10---The Road NOT Taken

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Sunday December 19, 2010 · 3:00 PM PST

2010/12/19 · 15:00

This week's episode of the Anti-Capitalist Meetup is about someone who in his day was not necessarily considered an anti-capitalist in the sense that most people here consider themselves to be. But in his day, John Kenneth Galbraith was not only a harsh critic of the capitialist system, he also envisioned a more democratic and socialistic future as discussed in his 1973 book Economics and the Public Purpose. His ideas were met with polite apathy, and although he still wrote well-received books, advised Presidents and the like until his death in 2006, his influence was never the same as his 1950s-early 1970s heyday. We are much worse off for that waning influence and we suffer for it to this day.

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Sunday August 15, 2010 · 3:11 PM PDT

2010/08/15 · 15:11

The capitalist system is currently in crisis. There are inherent contradictions in the system which help to create inequality and environmental degradation. The system encourages the waste of resources either by leaving millions permanently unemployed and underemployed or by encouraging useless economic growth and a "throw away" society.

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Monday February 01, 2010 · 10:41 PM PST

2010/02/01 · 22:41

On Tuesday night, February 2, 2010, Minnesotans will endure snow and freezing temperatures to participate in a time-honored political ritual--- the Minnesota precinct caucuses. As former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill once famously said "all politics is local", and the Minnesota cacuses are a manifestation of those local politics as friends and neighbors gather to get reacquantied with each other and discuss, debate, and argue the political issues and candidates of the upcoming important elections.

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Have you ever participated in a precinct caucus?

17 votes Vote Now!

Have you ever participated in a precinct caucus?

Yes, and it was a good experience (an empowering experience of grassroots democracy).

9 votes

Yes, but it kind of sucked (too many "insiders" and "undemocratic").

2 votes

No.

6 votes

I think the Greeks called it "hubris"

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Monday February 09, 2009 · 2:01 PM PST

2009/02/09 · 14:01

This morning while reading my local newspaper, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, I was treated to a full page ad by the right-wing/libertarian/free-market fundamentalist "think tank" the Cato Institute on page A8. It is headlined by a quote from then-President elect Barack Obama on January 9, 2009 in reference to a stimulus package:

"There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help jumpstart the economy"

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Wednesday January 28, 2009 · 9:40 AM PST

2009/01/28 · 09:40

I was inspired to read Robert B. Reich's latest book Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life after seeing him numerous times on shows such as The Rachel Maddow Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann this past month or so. His insights on economic issues are invaluable and usually spot on. I have long admired Reich, who was one of the few genuinely liberal voices in the more moderate Clinton Administration, and perhaps the best, most effective Secretary of Labor in the post World War II era.

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Saturday October 25, 2008 · 10:55 PM PDT

2008/10/25 · 22:55

Over the past year or so the Star Tribune, under new mangagement, made more and more noticable movements towards being a conservative paper.

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For reader of the MN Star Tribune: Have you noticed the right-ward drift of the paper?

64 votes Vote Now!

For reader of the MN Star Tribune: Have you noticed the right-ward drift of the paper?

Yes

61 votes

3 votes

MN Senate: Franken stagnates, Nelson-Pallmeyer grows, Ciresi back in (!)????

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Monday May 19, 2008 · 1:05 PM PDT

2008/05/19 · 13:05

In this morning's edition of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Minnesotans read about how mediocre, Bush-supporting, empty-suit, incumbent Republican senator Norm Coleman is still beating DFL frontrunner Al Franken in the latest poll.

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Is Franken's stagnation in the polls cause for concern???

209 votes Vote Now!

Is Franken's stagnation in the polls cause for concern???

Yes

117 votes

39 votes

Maybe so

42 votes

Pie

11 votes

MN-senate: Franken opponent FINALLY getting some media "love"

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Sunday May 04, 2008 · 1:03 PM PDT

2008/05/04 · 13:03

A great many people are probably not even aware that in the Minnesota senate race that Al Franken even has an opponent for the DFL (as the Democratic Party in MN is called) nomination. Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer has been running a true grassroots progressive campaign against the "inevitable" (sound familiar?) Al Franken. A big complaint made by JNP supporters has been the lack of media coverage by the local paper, the Minneapolis-based Star-Tribune. In Sunday's edition JNP is mentioned prominently not once, but twice.

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 12:56 PM PDT

2008/04/26 · 12:56

The local paper here, the Star Tribune ("the Strib" for short) has a front page story on new revelations of tax-paying problems by Franken's show business enterprise in California. This "mini-scandal", coupled with an earlier "mini-scandal" where Franken was in trouble with the state of New York for not paying worker's comp. premiums may make Franken's (surprisingly difficult) quest to unseat Norm Coleman that much more difficult.

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Monday March 17, 2008 · 10:33 AM PDT

2008/03/17 · 10:33

My local paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune has finally had an article (on the front page no less!) about the "other" candidate for Norm Coleman's US Senate seat, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer. Most people here at DailyKos are probably not even aware that Al Franken even had other opponents for the DFL nomination for the late, great Paul Wellstone's old seat.

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If you have been observing the MN senate race, did you even know that there were other candidates than Al Franken?

105 votes Vote Now!

If you have been observing the MN senate race, did you even know that there were other candidates than Al Franken?

Yes.

83 votes

No.

20 votes

Maybe so.

2 votes

Minnesota SD 50 Convention---good news for Al Franken

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 3:47 PM PST

2008/03/08 · 15:47

(cross posted at mnblue)

Today was the Minnesota Senate District 50 Convention. The most important activity at this convention was to elect delegates (18 delegates plus 18 alternates) to the State DFL Convention to be held in Rochester, MN this June. The delegates at the state convention will determine who will receive the DFL endorsement for the US Senate race and have the honor of facing incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. The three DFL candidates are Al Franken, Mike Ciresi, and Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer.

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Wednesday November 28, 2007 · 10:41 AM PST

2007/11/28 · 10:41

I apologize for the "timeliness" of this diary (meaning that this might be old news) but one of the things I like about taking a long break at Thanksgiving is being able to catch up on reading.

While perusing my back issues of Newsweek magazine I came across an interesting tidbit in the November 5th issue of Newsweek on page 20 ( the Periscope section). After seeing this the little lightbulb above me head turned on.

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