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9136 [lbo-talk] Raw video of LN conference contradicts CNA propaganda -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> So when's Andy Stern going to lead an attack on Lee Scott's house? > > I repeat that I am not a spokesman for Andy Stern, nor have I ever > been one. > > But presumably, he'll do so when he decides that it's a useful > strategy. Dealing with a union-busting company is a horse of an > entirely different color than deal ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 26 05:22:42 PDT 2008

9137 [lbo-talk] Raw video of LN conference contradicts CNA propaganda -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2008, at 9:19 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Give it up, Mark. Those who believe that union-busting should be > redressed through amiable debates, with neutral moderators and > refreshments in the back of the room, will not be convinced by > anything we have to say. So when's Andy Stern going to lead an attack on Lee Scott's house? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 20:00:54 PDT 2008

9138 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Dem race now tied -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > A lead less than the margin of error is a tie. And the larger point > is that BHO's 10-point lead before Pennsylvania has collapsed. > > Doug > > CB: How did I know you were going to say that ? Because it's right, and you knew that, but you wanted to make a wisecrack anyway?

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 14:36:51 PDT 2008

9139 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Dem race now tied -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Gary Mongiovi wrote: > Does anyone have a hypothesis about this, because it sure mystifies > me. Obama did have an off night at the last debate, but Hillary's > not any more likable now than she was two weeks ago. Nor is there > any reason to think she'll be better able to beat McCain. She was > expected to win in Pennsylvania, so the post-Penn-Primary question > "why can't he close?" strikes me as a non sequitur; yet it seems to > have ...

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9140 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Dem race now tied -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > > The Democratic nomination race is now tied, with Barack Obama favored > > by 48% of national Democratic voters and Hillary Clinton by 47%. > > <http://www.gallup.com/poll/106822/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Clinton- > Tied-48-47.aspx> > > ^^^^ > That's Clintonian math. 48 is more than 47. A lead less than the margin of error is a tie. And the larger point is that BHO's 10-point lead before Pennsylvania has collapsed ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 13:03:57 PDT 2008

9141 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: Hillary to run as independent? -- rank: 1000

[breaking news from Lyndon LaRouche] Hillary Clinton to Run As Independent? Speculation Mounts That She Will Abandon Democratic Party to Win White House WASHINGTON, April 25 - /EIN News/ Clinton insiders have been floating this very possibility. See: http://uspolitics.einnews.com/article.php? nid=461158 At the moment, a Clinton independent candidacy is viewed as an idle threat, designed to pressure superdelegates with a party disaster if they don't nominate Clinton. But when you look at the ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 12:11:59 PDT 2008

9142 [lbo-talk] the recent global boom -- rank: 1000

I was at a Council on Foreign Relations roundtable on the global economy this morning, featuring Ethan Harris (Lehman Bros.), Joyce Chang (JPMorgan Chase), and Nouriel Roubini (NYU/RGE Global Monitor), and chaired, as usual, by Daniel Tarullo of the Georgetown Law School. Chang made an interesting point. She doesn't think the world has "decoupled" from the U.S. The world is still one "production machine" (just a tad oversimplified, I'd say), but its internal compositio ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 12:04:23 PDT 2008

9143 [lbo-talk] Bush approval -- rank: 1000

Bush's latest Gallup approval rating, 28%, is the 27th-lowest reading out of the 1,408 times Gallup has asked the question since 1941 - that's at the 1.9th percentile. It's exceeded only by Truman and Nixon, both late in their administrations. Bush's disapproval rating, 69%, is the highest ever (meaning that there are fewer don't know/ uncertain answers than there were in the past). The previous record was Bush's 67% disapproval in early April, and Truman's 67% in January 1952. Oh, and Bus ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 11:09:05 PDT 2008

9144 [lbo-talk] Americans to Gallup: redistribute! -- rank: 1000

[graphs at link - even the $75k+ HHs agree! - I'm rather stunned by this...] <http://www.gallup.com/poll/106813/Many-Americans-Increasing-Taxes- Rich.aspx> April 25, 2008 Many Americans OK With Increasing Taxes on Rich Most say upper-income households pay too little in taxes by Frank Newport PRINCETON, NJ -- Slightly over half of Americans believe the government should redistribute wealth by heavy taxes on the rich. The percentage holding this view, similar to that found in Gallup polli ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 10:28:07 PDT 2008

9145 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Dem race now tied -- rank: 1000

The Democratic nomination race is now tied, with Barack Obama favored by 48% of national Democratic voters and Hillary Clinton by 47%. <http://www.gallup.com/poll/106822/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Clinton- Tied-48-47.aspx>

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 10:24:07 PDT 2008

9146 [lbo-talk] Grameen collector to debtors: sell your kids! -- rank: 1000

[via Gawker, of all things] <http://www.france24.com/en/20080404-bangladesh-burden-microcredit- caring-grameen-bank-mohammed-yunnus&navi=ASIE-PACIFIQUE> ARING The crushing burden of microcredit FRIDAY 04 APRIL 2008 In Bangladesh, FRANCE 24 reporters find that far from alleviating poverty, microcredit has been plunging people deeper into debt. By FRANCE 24 Microcredit changed Shobi Rani s life. An impoverished yoghurt seller, Rani travels across her region in northern Bangladesh on a ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 10:17:34 PDT 2008

9147 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti on the folly of nuclear power -- rank: 1000

The Nation - May 12, 2008 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080512/parenti> What Nuclear Renaissance? by CHRISTIAN PARENTI If you listen to the rhetoric, nuclear power is back. Smashing atoms will replace burning carbon-based coal, gas and oil. In the face of a disaster movie-like future of runaway climate change--bringing drought, floods, famine and social breakdown--carbon-free nukes are cast as the deus ex machina to save us at the last minute. Even a few greens support nuclear power- ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 25 07:55:21 PDT 2008

9148 [lbo-talk] Stern's illusion and democracy's nightmare -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2008, at 2:07 AM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union and > labor's latest celebrity, seems to be resurrecting a neglected > ideology: the > concept of a militarized "democratic" centralism. A friend reported to me the other day that a former SEIU organizer described the culture of the organization as "Stalinism minus the ideology." Doug

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9149 [lbo-talk] Raw video of LN conference contradicts CNA propaganda -- rank: 1000

On Apr 24, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Mark Rickling quoted: > SEIU RN Dian Palmer Calls On AFL-CIO Head John Sweeney to Review Video > from Dearborn Protest, Retract Statement Accepting CNA Distortions Labor Notes editor Chris Kutalik's comments on this: > Amazing press release from SEIU Int. (the 7th on the LN Conference > alone). The video released is an odd move on their part as it > contradicts all their recent accounts of "conference security" > attacking them. We are sh ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 24 09:47:10 PDT 2008

9150 [lbo-talk] Angry Renter -- rank: 1000

On Apr 23, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Seth Ackerman wrote: >> Man, is living up in the boondocks making you cranky? > > The answer to that is yes! I miss civilization. Come back Seth. We miss you! Doug

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