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8851 [lbo-talk] Rick Warren to thump bible at inauguration; queers pissed -- rank: 1000

From: "Politico New Story Alert" <noreply at politico.com> Date: December 17, 2008 6:11:43 PM EST To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Politico Alert: Ben Smith has published a new story. Ben Smith has published a new story: Gay activists furious with Obama Rick Warren, Obama's pick to give the inaugural invocation, backed the California ban on same-sex marriage. read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16693.html

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 15:25:02 PST 2008

8852 [lbo-talk] Dinner in NYC, Dec 19 or 20 -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2008, at 4:32 PM, ravi wrote: > Support something better than yourself ;-) > PeTA => http://peta.org/ What, some nasty little fur-bearing rodent? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 13:44:05 PST 2008

8853 [lbo-talk] CEI on the Obama energy gang -- rank: 1000

[This is from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a right-wing, climate-change-denying "think" tank. They like O's appointees as much as Shane Mage does!] Obama Interior, Agriculture Appointees Complete Anti-Energy Team Statement on Vilsack, Salazar Appointments Washington, D.C., December 17, 2008 President-elect Obama today announced two cabinet-level appointments for the departments of Interior and Agriculture, respectively. Both nominees have a record of supporting policies t ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 13:23:51 PST 2008

8854 [lbo-talk] clocks, stopped and moving -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > Yes it could launch, if not a "boom," a new secular upswing > (Kondratiev Wave). If its done right. But it won't be. Not with > Obama committed to corn-ethanol, more drilling, nuclear power, > "clean" coal (all representing diversion of the real resources that > would be indispensable for that sort of green-energy program) and > with any form of a carbon tax off the table. For a technological > and struct ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 12:12:24 PST 2008

8855 [lbo-talk] fulminating about The Jews -- rank: 1000

<http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/george_tenet_drunk_in_bandars.php > George Tenet, Drunk in Bandar's Pool, Screaming about Jews 16 Dec 2008 12:03 pm I just picked up Patrick Tyler's forthcoming book, A World of Trouble, about America's tortured relations with the Middle East, and the prologue contains this whopper of a scene, one that is quite devastating, if true: An enraged George Tenet, drunk on scotch, flailing about Prince Bandar's Riyadh pool, screaming a ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 11:23:15 PST 2008

8856 [lbo-talk] clocks, stopped and moving -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2008, at 12:35 PM, SA wrote: > There are only two possibilities: the public sector or the rest of > the world. Right away, then, you can see how the US economy's *long*- > term prospects - not just the immediate recession situation - depend > much more than usual on politics. It's possible - possible - that the green energy stuff could launch a long-term boom, if it's done right. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 11:04:15 PST 2008

8857 [lbo-talk] clocks, stopped and moving -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:41, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: >> >> And my analysis evolved with the news. E.g.: >> > > I knew you read these on the program, but do you ever think about > posting them afterwards? It would be a very good resource if it > wasn't to much trouble. I'm trying to figure out how to reinvent LBO for the new era. That might be part of it. Suggestions welcome. Dou ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 10:41:33 PST 2008

8858 [lbo-talk] AP: Top 10 Political/Econ quotes of 2008 -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > Meanwhile, he also seems to have a pretty good position in relation to > concrete, popular resistance from the Left which crisis predictors > seem to expect will present itself by spontaneous generation. The > closest thing we've got to that is the election of Obama and, well, > that's not all that close. Leo Panitch once asked Patrick what it would mean if his two decades of predicting imminent crisis finally turned out to be v ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 10:38:21 PST 2008

8859 [lbo-talk] tightening the belt -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-17/the-bag-lady-papers/1 > The Bag Lady Papers by Alexandra Penney December 17, 2008 | 7:42am Alexandra Penney a NY artist and former editor of Self Magazine lost her life savings in the Madoff debacle. Now, she shares her wrenching trauma in a Daily Beast exclusive. Last Thursday at around 5 p.m., I had just checked on a rising cheese soufflé in my oven when my best friend called. "Heard Madoff's been arrested," she said ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 09:30:25 PST 2008

8860 [lbo-talk] clocks, stopped and moving -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Sean Andrews wrote: >> ... Though there isn't agreement about what to do, at least the >> hegemonic >> position seems to be that Luskin, et. al. are a discredited group of >> cranks. That's a nice change. > > By the same token, what would we say about dear comrades Henwood, > Panitch, Gindin? Hey, I wouldn't say they're discredited. Just > sanguine cranks. > :-) > > Doug Henwood, July 10, http://w ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 08:41:32 PST 2008

8861 [lbo-talk] Towards a New WPA, was Re: Roubini/labor market stats -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Leftists propose and fight > POLITICALLY, for what they believe in. S.A. chooses to see leftists as > lazy bums making moral judgments from the sidelines as he seems to be > doing. And you're doing what exactly?

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Date:	Wed Dec 17 04:45:50 PST 2008

8862 [lbo-talk] great ledes -- rank: 1000

<http://fleshbot.com/5111836/aging-gracefully-japanese-cougars-gone- wild> If you're like me, you think all Japanese women are about 19 years old and perpetually attending some mountain boarding school. That is why "Japanese Cougars Gone Wild" was a voyage of discovery for me....

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Date:	Tue Dec 16 18:15:49 PST 2008

8863 [lbo-talk] Official Economic stats (was: Roubini) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I would also question the assumption of bourgeois ecnomic and > political theory/ideology that separates markets and society or > formarl and purpose rationality in Max Weber's terms. There is far > more values, norms, cultural expectations and affection in market/ > business behavior and far more market transactions in household > activities than the bourgeois political economy wants us to believe. For sure, but it's not ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 16 18:10:12 PST 2008

8864 [lbo-talk] microcredit: a political economy of shame -- rank: 1000

<http://tanglad.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/microcredit- a-political-economy-of-shame / > Microcredit: A political economy of shame October 14, 2008 by tanglad It s easy to understand the appeal of microcredit. Poor women from the Global South use loans as small as $20 to start businesses and lift themselves from poverty. The creditors make a profit when the loans are repaid. Win-win. What do they say about things that look too good to be true? A whopping 90 to 99 percent of these loans a ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 16 14:54:49 PST 2008

8865 [lbo-talk] Bush on the shoe guy -- rank: 1000

[Gawker's often excellent Hamilton Nolan has fun with Bush here, but Candy Crowley's "blood and treasure" question is stupid imperialist bullshit. Though maybe he's right in charitably suggesting it was a pose to evoke an answer.] <http://gawker.com/5111733/shoe-attack-befuddles-our-dimwit-president> HEROES Shoe Attack Befuddles Our Dimwit President By Hamilton Nolan, 4:22 PM on Tue Dec 16 2008, 1,488 views Finally, hero president George W. Bush is speaking out on the terrori ...

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