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7861 [lbo-talk] May employment -- rank: 1000

Crap employment report this morning from the BLS. Loss of 49,000 jobs, unemployment rate up 0.5 point. In a normal recession, we'd be seeing job losses five times that, but still, there's no doubt that things are not good.

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Date:	Fri Jun 6 07:07:53 PDT 2008

7862 [lbo-talk] Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > biological heterosexuality Why is it so important to you to defend this concept? What's at stake? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 6 06:59:42 PDT 2008

7863 [lbo-talk] Neocons' last throw? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2008, at 2:36 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Cheney (who dropped out of Yale twice in > years when it was impossible to flunk out of the Ivy League, except > for > "emotional difficulties") is nuts. It was nearly impossible to flunk out when I was there in the 1970s, either. They gave you three chances and you were only out on the third strike. And they really tried hard to make it work. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 11:42:42 PDT 2008

7864 [lbo-talk] Iterability and performance -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Charles, I only disagree with you on theory, science, etc. but on > subject lines I'm about to get actually angry. Stop changing them, > or at > least keep key words from earlier threads (e.g. "theory's," "Butler." > Any further posts on the same thread but with a different subject line > are not going to be even opened. Quick, someone change that subject head to "Irritability and performance"!

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 10:35:46 PDT 2008

7865 [lbo-talk] mortgage delinquencies/foreclosures set record -- rank: 1000

[Not sure what they mean by "since 1979," since the historical numbers they sent me show that the levels for the first quarter are the highest since their survey began in 1972 for total delinquencies, those seriously delinquent (90 days or more plus those already in foreclosure), foreclosures started, and in foreclosure. And that's compared with the early 1980s, when the unemployment rate and interest rates were much higher than they are now. Introducing the non-seasonally adjus ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 07:29:16 PDT 2008

7866 [lbo-talk] WMT's union critics chill out -- rank: 1000

New York Times - June 5, 2008 Wal-Mart's Detractors Come in From the Cold By MICHAEL BARBARO Over the last several months, a confidential report has circulated within the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores, proposing sweeping changes to its employee health care plans. It looks like a typical corporate planning document, but it is not. The nine-page report, written by an Emory University professor, Kenneth Thorpe, was commissioned, paid for and given to Wal-Mart by its longtime foes, the Servic ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 07:15:48 PDT 2008

7867 [lbo-talk] The Note on Obama @ AIPAC -- rank: 1000

[It seems like less a "move to the right" than a successful effort at convincing the skeptics that he's fundamentally "sound" on ME issues.] <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=3> Obama at AIPAC: Don't let the brief Clinton-Obama encounter at the AIPAC convention distract from the substance here: His speech Wednesday was a rather significant move to the right on Middle East policy. Eleven months after saying he would sit down with Iran's ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 06:16:20 PDT 2008

7868 [lbo-talk] Marx on the transience of crises -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > Patrick >> Bond, how do you respond, aside from quoting Mike >> Whitney? >> >> Doug > > I never heard of Whitney. Is he the same guy who wrote > this: http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney07232004.html ? Yeah, that's the one. He's been writing the apocalyptic economic pieces for Counterpunch lately. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 06:07:11 PDT 2008

7869 [lbo-talk] Marx on the transience of crises -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > My translation would be: > > "However the present crisis might develop - a detailed > observation of it is admittedly of paramount > importance for the investigator of capitalist > production and the professional theoretician - it > will, likes its predecessors, blow over and usher in a > new "industrial cycle" with all of its various phases > of prosperity, etc." Sorry that I can't answer your ques ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 5 05:38:21 PDT 2008

7870 [lbo-talk] Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > Reading that text by Butler is, quite simply, torture. Excruciating, > agonising, torture. No-one can possibly read it right through. To > demand that someone put themselves through such an ordeal in inhuman. Yeah, it's never worth an effort to try to understand something. If it's not obvious on first glance, fuck it. Right? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 4 17:50:14 PDT 2008

7871 [lbo-talk] SEIU to Pursue More Alliances and Coordinated Organizing Strategies with Other Health Care Unions -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > While SEIU convention delegates unanimously vote for unity and > partnerships among nurse unions, the CNA escalates its "raiding" > activities Hmm, that's an encouraging overture towards more cooperation, isn't it?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 16:10:42 PDT 2008

7872 [lbo-talk] ciao, Hill -- rank: 1000

Politico.com Breaking News: --------------------------------------------------------- Hillary Clinton to drop out on Friday. For more information... <http://www.politico.com>

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Date:	Wed Jun 4 15:55:40 PDT 2008

7873 [lbo-talk] Microsoft producing Joy Division line of Zune mp3 players, no joke -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:49 PM, B. wrote: > Wow Amazing. Is Bill G a fan? I've seen exactly one Zune on the streets and subways of NYC. Does anyone have one, or know anyone who does? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 4 14:58:47 PDT 2008

7874 [lbo-talk] Obama to AIPAC: luv ya! -- rank: 1000

<http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/04/prepared-remarks-obama-at- aipac-policy-conference/> BARACK OBAMA: It s great to see so many friends from across the country. I want to congratulate Howard Friedman, David Victor and Howard Kohr on a successful conference, and on the completion of a new headquarters just a few blocks away. Before I begin, I want to say that I know some provocative emails have been circulating throughout Jewish communities across the country. A few of you may ha ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 4 12:38:36 PDT 2008

7875 [lbo-talk] Butler on Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > It s not that I m in favor of difficulty for > difficulty s sake <http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p2.htm> To the citizen Maurice Lachatre Dear Citizen, I applaud your idea of publishing the translation of Das Kapital as a serial. In this form the book will be more accessible to the working class, a consideration which to me outweighs everything else. That is the good side of your suggestion, but here is the re ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 4 12:29:00 PDT 2008