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3721 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

[The whole thing is worth reading, though immensely depressing amidst an economic crisis. Of course, what have the unions done lately to deserve better?] <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1505/labor-unions-support-falls-public-now-evenly-split-on-purpose-power > Favorability Ratings of Labor Unions Fall Sharply February 23, 2010 Overview Favorable views of labor unions have plummeted since 2007, amid growing public skepticism about unions' purpose and power. Currently, 41% say they have a f ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 24 08:47:39 PST 2010

3722 [lbo-talk] Thomas Friedman's house -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:23 AM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > Did you have the same reaction > to Gore Vidal's friendship > with Tim McVeigh? > http://tinyurl.com/yfve94b Yeah, why not? It's Vidal's nativist side.

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Date:	Wed Feb 24 04:41:17 PST 2010

3723 [lbo-talk] NR -- rank: 1000

As for National Review today, here's a meditation on American exceptionalism, and how BHO threatens it: http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=M2FhMTg4Njk0NTQwMmFlMmYzZDg2YzgyYjdmYjhhMzU=

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Date:	Tue Feb 23 18:44:47 PST 2010

3724 [lbo-talk] Thomas Friedman's house -- rank: 1000

On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > Great piece, but when was Taibbi welcomed back at New York Press? > Another > change in management? That was January 2009.

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Date:	Tue Feb 23 12:49:31 PST 2010

3725 [lbo-talk] RIP, ACORN -- rank: 1000

http://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-1147-empty-on-funding-acorn-shutters-around-the-country.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 22 12:59:02 PST 2010

3726 [lbo-talk] Fw: Melissa Harris-Lacewell Facing Race Keynote Speaker -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2010, at 3:36 PM, John Gulick wrote: > Green Equity Cohort Gotta love the ambiguous meanings of "Green" and "Equity" in these things.

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 12:46:49 PST 2010

3727 [lbo-talk] Tracy Residents Now Have To Pay For 911 Calls -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Myles Sussman wrote: > Tracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 9-1-1 for a > medical emergency. > > But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary > fee for > the year which allows them to call 9-1-1 as many times as necessary. > > Or, there's the option of not signing up for the annual fee. > Instead, they > will be charged $300 if they make a call for help Murray Rothbard's shade is smiling.

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 11:10:50 PST 2010

3728 [lbo-talk] The Nation and brain death -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Klein (or worse) > may reach people that have never heard of Pinochet. For sure. But this sort of thing can also lead to false nostalgias - the doomed attempt to recreate the world of 1955 or 1965. Aside from the fact that you couldn't do it, it also forgets that things weren't so great 40 or 50 years ago either. If you're going to write a 400 page book that purports to be some sort of history of capitalism, you should become somewhat f ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 10:59:24 PST 2010

3729 [lbo-talk] Thomas Friedman's house -- rank: 1000

http://wonkette.com/413811/this-is-literally-thomas-friedmans-house

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 09:31:52 PST 2010

3730 [lbo-talk] questions for the fascist-watchers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:05 AM, SA wrote: > Look, I'm sure there are still people who subscribe to conservative > magazines and belong to conservative groups who think water > fluoridation is a communist conspiracy. Hey, ever hear some "left" health nuts on the topic? E.g., Gary Null, who sees it as a corporate, not communist, plot: http://www.garynull.com/documents/Dental/Fluoride/fluoride2.htm Not that Gary Null is exactly "left," but he was a stalwart at WBAI for m ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 09:02:55 PST 2010

3731 [lbo-talk] Cockburn cut back at Nation -- rank: 1000

On Feb 21, 2010, at 10:41 PM, Joanna wrote: > But I have a question for you: have you ever considered expanding > LBO to something like what the Nation could be. I'd love to. But, you know: money.

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 08:56:46 PST 2010

3732 [lbo-talk] Jobless future? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Chris Maisano wrote: > I know that Stanley Aronowitz has been something of a personal bête > noire of Doug's for some time now, particularly in reference to his > stuff on the "jobless future." But doesn't the data that's starting > to emerge from the recession seem to point that the structural > underpinning of the US economy is actually starting to trend in the > direction that Stanley has forecast for years? The behavior of U.S. employ ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 08:30:14 PST 2010

3733 [lbo-talk] The Nation and brain death -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I've come to thiink of the Socialist/Communist _movement_ as rather > larger than "Marxism," though I personally believe that Marx's > Critique > of Capitalism is the best (for me only) adequate theoretical > foundation > for the movment. But no movement gets far that demands theoretical > purity from its particpants, and a Communist Movement that did not > include rather large numbers of non-Marxists would hardly ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 08:28:14 PST 2010

3734 [lbo-talk] Fascism, right-wing populism, and contemporary research -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > The Dem Party in Mass is not run or primarily supported by mass > movement > institutions like unions, etc... True, but a friend reports that the leadership of organized labor in Mass was mortified by the proposal to tax "Cadillac" health plans and said it could lose The Croaker the union vote and with that the election. Which turned out to be true. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 08:24:05 PST 2010

3735 [lbo-talk] Fascism, right-wing populism, and contemporary research -- rank: 1000

On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > I think most of the 'Oathkeepers' 12 point platform would be supported > by people here. It's pretty straight-libertarian, in terms of use of > force by the State. At the same time, there are many repellent > aspects of this 'movement.' Is it really a single movement? Or, as Hardt & Negri used to say, a movement of movements? As for the Oath, these really don't look like the sentiments of fascists, do they? <http://oathkee ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 08:21:48 PST 2010