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5731 [lbo-talk] newspaper death watch -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2009 Denver's Rocky Mountain News will publish its final edition on Friday, E.W. Scripps said, illustrating the accelerating decline of the newspaper industry. Scripps said it was unable to find a buyer to preserve the 150-year-old daily. Earlier this week, Hearst Corp. said it may close the San Francisco Chronicle unless it can quickly slash costs. Four newspaper owners have filed for bankruptcy protection since December: Tribune Co., owner ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 26 11:35:18 PST 2009

5732 [lbo-talk] An Antinomy (from Postone) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > Methinks your antinomy massively misunderestimates capital's ability > push back its own limits. There no reason to believe that it can't > make growth either environmentally neutral or even enhancing of the > environment. Thinking it couldn't, it seems to me, is based on a > pretty unhistorical view of capitalism. On this I totally agree with you. The only problems that capitalism can't solve by its very nature - leaving aside the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 26 09:27:45 PST 2009

5733 [lbo-talk] An Antinomy (from Postone) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Moishe Postone, _Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A > Reinterpretation > of Marx's Critical Theory_ Cambridge University Press, 1993, repr., > 195. Edited, by the way, by our old pal Ted Byfield. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 26 09:25:18 PST 2009

5734 [lbo-talk] Obama coddling bankers indeed -- rank: 1000

<http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/obama-coddling-bankers-indeed/ > Obama coddling bankers indeed It was predicted in this space just two weeks ago: Obama to coddle bankers. Now we ve got official confirmation of this from one of the prime coddle-ees: Citigroup. An analysis of the Treasury s plan produced by two Citi analysts, Ryan O Connell and Jerry Dorost, begins with this headline....

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 26 09:14:22 PST 2009

5735 [lbo-talk] Human Smoke -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Second, Churchill *was* antisemitic. There is a minor cottage > industry > devoted to defending Churchill from his own antisemitic outbursts (eg: > http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/11/news/winston.php), mainly > because he > was pro-Zionist. Martin Gilbert has produced an appalling history, > redeeming Churchill's antisemitic remarks about 'the International > Jew' and > his paranoid ranting about Jews and the Bo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 26 08:33:56 PST 2009

5736 [lbo-talk] Fitch and Brenner -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Marx does not make moral judgments. Right. Got it. It's science. Purely objective. What a strange belief. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 18:51:42 PST 2009

5737 [lbo-talk] the recovery package: a ground-level view -- rank: 1000

[Someone posted this to my Yale Class of '75 listserv. He'd just attended a meeting in a mid-sized Southern city with the mayor and 100 local worthies.] Aside from the very impressive public/private organization that is being put in place here (and, I hope and believe, in cities and states everywhere) the most encouraging take-away from this meeting was the mayor's statement that, "We are getting three or so e-mails per day from the White House about the implementation of this bill, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 18:34:52 PST 2009

5738 [lbo-talk] Human Smoke -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Started reading this today. Within ten pages it becomes > incontrovertible that Sir Winston Churchill was one of the lowest > forms of life to ever darken Western Civilization. That was already my sense of things, but do tell. The usual stuff about bombing the savages, or some less familiar material? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 13:41:31 PST 2009

5739 [lbo-talk] anything but single-payer! -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2009 Obama will propose $634 billion in tax increases on upper-income taxpayers and cuts to government health spending to fund health reform over 10 years, a senior administration official said Wednesday. The proposed tax change would limit the deductions available to people in the highest income tax brackets. The spending cuts are aimed not just at raising money for the new program, which aims to get health coverage to all Americans, but als ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 13:27:22 PST 2009

5740 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> Facebook group: <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53240558375>. ---------------------------------- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 12:48:33 PST 2009

5741 [lbo-talk] climate change: big biz -- rank: 1000

<http://www.businessinsider.com/2340-lobbyists-have-an-opinion-on-how-best-to-enact-climate-policy-2009-2 > 2,340 Lobbyists Have An Opinion On How Best To Enact Climate Policy Jay Yarow|Feb. 25, 2009, 12:38 PM|1 If President Obama ever needs some advice on how to implement sweeping energy reforms, he should have no problems finding it in Washington. Politico digs through a Center for Public Integrity analysis and reports that 2009's energy plans will have 2,340 lobbyists trying to shap ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 11:31:21 PST 2009

5742 [lbo-talk] mandate -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > So will it be the Massachusetts plan writ large? SR Sorta looking that way, isn't it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 09:42:07 PST 2009

5743 [lbo-talk] TMZ makes news! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/25/barack-obama-no-i-wont/> Barack Obama -- No I Won't! Posted Feb 25th 2009 11:52AM by TMZ Staff We've been calling the White House for the last day, trying to get a reaction from the Prez on our story about the lavish parties Northern Trust threw in L.A. last week. We finally got a statement back -- "No comment." Remember, this is a bank that got $1.6 billion in bailout money and blew a wad of cash paying Sheryl Crow, Chicago, and Earth, Wind &am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 09:30:15 PST 2009

5744 [lbo-talk] mandate -- rank: 1000

[also from Mike Allen] SCOOP The American Prospect's Ezra Klein, '[T]he health care proposal in Obama's budget will have a mandate. ... The budget -- and I was cautioned that the wording ' is changing hourly' -- will direct Congress to 'aim for universality.' That is a bolder goal than simple affordability, which can be achieved, at least in theory, through subsidies. Universality means everyone has coverage, not just the ability to access it. And that requires a mechanism to ensure that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 09:26:43 PST 2009

5745 [lbo-talk] the tank fills up -- rank: 1000

[my god, the right is either jumping in the tank or losing it completely - from Mike Allen] 'Morning' Joe Scarborough, who was in the chamber: 'Hillary Clinton was absolutely ravishing last night.'

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 09:25:36 PST 2009