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1606 [lbo-talk] market optimism -- rank: 1000

MarketWatch www.marketwatch.com BULLETIN: U.S. stocks close higher after Japan quake on rebuilding hopes...

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Date:	Fri Mar 11 13:20:18 PST 2011

1607 [lbo-talk] Japan -- rank: 1000

Are our subscribers in Japan ok?

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Date:	Fri Mar 11 11:43:44 PST 2011

1608 [lbo-talk] Most schools could face 'failing' label -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Does the number you give also exclude "public" employees? The unemployed? It excludes both. > Is there any estimate available on the size of the "reserve army of labor"? > If social security is cut (or fails to keep up with the cost of living) that > "army" will increase in size. The reserve army is a plastic concept, so it's hard to count. But in Febraury, there were, in addition to the 89m nonsupervisory ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 10 10:54:45 PST 2011

1609 [lbo-talk] Most schools could face 'failing' label -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Does not most of the US working class live in China and India now? There were 89 million production/nonsupervisory workers employed in the U.S. last month, 82% of the private sector workforce. What are they, chopped liver? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 10 10:08:30 PST 2011

1610 [lbo-talk] blog post: radical labor education, part 5: a new labor movement? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2011, at 1:57 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > There is something about the villification of Big Government by the right that seeks to conceal its immanent essence as OUR government, representing our interests and welfare. It is, after all, an important public/common space. Yes. There was something very nice about how open the state capitol building was - no cops, metal detectors, any of that shit.

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Date:	Thu Mar 10 09:26:07 PST 2011

1611 [lbo-talk] speculative fever in oil -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2011, at 7:31 AM, brad wrote: > And isn't QE2 winding down... It sure is. But then there are those big deficits. And who's going to buy all those bonds?

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Date:	Thu Mar 10 04:40:09 PST 2011

1612 [lbo-talk] blog post: radical labor education, part 5: a new labor movement? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:29 PM, jam wrote: > I tried send an alert to the list earlier but I'm not sure it went through - > my messages seem to work when I send them as replies...so: It did get through. Not a surprise really, but shitty news.

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Date:	Wed Mar 9 17:41:46 PST 2011

1613 [lbo-talk] danger of insomnia epidemic! -- rank: 1000

---------------------------------------- Breaking News Alert: Pulitzer prize-winning journalist David Broder dies March 9, 2011 12:56:21 PM ---------------------------------------- David S. Broder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most respected writers on national politics for four decades, dies at age 81. http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/VP6EHT/RNL0AK/RXB7A/CL4UIP/93KOG/OS/h

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Date:	Wed Mar 9 10:13:43 PST 2011

1614 [lbo-talk] blog post: radical labor education, part 5: a new labor movement? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > I understand - and share- the disgust many on list feel toward > Democrats - but that is the only chance that we have. So the choice > is to either hold your nose and work with them or else masturbate > gloomily. THere are different ways to "work with" Dems. You can get involved, campaign for them, write them checks, etc. - or you can get out in the streets, sleep in the state capitol, scream, strike, etc. If you get enough o ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 9 09:11:41 PST 2011

1615 [lbo-talk] blog post: radical labor education, part 5: a new labor movement? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > The problem is that even if Wisconsin protest movements spreads > it will either fizzle out or - in the best case scenario - it will be > coopted by mainstream interests, most likely Democrats. According to > William Gamson, who studied social movements in the US for the past > 100+ years (_The Strategy of Social Protest_) these have been the > outcomes of social protest movements in the US. You may be right, but what's the altern ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 9 08:54:08 PST 2011

1616 [lbo-talk] speculative fever in oil -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > In other words, since beyond "speculators and financial investors [but what can it possibly mean to be a "financial investor" in a commodities market?]" there are only hedging producers, in the relatively near term all that pre-sold output can be expected to show up in the market, driving down prices. Who has a better view of future oil market conditions--financial speculators or producing cartels? Neither has any damn idea. ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 9 06:55:33 PST 2011

1617 [lbo-talk] speculative fever in oil -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:46 AM, brad wrote: > This is a perfect example of what I was mentioning a week or so ago. > It shows how capital bears its teeth and tries to scare politicians > (along with the general capital strike we've seen over the last few > years). Wall Street is 'making the economy scream' by putting huge > amounts of money into commodities, signaling to O and the Dems, > appease us or the economy will go into a double dip and you will be > replaced by those th ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 9 06:03:28 PST 2011

1618 [lbo-talk] An Orgy of Speculation? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:52 PM, brad wrote: > Arrighi is a whole other discussion And his n=2 or 3, right?

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Date:	Tue Mar 8 10:36:33 PST 2011

1619 [lbo-talk] speculative fever in oil -- rank: 1000

<http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/07/speculators-double-down-on-oil/> Speculators double down on oil Posted by Colin Barr March 7, 2011 6:33 am Ready for higher oil prices? Wall Street is. Big traders are betting the ranch that oil prices will keep rising, testing the pain threshold of an economy that is not exactly setting records as is. Large noncommercial speculators firms that play the futures markets without taking delivery added to their long position in West Texas Intermed ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 8 10:31:23 PST 2011

1620 [lbo-talk] spam poetry -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Now I haven't read the spam that Doug & Catherine are referring to, and I > probably won't. I seldom read anything now unless there is a pressing need > to: I read too slowly and painfully. But if it is a consciously constructed > text, it has as much "right" to be called "art" as Lear or Dante's Comedy. So it's the construction, not the reception, that matters? Doug

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