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5911 [lbo-talk] Lux Interior, RIP -- rank: 1000

["Passed away"...how vulgar! I was never the biggest Cramps fan, but it's sad to see the old icons shuffle off.] February 04, 2009 _UPDATE: The Cramps' Lux Interior R.I.P....official statement released..._ (http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/cramps-lux-interior-rip/) UPDATE: The Official Statement (from Girlie Action, The Cramps media representatives): For Immediate Release: February 4, 2009 Lux Interior, lead singer of The Cramps, passed away this morning due to an existing he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 16:40:12 PST 2009

5912 [lbo-talk] more changiness -- rank: 1000

ACLU: Obama Endorses Bush Secrecy On Torture And Rendition NEW YORK - After the British High Court ruled that evidence of British resident Binyam Mohamed's extraordinary rendition and torture at Guantánamo Bay must remain secret because of threats made by the Bush administration to halt intelligence sharing, the Obama administration told the BBC today in a written statement: "The United States thanks the UK government for its continued commitment to protect sensitive national security ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 16:15:53 PST 2009

5913 [lbo-talk] NYT: U.S. Plans to Curb Executive Pay for Bailout Recipients -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2009, at 4:37 PM, SA wrote: > Matthias Wasser wrote: > >> A cute little devil, from the WaPo story: >> >> "Under the new rules, companies can waive the $500,000 cap by >> informing >> shareholders that they planned to continue paying executives higher >> salaries. Companies would be required to allow a shareholder >> resolution on >> the subject, but the results would not bind the company." >> >> > > Ha! ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 13:45:24 PST 2009

5914 [lbo-talk] Panetta on the take too -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal The White House's nominee for director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has earned more than $700,000 in speaking and consulting fees since the beginning of 2008, with some of the payments coming from troubled banks and an investment firm that owns companies that do business with federal national security agencies. Panetta is set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday about his nomination. For more informatiion, see: http://online.wsj ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 13:22:22 PST 2009

5915 [lbo-talk] WTF??? 6 US states reclaim sovereignty - 10th Amendment -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2009, at 4:07 PM, double bluff wrote: > Sorry this seems potentially a big thing and I need some clue for > interpretation since I've never been in the US. > It seems that 6 US states are invoking the 10th amendment to reclaim > sovereignty: Um, we fought a Civil War over that. The matter's pretty well settled. This is choice. Evidently I'm wrong to call it a civil war: <http://www.therightsideoflife.com/?p=3333> > OK State Rep to Reintroduce State Sovereignty Bill ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 13:17:49 PST 2009

5916 [lbo-talk] Question on "Buy American" -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2009, at 1:23 AM, James Leveque wrote: > Are the "buy american" clauses likely to make ANY discernible > difference in > the manufacturing sector, or at least U.S. steel (which I understand > is the > main target of the clauses) Very little. A couple of free-trade economists estimate that it might save/create about 1,000 jobs. Even if they're off by a factor of 100, that's about a week's job loss at current rates. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 10:05:14 PST 2009

5917 [lbo-talk] NYT: U.S. Plans to Curb Executive Pay for Bailout Recipients -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2009, at 2:41 AM, SA wrote: > If this is what it looks like, it's impressive. (And a total > reversal from earlier leaks.) I fear that devils will emerge from > details, though. There do seem to be some large loopholes. E.g., "exceptional" assistance. Apparently only AIG and maybe Citigroup would qualify.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 10:03:32 PST 2009

5918 [lbo-talk] Fallout from the union clash (SEIU vs NUHW) -- rank: 1000

[can't find this on the SFBG site, alas - this could test Stern/SEIU's commitment to card check] Fallout from the union clash SEIU-UHW fight could have big implications in the Bay Area By Steven T. Jones Fallout from the power struggle between Service Employees International Union and its Oakland-based local, United Healthcare Workers, has been felt particularly strongly in the Bay Area since SEIU took over UHW and ousted its leaders Jan. 27 (see "Union showdown," 1/28/09). After ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 08:01:15 PST 2009

5919 [lbo-talk] your Facebook is their fortune -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:53 PM, B. wrote: > Saying that the classic civil libertarian concern for privacy (in > this instance) is a "fetish," as Doug did, is a patronizing way to > short-sell the concern. Lemme try this one more time. I'm not talking about fear of the gov or of employers - I'm talking about the anxiety that Facebook will sell "my" info to marketers, who might try to microtarget me with stuff. I just don't care about this at all. I would care about Hom ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 07:36:43 PST 2009

5920 [lbo-talk] your power! -- rank: 1000

Hi Katrina. This is from ABC's The Note: Progressive bloggers had been going after Mr. Daschle as elitist and aloof for several days after ABC News first reported the tax flap, and the Nation magazine joined the Times in calling for him to withdraw, The Washington Times Christina Bellantoni reports.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 4 07:23:26 PST 2009

5921 [lbo-talk] here goes the health care reform -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I think many people in this country would like to see a single payer > system - not just grunts like us, but corporate execs who would love > to shift health care cost on the public sector and stay more > "competitive" especially now when the economy is tanking. There's no evidence for that that I know of. If that were true, do you think Daschle would have said "off the table"? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 13:19:40 PST 2009

5922 [lbo-talk] here goes the health care reform -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0232666820090203?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews > > [WS:] I have a gut feeling that this move sets the tone for the > health care reform - withdrawal. Health care reform? You mean the Massachusetts plan for everyone? Great. We can do without that shit. These revelations do shed light on why Daschle declared single-payer to be off the table, though. He was raking it in from the ins ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 3 12:24:47 PST 2009

5923 [lbo-talk] that Gregg thing -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] First questions for the new secretary-designate: President Obama s new candidate to run the Commerce Department voted in favor of abolishing the agency as a member of the Budget Committee and on the Senate floor in 1995, CQ s Jonathan Allen reports. Sen. Judd Gregg , R-N.H., whose nomination was expected to be announced Tuesday, also worked in the Senate to trim the department s budget as head of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee. Yesterday, Gregg ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 09:44:31 PST 2009

5924 [lbo-talk] Tanenhaus: movement conservatism is dead... -- rank: 1000

[...though the new president is a Burkean] New Republic - February 18, 2009 Conservatism Is Dead An intellectual autopsy of the movement. Sam Tanenhaus In the tumultuous history of postwar American conservatism, defeats have often contained the seeds of future victory. In 1954, the movement's first national tribune, Senator Joseph McCarthy, was checkmated by the Eisenhower administration and then "condemned" by his Senate colleagues. But the episode, and the passions it aroused, l ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 09:30:53 PST 2009

5925 [lbo-talk] your Facebook is their fortune -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2009, at 10:03 AM, User Joseph wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >> >> I just don't care. Of course I'm self-employed and not vulnerable >> to employer blackmail, but what is it about this privacy fetish? > > > Most of us *are* vulnerable to employer blackmail and it must be a > very nice luxury to not have to worry about it. If I didn't know > you better, I'd take you above comment as belittling of working > people w ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 09:00:40 PST 2009