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1966 [lbo-talk] NYT's hearts Iran's new austerity measures -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2011, at 1:48 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I mean, what could be better than entering the world market? Being excluded from the world market is no walk in the woods. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 18 11:01:53 PST 2011

1967 [lbo-talk] Charles Bowden -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2011, at 1:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > It could be I need to give it another try. I don't know. I'm not saying this is an informed opinion. I tried reading a lot of his books, but Gravity's Rainbow was the only one I got through. It's the only one I couldn't get through. I loved V though.

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Date:	Tue Jan 18 11:01:25 PST 2011

1968 [lbo-talk] NYC Kapital Study Group -- rank: 1000

[Loren Goldner writes...] The New York City Capital study group will begin discussion of vol. II on Thursday Jan. 27, if any NY-area Meltdowners are interested. The group will continue to the end of June and hopefully finish vol. III. Contact me at lrgoldner at yahoo.com if you wish to join us. Loren

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Date:	Tue Jan 18 09:13:40 PST 2011

1969 [lbo-talk] against civility -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2011, at 9:58 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Rudeness, otoh, > means lack of respect and personal attacks - in which the right will always > outgun the left. Well that's sad. I'm with Ian Bone in his great interview with me http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#070315 Systemic analysis is fine but it's important to see how repulsive the ruling class is. Why respect exploiters? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 15 19:04:38 PST 2011

1970 [lbo-talk] against civility -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2011, at 7:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > "It s not just that these stock phrases grate on the ears their use is a symptom that their speaker evading some complexities." > > Really liked the essay. ooops. Thanks, and thanks.

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Date:	Sat Jan 15 17:49:40 PST 2011

1971 [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 opening commentaries at: <http://lbo-news.com/> Note: this show no longer originates at WBAI. For an explanation, see the links on the radio archive page, below. -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: January 15, 2011 Mark Ames, author of Going Postaland editor of ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 15 13:53:32 PST 2011

1972 [lbo-talk] against civility -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2011/01/15/radio-commentary-january-15-2011/ Against civility The horrendous shootings in Tuscon have certainly inspired a lot of drivel from the commentariat. They were heartbreaking, but please let s not draw stupid conclusions from them. Perhaps most annoying has been the call for a return to civility. Well, no, I don t feel like being civil. I like being rude. The problem with the rudeness in American political discourse is that it s often so stupid, not that it s so rude ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 15 13:49:40 PST 2011

1973 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO cites biz leader in support of HCR -- rank: 1000

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/01/13/biz-leader-says-health-care-repeal-would-leave-us-worse-off/ Biz Leader Says Health Care Repeal Would Leave Us Worse Off by Mike Hall, Jan 13, 2011 Be careful what you wish for, it might come true with lots of bad consequences. The leader of a Big Business group says CEOs and other corporate leaders joining the Republican call for the repeal of health care reform should heed that warning. Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, a gro ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 09:39:51 PST 2011

1974 [lbo-talk] [LBO] Surowecki on unions -- rank: 1000

On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > Not a hater, but in the US the closed shop is a last line of defense in an > otherwise extremely weak institutional context. But maybe it has something to do with why the institutional context is so weak.

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 09:16:41 PST 2011

1975 [lbo-talk] DLC honcho joins admin -- rank: 1000

POLITICO Breaking News ------------------------------------------------- Bruce Reed, the executive director of President Barack Obama's deficit commission and a well-known Clinton administration policy guru, will become chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, succeeding Ron Klain later this month, an administration official said Friday. Klain told colleagues in an e-mail: "The VP has known Bruce since the late 1980s, and worked very closely with him when Congress passed the Biden Crime ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 09:14:06 PST 2011

1976 [lbo-talk] [LBO] Surowecki on unions -- rank: 1000

On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Schickler and Caughey also observe correctly that the closed shop was (and remains) "a major concern for unions since the open shop would undermine their ability to gain and maintain a substantial membership base across industries. But here too poll results indicated that even during the New Deal "a healthy majority of the public opposed both the closed and union shop and instead favored the open shop". Bob Fitch (cue the hate ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 08:17:32 PST 2011

1977 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 14, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Me, personally, I've found some of this exchange pretty interesting and it > has pointed me to some readings I'm fairly likely to try to get to. > At the same time, however you'd like to characterize it, my sense is that it > has run its course and non-participants aren't likely to learn much beyond > this point. > I don't know what others think and I could be wrong but there's my two > cents. There are real issues here, but I' ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 05:51:19 PST 2011

1978 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:50 AM, David Green wrote: > Mr. Berlet, I don't care whether your activities stem from intellectual > laziness, or megalomania. Ok, that's enough on this. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 04:36:25 PST 2011

1979 [lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2011, at 9:54 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > <http://wcg-journal.blogspot.com/2011/01/wrong-kind-of-climate-control-risks-of.html>: > > "...it is a useless, if pretty, piety to urge everyone to be 'civil' in their discourse. The reason for the inflamed nature of present political debate in the United States is that the country is in decline and economic inequality and insecurity have destroyed our social and cultural fabric..." Yes? So?

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Date:	Thu Jan 13 07:21:27 PST 2011

1980 [lbo-talk] business salivating over HCR, not embracing GOP repeal effort -- rank: 1000

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=331A6E04-BA21-46B8-A94F-E2C3A568BD7A Investors see health law's potential By: Sarah Kliff January 13, 2011 12:18 AM EST SAN FRANCISCO As Republicans push forward on repealing health reform, planning the law s demise, a different conversation is happening among thousands of health care investors gathered in San Francisco for this week s J.P Morgan Health Care Conference: how to capitalize on health reform s new business opportunities. The Congressiona ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 13 05:51:10 PST 2011