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6436 [lbo-talk] Pre-Primer on Organizing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 4, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > groups > practicing politics, *think*, United for Peace & Justice thinks? Coulda fooled me. Doug

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6437 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 4, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Politicus E. wrote: > Your claim contradicts Bayes' theorem, among other things. It may > well be > that the cross-tabulations bear you out on this issue, but I still > want to > see them, since your reasoning is not correct. That may be, but I'm pretty sure I'm right.

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6438 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 4, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Politicus E. wrote: > By the way, what is relevant here in order to answer this question > is a > cross-tabulation by race and income, not the tables that you provided. Since there's little variation by race and little by income, I doubt that cross-tabs by race and income would be very interesting. Doug

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6439 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 4, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Why would we prempt the right of a future socialist democracy to > decide > whether it wanted to abolish prisons or not? This is NOT presently > a demand > arising organically from the people, least of all poor people, for > whom the > incarceration of criminal offenders is widely seen as a necessary > means of > protecting their personal safety and private and public propery. Ditto the treatment of juveniles - almost ...

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6440 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 4, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Why would we prempt the right of a future socialist democracy to > decide > whether it wanted to abolish prisons or not? This is NOT presently > a demand > arising organically from the people, least of all poor people, for > whom the > incarceration of criminal offenders is widely seen as a necessary > means of > protecting their personal safety and private and public propery. No kidding. E.g., the differences by race ...

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6441 [lbo-talk] Obama luvs them SPVs so bankers can pay themselves big -- rank: 1000

[These mofo's are shameless.] Washington Post - April 4, 2009 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040303910.html > Administration Seeks an Out On Bailout Rules for Firms Officials Worry Constraints Set by Congress Deter Participation By Amit R. Paley and David Cho Washington Post Staff Writers The Obama administration is engineering its new bailout initiatives in a way that it believes will allow firms benefiting from the programs to avoid restrictions ...

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6442 [lbo-talk] Angela-a-Day -- rank: 1000

On Apr 4, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > What's the non-death penalty, non-prison solution to Jeffrey Dahmer? After the revo, there won't be Dahmers. Ha ha.

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6443 [lbo-talk] Liza on EFCA -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/mothers-milk/2009/04/03/case-more-union-power > The Case for More Union Power Economic arguments against the EFCA don t hold water. By Liza Featherstone Posted Friday, April 3, 2009 - 10:46am It was surreal, last month, to see Citigroup organizing the business community against the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would make it easier for workers to join unions by forcing employers to recognize a union after a majority of workers have signed car ...

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6444 [lbo-talk] fresh stuff -- rank: 1000

Fresh commentary - disappearing jobs, Larry "Fatcat" Summmers, bankruptcy of the left - at http://doughenwood.wordpress.com.

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6445 [lbo-talk] Pacifica Acts to Secure Control of Its Stations -- rank: 1000

On Apr 3, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Joseph Wanzala wrote: > Well, things long ago reached the point where Pacifica has to move > beyond hand-wringing about WBAI and proactively intervene. The > licenses of all the stations are controlled by the foundation and > the foundation is responsible for what happens. It is the my view > that the management at WBAI cannot or will not do what is necessary > to reverse the situation (which threatens the viability of the > entire network) so act ...

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6446 [lbo-talk] Larry Summers, well-paid tool of Wall Street -- rank: 1000

<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879462053487927.html> Summers Received Over $5 Million From D.E. Shaw By JOHN D. MCKINNON and T.W. FARNAM WASHINGTON -- Top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers received about $5.2 million over the past year in compensation from hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from major financial institutions. A financial disclosure form released by the White House Friday afternoon shows that Mr. Sum ...

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6447 [lbo-talk] Pacifica Acts to Secure Control of Its Stations -- rank: 1000

Joe! It's been ages. So what's your position on all this? Doug

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6448 [lbo-talk] Obama summarizes his presidency -- rank: 1000

On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:57 PM, SA wrote: > http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20871.html > > [Speaking to bank CEOs at a private meeting:] > >> My administration, the president added, is the only thing >> between you and the pitchforks. Nice. Though the rest of the article makes Obama sound tougher on them than I would have guessed. Doug

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6449 [lbo-talk] revisiting the FROP and the Brenner hypothesis -- rank: 1000

On Apr 3, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > These comparisons are irrelevant, since the relevant period was > specified as 1945-1965. So you pick the Golden Age as a basis of comparison? Why not pick the period of depression and world war? That would also stack the results, though in a different direction. This whole slowdown analysis is largely pointless.

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6450 [lbo-talk] "Our bankruptcy was not an accident. It was engineered at the highest levels" -- rank: 1000

On Apr 3, 2009, at 5:59 AM, double bluff wrote: > From Solari blog http://solari.com/blog/?p=2293 : just a > conspiranoid theory or the major crimes of the last 30 years are > interconnected with class war from above? (this reminds me a scene > of the Oliver Stone's JFK film when an insider starts telling the > whole story): What demented crap.

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