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5551 [lbo-talk] Waterboarding etc. -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2009, at 4:22 PM, John Gulick wrote: > CD sez: > > "Not to mention detached from reality." > > JG replies: > > C'mon, Chris, don't be so willfully thick. One harshly criticizes > Obama from the > left not because one actually believes that radical changes are > possible, but as part > of a general strategy to increase the chances that mild reforms get > adopted. Hell, > I don't know why I've gotten drawn into this discussion, because &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 23 13:31:33 PST 2009

5552 [lbo-talk] Waterboarding etc. -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Not to mention detached from reality. What does "attached to reality" mean in this context? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 23 13:22:10 PST 2009

5553 [lbo-talk] Buchanan: a neo-Reaganite inaugural -- rank: 1000

<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30389> A Neo-Reaganite Inaugural? by Patrick J. Buchanan (more by this author) With a host of near 2 million gathered on the Mall to see him sworn in, Barack Obama delivered an inaugural that was the antithesis of a rallying cry for the "it's-our-turn!" faithful assembled below. Rather, it was an admonition, a warning to the American people of the gravity of our condition, and an invitation of inclusion to that part of the nation tha ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 23 13:18:01 PST 2009

5554 [lbo-talk] question concerning China -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Joshua wrote: > I have a quick question about China's relationship to the US. > Roubini is > claiming that China's economy is not growing: > > http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/255237/the_chinese_devil_wears_prada_why_0_growth_is_the_new_size_68 > > Can anyone tell me how this would effect US debt to China and the > prospects > of borrowing more for the coming stimulus Good question. Though given Geithner's remarks yesterday about C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 23 12:57:47 PST 2009

5555 [lbo-talk] former URPE steering cmte member briefing BHO -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: >> Biden s economic adviser Jared Bernstein. >> ___________________________________ >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > Huh? Who would that be? >

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Date:	Thu Jan 22 20:19:22 PST 2009

5556 [lbo-talk] Kevin Kelly of Wired critiques private property -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:51 PM, SA wrote: > http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/the-end-of-ownership-culture/?partner=rss&emc=rss > > Something weird is in the water these days..... I dunno, this sounds a lot like the New Economy crap that was floating around in the late 1990s. Jeremy Rifkin wrote a book that resembled this argument. Here's a review I did of it for Wired. Doug ---- In 1995, Jeremy Rifkin published The End of Work. Its thesis is in its title that automa ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 22 16:15:06 PST 2009

5557 [lbo-talk] former URPE steering cmte member briefing BHO -- rank: 1000

[from the WSJ's Real Time Economics] President Barack Obama has asked his top advisers to brief him every morning on the condition of the economy, the White House said Thursday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, speaking to reporters at his first official briefing since Obama took office, said the president s economic team, led by National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, will walk him through the day s economic news each morning. The president receives a similar daily intelligenc ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 22 16:06:04 PST 2009

5558 [lbo-talk] Blather Watch, part n+2 -- rank: 1000

[This just in from the Institute for Policy Studies.] > Dear Doug, > > Our award-winning poet and IPS Board Chair Ethelbert Miller captured > why two million of us poured into downtown Washington on Tuesday: > > Sacred music was in the air. I wanted > to lift every voice and sing. > I wanted to hear the thunder and watch The first drops of a new > American rain. > > Tears flowed in abundance as the new era unfolded in all of its > tumultuous hope and challenge ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 22 11:37:38 PST 2009

5559 [lbo-talk] Blather Watch (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Steve Weissman | Hopes and Fears for Obama's First Year http://www.truthout.org/012209A Steve Weissman, Truthout: "The excitement over America's new president is growing, even here in the backwoods of France. Over dinner last week, a completely apolitical and non-religious British friend compared Barack Obama to Jesus Christ, while my favorite French magazine waxed lyrical on Obama's 'cool.' As an old-time Doubting Thomas, I have never felt that kind of enthusiasm for any political fi ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 22 11:36:30 PST 2009

5560 [lbo-talk] UHW resisting SEIU takeover -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 22, 2009 Union Resists SEIU Effort to Centralize Control By KRIS MAHER A top official of the Service Employees International Union on Wednesday flew to California as part of the organization's effort to remove a dissident local leader. It is the latest move by the union giant to reorganize and gain control of local affiliates. Top union officials are seeking to remove Sal Rosselli, the head of the United Healthcare Workers-West in Oakland, Calif., for allegedly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 22 07:30:45 PST 2009

5561 [lbo-talk] CEI welcomes Obama reg freeze -- rank: 1000

[Competitive Enterprise Institute] Obama Regulation Freeze Wins Praise Obama Suspends Midnight Bush Regulations Washington, D.C., January 21, 2009 The Obama administration s decision to suspend last-minute Bush regulations drew praise from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The new administration announced on Tuesday its decision to suspend implementation of many of the Bush administration s last-minute rules. In a memo addressed to all executive departments and agencies, White House ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 18:25:24 PST 2009

5562 [lbo-talk] worst prezdinet -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:10 PM, RCu8598882 at aol.com wrote: > The prison may stay open or it may close, but in the ideology of > this list > its open forever. Clairvoyant seers all! > Oh what fun it is to exchange barbs with the Marxist left who, like > all > utopians, think only in absolutes--a clear sign of an adolescent mind What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah, Gitmo will probably close, though they'll take their time about it, and there will probably be a lot of messi ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 18:12:34 PST 2009

5563 [lbo-talk] on the current mess -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2009, at 3:51 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I see the pound is currently trading at $1.40. (I think I can > remember when it was $6). You do? It was $2.80 from around 1950-65. It was around $5.00 in the early 20th century. Long term graph: <http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/dollhist.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 12:59:27 PST 2009

5564 [lbo-talk] I pledge: a video -- rank: 1000

This is some crazy nonsense: <http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86695>

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 12:04:22 PST 2009

5565 [lbo-talk] socialism popular in LatAm -- rank: 1000

An amazing table on the ratio of respondents preferring socialism to capitalism in Latin America. Mexico, the most pro-capitalist of the lot, still has 81% as many preferring socialism as capitalism. In most other countries, socialism wins by a 1.65/1 or higher margin. <http://www.gallup.com/poll/113902/Opinion-Briefing-Latin-America-Leftists.aspx > Doug

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