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3586 [lbo-talk] ciao, newspapers -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:20 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > "By and large, down the decades, the mainstream newspapers have > often rabidly obstructed and sabotaged efforts to improve our > social and political condition." --<http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn01012010.html > > Right. And none of us would know a damn thing without them, Cockburn included. Doug

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3587 [lbo-talk] ciao, newspapers -- rank: 1000

<http://news.harrisinteractive.com/profiles/investor/ResLibraryView.asp?BzID=1963&ResLibraryID=35425&Category=1777 > Jan 13, 2010 Just Two in Five Americans Read a Newspaper Almost Every Day Less than one-quarter of 18-34 year olds read a paper each day NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Newspapers around the country are struggling. 2009 saw a few newspapers change their business model to an online focus or shut down completely. 2010 will most likely see the same struggle and, perhaps, ...

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3588 [lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institution inone day -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > 1) 99.9% of people -- included many very inside the beltway, > including many senators -- don't realize you can change a Senate > rule with less than 67 votes. Really? I find that hard to believe. > 2) Senators are deeply invested in their identity as Senators, the > central tenet of which is that they belong to an "august" body > (meaning greater than any other one earth since Rome); that this > augustness is a ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 22 18:06:23 PST 2010

3589 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Americans fine with SC decision on corp speech -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Americans think Prove it!

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3590 [lbo-talk] clarifying the Mass vote -- rank: 1000

[Clarifying, ha. It's hard to make any sense of this jumble.] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012203167_pf.html > Brown's Massachusetts victory fueled by frustration with Washington, poll shows By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 22, 2010; 3:53 PM Dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, antipathy toward federal government activism and opposition to the Democrats' health- care proposals drove the upset el ...

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3591 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Americans fine with SC decision on corp speech -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/125333/Public-Agrees-Court-Campaign-Money-Free-Speech.aspx > January 22, 2010 Public Agrees With Court: Campaign Money Is "Free Speech" But have mixed views on other issues at heart of new Supreme Court ruling by Lydia Saad PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' broad views about corporate spending in elections generally accord with the Supreme Court's decision Thursday that abolished some decades-old restrictions on corporate political activity. Fifty-seven ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 22 11:56:02 PST 2010

3592 [lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institution inone day -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:02 PM, SA wrote: > But ideological passion should make people willing to *lose*, not > determined to always win - like Barry Goldwater in 1964, or the > teabaggers in that special election in upstate New York. Sure. But they don't even press their case when they could win. And they never fight the good fight knowing they might lose. E.g., the health care thing - they started compromised and then gave in and gave in some more. The Reps don't mind taking hits. Th ...

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3593 [lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institutioninone day -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Because lobbing that complaint at Carrol has been done to death. I've renounced lobbing complaints at Carrol. It's been a turn for the better, I think. I recommend it to all. Doug

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3594 [lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institution inone day -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 8:15 AM, SA wrote: > Why is this such a mystery? You're always saying the left in America > is tiny and disorganized, and that the American public is deeply > infected by Protestant morality and hyper-individualism. Then you're > surprised the Democrats don't go around causing constitutional > crises and institutional uprisings in pursuit of some social- > democrat-type agenda? Heavens no, not for that kind of agenda. What is often striking is their lack of ...

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3595 [lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institution inone day -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:08 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Because for most of what they want to do they've got 52 votes in the > Senate. And that's probably the best they'll get. So why didn't they scrap the filibuster? Why don't they fight with the same ardor as Republicans? Why, in short, do they appear to be such pussies, even when they have 60 votes?

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3596 [lbo-talk] ciao, 60 -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:06 AM, brad bauerly wrote: > I think we are all making this much more complex then it really is by > talking about class fractions and which party they influence and how > that > impacts HC legislation. It is estimated that over the next 5 to 10 > years HC > will make up 20% of US GDP!!! fucking 20%!!! It is the biggest growth > sector since the personal computer or home appliances. Hell its > bigger. > There is no way a capitalist state is go ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 22 04:29:43 PST 2010

3597 [lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institution inone day -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But they want to deliver a lot more than they have which is zip. Then why don't they? Can it really be lack of brains or backbone? Or is there some structural reason for chronic "nondelivery"? Maybe they don't really want to deliver?

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Date:	Thu Jan 21 20:26:16 PST 2010

3598 [lbo-talk] ciao, AA -- rank: 1000

<http://airamerica.com/> It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding- down of the business. The very difficult economic environment has had a significant impact on Air America's business. This past year has seen a "perfect storm" in the media industr ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 21 18:01:08 PST 2010

3599 [lbo-talk] Greg Palast freaks out: Court ruling lets China buy elections -- rank: 1000

Palast is a turd.

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Date:	Thu Jan 21 16:58:30 PST 2010

3600 [lbo-talk] ciao, 60 -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > As for capital-friendly, why is it capital-friendly for uninsured > people to buy health insurance instead of other stuff? No doubt retailers would prefer they buy their stuff. But retailers, being low-wage employers, are mostly Republican, no? Doug

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