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8101 [lbo-talk] BO's response to the outcry over his FISA vote (fwd) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Obama is a Pussy like Me No, I don't think he is. David Brooks is mostly full of shit, but he was dead on when he said that Obama is ruthless. He's going to have to buy a whole fleet of busses to accommodate all the people he throws under them in the coming months. And because some people still think he's a pussy like you (and the rest of Us), he's going out of his way to prove that he can be as bellicose as McC. Doug

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8102 [lbo-talk] Doug cited in this week's Barron's -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > But how would raising interest rates - which the BIS, worrying more > about inflation rather than deflation, appears to emphasize - not > affect the working class as well as shaking out the weaker banks > and corps? It would, but they're also talking about the long-term importance of stopping asset bubbles. The very idea of central banks targeting asset prices is pretty heretical. Most of Wall Street hates the idea, since they m ...

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8103 [lbo-talk] estimating the economic value of the right-wing pull of corporate media... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > When Obama announced that he was not going to take public funding in > the general election, so as not to be bound by the spending limits, > Robert Parry had an op-ed in Consortium News noting that while > liberals were tinkering with the campaign finance rules, the right was > using its resources to carry out a long march through the the media > institutions. I don't get the reasoning behind this. Was it right-wing to hammer ...

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8104 [lbo-talk] Growing moderatism in academia -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2008, at 10:44 AM, shag wrote: > seriously, tho, i think carrol is spot on. there is an expectation > that intellectuals are better than, superior to, ordinary people. Who holds such an expectations? Professor-bashing is a pastime of bar louts, Bill O'Reilly, and the occasional union organizer. Professors = intellectuals = out of touch lazy elitists. In the immortal words of Charlie Daniels: > What most people call a redneck > Ain't nothin' but a workin' man > And he ...

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8105 [lbo-talk] Doug cited in this week's Barron's -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > I've only read press commentary on the BIS report, so maybe I > shouldn't have > ventured a (qualified) opinion about it at: > > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-July/031004.html I don't think the BIS is circulating a scare story at all. I think they're very serious about the urgency of putting an end to business as usual - meaning what I've been calling the cycle of boom, bubble, bust, and bailout. I suspect ...

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8106 [lbo-talk] Growing moderatism in academia -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2008, at 8:15 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Professor baiting, it occurred t ome while half-dozing as Jan & I were > driving back to Bloomington today, is a sort of twisted intellectual > elitism, a huge over-valuation of "intelligence" as such. The hidden > premise is that any smart person should know THE TRUTH, and if a smart > person doesn't know THE TRUTH (The Truth according to the prof-baiter > that is) then that person must be a deliberate fraud. Let me ...

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8107 [lbo-talk] Doug cited in this week's Barron's -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote: > You need to subscribe to read the whole article online, but > Alan Abelson's column on pages 3 and 4 of this week's Barron's > favorably cites work by Phillippa Dunne and our own Doug > Henwood on both the Bank for International Settlements > annual report and the June unemployment numbers. > > http://snipurl.com/barrons0707 > full link: <http://online.barrons.com/article/ > SB121512484846628107.html> End o ...

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8108 [lbo-talk] CPI(M) hearts SEIU -- rank: 1000

<http://pd.cpim.org/2008/0706_pd/07062008_19.htm> SEIU opposed the policies of AFL-CIO and adopted a path of struggle against exploitation by the employer. ... SEIU convention was a milestone in the recent history of American trade union movement wherein a planned attempt is being made to strengthen the trade union movement by uniting the working class and by giving emphasis on democratic functioning of trade unions which do not get influenced by the employer's machinations.

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8109 [lbo-talk] BO's response to the outcry over his FISA vote -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I think the difference in their positions is about as clear as we > can expect in a world where it is accepted that giving too much > detail is a sign of a duffer. Of course, being the vigorous war supporter, McCain has cover for getting out. While Obama, the "peace" candidate, will have to prove himself to be sufficiently bellicose to run the empire. What you see isn't always what you get. Doug

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8110 [lbo-talk] 90% of blacks voted -- rank: 1000

On Jul 4, 2008, at 12:21 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > And you're right, it would be 90+% Dem this time no matter who > won. The supposed point is that this higher than normal percentage > support in the primary will be the harbinger, if properly worked, > to a substantially larger black turnout in the main election (and > thus the possibility of winning a couple of southern states where > blacks make up a a quarter or a third of the electorate). But remember that black (and you ...

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8111 [lbo-talk] Power (Waiting for Foucault) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 3, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I think this paragraph is an excellent illustration of the fact that > Freudian psychology is merely a form of literary criticism -- it plays > with words as though they were words in a poem, n0t as though they > referred to any feature of human thought or feeling or personality. > > This explains why Freudianism exerts such attraction on scholars in > the > humanities and so little on psychiatrists, psychologists, or > n ...

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8112 [lbo-talk] Americans respond to $4 gas: drill drill drill!; on Iraq, confused -- rank: 1000

On Jul 3, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > this country is fascist to its core Nah. We're not collectivist enough.

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8113 [lbo-talk] McCain, diplomat -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/mccains-temper.html> McCain s Temper Tantrum Tawdriness July 02, 2008 2:48 PM FROM GUEST-BLOGGER RICK KLEIN, from ABC's The Note. Making the rounds in political circles today -- in addition to the shake-up inside the McCain campaign -- is an account in the Biloxi Sun-Herald where Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., says he witnessed a physical confrontation between Sen. John McCain and a Sandinista during a diplomatic mission in 1987. This is ...

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8114 [lbo-talk] the Iraq shuffle -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] [Obama's] Chief strategist David Axelrod, to John Roberts, filling in as anchor of CNN's 'The Situation Room: 'He's always said that he would listen to the advice of commanders on the ground -- that that would factor into his thinking. He's also always said that we had to be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. So he's been very consistent on this point. ...He will take the advice, not just the advice of the commanders on the ground, but his gene ...

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8115 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jul 2, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > This type of stuff really does drift overly into inside-baseball > type trivia at some point though. Not at all. I thought it was really interesting. Doug

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