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14176 [lbo-talk] BushTV in Iraq inflaming tensions -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - March 28, 2006 THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ Unfair, Unbalanced Channels Despite U.S. efforts to promote journalistic standards in Iraq, sectarian divisions are bleeding over onto a dozen TV stations. By Louise Roug, Times Staff Writer BAGHDAD - The Bush administration has poured millions of dollars into creating Western-style news media in Iraq, backing at least two television channels as well as training programs for Iraqi journalists on balance and ethics. The effort has helped lau ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 09:44:17 PST 2006

14177 [lbo-talk] Bloomsberg columnist: Summers Wants IMF to Run $500Bln Hedge Fund -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Willy Greenfields <filthydirtyunwashed at yahoo.com> >>> >><http://tinyurl.com/mlgfa> > >Wow, there is no end to smartest-guy-in-the-room Larry Summer's >bright ideas. It would appear that the whole purpose of this IMF >hedge fund Hey, Larry needs a job. He probably envies Rubin and the hotshots who run the Harvard portfolio. This would be a perfect opportunity for him. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 09:41:53 PST 2006

14178 [lbo-talk] the right pushes the dumbness envelope -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 March 2006 CONTACT: Tim Bueler (530) 401-3285 HILLARY IS GOING TO JAIL, AND CHARITY WILL BENEFIT Winning bidder of charity auction will be turned into a cartoon hero who apprehends liberal villain Hillary in an upcoming kid's book. Proceeds from the eBay auction will benefit a charity supporting U.S. soldiers. A chance to become a role model for kids across the country. Los Angeles, CA - All signs indicate that a liberal politician from Congress named Hillary might be go ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 09:39:04 PST 2006

14179 [lbo-talk] single-payer: the local angle -- rank: 1000

[somewhat reformatted] Dear PNHP NY Metro Members and Friends, We are excited to learn that a bill urging the U.S. Congress to pass John Conyers' "United States National Health Insurance Act," H.R. 676 ("Expanded & Improved Medicare For All") has been introduced into the New York City Council by Oliver Koppell from the Bronx. Local initiatives like this are critical to building a movement for single payer national health insurance. If you are in New York City, please help ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 08:08:13 PST 2006

14180 [lbo-talk] Challenger on GM -- rank: 1000

[CGC is the headhunting firm most famous for its monthly counts of corporate layoff announcements.] CHALLENGER, GRAY & CHRISTMAS, INC. DATE March 28, 2006 For Release Upon Receipt Statement by John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. on the Tuesday white-collar job cuts by General Motors. NEW YORK - "General Motors response to its $10 billion loss still looks more like the be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 28 08:03:34 PST 2006

14181 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >But if you look at the people who show up to the Fed's Jackson Hole >conferences, or Davos, or the CFR or the Aspen Institute - don't >those people seem to think of themselves as a class with a definite >project? They do, but I'm not sure how central they are to running things right now. Jackson Hole, yes, in the monetary policy realm, but the CFR seems to have lost influence over foreign policy, and Davos has a 90s/Clinton/Rubin feel. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 18:49:20 PST 2006

14182 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > > The pre-WW I ruling class agitated to created the Federal Reserve. >It was maybe their formative experience. > > Doug > >^^^^^^ >CB; Didn't the Fed replace J.P. Morgan in carrying out some functions he had >executed during a financial crisis ? (On his boat , he got a bunch of >bankers to agree to something ? ) Yup. He bailed out the US government from a couple of financial crises by essentially gathering his cronies together and lending the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 14:52:43 PST 2006

14183 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 1000

tfast wrote: >Or more positively stated they were so successful about locking in >the structural conditions to secure their reproduction they are now >concentrating on accumulating capital. Yup, but those conditions don't take care of themselves! They need lots of attention. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 14:50:35 PST 2006

14184 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [PEN-L] Blaming the lobby -- rank: 1000

Julio Huato wrote: >But regardless of how uneasy and complicated that combination is, I >would try not to lose sight of the big issue here: In all counts (big >oil, Zionism, and the military-industrial complex) the interests of >most U.S. capitalists (and people) are being sacrificed. Don't you think "most U.S. capitalists" would notice if their interests were being sacrificed? And Israel enjoys broad popular support in the US. Sorry for the poor formatting of the tables be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 11:56:53 PST 2006

14185 [lbo-talk] Fed launches new web page for kids!!!! -- rank: 1000

[something to while away the hours waiting for tomorrow's FOMC release...sadly Ivan's still too young...] The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has issued the following press release: Federal Reserve Board launches new kids web page <http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/press/other/2006/20060327/default.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 12:57:46 PST 2006

14186 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: > The only interest the ruling class must share is accumulating capital. No, the merely rich, the mere business class care about accumulating capital. To be a proper ruling class, it has to be conscious of itself as such. The people who agitated for the Federal Reserve and who designed the post-WW II Bretton Woods architecture were a proper ruling class. So were the people who led the crackdown of the 1970s that culminated in Volcker and Reagan. I'm not sure we have one ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 12:11:23 PST 2006

14187 [lbo-talk] thumpers annoyed at GOP -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - March 27, 2006 Conservative groups warn GOP By Amy Fagan Social-conservative groups have warned Republicans that their voters feel unappreciated and frustrated with Congress and that the party must get more aggressive on such values issues as marriage, human cloning, religious freedom and abortion if they want a decent turnout from the conservative base in November. "That message has definitely been conveyed," said Jim Backlin, vice president for legislative affairs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 12:07:39 PST 2006

14188 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I was actually thinking about the ruling classes of >Europe whose conduct lead to their own destruction. >This kind of phenomenon is noted in jared Diamond;'s >Collapse and versions of it are familiar from game >theory with n-person prisoner's dilemmas, where >rational action by each leads to worse outcomes for >all. The nuclear arms race looked to be heading that >way before the collpase of the USSR, the the threat to >rgew environment has ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 11:41:13 PST 2006

14189 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I'm not sure that the existence of the ruling class >requires agreement on common interests (much less >being right about them), as opposed to, e.g., common >culture, solidarity, broadly shared values, simialr >positions wrt to productivea ssets, and the like., >After all, the pre-WWI ruling class had no clue and >fairly little agreement aboyr what was in their common >interests, but surely constituted a class. The pre-WW I ruling class agitate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 09:46:29 PST 2006

14190 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [PEN-L] Blaming the lobby -- rank: 1000

Julio Huato wrote: >Doug wrote: > >> But this would suggest that 2% of the US pop can outweigh the >> influence of the US capitalists taken as a whole? That's >> really hard to believe. > >Not necessarily if one considers that there's division of labor, >comparative advantage, and the like. What percentage of the U.S. >population is really driving (and benefiting from) the changes in >fiscal policy introduced in the last 5 years (tax cuts, etc.)? Doing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 27 08:15:45 PST 2006