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6061 [lbo-talk] Some lbo questions -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > > Doug had a woman from EPI on this morning. What's her name? Heidi Shierholz. > She outlined > a WPA styled plan that dealt directly with job creation, > infrastructure > development, and some kind of relief for state budgets. The programs > were paid for by transaction tax on short term trading. There were > more > elements, but I can remember them all at the moment. http://www.epi.org/index.php/american_jobs/american ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 5 17:40:26 PST 2009

6062 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Towards a Union of the Unemployed ? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:33 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > Does anyone know the history of attempts to build a union of the > unemployed > in the US or attempts by organized labor to reach out to the > unemployed? I used to see a guy around NYC events, Keith Brooks, who ran something called the New York Unemployed Committee. Googling him turns up nothing since 1998 or so. That's the extent of my knowledge. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 5 13:12:03 PST 2009

6063 [lbo-talk] Therapeutic Rant of the Day: The Ayatollahs of Academic Privatization -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2009, at 2:38 PM, michael perelman wrote: > Robert Meister of the University of California, Santa Cruz has done > remarkable work explaining the intricacies of the financing of the > University of California. His well-circulated "They Pledged Your > Tuition (An Open Letter to UC Students)" shows how tuition pays for > building projects as well as education. The university system has > also engaged in a half billion dollar deal with BP, as well as an > ea ...

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6064 [lbo-talk] intellectual quackery -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2009, at 1:08 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > On Sat, December 5, 2009 8:52 am, Eric Beck wrote: > >> <http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2009/12/jane_hamsher_off_the_rez.html >> > >> >> "So far as students are subject to the kind of intellectual quackery >> peddled by LBO-Talk-types (who are typically are academics or >> aspiring >> ones), I think quite a lot of harm is done in preventing effective >> activism. I.e., lef ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 5 10:33:16 PST 2009

6065 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

Fresh punditry: banks, Bernanke, job market, productive disillusionment: http://bit.ly/6NmH7u

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 13:44:52 PST 2009

6066 [lbo-talk] legal reasoning -- rank: 1000

In checking whether I can use the phrase "pissed off" on the radio without getting in trouble with the FCC, I found this gem: <http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2002/DA-02-1503A1.html> Even accepting Mr. Palko's description of the broadcasts, we conclude that WLDI did not broadcast indecent material in violation of the Commission's Rules. We first find that the hosts' use of the word ``piss'' in conjunction with the phrases ``pissed at'' and ``pissed off'' is clearly not indecent ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 12:29:51 PST 2009

6067 [lbo-talk] Jane Hamsher, dissident -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Hmmm oh my yes, Jane should forsake her whirlwind of activism and join > this mailing list. Then she would really be on the road to > revolution. Hey, don't dis this mailing list. The moderator is not taking preposterous positions. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 10:12:58 PST 2009

6068 [lbo-talk] Decline of the West -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Nicholas Ruiz III wrote: > k-12 infotainment like stewart and olberman - o'reilly and beck C'mon, Stewart is a lot smarter than that.

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6069 [lbo-talk] Next -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But isn't that SOP with MoveOn? Years ago when I was on their list > they seemed to be polling their members every week in order to > decide their positions. I'm on their list and I don't get a lot of poll requests from them. Still, that's a stink-ass way for a "movement" to operate. I tried once to find a press contact for them and couldn't. The communication is all one-way.

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 08:21:35 PST 2009

6070 [lbo-talk] Next -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > There's a recurring tendency on the left to blame the dismaying > actions of > organizations, from online communications services to labor unions, > on staff > and leadership. Labor unions, for all their many faults, do have some internal democratic mechanisms. The leadership is elected, if not always directly. There's no way for MoveOn's "membership" to communicate with the leadership at all, unless the leadership c ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 07:51:47 PST 2009

6071 [lbo-talk] It leaves me cold! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:31 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > Doug, I have the world of respect and admiration for you - you know > that! But seriously, what did you/we/they expect from a president of > the United States? Michael Pollak already responded to this, pretty much as I would have. We're getting pretty much what I expected. I got hammered by Gary Younge and Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Brecht Forum during the 2008 campaign for my expectations, and now I'm not going to stop saying " ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 07:27:35 PST 2009

6072 [lbo-talk] Next -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Along with MoveOn, which has come out against the Afghanistan venture, > it's the only game in town right now. Which is kind of interesting. They polled their members to get this result, or so they say. They've also taken a more critical turn on health care. I'm not sure these were the first instincts of the leadership. This has potential. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 07:22:55 PST 2009

6073 [lbo-talk] austerity a-coming? -- rank: 1000

[not sure where this came from, but just got it from a friend] "Well, Senator, I was about to address entitlements," Bernanke replied [to Senator Bennett]. "I think you can't tackle the problem in the medium term without doing something about getting entitlements under control and reducing the costs, particularly of health care." Bernanke reminded Congress that it has the power to repeal Social Security and Medicare. "It's only mandatory until Congress says it's not ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 07:19:22 PST 2009

6074 [lbo-talk] Obama's betrayal of hope -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Do you imagine that* *chattel slavery could persist as a social > institution > in an advanced industrial society? Or that it is mere happy > coincidence that > it does not? Also, prison labor has never taken on the dimensions that some anti- prison activists claim. From the capitalists' point of view, you can't beat "free" labor. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 06:48:37 PST 2009

6075 [lbo-talk] MTV strikes gold -- rank: 1000

MTV's Jersey Shore - greatest TV show ever? "The party's in Pauly D's pants tonight."

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Date:	Thu Dec 3 20:33:51 PST 2009