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2056 [lbo-talk] Wisc bill would allow gov to hammer Medicaid -- rank: 1000

Walker's budget bill would allow him to kick people off Medicaid without legislative approval: http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/burning-down-wisconsin-the-hidden-budget-bill-item-even-worse-than-union-busting

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 21 08:16:59 PST 2011

2057 [lbo-talk] me interviewing Susie Bright in NYC, 3/31 -- rank: 1000

http://www.strandbooks.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/event.show/ID/5105b861%2Dca39%2D4f54%2Daeb2%2Dcf331f419f0f or http://liten.be//dwCKm Susie Bright, Big Sex Little Death March 31: 7:00PM 8:00PM One of the country's foremost sex educator, activist and writer, Susie Bright is an outspoken advocate of sexual equality and freedom. She came of age during a time in our country's history when sex and politics began to collide. In this widely-anticipated and intimate memoir, Big Sex Little Death, Bright ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 21 08:01:25 PST 2011

2058 [lbo-talk] labor leadership not so sure about Wisconsin -- rank: 1000

On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > Exactly what I was thinking. Although isn't it just like a US news > organization to find the union people who think that what unions are doing > is risky, no matter what they're doing? They'd be writing almost exactly the > same story if teachers had sat on their hands last week, just with some of > them saying, "not doing anything is really risky. this could snowball and it > could kill us." I don't think they'd ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 21 07:20:58 PST 2011

2059 [lbo-talk] labor leadership not so sure about Wisconsin -- rank: 1000

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49893.html Labor faces a moment of truth By: Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman February 21, 2011 05:04 AM EST As organized labor hails an unprecedented moment of unity playing out amid a sea of supporters marching in Madison, Wis., other union officials elsewhere are quietly wringing their hands about the risks of a high-stakes and historic loss in against Gov. Scott Walker. The six days of protests against Walker s bill to curb collective-bargaining rights ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 21 04:47:17 PST 2011

2060 [lbo-talk] Lefty Lexicon -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2011, at 4:56 AM, fernando cassia wrote: > Yes, I laughed at some of these. Can you? If you canīt laugh at even one, then it proves the one about the leftīs alleged lack of sense of humor. ;) (of course, most are completely BS :-P). > > http://di2.nu/files/Lefty.html Hey, that sounds more like nonprofit/NGO jargon. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 20 14:52:33 PST 2011

2061 [lbo-talk] Obama reelection prospect -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2011, at 9:56 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > On Fri, February 18, 2011 5:56 pm, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>> Tahrir Square has demolished the ideological underpinnings of the >>> Terror War. >> >> For whom? > > For ordinary Americans bamboozled by US elites. 1) I'm not sure of that, but in any case, they'll probably go back to "normal" pretty soon. And 2) So what? Since when do the imperial managers care what the masses think? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 19 05:46:14 PST 2011

2062 [lbo-talk] Obama reelection prospect -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:05 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > Tahrir Square has demolished the ideological underpinnings of the > Terror War. For whom?

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Date:	Fri Feb 18 17:56:22 PST 2011

2063 [lbo-talk] A Note on an old slogan -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It's really pretty disgusting to reduce such a huge and complex movement to > the nervous breakdown of a lot of kids raised in the nuclear age. Chill, Carrol. Joanna is neither nonsensical nor disgusting. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 18 17:54:21 PST 2011

2064 [lbo-talk] Obama reelection prospect -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Doug: "Except that Palin is monstrously unpopular." > > [WS:] So what? The purpose of Palin-like types is to appeal to a niche - a > hodge podge of petite bourgeoisie, hicks, ditto- heads, militia types, > insecure white males, and plain mean-spirited spiteful pricks - who need > this kind of stimulation to go to the polls. Otherwise, they would either > stay home or pull the lever in an unpredictable way. There mi ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 18 09:22:26 PST 2011

2065 [lbo-talk] Obama reelection prospect -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Choosing Palin for VP was a brilliant move - almost a > guaranteed winner - except that the economy tanked and spoiled the otherwise > perfect electoral circus. Except that Palin is monstrously unpopular. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/19/cnn-poll-palin-unfavorable-rating-at-all-time-high/ > A new national poll indicates that 56 percent of all Americans have an unfavorable view of Sarah Palin, an all-time high for the form ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 18 08:57:07 PST 2011

2066 [lbo-talk] more Wisconsin -- rank: 1000

Ok, the end of my parachute journalism dispatches: More Wisconsin http://wp.me/pqagG-f7 On Wisconsin! Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 18 07:43:47 PST 2011

2067 [lbo-talk] Food Prices Again -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2011, at 9:04 AM, brad wrote: > The usual way to account for it is that we had a financial crisis in 2008 > that made demand collapse. What's the hole in that argument? > > Michael >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > So people stopped eating? In the U.S., gasoline use peaked ahead of prices. Trend use max ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 18 06:25:21 PST 2011

2068 [lbo-talk] Obama reelection prospect -- rank: 1000

On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > http://www.gallup.com/poll/146138/Nameless-Republican-Ties-Obama-2012-Election-Preferences.aspx > > Although it is way too early to tell, it certainly does smell like "weak one > term president." An unnamed candidate often performs better than a named one. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Obama re-elected. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 19:40:02 PST 2011

2069 [lbo-talk] Food Prices Again -- rank: 1000

On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > My other succincter problem is that in this model, the spot market controls the future, not the other way round. No? Volume in futures is usually much much larger.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 17 10:03:27 PST 2011

2070 [lbo-talk] Food Prices Again -- rank: 1000

On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Let's say the price for wheat today is $10 a bushel. The futures price 6 months hence is $14. Arbitrage would mean that farmers or dealers store the wheat and sell it later. In that case inventories go up. Why sell it later? Sell it now.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 17 10:03:02 PST 2011