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16 [lbo-talk] Obama and yet more Looter appointments -- rank: 1000

from Alternet Obama Packs Debt Commission with Social Security Looters By Matthew Skomarovsky, AlterNet Posted on March 28, 2010, Printed on March 30, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/146183/ A decade of wars, tax cuts for the wealthy, and the fallout from Wall Street's housing bubble have almost tripled U.S. public debt since 2001, from $5 trillion to $14 trillion. Big, scary numbers like this, along with carefully timed downgrade warnings from Wall Street's obedient rating agencies and ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 30 09:19:25 PDT 2010

17 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:33 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: At 12:08 PM 3/24/2010, Marta Russell wrote: > I am not a religious person or affiliated in any way and don't base my > opposition to capitalism this way but there are allies to find there. > > Marta marta! welcome back! Hey Thanks. I'm kinda back - skimming mostly due to time constraints but its good to see everyone is full of energy as usual! Marta -- http://cleandraws.com Wear Clean Draws ('coz there's 5 million ways to kill a ...

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18 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Eric Beck wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote: > Fourth, this whole preoccupation with this stuff - pro or con - > largely make > me shake my head. Yup. It's funny that the perceived need to think about religion is so purely a reaction to fundamentalism. Once again, the opposition insists on remain attached to its oppositionism. And it's not just obvious maroons like Robert Jensen, Parenti, Hitchens, and Daw ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 24 09:08:07 PDT 2010

19 [lbo-talk] Cloward-Piven strategy for single payer? -- rank: 1000

HI Max, My lawyer friend who has a Medicaid Defense Fund tried to stop the cuts to MediCal in the federal courts. He had been successful with stopping cuts to MediCal pharmacies for reimbursement for MediCal drug purchases but he lost on trying to sustain every cut to services - dental, prosthetic, mental health, chiropractic, and some other services. His position was that the Stimulus Package language stated that states that received Stimulus funds could not cut existing services which ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 24 08:41:00 PDT 2010

20 [lbo-talk] Cloward-Piven strategy for single payer? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: On Mar 23, 2010, at 4:51 PM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Of course, in the present environment, this would lead to calls to >> shred Medicaid. > > But the present environment just produced a major expansion of > Medicaid. Just wait. From watching CA make deep cuts to its MediCal (Medicaid) program during this past year I've got to agree with Doug. Given the difficult budgetary conditions facing the state (an ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 23 21:20:14 PDT 2010

21 [lbo-talk] Does anyone doubt it was intentional? -- rank: 1000

New York Times April 4, 2010 Op-Ed Contributor I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn t the Fed? By MICHAEL J. BURRY Cupertino, Calif. ALAN GREENSPAN, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, proclaimed last month that no one could have predicted the housing bubble. Everybody missed it, he said, academia, the Federal Reserve, all regulators. But that is not how I remember it. Back in 2005 and 2006, I argued as forcefully as I could, in letters to clients of my investment firm, Scion Capita ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 4 11:35:20 PDT 2010

22 [lbo-talk] Milestone -- rank: 1000

Do you want me to put you in touch with someone who I believe may be able to offer suggestions beyond the scope of my knowledge? Marta On Mar 31, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Yes. But she has a full-time job. One not-so-minor part of the > "bummer" > is that I've been doing all the grocery shopping for about 12 years -- > now that won't be possible. C.G.E''s point is good, and we're checking > out to what extent the availble public transportation overlaps my &g ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 15:30:08 PDT 2008

23 [lbo-talk] Milestone -- rank: 1000

That is a bummer. Can your wife drive, Carol? Marta On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > My opthamologist pointed out to me this morning that from now on > driving > is too great a financial risk to take. He has had patients with my > vision (20/200 corrected) bankrupted by accidents in which they > were not > remotely at fault. > > So no more driving, and in a location where almost nothing is within > walking distance and where public transportation is i ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 31 11:22:59 PDT 2008

24 [lbo-talk] The State and Capitalism -- rank: 1000

The phrase is "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Marta On Mar 11, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > > >>>> Lew > > The phrase "to each according to work" is not Marx's. He did suggest > labour vouchers, similar to those advocated by Robert Owen, but he was > > clear that these would not function as money: > > ^^^^^ > CB: You are correct. I don't find "to each according to work" , ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 11 14:41:46 PDT 2008

25 [lbo-talk] Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela -- rank: 1000

Thanks for this report Julio. It was only a matter of time before Bush turned his attention and the military to South America. Marta On Mar 2, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > There's little about this on the U.S. media, but we should be paying > some attention: > > A very volatile situation is now in progress in northern South > America, involving Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. > > Yesterday, in the wee hours of the morning, the Colombian air force > bombed to ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 2 10:47:05 PST 2008

26 [lbo-talk] Writers' strike -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Chuck wrote: > > I support the writer's strike but I'm also an anti-copyright/IP > activist. I think that the writers should be compensated fairly for > their labor, even more so if the media companies stand to make > billiosn > from derivative copies of this cultural work. Writers and other > workers > in the cultural industries don't get paid enough as it is--just > look at > how much profit these companies make. As Jon Stewart pointe ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 13 14:30:34 PST 2008

27 [lbo-talk] Writers' strike -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > > >> So called "intellectual property" is a unique product. > > I guess you're pressing for my personal opinion, which you > (incorrectly) > think I expressed in my earlier message as "Yay! Corporations are > great!" ... My personal position is that 99.9% of TV is crap > anyway, and > I have a TV only really to watch movies, and I don't even really watch > that many. If the WGA thinks the ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 13 11:17:03 PST 2008

28 [lbo-talk] Writers' strike -- rank: 1000

The directors are about to jump in now. Let's hope they back the writers, then both can get somewhere. Marta On Jan 12, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Joanna wrote: > You're right on. But I don't know if its class conscious. It's more > like > "it's creative labor". > > Joanna > > Mike Ballard wrote: >> You know what's REALLY interesting about this strike? It's that >> the writers >> are asking for a share of the product of their labour. That's >> m ...

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29 [lbo-talk] exit poll... -- rank: 1000

no you did not miss anything. I posted this by mistake. It was meant for another email ---sorry for any confusion that caused. As you can probably tell I've got too much going on to stay focused on the computer today. marta On Jan 10, 2008, at 2:42 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Marta Russell wrote: >>> Josh Holland from Alternet points out via email, correctly, >>> concerning my point about the "Bradley Effect" not coming into play >>> in Iowa: "Th ...

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30 [lbo-talk] exit poll... -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2008, at 1:22 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Dennis Claxton wrote: >>> Put another way, how likely is it that people will claim they are >>> going >>> to support a black candidate to mask their negative racial opinions? >>> >> >> >> >> >> That's called the "Bradley Effect" >> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect >> >> http://www.newsweek.com/id/45158 > > Strangel ...

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