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5866 [lbo-talk] CAP: bring back military Keynesianism -- rank: 1000

[CAP aspires to be the thinktank for the Obama admin, but the Obama admin evidently thinks they're too liberal. Apparently they're working on that.] [CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND] Military Spending Can Grow the Nation's Economy By Lawrence J. Korb, Laura Conley, Sean Duggan, Matthew Merighi Read more and download the memo here <http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2009/02/military_spending_memo.html > These times of great economic challenge present the administration ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 9 12:11:49 PST 2009

5867 [lbo-talk] rant on TARP -- rank: 1000

<http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/rant-on-the-tarp-overhaul/> Rant on the TARP overhaul Tomorrow will bring the unveiling of the Obama administration s overhaul of the Henry Hank Paulson bank bailout, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). [Apply for funds here.] From the leaks emerging, it looks like a significant portion of the scheme will amount to this: the government will lend money to hedge funds and the like at subsidized rates to buy toxic assets - and the gov ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 9 11:41:05 PST 2009

5868 [lbo-talk] RCP watch! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:18 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > There were a couple of bands - Easterhouse, Stereolab - that liked > what we had to say, though Letitia Sadler had more sense than to put > the dense nostrums of the party to music. Ha. There's a Stereolab song about the Kontradieff wave - did she get that from the RCP? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 9 09:29:51 PST 2009

5869 [lbo-talk] RCP watch! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:50 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > What can I say? I was in the British RCP, which was Trotskyist in > origin, rather than Maoist. We tried our best, but it was not good > enough. Of course there are always temptations to sustain the > organisation beyond its justification (making a revolution), but > looking at the alternative of slogging it out, I think > liquidationism was the right course. But the RCP has something of an afterlife through Spiked! and The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 9 08:56:51 PST 2009

5870 [lbo-talk] Bruce Raynor writes -- rank: 1000

[This looks like a bag of crap. Gotta love "undue undo the merger."] From: "Bruce Raynor, UNITE HERE" <acooper at unitehere.org> Date: February 9, 2009 11:34:02 AM EST To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: The UNITE HERE Merger - A Missed Opportunity Reply-To: notice-reply-isu3g7ro7673imd at ga-mail.action.unitehere.org Dear Doug Henwood, You may have read about problems in our union, UNITE HERE, in the New York Times this weekend. As peop ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 9 08:45:06 PST 2009

5871 [lbo-talk] RCP watch! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Is this RCP affiliated with Bob Avakian's cult? No, this is the British outfit, now defunct.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 9 08:32:10 PST 2009

5872 [lbo-talk] RCP Watch! -- rank: 1000

Some people have a lot of time on their hands, apparently. But there's a new blog devoted to following James Heartfield's old comrades in The RCP (which became Living Marxism, which became Spiked and The Institute of Ideas). <http://rcpwatch.wordpress.com/>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 18:18:40 PST 2009

5873 [lbo-talk] Modern punk - WAS Re: The Cramps! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Philip Pilkington wrote: His seventh post of the day. The previous day it was six. The limit is three. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 18:09:57 PST 2009

5874 [lbo-talk] SFBG on SEIU's dirty tricks vs. CNA -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2009/02/seiu_preaches_unity_while_tryi.html > SEIU preaches unity while trying to divide and conquer CNA By Steven T. Jones Service Employees International Union is caught in the position of decrying efforts by breakaway leaders of the new National Union of Healthcare Workers to steal away SEIU members during a critical moment for the labor movement, while at the same time SEIU is meddling in the internal affairs of another union, California Nurses A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 18:08:01 PST 2009

5875 [lbo-talk] New York Times obituary of Lux Interior of The Cramps -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2009, at 1:45 AM, B. wrote: > Sorry if I have posted too much about The Cramps lately. The loss of > Bettie Page and Lux Interior is the signal of the end of some sort > of phase of Americana, personally sort of devastating. No apologies necessary at all. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 8 06:27:02 PST 2009

5876 [lbo-talk] ah, the press -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5148852/the-sad-life-of-a-white-house-reporter> JOURNALISMISM The Sad Life of a White House Reporter By Owen Thomas, 5:33 PM on Sat Feb 7 2009, 1,829 views Within the self-involved newsrooms of America, there is much handwringing over ever-shrinking Washington bureaus. Why? They'd just as soon quit, from what we gather. Today's White House pool report from ace reporter Bill Theobald: From: Theobald, William Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 4:29 PM To: Finkenbinder, B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 7 18:42:33 PST 2009

5877 [lbo-talk] The Cramps! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > There's not too much difference historically in class composition > between > Australia and NZ Hey, I've heard that story from both actual NZers and Australians. Of course, most of the NZers I've known in my life were hanging out in Perugia in the summer of 1976, including two sisters of the Todd dynasty. Maybe my class view was skewed. But NZ wasn't settled by convicts, was it? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 7 18:18:48 PST 2009

5878 [lbo-talk] some employment stats -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2009, at 5:36 PM, SA wrote: > I wrote: > >> At its lowest point since WWII, the overall employment rate hit >> 57.1% (March 1983). At the pace of decline of the past six months, >> we'll reach that point next January. (Despite a female >> participation rate that's 6.7 points higher now.) > > Oops. Strike the first six words. The decline of the employment/pop ratio is remarkable. In percentage terms, the 0.5 point drop is the second-worst since 1950, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 6 14:48:58 PST 2009

5879 [lbo-talk] CNN prints "Libertarian" ideas to save economy -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2009, at 5:06 PM, John Gulick wrote: > I wrongly thought that Murray did not ground his attacks on the > corporate liberal welfare state in a consistent, principled > philosophy, > but rather appopriated willy-nilly whatever tools seem appropriate > to the task (including ersatz cultural racism/social Darwinism). But > as > you point out, for the most part libertarians in the American grain > are > more likely to critique food stamps than Pentagon procurement ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 6 14:21:32 PST 2009

5880 [lbo-talk] great ledes of our time -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7873624.stm> Clarkson apologises for PM remark Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said he is sorry for calling Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot".

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Date:	Fri Feb 6 12:25:22 PST 2009