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2671 [lbo-talk] tea party numbers -- rank: 1000

On Sep 1, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > On Sep 1, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: >> The great historic social movements[aside from the only one that succeeded. abolitionism] - for trade union rights and social insurance, for equal rights for women, minorities, and gays, for an end to US wars of aggression, for safe and clean energy, for civil liberties, etc. - have all sought to reform rather than overthrow the existing system and have perforce attached themselves to the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 1 13:48:03 PDT 2010

2672 [lbo-talk] news flash: GOP made up of white thumpers -- rank: 1000

http://www.gallup.com/poll/142826/Republicans-Remain-Disproportionately-White-Religious.aspx About 9 out of 10 Republicans are non-Hispanic whites, and more than half of these are highly religious. That compares with 62% of the Democratic rank-and-file that is white and largely less religious, with blacks and Hispanics making up a much more substantial part of that party's base.... [Note: the white and religious are an ever-shrinking share of the US pop]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 1 13:26:38 PDT 2010

2673 [lbo-talk] Austerity In The Face Of Weakness -- rank: 1000

On Sep 1, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Can it, in practice, be hoarded. What happens to money that isn't spent. You've got a point - "hoarded" basically means parked in short-term government paper, which means the gov spends it.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 1 10:12:34 PDT 2010

2674 [lbo-talk] Wolf: the cautious pay the price -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 1, 2010 Obama was too cautious in fearful times By Martin Wolf Suppose that the US presidential election of 1932 had, in fact, taken place in 1930, at an early stage in the Great Depression. Suppose, too, that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had won then, though not by the landslide of 1932. How different subsequent events might have been. The president might have watched helplessly as output and employment collapsed. The decades of Democratic dominance might not have happe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 1 07:16:33 PDT 2010

2675 [lbo-talk] taking the measure of rot -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I can't handle screens such as this. Carrol, many months ago, inspired by your plight I installed a voice reader that does a pretty good job at speaking the text. Look for "audio versions" about two screens down on the right. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 31 11:14:10 PDT 2010

2676 [lbo-talk] taking the measure of rot -- rank: 1000

Me, in Berkeley, on Friday morning: http://lbo-news.com/2010/10/31/taking-the-measure-of-rot/

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 31 10:48:16 PDT 2010

2677 [lbo-talk] stoopid -- rank: 1000

http://gawker.com/5677347/snapshots-of-sanity-andor-fear-from-the-stewart+colbert-rally/gallery/

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 30 15:33:09 PDT 2010

2678 [lbo-talk] "If you want real change, vote Green" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > What about voting on the WFP line? I'm afraid their relation with the Dems has reached a fatal level of compromise. They need to retain their ballot status, and to do that they basically have to endorse whatever Dem is running for governor. Given their recent scandals (i.e., being associated with ACORN, but more importantly, pissing off the FIRE elite), they were politically radioactive. So to accept their endorsement, Cuomo insisted that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 29 07:40:00 PDT 2010

2679 [lbo-talk] "If you want real change, vote Green" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Eh, aren't you the one voting for Howie Hawkins? Not that there's anything > wrong with that, but still! I want the Greens to get their ballot line back. They're not completely hopeless. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 21:49:44 PDT 2010

2680 [lbo-talk] "If you want real change, vote Green" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2010, at 9:34 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Welcome to Berkeley! ;-) Ha, thanks. This is a funny place.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 21:40:13 PDT 2010

2681 [lbo-talk] "If you want real change, vote Green" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:07:15 -0700 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >>> I'm backing Charles Barron (http://freedompartynys.com), if only >>> because of his leadership role in the Viva Palestina US convoy to >>> Gaza ( http://www.aztlan.net/viva_palestina_gaza_report.htm). >> >> He's running for governor of New York. What relevance does that >> stance have to the office h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 21:29:23 PDT 2010

2682 [lbo-talk] "If you want real change, vote Green" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I'm backing Charles Barron (http://freedompartynys.com), if only because of > his leadership role in the Viva Palestina US convoy to Gaza ( > http://www.aztlan.net/viva_palestina_gaza_report.htm). He's running for governor of New York. What relevance does that stance have to the office he's running for? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 28 20:07:15 PDT 2010

2683 [lbo-talk] private prisons behind Arizona immigration law -- rank: 1000

[via The Awl] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741 NPR spent the past several months analyzing hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records. What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 15:56:27 PDT 2010

2684 [lbo-talk] "If you want real change, vote Green" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Jimmy McMillan supporter here. > > Because . . . you know . . Because America needs more extravagant facial hair! But it'd be nice to get the Green Party's ballot line back after Stanley "Fathead" Aronowitz lost it in his preposterous gubernatorial campaign of 2002. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 12:51:10 PDT 2010

2685 [lbo-talk] "If you want real change, vote Green" -- rank: 1000

I'm voting for Howie Hawkins for gov of New York. Cuomo blows.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 10:44:30 PDT 2010