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Walker likely to survive recall

raghu — 2012-05-27T00:34:57

So much for the Wisconsin spring..
http://elections.firedoglake.com/2012/05/24/wi-gov-walker-looking-strong-before-recall/
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With less than two weeks until the recall election in Wisconsin, it
appears Republican Governor Scott Walker currently stands a very good
chance of surviving the effort. Two new polls out today confirm Walker
leads Democrat Tom Barrett in their rematch. A poll for Wisconsin
Public Radio has Walker leading by five and a poll for Reason has him
up by eight.
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Peak fish

Louis Proyect — 2012-05-26T18:25:50

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-end-of-fish-in-one-chart/2012/05/19/gIQAgcIBbU_blog.html
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According to the World Bank, of the nearly 100 banking crises that have occurred internationally during the last 20 years, all were resolved by bailouts at taxpayer expense.[9]

c b — 2012-05-25T17:12:33

Taxpayers, depositors, and other creditors often have to shoulder at
least part of the burden of risky financial decisions made by lending
institutions.[5][6][7][8] According to the World Bank, of the nearly
100 banking crises that have occurred internationally during the last
20 years, all were resolved by bailouts at taxpayer expense.[9]


        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard#History_of_the_term
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Thoughts for Memorial Day: Heroism vs. Moneymaking

michael perelman — 2012-05-25T16:28:44

We remember how the neoconservatives will solve warfare as a way to
out American softness and recover the noble heroism associated with
past military victories.  Here is a snippet from the post-Civil War
period, which adds an interesting twist: the editorial in question
makes a distinction between the ethic of warfare and the sordid
moneymaking at the time.  Today, the presumptive ethical basis of both
the military and the moneymaking crowd deserve our highest admiration,
even though the moneymakers are engaged in warfare against the same
people that the military is supposed to be protecting.


94-5: "The fervor with which Americans practiced the rituals of
Memorial Day began to fade in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
Graceful popular ceremonies," declared The New York Tribune in May
1878, no longer fit in a society characterized by "the pioneers of the
prairie and the speculators in railway stock." Bitterness had waned,
and as "individual sorrow for the fallen fades away," said the
Tribune, Decoration Day "

Preannouncement of Paperback Edition of my Book

michael perelman — 2012-05-25T04:01:30

After letting my book languish for almost five years Palgrave let The
Confiscation of American Prosperity, they are about to release a
paperback edition.  In addition, they are featuring me as author of
the month and reprinting my new introduction, which I explain why the
book was constructed as a crime story.

My picture and the introduction are at the bottom.

http://view.mail.macmillan.com/?j=fe5816787c6d057f7316&m=feee1c737d6c02&ls=fdd015717762057b7511777465&l=fe5c1575746d01757512&s=fe3010727564037b731171&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe1f1773716d027b721777&r=0

Giroux's Passionate Speech for Youth

2012-05-25T00:42:37

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxJgr40bBHk_______________________________________________
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Blood money

Jim Devine — 2012-05-24T15:59:23

I don't understand the brouhaha about selling Reagan's blood. By the
free-market principles he professed, his blood should be fair game.
Everything should be for sale, even if it's sold to Transylvania.

Jim Devine
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Pink Floyd's Roget Watets hearts Occupy

raghu — 2012-05-24T15:05:36

Very cool.
http://hellaoccupyoakland.org/occupy-the-wall-how-pink-floyds-album-became-political-theater-in-2012/
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“If at first you don’t succeed, call an airstrike.”

– projected text from Roger Waters: The Wall at AT&T Park, 5/11/12

Roger Waters, the stadium-rock showman and concept-album auteur who
quit the band Pink Floyd nearly thirty years ago, has brought his
epic, expensive production of that band’s 1979 album, The Wall, back
for another round of performances. This time, however, the show has
taken on a decidedly more political bent.

For a generation of rock fans like myself, The Wall was a landmark
album whose importance could not be overstated.  Throughout the ’80s,
while our hipper and less sheltered peers were digging into hip hop
and metal, we suburban white guys tended to obsess over the more
establishment-friendly arena rock of Pink Floyd and The Wall. We
watched the movie starring Bob Geldof, we pored over its lyrics for
symbolism and referentia,

Nearly 1 in 3 homeowners with a mortgage in L.A. County owes more than the property is worth, new data show

c b — 2012-05-24T14:57:10

http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-negative-equity-20120524,0,985482.story
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Yousef Munayyer in NY Times: Not All Israeli Citizens AreEqual

Joseph Catron — 2012-05-24T00:56:46

"Tragically for Palestinians, Zionism requires the state to empower and
maintain a Jewish majority even at the expense of its non-Jewish citizens,
and the occupation of the West Bank is only one part of it. What exists
today between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is therefore
essentially one state, under Israeli control, where Palestinians have
varying degrees of limited rights: 1.5 million are second-class citizens,
and four million more are not citizens at all. If this is not apartheid,
then whatever it is, it’s certainly not democracy. "

http://nyti.ms/JWhp5P

Sensible and popular Keynesians - the sophistry of RaghuramRajan

robert mckee — 2012-05-23T20:40:42

http://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/sensible-and-popular-keynesians-the-sophistry-of-raghuram-rajan/

Rajan seeks to suggest in discussing what needs to be done to get the 
world economy going, it is necessary to make a distinction between 
“sensible” and “popular” Keynesians.  According to Rajan, sensible Keynesians must instead advocate more 
austerity and cuts in government until the private sector recovers of 
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(Fwd) Economist pimps Hubbell, Summers,etc (Charles Ferguson)

Patrick Bond — 2012-05-22T20:05:02

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  The Sellout of the Ivory Tower, and the Crash of 2008 (Excerpt)

Posted: 05/22/2012 8:33 am

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Many people who saw my documentary film about the 2008 economic crisis, 
/Inside Job/, found that the most surprising, and disturbing, portion of

OC87

Louis Proyect — 2012-05-22T19:29:55

A review of a documentary about a guy suffering from depression, 
bipolar, OC, and Asperger's. He is also one of the directors.

http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/oc87/
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Our penal system

Lakshmi Rhone — 2012-05-22T19:19:26

http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/5/21/our-penal-system.html

Very impressive indeed for a mere blog entry.

LR
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privatized space

Jim Devine — 2012-05-22T17:59:51

[to what extent is the private space industry simply resting in a
subsidized way on the shoulders of the NASA giant? how much credit
will these space "entrepreneurs" give to NASA?]

from SLATE:

The private company became the first in history to send a vessel to
the International Space Station.

By Rachael Levy | Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at 10:31 AM ET

We have (privately-funded) lift-off!

California-based SpaceX made history early Tuesday morning when its
Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, carrying an unmanned
vessel named Dragon into orbit and marking a new commercial era for
space exploration in the process.

[If further tests are successful,] The unmanned commercial supply
capsule will deliver its 1,000 pounds of cargo to the International
Space Station later this week. It is the first time that a private
company has sent a vessel to the station, a mission previously
reserved for only nations with major space programs, the Associated
Press explains.

"Falcon flew perfectly!!" billiona

Adjunct faculty information

Sean Andrews — 2012-05-22T14:49:07

Sorry for crossposting:

I am doing some research on higher education in the United States and
I am curious if there is a national database of some kind which would
show or keep track of the number and percentage of adjunct faculty or
other contingent faculty working at particular institutions?  Good
aggregate data is useful too, but I'm trying to compare a handful of
places.

Thanks very much and have a great day.

Best,
Sean Andrews
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Discobama

ken hanly — 2012-05-22T03:49:02


  An interesting link at Black Agenda Report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK6D3HIFne8&feature=player_embedded


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(no subject)

Lakshmi Rhone — 2012-05-22T03:30:48

Morris' explanation does  seem to elide the direct gains from what
Pomeranz called a new kind of colonialism.
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(no subject)

Lakshmi Rhone — 2012-05-22T03:29:25

trade mattered in an indirect way--it did not remove resource constraints
on economic growth, a la Pomeranz, and create massive profit opportunities
on the basis of seized land and slave labor, a la Bagchi and Inikori,  but
thew open new questions, say, in regards to navigation that spurred the
Scientific Revolution which in turn underpinned the Industrial Revolution.
The vibrant Atlantic economy also pushed wages up and made
industrialization economical. Robert C. Allen doubts that Scientific
Revolution was crucially important to industrialization but does agree that
relative factor prices was the driving force.
Morris' explanation does not seem to elide the direct gains from what
Pomeranz called a new kind of colonialism.
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(no subject)

Lakshmi Rhone — 2012-05-22T03:19:53

So Ian Morris agrees with Inikori, Bagchi and Pomeranz that the gains from
colonialism were crucial in the West coming to rule?
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Bagchi

Lakshmi Rhone — 2012-05-22T02:28:19

that is the gains that the colonizing societies enjoyed from colonialism,
is not a closed question.
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