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4381 [lbo-talk] resistance, Indian-style -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/23/india.vp.beaten/> HR manager beaten to death by angry workers By Harmeet Shah Singh CNN NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Angry workers beat to death a human resources vice president after he laid off 42 employees at an auto- parts manufacturing company in southern India, police said Wednesday. Roy George was vice-president for human resources at Pricol, the auto- parts company. Some four to five workers, belonging to a union not recognized by the com ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 24 07:59:23 PDT 2009

4382 [lbo-talk] DNC: fight the special interests by pushing the Baucus bill -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] DNC PLAYS HARDBALL The (Portland) Oregonian's Jeff Mapes: 'The successor organization to President Obama's campaign - Organizing for America - will send out an e-mail to the president's supporters Wednesday urging Sen. Ron Wyden to move the health reform bill out of the Senate Finance Committee. ... [T]he Oregon Democrat is the first finance committee member to get this treatment, but e-mails aimed at other senators will follow. Wyden, of course, has been pretty clear a ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 23 06:53:40 PDT 2009

4383 [lbo-talk] Ralph loves the nice plutocrats -- rank: 1000

Ralph Nader loves the (nice) plutocrats: http://bit.ly/khXwn

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Date:	Wed Sep 23 06:49:10 PDT 2009

4384 [lbo-talk] Ralph gives up on democracy, embraces enlightened plutocrats -- rank: 1000

[So I guess this is why Ralph never really organized a movement...] <http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/21/ ralph_nader_on_the_g20_healthcare> AMY GOODMAN: Your book, "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!", it's just out. Kind of fiction, not really nonfiction, you call it a practical utopia. Where did you get the title? RALPH NADER: The title came from Warren Buffett was watching post- Katrina in his living room in Omaha, and he saw these streams of poor people fleeing the floods ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 23 06:09:13 PDT 2009

4385 [lbo-talk] Sarkozy proposes measuring 'happiness' and 'well-being' to replace the 'cult of the market' -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Is the pomo bashing machine running out of gas? It got traded in during the Cash for Clunkers program.

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Date:	Tue Sep 22 12:31:09 PDT 2009

4386 [lbo-talk] Twitter = death of civilization (cont.) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > I regulate who follows me and limit who I follow, am not all that > interested > in retweetation... must be an old fogey (like you [all]?). Either that, or you read at a higher level than grade 6.

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Date:	Tue Sep 22 10:52:11 PDT 2009

4387 [lbo-talk] BoA -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2009, at 10:53 AM, sandia wrote: > Is this a move by BoA to escape federal regulation with the knowledge > that -- if it were to face collapse -- it would be bailed out anyways > because it's "too big to fail"? Can someone unpack what's going on > here? Thought? I think you've got it.

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Date:	Tue Sep 22 08:25:57 PDT 2009

4388 [lbo-talk] Twitter = death of civilization (cont.) -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/dan-macsai/popwise/report-nine-scientifically-proven-ways-get-re-tweeted-twitter?partner=homepage_newsletter > Per a Flesch-Kincaid test, comprehending RTs requires 6.47 years of education, while normal tweets require just 6.04.

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Date:	Tue Sep 22 08:12:07 PDT 2009

4389 [lbo-talk] winners & losers in The Crisis -- rank: 1000

[What he says about the left is sadly true. Of course it's possible that the fat lady hasn't started singing yet.] Hedge Funds, Historians Are Winners of Recession: Matthew Lynn 2009-09-21 22:01:00.0 GMT Commentary by Matthew Lynn Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- That's it, then. The global recession is over. At least that's what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says. Answering questions last week, the world's most powerful central banker said the U.S. recession was "very likely over at this ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 22 07:59:42 PDT 2009

4390 [lbo-talk] B of A's giant nuts -- rank: 1000

<http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/09/congressional_oversight_commit.html > Congress Does Not Want to Hear About How Mammoth Bank of America s Nuts Are 9/21/09 at 10:36 AM When House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chair Edolphus Towns subpoenaed Bank of America for any and all correspondence "created between September 1, 2008 and January 16, 2009" relating to "the financial losses at Merrill Lynch or to Bank of America's receipt of financial assistance f ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 21 11:54:29 PDT 2009

4391 [lbo-talk] WBAI elections -- rank: 1000

Dear friends, We are writing to enlist your support for some important changes that are in the works at WBAI, where Beyond the Pale, Asia Pacific Forum, and Behind the News have been broadcasting for many years. If you are a dues-paying WBAI member, you should have likely just received a ballot in elections for the Local Station Board (LSB). We are asking for your help in electing some strong, independent candidates. The LSB plays an important role at WBAI, by making recommendations to Pac ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 21 10:52:54 PDT 2009

4392 [lbo-talk] polling docs on "reform" -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/mp_20090918_4062.php> MYSTERY POLLSTER A Tale Of Two Doctor Polls Pollsters Who Don't Disclose Their Methods Render Their Results Suspect by Mark Blumenthal Monday, Sept. 21, 2009 Last week saw the release of two new surveys of doctors with very different results. The first, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found a large majority (73 percent) favoring some form of a "public op ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 21 09:22:43 PDT 2009

4393 [lbo-talk] waaaahh! why won't Barry golf with me? -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] <http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/475378/print> Media Blitz Continues As Obama Golfs 18 Holes With Tom Friedman posted by ARI MELBER on 09/20/2009 @ 7:16pm After his big five television interviews on Sunday, President Obama carved out an even larger slice of time for one print journalist, hitting the links for 18 holes of golf with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman. The only other players, according to a pool report, were Ray Lahood, the Transportation Secreta ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 21 07:33:55 PDT 2009

4394 [lbo-talk] Left aiding right -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > Single-payer health care is in the interest of "*big" *capital. Not really. For details, see LBO #120. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 20 18:39:39 PDT 2009

4395 [lbo-talk] Signs of the times -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > Well, there can be a minimalist aesthetic. Think Shaker furniture. > And don't forget that part of the Protestant austerity was > egalitarian. The absence of an altar literally puts minister and > congregation on the same level. But, most importantly of all, you're > omitting Protestantism's musical side. Luther wrote hymns. Bach was > a Lutheran. I said *American* Protestantism. Neither Luther nor Bach qualifies (th ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 20 10:46:15 PDT 2009