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3256 [lbo-talk] horrible news re: listmember Bryan Atinsky -- rank: 1000

http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2495:condolences&catid=119:english&Itemid=878 The Alternative Information Center shares in the deep sorrow of veteran staff member Bryan Atinsky, at the tragic and untimely loss of his wife, Dr. Efrat Gamliel-Atinsky, children Noam (5) and Ya ari (13 months) Gamliel-Atinsky and mother-in-law Esther Gamliel, in a car accident yesterday (7 March).

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 19:04:50 PST 2010

3257 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

[Apologies for the delay in posting the Feb 6 show!] 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>: March 4, 2010 David Cay Johnston on the Austin IRS suicide pilot and how the rich have largely given up on pay ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 18:44:41 PST 2010

3258 [lbo-talk] Liza on raising kids -- rank: 1000

Liza just started blogging for Bitch. First post: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/raising-trouble

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 18:24:35 PST 2010

3259 [lbo-talk] Tea-heads to swarm the Hill -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > There were plenty of people in the crowd with signs that read "public > option" and a few larger signs for single payer at today's AHIP > protest in downtown DC. So I read this on the SEIU website: "These profiles illustrate how SEIU members, including those in the health care field, janitorial industries, public sector, and childcare services would benefit from the health insurance reforms being proposed by Congress.& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 14:45:27 PST 2010

3260 [lbo-talk] Tea-heads to swarm the Hill -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > There were plenty of people in the crowd with signs that read "public > option" and a few larger signs for single payer at today's AHIP > protest in downtown DC. What is SEIU's position on health reform these days? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 9 14:42:44 PST 2010

3261 [lbo-talk] Tea-heads to swarm the Hill -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [Is there anything like this happening from the left? MoveOn is all >> virtual, and the unions are doing what they're told, so who's left?] > > There isn't any real left support out there for Obamacare, is there? No, but I mean pushing it to the left. Did you see that Greenberg thing I posted earlier? A substantial part of the opposition to Obamacare is that it "doesn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 11:57:13 PST 2010

3262 [lbo-talk] Tea-heads to swarm the Hill -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:14 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > And does anyone > here think that the policies of > a McCain administration would > have been that much different > from Obama's The only difference, and it's not insignificant, is the StimPak. Without that, unemployment would be 12% or higher. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 11:25:38 PST 2010

3263 [lbo-talk] Tea-heads to swarm the Hill -- rank: 1000

[Is there anything like this happening from the left? MoveOn is all virtual, and the unions are doing what they're told, so who's left?] From: Nationwide Tea Party Coalition <no-reply at myprgenie.com> Date: March 9, 2010 1:49:20 PM EST To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Tea Parties to Kick Off "Take the Town Halls to Washington" Tonight at 7:30 PM Dear Doug, Greetings! Nationwide Tea Party Coalition just posted -- Tea Parties to kick off Take the Town Halls to Washington to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 10:56:17 PST 2010

3264 [lbo-talk] Greenberg/Democracy Project on health care reform -- rank: 1000

ANALYSIS OF RECENT PUBLIC POLLING DATA SHOWS OPTIMISM FOR PROPONENTS OF REFORM At President Obama s recent health care summit, Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans breathlessly touted an "average" of recent public polls showing large majorities opposing health care reform. McConnell s polling average was dubious to begin with, but he was also getting well ahead of himself. In fact, a flurry of recent polls show support for health care reform slowly but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 09:43:35 PST 2010

3265 [lbo-talk] college tuition piece up -- rank: 1000

As the wage premium for education has expanded, college has gotten a lot more expensive. Why, and what s this done to access (and with it, class mobility)? From LBO #125, just posted to the web: I m borrowing my way through college..." http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/College.html Though this sample is free, it costs money to produce LBO. If you don t already subscribe, please do, and keep this sort of thing alive. It s not like there s an excess of critical economic news and anal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 8 14:45:44 PST 2010

3266 [lbo-talk] Michelle Alexander: The Age of Obama as a Racial Nightmare -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Couldn't you provide a sentence or two on what the article is? The > Subject line by itself is ambiguous. Yes, please. Just a link isn't enough. A sentence or two of summary or comment makes it much more informative and/or appealing.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 8 09:56:21 PST 2010

3267 [lbo-talk] lying about college tution -- rank: 1000

I'll be posting the LBO piece on college tuition to the web later today. In the meanwhile, the Manhattan Institute is full of it: http://bit.ly/aRKMkX Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 8 09:21:55 PST 2010

3268 [lbo-talk] March 4 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2010, at 9:09 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Then I suppose I was wrong, Big deal and has nothing to do with the > antiquated idea of Great Russian chauvinism. How this relates to > Great Russia I'm not sure, since Great vs. Little Russia only has to > do with Ukraine. Because you said "Russian Empire, not Russia, dammit," almost as if this were a matter of personal pride or something. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 7 18:20:23 PST 2010

3269 [lbo-talk] March 4 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I may be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that the Romanovs had > instituted a literacy program in the Russian Empire (not "Russia", > dammit) circa 1900 and the Russian Empire actually had one of > Europe's fastest-growing economies pre-WWI. Not sure what to make of your Great Russian chauvinism here, but according to Maddison, Russia's economy grew an average of 0.9% a year between 1870 and 1913, less than half the ra ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 7 17:52:38 PST 2010

3270 [lbo-talk] March 4 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > You're asserting that > without October there is no Swedish social democracy? Sure didn't hurt. You also have to wonder what the course of the civil rights movement in the U.S. would have been if the U.S. ruling class hadn't been afraid of competition with the USSR in the Third World. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 7 13:11:32 PST 2010