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16 [lbo-talk] STOP THE SPRAY EB NEWS: write to White House to protest Siddiqui appointment -- rank: 1000
Well and here goes another sour tasting if not down right stinky appointment. from East Bay News CA: Pres. Obama has appointed pesticide and biotechnology lobbyist Islam Siddiqui as the U.S. chief negotiator on agriculture in the U.S. Trade Representative's office. Below is a sample letter that you can use or adapt and send to the president at whitehouse.gov asking him to rescind this appointment, thanks to a member of the STSEB steering committee who drafted it today. Warm wishes and than ...
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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Wed Mar 31 12:27:46 PDT 2010
17 [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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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Tue Mar 30 09:19:25 PDT 2010
18 [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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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Thu Mar 25 20:58:24 PDT 2010
19 [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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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Wed Mar 24 09:08:07 PDT 2010
20 [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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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Wed Mar 24 08:41:00 PDT 2010
21 [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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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Tue Mar 23 21:20:14 PDT 2010
22 [lbo-talk] HRC: sick sick sick -- rank: 1000
See this and other original stories about HRC: Robert Scheer on Hillary Obliterating Iran " Clinton Threatens to Obliterate Iran" -- How proud the Clintonistas must be. They have learned how to rival what Hillary once termed the vast right-wing conspiracy in the effort to destroy a viable Democratic leader who dares to stand in the way of their ambitions. Sen. Clinton s eminently sensible and centrist to a fault opponent is now viewed as weak and even vaguely unpatriotic becau ...
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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Sun Apr 27 18:09:17 PDT 2008
23 [lbo-talk] Speaking of banks... -- rank: 1000
I was told Wells Fargo is safe by someone I trust. Washington Mutual is in trouble. Marta On Apr 14, 2008, at 10:50 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I read somewhere fairly mainstream that they were expecting about > 500 banks to fail in the U.S. > > For anybody who is tracking this, which are the safer banks? Wells > Fargo? ... > > Joanna > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk >
Document Size: 5227
Author: Marta Russell
Date: Mon Apr 14 12:20:09 PDT 2008
24 [lbo-talk] Soros -- rank: 1000
On Apr 12, 2008, at 3:45 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > As odd bit of trivia on the subject, I think Trotsky actually > speculated > about the usefulness of eugenics for the production of the new 'soviet > man'. Its one of those topics that probably would make an interesting > book (the left and eugenics, that is) robert wood > >> I think its guilt by association. Margret Sanger who >> founded Planned Parenthood was an eugenicist (a lot of >> intellectuals ...
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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Sat Apr 12 16:11:57 PDT 2008
25 [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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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Mon Mar 31 15:30:08 PDT 2008
26 [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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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Mon Mar 31 11:22:59 PDT 2008
27 [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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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Tue Mar 11 14:41:46 PDT 2008
28 [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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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Sun Mar 2 10:47:05 PST 2008
29 [lbo-talk] SMART on the SEIU -- rank: 1000
On Feb 25, 2008, at 3:50 AM, W. Kiernan wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> ...He said that organizing home care workers >> was very different from organizing conventional >> workers. With conventional workers, you have to >> contend with hostile employers (unless you've >> pre-signed some sweetheart deal), which can be >> very hard. > > But all the home care workers I know of, my wife included, work for > agencies. > > Yours WDK - WKier ...
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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Mon Feb 25 10:21:05 PST 2008
30 [lbo-talk] U.S. split on "socialized medicine": poll -- rank: 1000
Senator Sheila Kuehl in CA passed a single payer plan through both houses of the state legislature and Ahnold vetoed it. It's still kicking though. Marta On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:10 PM, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote: > >> i take it from the lack of response that there is no actual group >> or effort >> to start something -- concerted political action to ensure that >> we get >> single payer ...
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Author: Marta Russell
Date: Thu Feb 14 19:29:11 PST 2008
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