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

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 many opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive (and apologies for the delay) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: July 22, 2010 Yves Smith, keeper of the Naked Capitalism blog and author of Econned, on the contribution of the dismal science to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 29 10:59:24 PDT 2010

2 [lbo-talk] SEK3 -- rank: 1000

[Sam Konkin wrote me in the early days of LBO and struck up something of a friendship - as he did, if I'm remembering right, with Alexander Cockburn. I think Dennis Perrin knew him too. He was a libertarian nut, but an engaging one, and interested in the left. This is from today's Mises Daily.] <http://mises.org/daily/4597> ... Clearly, in 1967, at the age of 20, Samuel Edward Konkin III had not yet discovered libertarianism. He would do so in short order, however. He had already discovere ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 29 07:33:10 PDT 2010

3 [lbo-talk] Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections -- rank: 1000

On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:07 PM, SA wrote: > I'm not trying to deny that the party did all these good things. I'm just saying that they didn't *appear* to amount to all that much at the time. What looks to you in retrospect like "sustained and nationally coordinated activity" looked at the time like scattered local actions, stirred up by a CP that had - what, 10,000 members? 10,000 is not small. Adjusted for pop growth, it'd be 25,000 now. If only we had that. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 06:48:00 PDT 2010

4 [lbo-talk] emerging CW: Gulf spill a "nothingburger" -- rank: 1000

GAME CHANGE -- TIME's Michael Grunwald, who's on the speed-dial of all enviro flacks, nevertheless writes from Port Fourchon, La., that Rush was right about the BP spill -- it's an environmental nothingburger: [I]t does not seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage. 'The impacts have been much, much less than everyone feared,' says geochemist Jacqueline Michel, a federal contractor who is coordinating shoreline assessments in Louisiana. Anti-oil politicians, anti-Obama politicians and ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 06:07:33 PDT 2010

5 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Out of Office: Gary Super Sad True Love Story -- rank: 1000

Wow, try to publicize someone's book, and look at the thanks you get. Begin forwarded message: > From: Atrandompublicity <Atrandompublicity at randomhouse.com> > Date: July 28, 2010 5:28:43 PM EDT > To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Subject: Out of Office: Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story > > Thanks for your email. Please make certain that in all future emails you include the name of the book and author in your subject line. If you are listing requ ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 14:33:31 PDT 2010

6 [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Thanks for posting this, Michael. Bloom is hilarious, with his > thundering declarations and his angst over The Common Reader. It's > also a pretty interesting reading, though almost all wrong. Do tell how.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 26 11:30:20 PDT 2010

7 [lbo-talk] changiness (cont.): deportation of "illegal immigrants" up from Bush years -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072501790_pf.html> Deportation of illegal immigrants increases under Obama administration By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 26, 2010; A01 In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that blithely hire undocumented workers. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agenc ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 26 09:03:55 PDT 2010

8 [lbo-talk] blog post: from Boulder North and West to Portland, part 1 -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Too bad my wife and I didn't have it as a guide before our recent two month road trip through the States which took us to and through some of the places in New Mexico, California, Utah, Colorado etc. you describe. Welcome back, Marv. Excellent to meet you two on your stop in NYC. You going to write up any reports on your trip? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 25 20:06:49 PDT 2010

9 [lbo-talk] artisinal everything -- rank: 1000

On Jul 24, 2010, at 5:07 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > But it has to be a joke... right? "Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke."

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Date:	Sat Jul 24 14:31:28 PDT 2010

10 [lbo-talk] artisinal everything -- rank: 1000

The guy who did Get Your War On has a new venture: http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/index.html

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Date:	Sat Jul 24 13:50:52 PDT 2010

11 [lbo-talk] DC fires teachers -- rank: 1000

On Jul 24, 2010, at 8:43 AM, James Leveque wrote: > Where is all this policy going, anyway? So Rhee fires over 300 teachers and > admin support and they replace them with, who...? I know that Obama talks as > if highly skilled teachers grow on trees, but Rhee, DC's mayor, Dept. of Ed. > etc. must know that the teachers hired to replace those who got the ax are > going to be mostly young and inexperienced and probably aren't likely to get > any better scores. So what happens whe ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 24 06:05:10 PDT 2010

12 [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > It does seem awfully crude to read a crude political message into the symbolism of a masterpiece > by one of the very greatest poets, whatever his prose animadversions about the Mussolini > of the early 1920's. Harold Bloom is many things, but I wouldn't include "crude" on the list. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 24 05:24:00 PDT 2010

13 [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Chip Berlet wrote: > Yeats: "The Second Coming" : > > Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold... > > The best lack all conviction, while the worst > > Are full of passionate intensity. Not Yeats! Bloom!!

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Date:	Fri Jul 23 20:33:41 PDT 2010

14 [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:45 PM, Chip Berlet wrote: > How can something be grassroots and yet neither independent nor populist? Because it's a mass movement of the petty bourgeoisie? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 23 20:33:24 PDT 2010

15 [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Bloom is probably right. I'm reasonably sure that the "roubh beast" is > Red, which Yeats hopes fascism will protect us from. But I can't support > this. Too bad Doug can't qutote the text. Ok, I just ordered a copy for $0.55 from Amazon. Doesn't anyone else on this list have a copy of this book? Wow, Googling turned up this, from a 2007 NYT article: <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/opinion/12mon4.html> > As for hi ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 23 19:28:16 PDT 2010