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5896 [lbo-talk] Stunned & Horrified -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:43 PM, James Straub wrote: > I am stunned and horrified at the shit I see going down in the labor > movement right now. Words fail me. It's insanity on a historic > scale. We are literally going to not win efca because the two most > dynamic unions in labor self-destructed at the worst imagineable > moment. I literally can not believe the shit I'm seeing. And all > indications are that this is the beginning of how it will be for > several years to c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 5 12:08:15 PST 2009

5897 [lbo-talk] IMF prefers infrastructure -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - February 5, 2009 Infrastructure more helpful than tax cuts By Alan Beattie in Washington Infrastructure investment will have far more impact than tax cuts for governments trying to boost economic growth in the face of the global recession, according to the International Monetary Fund. Releasing its most recent assessment of the global financial crisis, the IMF said that stimulus packages announced so far would probably add somewhere between 0.4-1.3 percentage points to econ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 5 11:29:46 PST 2009

5898 [lbo-talk] Bernie's victim list -- rank: 1000

A list of Madoff investors: <http://www.scribd.com/doc/11664461/Madoff-Trustees-List-of-the-Firms-Customers >. Ratner's Restaurant!

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:58:51 PST 2009

5899 [lbo-talk] More on the Obama torture cover-up -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Dorene Cornwell wrote: > The news being what, the threats or the allegation that what is > being shared > IS intelligence? Considering the lacunae in what passed for > intelligence in > the Bush administration.... The news being that there's a helluva lot of continuity between new admin and old on what was supposed to be the trademark difference: secrecy, random imprisonment, and torture. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:40:22 PST 2009

5900 [lbo-talk] new SEIU-watching blog -- rank: 1000

<http://www.perezstern.blogspot.com/> What is Perez Stern? SEIU staff and officers think they can hide in the dark. Already in their hostile takeover of UHW they've injured members, held boss-style captive audience meetings for staff, and refused to give us their names. Andy Stern and his appointees love to think they're rich, famous, powerful, and accountable to no one. A member led union just doesn't fit in with their plans for stardom! They like to drive around in SUVs with tinted ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:26:11 PST 2009

5901 [lbo-talk] Volcker marginalized? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aaLzJZKNcc6Y&refer=home > Volcker Chafes at Obama Panel Delay, Strains With Summers Rise By Robert Schmidt and Julianna Goldman Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Volcker has grown increasingly frustrated over delays in setting up the economic advisory group President Barack Obama picked the former Federal Reserve chairman to lead, people familiar with the matter said. Volcker, 81, blames Obama s National Economic Council Director La ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:18:37 PST 2009

5902 [lbo-talk] BHO will get his first Supreme Court appointment soon -- rank: 1000

[and what semi-strict constructionist business stooge will he pick? bets anyone?] Politico.com Breaking News: ----------------------------------------------------- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized for surgery for pancreatic cancer, the Associated Press reports.

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:14:30 PST 2009

5903 [lbo-talk] Rep: we're kinda like the Taliban, only not -- rank: 1000

[Man, this is depressing. The executive branch is now run by a bunch of tepid Dems, hot to compromise with a bunch of uncompromising loons. I guess this is what imperial decline looks like.] <http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/02/sessions_gop_in.php > Sessions: GOP Insurgency "May Be Required" February 5, 2009 8:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (28) | Frustrated by a lack of bipartisan outreach from House Democratic leaders, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:12:46 PST 2009

5904 [lbo-talk] WTF??? 6 US states reclaim sovereignty - 10thAmendment -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Dorene Cornwell wrote: > None of which explains why WA, MT, MI, OK and the other two are > suddenly > 10th amendment fundamentalists. Could be entertaining to imagine > what would > happen if the entire row of states on the southern Canadian border > suddenly > secede and petition to join Canada or something, but somehow, I am not > thinking that is the lure. Check out the resolutions in the links. Some of them are about "unfunded mandat ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:10:09 PST 2009

5905 [lbo-talk] More on the Obama torture cover-up -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:52 PM, SA wrote: > FT: Judges accuse US of threatening UK Ha ha ha. Told you so, chumps.

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 10:04:36 PST 2009

5906 [lbo-talk] unemployment? not so bad! -- rank: 1000

[This is the same gang that CGE pressed into service a month ago to argue there's no credit problem.] AIER American Institute for Economic Research Richard Ebeling of AIER is available to talk about what the new unemployment numbers (released tomorrow) mean for the economy, and how we aren t as bad off as many indicate. If you would like to interview Mr. Ebeling, please let me know. Thanks - Sonia MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release Contact : Sonia Blumstein Feb. 5, 2009 New Unemployment ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 09:56:49 PST 2009

5907 [lbo-talk] that Gregg thing -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Percival Myers wrote: > This could also be a challenge to Gregg. Once past the confirmations > hearings and votes, will he sabotage or scale back the Commerce > Department from the inside? He'll be supervising the 2010 Census, from which redistricting decisions will be made. There was a lot of controversy in 1990 about using standard techniques to adjust for undercount, since these tend to expand estimates of urban (i.e., Dem) populations at the expense o ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 09:31:16 PST 2009

5908 [lbo-talk] Changiness 2 -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Charles Brown quoted: > President Obama says the SCHIP bill is a downpayment on his > "commitment to cover every single American." Fuck this "downpayment" shit. Just do it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 5 09:15:29 PST 2009

5909 [lbo-talk] Modern punk - WAS Re: The Cramps! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:42 AM, B. wrote: > Doug would certainly be the first to let you know of bands I have > pestered him with in this regard. :) Pestered!?!? I welcome the lobbying. I even thanked you on the air the other week. Doug

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5910 [lbo-talk] WTF??? 6 US states reclaim sovereignty - 10th Amendment -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Shane Taylor wrote: > Friendship is the official state motto. Where's the love, LBOsters? Ok, you resident Texans. From a distance, much seems alarming about your state. I'm convinced that Austin is a cool and civilized place, but having seen Dallas and Houston up close, I'm guessing that Austin is a glaring exception. Am I missing other pleasant or admirable features? Doug

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