John McCain in the allocated estimate of the 2008 presidential vote. <http://www.gallup.com/poll/111703/Final-Presidential-Estimate-Obama-55-McCain-44.aspx >

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 2 19:35:47 PST 2008

7161 [lbo-talk] WFP writes... -- rank: 1000

From: Dan Cantor Date: November 2, 2008 9:06:02 PM EST To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: quick favor Doug - I'm hoping you might send this around to some friends. People never remember to do this unless reminded, and the reminder is best when it's from someone they trust. Every little bit really does help. DC Dear Friends, New York isn't a swing state. Obama will win here. That's good. But there's still one thing you can do to make that win a little better: Vote for Bara ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 2 18:11:48 PST 2008

7162 [lbo-talk] Loren Goldner on The Crisis (TM) -- rank: 1000

From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> Date: November 2, 2008 11:26:08 AM EST To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: New text Reply-To: lrgoldner at yahoo.com Hi Doug- I have just posted my analysis of the September-October world capitalist blowout on the Break Their Haughty Power web site http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/october.html Can you announce it on your list? Thanks Loren

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 2 10:39:40 PST 2008

7163 [lbo-talk] WJC and SSI -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Andy wrote: > I've heard speculation (maybe here) that l'affaire Lewinsky prevented > Clinton from pushing social security privatization. Were there any > concrete proposals to do so under his administration Yes. Dean Baker's written about this somewhere. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 1 12:39:42 PDT 2008

7164 [lbo-talk] Jenny Holzer's Twitter? -- rank: 1000

Via Gawker channelling other sources: this purports to be Jenny Holzer's Twitter: <http://twitter.com/jennyholzer> RETICENCE AND SECRECY ARE EXCELLENT PASTTIMES 8 days ago from web PEOPLE WON'T BEHAVE IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE 12:39 PM May 20, 2008 from web FAKE OR REAL INDIFFERENCE IS A POWERFUL PERSONAL WEAPON 11:11 PM May 19, 2008 from web MONEY CREATES TASTE 03:36 PM May 04, 2008 from web THE FUTURE IS STUPID 01:28 PM April 29, 2008 from web GUILT AND SELF-LACERATION ARE INDULGEN ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 30 14:21:32 PDT 2008

7165 [lbo-talk] The Party Travels at Mach Speed: Iron Man, Real and Imagined -- rank: 1000

On May 30, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Where's my drink? You're right. It's an unofficial summer almost-evening. The publishing industry still takes off Friday afternoons in the summer. Time for all of us in this or later time zones to have a drink or three. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 30 13:41:17 PDT 2008

7166 [lbo-talk] The Party Travels at Mach Speed: Iron Man, Real and Imagined -- rank: 1000

On May 30, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > The peasant believed the cleric had the word of God. > If I believed that people existed who had a direct > line to God, I would trust them. They don't exist. Sorry. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 30 13:39:46 PDT 2008

7167 [lbo-talk] The Party Travels at Mach Speed: Iron Man, Real and Imagined -- rank: 1000

On May 30, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > My belief in the > existence of Jupiter, and my ideas about its nature, > are based entirely on things I have heard from people > I recognize as authorities. It is no different, > subjectively, from the attitude of a medieval peasant > taking the words of a cleric as authoritative. Except that you're believing the work of scientists, who've spent centuries researching and testing their findings, while the cleric is just repeati ...

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Date:	Fri May 30 11:36:31 PDT 2008

7168 [lbo-talk] The Nation does CNA-SEIU -- rank: 1000

On May 30, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I would be curious what someone > like Doug thinks of the article, and if it makes you question how > informed or not you really were on the issue when you were calling > seiu a company union and expressing such faith that the CNA's actions > were justified Jim, I'll concede that Esther's piece is more balanced than anything I've said, but it's a lot harder on SEIU than anything you've ever conceded either. The stuff on the Calif ...

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Date:	Fri May 30 11:31:33 PDT 2008

7169 [lbo-talk] The Nation does CNA-SEIU -- rank: 1000

On May 30, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Doug offered that > SEIU was 'insane' to think that a House and Senate with large dem > majorities is more likely to pass pro-worker labor law than a > republican one. Not exactly. Here's what I actually said: > On May 22, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Mark Rickling quoted Nelson > Lichtenstein: > > >> But Stern and his allies within the SEIU believe that with a >> Democratic Party landslide in the offing this November, un ...

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Date:	Fri May 30 11:14:00 PDT 2008

7170 [lbo-talk] "Theory's Empire," an anti-"Theory" anthology -- rank: 1000

On May 30, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I keep such illustrious company. > > --- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > the leisure of an Arnold, Eliot, Bloom, Henwood-Doss > to 'maturely' weigh all the1000 possible perspectives > on the world Me too! I missed this the first time around. But this eruption from Cde Cox is rich: > We were coming > from nowhere and climbing in the ring with the strongest and most > ruthless empire the world had ever kn ...

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Date:	Fri May 30 09:50:59 PDT 2008