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3031 [lbo-talk] EU gets serious -- rank: 1000

On May 10, 2010, at 2:01 PM, brad wrote: > Clearly if there were no worker resistance to the austerity policies > there wouldn't have been a bond market riot in the first place though. Why do you think that? Greece and the other troubled peripheral countries have serious funding problems and enormous debt ratios. This package probably isn't enough - there will probably have to be some debt "restructuring." But it's about the numbers, not the firebombs. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 10 11:38:52 PDT 2010

3032 [lbo-talk] EU gets serious -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Do you suppose the undisciplined Greek riots (for they were as much > riots as demonstrations) had anything to do with this? Not much. It had more to do with the riot in the bond market. And this won't reduce the pressure on Greece et al for austerity programs. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 10 04:39:01 PDT 2010

3033 [lbo-talk] EU gets serious -- rank: 1000

[an FT breaking news alert - finally some serious money after a lot of dicking around] EU and IMF agree 720bn boost for rescue plan The European Union and the International Monetary Fund early Monday morning agreed an emergency funding facility worth as much as 720bn (£625bn) in loan guarantees and credits to stabilise the eurozone before financial markets opened. As part of a massive EU plan to shock the markets into believing eurozone finances were sound, the European Central Bank was a ...

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Date:	Sun May 9 18:47:25 PDT 2010

3034 [lbo-talk] NYT on SEIU's MKH -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > The peanut gallery doesn't see the need for any organizing strategy > they > didn't watch in Norma Rae or Harlan County, USA. Especially since > those > strategies have been working so well lately. In contrast with SEIU's, which have been working like a charm, eh? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 9 14:22:14 PDT 2010

3035 [lbo-talk] bigger vocab, bigger drinker -- rank: 1000

http://gawker.com/5533732/smart-people-drink-more-alcohol

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Date:	Sun May 9 05:22:25 PDT 2010

3036 [lbo-talk] want a job with Pacifica? -- rank: 1000

I would like to request Left Business Observer to help spread the word about the hiring of local election supervisors (LES) for Pacifica's 2010 election cycle (pacifica.org). It would be wonderful if you could place a link on your homepage to http://pacificaelections2010.org where there is a LES detailed job description. Could you help by posting a link on your homepage or post a short article? Many thanks, Renee Asteria National Election Supervisor 2010 -------------------- THE PACIFICA FO ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 20:36:17 PDT 2010

3037 [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://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: May 8, 2010 (KPFA version) DH on conspiracism (cont.) Emily Gould, blogger and author of The Heart Says Whatever, on the new media world, kids today, etc. Rob ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 19:05:21 PDT 2010

3038 [lbo-talk] Penny stocks -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > The computers did what, exactly? > > And how did they come to sell or buy a $40 stock for a penny? There was a rumor that they'd re-hired Tiger Woods as spokesman. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 7 10:56:07 PDT 2010

3039 [lbo-talk] Americans surprisingly warm towards socialism (the word) -- rank: 1000

<http://people-press.org/report/610/socialism-capitalism> Socialism is a negative for most Americans, but certainly not all Americans. Capitalism is regarded positively by a majority of the public, though it is a thin majority. There are certain segments of the public notably, young people and Democrats where both isms are rated about equally. And while most Americans have a negative reaction to the word militia, the term is viewed more positively by Republican men than mo ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 09:39:40 PDT 2010

3040 [lbo-talk] UK election exit polls (Whatever happened to the Liberal Democrats?) -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > What we've seen is further confirmation of how third parties, even > major ones like the Liberal Democrats, are snuffed out on election > day in first-past-the-post voting systems. Another reason for this: according to a post to the AAPOR list by one of the British exit pollsters, some of the LD's strength came from young people who said they were going to vote for the party. Came election day and they stayed home. Kids. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 7 09:24:59 PDT 2010

3041 [lbo-talk] kids are spontaneously queer, sez archbishop -- rank: 1000

<http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/05/06/Archbishop_Calls_Children_Spontaneously_Homosexual/ > Archbishop Calls Children "Spontaneously Homosexual" By Kenneth Harvey Brazilian archbishop Dadeus Grings came under fire Wednesday for saying children are "spontaneously homosexual" and society at large is pedophilic, after allegedly making the comments to a reporter after a press conference. "We know that the adolescent is spontaneously homosexual," G ...

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Date:	Fri May 7 07:07:03 PDT 2010

3042 [lbo-talk] Machete -- rank: 1000

This is pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmjcFBquzo4

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Date:	Thu May 6 10:32:21 PDT 2010

3043 [lbo-talk] Arizona politics -- rank: 1000

[This is the second half of an article by Michael O'Neil, an AAPORite who runs a polling firm in Arizona. So apparently the state isn't the hotbed of reaction it's been painted as.] <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-j-o/the-arizona-immigration-l_b_561924.html > Republican Primary Politics Much of the political support for the bill can be attributed to Republican Primary politics. Governor Brewer, who acceded to the office upon the resignation of Governor Janet Napolitano to become ...

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Date:	Wed May 5 18:27:40 PDT 2010

3044 [lbo-talk] What Is a Liberal? -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2010, at 6:05 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > hmm. since both kinds of liberals put their faith in method, maybe > they should be called "methodological liberals" ha ha. man, if i do > say so myself, below would make a good book! It would! Very good stuff.

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Date:	Wed May 5 15:12:12 PDT 2010

3045 [lbo-talk] more on Rekers -- rank: 1000

<http://eqfl.blogspot.com/2010/05/breaking-news-attorney-general-bill.html > BREAKING NEWS: Attorney General Bill McCollum's "Expert" Witness Caught with Male Prostitute 4:14 PM | Posted by Equality Florida FL Top Lawyer relied on discredited witness in adoption case (MIAMI) - George Rekers, the "expert" witness hired by Attorney General Bill McCollum to defend Florida's anti-gay adoption ban has been caught with a male prostitute at the Miami airport, according to ...

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Date:	Wed May 5 08:49:16 PDT 2010